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 14, 2023
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 001-37839 | 20-1590775 | ||
(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
9200 E. Pima Center Parkway, Suite 250
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
(Address of principal executive offices)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:
(480) 305-8910
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
☐ | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
☐ | Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
☐ | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
☐ | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class |
Trading |
Name of each exchange on which registered | ||
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share | TPIC | Nasdaq Global Market |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
ITEM 1.01. | ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT. |
On December 14, 2023, TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into the following agreements with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, LP (“Oaktree”) to refinance Oaktree’s outstanding Series A Preferred Stock holdings in the Company.
Credit Agreement and Guaranty
On December 14, 2023 (the “Closing Date”), the Company entered into a Credit Agreement and Guaranty (the “Credit Agreement”) with the subsidiary guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto (the “Lenders”) and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders. The Credit Agreement establishes a term loan facility of $443,000,000 (the “Term Loan”), consisting of (i) $393,000,000 in Initial Term Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement), which shall be deemed made on the Closing Date by the Lenders on a cashless basis in exchange for all the Series A Preferred Stock currently outstanding and held by the Lenders and $43,000,000 of the accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock (the “Cashless Exchange”) and (ii) up to $50,000,000 aggregate principal amount of commitments for Additional Term Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement) to be extended on a Subsequent Funding Date (as defined in the Credit Agreement) during the Availability Period (as defined in the Credit Agreement), subject in each case to the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement.
Borrowings under the Term Loan will bear interest at a rate per annum of 11.00%, provided that the interest rate shall be automatically increased to 15.00% per annum from and after the funding of any Additional Term Loans. Under the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Company has the ability to pay in kind all interest payments through December 31, 2025, subject to certain exceptions. In addition, the Company can pay in kind 50% of the interest payments from January 1, 2026, through the maturity date of the Term Loan on March 31, 2027, subject to certain exceptions. If the Company elects to pay in cash any interest payments that could have been paid in kind, such interest payments can be reduced by 2%, resulting in an effective interest rate of 9% for such portion of interest. The Credit Agreement requires maintenance of a minimum cash balance in secured accounts in the U.S. but does not include any other financial maintenance covenants.
The Company’s obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Credit Agreement) will be guaranteed by the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined in the Credit Agreement). The Company’s and the Subsidiary Guarantors’ (collectively, the “Loan Parties”) respective obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are secured by first priority security interests in substantially all assets of the Loan Parties, including intellectual property, subject to certain customary thresholds and exceptions. As of the Closing Date, the Subsidiary Guarantors include all of the Company’s U.S. wholly owned subsidiaries, and after the closing date will include certain foreign subsidiaries.
In addition, the Credit Agreement contains certain events of default that entitle the Agent to cause the Company’s indebtedness under the Credit Agreement to become immediately due and payable, and to exercise remedies against the Loan Parties and the collateral securing the Term Loan, including cash. Under the Credit Agreement, an event of default will occur if, among other things, the Company fails to make payments under the Credit Agreement (subject in certain cases to specified grace periods), the Company or its subsidiaries breach any of the covenants under the Credit Agreement (subject to specified cure periods with respect to certain breaches), a Change of Control (as defined in the Credit Agreement) occurs, the Company, its subsidiaries or their respective assets become subject to certain legal proceedings, such as bankruptcy proceedings, the Company and/or its subsidiaries are unable to pay their debts as they become due or default on contracts with third parties which would permit the holder of indebtedness in excess of a certain threshold to accelerate the maturity of such indebtedness or that could cause a material adverse change.
A copy of the Credit Agreement is included as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is subject and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Credit Amendment.
Common Stock Purchase Agreement
On December 14, 2023, the Company entered into a Common Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P., OPPS TPIC Holdings, LLC and Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P. (collectively, the “Purchasers”). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers have agreed to waive, cancel and terminate their respective rights to an aggregate of $43,000,000 of accrued and unpaid dividends on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in exchange for, and in consideration of, the issuance by the Company of an aggregate of 3,899,903 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), to the Purchasers. The issuance of the shares of Common Stock to the Purchasers was completed on December 14, 2023.
A copy of the Purchase Amendment is included as Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is subject and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Amendment.
Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Purchasers entered into an Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement (the “A&R Investor Rights Agreement”), which amends and restates in its entirety that certain Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2021, by and between the Company and the Purchasers. The Investor Rights Agreement contains a number of customary covenants and agreements, including registration rights with respect to shares of Common Stock held by the Purchasers.
The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is subject and qualified in its entirety by reference to the A&R Investor Rights Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.3 and the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 2.03. | CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT. |
The description set forth under Item 1.01 of this Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
ITEM 3.02. | UNREGISTERED SALE OF EQUITY SECURITIES. |
The information contained in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K regarding the issuance of the Common Stock pursuant to the Purchase Agreement is incorporated herein by reference.
The shares of Common Stock issued to the Purchasers pursuant to the Purchase Agreement were offered, issued and sold in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), set forth under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act relating to sales by an issuer not involving any public offering and in reliance on similar exemptions under applicable state laws. The Company relied on this exemption from registration based in part on representations made by the Purchasers in the Purchase Agreement. Neither this Current Report on Form 8-K, nor the exhibits attached hereto, is an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein.
ITEM 5.03. | AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OR BYLAWS; CHANGE IN FISCAL YEAR. |
In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, on December 14, 2023, the Company will file a Cancellation of Certificate of Designations of the Series A Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Cancellation”) with
the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. The Certificate of Cancellation will extinguish the obligations of the Company pursuant to the Certificate of Designations of the Series A Preferred Stock, which was originally filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on November 22, 2021.
Item 7.01 | REGULATION FD DISCLOSURES. |
On December 14, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing, among other things, the execution of the Credit Agreement and the Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
The information included in Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and the exhibit attached hereto are being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing under the Securities Act, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in any such filing.
ITEM 9.01. | FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS. |
(d) Exhibits.
* | Certain schedules, exhibits and similar attachments have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. A copy of any omitted schedule or exhibit will be furnished supplementally to the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, TPI Composites, Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
TPI COMPOSITES, INC. | ||||||
Date: December 14, 2023 | By: | /s/ Ryan Miller | ||||
Ryan Miller | ||||||
Chief Financial Officer |
Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION VERSION
CONFIDENTIAL
CREDIT AGREEMENT AND GUARANTY
dated as of December 14, 2023
by and among
TPI COMPOSITES, INC.,
as the Borrower,
THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
as the Guarantors,
THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO
as the
Lenders,
and
OAKTREE FUND ADMINISTRATION, LLC,
as the Administrative Agent
U.S. $443,000,000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS |
2 | |||||
1.01 |
Certain Defined Terms |
2 | ||||
1.02 |
Accounting Terms and Principles |
31 | ||||
1.03 |
Interpretation |
32 | ||||
1.04 |
Division |
33 | ||||
SECTION 2. THE COMMITMENT AND THE LOANS |
33 | |||||
2.01 |
Loans |
33 | ||||
2.02 |
Borrowing Procedures |
34 | ||||
2.03 |
Funding of Borrowings; Cashless Exchange |
34 | ||||
2.04 |
Notes |
34 | ||||
2.05 |
Use of Proceeds |
35 | ||||
SECTION 3. PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST, ETC. |
35 | |||||
3.01 |
Scheduled Repayments and Prepayments Generally; Application |
35 | ||||
3.02 |
Interest |
35 | ||||
3.03 |
Prepayments |
36 | ||||
3.04 |
Commitment Termination |
39 | ||||
SECTION 4. PAYMENTS, ETC. |
39 | |||||
4.01 |
Payments |
40 | ||||
4.02 |
Computations |
40 | ||||
4.03 |
Set-Off |
40 | ||||
SECTION 5. ADDITIONAL COSTS, TAXES, ETC. |
41 | |||||
5.01 |
Additional Costs |
41 | ||||
5.02 |
Taxes |
43 | ||||
5.03 |
Mitigation Obligations |
47 | ||||
5.04 |
Survival |
47 | ||||
SECTION 6. CONDITIONS |
47 | |||||
6.01 |
Conditions to the Closing Date |
47 | ||||
6.02 |
Conditions to the Borrowing of All Loans after the Closing Date |
51 | ||||
SECTION 7. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
52 | |||||
7.01 |
Power and Authority |
52 |
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7.02 |
Authorization; Enforceability | 52 | ||||
7.03 |
Governmental and Other Approvals; No Conflicts | 52 | ||||
7.04 |
Financial Statements; Material Adverse Change | 53 | ||||
7.05 |
Properties | 54 | ||||
7.06 |
No Actions or Proceedings | 55 | ||||
7.07 |
Compliance with Other Instruments | 58 | ||||
7.08 |
Taxes | 58 | ||||
7.09 |
Full Disclosure | 58 | ||||
7.10 |
Investment Company Act and Margin Stock Regulation | 59 | ||||
7.11 |
Solvency | 59 | ||||
7.12 |
Subsidiaries | 59 | ||||
7.13 |
Indebtedness and Liens | 59 | ||||
7.14 |
Material Agreements | 59 | ||||
7.15 |
Restrictive Agreements | 60 | ||||
7.16 |
Transactions with Affiliates | 60 | ||||
7.17 |
OFAC; Anti-Terrorism Laws | 60 | ||||
7.18 |
Anti-Corruption | 61 | ||||
7.19 |
Priority of Obligations | 61 | ||||
7.20 |
Security Interest | 61 | ||||
7.21 |
Data Privacy | 61 | ||||
7.22 |
Insurance | 62 | ||||
7.23 |
Certain Transactions | 62 | ||||
7.24 |
No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances | 62 | ||||
7.25 |
Employee Agreements | 62 | ||||
7.26 |
Permits | 63 | ||||
7.27 |
Customers and Suppliers | 63 | ||||
SECTION 8. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
63 | |||||
8.01 |
Financial Statements and Other Information | 63 | ||||
8.02 |
Notices of Material Events | 66 | ||||
8.03 |
Existence | 68 | ||||
8.04 |
Payment of Obligations | 68 | ||||
8.05 |
Insurance | 68 | ||||
8.06 |
Books and Records; Inspection Rights | 69 |
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8.07 |
Compliance with Laws and Other Obligations | 69 | ||||
8.08 |
Maintenance of Properties, Etc. | 70 | ||||
8.09 |
Licenses | 70 | ||||
8.10 |
Monthly Lender Calls | 70 | ||||
8.11 |
Use of Proceeds | 70 | ||||
8.12 |
Certain Obligations Respecting Subsidiaries; Further Assurances | 70 | ||||
8.13 |
Termination of Non-Permitted Liens | 73 | ||||
8.14 |
Board Rights | 73 | ||||
8.15 |
ERISA Compliance | 74 | ||||
8.16 |
Cash Management | 75 | ||||
8.17 |
Information Regarding the Collateral | 75 | ||||
8.18 |
Automotive Strategic Alternative | 75 | ||||
8.19 |
Reserved | 76 | ||||
8.20 |
Post-Closing Obligations | 76 | ||||
SECTION 9. NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
77 | |||||
9.01 |
Indebtedness | 77 | ||||
9.02 |
Liens | 79 | ||||
9.03 |
Fundamental Changes and Acquisitions | 82 | ||||
9.04 |
Lines of Business | 83 | ||||
9.05 |
Investments | 83 | ||||
9.06 |
Restricted Payments | 85 | ||||
9.07 |
Payments of Indebtedness | 86 | ||||
9.08 |
Changes in Fiscal Year | 87 | ||||
9.09 |
Sales of Assets, Etc. | 87 | ||||
9.10 |
Transactions with Affiliates | 88 | ||||
9.11 |
Restrictive Agreements | 89 | ||||
9.12 |
Modifications and Terminations of Material Agreements and Organic Documents | 89 | ||||
9.13 |
Outbound Licenses | 90 | ||||
9.14 |
Sales and Leasebacks | 90 | ||||
9.15 |
Hazardous Materials | 90 | ||||
9.16 |
Accounting Changes | 90 | ||||
9.17 |
Compliance with ERISA | 90 |
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9.18 | Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Use of Proceeds |
90 | ||||
9.19 |
Capital Expenditures | 91 | ||||
9.20 |
Settlements | 91 | ||||
SECTION 10. FINANCIAL MAINTENANCE COVENANT |
91 | |||||
10.01 |
Minimum Liquidity | 91 | ||||
SECTION 11. EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
91 | |||||
11.01 |
Events of Default | 91 | ||||
11.02 |
Remedies | 95 | ||||
11.03 |
Additional Remedies | 95 | ||||
SECTION 12. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT |
96 | |||||
12.01 |
Appointment and Duties | 96 | ||||
12.02 |
Binding Effect | 97 | ||||
12.03 |
Use of Discretion | 97 | ||||
12.04 |
Delegation of Rights and Duties | 98 | ||||
12.05 |
Reliance and Liability | 98 | ||||
12.06 |
Administrative Agent Individually | 100 | ||||
12.07 |
Lender Credit Decision | 100 | ||||
12.08 |
Expenses; Indemnities | 100 | ||||
12.09 |
Resignation of the Administrative Agent | 101 | ||||
12.10 |
Release of Collateral or Guarantors | 102 | ||||
12.11 |
Additional Secured Parties | 102 | ||||
12.12 |
Agent May File Proofs of Claim | 103 | ||||
12.13 |
Acknowledgements of Lenders | 103 | ||||
SECTION 13. GUARANTY |
106 | |||||
13.01 |
The Guaranty | 106 | ||||
13.02 |
Obligations Unconditional | 106 | ||||
13.03 |
Discharge Only Upon Payment in Full | 108 | ||||
13.04 |
Additional Waivers; General Waivers | 109 | ||||
13.05 |
Reinstatement | 110 | ||||
13.06 |
Subrogation | 110 | ||||
13.07 |
Remedies | 111 | ||||
13.08 |
Instrument for the Payment of Money | 111 | ||||
13.09 |
Continuing Guarantee | 111 |
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13.10 |
Contribution with Respect to Guaranteed Obligations | 111 | ||||
13.11 |
General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations | 112 | ||||
SECTION 14. MISCELLANEOUS |
112 | |||||
14.01 |
No Waiver | 112 | ||||
14.02 |
Notices | 112 | ||||
14.03 |
Expenses, Indemnification, Etc. | 113 | ||||
14.04 |
Amendments, Etc. | 114 | ||||
14.05 |
Successors and Assigns | 115 | ||||
14.06 |
Survival | 118 | ||||
14.07 |
Captions | 119 | ||||
14.08 |
Counterparts, Effectiveness | 119 | ||||
14.09 |
Governing Law | 119 | ||||
14.10 |
Jurisdiction, Service of Process and Venue | 119 | ||||
14.11 |
Waiver of Jury Trial | 120 | ||||
14.12 |
Waiver of Immunity | 120 | ||||
14.13 |
Entire Agreement | 120 | ||||
14.14 |
Severability | 120 | ||||
14.15 |
No Fiduciary Relationship | 120 | ||||
14.16 |
Confidentiality | 120 | ||||
14.17 |
Interest Rate Limitation | 121 | ||||
14.18 |
Judgment Currency | 121 | ||||
14.19 |
USA PATRIOT Act | 122 | ||||
14.20 |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions | 122 |
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SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS
Schedule 1 | - | Loan Commitments | ||
Schedule 2 | - | Company Debt Agreements | ||
Schedule 7.05(a)(ii) | - | Real Property Owned or Leased by Obligors | ||
Schedule 7.05(b)(i) | - | Borrower Intellectual Property | ||
Schedule 7.06 | - | Pension Matters | ||
Schedule 7.12 | - | Information Regarding Subsidiaries | ||
Schedule 7.13(a) | - | Existing Indebtedness | ||
Schedule 7.13(b) | - | Existing Liens | ||
Schedule 7.15 | - | Restrictive Agreements | ||
Schedule 7.16 | - | Transactions with Affiliates | ||
Schedule 8.20 | - | Post-Closing Obligations | ||
Schedule 9.05 | - | Existing Investments | ||
Schedule 9.09 | - | Scheduled Asset Sales | ||
Exhibit A | - | Form of Note | ||
Exhibit B | - | Form of Borrowing Notice | ||
Exhibit C | - | Form of Guarantee Assumption Agreement | ||
Exhibit D-1 | - | Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) | ||
Exhibit D-2 | - | Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) | ||
Exhibit D-3 | - | Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) | ||
Exhibit D-4 | - | Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) | ||
Exhibit E | - | Form of Compliance Certificate | ||
Exhibit F | - | Form of Assignment and Assumption | ||
Exhibit G | - | Form of Landlord Consent | ||
Exhibit H | - | Form of Intercompany Subordination Agreement | ||
Exhibit I | - | Form of Solvency Certificate | ||
Exhibit J | - | Form of Closing Date Certificate | ||
Exhibit K | - | Form of Subsequent Funding Date Certificate |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT AND GUARANTY
CREDIT AGREEMENT AND GUARANTY, dated as of December 14, 2023 (this Agreement), among TPI COMPOSITES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiaries of the Borrower required to provide Guarantees from time to time hereunder (each a Guarantor and collectively, the Guarantors), the lenders from time to time party hereto (each a Lender and collectively, the Lenders), and OAKTREE FUND ADMINISTRATION, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the Administrative Agent).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested certain financial accommodations from the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, including (i) an additional twelve (12)-month availability period for additional funding commitments, (ii) extension of the ability to pay interest-in-kind, (iii) forgiveness of certain dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock that were paid-in-kind and (iv) other accommodations;
WHEREAS, in exchange for such significant accommodations, the Borrower and the holders of Series A Preferred Stock have agreed to exchange all the Series A Preferred Stock currently outstanding into loans pursuant to this Agreement to facilitate the accommodations;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide a first-lien term loan facility to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount of $443,000,000, consisting of (a) $393,000,000 in Initial Term Loans, which shall be deemed made on the Closing Date by Lenders on a cashless basis in exchange for all the Series A Preferred Stock currently outstanding and held by the Lenders and $43,000,000 of the accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock (the Cashless Exchange), and (b) up to $50,000,000 aggregate principal amount of commitments for Additional Term Loans to be extended on a Subsequent Funding Date during the Availability Period, subject in each case to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement;
WHEREAS, as a condition to the Cashless Exchange and other accommodations provided by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, the Lenders are requiring certain existing and future Subsidiaries of the Borrower to guarantee and provide security over all or a portion of their respective assets to the Administrative Agent for its own behalf and on behalf of the Lenders and each Subsidiary has determined that it will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from providing a guarantee and security in respect of the Loans and other Obligations; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to provide such senior secured term loan facility.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1.
DEFINITIONS
1.01 Certain Defined Terms. As used herein, the following terms have the following respective meanings:
5.25% Convertible Senior Notes means the 5.25% Convertible Senior Notes issued in an aggregate principal amount of $132,500,000 issued pursuant to the indenture, dated as of March 3, 2023, among the Borrower and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, as in effect as of the date of this Agreement.
2022 Form 10-K has the meaning set forth in Section 7.12(b).
Account Control Agreement Completion Date has the meaning set forth in Section 8.20(a).
Acquisition means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, by which any Person (for purposes of this definition, an acquirer) directly or indirectly, by means of amalgamation, merger, purchase of assets, purchase of Equity Interests, or otherwise, (i) acquires all or substantially all of the assets of any other Person, (ii) acquires an entire business line or unit or division of any other Person, (iii) with respect to any other Person that is managed or governed by a Board, acquires control of Equity Interests of such other Person representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the economic rights or ordinary voting power (determined on a fully-diluted basis) for the election of directors of such Persons Board or (iv) acquires control of more than fifty percent (50%) of the Equity Interests in any other Person (determined on a fully-diluted basis) that is not managed by a Board.
Additional Commitment means, with respect to each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Additional Term Loans to the Borrower on any Subsequent Funding Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, which commitment is in the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name in Schedule 1 under the caption Applicable Commitment for Additional Term Loans, as such Schedule may be amended from time to time pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or otherwise reduced pursuant to the terms hereof (including by any Borrowing of Additional Term Loans). The aggregate amount of Additional Commitments on the date of this Agreement equals $50,000,000.
Additional Term Loans has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(a)(ii).
Administrative Agent has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Affected Financial Institution means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
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; provided that Oaktree will not be considered an Affiliate of the Borrower for purposes of this definition.
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Agreement has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Allocable Amount has the meaning set forth in Section 13.10(b).
ALTA means American Land Title Association.
Anti-Terrorism Laws means any applicable laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including (i) the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 (e.g., 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 and 1957), (ii) the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (e.g., 31 U.S.C. §§ 5311 5330), as amended by the Patriot Act, (iii) the laws, regulations and Executive Orders administered by the United States Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), (iv) the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 and implementing regulations by the United States Department of the Treasury, (v) any law prohibiting or directed against terrorist activities or the financing of terrorist activities (e.g., 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A and 2339B), or (vi) any similar laws enacted in the United States, European Union, India, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey, the Peoples Republic of China, the United Kingdom or any other jurisdictions in which the parties to this agreement are organized or operate, and all other legal requirements of any Governmental Authority governing, addressing, relating to, or attempting to eliminate, terrorist acts and acts of war.
Arms Length Transaction means, with respect to any transaction, the terms of such transaction shall not be less favorable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries than commercially reasonable terms that would be obtained in a transaction with a Person that is an unrelated third party.
Asset Sale has the meaning set forth in Section 9.09.
Assignment and Assumption means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee of such Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit F, or such other form as agreed by the Administrative Agent.
Automotive Strategic Alternative has the meaning set forth in Section 8.18.
Availability Period means the date commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on November 22, 2024.
Bailee Letter means a bailee letter substantially in the form of Exhibit F to the Security Agreement.
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, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
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Bankruptcy Code means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled Bankruptcy.
Beneficial Ownership Certification means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, as amended.
Beneficial Ownership Regulation means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230, as amended.
Benefit Plan means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (whether governed by the laws of the United States or otherwise) to which any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
Board means, with respect to any Person, the board of directors or equivalent management or oversight body of such Person or any committee thereof authorized to act on behalf of such board (or equivalent body).
Borrower has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Borrower Intellectual Property means all Intellectual Property owned or purported to be owned by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
Borrower Party has the meaning set forth in Section 14.03(b).
Borrowing means a borrowing of the Loans on the Closing Date or any Subsequent Funding Date, as the context may require.
Borrowing Notice means a written notice substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
Bringdown Date means each date on which a Loan is advanced pursuant to Section 2.01(a) and any other date the representations and warranties under the Loan Documents are required to be made (other than the Closing Date).
Business Day means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law to remain closed in New York City.
Business IT Systems has the meaning set forth in Section 7.05(b)(ii).
Capital Lease means any lease that is classified as a capital, direct financing, or direct financing arrangement lease for GAAP presentation; provided that no lease that would have been categorized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP prior to giving effect to the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Update 2016 02, Leases (Topic 842), issued in February 2016 (or any other changes in GAAP subsequent to the date hereof) shall be considered a Capital Lease for purposes of this Agreement (and shall not constitute a Capital Lease hereunder).
Cashless Exchange has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
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Casualty Event means the damage, destruction or condemnation, as the case may be, of property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of $5,000,000 with respect to any individual event or series of related events and $10,000,000 in the aggregate during the term of this Agreement.
Certificate of Designations means the Certificate of Designations of Series A Preferred Stock, filed November 24, 2021, setting forth the rights, powers, preferences and privileges of the Series A Preferred Stock.
Change of Control means an event or series of events (i) as a result of which any person or group (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Act, but excluding any of such person or its Subsidiaries, and any Person acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such Plan) becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all Equity Interests that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an option right)), directly or indirectly, of fifty percent (50%) or more of the Equity Interests of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the Board of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such Equity Interests that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right); provided, that no Change of Control shall be deemed to have occurred pursuant to this clause (i) due solely to the acquisition of shares of common stock by Oaktree upon the exercise of any warrants of the Borrower, (ii) that results in the sale of all or substantially all of the assets or businesses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (iii) except to the extent permitted by this Agreement, that results in the Borrowers failure to own, directly or indirectly, beneficially and of record, one-hundred percent (100%) of all issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each Subsidiary Guarantor.
Claims means (and includes) any claim, demand, complaint, grievance, action, application, suit, cause of action, order, charge, indictment, prosecution, judgement or other similar process duly asserted and of which the required notice has been given in accordance with Law, whether in respect of assessments or reassessments, debts, liabilities, expenses, costs, damages or losses, contingent or otherwise, whether liquidated or unliquidated, matured or unmatured, disputed or undisputed, contractual, legal or equitable, including loss of value, professional fees, including fees and disbursements of legal counsel, and all costs incurred in investigating or pursuing any of the foregoing or any proceeding relating to any of the foregoing.
Closing Date means the date on which the conditions precedent specified in Section 6.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 14.04).
Closing Date Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.
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Collateral means any real, personal and mixed property (including Equity Interests), whether tangible or intangible, in which Liens are granted or purported to be granted to the Administrative Agent as security for the Obligations under any Loan Document on or after the Closing Date, including future acquired, developed or created assets or property (or collectively, all such real, personal and mixed property, as the context may require); provided, that the Collateral shall not include any Excluded Asset (as defined in the Security Agreement).
Commitment means, with respect to each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Loans to the Borrower on the Closing Date and each Subsequent Funding Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, which commitment is in the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name in Schedule 1 under the caption Commitment, as such Schedule may be amended from time to time pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or otherwise reduced pursuant to the terms hereof, it being understood and agreed that the Initial Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount of $393,000,000 shall be funded on a cashless basis pursuant to the Cashless Exchange. The aggregate amount of Commitments as of the date of this Agreement, before giving effect to the funding of Initial Terms Loans, equals $443,000,000.
Company Competitor means (i) any competitor of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries primarily operating in the same line of business as the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and identified in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time and (ii) any of such competitors Affiliates (other than any Person that is a bona fide debt fund primarily engaged in the making, purchasing, holding or other investing in commercial loans, notes, bonds or similar extensions of credit or securities in the Ordinary Course) that are either (x) clearly identifiable as an Affiliate of any such competitor on the basis of such Persons name or (y) identified by name in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent from time to time. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Company Competitor and (b) the Borrower, the Guarantors and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent shall have no responsibility or obligation to determine whether any Lender or potential Lender is a Company Competitor and that the Administrative Agent shall have no liability with respect to any assignment or participation made to a Company Competitor.
Company Debt Agreement Cap has the meaning set forth in Section 9.01(b).
Company Debt Agreements means each of the loan or credit agreements or other instruments evidencing Indebtedness for borrowed money existing on the date of this Agreement, as listed in Schedule 2 and any agreement or other instruments evidencing Indebtedness for borrowed money that refinance, replace, renew or extend a Company Debt Agreement in accordance with Section 9.01(b).
Company Plan means any benefit or compensation plan, program, policy, practice, agreement, contract, arrangement or other obligation, whether or not in writing and whether or not funded, in each case, which is sponsored or maintained by, or required to be contributed to, or with respect to which any potential liability is borne by the Company, including, but not limited to, employee benefit plans within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, employment, consulting, retirement, severance, termination or change in control agreements, deferred compensation, equity-based, incentive, bonus, supplemental retirement, profit sharing, insurance, medical, welfare, fringe or other benefits or remuneration of any kind.
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Compliance Certificate has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01(c).
Connection Income Taxes means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
Confidential Information Agreement has the meaning set forth in Section 7.25.
Contracts means any contract, license, lease, agreement, obligation, promise, undertaking, understanding, arrangement, document, commitment, entitlement or engagement under which a Person has, or will have, any liability or contingent liability (in each case, whether written or oral, express or implied, and whether in respect of monetary or payment obligations, performance obligations or otherwise).
Control means, in respect of a particular Person, the possession by one or more other Persons, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such particular Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
Controlled Account has the meaning set forth in Section 8.16(a).
Convertible Senior Notes Issue Date means March 3, 2023.
Copyright means published and unpublished works of authorship whether or not copyrightable, including (i) software, including all source code, object code, firmware, development tools, files, records and data, and all media on which any of the foregoing is recorded; (ii) website and mobile content; and (iii) copyright registrations and applications for copyright registrations, including all renewals, extensions, restorations, derivative works and reversions thereof and all common law rights, moral rights and other rights whatsoever accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto throughout the world.
Default means any Event of Default and any event that, upon the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
Default Rate means an interest rate equal to the then applicable Interest Rate plus 2.00% per annum, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Designated Jurisdiction means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory is itself the subject of country- or territory-wide Sanctions (as of the date of this Agreement, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, and the so-called Donetsk Peoples Republic (DNR) and Luhansk Peoples Republic (LNR) regions of Ukraine).
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Disqualified Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest of such Person that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interest into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (i) matures or is mandatorily redeemable or requires such Person to use efforts to redeem such Equity Interests (in each case, other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares), including pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (ii) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares), in whole or in part, (iii) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends or other distributions in cash (other than the payment of cash in lieu of fractional shares) or other securities that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, or (iv) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for cash, Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Maturity Date.
Disqualified Lender means any Person that is a vulture fund, distressed debt purchaser or similar institution whose primary business consists of purchasing or investing in persons that are highly financially distressed and insolvent or imminently insolvent that is identified by name in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent prior to the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Lenders and (b) the Borrower, the Guarantors and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent shall have no responsibility or obligation to determine whether any Lender or potential Lender is a Disqualified Lender and that the Administrative Agent shall have no liability with respect to any assignment or participation made to a Disqualified Lender.
Division has the meaning set forth in Section 1.04.
Dollars and $ means lawful money of the United States of America.
Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement means, at any time and solely with respect to any Person that becomes or is required to become a Domestic Obligor after the Closing Date other than an Excluded Subsidiary (including by ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary), the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from such Person (i) a Guarantee Assumption Agreement, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person, and (ii) a supplement to the Security Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person together with, in the case of any such Loan Documents executed and delivered after the Closing Date, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, opinions, documents and certificates of the type referred to in Section 6.01;
(b) all outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than any Equity Interests constituting Excluded Assets) owned by or on behalf of such Person shall have been pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement and the Administrative Agent shall have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests (if any), together with undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;
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(c) (x) if any Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Borrower or any Subsidiary is owing by such obligor to such Person, if such Indebtedness shall be evidenced by a promissory note, such promissory note shall have been pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement and the Administrative Agent shall have received all such promissory notes, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank, and (y) such Person shall execute and deliver a supplement to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;
(d) all certificates, agreements, documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, control agreements and Short-Form IP Security Agreements required by the Security Documents or applicable Law and reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, to be filed, delivered, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, the Security Documents and the other provisions of the term Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, shall have been filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent in proper form for filing, registration or recording;
(e) the Collateral Agent shall have received as soon as possible and in any event within sixty (60) days after the date such Person becomes a Domestic Obligor (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably agree) all Mortgage Deliverables required pursuant to Section 8.12(b)(iv); and
(f) with respect to any deposit account, securities account, commodities account, disbursement account, investment account (or other similar account) and lockbox of such Person (in each case, other than any Excluded Accounts), upon becoming a Domestic Obligor such Person shall enter into a control agreement with respect to each such account as soon as possible and in any event within thirty (30) days after the date such Person becomes a Domestic Obligor (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably agree).
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition, Liens shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in the Security Documents.
Each such Domestic Obligor will also take any and all other action to comply with the applicable Security Agreement and any other Loan Document, including to execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and any other filings, registrations or recordings), which may be required under any applicable Law, or which the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or to grant, preserve, protect or perfect the Liens created or intended to be created by the applicable Security Documents or the validity or priority of any such Lien.
Domestic Obligor means an Obligor that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.
Domestic Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the Borrower other than a Foreign Subsidiary.
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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 clause (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
EEA Member Country means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
EEA Resolution Authority means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
Eligible Transferee means any Person other than (x) any Company Competitor, (y) any Disqualified Lender, or (z) a natural person.
Environmental Law means any law, regulation, or other applicable requirement relating to (a) releases or threatened release of Hazardous Material; (b) pollution or protection of employee health or safety, public health or the environment; or (c) the manufacture, handling, transport, use, treatment, storage, or disposal of Hazardous Material.
Environmental Liability means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (i) violation of any Environmental Law, (ii) the generation, use, presence, emission, discharge, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (iii) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (iv) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (v) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person (for purposes of this defined term, an issuer), all shares of, interests or participations in, or other equivalents in respect of such issuers capital stock, including all membership interests, partnership interests, beneficial interests in a trust or equivalent, whether now outstanding or issued after the Closing Date, and in each case, however designated and whether voting or non-voting, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest, but excluding any debt securities convertible into any of the foregoing.
Equivalent Amount means, with respect to an amount denominated in one currency, the amount in another currency that could be purchased by the amount in the first currency determined by reference to the Exchange Rate at the time of determination.
ERISA means the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
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ERISA Affiliate means, collectively, any Obligor, Subsidiary thereof, and any Person under common control, or treated as a single employer, with any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof, within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
ERISA Event means (i) a reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA with respect to a Title IV Plan, excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC by regulation has waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within thirty (30) days of the occurrence of such event; (ii) the applicability of the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, to any Title IV Plan where an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to such plan within the following thirty (30) days; (iii) a withdrawal by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof from a Title IV Plan or the termination of any Title IV Plan resulting in liability under Sections 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal of any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan if there is any potential liability therefore, or the receipt by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is insolvent pursuant to Section 4245 of ERISA; (v) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the material failure by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof to make any required contribution to a Plan, or the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code) or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (viii) the determination that any Title IV Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered to critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; (ix) an event or condition which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (x) the imposition of any liability under Title I or Title IV of ERISA, other than PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof; (xi) an application for a funding waiver under Section 303 of ERISA or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan; (xii) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 or 407 of ERISA for which any Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof may be directly or indirectly liable; (xiii) a violation of the applicable requirements of Section 404 or 405 of ERISA or the exclusive benefit rule under Section 401(a) of the Code by any fiduciary or disqualified person for which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof may be directly or indirectly liable; (xiv) the occurrence of an act or omission which could give rise to the imposition on any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof of fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Code or under Sections 409, 502(c), (i) or (1) or 4071 of ERISA; (xv) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Plan or the assets thereof, or against any Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof in connection with any such plan; or (xvi) the imposition of any lien (or the fulfillment of the conditions for the imposition of any lien) on any of the rights, properties or assets of any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof, in either case pursuant to Title I or IV, including Section 302(f) or 303(k) of ERISA or to Section 401(a)(29) or 430(k) of the Code.
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Erroneous Payment has the meaning set forth in Section 12.13(a).
Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment has the meaning set forth in Section 12.13(d).
Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans has the meaning set forth in Section 12.13(d).
Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency has the meaning set forth in Section 12.13(d).
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.
Event of Default has the meaning set forth in Section 11.01.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Exchange Rate means, as of any date, the rate at which any currency may be exchanged into another currency, as set forth on the relevant Reuters screen at or about 11:00 a.m. (Eastern time) on such date. In the event that such rate does not appear on the Reuters screen, the Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be reasonably designated by the Administrative Agent.
Excluded Accounts means (a) deposit accounts exclusively used for payroll, payroll Taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Obligors employees in the Ordinary Course, (b) zero balance accounts in the Ordinary Course and consistent with past practice, swept at least daily to a Controlled Account, (c) accounts (including trust accounts) used exclusively for bona fide escrow, insurance or fiduciary purposes, and not in respect for Indebtedness for borrowed money, (d) accounts constituting cash collateral pledged in connection with any Permitted Liens pursuant to Section 9.02(l)(ii) or (n), (e) any other account specified in the Information Certificate as an Excluded Account as of the Closing Date or established after the Closing Date only; provided, that the aggregate amount of deposits standing to the credit of all such accounts under this clause (e) shall not exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate, and (f) any other account the Administrative Agent reasonably determines (in consultation with the Borrower) that the cost of providing an account control agreement outweighs the benefit afforded to the Secured Parties with respect to such account.
Excluded Subsidiary means (a) any Immaterial Subsidiary, (b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited or restricted by any applicable Law or by contractual obligations in existence as of the Closing Date or in connection with any refinancing, replacement, extension or renewal of such contractual obligations (or, with respect to a Subsidiary formed or acquired after the Closing Date, at the time of formation or acquisition but not entered into in contemplation thereof or to
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avoid the requirements under the Loan Documents) from guaranteeing the Obligations or if guaranteeing the Obligations would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization, unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been obtained (and in each case only for so long as such prohibition or restrictions is in effect or such consent, approval, license or authorization has not been obtained, it being understood and agreed that the Obligors shall have no obligation to obtain any such consent, approval, license or authorization), (c) any Subsidiary with respect to which a guarantee by it of the Obligations would result in a material and adverse tax consequence to the Borrower and its, taken as a whole, as reasonably determined by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (d) any Subsidiary for which the cost of guaranteeing the Obligations outweighs the benefits to the Lenders, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower).
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: (i) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (x) 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 subdivisions thereof) or (y) that are Other Connection Taxes, (ii) 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 (1) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment or (2) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.02, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lenders assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (iii) Taxes attributable to such Recipients failure to comply with Section 5.02(f), and (iv) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
Facility means any real property (including all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located thereon) now, hereafter or heretofore owned, leased or operated by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries.
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities and implementing such Sections of the Code.
Federal Funds Effective Rate means, for any day, the rate calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such days federal funds transactions by depositary 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 as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
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Fee Letter means the Fee Letter dated as of the date of this Agreement, among the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent.
Financial Statements has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(a).
Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement means, at any time and solely with respect to each Foreign Obligor or Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower not constituting an Excluded Subsidiary, the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from (i) each Foreign Obligor or Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower not constituting an Excluded Subsidiary a Guarantee Assumption Agreement, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person; provided that such Guarantee assumption agreement may be modified as reasonably agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to account for restrictions, limitations, conditions, and any other material terms required under the Laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary, and (ii) each Foreign Obligor or Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower not constituting an Excluded Subsidiary, a Foreign Security Agreement, or, if applicable, a supplement to the then-existing Foreign Security Agreement in the same jurisdiction, as applicable, and in each case all other documents required by applicable Law or contemplated by such Foreign Security Agreement, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person, together with, in the case of any such Loan Documents executed and delivered after the Closing Date, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, opinions, documents and certificates of the type referred to in Section 6.01; provided that, any Foreign Security Agreement or supplement thereto or any other documents required to be delivered after the Closing Date pursuant to this clause (ii) shall be subject to such terms and conditions, limitations, restrictions, or other material terms as are reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower), taking into account the applicable Law and customary market practice of the relevant jurisdiction.
(b) all outstanding Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than any Equity Interests constituting Excluded Assets) owned by or on behalf of any Foreign Obligor shall have been pledged pursuant to the applicable Foreign Security Agreement and the Administrative Agent shall have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests (if any), together with undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank (or the foreign equivalent, if any);
(c) (x) if any Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Borrower or any Subsidiary is owing by such obligor to such Person, if such Indebtedness shall be evidenced by a promissory note, such promissory note shall have been pledged pursuant to the applicable Foreign Security Agreement and the Administrative Agent shall have received all such promissory notes, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank, and (y) such Person shall execute and deliver a supplement to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;
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(d) all certificates, agreements, documents and instruments, including financing statements, control agreements and intellectual property security agreements, or in each case, any corresponding instruments in the applicable jurisdiction (if any), required by the applicable Foreign Security Agreement or applicable Law and reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, delivered, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the applicable Foreign Security Agreement and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, the applicable Foreign Security Agreement and the other provisions of the term Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, shall have been filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent in proper form for filing, registration or recording;
(e) the Collateral Agent shall have received as soon as possible and in any event within the applicable time period set forth in Schedule 8.20 or sixty (60) days after the date such Person becomes a Foreign Obligor, as applicable (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably agree) or the date on which an existing Foreign Obligor acquires real property, all Mortgage Deliverables required pursuant to Section 8.12(b)(iv); and
(f) with respect to any deposit account, securities account, commodities account, disbursement account, investment account (or other similar account) and lockbox of such Person (in each case, other than any Excluded Accounts), as soon as possible and no later than the applicable time period set forth in Schedule 8.20 or thirty (30) days after the date such Person becomes a Foreign Obligor, as applicable, such Person shall enter into a control agreement (or comparable agreement or instrument with equivalent effect in the applicable jurisdiction, if any) with respect to each such account (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably agree).
Each such Foreign Obligor will also take any and all other action to comply with the applicable Security Agreement and any other Loan Document, including to execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and any other filings, registrations or recordings), which may be required under any applicable Law, or which the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or to grant, preserve, protect or perfect the Liens created or intended to be created by the applicable Security Documents or the validity or priority of any such Lien.
Foreign Lender means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.
Foreign Obligor means each Obligor organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside of the United States.
Foreign Security Agreement means (a) after execution and delivery thereof, each agreement listed on Schedule 8.20 and designated as a Foreign Security Agreement thereunder and (b) each other security agreement, charge, assignment by way of security, lien, pledge, debenture, hypothec, mortgage or other instrument or document, as applicable, governed by applicable Law in jurisdictions other than the United States in connection with this Agreement and the other Security Documents; provided that each Foreign Security Agreement shall be in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower).
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Foreign Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is formed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than a State of the United States or the District of Columbia.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time, set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, in the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and in such other statements by such other entity as may be in general use by significant segments of the accounting profession that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination. All references to GAAP shall be to GAAP applied consistently with the principles used in the preparation of the financial statements of the Borrower for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
Governmental Approval means any consent, authorization, approval, order, license, franchise, permit, certification, accreditation, registration, clearance or exemption that is issued or granted by or from (or pursuant to any act of) any Governmental Authority, including any application or submission related to any of the foregoing.
Governmental Authority means any nation, government, branch of power (whether executive, legislative or judicial), state, province or municipality or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, monetary, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including regulatory authorities, governmental departments, agencies, commissions, bureaus, officials, ministers, courts, bodies, boards, tribunals and dispute settlement panels, and other law-, rule- or regulation-making organizations or entities of any state, territory, county, city or other political subdivision of any country, in each case whether U.S. or non-U.S.
Guarantee of or by any Person (the guarantor) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (iv) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or other obligation; provided, that the term Guarantee shall not include (A) endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course, (B) guarantees of performance under supply agreements, customer agreements and other trade contracts in the Ordinary Course or (C) guarantees of operating leases.
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Guarantee Assumption Agreement means a Guarantee Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C by an entity that, pursuant to Section 8.12(a), is required to become a Subsidiary Guarantor.
Guaranteed Obligations has the meaning set forth in Section 13.01.
Guarantor Payment has the meaning set forth in Section 13.10(a).
Guaranty means the Guaranty made by the Subsidiary Guarantors under Section 13 in favor of the Secured Parties (including any Guaranty assumed by an entity that is required to become a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to a Guarantee Assumption Agreement).
Hazardous Material means any pollutant, contaminant or toxic or hazardous material, substance or waste, or petroleum or any fraction thereof.
Hazardous Materials Activity means any past, current, proposed or threatened activity, event or occurrence involving any Hazardous Materials, including the use, manufacture, possession, storage, holding, presence, existence, location, release, threatened release, discharge, placement, generation, transportation, processing, construction, treatment, abatement, removal, remediation, disposal, recycling, disposition or handling of any Hazardous Materials, and any investigation, monitoring, corrective action or response action with respect to any of the foregoing.
Hedging Agreement means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, spot, future, credit default or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement 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 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 its Subsidiaries shall be a Hedging Agreement.
Immaterial Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that (a) individually constitutes or holds less than two and one half percent (2.5%) of the Borrowers consolidated total assets and generates less than two and one half percent (2.5%) of the Borrowers consolidated total revenue, and (b) when taken together with all then existing Immaterial Subsidiaries, such Subsidiary and such Immaterial Subsidiaries, in the aggregate, would constitute or hold less than five percent (5.0%) of the Borrowers consolidated total assets and generate less than five percent (5.0%) of the Borrowers consolidated total revenue, in each case of the foregoing clauses as of the last day of, or for, the most recently ended fiscal period for which financial statements were required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(a) or (b). Any determination of whether a Subsidiary shall cease to qualify as an Immaterial Subsidiary shall be made on the date of the delivery of the compliance certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(c).
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Indebtedness of any Person means, without duplication, (i) all liabilities of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, whether current or funded, secured or unsecured, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid (excluding interest penalties for late payments under commercial contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course and, for the avoidance of doubt, which commercial contracts do not relate to obligations for borrowed money or purchase money indebtedness), (iv) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (v) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property, assets, securities or services, including all earn-out payments, seller notes and other similar payments (but only after becoming a liability under GAAP); (vi) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (vii) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (viii) all liabilities of such Person in respect of any Capital Lease, (ix) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as an account party in respect of bankers acceptances, any letter of credit or similar credit transaction, and all liabilities of such Person as obligor, guarantor, or otherwise, to the extent of the obligation secured, (x) obligations under any Hedging Agreement, (xi) any Disqualified Equity Interests of such Person, (xii) all obligations of such Person under Sale and Leaseback Transactions and (xiii) all other obligations required to be classified as indebtedness of such Person under GAAP. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Persons ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following shall not constitute Indebtedness: (i) operating leases, (ii) prepaid or deferred revenue arising in the Ordinary Course, and (iii) guarantees of performance under supply agreements, customer agreements and other trade contracts in the Ordinary Course.
Indemnified Party has the meaning set forth in Section 14.03(b).
Indemnified Taxes means (i) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any Obligation and (ii) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (i), Other Taxes.
Information Certificate means the Information Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c).
Initial Commitment means, with respect to each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Initial Term Loans to the Borrower on the Closing Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, which commitment is in the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name in Schedule 1 under the caption Applicable Commitment for Initial Term Loans, as such Schedule may be amended from time to time pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or otherwise. The aggregate amount of Initial Commitments on the date of this Agreement equals $393,000,000.
Initial Term Loans has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(a)(i).
Insolvency Event has the meaning set forth in Section 11.01(g).
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Insolvency Proceeding means (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, administration, moratorium, liquidation, receivership, examinership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement in respect of any Persons creditors generally or any substantial portion of such Persons creditors, in each case undertaken under U.S. federal or state law (including the Bankruptcy Code), foreign law or other applicable Law.
Intellectual Property means all intellectual property or proprietary rights of any kind anywhere in the world, including any rights in or to Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets.
Intercompany Subordination Agreement means a subordination agreement to be executed and delivered by each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries, pursuant to which all obligations in respect of any Indebtedness owing to any such Person by an Obligor shall be subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations, such agreement to be in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit H.
Interest Rate means 11.00% per annum; provided that the Interest Rate shall be automatically increased to 15.00% per annum from and after the funding of any Additional Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(ii).
Investment means, for any Person: (i) the acquisition (whether for cash, property, services or securities or otherwise) of any debt or Equity Interests, bonds, notes, debentures, partnership or other ownership interests or other securities of any other Person (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 sale); (ii) any Acquisition, (iii) the making of any deposit with, or advance, loan, assumption of debt or other extension of credit to, or capital contribution in 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), but excluding any such advance, loan or extension of credit having a term not exceeding one hundred twenty (120) days arising in connection with the sale of inventory or supplies by such Person in the Ordinary Course; or (iv) the entering into of any Guarantee of, or other contingent obligation with respect to, Indebtedness or other liability of any other Person and (without duplication) any amount committed to be advanced, lent or extended to such Person. The amount of an Investment shall be the amount actually invested (which, in the case of any Investment constituting the contribution of an asset or property, shall be based on the fair market value of such asset or property at the time such Investment is made), less the amount of cash received or returned for such Investment, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect thereto; provided that in no event shall such amount be less than zero or increase any basket or amount pursuant to Section 9.05 above the fixed amount set forth therein.
IRS means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or any successor agency, and to the extent relevant, the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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IT Systems means technology devices, computers, mobile devices, software, servers, networks, workstations, routers, hubs, circuits, switches, data communications lines, and all other information technology equipment, and all associated documentation.
Key Employee means any executive-level employee (including division director and vice president-level positions), as well as any employee who either alone or in concert with others develops, invents, programs or designs any Borrower Intellectual Property.
Landlord Consent means a Landlord Consent substantially in the form of Exhibit G.
Law means, collectively, all U.S. or non-U.S. federal, state, provincial, territorial, municipal or local statute, treaty, rule, guideline, regulation, ordinance, code or administrative or judicial precedent or authority, including any interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
Lenders has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Lien means (a) any mortgage, lien, license, pledge, hypothecation, charge, security interest, or other encumbrance of any kind or character whatsoever, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable Law, or any lease, title retention agreement, mortgage, restriction, easement, right-of-way, option or adverse claim (of ownership or possession) (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, and any other encumbrance on title to real property, any option or other agreement to sell, or give a security interest in, such asset and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the UCC (or equivalent statutes of any jurisdiction)) or any preferential arrangement that has the practical effect of creating a security interest and (b) in the case of Equity Interests, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such Equity Interests.
Liquidation Event means (i) effecting any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, whether voluntary or involuntary, or (ii) an Insolvency Event.
Loans means (a) the Initial Term Loans made by the Lenders on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01 in an initial aggregate principal amount of $393,000,000 (which shall be funded on a cashless basis pursuant to the Cashless Exchange) and (b) any Additional Term Loans made by the Lenders on a Subsequent Funding Date during the Availability Period pursuant to pursuant to Section 2.01, plus in each case any accrued and capitalized PIK Interest thereon.
Loan Documents means, collectively, this Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents, the Fee Letter, any Guarantee Assumption Agreement, the Intercompany Subordination Agreement and any subordination agreement, intercreditor agreement or other present or future document, instrument, agreement or certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent (for itself or for the benefit of any other Secured Party) in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, in each case, as amended or otherwise modified.
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Loss means judgments, debts, liabilities, expenses, costs, damages or losses, contingent or otherwise, whether liquidated or unliquidated, matured or unmatured, disputed or undisputed, contractual, legal or equitable, including loss of value, professional fees, including fees and disbursements of legal counsel on a full indemnity basis, and all costs incurred in investigating or pursuing any Claim or any proceeding relating to any Claim.
Majority Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having at such time in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate (x) Commitments then in effect and (y) Loans outstanding at such time; provided that at all times the Majority Lenders shall be required to include the Oaktree Lenders, to the extent the Oaktree Lenders, in the aggregate, hold not less than thirty three percent (33)% of the principal amount of the Loans and Commitments outstanding at such time.
Mandatory Prepayment has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(b)(i).
Margin Stock means margin stock within the meaning of Regulations U and X.
Material Adverse Change and Material Adverse Effect mean a material adverse change in or effect on (i) the business, financial performance, operations, financial condition, the assets or liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of the Obligors, taken as a whole, to perform their obligations under the Loan Documents, as and when due, (iii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of the Loan Documents or (iv) the rights, remedies and benefits available to, or conferred upon, the Administrative Agent or the Secured Parties under any of the Loan Documents; provided that, for purposes of the representations and warranties set forth in Section 7 and any determination as to whether or not such representations and warranties are true and correct (whether in all respects or in all material respects), the terms Material Adverse Change and Material Adverse Effect shall exclude the following (none of which may be taken into account in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred other than as expressly provided below): (i) events resulting from a general deterioration in the economy or changes in the general state of the markets or industries in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries operate, (ii) events generally affecting the economy or the debt, credit or securities markets (including any decline in the price of any security or any market index or any change in interest or exchange rates), in each case, in the United States or anywhere else in the world, (iii) any hostilities or declared or undeclared acts of war, sabotage, terrorism or military actions or any escalation, worsening or diminution of any such hostilities, acts of war, sabotage, terrorism or military actions existing or underway as of the date hereof, or any acts of God, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or other national disaster, (iv) changes in applicable law or the interpretation thereof after the date hereof, (v) changes in GAAP or other accounting requirements or principles or the interpretation thereof after the date hereof, (vi) any failure of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries to meet or achieve the projections, forecasts or revenue or earning predictions for any period (provided, that this clause (vi) shall not prevent a determination that any event underlying such failure has resulted in a Material Adverse Effect, to the extent such event is not otherwise excluded from this definition of Material Adverse Effect), except, in the case of clauses (i) through (vi) above, to the extent such event has had or is
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reasonably expected to have a disproportionately adverse effect on the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses as compared to other Persons operating in a similar industry or geographic location as those that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and their respective businesses operate (in which case the incremental disproportionate impact or impacts of such Events may be taken into account in determining whether there has been, or would reasonably be expected to be, a Material Adverse Effect).
Material Agreement means any Contract, that (i) is material to the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) the absence or termination of which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Material Indebtedness means, at any time, any Indebtedness of any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof, the outstanding principal amount of which, individually or in the aggregate, exceeds $10,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies).
Material Intellectual Property means all Intellectual Property, whether currently owned by (or purported to be owned by) or licensed to (or purported to be licensed to) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or acquired, developed, created or obtained by or otherwise licensed to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the date hereof that is, in each case, material to the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Maturity Date means March 31, 2027.
Maximum Rate has the meaning set forth in Section 14.17.
Minimum Liquidity Amount means, (a) from the Closing Date through and including September 30, 2024, $40,000,000, and (b) thereafter, $50,000,000.
Mortgage has the meaning set forth in Section 8.12(b)(iv).
Mortgage Deliverables has the meaning set forth in Section 8.12(b)(iv).
Multiemployer Plan means any multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 400l(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
NASDAQ means NASDAQ Stock Market.
Net Cash Proceeds means, (i) with respect to any Casualty Event experienced or suffered by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, the amount of cash proceeds received (directly or indirectly) from time to time by or on behalf of such Person in respect thereof (other than the proceeds of any business interruption insurance) after deducting therefrom only (w) reasonable costs and expenses related thereto incurred by such Obligor or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, (x) Taxes (including transfer Taxes or net income Taxes) paid or payable in connection therewith, (y) reasonable reserves established for liabilities estimated to be payable in respect of such Casualty Event and deposited into escrow with a third party escrow agent on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent or set aside in a deposit account that is subject to an account control agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent, and (z) any
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amounts required to prepay Permitted Indebtedness secured by the assets subject to such Casualty Event; and (ii) with respect to any Asset Sale by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, the amount of cash proceeds received (directly or indirectly) from time to time by or on behalf of such Person in respect thereof after deducting therefrom only (w) reasonable costs and expenses related thereto incurred by such Obligor or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, (x) Taxes (including transfer Taxes or net income Taxes) paid or payable in connection therewith, (y) reasonable reserves established for liabilities estimated to be payable in respect of such Asset Sale and deposited into escrow with a third party escrow agent on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent or set aside in a deposit account that is subject to an account control agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent, and (z) any amounts required to prepay Permitted Indebtedness secured by the assets subject to such Asset Sale; provided that, in each case of clauses (i) and (ii), costs and expenses shall only be deducted to the extent that the amounts so deducted are (x) actually paid or payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries and (y) properly attributable to such Casualty Event or Asset Sale, as the case may be.
Note means a promissory note, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, executed and delivered by the Borrower to any Lender in accordance with Section 2.04.
NY UCC means the UCC as in effect from time to time in New York.
Oaktree means, individually and collectively, Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, or Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, or any of their Affiliated funds, investment vehicles and/or managed accounts.
Oaktree Director has the meaning set forth in Section 8.14(a).
Oaktree Lender means any Lender that is an Affiliate or managed fund or account of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
Obligations means, with respect to any Obligor, all amounts, obligations, liabilities, covenants and duties of every type and description owing by such Obligor to any Secured Party (including all Guaranteed Obligations) any other indemnitee hereunder or any participant, arising out of, under, or in connection with, any Loan Document, whether direct or indirect (regardless of whether acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, whether liquidated or not, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired, and whether or not evidenced by any instrument or for the payment of money, including, without duplication, (i) if such Obligor is the Borrower, all Loans, (ii) all interest, whether or not accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or after the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding, and whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in any such proceeding, and (iii) all other fees, expenses (including fees, charges and disbursement of counsel), interest, commissions, charges, costs, disbursements, indemnities and reimbursement of amounts paid and other sums chargeable to such Obligor under any Loan Document.
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Obligors means, collectively, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
Observer has the meaning set forth in Section 8.14(b).
OFAC has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of Anti-Terrorism Laws.
Ordinary Course means ordinary course of business or ordinary trade activities that are customary for similar businesses in the normal course of their ordinary operations and not while in financial distress.
Organic Document means, for any Person, such Persons formation documents, including, as applicable, its certificate of incorporation, by-laws, certificate of partnership, partnership agreement, certificate of formation, limited liability agreement, operating agreement and all shareholder agreements, voting trusts and similar arrangements applicable to such Persons Equity Interests, or any equivalent document of any of the foregoing.
Other Connection Taxes means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
Other Taxes 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 5.03).
Participant has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(e).
Participant Register has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(e).
Patents means (i) any invention disclosures, patent applications and provisional applications including renewals, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, substitutions, provisionals, converted provisionals, and continued prosecution applications, (ii) any patents that have issued or in the future issue from the foregoing described in clauses (i), including utility models, and design patents and certificates of invention; and (iii) all extensions or restorations by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms, including revalidations, reissues, re-examinations, revisions, and term extensions (including any supplementary protection certificates and the like) of the foregoing patents or patent applications described in clauses (i) and (ii).
Patriot Act has the meaning set forth in Section 14.19.
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Payment Date means (i) January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date (provided, that if such date is not a Business Day, then on the immediately preceding Business Day); and (ii) the Maturity Date.
Payment Recipient has the meaning set forth in Section 12.13(a).
PBGC means the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
PCB has the meaning set forth in Section 7.06(b).
Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments means (a) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or any member states of the European Union or any agency or any state thereof having maturities of not more than two (2) years from the date of acquisition, (b) commercial paper maturing no more than three hundred sixty five (365) days after the date of acquisition thereof and having the highest rating from either Standard & Poors Ratings Group or Moodys Investors Service, Inc., (c) certificates of deposit maturing no more than two (2) years after issue that are issued by any bank organized under the Laws of the United States, or any state thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any U.S. branch of a foreign bank having, at the date of acquisition thereof, combined capital and surplus of not less than $500,000,000, (d) any money market or similar funds that exclusively hold any of the foregoing and (e) other short term liquid investments approved in writing by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.
Permitted Indebtedness means any Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01.
Permitted Licenses means: (a) intercompany licenses, sublicenses or grants of rights for development, manufacture, production, commercialization, marketing, promotion, co-promotion, sales or distribution, in each case, solely between and among the Obligors, (b) all licenses or sublicenses entered into as of the Closing Date, (c) any outbound non-exclusive or exclusive license or sublicense for the use of (or covenant not to sue with respect to) Intellectual Property of any Obligor, other than Material Intellectual Property, and (d) any outbound non-exclusive license or sublicense (except for exclusivity that may be granted as to geographical areas outside the United States) for the use of (or covenant not to sue with respect to) of Material Intellectual Property for development, manufacture, production, commercialization (including commercial sales to end users), marketing, promotion, co-promotion, sales or distribution of any product; provided, that, with respect to each such license, sublicense or grant described in clause (c) and (d) above, (i) such license or sublicense is entered into, or such grant is given in the Ordinary Course, (ii) no Default has occurred or is continuing at the time of execution of such license, sublicense or grant, and (iii) such license, sublicense or grant constitutes an Arms Length Transaction, the terms of which do not provide for a sale or assignment of Intellectual Property.
Permitted Liens means any Liens permitted under Section 9.02.
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Person means any individual, corporation, company, voluntary association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
Personal Information has the meaning set forth in Section 7.21.
PIK Interest has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02(c)(i).
Plan means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an employer as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Prepayment Price has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(a)(i).
Privacy Requirements has the meaning set forth in Section 7.21.
Prohibited Payment means any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other payment or gift of money or anything of value (including meals or entertainment) to any officer, employee or ceremonial office holder of any government or instrumentality thereof, political party or supra-national organization (such as the United Nations), any political candidate, any royal family member or any other person who is connected or associated personally with any of the foregoing that is prohibited under any Law for the purpose of influencing any act or decision of such payee in his official capacity, inducing such payee to do or omit to do any act in violation of his lawful duty, securing any improper advantage or inducing such payee to use his influence with a government or instrumentality thereof to affect or influence any act or decision of such government or instrumentality.
Proportionate Share means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the Commitments (or, if the Commitments are terminated, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans) of such Lender then in effect by (ii) the sum of the Commitments (or, if the Commitments are terminated, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans) of all Lenders then in effect.
Qualified Equity Interest means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest of such Person that is not a Disqualified Equity Interest.
Qualified Plan means an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) other than a Multiemployer Plan (i) that is or was at any time maintained or sponsored by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof or to which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof has ever made, or was ever obligated to make, contributions, and (ii) that is intended to be tax qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code.
Real Property Security Documents means any Mortgage Deliverables or Landlord Consents.
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Recipient means any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any Obligation.
Register has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(d).
Regulation T means Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as amended.
Regulation U means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as amended.
Regulation X means Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as amended.
Reinvestment has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(b)(i).
Reinvestment Period has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(b)(i).
Related Parties has the meaning set forth in Section 14.16.
Resignation Effective Date has the meaning set forth in Section 12.09(a).
Resolution Authority means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
Responsible Officer of any Person means each of the president, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, senior vice president of finance, treasurer, general counsel and similar officer of such Person.
Restricted Payment means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, Equity Interests or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, or any payment (whether in cash, Equity Interests or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries.
Restrictive Agreement means any Contract or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (i) the ability of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its properties or assets (other than (x) customary provisions in Contracts (including leases and in-bound licenses of Intellectual Property) restricting the assignment thereof and (y) restrictions or conditions imposed by any Contract governing secured Permitted Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01(l), to the extent that such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness), or (ii) the ability of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries to make Restricted Payments with respect to any of their respective Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to any other Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or such other Obligor or to Guarantee Indebtedness of any other Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries thereof or such other Obligor.
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Sale and Leaseback Transaction means any sale or other transfer of any property or asset (whether real or personal) by any Person with the intent to lease such property or asset as lessee.
Sanction means any applicable international economic or financial sanction or trade embargo imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by the United States Government (including OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or its Member States, His Majestys Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority in any jurisdiction where the Borrower or any Subsidiary is located or conducts business, including India, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey and the Peoples Republic of China.
Sanctioned Person means, at any time, (i) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the United States Government (including OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or its Member States, His Majestys Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority, including any such authority in India, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey and the Peoples Republic of China and any other jurisdiction where the Borrower or any Subsidiary is located or conducts business, (ii) any Person organized or resident in a Designated Jurisdiction or (iii) any Person fifty percent (50%) or more owned or is controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clause (i) or (ii).
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SEC Documents means all forms, reports, schedules and statements that have been filed or furnished by the Borrower with the SEC under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act in the twelve (12) months prior to the Closing Date (excluding in each case any disclosures set forth in the risk factors or forward-looking statements sections of such reports, and any other disclosures included therein to the extent they are predictive or forward-looking in nature).
Secured Parties means the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and any of their respective permitted transferees or assigns.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Security Agreement means the Security Agreement, delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(g), among the Obligors and the Administrative Agent, granting a security interest in the Obligors personal property in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Security Documents means, collectively, the Security Agreement, each Short-Form IP Security Agreement, each Real Property Security Document, each Foreign Security Agreement and each other security document, pledge, debenture, hypothec, mortgage, consent, control agreement or financing statement required or recommended to perfect Liens in favor of the Secured Parties for purposes of securing the Obligations.
Series A Preferred Stock means the Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issued by the Borrower pursuant to the Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, dated November 8, 2021, by and among the Borrower, Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P., OPPS TPIC Holdings, LPPC and Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P.
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Short-Form IP Security Agreements means short-form Copyright, Patent or Trademark (as the case may be) security agreements, dated as of the Closing Date and substantially in the form of Exhibit C, D and E to the Security Agreement, entered into by one or more Obligors in favor of the Secured Parties, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and as amended, modified or replaced from time to time).
Significant Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that would be a significant subsidiary or group of Subsidiaries that would in the aggregate constitute a significant subsidiary, in each case of the Borrower, as determined in accordance with the definition in Rule 1-02(w) of Article 1 of Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act.
Solvent means, as to any Person as of any date of determination, that on such date (i) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (ii) the present fair saleable value of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured in the ordinary course of business, (iii) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Persons ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature in the ordinary course and (iv) such Person is not engaged in a business or transaction, and is not about to engage in a business or transaction, for which such Persons property would constitute an unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which such Person is engaged or is to engage. The amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
Specified Asset Sale means an Asset Sale consummated pursuant to Sections 9.09(f) and (n).
Subsequent Funding Date has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(a)(ii).
Subsequent Funding Date Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K.
Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person (the parent) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parents consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity (i) of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity or more than fifty percent (50%) of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than fifty percent (50%) of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, directly or indirectly, or (ii) that is, as of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more direct or indirect subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more direct or indirect subsidiaries of the parent. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
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Subsidiary Guarantors means each Subsidiary of the Borrower identified under the caption SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS on the signature pages hereto and each Subsidiary of the Borrower that becomes, or is required to become, a Subsidiary Guarantor after the date hereof pursuant to Section 8.12(a) or (b).
Taxes means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Termination Conditions has the meaning set forth in Section 13.03.
Third Party means any Person other than the Lenders or the Borrower.
Title IV Plan means an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) other than a Multiemployer Plan (i) that is or was at any time maintained or sponsored by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof or to which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof has ever made, or was obligated to make, contributions, and (ii) that is or was subject to Section 412 of the Code, Section 302 of ERISA or Title IV of ERISA.
Trademarks means all trade names, trademarks and service marks, trade dress, corporate names, logos, Internet domain names, social media handles, uniform resource locators and other indicia of origin, trademark and service mark registrations, and applications for trademark and service mark registrations, whether or not registered, and any and all common law rights thereto, including (i) all renewals thereof and (ii) all rights whatsoever accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto throughout the world, together, in each case, with the goodwill associated therewith and symbolized thereby.
Trade Secrets means confidential or proprietary information, trade secrets, inventions, discoveries, ideas, improvements, information, know-how, data and databases, algorithms, techniques, processes, schematics, business and other methods, formulae, drawings, specifications, source code, prototypes, models, flow-charts, testing procedures and results, designs, customer lists and supplier lists.
Transactions means (a) the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance by each Obligor of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Obligor is (or is intended to be) a party, the making of the Loans hereunder, and all other transactions contemplated pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including the creation of the Liens pursuant to the Security Documents, (b) the Cashless Exchange and (c) the payment of all fees and expenses incurred or paid by the Obligors in connection with the foregoing.
United States or U.S. means the United States of America, its fifty states and the District of Columbia.
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U.S. Person means a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate has the meaning set forth in Section 5.02(f)(ii)(B)(3).
UCC means, with respect to any applicable jurisdictions, the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such jurisdiction, as may be modified from time to time.
UK Financial Institutions means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
UK Resolution Authority means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
Withholding Agent means the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
Write-Down and Conversion Powers means, (a) 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, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
1.02 Accounting Terms and Principles. Unless otherwise specified, all accounting terms used in each Loan Document shall be interpreted, and all accounting determinations and computations thereunder (including under Section 10 and any definitions used in such calculations) shall be made, in accordance with GAAP. Unless otherwise expressly provided, all financial covenants and defined financial terms shall be computed on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in each case without duplication. If the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of (a) any change in GAAP or the application thereof or (b) the issuance of any new accounting rule or guidance or in the application thereof, in each case, occurring after the date of this Agreement, then the Lenders and Borrower agree that they will negotiate in good faith amendments to the provisions of this Agreement that are directly affected by such change or issuance with the intent of having the respective positions of the Lenders and Borrower after such change or issuance conform as nearly as possible to their respective positions as of the date of this Agreement and, until any such amendments have been agreed upon, (i) the provisions in this Agreement shall be calculated as if no such change or issuance has occurred and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Lenders a written reconciliation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lenders, between calculations of any baskets and other requirements hereunder before and after giving effect to such change or issuance.
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1.03 Interpretation. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) the terms defined in this Agreement include the plural as well as the singular and vice versa;
(b) words importing gender include all genders;
(c) any reference to a Section, Annex, Schedule or Exhibit refers to a Section of, or Annex, Schedule or Exhibit to, this Agreement;
(d) any reference to this Agreement refers to this Agreement, including all Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits hereto, and the words herein, hereof, hereto and hereunder and words of similar import refer to this Agreement and its Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits as a whole and not to any particular Section, Annex, Schedule, Exhibit or any other subdivision;
(e) references to days, months and years refer to calendar days, months and years, respectively;
(f) all references herein to include or including shall be deemed to be followed by the words without limitation;
(g) the word from when used in connection with a period of time means from and including and the word until means to but not including;
(h) the words asset and property shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer broadly to any and all assets and properties, whether tangible or intangible, real or personal, including cash, securities, rights under contractual obligations and permits and any right or interest in any such assets or property;
(i) accounting terms not specifically defined herein (other than property and asset) shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, subject to Section 1.02;
(j) the word will shall have the same meaning as the word shall;
(k) where any provision in this Agreement or any other Loan Document refers to an action to be taken by any Person, or an action which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be applicable whether such action is taken directly or, to the knowledge of such Person, indirectly; and
(l) references to any Lien granted or created hereunder or pursuant to any other Loan Document securing any Obligations shall deemed to be a Lien for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
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Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, references to organizational documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto permitted by the Loan Documents. Any definition or reference to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
If any payment required to be made pursuant to the terms and conditions of any Loan Document falls due on a day which is not a Business Day, then such required payment date shall be extended to the immediately following Business Day. For purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Obligors and their Subsidiaries will be deemed to be equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof or payment obligations with respect thereto at the time of determination thereof, or with respect to any Hedging Agreements, the amount that would be payable if the agreement governing such Hedging Agreements were terminated on the date of termination.
1.04 Division. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdictions laws) (a Division), if (a) any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its equity interests at such time.
SECTION 2.
THE COMMITMENT AND THE LOANS
2.01 Loans.
(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, each Lender agrees:
(i) to make Loans to the Borrower in a principal amount equal to such Lenders Initial Commitment (the Initial Term Loans) on the Closing Date, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Section 6.01 and the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, which shall be funded on a cashless basis pursuant to the Cashless Exchange; and
(ii) to make one or more Loans to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed such Lenders Additional Commitment (the Additional Term Loans) on a date specified by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.02 (each, a Subsequent Funding Date) during the Availability Period, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Section 6.02 and the other terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(b) No amounts paid or prepaid with respect to any Loan may be re-borrowed.
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(c) Any term or provision hereof (or of any other Loan Document) to the contrary notwithstanding, Loans made to the Borrower will be denominated solely in Dollars and will be repayable solely in Dollars and no other currency.
2.02 Borrowing Procedures. On the Closing Date (for a Borrowing of Initial Term Loans) or ten (10) Business Days prior to a Subsequent Funding Date (for a Borrowing of Additional Term Loans), as the case may be, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an irrevocable Borrowing Notice in the form of Exhibit B signed by a duly authorized representative of the Borrower (which notice, if received by the Administrative Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 10:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on a Business Day, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the next Business Day). A Borrowing Notice for the Initial Term Loans shall be for the full amount of the Initial Commitments and no Borrowing Notice for less than such full amount shall be permitted. A Borrowing Notice for Additional Term Loans shall be for a minimum amount of $5,000,000 (or, if less, the total remaining amount of Additional Commitments) and no Borrowing Notice for less than such amount shall be permitted. Funding of each Borrowing shall be subject to (x) on the Closing Date, satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 6.01 and (y) in respect of each Subsequent Funding Date, satisfaction of the terms and conditions set forth in Section 6.02.
2.03 Funding of Borrowings; Cashless Exchange.
(a) Promptly following receipt of any written Borrowing Notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lenders Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing. Each Lender shall, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, make each Loan to be made by it hereunder (other than any Loans to be funded on a cashless basis) on the proposed date thereof solely by wire transfer of immediately available funds, by 2:00 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. Upon receipt of all funds the Administrative Agent and satisfaction or waiver of the applicable conditions in Section 6.01 or Section 6.02, as applicable, will make such Loans available to the Borrower promptly by wire transfer of the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request.
(b) Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in Section 6, on the Closing Date, the Cashless Exchange shall be effected and all the Series A Preferred Stock held by each Lender shall be deemed automatically contributed to the Borrower on a dollar for dollar basis in exchange for the Initial Term Loans, in an amount equal to $393,000,000, consisting of the Original Issue Price (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) of 350,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by the Lenders, plus $43,000,000 of accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, whereupon the Series A Preferred Stock shall be cancelled and no longer outstanding and the obligations of the Borrower under the Certificate of Designations shall be permanently discharged.
2.04 Notes. If requested by any Lender, the Loans of such Lender shall be evidenced by one or more Notes. The Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to the Lender such promissory note(s) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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2.05 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Initial Term Loans pursuant to the Cashless Exchange. The Borrower shall use the proceeds of any Additional Term Loans for working capital and general corporate purposes, including the payment of fees and expenses associated with this Agreement.
SECTION 3.
PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST, ETC.
3.01 Scheduled Repayments and Prepayments Generally; Application. The Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender (as such amounts may in each case be reduced from time to time in accordance with Section 3.03) on the Maturity Date, all outstanding Obligations in full (in each case, together with accrued and unpaid interest and any other accrued and unpaid charges thereon and all other obligations due and payable by the Borrower under this Agreement) (other than inchoate indemnity and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made). Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each payment (including each repayment and prepayment) by the Borrower (other than fees payable pursuant to the Fee Letter) will be deemed to be made ratably in accordance with the Lenders Proportionate Shares. On any date occurring prior to the Maturity Date that payment or prepayment in full of the Loans hereunder occurs, the Borrower shall pay in full all outstanding Obligations.
3.02 Interest.
(a) Interest Generally. The outstanding principal amount of the Loans shall accrue interest from the date made to repayment (whether by acceleration or otherwise and whether voluntary or mandatory) at the Interest Rate.
(b) Interest Payment Dates. Accrued interest on the Loans shall be payable in arrears on each Payment Date and upon the payment or prepayment of the Loans (on the principal amount being so paid or prepaid).
(c) PIK Interest. Notwithstanding Section 3.02(b), so long as (x) no Event of Default under Sections 11.01(a), (b), (d) (only with respect to a failure to observe or perform Section 10.01) or 11.01(g) has occurred and is continuing;
(i) with respect to any Payment Date occurring on or prior to December 31, 2025, all interest payable on such Payment Date may be paid-in-kind (PIK Interest) by capitalizing and adding such interest to the outstanding principal amount of the applicable Loans on such Payment Date; and
(ii) with respect to any Payment Date (other than the Maturity Date) occurring after December 31, 2025, up to 50% of the interest payable on such Payment Date may be paid as PIK Interest by capitalizing and adding such interest to the outstanding principal amount of the applicable Loans on such Payment Date,
provided that the Borrower may elect to pay any or all interest it would otherwise be entitled to pay as PIK Interest pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above in cash at a rate that is 2.0% less than the then applicable Interest Rate. Such lower Interest Rate shall not apply to amounts of interest the Borrower is required to pay in cash pursuant to clause (i) above, following any Event of Default or on the Maturity Date.
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The Borrower shall provide irrevocable written notice to the Administrative Agent of its election to pay PIK Interest or cash at least five (5) Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date; provided that, if the Borrower does not deliver a timely notice in accordance with this sentence, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to pay PIK Interest in the maximum amount permitted at such time. The aggregate principal amount of the Loans shall be automatically increased by amounts the Borrower elects to pay as PIK Interest without the need for any action by any Person and capitalized on such Payment Date by the amount of such interest paid-in-kind in accordance with this Section 3.02(c). If any Event of Default under Sections 11.01(a), (b), (d) (only with respect to a failure to observe or perform Section 10.01) or 11.01(g) has occurred and is continuing as of any such Payment Date, all interest accruing on the Loans from and after the date of such Event of Default shall be due and payable in cash in arrears on such Payment Date.
For the avoidance of doubt, subject to the foregoing provision of this clause 3.02(c)(ii), the first scheduled Payment Date requiring a cash interest payment shall be April 15, 2026.
(d) Default Interest. If any amount of principal of any Loan or any other Obligation under any Loan Document is not paid when due (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods set forth in Section 11.01(b)), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Interest accruing and due pursuant to this Section 3.02(d) shall be payable on demand in cash.
3.03 Prepayments.
(a) Optional Prepayments.
(i) Subject to prior written notice pursuant to clause (ii) below, the Borrower shall have the right to optionally prepay in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans on any Business Day for an amount equal to the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Loans being prepaid, (B) any accrued but unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid and (C) any other unpaid amounts then due and owing pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including any fees, costs, expenses and indemnities (other than inchoate indemnity and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) (such aggregate amount, the Prepayment Price); provided that each partial prepayment of principal of Loans shall be in an aggregate amount at least equal to $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if less, the full remaining outstanding principal of the Loans).
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(ii) A notice of optional prepayment shall be effective only if received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on a date not less than one (1) Business Day (nor more than fourteen (14) calendar days) prior to the proposed prepayment date; provided that a notice of optional prepayment may state that such notice is conditional upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or the receipt of the proceeds from the issuance of other Indebtedness or the occurrence of some other identifiable event or condition, in which case such notice of prepayment may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified date of prepayment) if such condition is not satisfied. Each notice of optional prepayment shall specify the proposed prepayment date, the Prepayment Price, the principal amount to be prepaid and any conditions to prepayment (if applicable).
(b) Mandatory Prepayments.
(i) Mandatory Prepayments for Casualty Events or Asset Sales. Upon the occurrence of any Casualty Event or any Specified Asset Sale for which the Net Cash Proceeds exceeds $10,000,000 after the date of this Agreement, the Borrower shall make a mandatory prepayment of the Loans, together with any accrued but unpaid interest (which shall be paid in cash) on any principal amount of the Loans being prepaid (collectively, the Mandatory Prepayment), which Mandatory Prepayment shall be in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to such Specified Asset Sale or insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event, as the case may be; provided that, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom, if, within five (5) Business Days following the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivers to the Administrative Agent a written notice to the effect that the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary intends to apply the Net Cash Proceeds from such Specified Asset Sale or insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event, to reinvest in replacement assets, in the case of a Casualty Event, or long-term assets, in the case of a Specified Asset Sale, of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (a Reinvestment), then such Net Cash Proceeds of such Specified Asset Sale or insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event may be applied for such purpose in lieu of such mandatory prepayment to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds of such Asset Sale or insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event are actually applied for such purpose; provided, further, that, if such Casualty Event or Asset Sale occurs with respect to any Obligor, such Reinvestment shall be made in the business of an Obligor; provided, further, that, in the event that Net Cash Proceeds have not been so applied within three hundred sixty-five (365) days following the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds (such applicable period, the Reinvestment Period), the Borrower shall no later than the end of such period make a Mandatory Prepayment in an aggregate amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the unused balance of such Net Cash Proceeds received by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to such Asset Sale or insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event. Any such Mandatory Prepayment shall include any accrued but unpaid interest on any principal amount of the Loans being prepaid (which for the avoidance of doubt shall be paid in cash). The proceeds of any Casualty Event or Asset sale shall be held in a Controlled Account pending application, whether as a Mandatory Prepayment or Reinvestment.
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 3.03(b)(i), to the extent that the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree that any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Specified Asset Sale by a Foreign Subsidiary (a Foreign Disposition) or the Net Cash Proceeds of any Casualty Event from a Foreign Subsidiary (a Foreign Casualty Event), in each case giving rise to a prepayment event pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(ii) are or is prohibited, restricted or delayed by applicable local law, rule or regulation (including, without limitation, financial assistance and corporate benefit restrictions and fiduciary and statutory duties of any director or officer of such Subsidiaries) from being repatriated to the Borrower or so prepaid or such repatriation or prepayment would present a material risk of liability for the applicable Subsidiary or its directors or officers (or gives rise to a material risk of breach of fiduciary or statutory duties by any director or officer), or could reasonably be expected to result in material adverse tax consequences (including withholding tax) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to prepay Loans at the times provided in this Section 3.03 but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary.
(ii) Mandatory Prepayments for Debt Issuances. Immediately upon receipt by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries of proceeds from any issuance, incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness other than Indebtedness permitted by Section 9.01 on or after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall make a mandatory prepayment of the Loans, together with any accrued but unpaid interest (which shall be paid in cash) on any principal amount of the Loans being prepaid, which mandatory prepayment shall be in an amount equal to 100% of the cash proceeds received.
(iii) Mandatory Prepayment for Liquidation Event or Change of Control. Upon the occurrence of any Liquidation Event or Change of Control, the Borrower shall prepay all of the Loans and Obligations, including any accrued but unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid (which shall be paid in cash).
(iv) Notice. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on a date not less than two (2) Business Days (or such shorter period agreed by Administrative Agent) prior to any mandatory prepayment. Each notice of mandatory prepayment shall specify the proposed prepayment date, the principal amount to be prepaid, the corresponding amount of accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount to be prepaid and the Section under which the prepayment is required.
(c) Application. All prepayments of Loans shall be applied in accordance with the waterfall set forth in Section 4.01(b)(B)-(D).
(d) Prepayments. All prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid as set forth in Section 3.02 and this Section 3.03 (subject to any PIK Interest paid pursuant to Section 3.02(c)).
(e) Declined Payment. Notwithstanding anything in Section 3.03(b) to the contrary, any Lender may elect, by notice to the Administrative Agent prior to 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) at least one (1) Business Day prior to the required prepayment date, to decline all or any portion of any mandatory prepayment of its Loans pursuant to Section 3.03(b), in which case the aggregate amount of the prepayment that would have been applied to prepay Loans but was so declined may be retained by the Borrower and used for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement.
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3.04 Commitment Termination. The Initial Commitment shall terminate automatically without further action upon the making by the Lenders of the Initial Term Loans on the Closing Date. The Additional Commitment shall terminate automatically without further action upon the earlier of (a) the making by the Lenders of any Additional Term Loans, in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of any such Additional Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(ii), (b) the last date of the Availability Period and (c) automatically upon the occurrence of any Event of Default. The Borrower may terminate the Additional Commitment in whole (but not in part) upon five (5) Business Days written notice to the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 4.
PAYMENTS, ETC.
4.01 Payments.
(a) Payments Generally. Each payment of principal, interest and other amounts to be made by the Obligors under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be made (i) in Dollars, in immediately available funds, without deduction, set off or counterclaim, to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, to the deposit account of the Administrative Agent designated by the Administrative Agent by notice to the Borrower, and (ii) not later than 2:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date on which such payment is due (each such payment made after such time on such due date may, in the Administrative Agents discretion, be deemed to have been made on the next succeeding Business Day).
(b) Application of Payments. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, all payments shall be applied as follows:
(A) first, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid fees, indemnities, expenses or other amounts (including fees and disbursements and other charges of counsel payable under Section 14.03) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;
(B) second, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid fees, indemnities, expenses or other amounts (other than principal and interest, but including fees and disbursements and other charges of counsel payable under Section 14.03) payable to the Lenders arising under the Loan Documents, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (B) payable to them;
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(C) third, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans (excluding any PIK Interest) ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (C);
(D) fourth, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting PIK Interest and any other accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (D) payable to them;
(E) fifth, to the payment of any other Obligations then due and owing, ratably among the Administrative Agent and the Lenders based upon the respective aggregate amount of all such Obligations owing to them in accordance with the respective amounts thereof then due and payable;
(F) sixth, the balance, if any, after all Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled to or directed by the Borrower to receive the remainder.
(c) Non-Business Days. If the due date of any payment under this Agreement (whether in respect of principal, interest, fees, costs or otherwise) would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall continue to accrue and be payable for the period of such extension; provided that if such next succeeding Business Day would fall after the Maturity Date, payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.
4.02 Computations. All computations of interest and fees hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty (360) days and actual days elapsed during the period for which payable and for the avoidance of doubt shall not include any payment date.
4.03 Set-Off.
(a) Set-Off Generally. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent, each of the Lenders and each of their 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) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by the Administrative Agent, any Lender and any of their Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of any Obligor against any and all of the Obligations, whether or not such Person shall have made any demand and although such obligations may be unmatured. Any Person exercising rights of set off hereunder agrees promptly to notify the Borrower after any such set-off and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and each of their Affiliates under this Section 4.03 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of set-off) that such Persons may have.
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(b) Exercise of Rights Not Required. Nothing contained in Section 4.03(a) shall require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their Affiliates to exercise any such right or shall affect the right of such Persons to exercise, and retain the benefits of exercising, any such right with respect to any other indebtedness or obligation of any Obligor.
(c) Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of any Obligor is made to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of the foregoing exercises its right of setoff pursuant to this Section 4.03, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Affiliate in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, then (i) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (ii) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect.
SECTION 5.
ADDITIONAL COSTS, TAXES, ETC.
5.01 Additional Costs.
(a) Change in Law Generally. If, on or after the date hereof (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement), the adoption of any Law, or any change in any Law, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any court or other Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders (or its lending office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, shall impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve (including any such requirement imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), special deposit, contribution, insurance assessment or similar requirement, in each case that becomes effective after the date hereof (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement), against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, a Lender (or its lending office) or shall impose on a Lender (or its lending office) any other condition affecting the Loans or the Commitment, and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining the Loans, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or subject any Lender to any Taxes on its Loan, Commitment or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital (if any) attributable thereto by an amount reasonably deemed by such Lender in good faith to be material (other than (i) Indemnified Taxes, (ii) Taxes described in clauses (ii) through (iv) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (iii) Connection Income Taxes), then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender, within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of the certificate contemplated by Section 5.01(c), such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction.
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(b) Change in Capital Requirements. If a Lender shall have determined that, on or after the date hereof (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement), the adoption of any Law regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, in each case that becomes effective after the date hereof (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement), has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on capital of a Lender (or its parent) as a consequence of a Lenders obligations hereunder or the Loans to a level below that which a Lender (or its parent) could have achieved but for such adoption, change, request or directive by an amount reasonably deemed by it to be material, then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender, within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of the certificate contemplated by Section 5.01(c), such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender (or its parent) for such reduction.
(c) Notification by Lender. Each Lender promptly will notify the Borrower of any event of which it has knowledge, occurring after the date hereof (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement), which will entitle such Lender to compensation pursuant to this Section 5.01. Before giving any such notice pursuant to this Section 5.01(c) such Lender shall designate a different lending office if such designation (x) will, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such compensation and (y) will not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be materially disadvantageous to such Lender. A certificate of such Lender claiming compensation under this Section 5.01, setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder, shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower in the absence of manifest error. The Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.01 for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than six (6) months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the change in law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lenders intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the change in law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to constitute a change in Law for all purposes of this Section 5.01, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
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5.02 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any Obligation shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by any Law. If any Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Laws and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by such Obligor shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.02) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. The Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Laws, or at the option of the Administrative Agent or each Lender, timely reimburse it for the payment of any Other Taxes.
(c) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 5.02, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the 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.
(d) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower shall reimburse and indemnify each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 5.02) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e) Indemnification by the Lender. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten (10) 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), and (ii) any Excluded Taxes
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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 Section 5.02(e).
(f) Status of Lenders.
(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the 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 of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Law as reasonably requested by the Borrower 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 (2) sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 5.02(f)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D)) shall not be required if in such Lenders reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower is a U.S. Person:
(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 IRS Form W-9 (or successor form) 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:
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(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E as applicable (or successor forms) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the interest article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E as applicable (or successor forms) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the business profits or other income article of such tax treaty;
(2) executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form);
(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 D-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 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, or a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate) and (y) executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E as applicable (or successor forms); or
(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY (or successor form), accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form), IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or successor form), a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2 or D-3, IRS Form W-9 (or successor form), 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 D-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner.
(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 Laws 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 Laws to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
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(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 the 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 the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lenders obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount, if any, 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.
(g) Treatment of Certain Tax Benefits. If any party to this Agreement determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 5.02 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.02), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 5.02 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this Section 5.02(g) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.02(g), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 5.02(g) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving
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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 Section 5.02(g) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(h) FIRPTA. The Borrower shall deliver to each Lender a certificate, duly completed and executed pursuant to Section 1.897-2(h) of the United States Treasury Regulations, certifying that an interest in the Borrower is not a United States real property interest within the meaning of Section 897 of the Code.
5.03 Mitigation Obligations. If the Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or to any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.02, then such Lender shall (at the request of the Borrower) use commercially reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates if, in the sole reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment and delegation would (i) eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.02, as the case may be, in the future, (ii) not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and (iii) 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 and delegation.
5.04 Survival. Each partys obligations under this Section 5 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.
SECTION 6.
CONDITIONS
6.01 Conditions to the Closing Date. The effectiveness of this Agreement and the obligation of each Lender to make the Initial Loans on the Closing Date shall be subject to the delivery of a Borrowing Notice as required pursuant to Section 2.02, and satisfaction of each of the conditions precedent set forth below in this Section 6.01.
(a) Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have received each Loan Document required to be executed by the appropriate Obligor on the Closing Date and delivered by each applicable Obligor in such number as reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent (which may be delivered by facsimile or other electronic means for the purposes of satisfying this clause (a) on the Closing Date) and such Loan Documents shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective counsels.
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(b) Secretarys Certificate, Etc. The Administrative Agent shall have received from each Obligor (x) a copy of a good standing certificate, dated a date reasonably close to the Closing Date, for each such Person and (y) a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by such Persons Responsible Officer, as to:
(i) resolutions of each such Persons Board then in full force and effect authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of each Loan Document to be executed by such Person and the Transactions;
(ii) the incumbency and signatures of Responsible Officers authorized to execute and deliver each Loan Document to be executed by such Person; and
(iii) the full force and validity of each Organic Document of such Person and copies thereof,
which certificates shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and upon which the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may conclusively rely until they shall have received a further certificate of the Responsible Officer of any such Person cancelling or amending the prior certificate of such Person.
(c) Information Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a fully completed Information Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. All documents and agreements required to be appended to the Information Certificate, shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, shall have been executed and delivered by the requisite parties and shall be in full force and effect.
(d) Closing Date Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Closing Date Certificate, dated as of the Closing Date and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
(e) Delivery of Notes. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Note to the extent requested by any Lender pursuant to Section 2.04 for the Loans duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
(f) Solvency. The Administrative Agent shall have received a solvency certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit I, duly executed and delivered by the chief financial officer of the Borrower, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) Security Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have received executed counterparts of a Security Agreement, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by each Obligor, together with all documents (including share certificates, transfers and stock transfer forms, notices or any other instruments) required to be delivered or filed under the Security Documents and evidence satisfactory to it that arrangements have been made with respect to all registrations, notices or actions required under the Security Documents to be effected, given or made in order to establish a valid and perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents, including:
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(i) subject to Schedule 8.20, delivery of all certificates (in the case of Equity Interests that are certificated securities (as defined in the UCC)) evidencing the issued and outstanding capital securities owned by each Obligor that are required to be pledged and so delivered under the Security Agreement, which certificates in each case shall be accompanied by undated instruments of transfer duly executed in blank, or, in the case of Equity Interests that are uncertificated securities (as defined in the UCC), confirmation and evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that the security interest required to be pledged therein under the Security Agreement has been transferred to and perfected by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in accordance with Articles 8 and 9 of the NY UCC and all laws otherwise applicable to the perfection of the pledge of such Equity Interests;
(ii) financing statements naming each Obligor as a debtor and the Administrative Agent as the secured party, or other similar instruments or documents, in each case suitable for filing, filed under the UCC (or equivalent law) of all jurisdictions as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the Liens of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Security Agreement;
(iii) UCC-3 termination statements, if any, necessary to release all Liens and other rights of any Person (other than Permitted Liens) in any collateral described in the Security Agreement previously granted by any Person; and
(iv) all applicable Short-Form IP Security Agreements required to be provided under the Security Agreement, each dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by each applicable Obligor.
(h) Lien Searches. The Administrative Agent shall be satisfied with Lien searches regarding the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors made as of a date reasonably close to the Closing Date.
(i) Opinions of Counsel. The Administrative Agent shall have received a duly executed legal opinion of counsel to the Obligors dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
(j) Fee Letter. The Administrative Agent shall have received an executed counterpart of the Fee Letter with respect to the Loans, duly executed and delivered by the Borrower.
(k) Closing Fees, Expenses, Etc. Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received for its own account, all fees, costs and expenses due and payable to it pursuant to the Fee Letter with respect to the Loans and Section 14.03, plus any collateral filing and recordation fees and searches, in each case, to the extent invoiced (or as to which a good faith estimate has been provided to the Borrower) at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
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(l) Material Adverse Change. Except as set forth in the Borrowers SEC filings, since December 31, 2022, no Material Adverse Change shall have occurred, both before and after giving effect to the Loans to be made on the Closing Date.
(m) Know Your Customer. The Administrative Agent shall have received, as applicable, all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable know your customer and Anti-Terrorism Laws.
(n) No Default. No event shall have occurred or be continuing or would result from the making of the Loans that would constitute a Default or Event of Default.
(o) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) shall be true and correct in all material respects (unless such representations are already qualified by reference to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar language, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the Closing Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (unless such representations are already qualified by reference to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar language, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of such earlier date.
(p) Consummation of the Cashless Exchange. The Borrower shall take all steps necessary to effect the Cashless Exchange, including the filing of a certificate of cancellation with respect to the Certificate of Designations with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and the entry into any other documentation necessary to reflect the exchange of Series A Preferred Stock for Loans pursuant to the Cashless Exchange and the cancellation of all the Series A Preferred Stock and the Certificate of Designations, in a manner acceptable to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(q) Beneficial Ownership Certificate. To the extent requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall have provided to such Lender and the Administrative Agent all documentation and other information so requested, including a duly executed W-9 of the Borrower (or such other applicable tax form), in connection with applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, and if the Borrower qualifies as a legal entity customer under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification, in each case prior to the Closing Date.
(r) Delivery of Notes. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Note to the extent requested by any Lender at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing Date and pursuant to Section 2.04 for the Loans made on Closing Date duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
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(s) Borrower Equity Issuance. The issuance by the Borrower of 3,899,903 shares of common stock of the Borrower in exchange for $43,000,000 of accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to the Common Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Borrower and the purchasers party thereto.
6.02 Conditions to the Borrowing of All Loans after the Closing Date. The obligation of each Lender to make all Additional Loans after the Closing Date shall be subject to the delivery of a Borrowing Notice as required pursuant to Section 2.02, and the prior or concurrent satisfaction or waiver of each of the conditions precedent set forth below in this Section 6.02:
(a) Subsequent Funding Date Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Subsequent Funding Date Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K dated as of the applicable Subsequent Funding Date, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
(b) Delivery of Notes. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Note to the extent requested by any Lender at least one (1) Business Day prior to such Subsequent Funding Date and pursuant to Section 2.04 for the Additional Loans made on such Subsequent Funding Date duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
(c) Fees, Expenses, Etc. Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received for its own account all fees, costs and expenses due and payable to it on or prior to such Subsequent Funding Date pursuant to the Fee Letter and Section 14.03, including all reasonable closing costs and fees and all unpaid reasonable expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders incurred in connection with the Transactions (including the Administrative Agents and the Lenders legal fees and expenses) in each case, to the extent invoiced (or as to which a good faith estimate has been provided to the Borrower) at least two (2) Business Days prior to such Subsequent Funding Date.
(d) No Default or Event of Default. No event shall have occurred or be continuing or would result from the making of the Loans on such Subsequent Funding Date that would constitute a Default or Event of Default.
(e) Representations and Warranties; Updated Schedules. The representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (unless such representations are already qualified by reference to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar language, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the Subsequent Funding Date, except (i) to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (unless such representations are already qualified by reference to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar language, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of such earlier date and (ii) the representations and warranties made under Section 7.04(a) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent financial statements of the Borrower furnished to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01. The Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent updated copies of Schedules to this Agreement to the extent required to satisfy the foregoing requirements set forth in this Section 6.02(e).
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(f) Availability Period. The Additional Loans shall be borrowed on or prior to the last day of the Availability Period.
SECTION 7.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower and each other Obligor hereby jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Administrative Agent and each Lender on the Closing Date, each Bringdown Date and any other date such representation and warranty is required to be made under the Loan Documents, as set forth below, except, (1) with respect to representations and warranties made on the Closing Date only, as disclosed in the SEC Documents, and (2) in the corresponding Schedule to this Agreement specified in a representation and warranty, which exceptions shall be deemed to be part of the representations and warranties made hereunder:
7.01 Power and Authority. Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries (i) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, (ii) has all requisite corporate or other applicable power and authority to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted, except (other than with respect to the Borrower) to the extent that the failure to have the same could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonable be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the failure to so qualify would have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and (iv) has full power, authority and legal right to enter into and perform its obligations under each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to borrow the Loans hereunder.
7.02 Authorization; Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each Obligor and constitutes, and each of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party when executed and delivered by such Obligor will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Obligor, enforceable against such Obligor in accordance with their respective terms except (i) as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, or other laws of general application relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors rights generally, or (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief, or other equitable remedies.
7.03 Governmental and Other Approvals; No Conflicts. None of the execution, delivery and performance by each Obligor of the Loan Documents to which it is a party or the consummation by each Obligor of the Transactions (i) requires any Governmental Approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority or any other Person, except for (x) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (y) filings and recordings in respect of perfecting or recording the Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents and (z) filings under applicable securities laws, (ii) will violate (1) any Law, (2) any Organic Document of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or (3) any order of any Governmental Authority, that in the case of clause (ii)(1) or clause (ii)(3), individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (iii) will result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on any asset of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries.
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7.04 Financial Statements; Material Adverse Change.
(a) Financial Statements. As of their respective dates, the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended and unaudited financial statements of the Borrower filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act in the twelve (12) months prior to the date of this Agreement (including, in each case, the notes thereto, the Financial Statements) complied in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto as in effect as of the time of filing. The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such Financial Statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements), and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Borrower as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments which will not be material, either individually or in the aggregate). The Borrower is not currently contemplating to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements (including any notes or any letter of the independent accountants of the Borrower with respect thereto), nor, to the Borrowers knowledge, do there exist any facts or circumstances which would require the Borrower to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements, in each case, in order for any of the Financial Statements to be in compliance with GAAP and the rules and regulations of the SEC. The Borrower has not been informed by its independent accountants that they recommend that the Borrower amend or restate any of the Financial Statements or that there is any need for the Borrower to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements.
(b) No Material Adverse Change. Since December 31, 2022, there has not been:
(i) any Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) any damage, destruction or loss, whether or not covered by insurance, that would be material to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(iii) any waiver or compromise by the Borrower of any right or of a debt owed to it, that would be material to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or
(iv) any mortgage, pledge, transfer of a security interest in, or lien, created by the Borrower, with respect to any of its tangible or intangible properties or assets, that would be material to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except liens for taxes not yet due or payable and liens that arise in the Ordinary Course and do not materially impair the Borrowers ownership or use of such property or assets.
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7.05 Properties.
(a) Property Generally.
(i) The property and assets that each Obligor owns are free and clear of all mortgages, deeds of trust, liens, loans and encumbrances, except for statutory liens for the payment of current taxes that are not yet delinquent and encumbrances and liens that arise in the Ordinary Course and do not materially impair such Obligors ownership or use of, nor the value of, such property or assets. With respect to the property and assets it leases, each Obligor is in compliance with such leases and holds a valid leasehold interest free of any liens, claims or encumbrances other than those of the lessors of such property or assets or their mortgagors. As of the Closing Date, no Obligor owns any real property.
(ii) Schedule 7.05(a)(ii) correctly sets forth all real property that is owned or leased by the Obligors, indicating in each case whether the respective property is owned or leased, the identity of the owner and lessee (if applicable) and the location of the respective property.
(b) Intellectual Property; IT Systems.
(i) Schedule 7.05(b)(i) set forth an accurate and complete list, as of the Closing Date, of all Borrower Intellectual Property that is issued by, registered with, or the subject of a pending application before, any Governmental Authority, indicating for each item, as applicable, the registration and application number, the registration and application date, and the filing jurisdiction. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries are the sole and exclusive owners of all right, title and interest in and to all Material Intellectual Property, free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens. Except as, individually or in the aggregate, has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own or possess valid and sufficient rights to use all Intellectual Property used in or necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted. To the Borrowers knowledge, the conduct of the respective businesses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the Intellectual Property of any Third Party, and to the Borrowers knowledge, no Third Party is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Borrower Intellectual Property, except for such infringement, misappropriation or other violation that would not (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) The Borrower or its applicable Subsidiary has obtained from all current and former employees and contractors who have created or developed any Material Intellectual Property for or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, written, valid and enforceable present assignments of all such Intellectual Property. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality and value of all material Trade Secrets owned or used by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries. To Borrowers knowledge, there has been no security breach, or unauthorized encryption, access to or use, or any unscheduled unavailability, downtime or other disruption, of any IT Systems owned, used or held for use by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (the Business IT Systems), or any information or data stored thereon, that has resulted in, or is reasonably likely to result in, material liability to, or material disruption of activities of, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable precautions protect the Business IT Systems against any of the foregoing. The Business IT Systems are sufficient for the current and, currently anticipated needs of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
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7.06 No Actions or Proceedings.
(a) Litigation. There is no claim, action, suit, proceeding, arbitration, complaint, charge or investigation pending or, to the Borrowers knowledge, currently threatened (i) against any Obligor or any officer, director or Key Employee of an Obligor arising out of their employment or board relationship with the Borrower or any Obligor; (ii) to the Borrowers knowledge, that questions the validity of the Loan Documents or the right of any Obligor to enter into them, or to consummate the Transactions; or (iii) that would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Obligors nor, to the Borrowers knowledge, any of an Obligors officers, directors or the Key Employees is a party to or is named as subject to the provisions of any order, writ, injunction, judgment or decree of any court or government agency or instrumentality (in the case of officers, directors or the Key Employees, such as would affect an Obligor). There is no action, suit, proceeding or investigation by the Borrower or any other Obligor pending or which the Borrower or any other Obligor intends to initiate. The foregoing includes actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened in writing (or any basis therefor known to the Borrower) involving the prior employment of any of Obligors employees, their services provided in connection with the business of the Obligors, any information or techniques allegedly proprietary to, or any Intellectual Property of, any of their former employers or their obligations under any agreements with prior employers.
(b) Environmental Matters. Except as has not and would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Borrower or any other Obligor, and to the Borrowers knowledge, (i) each Obligor and its Subsidiaries are and have been in compliance with all Environmental Laws; (ii) there has been no release or, to the Borrowers knowledge, threatened release of any Hazardous Materials on, upon, into or from any site currently or heretofore owned, leased or otherwise used by any Obligor or its Subsidiaries; (iii) there have been no Hazardous Materials generated by any Obligor or its Subsidiaries that have been disposed of or come to rest at any site that has been included in any published U.S. federal, state or local superfund site list or any other similar list of hazardous or toxic waste sites published by any governmental authority in the United States; and (iv) there are no underground storage tanks located on, no polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or PCB-containing equipment used or stored on, and no hazardous waste as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, stored on, any site owned or operated by any Obligor or its Subsidiaries, except for the storage of hazardous waste in compliance with Environmental Laws. The Borrower has made available to the Administrative Agent true and complete copies of all material environmental records, reports, notifications, certificates of need, permits, pending permit applications, correspondence, engineering studies, and environmental studies or assessments.
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(c) Labor Matters.
(i) To the Borrowers knowledge, none of its employees is obligated under any contract (including licenses, covenants or commitments of any nature) or other agreement, or subject to any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative agency, that would materially interfere with such employees ability to promote the interest of the Borrower or that would conflict with the Borrowers business. Neither the execution or delivery of the Loan Documents, the consummation of the Transactions nor the carrying on of the business of the Borrower and the other Obligors by the employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, nor the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as now conducted and as presently proposed to be conducted, will, to the Borrowers knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant or instrument under which any such employee is now obligated.
(ii) No Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries is delinquent in payments to any of its respective employees, consultants or independent contractors for any wages, salaries, commissions, non-discretionary bonuses or other direct compensation for any service performed for them to the date hereof or amounts required to be reimbursed to such employees, consultants or independent contractors. Each Obligor and its Subsidiaries have complied for the last three (3) years in all material respects with all applicable state, federal and foreign equal employment opportunity laws and with all other applicable state, federal and foreign laws related to employment, including but not limited to those related to wages, hours, worker classification and collective bargaining. Each Obligor and its Subsidiaries have withheld and paid to the appropriate governmental entity or are holding for payment not yet due to such governmental entity all amounts required to be withheld from their respective employees and are not liable for any arrears of wages, taxes, penalties or other sums for failure to comply with any of the foregoing.
(iii) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents nor the consummation of the Transactions (either alone or in combination with another event) will (i) constitute a change in control or change of control or any similar term under any Company Plan, (ii) result in any payment becoming due to any current or former employee, director, officer or independent contractor of an Obligor or any Subsidiary of an Obligor, (iii) increase the amount of any compensation or benefits due under any Company Plan, (iv) result in the acceleration of the time of payment, vesting or funding under any Company Plan or (v) limit or restrict the right to merge, materially amend, terminate or transfer the assets of any Company Plan.
(iv) To the Borrowers knowledge, no Key Employee intends to terminate employment with the Borrower or any other Obligor or is otherwise likely to become unavailable to continue as a Key Employee, nor does the Borrower have a present intention to terminate the employment of any of the foregoing. The employment of each employee of an Obligor or any Subsidiary of an Obligor is terminable at the will of the relevant Obligor or Subsidiary.
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(v) No Obligor or any Subsidiary of an Obligor has made any representations regarding equity incentives or compensation to any officer, employee, director or consultant that are inconsistent with the share amounts and terms set forth in the minutes of meetings of the applicable Board and provided to the Administrative Agent.
(vi) Each Obligor and its Subsidiaries have made all required contributions and have no liability to any Company Plan, other than liability for health plan continuation coverage described in Part 6 of Title I(B) of ERISA, and have complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws for any such Company Plan. None of the Obligors, any Subsidiary thereof or any ERISA Affiliate has contributed (or had any obligation of any sort) in the last six (6) years to a plan that is subject to Section 412 or 302 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA.
(vii) To the Borrowers knowledge, none of the Key Employees or directors of any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof has been (i) subject to voluntary or involuntary petition under the federal bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency law or the appointment of a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer by a court for his business or property; (ii) convicted in a criminal proceeding or named as a subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses); (iii) subject to any order, judgment or decree (not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated) of any court of competent jurisdiction permanently or temporarily enjoining him from engaging, or otherwise imposing limits or conditions on his engagement, in any securities, investment advisory, banking, insurance, or other type of business or acting as an officer or director of a public company; or (iv) found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the SEC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated any federal or state securities, commodities or unfair trade practices law, which such judgment or finding has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated.
(viii) No labor union, collective bargaining organization or labor representative has requested or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, has sought to represent any of the employees, representatives or agents of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. There is no strike or other labor dispute involving the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pending, or to the Borrowers knowledge, threatened.
(ix) Each former Key Employee whose employment was terminated by the Borrower or any Subsidiary has entered into an agreement with the Borrower providing for the full release of any claims against the Borrower or any related party arising out of such employment or termination of employment.
(x) Schedule 7.06 sets forth, as of the Closing Date, a complete and correct list of, and that separately identifies, (i) all Title IV Plans, and (ii) all Multiemployer Plans Except for those that could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (x) each Benefit Plan is in compliance with applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Laws, (y) there are no existing or pending (or to the knowledge of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, threatened) claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the normal course), sanctions, actions, lawsuits or other proceedings or investigation involving any Benefit Plan to which any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof incurs or otherwise has or could have an obligation or any liability or Claim and (z) no ERISA Event is reasonably expected to occur.
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7.07 Compliance with Other Instruments. No Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation or default (i) of any provisions of its Organic Documents, (ii) of any instrument, judgment, order, writ or decree, (iii) under any note, indenture or mortgage, or (iv) under any lease, agreement, contract or purchase order to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or (v) of any provision of federal or state statute, rule or regulation applicable to it, except, in the case of clauses (ii) through (v), the violation of which would have a Material Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents and the consummation of the Transactions will not result in any such violation or be in conflict with or constitute, with or without the passage of time and giving of notice, either (i) a default under any such provision, instrument, judgment, order, writ, decree, contract or agreement; or (ii) an event which results in the creation of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any assets of an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or the suspension, revocation, forfeiture, or nonrenewal of any material permit or license applicable to an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
7.08 Taxes. Except as could not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to an Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof, (a) there are no federal, state, county, local or foreign taxes due and payable by an Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof which have not been timely paid, (b) there are no accrued and unpaid federal, state, county, local or foreign taxes of any Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof which are due, whether or not assessed or disputed, (c) there have been no examinations or audits of any tax returns or reports of any Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof by any applicable federal, state, local or foreign governmental agency, and (d) each Obligor and its Subsidiaries have duly and timely filed all federal, state, county, local and foreign tax returns required to have been filed, all such returns are true, correct and complete in all respects and there are in effect no waivers of applicable statutes of limitations with respect to taxes for any year.
7.09 Full Disclosure. All disclosure provided to the Lenders regarding the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, their businesses and the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and the Transactions, including the schedules and exhibits to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. No event or circumstance has occurred and no information exists with respect to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties, liabilities, operations (including results thereof) or conditions (financial or otherwise), which, under applicable Law, requires public disclosure at or before the date hereof or announcement by the Borrower but which has not been so publicly disclosed. All financial projections and forecasts that have been prepared by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and made available to the Lenders have been prepared in good faith based upon reasonable assumptions and represented, at the time each such financial projection or forecast was delivered to the Lenders, the Borrowers best estimate of future financial performance (it being recognized that such financial projections or forecasts are not to be viewed as facts and that the actual results during the period or periods covered by any such financial projections or forecasts may differ from the projected or forecasted results).
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7.10 Investment Company Act and Margin Stock Regulation.
(a) Investment Company Act. No Obligor is an investment company as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(b) Margin Stock. No Obligor is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying or carrying Margin Stock, and no part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used to buy or carry any Margin Stock in violation of Regulation T, U or X.
7.11 Solvency. The Obligors, on a consolidated basis, are and, immediately after giving effect to the making of any Loans on such date, the use of proceeds thereof, and the consummation of any transactions on such date, will be, Solvent.
7.12 Subsidiaries.
(a) Set forth on Schedule 7.12 is a complete and correct list of all direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Borrower. Each Significant Subsidiary is duly organized and validly existing under the jurisdiction of its organization shown in said Schedule 7.12. Each Obligor is the record and beneficial owner of one hundred percent (100%) of the equity interests of each Subsidiary of such Obligor, in each case, free and clear of any and all liens (other than restrictions imposed by applicable federal and state securities laws applicable to unregistered securities generally).
(b) The Borrower has no Significant Subsidiaries except as set forth on Exhibit 21.1 to the Borrowers Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (the 2022 Form 10-K) and the Borrower does not currently own or control, directly or indirectly, any interest in any other corporation, partnership, trust, joint venture, limited liability company, association or other business entity.
7.13 Indebtedness and Liens. Set forth on Schedule 7.13(a) is a complete and correct list of all Indebtedness for borrowed money of each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries outstanding and remaining in place as of the Closing Date. Set forth on Schedule 7.13(b) is a complete and correct list of all Liens securing Indebtedness for borrowed money granted by the Obligors and each of their respective Subsidiaries with respect to their respective property and outstanding and remaining in place as of the Closing Date.
7.14 Material Agreements.
(a) There are no agreements, understandings, instruments, contracts or proposed transactions to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them is bound that involve the grant of rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other Person that limit the exclusive right of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market or sell their products.
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(b) The Borrower has not (i) declared or paid any dividends, or authorized or made any distribution upon or with respect to any class or series of its Equity Interests, (ii) incurred any Indebtedness for money borrowed or incurred any other liabilities individually in excess of $10,000,000 or in excess of $20,000,000 in the aggregate (for the purpose of this clause (ii), all Indebtedness, liabilities, agreements, understandings, instruments, contracts and proposed transactions involving the same Person (including Persons the Borrower has reason to believe are affiliated with each other) shall be aggregated for the purpose of meeting the individual minimum dollar amounts of such clause), (iii) made any loans or advances to any Person, other than ordinary advances for travel expenses, or (iv) sold, exchanged or otherwise disposed of any of its assets or rights, other than the sale of its inventory in the Ordinary Course.
(c) No Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof is a guarantor or indemnitor of any indebtedness of any other Person except for guarantees of the Borrower on behalf of certain wholly-owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower entered into in the Ordinary Course and consistent with past practice of the Borrower.
(d) No Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries is in default under any Material Agreement, nor does any Obligor have knowledge of (i) any Claim against it or any of its Subsidiaries for any material breach of any such Material Agreement or (ii) any default by any party to any such Material Agreement, in each case, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
7.15 Restrictive Agreements. Except as set forth in Schedule 7.15, as of the Closing Date, no Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any Restrictive Agreement, except (i) those permitted under Section 9.11, (ii) restrictions and conditions imposed by Law or by this Agreement, (iii) any stockholder agreement, charter, by-laws, or other organizational documents of an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries as in effect on the date hereof and (iv) limitations associated with Permitted Liens.
7.16 Transactions with Affiliates. Except as set forth on Schedule 7.16 or otherwise permitted by Section 9.10(ii) (to the extent such transactions are Arms Length Transactions), (iii) or (iv), no Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into, renewed, extended or been a party to, any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease, transfer or exchange of property or assets of any kind or the rendering of services of any kind) with any Affiliate having a value in excess of $5,000,000.
7.17 OFAC; Anti-Terrorism Laws.
(a) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is in material violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law or engages in or conspires to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any applicable Anti-Terrorism Laws.
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(b) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any of their respective directors, officers, or employees (i) is currently the target of any Sanctions, (ii) is located, organized or residing in any Designated Jurisdiction in violation of Sanctions, or (iii) is or has been (within the previous five (5) years) engaged in any transaction with, or for the benefit of, any Person who is now or was then the target of Sanctions or who is located, organized or residing in any Designated Jurisdiction, in violation of Sanctions. No Loan, nor the proceeds from any Loan, has been or will be used, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, to lend, contribute or provide to, or has been or will be otherwise made available for the purpose of funding, any activity or business in any Designated Jurisdiction in violation of Sanctions or for the purpose of funding any activity or business of any Person located, organized or residing in any Designated Jurisdiction, or who is the subject of any Sanctions, in violation of Sanctions, or in any other manner that will result in any violation by any party to this Agreement of Sanctions.
7.18 Anti-Corruption. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any of their respective directors, officers or employees, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, has (i) materially violated or is in material violation of any applicable anti-corruption Law, or (ii) made, offered to make, promised to make or authorized the payment or giving of, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, any Prohibited Payment.
7.19 Priority of Obligations. The Obligations constitute unsubordinated obligations of the Obligors, and except for any obligations which have priority under applicable Law, rank at least pari passu in right of payment with all other unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Obligors.
7.20 Security Interest. The Security Documents provide the Secured Parties with effective, valid, legally binding and enforceable first priority Liens on all of the Collateral, subject to Permitted Liens. As of the Closing Date, (a) there are no security interests in, or Liens on, any of the Collateral other than Liens in favor of the Secured Parties as security for the Obligations and (b) all necessary action (including as described in Section 7.03) has been taken under applicable Law to (i) establish and perfect the first priority rights of the Secured Parties in and to the Collateral, if applicable, and (ii) terminate and/or release all existing security interests in, and Liens on, the Collateral, in each case, under their respective applicable Law, in each case of clauses (a) and (b), subject only to Permitted Liens.
7.21 Data Privacy. In connection with its collection, storage, transfer (including any transfer across borders), use and/or any other processing of any information that is protected under Laws relating to privacy or personal information (collectively, Personal Information), each of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is and has been in compliance with all applicable Laws relating to privacy, personal information, cyber security or data security (the Privacy Requirements), except for any non-compliance which would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower has implemented commercially reasonable physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures and policies designed to protect all Personal Information collected, used, transmitted, stored or otherwise processed by it or by any of its Subsidiaries or on behalf of any of them (a) from and against unauthorized access, transmission, processing, use or disclosure; and (b) against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such Personal Information. None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has received any written complaint or notice of any claims alleging, or been charged by a Governmental Authority with, the violation of any Privacy Requirements. There have been no
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breaches, security incidents, misuse of, unauthorized access to or disclosure or encryption of any Personal Information in the possession or control of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or collected, used, transmitted, stored or otherwise processed by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, that has resulted in, or is reasonably likely to result in, material liability to, or material disruption of activities of, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has provided or been required to provide under Privacy Requirements any notices to any Person in connection with any misuse of, or unauthorized access to or disclosure or encryption, of Personal Information of such Person.
7.22 Insurance. The Borrower has in full force and effect insurance policies concerning such casualties as would be reasonable and customary for companies like the Borrower, with extended coverage, which, to the Borrowers knowledge, would be sufficient in amount (subject to reasonable deductions) to allow it to replace any of the properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that might be damaged or destroyed.
7.23 Certain Transactions.
(a) Other than (i) standard employee benefits generally made available to all employees, (ii) standard director and officer indemnification agreements approved by the Board of the Borrower, and (iii) there are no agreements, understandings or proposed transactions between the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any of their respective officers, directors, consultants or Key Employees, or any Affiliate thereof.
(b) None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is indebted, directly or indirectly, to any of its directors, officers or employees or to their respective spouses, domestic partners or children or to any Affiliate of any of the foregoing, other than in connection with expenses or advances of expenses incurred in the Ordinary Course or employee relocation expenses and for other customary employee benefits made generally available to all employees. There have not been any transactions or contracts or series of related transactions or contracts required to be disclosed under Item 404 of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act.
7.24 No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances. Except with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, liability, obligation, development or circumstance (whether absolute, accrued, contingent, fixed or otherwise) has occurred or existed, or is reasonably expected to exist or occur with respect to the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses, properties, liabilities, prospects, operations (including results thereof) or condition (financial or otherwise), that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be material to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
7.25 Employee Agreements. Each Key Employee and any other current or former employee, consultant or officer of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has executed an agreement with the Borrower regarding confidentiality and proprietary information substantially in the form or forms made available to the counsel for the Lenders (the Confidential Information Agreements). No current or former Key Employee has excluded any Intellectual Property from his or her assignment of Intellectual Property to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, except where
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such exclusion would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonable be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each current and former Key Employee has executed a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement substantially in the form or forms made available to counsel for the Lenders prior to the date hereof. Each current and former Key Employee that is a consultant to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has entered into a consulting agreement, substantially in the form previously provided or made available to the Lenders prior to the date hereof. The Company is not aware that any of its Key Employees is in violation of any agreement covered by this Section 7.25.
7.26 Permits. Each of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has all material franchises, permits, registrations, licenses and any similar authority necessary for the conduct of its business. None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is in default or violation (and no event has occurred which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute a material default or violation) in any material respect of any term, condition or provision under any of such franchises, permits, registrations, licenses or other similar authority, and none of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is the subject of any pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened action by a Governmental Authority seeking the cancellation, revocation, suspension, termination, modification or impairment of any such franchises, permits, registrations, licenses or other similar authority.
7.27 Customers and Suppliers. (a) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in a material dispute or is in material breach or material default under any contract with any customer whose purchases from the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries exceeded 5% of the consolidated net sales of the Borrower or suppliers of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that represented greater than 5% of the cash cost of goods sold by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, in each case, during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, (b) there has been no Material Adverse Change in the business relationships of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with any such customer or supplier, as applicable, since December 31, 2022, and (c) no such customer or supplier has, to the Borrowers knowledge, threatened any material modification or change in the business relationship with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
SECTION 8.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Each Obligor covenants and agrees with the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that, until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) have been paid in full in cash:
8.01 Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent:
(a) as soon as available and in any event within forty-five (45) days after the end of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (which date shall be automatically extended for a period not to exceed ten (10) Business Days, if and to the extent of any initial extension granted by the SEC for 10-Q reporting for such period)
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(i) the consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal quarter and (ii) the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such fiscal quarter, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, all in reasonable detail and setting forth in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year, together with (iii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating that (x) such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at such date and (y) the results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period ended on such date have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to changes resulting from normal, year-end audit adjustments and except for the absence of notes; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(a) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR (with the related certificate separately delivered);
(b) as soon as available and in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year (which date shall be automatically extended for a period not to exceed ten (10) Business Days, if and to the extent of any initial extension granted by the SEC for 10-K reporting for such period) (i) the consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and (ii) the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, all in reasonable detail and setting forth in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, accompanied by a report and opinion thereon of KPMG LLP or another firm of independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and, such report and opinion shall not be subject to any going concern or like qualification or exception or emphasis of matter of going concern footnote or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit, and in the case of such consolidated financial statements, certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(b) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR or the Borrowers website; provided, further, that any such report shall not be considered qualified due to the inclusion of an emphasis of matter paragraph in the audit opinion based on the impending maturity date of any Indebtedness under this Agreement within 12 months of the date of such report, the prospective breach of any financial covenant hereunder or liquidity issues due to Ordinary Course liabilities;
(c) together with the financial statements required pursuant to Section 8.01(a) and (b), a compliance certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as of the end of the applicable accounting period (which delivery may be by electronic communication including fax or email and shall be deemed to be an original, authentic counterpart thereof for all purposes) substantially in the form of Exhibit E (a Compliance Certificate) including details of any issues that are material that are raised
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by auditors and any occurrence or existence of any event, circumstance, act or omission that would cause any representation or warranty contained in the first and third sentences of Section 7.07 or Section 7.19 to be incorrect in any material respect (or in any respect if such representation or warranty is qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect or Material Adverse Change) if such representation or warranty were to be made at the time of delivery of a Compliance Certificate. For the avoidance of doubt, no representation or warranty contained in Section 7.07 or Section 7.19 is required to be, shall be or shall be deemed to be made in connection with a delivery of any Compliance Certificate;
(d) promptly following approval by the Borrowers Board and no later than the sixtieth (60th) day following the beginning of each fiscal year, a consolidated budget for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, which the Borrower shall prepare, and its Board shall approve; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(d) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR or the Borrowers website;
(e) promptly after the same are released, copies of all press releases (other than any press release that is immaterial, routine or administrative in nature); provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(e) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR or the Borrowers website;
(f) promptly, and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by an Obligor thereof, copies of each notice or other correspondence received from any securities regulator or exchange to the authority of which the Borrower may become subject from time to time concerning any investigation or possible investigation or other inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of such Obligor, in each case, excluding any investigation or inquiry that is immaterial, routine or administrative in nature; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(f) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR or the Borrowers website;
(g) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent generally to the stockholders of each Obligor and its Subsidiaries, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which any Obligor or its Subsidiaries may file or be required to file with any securities regulator or exchange to the authority of which such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, may become subject from time to time; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(g) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR or the Borrowers website;
(h) the information regarding insurance maintained by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as and when required under Section 8.05;
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(i) promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after the Borrower obtains knowledge of any Claim involving more than $10,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies), written notice thereof from a Responsible Officer of the Borrower which notice shall include a statement setting forth details of such return, recovery, dispute or claim; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(i) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR or the Borrowers website;
(j) as soon as possible and in any event no later than the fifth (5th) business day of each calendar month, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, based upon the Borrowers bank account statements, that the Borrower has met the minimum liquidity requirement set out in Section 10.01; and
(k) such other information. including with respect to the businesses, financial performance, operations, condition of the assets or liabilities of the Obligors (including with respect to the Collateral) and their Subsidiaries as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
8.02 Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent written notice of the following within three (3) Business Days of:
(a) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(b) the occurrence of any event with respect to the property or assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries resulting in a Loss aggregating $10,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies) or more;
(c) (i) any proposed acquisition of stock, assets or property by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to result in Environmental Liability and (ii) any spillage, leakage, discharge, disposal, leaching, migration or release of any Hazardous Material by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries required to be reported to any Governmental Authority or that could reasonably be expected to result in Environmental Liability, in each case, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(d) the assertion of any Claim under any Environmental Law by any Person against, or with respect to the activities of, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any alleged liability or non-compliance with any Environmental Laws or any permits, licenses or authorizations issued pursuant to Environmental Laws which could reasonably be expected to involve damages in excess of $10,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies) other than any such Claim or alleged violation that would not (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(e) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Affiliates that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
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(f) (i) the intention of any ERISA Affiliate to file any notice of intent to terminate any Title IV Plan, a copy of such notice and (ii) the filing by any ERISA Affiliate of a request for a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan, in each case in writing and in reasonable detail (including a description of any action that any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any notice filed with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining thereto);
(g) (i) the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any notice of a breach or default (and a copy of such notice) under any Material Agreement asserting a default by such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries where such alleged default would permit such counterparty to terminate such Material Agreement that would be required to be disclosed by the Borrower pursuant to the requirements of the SEC, (ii) the entering into any new Material Agreement by any Obligor that would be required to be disclosed by the Borrower pursuant to the requirements of the SEC (and a copy thereof) or (iii) any material amendment to a Material Agreement that would be adverse in any material respect to the rights and remedies of the Lenders hereunder (and a copy thereof); provided, that the Borrower shall not be required to provide such notice if such documents become publicly available on EDGAR or the Borrowers website within the time period notice would otherwise be required pursuant to this Section 8.02;
(h) any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than as required under GAAP);
(i) any labor controversy resulting in or threatening to result in any strike, work stoppage, boycott, shutdown or other material labor disruption against or involving an Obligor that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(j) any Claim of actual or alleged infringement, misappropriation or violation of any Intellectual Property by or against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Contract entered by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such Claim, other than any such Claim or alleged infringement, misappropriation or violation that would not (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(k) the creation, development or other acquisition (including any in-bound exclusive licenses or joint ownership) of any Material Intellectual Property by the Borrower or any Subsidiary after the Closing Date that is issued, registered or becomes issued, registered or the subject of an application for issuance or registration with any Governmental Authority; provided that, with respect to any such Material Intellectual Property created, developed or acquired (including through any in-bound exclusive license or joint ownership) in any fiscal year, notice thereof pursuant to this Section 8.02(k) shall be made in accordance with the timing of the financial statements for such fiscal year required pursuant to Section 8.01(b);
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(l) any change to any Obligors or any of its Subsidiaries ownership of any Controlled Account, by delivering the Administrative Agent a notice setting forth a complete and correct list of all such accounts as of the date of such change; and
(m) any other development that results in, or would 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 of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto. Nothing in this Section 8.02 is intended to waive, consent to or otherwise permit any action or omission that is otherwise prohibited by this Agreement or any other Loan Document. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 8.02, the Borrower shall be deemed to have complied with its obligations hereunder (other than with respect to Section 8.02(a), (k) or (l)) so long as the relevant information or documents have been publicly available on EDGAR or the Borrowers website within the time period notice would otherwise be required pursuant to this Section 8.02.
8.03 Existence. Such Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Significant Subsidiaries to, preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit (other than with respect to the Borrower) any merger, amalgamation, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 9.03 or any Asset Sale permitted under Section 9.09.
8.04 Payment of Obligations. Such Obligor will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay and discharge its obligations, including (i) all material Taxes, fees, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its properties or assets prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto, and all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might become a Lien upon any properties or assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries not constituting a Permitted Lien, except to the extent such Taxes, fees, assessments or governmental charges or levies or such claims are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and are adequately reserved against in accordance with GAAP and (ii) all lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property not constituting a Permitted Lien.
8.05 Insurance. Such Obligor will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries 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. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall furnish the Administrative Agent from time to time with (i) material information as to the insurance carried by it and, if so requested, copies of all such insurance policies and (ii) a certificate from the Borrowers insurance broker or other insurance specialist stating that all premiums then due on the policies relating to insurance on the Collateral have been paid and that such policies are in full force and effect. Receipt of notice of termination or cancellation of any such insurance policies or reduction of coverages or amounts thereunder shall entitle the Secured Parties to renew any such policies, cause the coverages and amounts thereof to be maintained at levels required pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 8.05 or otherwise to obtain similar
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insurance in place of such policies, in each case, the Borrower will be responsible for the reasonable and documented cost of such insurance (to be payable on demand). The amount of any such reasonable and documented expenses shall accrue interest at the same rate as Loans hereunder if not paid on demand and shall constitute Obligations. Subject to Section 8.20, such Obligor shall cause each such policy of insurance (other than director and officer indemnity or liability policies) (with respect to each such policy outstanding as of the Closing Date, no later than the Closing Date) to (i) name the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an additional insured thereunder as its interests may appear, and (ii) in the case of each casualty insurance policy (including business interruption, if any) contain a lender loss payable clause or endorsement naming the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as loss payee thereunder and providing for at least twenty (20) days (ten (10) days in the case of nonpayment of premium) prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of any cancellation of such policy, and otherwise reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent.
8.06 Books and Records; Inspection Rights. Such Obligor will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct in all material respects entries in accordance with GAAP or local accounting rules applicable to any Foreign Subsidiary, as applicable, are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. Such Obligor will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, 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 (financial or otherwise) with its officers and independent accountants (so long as a representative of the Borrower is provided a reasonable opportunity to participate in any such discussion), during normal business hours (but not more often than once per year in total for all such visits and inspections unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) as the Administrative Agent or the Lenders may reasonably request; provided that such representative shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to minimize disruption to the business and affairs of the Borrower as a result of any such visit, inspection, examination or discussion. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or any other provision of the Loan Documents, no Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries will be required to disclose or permit the inspection or discussion of, any document, information or other matter (i) in respect of which disclosure to any Lender (or their respective representatives or contractors) is prohibited by any applicable Law or any binding agreement with a third party (so long as such agreement is not entered into in contemplation of this Agreement) or (ii) that is subject to attorney-client or similar privilege, which could reasonably be expected to be lost or forfeited if disclosed to the Administrative Agent or any Lender. The Borrower shall pay all reasonable and documented costs of all such inspections (but not more often than once per calendar year for all such visits and inspections, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing).
8.07 Compliance with Laws and Other Obligations. Such Obligor will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) comply with all Laws (including Environmental Laws, but other than Anti-Terrorism Laws and Sanctions) applicable to it and its business activities, (ii) comply in all material respects with applicable Anti-Terrorism Laws and Sanctions, (iii) comply in all material respects with all Governmental Approvals applicable to it and its business activities and (iv) maintain in full force and effect, remain in compliance with, and perform all obligations under all Material Agreement to which it is a party, except, in the case of clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) above, where the failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each Obligor shall maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote compliance by such Obligor, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Terrorism Laws and Sanctions.
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8.08 Maintenance of Properties, Etc. Such Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain and preserve all of its tangible assets and properties necessary or useful in the conduct of its business, in good working order and condition in accordance with the general practice of other Persons of similar character and size, ordinary wear and tear and damage from casualty or condemnation excepted and except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Such Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain in full force and effect, pay all costs and expenses related to, and renew, file for, prosecute and enforce all Material Intellectual Property, and all other Intellectual Property owned, used or controlled by such Obligor or any such Subsidiary that are necessary or useful in 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.
8.09 Licenses. Such Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, obtain and maintain all Governmental Approvals necessary in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents, the consummation of the Transactions or the operation and conduct of its business and ownership of its properties, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
8.10 Monthly Lender Calls. At the request of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall hold a conference call with the Administrative Agent and the Lenders at reasonable times to be mutually agreed to with the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to discuss the financial results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; provided that no more than one call per calendar month quarter shall be required.
8.11 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans will be used only as provided in Section 2.05. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including Regulations T, U and X.
8.12 Certain Obligations Respecting Subsidiaries; Further Assurances.
(a) Subsidiary Guarantors, etc. In the event that (x) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall form or acquire any new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary), the Borrower shall concurrently with such formation or acquisition or (y) an Excluded Subsidiary ceases to be an Excluded Subsidiary, the Borrower shall promptly, and in no event later than (I) thirty (30) days with respect to a Domestic Subsidiary and (II) sixty (60) days with respect to a Foreign Subsidiary, in each case, after such event (or, with respect to a determination that a Subsidiary is no longer an Immaterial Subsidiary, following a determination made in accordance with the definition of Immaterial Subsidiary), (i) cause such Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Guarantor
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hereunder and a Grantor under the applicable Security Agreement, (ii) take such action or cause such Subsidiary to take such action to comply with the Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, as applicable, and (iii) take such other action or cause such Subsidiary to take such other action as shall be reasonably necessary or desirable or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to create and perfect, in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, valid and enforceable first priority Liens (subject only to Permitted Priority Liens) on substantially all of the personal property of such new Obligor as collateral security for the Obligations hereunder as and when required by the terms of the applicable Security Agreement; provided that any such security interest or Lien shall be subject to the relevant requirements of the applicable Security Documents and the Intercompany Subordination Agreement.
(b) Further Assurances.
(i) An Obligor will take such action from time to time as shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent to effectuate the purposes and objectives of this Agreement, including (i) to comply with the Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, as applicable, and the applicable Security Agreement, including to execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and any other filings, registrations or recordings), which may be required under any applicable Law, or which the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or to grant, preserve, protect or perfect the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents or the validity or priority of any such Lien, and (ii) using commercially reasonable efforts to provide access to any investment bank, financial advisor, or similar advisor of the Borrower, as reasonably requested from time to time, in each case, all at the expense of the Borrower.
(ii) In the event that an Obligor creates, develops, obtains an exclusive license to or otherwise acquires Intellectual Property during the term of this Agreement, then the provisions of this Agreement and the applicable Security Agreement shall and hereby do automatically apply thereto and any such Intellectual Property (other than any Intellectual Property constituting an Excluded Asset) shall automatically constitute and hereby does constitute part of the Collateral under the Security Documents, without further action by any party, in each case from and after the date of such creation, development or acquisition.
(iii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Obligor will, and will cause each Person that is required to be a Subsidiary Guarantor to, take such action from time to time (including joining the applicable Security Agreement, delivering shares of stock together with undated transfer powers executed in blank, applicable control agreements and other instruments and executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Security Documents or such other documents as the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary or advisable) as shall be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to create, in favor of the Secured Parties, perfected security interests and Liens in substantially all of the personal property (other than Excluded Assets (as defined in the Security Agreement)) of such Obligor as collateral security for the Obligations as and when required by the terms of the Loan
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Documents, including to comply with the Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, as applicable; provided that any such security interest or Lien shall be subject to the relevant requirements of the Security Documents; provided, further, that, without limiting the right of the Administrative Agent to require a Lien or security interest in any newly acquired or created Subsidiary or asset, upon the prior written request of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall consult, in good faith, as to whether the cost of obtaining a Lien or security interest thereon would be unreasonably excessive relative to the benefit thereof.
(iv) Promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) following the acquisition by any Obligor following the Closing Date of any fee interest in real property having a purchase price in excess of $7,500,000, such Obligor shall notify Administrative Agent of such fact and shall, if any time so requested by Administrative Agent, within sixty (60) days following such request by Administrative Agent (or such longer period as agreed by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), with respect to any such owned real estate, deliver or cause to be delivered to Administrative Agent the following (collectively, Mortgage Deliverables): (A) a mortgage or deed of trust (or comparable instrument creating a Lien thereon) by Obligor for the benefit of the secured Parties (each, a Mortgage), as applicable, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, executed by the title holder thereof and recorded in the applicable jurisdiction, granting Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, a first priority Lien on the fee interest in such real property, together with evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that the applicable Obligor has paid all filing, recording and stamp taxes and fees (including mortgage recording and intangible taxes) and any similar taxes and fees in connection therewith or the recording thereof, (B) a lenders title insurance policy (including any endorsements Administrative Agent may request in its reasonable discretion) issued by a title insurer reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent in form and substance and in amounts reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent (and, in any case, in amounts not lower than the purchase price thereof) insuring Administrative Agents, for itself and on behalf of the Lenders, first priority Lien in the fee interest in such real property, free and clear of all defects and encumbrances except Permitted Liens, (C) a current ALTA survey, certified to Administrative Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Lenders, by a licensed surveyor, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, or survey affidavits sufficient to allow the issuance of the title products described in subsection (C) above without a standard survey exception, (D) a certificate, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent, to Administrative Agent from a national certification agency acceptable to Administrative Agent, indicating whether such real property is located in a special flood hazard area, and such flood insurance as Administrative Agent may require in its reasonable discretion, (E) legal opinions in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent from one or more law firms in the relevant jurisdiction reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent opining as to due execution, authority, delivery, enforceability and perfection of such Mortgage and (F) copies of all existing Phase I or Phase II environmental reports and any other environmental assessments, analyses and other studies in the possession of any Obligor with respect to the mortgaged estate; provided that, notwithstanding any provision in any Loan Document, no Obligor shall be required to provide Mortgage Deliverables with respect to any leasehold interest. Each of the Mortgages will be effective, upon delivery of the same to the Administrative Agent in accordance herewith, to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable first priority Lien with respect to the property
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described therein, and, without limiting the foregoing, when the Mortgages are validly filed in the applicable recorders offices and all relevant mortgage Taxes and recording and registration charges are duly paid by Obligor, each such Mortgage shall be, assuming the proper indexing thereof, sufficient to provide constructive notice to third parties of the Administrative Agents Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Obligors therein and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations, subject only to Permitted Liens. In addition to the foregoing, Borrower shall, at Administrative Agents request from time to time, deliver to Administrative Agent or cooperate as necessary for Administrative Agent to obtain (at Borrowers expense), such appraisals as are required by law or regulation of real property (whether fee or leasehold interests) with respect to which Administrative Agent has been granted a Lien. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 8.12(b)(iv) to the contrary, (i) any Mortgage Deliverable with respect to any real property located outside the United States shall be subject to such terms and conditions, limitations, restrictions, or other material terms as are reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower), taking into account the applicable Law and customary market practice of the relevant jurisdiction, and (ii) the Obligors shall not be required to deliver any Mortgage Deliverables or otherwise comply with this Section 8.12(b)(iv) with respect to any real property for which the cost of providing the Mortgage Deliverables with respect thereto to secure the Obligations outweighs the benefits to the Lenders, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower)
8.13 Termination of Non-Permitted Liens. In the event that any Obligor shall become aware of, or be notified by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of the existence of, any outstanding Lien against any assets or property of such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, which Lien is not a Permitted Lien, such Obligor shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to promptly terminate or cause the termination of such Lien. This provision shall not limit any rights or remedies the Administrative Agent and Lenders have upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default.
8.14 Board Rights.
(a) For so long as Oaktree Lenders are party to this Agreement and hold not less than thirty three percent (33)% of the principal amount of the Loans and Commitments then outstanding, Oaktree shall be entitled to nominate one director of the Borrower (the Oaktree Director) to the Board of the Borrower and all committees of the Board of the Borrower (subject, in the case of the committees of the Board of the Borrower, to NASDAQ listing requirements regarding director independence and to the independence requirements under Rules 10A-3 and 16b-3 of the Exchange Act). The Oaktree Director shall be the current director appointed by Oaktree to the Board as of the date hereof (or such replacement as may be nominated by Oaktree after the date hereof). The Borrower shall cause the Oaktree Director to be so appointed as of the date of the applicable nomination with respect to any Oaktree Director nominated after the date hereof. For the avoidance of doubt, the Oaktree Director shall be entitled to substantially comparable compensation for his or her service to the Borrower as the other members of the Board, including reimbursement from the Borrower for any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred during the course of performing his or her duties as the Oaktree Director.
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(b) For so long as Oaktree has the right to designate the Oaktree Director to the Board, it shall also have the right to appoint one observer to the Board (the Observer) in lieu of the Oaktree Director. The Observer shall be entitled to attend all meetings of the Board and all committees thereof in a non-voting observer capacity and to receive copies of all materials relating to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that would have been provided to the Oaktree Director and any committee of the Board, including notices, minutes, consents (including materials provided in connection with any solicitation of written consent of the Board) and any other materials provided to the directors at the same time and in the same manner as provided to the directors; provided, that the Observer shall agree to hold such materials and information in confidence to same extent as required of the Oaktree Director.
(c) The Borrower covenants and agrees that for so long as Oaktree has the right to nominate the Oaktree Director to use its best efforts to ensure that (i) the Oaktree Director is included in the Boards slate of nominees in connection with soliciting proxies for every meeting of the stockholders of the Borrower called with respect to the election of members of the Board and (ii) each such nominee is included in the proxy statement prepared by management of the Borrower in connection with soliciting proxies for every meeting of the stockholders of the Borrower called with respect to the election of members of the Board, and at every adjournment and postponement thereof, and on every action or approval by written consent of the stockholders of the Borrower with respect to the election of members of the Board.
(d) Any Oaktree Director shall hold office until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, subject, however, to such directors earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. Any vacancy in the Board of a seat entitled to be filled by Oaktree pursuant to this Section 8.14 may be filled by Oaktree. The Oaktree Director may be removed with or without cause, in each case only by Oaktree. If at any time the Oaktree Lenders hold less than thirty three percent (33)% of the principal amount of Loans and Commitments then outstanding, the Oaktree Director may be removed from the Board by the holders of a majority of the shares of the Borrowers common stock then entitled to vote at an election of directors of the Borrower.
(e) The Borrower shall take all necessary actions to cause the election of each designee to the Board as contemplated by this Section 8.14. The Borrower agrees that taking all necessary actions to effectuate the foregoing shall include (i) including such designees in the slate of nominees recommended by the Board at a meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors, (ii) nominating and recommending each such individual to be elected as a director as provided herein and (iii) soliciting proxies or consents in favor thereof.
8.15 ERISA Compliance. Such Obligor shall comply, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, with the provisions of ERISA with respect to any Plans to which such Obligor or such Subsidiary is a party as an employer, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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8.16 Cash Management. Such Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) at all times after the Account Control Agreement Completion Date, cause each deposit account, disbursement account, investment account (or other similar account) and lockbox of any Obligor (in each case, other than any Excluded Accounts) to be subject at all times to an account control agreement (or comparable agreement or other instrument or Security Agreement in order to effect a first-priority Lien over such account in the applicable jurisdiction) between the applicable Obligor, the Administrative Agent and the applicable depositary institution in favor of the Administrative Agent in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (each such deposit account, disbursement account, investment account (or similar account) and lockbox, a Controlled Account) that (A) ensures, to the extent necessary under applicable Law, the perfection of a first priority security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent on such Controlled Account, (B) provides that, upon written notice from the Administrative Agent, such depositary institution shall comply with instructions originated by the Administrative Agent directing disposition of the funds in such Controlled Account without further consent of the applicable Obligor and (C) may not be terminated without prior written consent of the Administrative Agent; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Account Control Agreement with respect to an account located at a depository institution or branch located outside the United States shall be subject to such terms and conditions, limitations, restrictions, or other material terms as are reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower), taking into account the applicable Law and customary market practice of the relevant jurisdiction; and
(b) at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at the request of the Administrative Agent, each Obligor shall cause all payments constituting proceeds of accounts to be directed into lockbox accounts under agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
8.17 Information Regarding the Collateral. The Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior written notice (or such later period as the Administrative Agent may agree) of any change in any Obligors organizational structure or jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, the location of its registered office or chief executive office, or the location in which Collateral with fair market value exceeding $10,000,000 in the aggregate is located. The Obligors agree not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless such change is permitted by this Agreement and all filings have been made under the UCC or any equivalent legislation or regulation in the applicable jurisdiction by such Parties, as applicable, or otherwise that are required in order for the Administrative Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected first priority Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens) in all the Collateral for its own benefit and the benefit of the other Secured Parties.
8.18 Automotive Strategic Alternative. The Borrower shall consummate a transaction involving a strategic alternative with respect to the Borrowers automotive segment in an Arms Length Transaction by no later than March 31, 2024 or wind the automotive segment down by no later than June 30, 2024 (the Automotive Strategic Alternative).
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8.19 Reserved.
8.20 Post-Closing Obligations.
(a) Foreign Obligors and Pledged Collateral. Within the applicable time periods set forth in Schedule 8.20 or such later date as the Administrative Agent agrees to in writing, (i) the Borrower shall, or shall cause each Foreign Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) that is in existence as of the Closing Date to, deliver the documents or take the actions specified on Schedule 8.20 that are necessary for each such Foreign Subsidiary to comply with the Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (in each case except to the extent otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to its authority as set forth in the definition of Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement) and (ii) the Borrower shall, or shall cause each Obligor to, deliver to the Administrative Agent certificates or other instruments representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral (as defined in the applicable Security Agreement) relating to Obligors organized outside the United States that is in existence on the Closing Date, accompanied by appropriate duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(b) Controlled Accounts. Within the applicable time periods set forth on Schedule 8.20 (or, in each case, such longer period of time as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) (the Account Control Agreement Completion Date), the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that (i) all deposit accounts, lockboxes, disbursement accounts, investment accounts or other similar accounts (other than Excluded Accounts) of each Obligor are Controlled Accounts to the extent required to comply with the requirements of Section 8.16 and (ii) such Controlled Accounts are subject to one or more account control agreements (or comparable agreement or other instrument or Security Agreement in order to effect a first-priority Lien over such account in the applicable jurisdiction, if any), in favor of, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent that (A) ensures, to the extent necessary under applicable Law, the perfection of a first priority security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent on such Controlled Account, subject only to Permitted Liens, (B) provides that, upon written notice from the Administrative Agent, such bank or financial institution shall comply with instructions originated by the Administrative Agent directing disposition of the funds in such Controlled Account without further consent by the applicable Obligor, and (C) may not be terminated by the applicable Obligor without prior written consent of the Administrative Agent; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Account Control Agreement with respect to an account located at a depository institution or branch located outside the United States shall be subject to such terms and conditions, limitations, restrictions, or other material terms as are reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower), taking into account the applicable Law and customary market practice of the relevant jurisdiction.
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(c) Landlord Consents; Bailee Letters. Within the applicable time periods set forth on Schedule 8.20 (or such longer period of time as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), if Collateral having an aggregate fair market value in excess of $10,000,000 or any substantial portion of an Obligors book and records or any of its material books and records, is (i) in the possession of any single bailee, warehouseman or consignee, or (ii) located at any single leased real property, such Obligor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such bailee, warehouseman or consignee, or the applicable landlord, as the case may be, to sign and deliver, in the case of Collateral located in the United States, a Landlord Consent or Bailee Letter as applicable and in the case of Collateral located outside the United States, the applicable customary security documents in the jurisdiction.
(d) Insurance Policies. Within the applicable time periods set forth on Schedule 8.20 (or such longer period of time as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), all such insurance policies required pursuant to each Loan Document shall name the Administrative Agent (for its benefit and the benefit of the Lenders) as loss payee or additional insured, as applicable, and provide that no cancellation of the policies will be made without at least ten (10) days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have received certified copies of such insurance policies (or binders in respect thereof).
(e) Intellectual Property. Within the applicable time periods set forth in Schedule 8.20 (or such longer period of time as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), the Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to enter into and record, or cause its Subsidiaries to enter to into and record, invention assignments for certain Patents as described in Schedule 8.20.
SECTION 9.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Each Obligor covenants and agrees with the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that, until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made), have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash:
9.01 Indebtedness. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, whether directly or indirectly, or enter into any agreement or otherwise agree to create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a) the Obligations;
(b) Indebtedness incurred (i) pursuant to the Company Debt Agreements; provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness at any time outstanding shall not exceed the amount of commitments under the Company Debt Agreements as in effect as of the Closing Date (the Company Debt Agreement Cap), and (ii) in connection with a refinancing of any Indebtedness under the Company Debt Agreements; provided that (A) the aggregate principal amount of commitments incurred in respect of such refinancing Indebtedness, together with any Indebtedness under the
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Company Debt Agreements that remains outstanding, shall not exceed the Company Debt Agreement Cap together with the reasonable and customary costs, fees, expenses, premium (if any) and any accrued and unpaid interest payable in connection with such refinancing, (B) such refinancing Indebtedness does not have a maturity prior to the stated maturity under the applicable Company Debt Agreement as in effect as of the Closing Date, (C) with respect to any term loan Indebtedness, the weighted average life of such refinancing Indebtedness is no earlier than the remaining weighted average life of such Indebtedness being refinanced, (D) no such refinancing Indebtedness shall have obligors or contingent obligors that were not obligors or contingent obligors in respect of the Indebtedness that is being refinanced, and (E) such refinancing Indebtedness may only be secured by a Lien on property that is subject to such a Lien in respect of the Company Debt Agreement being refinanced as in effect as of the date of this Agreement (other than improvements and accessions to such property or asset) (or, if the relevant Company Debt Agreement is unsecured, such refinancing Indebtedness must be unsecured) and (F) such refinancing Indebtedness is otherwise on similar or more favorable terms to the Borrower as the applicable Company Debt Agreement, taken as a whole, in all material respects, as determined by the Borrower in good faith;
(c) the 5.25% Convertible Senior Notes outstanding on the Closing Date; provided that the total amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (c) shall not exceed $132,500,000.
(d) accounts payable to trade creditors for goods and services (not the result of the borrowing of money) in the Ordinary Course of such Obligors or such Subsidiarys business and not overdue by more than one hundred twenty (120) days, unless contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserved for in accordance with GAAP;
(e) Indebtedness consisting of guarantees resulting from the endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the Ordinary Course;
(f) Indebtedness (i) of an Obligor owing to any other Obligor, in each case, subject to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, (ii) of any non-Obligor owing to any other non-Obligor, (iii) of a non-Obligor owing to any Obligor; provided such Indebtedness must be permitted by Section 9.05(d) (including with respect to the dollar cap thereunder) and (iv) of an Obligor to a non-Obligor, in each case, subject to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;
(g) Guarantees by any Obligor or any Subsidiary of Permitted Indebtedness of any Obligor;
(h) Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers acceptances or similar instruments issued, created or incurred in the Ordinary Course, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, leases (including leases of real property), commercial contracts, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims;
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(i) Indebtedness arising in connection with the financing of insurance premiums in the Ordinary Course;
(j) Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections, business credit cards, purchasing cards, payment processing, automatic clearinghouse arrangements, arrangements in respect of pooled deposit or sweep accounts, check endorsement guarantees, and otherwise in connection with deposit accounts or cash management services in each case in the Ordinary Course;
(k) obligations under Hedging Agreements incurred in the Ordinary Course for the purpose of hedging the interest rate exposure or foreign exchange exposure associated with Borrowers and its Subsidiaries operations, and not for speculative purposes;
(l) Capital Leases and purchase money Indebtedness in the Ordinary Course; provided that, (i) if secured, the collateral therefor consists solely of the assets being financed, constructed, repaired or improved, the products and proceeds thereof and the books and records related thereto, and (ii) the total aggregate outstanding amount of such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (l) does not exceed $20,000,000;
(m) Indebtedness in respect of (i) performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, customs bonds, government bonds, performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations arising in the Ordinary Course and (ii) customary indemnification obligations to purchasers in connection with Asset Sales permitted by Section 9.09, provided that such Indebtedness may not be seller notes or other Indebtedness for borrowed money;
(n) purchase price adjustments, indemnity payments and other deferred acquisition consideration in connection with any Acquisition permitted under Section 9.05, provided that such Indebtedness may not be seller notes or other Indebtedness for borrowed money;
(o) additional Indebtedness not otherwise permitted hereunder in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding, provided that such additional Indebtedness is not secured by any Liens; and
(p) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, obligations with respect to cost-plus and transfer pricing among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course.
9.02 Liens. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property now owned by it or such Subsidiary (whether to secure Indebtedness or otherwise), or enter into any agreement or otherwise agree to create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien, except:
(a) Liens securing the Obligations;
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(b) Liens imposed by any Law arising in the Ordinary Course, including (but not limited to) carriers, warehousemens, suppliers, landlords, and mechanics liens, liens relating to leasehold improvements and other similar Liens arising in the Ordinary Course which (x) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially impair the use thereof in the operations of the business of such Person and would not otherwise constitute an Event of Default or (y) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property subject to such Liens and for which adequate reserves are being maintained if required in accordance with GAAP;
(c) pledges or deposits made in the Ordinary Course in connection with bids, contract leases, appeal bonds, workers compensation, unemployment insurance or other similar social security legislation;
(d) Liens securing Taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, the payment of which is either (i) not yet due and payable or (ii) is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly initiated and diligently conducted and for which such reserve or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP are being maintained;
(e) servitudes, easements, rights of way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances on real property imposed by any Law and Liens consisting of zoning or building restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions on the use of real property or minor imperfections in title thereto which, in the aggregate, are not material, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of any of the Obligors or any of their Subsidiaries and any property specific exceptions to title as set forth in any applicable lenders title insurance policy described in Section 8.12(b)(iv)(B);
(f) with respect to any real property, such defects, encroachments or rights of access or use as might be revealed by an up-to-date survey of such real property that are not material and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of any of the Obligors or its Subsidiaries;
(g) bankers liens, rights of setoff and similar Liens incurred on deposits or other assets credited to any deposit or securities account made in the Ordinary Course and;
(h) any judgment lien or lien arising from decrees or attachments not constituting an Event of Default;
(i) Liens arising from precautionary UCC financing statement filings regarding operating leases of personal property and consignment arrangements entered into in the Ordinary Course;
(j) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods and incurred in the Ordinary Course;
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(k) Permitted Licenses;
(l) (i) Liens to secure payment of workers compensation, employment insurance, old age pensions, social security and other like obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course (other than Liens imposed by ERISA) and (ii) deposits in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of any Obligor or any Subsidiary in the Ordinary Course supporting obligations of the type set forth in Section 9.01(h);
(m) the interests of sub-lessees under subleases of real property and statutory or common law Liens of landlords;
(n) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Company Debt Agreements to the extent (i) such Liens are required by the Company Debt Agreements as in effect on the Closing Date or any refinancing of such Indebtedness permitted by Section 9.01(b) and (ii) such Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to Section 9.01(b);
(o) any Lien on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 7.13(b) and renewals and extensions thereof in connection with a permitted refinancing of the Indebtedness being secured by such Lien; provided that, (i) no such Lien (including any renewal or extension thereof) shall extend to any other property or asset of the Borrower or such Subsidiary (other than improvements and accessions to such property or asset) and (ii) any such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date hereof and renewals, extensions and replacements thereof in connection with a permitted financing of the Indebtedness being secured by such Lien that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof (other than by an amount equal to the reasonable costs, fees, expenses, premiums (if any) and any accrued and unpaid interest payable in connection with such refinancing);
(p) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 9.01(l); provided that such Liens are restricted solely to the collateral described in Section 9.01(l);
(q) Liens incurred securing Indebtedness permitted under Sections 9.01(h), 9.01(i), (j) and (k);
(r) to the extent constituting a Lien, customary cash escrow arrangements securing indemnification obligations associated with any Investment permitted under Section 9.05 not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate;
(s) Liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in the course of collection;
(t) Liens of sellers of goods to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries arising under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code or similar provisions of applicable Law in the Ordinary Course, covering only the goods sold and securing only the unpaid purchase price for such goods and related expenses;
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(u) any Lien arising under condition sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods in the Ordinary Course; provided that such Lien attaches only to the goods subject to such sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangement; and
(v) other Liens which secure obligations (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money) in an aggregate amount outstanding not to exceed $7,500,000,
provided that no Lien otherwise permitted under this Section 9.02 shall apply to any Material Intellectual Property, other than Liens permitted pursuant to the foregoing clauses (a), (d), (h), (k) and (o) (if any).
9.03 Fundamental Changes and Acquisitions. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) enter into any transaction of merger, amalgamation or consolidation (or otherwise merge, amalgamate or consolidate), (ii) liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution) or otherwise enter initiate an Insolvency Event, (iii) sell or issue any of its Disqualified Equity Interests, or (iv) except as permitted by Section 9.05, make any Acquisition or otherwise acquire any business or substantially all the property from, or Equity Interests of, or be a party to any Acquisition of, any Person, except:
(a) the merger, amalgamation or consolidation or liquidation of any (i) Subsidiary with or into any Obligor; provided that with respect to any such transaction involving (x) the Borrower, the Borrower must be the surviving or successor entity of such transaction or (y) any other Obligor, an Obligor must be the surviving or successor entity of such transaction or the surviving Person shall concurrently therewith become an Obligor or (ii) any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor with or into any other Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor;
(b) the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition by (i) any Subsidiary of any or all of its property (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to any Obligor or to any entity that concurrently therewith shall become an Obligor or (ii) any Subsidiary that is not an Obligor of any or all of its property (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to any other Subsidiary that is not an Obligor;
(c) the sale, transfer or other disposition of the Equity Interests of (i) any Subsidiary to any Obligor or, (ii) any Subsidiary that is not an Obligor to any other Subsidiary that is not an Obligor;
(d) mergers, amalgamations or consolidations of any Subsidiary to effectuate any Asset Sales permitted under Section 9.09; provided that such merger, amalgamation or consolidation does not include the Borrower;
(e) in connection with any Investment permitted under Section 9.05, any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries may merge into or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, so long as (i) the Person surviving such merger with any Subsidiary shall be a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, (ii) in the case of any such merger to which the Borrower is a party, the Borrower is the surviving Person, and (iii) in the case of any such merger to which a Subsidiary Guarantor is a party, the surviving Person is such Subsidiary Guarantor or concurrently therewith becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor; and
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(f) any Subsidiary may dissolve, liquidate or wind up its affairs at any time, provided, that, such dissolution, liquidation or winding up could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and all of such Subsidiarys assets and business are transferred to an Obligor or solely in the case of a Subsidiary that is not an Obligor, another Subsidiary that is not an Obligor prior to or concurrently with such dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of the Loan Documents, (i) except as otherwise permitted by Section 9.09(i), no transaction shall be permitted pursuant to this Section 9.03 that would result in (A) a direct wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower becoming an indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or a less than wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or (B) a change in jurisdiction of any Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower or (ii) except in connection with an Asset Sale permitted by Section 9.09, a release of any Lien over the assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary under the Security Documents.
9.04 Lines of Business. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any business other than the business engaged in on the date hereof by such Persons or a business reasonably related, incidental or complementary thereto or reasonable expansions or extensions thereof.
9.05 Investments. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make, directly or indirectly, or permit to remain outstanding any Investments, except:
(a) operating deposit accounts with banks (or similar deposit-taking institutions) and securities accounts that shall, after the Account Control Agreement Completion Date, be, Controlled Accounts (unless such accounts constitute Excluded Accounts);
(b) extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the sales of goods or services in the Ordinary Course;
(c) Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments;
(d) Investments by an Obligor in (i) another Obligor or (ii) a non-Obligor; provided that the aggregate amount of Investments permitted under this clause (ii) shall not exceed $45,000,000 at any time;
(e) Investments by a non-Obligor in (i) any Obligor (so long as such Investment does not involve the acquisition of Equity Interests of such Obligor and, to the extent such Investment constitutes Indebtedness, such Indebtedness is permitted subject to Section 9.01(f)(iv), or (ii) any other Subsidiary that is not an Obligor;
(f) Investments consisting of prepaid expenses, deposits under commercial contracts for the purchase of assets permitted under this Agreement, negotiable instruments held for collection or deposit, security deposits with utilities, landlords and other like Persons and deposits in connection with workers compensation and similar deposits, in each case, made in the Ordinary Course, and other deposits and cash collateral constituting Permitted Liens;
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(g) Investments received in connection with any Insolvency Proceedings in respect of any customers, suppliers or clients and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers, suppliers or clients;
(h) Investments consisting of the non-cash portion of the sales consideration received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any Asset Sale permitted under Section 9.09;
(i) Investments consisting of the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the Ordinary Course;
(j) Investments (but without giving effect to the cash return provision contained in the definition thereof) outstanding on the date hereof and identified in Schedule 9.05 and any renewals, amendments and replacements thereof that do not increase the amount thereof of any such Investment, net of cash returns thereon (not to extend beyond initial Investments), or require that any additional Investment be made unless otherwise permitted hereunder;
(k) to the extent constituting Investments, obligations under Hedging Agreements permitted by Section 9.01(k);
(l) Investments constituting Acquisitions (including Intellectual Property); provided that the total aggregate consideration paid by the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries in connection with any individual transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to this clause (l) shall not exceed $37,500,000;
(m) employee, officer and director loans, travel advances and guarantees in accordance with the Borrowers usual and customary practices with respect thereto (if permitted by applicable Laws) and non-cash loans to employees, officers, or directors relating to the purchase of Equity Interests of the Borrower pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements, which in the aggregate shall not exceed $2,500,000 outstanding;
(n) other Investments in an aggregate outstanding amount not to exceed $25,000,000;
(o) Investments of any Person in existence at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided such Investment was not made in connection with or anticipation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof;
(p) earnest money deposits in connection with Acquisitions otherwise permitted hereunder;
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(q) to the extent constituting Investments, Guarantees of Indebtedness, which Guarantees are permitted under Section 9.01;
(r) Investments consisting of Permitted Liens;
(s) to the extent constituting Investments, obligations with respect to cost-plus and transfer pricing among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course;
(t) Investments to the extent that payment for such Investment is made solely with Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower, not to exceed a fair market value of $25,000,000 during the term of this Agreement; and
(u) to the extent constituting Investments, transactions permitted pursuant to Section 9.09(i).
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to (x) directly or indirectly transfer, contribute, sell, assign, lease or sublease, license or sublicense, or otherwise dispose of, including as an Investment, Restricted Payment or Asset Sale, any Material Intellectual Property to any Person other than the Borrower or another Obligor, other than pursuant to Permitted Licenses (subject to Section 9.09(f)) or a transaction permitted by Section 9.09(i), (y) permit any Person other than the Borrower or another Obligor to hold any interest in any Material Intellectual Property (other than as permitted by Section 9.09(f) or (i)), or (z) enter into any joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement involving the sharing of profits or revenue or directly or indirectly transfer, contribute, sell, assign, lease or sublease, license or sublicense, or otherwise dispose of any assets (including Material Intellectual Property) to a joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement (other than as permitted by Section 9.09(f) or (i)), and (ii) no Material Intellectual Property shall be contributed as an Investment or distributed as a Restricted Payment to any Subsidiary other than a Subsidiary Guarantor (other than pursuant to a Permitted License).
9.06 Restricted Payments. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment; provided that the following Restricted Payments shall be permitted so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or could reasonably be expected to occur or result from such Restricted Payment:
(a) dividends with respect to the Borrowers Equity Interests payable solely in shares of its Qualified Equity Interests;
(b) the Borrowers purchase, redemption, retirement, or other acquisition of shares of its Equity Interests with the proceeds received from a substantially concurrent issue of new shares of its Qualified Equity Interests;
(c) (i) each Subsidiary that is an Obligor may make Restricted Payments to any other Obligor, (ii) each Subsidiary that is not an Obligor may make Restricted Payments to an Obligor and to another Subsidiary that is not an Obligor and (iii) pro rata Restricted Payments to minority stockholders of any such Subsidiary;
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(d) any purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of Equity Interests of the Borrower held by consultants, officers, directors and employees or former consultants, officers, directors or employees (or their transferees, estates, or beneficiaries under their estates) of Borrower and its Subsidiaries not to exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year (it being agreed that, to the extent constituting an Investment permitted by Section 9.05(m), the amount of any Indebtedness of such Persons owing to the Borrower or any Subsidiary forgiven in connection with such Restricted Payment shall be excluded from any determination pursuant to this clause (d)); provided that the portion of such basket that is not used by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in any fiscal year shall be carried-forward and shall increase such basket for the next two succeeding fiscal years;
(e) cashless repurchases of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon exercises of options and warrants or the settlement or vesting of other equity awards if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, or similar equity incentive awards;
(f) cash payments made by the Borrower to redeem, purchase, repurchase or retire its obligations under options, warrants and other convertible securities issued by it in the nature of customary cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in accordance with the terms thereof;
(g) the Borrower may acquire (or withhold) its Equity Interests pursuant to any employee stock option or similar plan to pay withholding or similar taxes for which the Borrower is liable in respect of a current or former officer, director, employee, member of management or consultant upon such grant or award (or upon vesting or exercise thereof) and the Borrower may make deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options;
(h) any payment of interest, principal or fees in respect of any Indebtedness owed by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries to any holder of any Equity Interests of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case to the extent permitted under Section 9.07; and
(i) other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year.
9.07 Payments of Indebtedness. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any payments in respect of any Indebtedness for borrowed money, other than (a) payments of the Obligations, (b) payments of Indebtedness incurred under the Company Debt Agreements as in effect on the Closing Date or refinanced to the extent permitted by Section 9.01(b), (c) payments in respect of the 5.25% Convertible Senior Notes in accordance with the terms of the 5.25% Convertible Senior Notes Indenture as in effect on the Closing Date, (d) Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 9.01(h), (j), (l) and (o), and (e) intercompany Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01(f), subject to the terms of the Intercompany Subordination Agreement.
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9.08 Changes in Fiscal Year. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, change the last day of its fiscal year from that in effect on the date hereof, except to change the fiscal year of a Subsidiary acquired in connection with an Acquisition to conform its fiscal year to that of the Borrower without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent.
9.09 Sales of Assets, Etc. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease or sublease (as lessor or sub-lessor), sale and leaseback, assign, convey, exclusively license (in terms of geography or field of use), transfer, or otherwise dispose of any of its businesses, assets or property of any kind, whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including accounts receivable and Equity Interests of Subsidiaries), or forgive, release or compromise any amount owed to such Obligor or Subsidiary, in each case, in one transaction or series of transactions (any thereof, an Asset Sale), except:
(a) sales of inventory in the Ordinary Course in an Arms-Length Transaction;
(b) transfers of assets, rights or property (i) by any Obligor to (x) any other Obligor or (y) to any Subsidiary that is not an Obligor to the extent constituting an Investment permitted by Section 9.05 and (ii) by a non-Obligor to (x) any Obligor in a transaction on an Arms Length basis or (y) any other Subsidiary;
(c) Asset Sales resulting from Casualty Events;
(d) dispositions (including by way of abandonment or cancellation) of any equipment and other tangible property that is obsolete or worn out or no longer used or useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, disposed of in the Ordinary Course in an Arms Length Transaction; provided that the total aggregate consideration for all transactions made pursuant to this clause (d) shall not exceed $10,000,000;
(e) dispositions in the Ordinary Course consisting of the abandonment, cancellation, lapse or expiration of Intellectual Property (other than Material Intellectual Property) which, in the reasonable good faith determination of Borrower, are not material to the conduct of the business of the Obligors and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(f) the sale, license, lease or other disposition (including Permitted Licenses) of assets by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries; provided that the total aggregate consideration for any individual transaction or series of related transactions made pursuant to this clause (f) shall not exceed $37,500,000;
(g) the sale, transfer, issuance or other disposition of a de minimis number of shares of the Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary in order to qualify members of the governing body of such Foreign Subsidiary if required by applicable Law;
(h) [reserved];
(i) the Asset Sales described in Schedule 9.09;
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(j) sales, transfers and other dispositions of receivables (and not Intellectual Property or other assets) in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the Ordinary Course consistent with past practice for fair market value and cash, and non-recourse factoring arrangements in the Ordinary Course consistent with past practice for fair market value and cash;
(k) the forgiveness, release or compromise of any amount owed to an Obligor or Subsidiary in the Ordinary Course;
(l) the unwinding of any Hedging Agreement permitted by Section 9.05 pursuant to its terms;
(m) to the extent constituting an Asset Sale, obligations with respect to cost-plus and transfer pricing among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course; and
(n) other Asset Sales not otherwise permitted by this Section 9.09 with aggregate fair market value not to exceed $1,000,000,
provided that no Asset Sale shall be permitted to be made pursuant to clause (f) unless such Asset Sale shall be made for fair market value and the relevant Obligor or its Subsidiary shall receive cash proceeds in an amount equal to no less than ninety percent (90%) of the total consideration (fixed or contingent) paid or payable to such Obligor or Subsidiary in connection with such transaction, and such proceeds shall be applied in accordance with Section 3.03(b)(i); provided, further, that none of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall directly or indirectly sell, transfer, issue or otherwise dispose of Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower unless such sale, transfer, issuance or other disposition is made to the Borrower or another Obligor.
9.10 Transactions with Affiliates. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction with any (x) Affiliate, officer or director of the Borrower or (y) controlled Affiliate or immediate family member (including spouse, children, parents, siblings, siblings spouses and siblings children) of the any entity or Person referred to in clause (x), involving aggregate consideration exceeding $5,000,000, unless such arrangement or transaction (i) is an Arms Length Transaction, (ii) is between or among (x) one or more Obligors, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, one or more Obligors, (y) one or more Subsidiaries of the Obligors that are not Obligors, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, one or more Subsidiaries of the Obligors that are not Obligors and (z) one or more Obligors or their Subsidiaries that are not Obligors, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, one or more Obligors or their Subsidiaries that are Obligors (provided that, with respect to clauses (y) and (z) only, such transaction is either (A) an Arms Length Transaction or (B) is permitted under Sections 9.01, 9.03, 9.06, 9.07 or 9.09, (iii) constitutes customary compensation and indemnification of, and other employment arrangements with, directors, officers, and employees of any Obligor or its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course, or (iv) constitutes payment of customary fees, reimbursement of expenses, and payment of indemnification to officers and directors and customary payment of insurance premiums on behalf of officers and directors by the Obligors or their Subsidiaries, in each case, in the Ordinary Course; provided that in connection with any such transaction involving aggregate consideration or payments of at least $10,000,000, such transaction shall have been approved by a majority of the directors serving on the Borrowers Board that do not have any material direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such transaction.
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9.11 Restrictive Agreements. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any Restrictive Agreement other than (i) restrictions and conditions imposed by applicable Laws or by the Loan Documents, (ii) limitations associated with Permitted Liens or any document or instrument governing any Permitted Lien, (iii) customary provisions in leases, Permitted Licenses and other Contracts restricting the assignment thereof or restricting the assignment or sublease or sublicense of the property leased, licensed or otherwise the subject thereof; (iv) any restrictions or conditions set forth in any agreement in effect at any time any Person becomes a Subsidiary (but not any modification or amendment expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition); provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary; (v) restrictions or conditions in any Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 9.01 that is incurred or assumed by Subsidiaries that are not Obligors to the extent such restrictions or conditions are no more restrictive in any material respect than the restrictions and conditions in the Loan Documents; (vi) restrictions or conditions in any Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 9.01 that is secured by a Permitted Lien if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness; (vii) restrictions or conditions with respect to the 5.25% Convertible Senior Notes; (viii) customary provisions in contracts for the disposition of any assets; provided that the restrictions in any such contract shall apply only to the assets or Subsidiary that is to be disposed of and such disposition is permitted hereunder; (ix) customary provisions regarding confidentiality or restricting assignment, pledges or transfer of any Permitted License or any other agreement entered into in the Ordinary Course; and (x) restrictions or encumbrances in any agreement in effect at the time any Person becomes a Subsidiary, so long as (x) such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary and (y) such restrictions or encumbrances do not extend beyond such Subsidiary or its assets.
9.12 Modifications and Terminations of Material Agreements and Organic Documents. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) waive, amend, terminate, replace or otherwise modify any term or provision of any Organic Document in any manner materially adverse to the rights and remedies or interests of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder;
(b) waive, amend, replace or otherwise modify any term or provision of any Permitted License in a manner materially adverse to the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder; or
(c) (x) take or omit to take any action that results in, as applicable, the termination, lapse, pre-term expiration or abandonment of, or permits any other Person to terminate or elect any alternative rights in lieu of termination under, any Material Agreement or (y) take any action that permits any Material Agreement to be terminated by any counterparty thereto prior to its stated date of expiration, in each such case if such action or omission could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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9.13 Outbound Licenses. No Obligor will, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into or become or remain bound by any outbound license, covenant not to sue or other grant of rights or immunities under Material Intellectual Property, except for Permitted Licenses.
9.14 Sales and Leasebacks. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, become liable, directly or indirectly, with respect to any lease, whether an operating lease or a Capital Lease Obligation, of any property (whether real, personal, or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, (i) which such Person has sold or transferred or is to sell or transfer to any other Person and (ii) which such Obligor or Subsidiary intends to use for substantially the same purposes as property which has been or is to be sold or transferred.
9.15 Hazardous Materials. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, use, generate, manufacture, install, treat, release, store or dispose of any Hazardous Material, except in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws and as would not result in Environmental Liability, except as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. If the Administrative Agent at any time has a reasonable basis to believe that there is any material violation by an Obligor of any Environmental Law or potential Environmental Liability that could be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, Obligor shall cause an environmental assessment of such condition to be prepared in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent at the Borrowers sole cost and expense, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
9.16 Accounting Changes. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) make any significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required or permitted by GAAP, or (b) make or change any material tax elections without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent.
9.17 Compliance with ERISA. No ERISA Affiliate shall cause or suffer to exist (i) any event that could result in the imposition of a Lien with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (ii) any other ERISA Event that could, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries shall cause or suffer to exist any event that could result in the imposition of a Lien with respect to any Benefit Plan.
9.18 Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Use of Proceeds.
(a) Neither the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, their respective agents (in their capacity as such) shall (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Sanctioned Person, including the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Sanctioned Person, in violation of Sanctions; (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to any Sanctions in violation of Sanctions; or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any applicable Sanctions, the Patriot Act or any other Anti-Terrorism Law.
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(b) The Borrower will not, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, use the proceeds of the Loans, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person, (i) 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 applicable anti-corruption Law, or (ii) (A) for the purpose of funding any activities or business of or with any other Person, or in any Designated Jurisdiction, in violation of Sanctions or (B) in any manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any party to this Agreement.
9.19 Capital Expenditures. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make, directly or indirectly, or commit to or enter into any agreements to make, (a) any capital expenditures with respect to the construction or acquisition of any new manufacturing plants or (b) other individual capital expenditure project in excess of $10,000,000 on an individual basis; provided that total capital expenditures made pursuant to this clause (b) shall not exceed $30,000,000 in the aggregate during any twelve (12) month period (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with any acquisition transaction).
9.20 Settlements. Such Obligor will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, initiate or settle any dispute, litigation, arbitration or administrative proceeding involving (i) an amount in dispute or allegation of damages in excess of $20,000,000 (exclusive of amounts that are covered by applicable insurance policies), (ii) an admission of criminal wrongdoing by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (iii) non-monetary relief that would reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, without the written consent of the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 10.
FINANCIAL MAINTENANCE COVENANT
10.01 Minimum Liquidity. The Borrower shall, at all times, maintain the Minimum Liquidity Amount in cash or Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments in, at all times after the Account Control Agreement Completion Date, one or more Controlled Accounts located in the United States that is free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens granted hereunder in favor of the Administrative Agent; provided that such Minimum Liquidity Amount shall only be tested as of the last Business Day of each calendar month pursuant to Section 8.01(j).
SECTION 11.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
11.01 Events of Default. Each of the following events shall constitute an Event of Default:
(a) Principal Payment Default. The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of the Loan, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof, at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise.
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(b) Other Payment Defaults. Any Obligor shall fail to pay interest or any other Obligation when and as the same shall become due and payable and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of three (3) Business Days.
(c) Representations and Warranties. Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof, shall: (i) prove to have been incorrect in any respect when made or deemed made to the extent that such representation or warranty contains any materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifier; or (ii) prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made to the extent that such representation or warranty does not otherwise contain any materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifier.
(d) Covenants. Any Obligor shall fail to observe or perform (i) any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 8.01(d) and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days, (ii) Section 8.01(a), (b) or (c), Section 8.02, Section 8.03 (solely as to the Borrower), Section 8.11, Section 8.18, Section 8.20, Section 9 or Section 10 or (iii) any other provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document and in the case of any failure referred to in this clause (iii) that is capable of cure, such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier of the date on which (x) a Responsible Officer of any Obligor becomes aware of such failure or (y) written notice thereof shall have been given to any Obligor by the Administrative Agent or the Majority Lenders.
(e) Payment Default on Other Indebtedness. Any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure period as originally provided by the terms of such Material Indebtedness.
(f) Other Defaults on Other Indebtedness. (i) Any material breach of, or event of default or similar event under, any Contract governing any Material Indebtedness shall occur and the effect of such breach or event of default or similar event is to (x) cause such Material Indebtedness to become due prior to its scheduled maturity or (y) enable or permit (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of such Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or prior to the final date of its original term; provided that this Section 11.01(f) shall not apply to (1) secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Material Indebtedness, (2) any conversion of any convertible Indebtedness or satisfaction of any condition giving rise to or permitting a conversion of any convertible Indebtedness; provided that the Borrower has the right to settle any such Indebtedness into Equity Interests of the Borrower (and nominal cash payments in respect of fractional shares and cash payments in respect of accrued and unpaid interest) in accordance with the terms or conditions thereof and (3) with respect to any Material Indebtedness consisting of Hedging Agreements, termination events or equivalent events pursuant to the terms of such Hedging Agreements and not as a result of any default (or similar event) thereunder by any Obligor or any Subsidiary.
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(g) Insolvency, Bankruptcy, Etc.
(i) Any Obligor or any of its Significant Subsidiaries becomes insolvent, or generally does not or becomes unable to pay its debts or meet its liabilities as the same become due, or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, or declares any general moratorium on its indebtedness, or proposes a compromise or arrangement or deed of company arrangement between it and any class of its creditors.
(ii) Any Obligor or any of its Significant Subsidiaries commits an act of bankruptcy or makes an assignment of its property for the general benefit of its creditors or makes a proposal (or files a notice of its intention to do so).
(iii) Any Obligor or any of its Significant Subsidiaries institutes any proceeding seeking to adjudicate it an insolvent, or seeking liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, compromise, arrangement, adjustment, protection, moratorium, relief, stay of proceedings of creditors generally (or any class of creditors), or composition of it or its debts or any other relief, under any Law, whether U.S. or non-U.S., now or hereafter in effect relating to bankruptcy, winding-up, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, plans of arrangement or relief or protection of debtors or at common law or in equity, or files an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding.
(iv) Any Obligor or any of its Significant Subsidiaries applies for the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, interim receiver, receiver/manager, sequestrator, conservator, custodian, administrator, trustee, liquidator, voluntary administrator, receiver and manager or other similar official for it or any substantial part of its property.
(v) Any Obligor or any of its Significant Subsidiaries takes any action, corporate or otherwise, to approve, effect, consent to or authorize any of the actions described in this Section 11.01(g), or otherwise acts in furtherance thereof or fails to act in a timely and appropriate manner in defense thereof.
(vi) Any petition is filed, application made or other proceeding instituted against or in respect of any Obligor or any of its Significant Subsidiaries:
(A) seeking to adjudicate it as insolvent;
(B) seeking a receiving order against it;
(C) seeking liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, compromise, arrangement, adjustment, protection, moratorium, relief, stay of proceedings of creditors generally (or any class of creditors), deed of company arrangement or composition of it or its debts or any other relief under any Law, whether U.S. or non-U.S., now or hereafter in effect relating to bankruptcy, winding-up, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, plans of arrangement or relief or protection of debtors or at common law or in equity; or
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(D) seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, interim receiver, receiver/manager, sequestrator, conservator, custodian, administrator, trustee, liquidator, voluntary administrator, receiver and manager or other similar official for it or any substantial part of its property, and such petition, application or proceeding continues undismissed, or unstayed and in effect, for a period of forty-five (45) days after the institution thereof; provided that if an order, decree or judgment is granted or entered (whether or not entered or subject to appeal) against such Obligor or such Subsidiary thereunder in the interim, such grace period will cease to apply; provided, further, that if such Obligor or Significant Subsidiary files an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, such grace period will cease to apply.
(vii) Any other event occurs which, under the Laws of any applicable jurisdiction, has an effect equivalent to any of the events referred to in this Section 11.01(g),
any of the events referred to in clauses (i) through (vii), an Insolvency Event.
(h) Judgments. One or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $25,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies) (except to the extent fully covered (other than to the extent of customary deductibles) by insurance pursuant to which the insurer has not denied coverage) shall be rendered against any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of forty-five (45) calendar days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, bonded pending appeal, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of any Obligor to enforce any such judgment.
(i) ERISA. An ERISA Event shall have occurred that when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount in excess of $25,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies).
(j) Change of Control. A Change of Control shall have occurred.
(k) Impairment of Guarantees and Security, Etc. Subject in all respects to any applicable post-closing periods and certain other time periods and exceptions under the Loan Documents for any Obligor or Subsidiary to take perfection actions, if any of the following events occurs: (i) any Lien created by any of the Security Documents shall at any time (except as expressly permitted by the terms of any Loan Document) not constitute a valid and perfected Lien on the applicable Collateral in favor of the Secured
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Parties, free and clear of all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens) except due to the action or inaction of the Administrative Agent, (ii) except for expiration in accordance with its terms, any of the Security Documents or any Guarantee of any of the Obligations (including that contained in Section 13) shall for whatever reason cease to be in full force and effect, or (iii) any Obligor shall, directly or indirectly, contest in any manner such effectiveness, validity, binding nature or enforceability of any such Lien or any Loan Document, including any Guarantee.
11.02 Remedies.
(a) Defaults Other Than Bankruptcy Defaults. Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, then, and in every such event (other than an Event of Default described in Section 11.01(g)), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, by notice to the Borrower, declare 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, shall become due and payable immediately (in the case of the Loans, at the Prepayment Price therefor), without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Obligor.
(b) Bankruptcy Defaults. In case of an Event of Default described in Section 11.01(g), the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other Obligations, shall automatically become due and payable immediately (in the case of the Loans, at the Prepayment Price therefor), without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Obligor.
11.03 Additional Remedies. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, if any Obligor shall be in default under a Material Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to cause the default or defaults under such Material Agreement to be remedied (including by paying any unpaid amount thereunder) and otherwise exercise any and all rights of such Obligor, as the case may be, thereunder, as may be necessary to prevent or cure any default. Without limiting the foregoing, upon any such default, each Obligor shall promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Administrative Agent such instruments as may reasonably be required of such Obligor to permit the Administrative Agent to cure any default under the applicable Material Agreement or permit the Administrative Agent to take such other action required to enable the Administrative Agent to cure or remedy the matter in default and preserve the interests of the Administrative Agent. Any amounts paid by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 11.03 shall be payable in accordance with Section 14.03(a), shall accrue interest at the same rate as the Loans hereunder if not paid when due, and shall constitute Obligations.
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SECTION 12.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
12.01 Appointment and Duties. Subject in all cases to clause (c) below:
(a) Appointment of the Administrative Agent. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC (together with any successor Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12.09) as the Administrative Agent hereunder and authorizes the Administrative Agent to (i) execute and deliver the Loan Documents and accept delivery thereof on its behalf from any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) take such action on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies and perform the duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent under such Loan Documents and (iii) exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Except as expressly set forth herein, the provisions of this Section 12 are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and no Obligor or any Affiliate thereof shall have rights as a third-party beneficiary of any such provisions.
(b) Duties as Collateral and Disbursing Agent. Without limiting the generality of Section 12.01(a), the Administrative Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority (to the exclusion of the Lenders), and is hereby authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for the Lenders with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection with the Loan Documents (including in any proceeding described in Section 11.01(g) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding), and each Person making any payment in connection with any Loan Document to any Secured Party is hereby authorized to make such payment to the Administrative Agent, (ii) file and prove claims and file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Secured Parties with respect to any Obligation in any proceeding described in Section 11.01(g) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to vote, consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Secured Party), (iii) act as collateral agent for each Secured Party for purposes of acquiring, holding, enforcing and perfecting all Liens created by the Loan Documents and all other purposes stated therein, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (v) take such other action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the perfection and priority of the Liens created or purported to be created by the Loan Documents, (vi) except as may be otherwise specified in any Loan Document, exercise all remedies given to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral, whether under the Loan Documents, applicable Laws or otherwise and (vii) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Loan Documents on behalf of any Lender that has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver; provided that the Administrative Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Lender to act as collateral sub-agent for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for purposes of the perfection of all Liens with respect to the Collateral, including any deposit account maintained by a Obligor with, and cash and cash equivalents held by, such Lender, and may further authorize and direct the Lenders to take further actions as collateral sub-agents for purposes of enforcing such Liens or otherwise to transfer the Collateral subject thereto to the Administrative Agent, and each Lender hereby agrees to take such further actions to the extent, and only to the extent, so authorized and directed.
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(c) Limited Duties. The Lenders and the Obligors hereby each acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent (i) has undertaken its role hereunder purely as an accommodation to the parties hereto and the Transactions, (ii) is receiving no compensation for undertaking such role and (iii) subject only to the notice provisions set forth in Section 12.09, may resign from such role at any time for any reason or no reason whatsoever. Without limiting the foregoing, the parties hereto further acknowledge and agree that under the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent (i) is acting solely on behalf of the Lenders (except to the limited extent provided in Section 12.11), with duties that are entirely administrative in nature, notwithstanding the use of the defined term the Administrative Agent, the terms agent, administrative agent and collateral agent and similar terms in any Loan Document to refer to the Administrative Agent, which terms are used for title purposes only, (ii) is not assuming any duty or obligation under any Loan Document other than as expressly set forth therein or any role as agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender or any other Secured Party and (iii) shall have no implied functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or other liabilities under any Loan Document (fiduciary or otherwise), in each case, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, and each Lender hereby waives and agrees not to assert any claim against the Administrative Agent based on the roles, duties and legal relationships expressly disclaimed in this clause (c). Without in any way limiting the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any Obligor or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
12.02 Binding Effect. Each Lender agrees that (i) any action taken by the Administrative Agent or the Majority Lenders (or, if expressly required hereby, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents, (ii) any action taken by the Administrative Agent in reliance upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) and (iii) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or the Majority Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Secured Parties.
12.03 Use of Discretion.
(a) No Action without Instructions. The Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take, or to omit to take, any action, including with respect to enforcement or collection, except (subject to clause (b) below) any action it is required to take or omit to take (i) under any Loan Document or (ii) pursuant to written instructions from the Majority Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders).
(b) Right Not to Follow Certain Instructions. Notwithstanding Section 12.03(a) or any other term or provision of this Section 12, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take, or to omit to take, any action (i) unless, upon demand, the Administrative Agent receives an indemnification satisfactory to it from the Lenders (or, to the extent applicable and acceptable to the Administrative Agent, any other Secured Party) against all liabilities that, by reason of such action or omission, may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or any Related Party thereof or (ii) that is, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, contrary to any Loan Document, Law or the best interests of the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates or Related Parties, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay in connection with any Insolvency Proceeding.
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12.04 Delegation of Rights and Duties. The Administrative Agent may, upon any term or condition it specifies, delegate or exercise any of its rights, powers and remedies under, and delegate or perform any of its duties or any other action with respect to, any Loan Document by or through any trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact and any other Person (including any Secured Party). The Administrative Agent and any such Person may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. Any such Person and its Related Parties shall benefit from this Section 12 to the extent provided by the Administrative Agent; provided, however, that the exculpatory provisions of this Section 12 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and of any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with their 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 non-appealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.
12.05 Reliance and Liability.
(a) the Administrative Agent may, without incurring any liability hereunder, (i) consult with any of its Related Parties and, whether or not selected by it, any other advisors, accountants and other experts (including advisors to, and accountants and experts engaged by, any Obligor) and (ii) rely and act upon any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including and electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution), telephone message or conversation or oral conversation, in each case believed by it to be genuine and transmitted, signed or otherwise authenticated by the appropriate parties. 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 written notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan.
(b) Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with any Loan Document, and each Lender and the Borrower hereby waive and shall not assert (and the Borrower shall cause each other Obligor to waive and agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action based thereon, except to the extent of liabilities resulting primarily from the fraudulent conduct or behavior of the Administrative Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Party (each as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment or order by a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the duties expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:
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(i) shall not be responsible or otherwise incur liability for any action or omission taken in reliance upon the instructions of, or with the consent of, the Majority Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Section 14.03) or for the actions or omissions of any of its Related Parties selected with reasonable care (other than employees, officers and directors of the Administrative Agent, when acting on behalf of the Administrative Agent);
(ii) shall not be responsible to any Secured Party for the (a) validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (b) due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document;
(iii) makes no warranty or representation, and shall not be responsible, to any Secured Party for, and shall not have any duty to ascertain or inquire into, any statement, document, information, certificate, report, representation or warranty made or furnished by or on behalf of any Related Party, in or in connection with any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein, whether or not transmitted by the Administrative Agent, including as to completeness, accuracy, scope or adequacy thereof, or for the scope, nature or results of any due diligence performed by the Administrative Agent in connection with the Loan Documents, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Section 6 of this Agreement or elsewhere herein (other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent);
(iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any provision of any Loan Document or whether any condition set forth in any Loan Document is satisfied or waived, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, as to the financial condition of any Obligor or as to the existence or continuation or possible occurrence or continuation of any Default or Event of Default and shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of such occurrence or continuation unless it has received a notice from the Borrower, any Lender describing such Default or Event of Default clearly labeled notice of default (in which case the Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice of such receipt to all Lenders); and
(v) shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Company Competitors or Disqualified Lenders (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (x) to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or prospective Lender is a Company Competitor or Disqualified Lender or (y) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of Loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to any Company Competitor or Disqualified Lender);
and, for each of the items set forth in clauses (i) through (v) above, each Lender and the Borrower hereby waives and agrees not to assert (and the Borrower shall cause each other Obligor to waive and agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action it might have against the Administrative Agent based thereon.
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12.06 Administrative Agent Individually. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may make loans and other extensions of credit to, acquire stock and stock equivalents of, accept deposits from, act as the financial advisor for or in any other advisory capacity for, or engage in any kind of business with, any Obligor or Affiliate thereof as though it were not acting as the Administrative Agent and may receive separate fees and other payments therefor. To the extent the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates makes any Loan or otherwise becomes a Lender hereunder, it shall have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and shall be subject to the same obligations and liabilities as any other Lender and the terms Lender, Majority Lender, and any similar terms shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in any Loan Document, include the Administrative Agent or such Affiliate, as the case may be, in its individual capacity as Lender or as one of the Majority Lenders, respectively.
12.07 Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their Related Parties or upon any document solely or in part because such document was transmitted by the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties, conducted its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and has made and continues to make its own credit decisions in connection with entering into, and taking or not taking any action under, any Loan Document or with respect to any transaction contemplated in any Loan Document, in each case based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate.
12.08 Expenses; Indemnities.
(a) Each Lender agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent and each of its Related Parties (to the extent not reimbursed by any Obligor) promptly upon demand for such Lenders Proportionate Share of any costs and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of financial, legal (including charges and disbursements of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction) and other advisors and Other Taxes paid in the name of, or on behalf of, any Obligor) that may be incurred by the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties in connection with the preparation, syndication, execution, delivery, administration, modification, consent, waiver or enforcement (whether through negotiations, through any work-out, bankruptcy, restructuring or other legal or other proceeding or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of its rights or responsibilities under, any Loan Document.
(b) Each Lender further agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) and any Related Parties of the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) (to the extent not paid by any Obligor), from and against such Lenders aggregate Proportionate Share of the liabilities (including taxes, interests and penalties imposed for not properly withholding or backup withholding on payments made to on or for the account of any Lender) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Parties of the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of any Loan Document or any other act, event or transaction related, contemplated in or attendant to any such document, or, in each case, any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Parties of the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) under
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or with respect to any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Parties of the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) to the extent such liability has resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or, as the case may be, such Related Party of the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order.
12.09 Resignation of the Administrative Agent.
(a) At any time upon not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice, the Administrative Agent may resign as the the Administrative Agent hereunder, in whole or in part (in the sole and absolute discretion of the Administrative Agent). If the Administrative Agent delivers any such notice, the Majority Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor, which shall be (i) a Lender holding at least thirty percent (30%) of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans or any Affiliate thereof or (ii) any other financial institution consented to by the Borrower (provided that the consent of the Borrower shall not be required to the extent an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing). If a successor Administrative Agent has not been appointed on or before the effectiveness of the resignation of the resigning Administrative Agent (or such earlier date as shall be agreed by the Majority Lenders) (the Resignation Effective Date), then the resigning Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to), on behalf of the Lenders, appoint any Person reasonably chosen by it as the successor Administrative Agent, notwithstanding whether the Majority Lenders have appointed a successor or the Borrower has consented to such successor. Whether or not a successor has been appointed, such resignation shall become effective on the Resignation Effective Date.
(b) Effective from the Resignation Effective Date, (i) the resigning Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents to the extent set forth in the applicable resignation notice, (ii) the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent until a successor Administrative Agent shall have accepted a valid appointment hereunder, (iii) the resigning Administrative Agent and its Related Parties shall no longer have the benefit of any provision of any Loan Document other than with respect to (x) any actions taken or omitted to be taken while such resigning Administrative Agent was, or because the Administrative Agent had been, validly acting as the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents or (y) any continuing duties such resigning Administrative Agent will continue to perform, and (iv) subject to its rights under Section 12.04, the resigning Administrative Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor Administrative Agent its rights as the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents. Effective immediately upon its acceptance of a valid appointment as the Administrative Agent, a successor Administrative Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the resigning Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents.
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12.10 Release of Collateral or Guarantors. Each Lender hereby consents to the release and hereby directs the Administrative Agent to release, and the Administrative Agent hereby agrees, (or, in the case of Section 12.10(b), release or subordinate) the following:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower from its guaranty of any Obligation of any Obligor (i) if all of the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary owned by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries are disposed of in an Asset Sale permitted under the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a waiver or consent), to the extent that, after giving effect to such Asset Sale, such Subsidiary would not be required to guaranty any Obligations pursuant to Section 8.12(a) and (ii) upon (x) termination of the Commitments and (y) indefeasible payment and satisfaction in full of all Loans and all other Obligations that the Administrative Agent has been notified in writing are then due and payable (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made); and
(b) any Lien held by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties against (i) any Collateral that is disposed of by an Obligor in an Asset Sale permitted by the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a valid waiver or consent) and (ii) all of the Collateral and all Obligors, upon (x) termination of the Commitments and (y) payment and satisfaction in full of all Loans and all other Obligations that the Administrative Agent has been notified in writing are then due and payable (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made).
Each Lender hereby directs the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent hereby agrees, upon receipt of reasonable advance notice from the Borrower, to execute and deliver or file such documents and to perform other actions reasonably necessary to release the guarantees and Liens when and as directed in this Section 12.10 and deliver to the Borrower, at the expense of the Borrower, any portion of such Collateral so released pursuant to this Section 12.10 that is in possession of the Administrative Agent.
12.11 Additional Secured Parties. The benefit of the provisions of the Loan Documents directly relating to the Collateral or any Lien granted thereunder shall extend to and be available to any Secured Party that is not a Lender as long as, by accepting such benefits, such Secured Party agrees, as among the Administrative Agent and all other Secured Parties, that such Secured Party is bound by (and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, shall confirm such agreement in a writing in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent) this Section 12 and the decisions and actions of the Administrative Agent and the Majority Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders) to the same extent a Lender is bound; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) such Secured Party shall be bound by Section 12.08 only to the extent of liabilities, costs and expenses with respect to or otherwise relating to the Collateral held for the benefit of such Secured Party, in which case the obligations of such Secured Party thereunder shall not be limited by any concept of pro rata share or similar concept, (ii) each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be entitled to act at its sole discretion, without regard to the interest of such Secured Party, regardless of whether any Obligation to such Secured Party thereafter remains outstanding, is deprived of the benefit of the Collateral, becomes unsecured or is otherwise affected or put in jeopardy thereby, and without any duty or liability to such Secured Party or any such Obligation and (iii) such Secured Party shall not have any right to be notified of, consent to, direct, require or be heard with respect to, any action taken or omitted in respect of the Collateral or under any Loan Document.
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12.12 Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any Insolvency Proceeding or any other judicial proceeding relating to any Obligor, 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 or any other Obligor) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention or 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 14.03) 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;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Administrative Agent under Section 14.03.
12.13 Acknowledgements of Lenders.
(a) If the Administrative Agent notifies a Lender, or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender (any such Lender or other recipient, a Payment Recipient), that the Administrative Agent has determined in its sole discretion (whether or not after receipt of any notice under immediately succeeding clause (b)) that any funds received by such Payment Recipient from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates were erroneously transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Payment Recipient (whether or not known to such Lender or other Payment Recipient on its behalf) (any such funds, whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise, individually and collectively, an Erroneous Payment) and demands the return of such Erroneous Payment (or a portion thereof), such Erroneous Payment shall at all times remain the property of the Administrative Agent and shall be segregated by the Payment Recipient and held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, and such Lender
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shall (or, with respect to any Payment Recipient who received such funds on its behalf, shall cause such Payment Recipient to) promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made, in same day funds (in the currency so received), together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Payment Recipient to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in same day funds 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 from time to time in effect. A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Payment Recipient under this clause (a) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(b) Without limiting immediately preceding clause (a), each Lender, or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender, hereby further agrees that if it receives a payment, prepayment or repayment (whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise) from the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) (x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment, (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates), or (z) that such Lender or other such recipient otherwise becomes aware was transmitted, or received, in error or by mistake (in whole or in part) in each case: (i) (A) in the case of immediately preceding clauses (x) or (y), an error shall be presumed to have been made (absent written confirmation from the Administrative Agent to the contrary) or (B) an error has been made (in the case of immediately preceding clause (z)), in each case, with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment; and (ii) such Lender shall (and shall cause any other recipient that receives funds on its respective behalf to) promptly (and, in all events, within one Business Day of its knowledge of such error) notify the Administrative Agent of its receipt of such payment, prepayment or repayment, the details thereof (in reasonable detail) and that it is so notifying the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 12.13(b).
(c) Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by the Administrative Agent to such Lender from any source, against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under immediately preceding clause (a) or under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement.
(d) In the event that an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered by the Administrative Agent for any reason, after demand therefor by the Administrative Agent in accordance with immediately preceding clause (a), from any Lender that has received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) (and/or from any Payment Recipient who received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) on its respective behalf) (such unrecovered amount, an Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency), upon the Administrative Agents notice to such Lender at any time, (i) such Lender shall be deemed to have assigned its Loans (but not its Commitments) with
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respect to which such Erroneous Payment was made (the Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans) in an amount equal to the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency (or such lesser amount as the Administrative Agent may specify) (such assignment of the Loans (but not Commitments) of the Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans, the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment) at par plus any accrued and unpaid interest (with the assignment fee to be waived by the Administrative Agent in such instance), and is hereby (together with the Borrower) deemed to execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, and such Lender shall deliver any Notes evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, (ii) the Administrative Agent as the assignee Lender shall be deemed to acquire the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, (iii) upon such deemed acquisition, the Administrative Agent as the assignee Lender shall become a Lender, as applicable, hereunder with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment and the assigning Lender shall cease to be a Lender hereunder with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, its obligations under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement and its Commitments which shall survive as to such assigning Lender and (iv) the Administrative Agent may reflect in the Register its ownership interest in the Loans subject to the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment. The Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, sell any Loans acquired pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment and upon receipt of the proceeds of such sale, the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency owing by the applicable Lender shall be reduced by the net proceeds of the sale of such Loan (or portion thereof), and the Administrative Agent shall retain all other rights, remedies and claims against such Lender (and/or against any recipient that receives funds on its respective behalf). For the avoidance of doubt, no Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment will reduce the Commitments of any Lender and such Commitments shall remain available in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In addition, each party hereto agrees that, except to the extent that the Administrative Agent has sold a Loan (or portion thereof) acquired pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent may be equitably subrogated, the Administrative Agent shall be contractually subrogated to all the rights and interests of the applicable Lender under the Loan Documents with respect to each Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency.
(e) The parties hereto agree that an Erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower or any other Obligor, except, in each case, to the extent such Erroneous Payment is, and solely with respect to the amount of such Erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds received by the Administrative Agent from the Borrower or any other Obligor for the purpose of making such Erroneous Payment.
(f) To the extent permitted by applicable Law, no Payment Recipient shall assert any right or claim to an Erroneous Payment, and hereby waives, and is deemed to waive, any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Administrative Agent for the return of any Erroneous Payment received, including waiver of any defense based on discharge for value or any similar doctrine.
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(g) Each partys obligations, agreements and waivers under this Section 12.13 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and/or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations (or any portion thereof) under any Loan Document.
SECTION 13.
GUARANTY
13.01 The Guaranty. The Subsidiary Guarantors hereby unconditionally jointly and severally guarantee to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and their successors and assigns, the full and punctual payment in full or performance (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations, including (i) principal of and interest on the Loans, (ii) all fees and other amounts and Obligations from time to time owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders by the Borrower and each other Obligor under this Agreement or under any other Loan Document, in each case strictly in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof and (iii) the punctual and faithful performance, keeping, observance and fulfillment by the Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantors of all the agreements, conditions, covenants and obligations of the Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantors contained in the Loan Documents (such obligations being herein collectively called the Guaranteed Obligations). The Subsidiary Guarantors hereby further jointly and severally agree that if the Borrower or any other Obligor shall fail to pay any amount in full when due or perform any such obligation (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), the Subsidiary Guarantors will promptly pay the same or perform such obligation at the place and in the manner specified herein or in the relevant Loan Document, as the case may be, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or performance or renewal of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full or performed when due (whether at extended maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal.
13.02 Obligations Unconditional. The obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under Section 13.01 shall constitute a guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection and are absolute and unconditional, joint and several, irrespective of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations under this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein, or any substitution, release or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and, to the fullest extent permitted by all applicable Laws, irrespective of any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor, it being the intent of this Section 13.02 that the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional, joint and several, under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that the occurrence of any one or more of the following shall not alter or impair the liability of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder, which shall remain absolute and unconditional as described above:
(a) at any time or from time to time, without notice to the Subsidiary Guarantors, the time for any performance of or compliance with any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be extended, or such performance or compliance shall be waived;
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(b) any of the acts mentioned in any of the provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein shall be done or omitted;
(c) the maturity of any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be accelerated, or any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be extended, modified, supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein shall be waived or any other guarantee of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any security therefor shall be released or exchanged in whole or in part or otherwise dealt with;
(d) any lien or security interest granted to, or in favor of, the Secured Parties as security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall fail to be perfected or preserved;
(e) any modification or amendment of or supplement to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including any such amendment which may increase the amount of, or the interest rates applicable to, any of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby;
(f) any change in the corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other existence, structure or ownership of the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any Insolvency Proceeding or other similar proceeding affecting the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any of their respective assets, or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
(g) the existence of any claim, setoff or other rights which any Subsidiary Guarantor may have at any time against the Borrower, any other Subsidiary Guarantor or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Administrative Agent, any Secured Party or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or in connection with any unrelated transactions; provided that, notwithstanding any other provisions in this Guaranty, nothing in this Guaranty shall prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim;
(h) the unenforceability or invalidity of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof or the lack of genuineness, enforceability or validity of any agreement relating thereto or with respect to the collateral, if any, securing the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof, or any other invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, for any reason, related to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any provision of applicable Law, decree, order or regulation of any jurisdiction purporting to prohibit the payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations by the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations;
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(i) the disallowance, under any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, of all or any portion of the claims of the Secured Parties or the Administrative Agent for repayment of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations;
(j) the failure of any other guarantor to sign or become party to this Agreement or any amendment, change, or reaffirmation hereof;
(k) any release, surrender, compromise, settlement, waiver, subordination or modification, with or without consideration, of any collateral securing the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof, any other guaranties with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof, or any other obligation of any person or entity with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof, or any nonperfection or invalidity of any direct or indirect security for the Guaranteed Obligations; or
(l) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind by the Borrower, such Guarantor, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Administrative Agent, any Secured Party or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions of this Section 13.02 constitute a legal or equitable discharge of any Guarantors obligations hereunder.
The Subsidiary Guarantors hereby expressly waive diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest and all notices whatsoever, and any requirement that the Administrative Agent or any Lender exhaust any right, power or remedy or proceed against the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein, or against any other Person under any other guarantee of, or security for, any of the Guaranteed Obligations.
13.03 Discharge Only Upon Payment in Full. Subject to any prior release herefrom of any Subsidiary Guarantor by the Administrative Agent in accordance with (and pursuant to authority granted to the Administrative Agent under) the terms of this Agreement, each Subsidiary Guarantors obligations hereunder shall remain in full force and effect until all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) and all other financing arrangements among the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor and the Secured Parties under or in connection with this Agreement and each other Loan Document shall have terminated (herein, the Termination Conditions), and until the prior and complete satisfaction of the Termination Conditions all of the rights and remedies under this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents shall survive. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent hereby agrees to release any Subsidiary of the Borrower from its guaranty of any Obligation of any Obligor if all of the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary owned by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries are disposed of in an Asset Sale permitted under the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a waiver or consent), to the extent that, after giving effect to such Asset Sale, such Subsidiary would not be required to guarantee any Obligations pursuant to Section 8.12(a).
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13.04 Additional Waivers; General Waivers.
(a) Additional Waivers. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby absolutely, unconditionally, knowingly, and expressly waives:
(i) any right it may have to revoke this Guaranty as to future indebtedness or notice of acceptance hereof;
(ii) (A) notice of acceptance hereof; (B) notice of any other financial accommodations made or maintained under the Loan Documents or the creation or existence of any Guaranteed Obligations; (C) notice of the amount of the Guaranteed Obligations, subject, however, to each Subsidiary Guarantors right to make inquiry of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties to ascertain the amount of the Guaranteed Obligations at any reasonable time; (D) notice of any adverse change in the financial condition of the Borrower or of any other fact that might increase such Subsidiary Guarantors risk hereunder; (E) notice of presentment for payment, demand, protest, and notice thereof as to any instruments among the Loan Documents; (F) notice of any Event of Default; and (G) all other notices (except if such notice is specifically required to be given to such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Guaranty or under the other Loan Documents) and demands to which each Subsidiary Guarantor might otherwise be entitled;
(iii) its right, if any, to require the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties to institute suit against, or to exhaust any rights and remedies which the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties now have or may hereafter have against, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any third party, or against any collateral provided by such other guarantors or any third party; and each Subsidiary Guarantor further waives any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense (other than the defense that the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been fully and finally performed and indefeasibly paid) of any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or by reason of the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations in respect thereof;
(iv) (A) any rights to assert against the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties any defense (legal or equitable), set-off, counterclaim, or claim which such Subsidiary Guarantor may now or at any time hereafter have against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any third party liable to the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties; (B) any defense, set-off, counterclaim or claim, of any kind or nature, arising directly or indirectly from the present or future lack of perfection, sufficiency, validity or enforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any security therefor; (C) any defense such Subsidiary Guarantor has to performance hereunder, and any right such Subsidiary Guarantor has to be exonerated, arising by reason of: (1) the impairment or suspension of the Administrative Agents and the Secured Parties rights or remedies against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations; (2) the alteration by the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties of the Guaranteed Obligations; (3) any discharge of the obligations of any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations to the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties by operation of law as a result of the Administrative Agents and the Secured Parties intervention or omission; or (4) the acceptance by the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties of anything in partial satisfaction of the Guaranteed Obligations; and (D) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting such Subsidiary Guarantors liability hereunder or the enforcement thereof, and any act which shall defer or delay the operation of any statute of limitations applicable to the Guaranteed Obligations shall similarly operate to defer or delay the operation of such statute of limitations applicable to such Subsidiary Guarantors liability hereunder; and
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(v) any defense arising by reason of or deriving from (A) any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties; or (B) any election by the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties under any provision of any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law to limit the amount of, or any collateral securing, its claim against the Subsidiary Guarantors.
(b) General Waivers. Each Subsidiary Guarantor irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any notice not provided for herein.
13.05 Reinstatement. The obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Section 13 shall be automatically reinstated if and to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations is at any time rescinded, annulled, avoided, set aside, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or must be otherwise restored or repaid by any holder of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, whether as a result of any proceedings in bankruptcy or reorganization, equitable cause or otherwise, and the Subsidiary Guarantors jointly and severally agree that they will indemnify the Secured Parties on demand for all reasonable costs and expenses (including fees of counsel) incurred by such Persons in connection with such rescission, repayment or restoration, including any such costs and expenses incurred in defending against any claim alleging that such payment constituted a preference, fraudulent transfer or similar payment under any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law. The provisions of this Section 13.05 shall survive termination of this Guaranty.
13.06 Subrogation. The Subsidiary Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree that, until the prior and complete satisfaction of all Termination Conditions, they (i) shall have no right of subrogation with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations and (ii) waive any right to enforce any remedy which the Secured Parties or the Administrative Agent now have or may hereafter have against the Borrower, any endorser or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Person, and each Subsidiary Guarantor waives any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security or collateral that may from time to time be given to the Secured Parties and the Administrative Agent to secure the payment or performance of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other liability of the Borrower to the Secured Parties. Should any Subsidiary Guarantor have the right, notwithstanding the foregoing, to exercise its subrogation rights prior to complete satisfaction of the Termination Conditions, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby expressly and irrevocably (A) subordinates any and all rights at law or in equity to subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, indemnification or set-off that such Subsidiary Guarantor may have prior to the complete satisfaction of the Termination Conditions, and (B) waives any and all defenses available to a surety, guarantor or accommodation co-obligor until all Termination Conditions are satisfied in full. Each Subsidiary Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that this subordination is intended to benefit the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties and shall not limit or otherwise affect such Subsidiary Guarantors liability hereunder or the enforceability of this Guaranty, and that the Administrative Agent, the Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns are intended third party beneficiaries of the waivers and agreements set forth in this Section 13.06.
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13.07 Remedies. The Subsidiary Guarantors jointly and severally agree that, as between the Subsidiary Guarantors, on one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and under the other Loan Documents may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as provided in Section 11 (and shall be deemed to have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances provided in Section 11) for purposes of Section 13.01 notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition, including any such stay upon an Insolvency Proceeding, preventing such declaration (or such obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as against the Borrower and that, in the event of such declaration (or such obligations being deemed to have become automatically due and payable), such obligations (whether or not due and payable by the Borrower) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Subsidiary Guarantors for purposes of Section 13.01.
13.08 Instrument for the Payment of Money. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby acknowledges that the guarantee in this Section 13 constitutes an instrument for the payment of money, and consents and agrees that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, at their sole option, in the event of a dispute by such Subsidiary Guarantor in the payment of any moneys due hereunder, shall have the right to proceed by motion for summary judgment in lieu of complaint pursuant to N.Y. Civ. Prac. L&R § 3213.
13.09 Continuing Guarantee. The guarantee in this Section 13 is a continuing guarantee, and shall apply to all Guaranteed Obligations whenever arising.
13.10 Contribution with Respect to Guaranteed Obligations.
(a) To the extent that any Subsidiary Guarantor shall make a payment under this Guaranty (a Guarantor Payment) which, taking into account all other Guarantor Payments then previously or concurrently made by any other Subsidiary Guarantor, exceeds the amount which otherwise would have been paid by or attributable to such Subsidiary Guarantor if each Subsidiary Guarantor had paid the aggregate Guaranteed Obligations satisfied by such Guarantor Payment in the same proportion as such Subsidiary Guarantors Allocable Amount (as defined below) (as determined immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment) bore to the aggregate Allocable Amounts of each of the Subsidiary Guarantors as determined immediately prior to the making of such Guarantor Payment, then, following the prior and complete satisfaction of the Termination Conditions, such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to receive contribution and indemnification payments from, and be reimbursed by, each other Subsidiary Guarantor for the amount of such excess, pro rata based upon their respective Allocable Amounts in effect immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment.
(b) As of any date of determination, the Allocable Amount of any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be equal to the maximum amount of the claim, which could then be recovered from such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement without rendering such claim voidable or avoidable under any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or other applicable Law.
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(c) This Section 13.10 is intended only to define the relative rights of the Subsidiary Guarantors, and nothing set forth in this Section 13.10 is intended to or shall impair the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors, jointly and severally, to pay any amounts as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(d) The parties hereto acknowledge that the rights of contribution and indemnification hereunder shall constitute assets of the Subsidiary Guarantor or Subsidiary Guarantors to which such contribution and indemnification is owing.
(e) The rights of the indemnifying Subsidiary Guarantors against other Subsidiary Guarantors under this Section 13.10 shall be exercisable only upon the prior and complete satisfaction of the Termination Conditions.
13.11 General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations. In any action or proceeding involving any provincial, territorial or state corporate law, or any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor under Section 13.01 would otherwise be held or determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, or subordinated to the claims of any other creditors, on account of the amount of its liability under Section 13.01, then, notwithstanding any other provision hereof to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by such Subsidiary Guarantor, the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other Person, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable and not subordinated to the claims of other creditors as determined in such action or proceeding.
SECTION 14.
MISCELLANEOUS
14.01 No Waiver. No failure on the part of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders to exercise and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege under any Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege under any Loan Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
14.02 Notices. All notices, requests, instructions, directions and other communications provided for herein (including any modifications of, or waivers, requests or consents under, this Agreement) or in the other Loan Documents shall be given or made in writing (including by telecopy or email) delivered, if to the Borrower, another Obligor, the Administrative Agent or any Lender, to its address specified on the signature pages hereto or its Guarantee Assumption Agreement, as the case may be, or at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or therein, all such communications shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt of a legible copy thereof, in each case given or addressed as aforesaid. All such communications provided for herein by telecopy shall be confirmed in writing promptly after the delivery of such communication (it being understood that non-receipt of written confirmation of such communication shall not invalidate such communication).
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14.03 Expenses, Indemnification, Etc.
(a) Expenses. Each Obligor, jointly and severally, agrees to pay or reimburse (i) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates for all of their reasonable and documented out of pocket costs and expenses (including the reasonable and documented out of pocket fees, expenses, charges and disbursements of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the fees (if necessary) of local and regulatory counsel for both of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in each relevant material jurisdiction, and any sales, goods and services or other similar Taxes applicable thereto, and reasonable and documented printing, reproduction, document delivery, communication and travel costs) in connection with (x) the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the making of the Loans (exclusive of post-closing costs), (y) post-closing costs (including costs of the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) and (z) the negotiation or preparation of any modification, supplement or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents (whether or not consummated), and (ii) each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for all of their documented out of pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of any legal counsel) in connection with the enforcement, exercise or protection of their rights in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including their rights under this Section 14.03, or in connection with the Loans made hereunder, including such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans.
(b) Indemnification. Each Obligor, jointly and severally, hereby indemnifies the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), the Lenders and their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents, advisors and controlling parties (each, an Indemnified Party) from and against, and agrees to hold them harmless against, any and all Claims and Losses of any kind including reasonable and documented out of pocket fees and disbursements of any counsel for each Indemnified Party (limited to one legal counsel in each relevant jurisdiction), that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or relating to (i) Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the Transactions, (ii) any use made or proposed to be made with the proceeds of the Loans, (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort, or any other theory, whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Obligor, any of its Subsidiaries, shareholders or creditors, an Indemnified Party or any other Person, or an Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto, and whether or not any of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 6 are satisfied or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated, except to the extent such Claim or Loss is (i) found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such
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Indemnified Partys gross negligence or willful misconduct or (ii) is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non-appealable judgment to have resulted from a claim brought by any Obligor against an Indemnified Party for material breach in bad faith or reckless disregard of such Indemnified Partys obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document. No Obligor shall assert any claim against any Indemnified Party, on any theory of liability, for consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or any of the Transactions or the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Loans. The Borrower, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents, advisors and controlling parties are each sometimes referred to in this Agreement as a Borrower Party. None of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall assert any claim against any Borrower Party, on any theory of liability, for consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or any of the Transactions or the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing in this Section 14.03(b), the Obligors shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without the Obligors consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), but if settled with the Obligors written consent, or if there is a judgment against an Indemnified Party in any such proceeding, the Obligors shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Party to the extent and in the manner set forth above. The Obligors shall not, without the prior written consent of an Indemnified Party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding against such Indemnified Party in respect of which indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Party unless (a) such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability or claims that are the subject matter of, or arise out of, such proceeding and (b) such settlement does not include any statement as to, or any admission of fault, culpability, wrongdoing or a failure to act by or on behalf of such Indemnified Party. This Section shall not apply with respect to (x) Taxes other than Taxes relating to a non-Tax Claim or Loss governed by this Section 14.03(b) and (y) yield protection matters covered by Section 5.01, which shall be governed exclusively by Section 5.01.
14.04 Amendments, Etc. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any provision of this Agreement and any other Loan Document may be amended, modified, waived or supplemented only by an instrument in writing signed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Majority Lenders; provided that:
(a) any such modification or supplement that is disproportionately adverse to any Lender as compared to other Lenders or subjects any Lender to any additional obligation shall not be effective without the consent of such affected Lender;
(b) the consent of all of the Lenders shall be required to:
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(i) amend, modify, discharge, terminate or waive any of the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Agreement if such amendment, modification, discharge, termination or waiver would increase the amount of the Loans or Commitment, reduce the fees payable hereunder, reduce interest rates (provided that the Majority Lenders may rescind an imposition of default interest hereunder) or other amounts payable with respect to the Loans (excluding mandatory prepayments), extend any date fixed for payment of principal (excluding mandatory prepayments) (it being understood that the waiver of any prepayment of Loans shall not constitute an extension of any date fixed for payment of principal), interest or other amounts payable relating to the Loans or extend the repayment dates of the Loans (excluding mandatory prepayments);
(ii) amend, modify, discharge, terminate or waive any Loan Document if the effect is to (x) release all or substantially all of the Collateral subject thereto other than pursuant to the terms hereof or thereof (other than in connection with any enforcement action undertaken by the Administrative Agent following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), or (y) subordinate the Obligations in right of payment or security to any other obligations, in each case, other than in connection with the provision of debtor-in-possession financing or consent to use of cash collateral or similar financing in connection with an Insolvency Proceeding;
(iii) amend this Section 14.04 or the definition of Majority Lenders; or
(iv) amend the payment waterfall and pro rata sharing provisions set forth in Section 4.01 and Section 4.02.
With respect to any amendment, modification, waiver or supplement, the opportunity to participate on the same terms in such amendment, modification, waiver or supplement shall be offered on the same terms to all Lenders (regardless of whether such Lenders consent would otherwise be required to effect such amendment, restatement, supplement, exchange, modification or waiver), and all Lenders shall have a reasonable opportunity to participate in such amendment, modification, waiver or supplement on the same terms as each other Lender and shall have the right to receive the same pro rata economics in accordance with its Proportionate Share in such transaction (including any fee, payment or other consideration, including consent or backstop fees) paid to any Lender in its capacity as such.
14.05 Successors and Assigns.
(a) General. The provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto or thereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby or thereby, except that no Obligor may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder (except in connection with an event permitted under Section 9.03) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. Any Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 14.05(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.01(a)(ii), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 14.05(f). 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 2.01(a)(ii) 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.
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(b) Assignments by Lender.
(i) Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Transferees (or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to any Person other than a natural person) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of the Loans at the time owing to it) and the other Loan Documents; provided that (i) no such assignment shall be made to any Obligor, any Affiliate of any Obligor, any employees or directors of any Obligor at any time, and (ii) no such assignment shall be made without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. The consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) shall be required unless (x) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (y) such assignment is to an Affiliate of a Lender; provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received written notice thereof; provided, further, that the consent of the Borrower shall not be required for any assignment by an Oaktree Lender to a Third Party unless such assignment would result in Oaktree Lenders, on their own, being entitled to exercise voting rights in respect of aggregate Commitments and Loans outstanding below the threshold required to constitute Majority Lenders. Subject to the recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 14.05(d), and to receipt by the Administrative Agent of a processing and recordation fee in the amount 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) from and after the date such Assignment and Assumption is recorded in the Register, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of the Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and correspondingly the assigning Lender 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 Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) and the other Loan Documents but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 5 and Section 14.03. Any assignment or transfer by the Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 14.05(b) 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 2.01(a)(ii).
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the condition that 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 Lenders Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date specified in the Assignment and the Assumption with respect to such assignment) shall not be less than $1,000,000.
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(c) Amendments to Loan Documents. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Obligors agrees to enter into such amendments to the Loan Documents, and such additional Security Documents and other instruments and agreements, in each case in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Obligors, as shall reasonably be necessary to implement and give effect to any assignment made under this Section 14.05.
(d) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices in the United States a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) 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 shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. 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 written notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any assignment of any Loan shall be effective only upon appropriate entries with respect thereto being made in the Register.
(e) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower, sell participations to any Eligible Transferee (other than a natural person or any Obligor or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a Participant) in all or a portion of the Lenders rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of the Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection therewith. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which any Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents; provided 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 that would (i) increase or extend the term of such Lenders Commitment, (ii) extend the date fixed for the payment of principal (excluding mandatory prepayments) of or interest on the Loans or any portion of any fee hereunder payable to the Participant, (iii) reduce the amount of any such payment of principal, or (iv) reduce the rate at which interest is payable thereon to a level below the rate at which the Participant is entitled to receive such interest (other than a waiver of default interest). Subject to Section 14.05(f), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.01 or 5.02 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 5.02(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.02(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 14.05(b); provided that such Participant (i) shall not be entitled to such benefits unless such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with the documentation requirements of Section 5.02(e) as if it were a Lender and complies with such requirements, (ii) agrees to be subject to the provisions of
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Section 5.03 as if it were an assignee under Section 14.05(b) and (iii) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 5.01 or 5.02, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, 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. To the extent permitted by Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 4.03(a) 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 Participants 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 Participants 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.
(f) Limitations on Rights of Participants. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 5.01 or 5.02 than such Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrowers prior written consent.
(g) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under the Loan Documents to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
14.06 Survival. The obligations of the Borrower under Sections 5.01, 5.02, 5.03 14.03, 14.05, 14.06, 14.09, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13 and 14.14 and the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under Section 13 (solely to the extent guaranteeing any of the obligations under the foregoing Sections) shall survive the repayment of the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments and, in the case of the Lenders assignment of any interest in the Commitments or the Loans hereunder, shall survive, in the case of any event or circumstance that occurred prior to the effective date of such assignment, the making of such assignment, notwithstanding that the Lenders may cease to be Lenders hereunder. In addition, each representation and warranty made, or deemed to be made by a Borrowing Notice, herein or pursuant hereto shall survive the making of such representation and warranty.
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14.07 Captions. The table of contents and captions and Section headings appearing herein are included solely for convenience of reference and are not intended to affect the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.
14.08 Counterparts, Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission (in PDF format) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. This Agreement shall become effective when counterparts hereof executed on behalf of the Obligors, the Administrative Agent and the Lender shall have been received by the Administrative Agent.
14.09 Governing Law. This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws that would result in the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction; provided that Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law shall apply.
14.10 Jurisdiction, Service of Process and Venue.
(a) Submission to Jurisdiction. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that it will not commence any action, litigation or proceeding of any kind or description, whether in law or equity, whether in contract or tort or otherwise, against such other party in any way relating to this Agreement or any Loan Document or the transactions relating hereto or thereto, in any forum other than the courts 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, and each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction of such courts and agrees that all claims in respect of any such action, litigation or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action, litigation or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
(b) Waiver of Venue, Etc. Each party hereto irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document and hereby further irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. A final judgment (in respect of which time for all appeals has elapsed) in any such suit, action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which such party is or may be subject, by suit upon judgment.
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14.11 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.
14.12 Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that any Obligor may be or become entitled to claim for itself or its property or revenues any immunity on the ground of sovereignty or the like from suit, court jurisdiction, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution of a judgment or execution of a judgment, and to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there may be attributed such an immunity (whether or not claimed), such Obligor hereby irrevocably agrees not to claim and hereby irrevocably waives such immunity with respect to its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
14.13 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect 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, including any confidentiality (or similar) agreements. EACH OBLIGOR ACKNOWLEDGES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IN DECIDING TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR IN TAKING OR NOT TAKING ANY ACTION HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER, IT HAS NOT RELIED, AND WILL NOT RELY, ON ANY STATEMENT, REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, COVENANT, AGREEMENT OR UNDERSTANDING, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, OF OR WITH ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR THE LENDERS OTHER THAN THOSE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.
14.14 Severability. If any provision hereof is found by a court to be invalid or unenforceable, to the fullest extent permitted by any Law the parties agree that such invalidity or unenforceability shall not impair the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof.
14.15 No Fiduciary Relationship. The Borrower acknowledges that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have no fiduciary relationship with, or fiduciary duty to, the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between the Lenders and the Borrower is solely that of creditor and debtor. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents do not create a joint venture among the parties.
14.16 Confidentiality. The Administrative Agent and each Lender agree to keep confidential, and not disclose to any Person all non-public information provided to them by or on behalf of any Obligor pursuant to this Agreement; provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such information (i) to the Administrative Agent, any other Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this section, or any Eligible Transferee or other assignee permitted under Section 14.05(b), (ii) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section, to any actual or prospective direct or indirect counterparty to any Hedging Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (iii) to its employees, officers, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants, trustees and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates (collectively, its Related Parties) (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such information and instructed
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to keep such information confidential), (iv) upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (v) in response to any order of any court or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any Law, (vi) if requested or required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (vii) that has been publicly disclosed (other than as a result of a disclosure in violation of this Section 14.16), (viii) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about a Lenders investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender, (ix) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (x) on a confidential basis to (A) any rating agency in connection with rating the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or the Loans or (B) the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers of other market identifiers with respect to the Loans or (xi) to any other party hereto; provided that, in the case of disclosure pursuant to clause (iv), (v) and (vi) above, the Administrative Agent or applicable Lender, as applicable, shall promptly provide notice to the Borrower to the extent reasonable and not prohibited by Law or any applicable Governmental Authority.
14.17 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable Law (collectively, charges), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the Maximum Rate) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Administrative Agent and the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable Law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate. To the extent lawful, the interest and charges that would have been paid in respect of such Loan but were not paid as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the amount collectible at the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate for each day to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender. Any amount collected by such Lender that exceeds the maximum amount collectible at the Maximum Rate shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of such Loan so that at no time shall the interest and charges paid or payable in respect of such Loan exceed the maximum amount collectible at the Maximum Rate.
14.18 Judgment Currency.
(a) If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in Dollars into another currency, the parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which, in accordance with normal banking procedures, the Administrative Agent could purchase Dollars with such other currency at the buying spot rate of exchange in the New York foreign exchange market on the Business Day immediately preceding that on which any such judgment, or any relevant part thereof, is given.
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(b) The obligations of the Obligors in respect of any sum due to the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency other than Dollars, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency the Administrative Agent may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase Dollars with such other currency. If the amount of Dollars so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent in Dollars, the Borrower agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent against such loss. If the amount of Dollars so purchased exceeds the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent in Dollars, the Administrative Agent shall remit such excess to the Borrower.
14.19 USA PATRIOT Act. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby notify the Obligors that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the Patriot Act), they are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Obligors, which information includes the name and address of each Obligor and other information that will allow such Person to identify such Obligor in accordance with the Patriot Act.
14.20 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected 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 Affected 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 the applicable 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 the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected 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 Affected 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 the applicable Resolution Authority.
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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.
BORROWER: | ||||
TPI COMPOSITES, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ William E. Siwek | |||
Name: | William E. Siwek | |||
Title: | President, Chief Executive Officer |
Address for Notices:
TPI Composites, Inc.
9200 E Pima Center Pkwy, Suite 250 Scottsdale, AZ 85258 Attn:Steven Fishbach Tel.: 480-305-8923 Email: sfishbach@tpicomposites.com
With copies to:
Goodwin Procter LLP 520 Broadway, Suite 500 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Attn:Mohammed A. Alvi Tel.: 213-426-2684 Email: MAlvi@goodwinlaw.com |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement and Guaranty]
GUARANTORS: | ||||
TPI INTERNATIONAL, LLC TPI TURKEY, LLC TPI APAC, LLC TPI TURKEY II, LLC TPI TURKEY IZBAS, LLC TPI COMPOSITE SERVICES, LLC TPI MEXICO, LLC TPI HOLDINGS MEXICO, LLC TPI MEXICO II, LLC TPI MEXICO III, LLC TPI MEXICO IV, LLC TPI MEXICO V, LLC TPI MEXICO VI, LLC COMPOSITES MEXICO VII, LLC COMPOSITES MEXICO VIII, LLC PONTO ALTO HOLDINGS, LLC TPI ARIZONA, LLC TPI IOWA, LLC TPI IOWA II, LLC TPI COMPOSITES, LLC TPI, INC. TPI APAC II, INC. COMPOSITE SOLUTIONS, INC. TPI TECHNOLOGY, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ William E. Siwek | |||
Name: | William E. Siwek | |||
Title: | President, Chief Executive Officer | |||
Address for Notices:
TPI Composites, Inc. 9200 E Pima Center Pkwy, Suite 250 Scottsdale, AZ 85258 Attn:Steven Fishbach Tel.: 480-305-8923 Email: sfishbach@tpicomposites.com
With copies to:
Goodwin Procter LLP 520 Broadway, Suite 500 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Attn:Mohammed A. Alvi Tel.: 213-426-2684 Email: MAlvi@goodwinlaw.com |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement and Guaranty]
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT: | ||
OAKTREE FUND ADMINISTRATION, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Brian Price | |
Name: Brian Price | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
Address for Notices:
Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC 333 S. Grand Avenue, 28th Fl. Los Angeles, CA 90071 Attn: Jordan Mikes Email: jmikes@oaktreecapital.com
With copies to:
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 125 Broad Street New York, NY 10004 Attn: Ari Blaut Email: Blauta@sullcrom.com |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement and Guaranty]
Schedule 1
Loan Commitments
Lender |
Applicable Commitment | Commitment | ||||||||||
Initial Term Loans | Additional Term Loans | |||||||||||
Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P. |
$ | 147,375,000 | $ | 18,750,000 | $ | 166,125,000 | ||||||
Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC |
$ | 238,747,500 | $ | 30,375,000 | $ | 269,122,500 | ||||||
Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P. |
$ | 6,877,500 | $ | 875,000 | $ | 7,752,500 | ||||||
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Total |
$ | 393,000,000 | $ | 50,000,000 | $ | 443,000,000 | ||||||
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Schedule 2
Company Debt Agreements
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.05(a)(ii)
Real Property Owned or Leased by Obligors
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.05(b)(i)
Borrower Intellectual Property
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.06(c)
Pension Matters
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.12
Information Regarding Subsidiaries
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.13(a)
Existing Indebtedness
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.13(b)
Existing Liens
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.15
Restrictive Agreements
[Redacted]
Schedule 7.16
Transactions with Affiliates
[Redacted]
Schedule 8.20
Post-Closing Obligations
[Redacted]
Schedule 9.05
Existing Investments
[Redacted]
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Schedule 9.09
Scheduled Asset Sales
[Redacted]
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF NOTE
TERM LOAN NOTE
U.S. $[] |
[], 20[] |
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), hereby promises to pay to [ ] (the Lender), in immediately available funds, the aggregate principal sum set forth above, or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans made by the Lender pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Credit Agreement referred to below, on the dates and at the times set forth in the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023, among the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent) (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement). Capitalized terms used in this Note and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings attributable to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
The Borrower also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of the Lenders Loans on the dates and at the rate or rates provided for in the Credit Agreement. All payments of principal and interest shall be made in lawful money of the United States in immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent at such place and to such account or accounts as the Administrative Agent may direct from time to time by notice to the Borrower in accordance with the Credit Agreement, for the benefit of the Lender on the date or dates and times specified in the Credit Agreement, together with interest on the principal amount of such Loans from time to time outstanding thereunder at the rates, and payable in the manner and on the dates and at the times specified in the Credit Agreement.
This Note is one of the Notes referred to in and is issued pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, and this Note and the holder hereof are entitled to all the benefits and security provided for thereby or referred to therein. Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement for a statement of the terms and conditions governing this Note, including those related to voluntary and mandatory prepayment of this Note and acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events.
This Note is secured, on a parity basis with the other Notes, by the Security Documents. Reference is hereby made to the Security Documents for a description of the collateral thereby mortgaged, warranted, conveyed, assigned, transferred, pledged and hypothecated, the nature and extent of the security for this Note and the rights of the holder of this Note and the Administrative Agent in respect of such security and otherwise.
THIS NOTE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
EXHIBIT A-1
The Borrower hereby waives demand, presentment, protest or notice of any kind hereunder, other than notices provided for in the Loan Documents. The non-exercise by the holder hereof of any of its rights hereunder in any particular instance shall not constitute a waiver thereof in such particular or any subsequent instance.
THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT.
[Signature Page Follows]
EXHIBIT A-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has duly executed and delivered this Note as of the day and year first above written.
TPI COMPOSITES, INC. | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: |
EXHIBIT A-3
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF BORROWING NOTICE
Date : []
To: | Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, |
as Administrative Agent
333 S. Grand Avenue, 28th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Attention: Aman Kumar
Attention: Oaktree Agency
Email: AmKumar@oaktreecapital.com
Email: oaktreeagency@alterdomus.com
Re: Borrowing under the Credit Agreement
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), refers to the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The Borrower hereby gives you irrevocable notice, pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Credit Agreement, of the Borrowing of the Loan specified herein:
1. The funding date is [] (a Business Day).
2. The amount of the proposed Borrowing is $[393,000,000]1[]2.
3. [The amount of the proposed Borrowing shall be deemed made on the Closing Date by Lenders on a cashless basis pursuant to the Cashless Exchange.]3[The payment instructions with respect to the funds to be made available to the Borrower are as follows:
Bank name:
Bank Address:
Routing Number:
Account Number: ]4
1 | If Borrowing Notice is for Initial Term Loans on the Closing Date. |
2 | If Borrowing Notice is for Additional Term Loans on a Subsequent Funding Date, proposed Borrowing must be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 (or, if less, the total amount of Additional Commitments remaining) |
3 | If Borrowing Notice is for Initial Term Loans on the Closing Date. |
4 | If Borrowing Notice is for Additional Term Loans after the Closing Date. |
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The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that each of the conditions precedent set forth in Section [6.01]5[6.02],6 as applicable, has been or shall be satisfied or waived as of the funding date.
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5 | For Borrowing Notice in respect of Closing Date. |
6 | For Borrowing Notice in respect of Subsequent Funding Date. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has caused this Borrowing Notice to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.
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TPI COMPOSITES, INC. |
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF GUARANTEE ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
GUARANTEE ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT dated as of [DATE] (this Agreement) by [NAME OF ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR], a [corporation][limited liability company] (the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor), under that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto (the Lenders) and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Lenders agreed to make an extension of credit to the Borrower upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, Section 8.12(a) of the Credit Agreement provides that any new Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Credit Agreement and a Grantor under the applicable Security Agreement by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the undersigned Additional Subsidiary Guarantor is executing this Agreement in accordance with the requirements of the Credit Agreement to become a Subsidiary Guarantor as consideration for Loans previously made pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Credit Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor agrees as follows:
Section 1. Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
Section 2. The Guaranty.7 In accordance with Section 8.12(a) of the Credit Agreement, the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor by its signature below becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Guaranty with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Subsidiary Guarantor and the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor hereby (a) jointly and severally with the other Subsidiary Guarantors, guarantees to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and their respective successors and assigns, the prompt payment in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), or performance, as the case may be, of all Guaranteed Obligations (as defined in the Credit Agreement) in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in Section 13 of the Credit Agreement and (b) makes the representations and warranties set forth in Section 7 of
7 | Guaranty terms may be supplemented for requirements of local law and customary market practice in the jurisdiction applicable to any acceding non-U.S. Guarantor. |
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the Credit Agreement and in [Section 4 of the Security Agreement],8 with respect to itself and its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as if each reference in such Sections to the Loan Documents included reference to this Agreement, such representations and warranties to be made as of the date hereof; provided that the Schedules to the Credit Agreement are hereby supplemented to include the items set forth on the corresponding schedules to this Agreement.9 Each reference to a Subsidiary Guarantor in the Loan Documents shall be deemed to include the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor as if originally named therein as a Subsidiary Guarantor. The Guaranty is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Section 3. Additional Obligations. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor has taken, or will take, such action to comply with the [Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement][Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement] in accordance with the requirements of Section 8.12 of the Credit Agreement within the time periods specified within the definition of [Domestic Collateral and Guarantee Requirement][Foreign Collateral and Guarantee Requirement] in the Credit Agreement and take all other action required pursuant to Section 8.12 of the Credit Agreement.
Section 4. Representations and Warranties. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties that this Agreement 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, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance or transfer, moratorium or similar 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 5. Counterparts; Integration. This Agreement 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 Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received a counterpart hereof that bears the signature of the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or in electronic (i.e., pdf or tif) format shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
Section 6. Effect on Guaranty. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 7. Governing Law; Jurisdiction.
(a) Governing Law. This Agreement and any claims, controversy, dispute or cause of action (whether in contract or tort or otherwise) based upon, arising out of or relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
8 | Reference to applicable Security Agreement may be modified for Foreign Obligor. |
9 | If any Schedules set forth in Section 7 of the Credit Agreement or Section 4 of the Security Agreement need to be updated, include such updates as a schedule to this Agreement. |
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(b) Jurisdiction. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that it will not commence any action, litigation or proceeding of any kind or description, whether in law or equity, whether in contract or in tort or otherwise, against the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Related Party of the foregoing in any way relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions relating hereto or thereto, in any forum other than the courts 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; and irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction of such courts and agrees that all claims in respect of any such action, litigation or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, in such federal court. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action, litigation or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against the Borrower or any other Loan Party or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c) Waiver of Venue. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 7. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
(d) Service of Process. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 14.02 of the Credit Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of the Administrative Agent to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable law.
Section 8. Waiver of Jury Trial.
THE ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.
Section 9. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 10. Notices. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section 14.02 of the Credit Agreement.
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Section 11. Administrative Agents Expenses. The Additional Subsidiary Guarantor agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent for its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses in connection with this Agreement as provided in Section 14.03(a) of the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Additional Subsidiary Guarantor has caused this Guarantee Assumption Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.
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EXHIBIT D
EXHIBIT D-1
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.02(f) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided in this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF LENDER] |
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EXHIBIT D-2
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.02(f) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided in this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender in writing, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT]
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EXHIBIT D-3
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.02(f) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such participation, (iii) with respect to such participation, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E from each of such partners/members beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided in this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT]
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EXHIBIT D-4
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.02(f) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)), (iii) with respect to the extension of credit pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W- 8BEN-E or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W- 8BEN-E from each of such partners/members beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided in this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
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EXHIBIT E
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
[DATE]
This certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The undersigned, a duly authorized Responsible Officer of the Borrower having the name and title set forth below under his or her signature, hereby certifies (in his or her capacity as an officer of the Borrower and not in his or her individual capacity), on behalf of the Borrower for the benefit of the Lenders and pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the Credit Agreement that such Responsible Officer of the Borrower is familiar with the Credit Agreement and that, in accordance with each of the following sections of the Credit Agreement, each of the following is true on the date hereof, both before and after giving effect to any Loan to be made on or before the date hereof:
1. In accordance with [Section 8.01[(a)/(b)]] of the Credit Agreement, attached hereto as Annex A are the financial statements for the [fiscal quarter/fiscal year] ended [] required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01[(a)/(b)] of the Credit Agreement. Such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated therein and the results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the periods indicated therein and have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied [(subject to changes resulting from normal, year-end audit adjustments and except for the absence of notes)] 10; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to [Section 8.01[(a)/(b)]] of the Credit Agreement may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are filed for public availability on EDGAR (with this related certificate separately delivered).
2. Attached hereto as Annex B are the calculations used to determine compliance with the Minimum Liquidity covenant contained in Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement, which calculations are true and correct.
3. No Default or Event of Default is continuing as of the date hereof[, except as provided for on Annex C attached hereto, which describes in detail the nature of the condition or event, the period during which it has existed and the action which the Borrower has taken, is taking, or proposes to take with respect to each such condition or event].
4. [Attached hereto as Annex D is a list of all newly acquired or created Intellectual Property Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement) of any Grantor (as defined in the Security Agreement) required to be updated pursuant to Section 3(e)(ii) of the Security Agreement.][Since [the Closing Date][the date of the last Compliance Certificate delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the Credit Agreement], the Company has no newly created or acquired Intellectual Property Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement).]
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5. [Insert any details of any issues that are material that are raised by auditors, pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the Credit Agreement.]
6. [Insert any details of any occurrence or existence of any event, circumstance, act or omission that would cause any representation or warranty contained in the first and third sentences of Section 7.07 or 7.19 of the Credit Agreement to be incorrect in any material respect (or in any respect if such representation or warranty is qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect or Material Adverse Change) if such representation or warranty were to be made at the time of delivery of this Compliance Certificate.]
7. [Insert any details of any material Claim made or asserted against the Collateral by any Person and of any change in the composition of the Collateral or other event which could materially adversely affect the value of the Collateral or the Administrative Agents Lien thereon, pursuant to Section 5(o) of the Security Agreement.]
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EXHIBIT E-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate on the date first written above.
TPI COMPOSITES, INC.
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ANNEX A TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
[See attached.]
EXHIBIT E-4
ANNEX B TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
Minimum Liquidity Covenant Calculations
[See attached.]
EXHIBIT E-5
ANNEX C TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
DEFAULTS OR EVENTS OF DEFAULT
[IF NEEDED]
EXHIBIT E-6
ANNEX D TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
CREATED OR ACQUIRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL
[IF NEEDED]
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
This Assignment and Assumption (this Assignment and Assumption) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [ ] (the Assignor) and [ ] (the Assignee). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto (the Lenders) and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.
For an agreed consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below (i) all of the Assignors rights and obligations in its capacity as a Lender under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of the Assignor under the Credit Agreement and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned by the Assignor to the Assignee pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as the Assigned Interest). Such sale and assignment is without recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by the Assignor.
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3. | Borrower: TPI Composites, Inc. |
4. | Administrative Agent: Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC |
5. | Credit Agreement: Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023, among the Borrower, certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower that may be required to provide Guarantees from time to time thereunder, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and the Administrative Agent. |
6. | Assignees jurisdiction of tax residence: |
7. | Assigned Interest[s]: |
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11 | List each Assignor, as appropriate |
12 | List each Assignee, as appropriate |
13 | Set forth, to at last 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Loans of all Lenders thereunder. |
14 | 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 Lenders Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date specified in the Assignment and the Assumption with respect to such assignment) shall not be less than $1,000,000. |
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Effective Date: , 20 [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]
The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:
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ANNEX 1
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Representations and Warranties.
1.1 Assignor. The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan Document.
1.2 Assignee. The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it satisfies the requirements, if any, specified in the Credit Agreement that are required to be satisfied by it in order to acquire the Assigned Interest and become a Lender, (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by the Assigned Interest and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire the Assigned Interest, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Sections 8.01(a) and (b) thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the Assigned Interest on the basis of which it has made such analysis and decision independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and (vi) attached to the Assignment and Assumption is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignee whether such amounts have accrued prior to, on or after the Effective Date. The Assignor and the Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments by the Administrative Agent for periods prior to the Effective Date or with respect to the making of this assignment directly between themselves.
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3. General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption by facsimile or other electronic transmission (PDF format) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
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FORM OF LANDLORD CONSENT
This CONSENT AGREEMENT (this Agreement) is entered into as of [], 20[], by and between [INSERT NAME OF LANDLORD] (Landlord), [INSERT NAME OF TENANT] (the Tenant) and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent), with reference to the following facts:
WHEREAS, Landlord and the Tenant have entered into that certain lease, dated as of [], 20[] (the Lease) for certain premises (the Premises) more fully described in Annex A;
WHEREAS, the Tenant has entered into (i) that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December [], 2023, among TPI Composites, Inc., as borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto [including the Tenant], the Lenders from time to time party thereto and the Administrative Agent (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement) and (ii) that certain Security Agreement, dated as of December [], 2023, among TPI Composites, Inc., the other Grantors from time to time party thereto [including the Tenant], and the Administrative Agent (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Security Agreement); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Security Agreement, the Administrative Agent has obtained a continuing security interest in, among other things, substantially all assets of the Tenant, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (the Collateral), including any equipment, tools, machinery, inventory, stock, goods, furniture, accounts receivable, trade fixtures and other property (together with all additions, substitutions, replacements, improvements and proceeds thereof, Tenants Property) that are now or in the future may become located or stored at the Premises, until all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) have been paid in full in cash and the Commitment under the Credit Agreement has been terminated (the capitalized terms used above but not defined shall have the definition provided in the Credit Agreement).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. (a) Landlord is the landlord under the Lease, (b) the Lease is in full force and effect, (c) Landlord has no actual knowledge of any defense, offset, claim or counterclaim by or in favor of Landlord against Tenant under the Lease or against the obligations of Landlord under the Lease and (d) Landlord has no knowledge of the occurrence of any default under or in connection with the Lease.
2. Tenants granting of a security interest in or lien upon the Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent shall not constitute a default under the Lease or permit Landlord to terminate the Lease or otherwise be the basis for the exercise of any remedy by Landlord. Tenants obligations under the Loan Documents, and any of the terms and conditions thereof, may be amended, modified or extended without consent of or notice to Landlord.
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3. Landlord shall send to the Administrative Agent a concurrent copy of any notice of default or acceleration of rent payments under the Lease sent to Tenant. Failure by Landlord to send any such notice shall not affect the rights or obligations of Landlord or Tenant under the Lease and Landlord shall not incur any liability for failure to do so. Landlord shall allow the Administrative Agent the same rights to cure a default under the Lease as Tenant has under the Lease during the same cure period afforded to Tenant (provided that the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to cure). Landlord shall also send to the Administrative Agent notice of any termination of the Lease within five business days thereof. No action by Administrative Agent pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be an assumption by Administrative Agent of any obligation under the Lease, and, except as explicitly provided in Sections 7 and 10 below, the Administrative Agent shall not have any obligation to Landlord.
4. Landlord waives and releases in favor of the Administrative Agent: (a) each and every right which Landlord now has under applicable law or by virtue of the Lease, to levy or distrain upon for rent, in arrears, in advance or both, or to claim or assert title to the Tenants Property that is located on the Premises and (b) any and all other interests or claims of every nature whatsoever which Landlord may now or hereafter have in or against Tenants Property for any rent, storage charges, or other sums due, or to become due, to Landlord by Tenant.
5. Tenants Property is and will remain personal property and shall not be considered fixtures or otherwise part of the Premises regardless of whether or by what means it is or may become attached or affixed to the Premises. Landlord shall provide prompt written notice to the Administrative Agent at the address set forth in its signature block of any early termination or expiration of the lease or any abandonment of the Premises by the Tenant.
6. Landlord hereby agrees to not exercise any of Landlords rights, remedies, powers, privileges, or discretions with respect to Tenants Property, or Landlords liens or security interests in Tenants Property, unless and until Landlord receives written notice from an officer of the Administrative Agent that Tenants obligations under the Loan Documents have been paid in full. The foregoing waiver is for the benefit of the Administrative Agent only and does not affect the obligations of Tenant to Landlord under the Lease.
7. During the term of the Lease, Landlord grants to the Administrative Agent a license to enter upon and into the Premises upon reasonable prior written notice to Landlord at reasonable times during regular business hours to take possession of, sell or otherwise enforce its security interest in Tenants Property. Landlord shall cooperate with the Administrative Agents enforcement of its security interest and rights in Tenants Property, at no cost to Landlord. The Administrative Agent will comply with any security or escort requirements or other reasonable requirements imposed by Landlord. The Administrative Agent shall promptly repair, at the Administrative Agents expense, or reimburse Landlord for any physical damage to the Premises caused by the conduct of such sale and any removal of Tenants Property by or through the Administrative Agent (normal wear and tear excluded); provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any diminution in value of the Premises caused by the absence of any of Tenants Property or any other property left on the Premises by Landlord or Tenant.
8. So long as the Tenant remains in possession of the Premises, Landlord will not dispose of any of the Tenants Property nor assert any right or interest therein. If any of Tenants Property remains on the Premises after the Tenant has vacated the Premises and an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Landlord (i) will promptly inform the Administrative Agent of the
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vacancy and not dispose of any of the Tenants Property nor assert any right or interest therein, unless the Administrative Agent has had a reasonable period of time (in any case, not less than ninety (90) days after the Administrative Agent has actual knowledge that the Tenant has vacated the Premises) to exercise the Administrative Agents rights in and to the Tenants Property, and (ii) will permit the Administrative Agent, or its agents or representatives, upon two (2) business days prior written notice by the Administrative Agent to Landlord at the address set forth in its signature block, to enter upon the Premises during such ninety (90) day period for the purpose of exercising any right the Administrative Agent may have under the terms of the Credit Agreement or Security Agreement, at law, or in equity, including, without limitation, the right to remove the Collateral and the right to conduct a public auction or private sale of Tenants Property at the Premises, provided that the Administrative Agent shall use reasonable best efforts to notify Landlord first and hold such auction or sale in a manner that would not unduly disrupt Landlords or any other tenants use of the Premises.
9. If any order or injunction is issued or stay granted which prohibits the Administrative Agent from exercising any of its rights hereunder, then, at the Administrative Agents option, the period set forth in this Paragraph 9 shall be stayed during the period of such prohibition and shall continue thereafter for the greater of (i) the number of days remaining for the Administrative Agent to perform under this Paragraph 3 or (ii) thirty (30) days.
10. The Administrative Agent and the Tenant agree, jointly and severally, promptly to repair any damage to the Premises caused by the Administrative Agents or its agents removal of the Tenants Property following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default or, if Landlord, in its sole discretion, shall elect to make such repairs, to pay to Landlord promptly the reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith. The Administrative Agent hereby indemnifies Landlord for any claim, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or in connection with the Administrative Agents or its agents entry upon the Premises and removal of the Collateral. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not (i) be liable for any diminution in value of the Premises caused by the absence of any Collateral so removed or (ii) have any duty or obligation to remove or dispose of any Collateral or any other property left on the Premises by the Tenant.
11. All notices hereunder to Landlord or to the Administrative Agent shall be in writing and sent to Landlord or to the Administrative Agent at its address set forth on the signature page hereof by facsimile, email, United States mail or overnight delivery service.
12. The agreements contained herein shall supplement the terms of the Lease and shall continue in effect until Landlord shall have received the Administrative Agents written certification that all amounts advanced under the Credit Agreement have been paid in full.
13. This Agreement and any right, remedy, obligation, claim, controversy, dispute or cause of action based upon, arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York without regard to conflicts of law principles that would lead to the application of laws other than the laws of the State of New York.
14. Landlord irrevocably and unconditionally (a) agrees that it will not commence any action, litigation or proceeding of any kind or description, whether in law or in equity, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, against the Administrative Agent arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any forum other than the courts of the State of New York sitting in New York County,
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and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, (b) submits to the jurisdiction of such courts and agrees that all claims in respect of such action, litigation or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in such federal court, (c) agrees that a final judgment in any such action, litigation or proceeding will be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law, (d) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court referred to in this Section, (e) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court, and (f) consents to the service of any process, summons, notice or document in any such action, litigation or proceeding by registered mail addressed to Landlord at its address set forth on the signature page hereof. Nothing herein will affect the right of the Administrative Agent to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law or affect the Administrative Agents right to bring any action, litigation or proceeding against Landlord or its property in the courts of other jurisdictions. To the extent that Landlord has or hereafter may acquire any immunity from jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process (whether through service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) with respect to itself or its property, Landlord irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Landlord.
15. Sub-Agent. All rights of the Administrative Agent hereunder may be exercised by any other person acting on the Administrative Agents behalf as its sub-agent and designated by the Administrative Agent in writing as such.
16. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. LANDLORD IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR AGENTS ACTIONS IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.
17. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission (in PDF format) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.
18. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of the respective parties hereto.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this instrument at , this day of , 20 .
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ANNEX A
Description of Premises
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FORM OF INTERCOMPANY SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
This Intercompany Subordination Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as subsequently amended or otherwise modified, this Subordination Agreement), is entered into by and among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are parties hereto, and certain other Subsidiaries of the Borrower that may, from time to time in the future, become parties hereto by executing and delivering a joinder agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto (any such Subsidiary being herein, individually, a Subsidiary Party and collectively the Subsidiary Parties) and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders under the Credit Agreement (as defined below) (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent).
Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December [], 2023 (as subsequently amended or otherwise modified, the Credit Agreement) among the Borrower, certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower that may be required to provide Guarantees from time to time thereunder, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and the Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined, capitalized terms used herein have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.
This Subordination Agreement is being executed and delivered by the parties hereto pursuant to Sections 8.12(a) and 9.01 of the Credit Agreement.
One or more of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Parties (individually, a TPI Composites Party and collectively, the TPI Composites Parties), in their capacities as lenders (each such entity, together with its successors, assigns and transferees in such capacity, individually, a Junior Creditor, and, collectively, Junior Creditors) has made, or may from time to time make, loans or extend other financings to one or more of the TPI Composites Parties that is an Obligor (each such Obligor in its capacity as a borrower from any Junior Creditor (together with its successors, assigns and transferees) being herein, individually, a Debtor Obligor, and, collectively, Debtor Obligors) to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement. All such Indebtedness resulting from the making of any such loan or financing, together with all principal, interest, premiums, fees, costs, expenses, liabilities, indemnification amounts, obligations and other amounts of any type or nature owing or arising in respect thereof, is herein collectively referred to as the Junior Obligations.
Each of the Junior Creditors and each of the Debtor Obligors, for the benefit of the Secured Parties and each of their permitted successors, transferees and assigns, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agree as follows:
1. | All payment obligations and other monetary obligations of any Debtor Obligor arising from time to time under or in connection with any Junior Obligations to any Junior Creditor are, and shall be, subordinated in right of payment and performance to the extent and in the manner set forth herein, to the prior Payment in Full of all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) owing under or in connection with the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, whether in respect of principal, interest, fees or other monetary obligations or |
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liabilities of any type or nature, including costs and expenses of enforcement, if any, and, where applicable, such Debtor Obligors Guaranty thereof (collectively the Senior Obligations), notwithstanding the maturity date or amortization date of any Junior Obligations or any acceleration of the maturity date related thereto, any default by or insolvency of any Debtor Obligor or any other Person, or otherwise. |
2. | This Subordination Agreement is for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties. |
3. | In the event of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation, arrangement, reorganization, adjustment, protection, relief or composition of any Debtor Obligor or its debts, whether voluntary or involuntary, in any bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement, reorganization, receivership, relief or other similar case or proceeding under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the assets and liabilities of any Debtor Obligor or otherwise, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to receive Payment in Full of the Senior Obligations before any Junior Creditor is entitled to receive any payment of all or any of the Junior Obligations, and any payment or distribution of any kind (whether in cash, property or securities, but other than (i) equity securities or (ii) debt securities of such Obligor that are subordinated, to at least the same extent as the Junior Obligations hereunder, to the payment of all Senior Obligations then outstanding) that otherwise would be payable or deliverable upon or with respect to the Junior Obligations in any such case, proceeding, assignment, marshalling or otherwise (including any payment that may be payable by reason of any other indebtedness of such Obligor being subordinated to payment of the Subordinated Debt) shall be paid or delivered in accordance with the Credit Agreement for the account of the applicable Lenders for application (in the case of cash) to, or as collateral (in the case of non-cash property or securities) for, the payment or prepayment of the Senior Obligations until the Senior Obligations shall have been paid in full in cash. |
4. | If any proceeding referred to in Section 3 above is commenced by or against any Debtor Obligor, |
a. | the Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized and empowered (in its own name or in the name of each Junior Creditor or otherwise), but shall have no obligation, to demand, sue for, collect and receive every payment or distribution referred to in Section 3 above and give acquittance therefor and to file claims and proofs of claim and take such other action (including, without limitation, voting the Junior Obligations or enforcing any security interest or other lien securing payment of the Junior Obligations) as it may deem necessary or advisable for the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights or interests of the Administrative Agent or Lenders hereunder; and |
b. | each Junior Creditor shall duly and promptly take such action as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request (A) to collect the Junior Obligations for the account of the Lenders and to file appropriate claims or proofs or claim in respect of the Junior Obligations, (B) to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such powers of attorney, assignments, or other |
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instruments as either may request in order to enable the Administrative Agent to enforce any and all claims with respect to, and any security interests and other liens securing payment of, the Junior Obligations, and (C) to collect and receive any and all payments or distributions which may be payable or deliverable upon or with respect to the Junior Obligations. |
5. | At all times during a Subordination Triggering Event (as defined below) and until Payment in Full of all Senior Obligations and the termination of all Senior Liens (as defined below), (i) no Debtor Obligor shall make, and no Junior Creditor shall accept, receive or collect from or on behalf of any Debtor Obligor, any direct or indirect payment or distribution of any kind or character whatsoever (whether in cash, securities, other property, by set-off, forgiveness of any Indebtedness of any Secured Party, from or by way of collateral, or otherwise) on account of any of the Junior Obligations, and (ii) under no circumstance shall any payment of any of the Junior Obligations be accelerated, or any other remedy, enforcement action or other action be taken by any Junior Creditor against any Debtor Obligor or any property of any Debtor Obligor or of any other Person, in each case with respect to any of the Junior Obligations (including to assert, enforce or collect any of the Junior Obligations), in each case, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. |
6. | No Junior Creditor shall, directly or indirectly, independently or with any other Person, take any action that would be in violation of, or inconsistent with, or result in a breach of this Subordination Agreement or challenge or contest (i) the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of this Subordination Agreement, any Senior Obligations or any Liens securing the Senior Obligations (Senior Liens), (ii) any of the rights of any Secured Party set forth in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document (including with respect to the Senior Liens), or (iii) the validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any portion thereof. |
7. | In the event that, during a proceeding referred to in Section 3 above or Subordination Triggering Event and prior to Payment in Full of the Senior Obligations, any Junior Creditor shall receive any payment or distribution of any kind or character whatsoever (whether in cash, securities, other property, by set-off, forgiveness of any Indebtedness of any Secured Party, or otherwise) on or in respect of all or any portion of the Junior Obligations in violation of any of the provisions of this Subordination Agreement, then such payment or distribution shall be held in trust by such Junior Creditor for the benefit of, and promptly (and in any event within three (3) Business Days) paid over by such Junior Creditor to the Administrative Agent for application of such payment or distribution to repay the Senior Obligations in accordance with the terms thereof, until Payment in Full of the Senior Obligations as confirmed in writing by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower. |
8. | For purposes of this Subordination Agreement, (a) Payment in Full means, (i) with respect to the Senior Obligations, that all such obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) and other amounts payable constituting Senior Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash and (ii) the receipt by the Administrative Agent of cash collateral in |
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order to secure any other contingent Senior Obligations for which a claim or demand for payment has been made at such time or in respect of matters or circumstances known to Administrative Agent or a Lender at the time that are reasonably expected to result in any loss, cost, damage or expense (including attorneys fees and legal expenses), such cash collateral to be in such amount as Administrative Agent reasonably determines is appropriate to secure such contingent Senior Debt and (b) Subordination Triggering Event shall mean the occurrence and continuation of any Event of Default under the Credit Agreement. |
9. | Neither any Junior Creditor nor any Debtor Obligor may, except to as permitted under the Credit Agreement: |
a. | sell, assign, pledge, encumber, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its rights or obligations hereunder unless such sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or disposition is made expressly subject to this Subordination Agreement; or |
b. | permit the terms of any of the Junior Obligations to be changed in such a manner as to have a material adverse effect upon the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Loan Documents. |
10. | All rights and interests of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties hereunder, and all agreements and obligations of each Junior Creditor and each Debtor Obligor under this Subordination Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of: |
a. | any amendment, extension, renewal, compromise, discharge, acceleration or other change in the time for payment or the terms of the Senior Obligations or any part thereof; |
b. | any taking, holding, exchange, enforcement, waiver, release, failure to perfect, sell or otherwise dispose of any security for payment of any Guarantee or any Senior Obligations; |
c. | the application of security and directing the order or manner of sale thereof as the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties in their sole discretion may determine; |
d. | the release or substitution of one or more of any endorsers or other guarantors of any of the Senior Obligations; |
e. | the taking of, or failure to take any action which, but for this Section 10, might operate as a discharge of such Debtor Obligor; |
f. | any defense arising by reason of any disability, change in corporate existence or structure or other defense of any Debtor Obligor or a Junior Creditor, the cessation from any cause whatsoever (including any act or omission of any Secured Party) of the liability of such Debtor Obligor or a Junior Creditor; |
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g. | any defense based on any claim that such Debtor Obligors or Junior Creditors obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of any other Debtor Obligor or any other Junior Creditor, as applicable; |
h. | any right to proceed against any Debtor Obligor, proceed against or exhaust any security for the Obligations, or pursue any other remedy in the power of any Secured Party, whatsoever; |
i. | any benefit of and any right to participate in any security now or hereafter held by any Secured Party, and |
j. | to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all other defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by applicable law limiting the liability of or exonerating guarantors or sureties. |
This Subordination Agreement shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Senior Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Obligor or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
11. | The Administrative Agent and the Lenders are hereby authorized to demand specific performance of this Subordination Agreement, whether or not such Debtor Obligor shall have complied with any of the provisions hereof applicable to it, at any time when such Junior Creditor shall have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Subordination Agreement applicable to it. Each Junior Creditor hereby irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of remedy at law, which might be asserted as a bar to such remedy of specific performance. |
12. | Each Junior Creditor agrees that no payment or distribution to the Administrative Agent or the other Lenders pursuant to the provisions of this Subordination Agreement shall entitle such Junior Creditor to exercise any right of subrogation in respect thereof until the Payment in Full of the Senior Obligations. |
13. | Each Junior Creditor and each Debtor Obligor will, at its expense and at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents, and take all further action, that may be necessary, or that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in writing, in order to protect any right or interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable the Administrative Agent or any other Lenders to exercise and enforce their respective rights and remedies hereunder. |
14. | This Subordination Agreement is a Loan Document executed pursuant to the Credit Agreement and shall (unless otherwise expressly indicated therein) be construed, administered and applied in accordance with all of the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby, including Section 14 thereof. The provisions of this Subordination Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. |
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15. | This Subordination Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this Subordination Agreement by signing any such counterpart. |
16. | This Subordination Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York. |
17. | Any Subsidiary of the Borrower may, without the consent of any other party to this agreement, become a TPI Composites Party under this Subordination Agreement by executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent a Subordination Agreement Joinder in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit A. |
18. | Except as modified in accordance with Section 17 to add any Subsidiary of the Borrower as an additional TPI Composites Party to this Subordination Agreement, this Subordination Agreement may not be amended, waived or otherwise modified without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Subordination Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
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Exhibit A
Form of Intercompany Subordination Agreement Joinder
INTERCOMPANY SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT JOINDER, dated as of [DATE] (this Joinder) by [NAME OF ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIARY], a [] [corporation][limited liability company] (the Additional TPI Composites Party), under that certain Intercompany Subordination Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Subordination Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders under the Credit Agreement (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Subordination Agreement.
Pursuant to Section 16 of the Subordination Agreement, the Additional TPI Composites Party hereby agrees to become a TPI Composites Party for all purposes of the Subordination Agreement, assumes and agrees to perform all of the obligations of [a Debtor Obligor] [and] [Junior Creditor] thereunder and agrees that is shall comply with and be bound by the terms of the Subordination Agreement as if it had been a signatory thereto as of the date thereof.
The Additional TPI Composites Party acknowledges that its obligations as a party to this Joinder are unconditional and are not subject to the execution of one or more Joinders by other parties. The Additional TPI Composites Party further agrees that it has joined and is fully obligated as [a Debtor Obligor] [and] [Junior Creditor] under the Subordination Agreement.
The Additional TPI Composites Party represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties that this Joinder 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, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance or transfer, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors rights generally, and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
All terms and conditions of the Subordination Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference to this Joinder as if set forth in full.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Additional TPI Composites Party has caused this Joinder to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.
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EXHIBIT H-10
EXHIBIT I
FORM OF SOLVENCY CERTIFICATE [ ], 20[]
This Solvency Certificate (this Certificate) is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(f) of that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The undersigned, the chief financial officer the Borrower, in such capacity only and not in any individual capacity (and without personal liability) hereby certifies on behalf of the Borrower as of the date hereof as follows:
1. I am, and at all pertinent times mentioned herein have been, the chief financial officer of the Borrower and am knowledgeable of the financial and accounting matters of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and as such, I am authorized to execute and deliver this Certificate on behalf of the Borrower.
2. I have carefully reviewed the contents of this Certificate and have knowledge of and have reviewed to my satisfaction the Credit Agreement.
3. In connection with preparing for the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, I have reviewed (i) the audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, (ii) the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for each fiscal quarter ended after December 31, 2022 together with the related consolidated statement of operations, shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal quarter and (iii) all other information as is necessary to enable me to express an informed opinion as to the matters referred to herein (the information set forth in this paragraph being the Financial Statements).
The undersigned has concluded, in good faith and to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, that as of the date hereof and immediately before and after giving effect to all the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the incurrence of any other Indebtedness contemplated thereunder, as follows:
(i) The Obligors, on a consolidated basis, are and, immediately after giving effect to the making of any Loans on the date hereof, and the use of proceeds thereof, and the consummation of any transactions on the date hereof, Solvent.
(ii) No transfer of property is being made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and no obligation is being incurred by the Borrower individually and together with its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents with the intent to hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
EXHIBIT I-1
The undersigned understands that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are relying on the truth and accuracy of this Certificate and that the delivery of this Certificate is a material inducement for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated thereby, and the undersigned hereby consents to such reliance.
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EXHIBIT I-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate on the date first written above.
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EXHIBIT I-3
EXHIBIT J
FORM OF CLOSING DATE CERTIFICATE
FOR
TPI COMPOSITES, INC.
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Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower that may be required to provide Guarantees from time to time thereunder, the lenders from time to time party thereto (each a Lender and collectively, the Lenders), and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the Administrative Agent). Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.
I, [], am a duly elected or appointed Responsible Officer of the Borrower, and do hereby certify, on behalf of the Borrower, solely in my capacity as Responsible Officer of the Borrower and not in my individual capacity, as follows:
1. Except as set forth in the Borrowers SEC filings, since December 31, 2022, no Material Adverse Change has occurred, both before and after giving effect to the Loans to be made on the Closing Date.
2. On the date hereof both immediately before and after giving effect to the Borrowing on the Closing Date, (i) the representations and warranties set forth in each Loan Document that are qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or the like are, in each case, true and correct, and the representations and warranties set forth in each Loan Document that are not qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or the like are, in each case, true and correct in all material respects (in each case, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties were true in all respects on and of such earlier date) and (ii) no event has occurred or is continuing or would result from the making of the Loans or the consummation of any Transactions contemplated to occur on the Closing Date, that would constitute a Default or Event of Default.
3. All of the conditions set forth in Section 6.01 of the Credit Agreement have been satisfied or shall be satisfied on the Closing Date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed this certificate on behalf of the Borrower on the date first set forth above.
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EXHIBIT J-1
EXHIBIT K
FORM OF SUBSEQUENT FUNDING DATE CERTIFICATE
FOR
TPI COMPOSITES, INC.
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Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of December 14, 2023 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower that may be required to provide Guarantees from time to time thereunder, the lenders from time to time party thereto (each a Lender and collectively, the Lenders), and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the Administrative Agent). Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.
I, [], am a duly elected or appointed Responsible Officer of the Borrower, and do hereby certify, on behalf of the Borrower, solely in my capacity as Responsible Officer of the Borrower and not in my individual capacity, as follows:
1. No event has occurred or is continuing or will result from the making of the Loans on the date hereof that would constitute a Default or Event of Default.
2. On the date hereof, both immediately before and after giving effect to the Borrowing on the Subsequent Funding Date, (i) the representations and warranties set forth in each Loan Document that are qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or the like are, in each case, true and correct, and the representations and warranties set forth in each Loan Document that are not qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or the like are, in each case, true and correct in all material respects (in each case, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties were true in all respects on and of such earlier date); (ii) no event has occurred or is continuing or would result from the making of the Loans, or the consummation of any transactions contemplated to occur on the Subsequent Funding Date, that would constitute a Default or Event of Default. The representations and warranties made under Section 7.04(a) of the Credit Agreement refer to the most recent financial statements of the Borrower furnished to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Credit Agreement.
3. Except to the extent waived by the Administrative Agent, all of the conditions set forth in Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement have been satisfied or shall be satisfied on the Subsequent Funding Date.
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EXHIBIT K-1
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed this certificate on behalf of the Borrower on the date first set forth above.
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EXHIBIT K-1
Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION VERSION
CONFIDENTIAL
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
December 14, 2023
by and among
TPI COMPOSITES, INC.,
OAKTREE POWER OPPORTUNITIES FUND V (DELAWARE) HOLDINGS, L.P.,
OPPS TPIC HOLDINGS, LLC,
and
OAKTREE PHOENIX INVESTMENT FUND, L.P.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Purchase and Sale of Common Stock |
1 | |||||
1.1 |
Sale and Issuance of Common Stock | 1 | ||||
1.2 |
Closing; Delivery | 2 | ||||
1.3 |
Defined Terms Used in this Agreement | 3 | ||||
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company |
8 | |||||
2.1 |
Organization, Good Standing, Corporate Power and Qualification | 9 | ||||
2.2 |
Capitalization | 9 | ||||
2.3 |
Subsidiaries | 10 | ||||
2.4 |
Authorization | 10 | ||||
2.5 |
Valid Issuance of Shares | 11 | ||||
2.6 |
Governmental Consents and Filings | 11 | ||||
2.7 |
Litigation | 11 | ||||
2.8 |
Intellectual Property | 12 | ||||
2.9 |
Compliance with Other Instruments | 12 | ||||
2.10 |
Agreements; Actions | 12 | ||||
2.11 |
Certain Transactions | 13 | ||||
2.12 |
Rights of Registration and Voting Rights | 13 | ||||
2.13 |
Property | 13 | ||||
2.14 |
SEC Documents; Financial Statements | 14 | ||||
2.15 |
Internal Accounting and Disclosure Controls | 14 | ||||
2.16 |
Changes | 15 | ||||
2.17 |
No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances | 15 | ||||
2.18 |
Employee Matters | 16 | ||||
2.19 |
Tax Returns and Payments | 17 | ||||
2.20 |
Employee Agreements | 17 | ||||
2.21 |
Permits | 18 | ||||
2.22 |
83(b) Elections | 18 | ||||
2.23 |
Investment Company Act | 18 | ||||
2.24 |
Environmental and Safety Laws | 18 | ||||
2.25 |
Data Privacy | 18 | ||||
2.26 |
Real Property Holding Corporation | 19 | ||||
2.27 |
Insurance | 19 | ||||
2.28 |
Anti-Corruption | 19 | ||||
2.29 |
No Integrated Offering | 19 | ||||
2.30 |
Sarbanes-Oxley Act | 20 | ||||
2.31 |
Customers and Suppliers | 20 | ||||
2.32 |
Application of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement | 20 | ||||
2.33 |
Disclosure of Information | 20 |
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3. Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers |
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3.1 |
Authorization | 21 | ||||
3.2 |
Purchase Entirely for Own Account | 21 | ||||
3.3 |
Disclosure of Information | 21 | ||||
3.4 |
Restricted Securities | 22 | ||||
3.5 |
Legends | 22 | ||||
3.6 |
Accredited Investor | 22 | ||||
3.7 |
No Additional Representations | 23 | ||||
4. Covenants |
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4.1 |
Maintenance of Existence | 23 | ||||
4.2 |
Taxes | 23 | ||||
4.3 |
Notifications | 23 | ||||
5. [Reserved.] |
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6. Indemnification |
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6.1 |
Indemnity by the Company | 24 | ||||
6.2 |
Indemnity by the Purchasers | 24 | ||||
6.3 |
Expiration of Representations and Warranties; Exclusive Remedy | 24 | ||||
6.4 |
Limitations on Liability | 25 | ||||
6.5 |
Third-Party Claims | 25 | ||||
6.6 |
Direct Claims | 26 | ||||
6.7 |
Tax Characterization | 26 | ||||
7. Miscellaneous |
26 | |||||
7.1 |
Successors and Assigns | 26 | ||||
7.2 |
Governing Law | 27 | ||||
7.3 |
Counterparts | 27 | ||||
7.4 |
Titles and Subtitles | 27 | ||||
7.5 |
Notices | 27 | ||||
7.6 |
No Finders Fees | 28 | ||||
7.7 |
Further Assurances | 28 | ||||
7.8 |
Transaction Expenses | 28 | ||||
7.9 |
Amendments and Waivers | 28 | ||||
7.10 |
Severability | 28 | ||||
7.11 |
Delays or Omissions | 29 | ||||
7.12 |
Entire Agreement | 29 | ||||
7.13 |
Dispute Resolution | 29 | ||||
7.14 |
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL | 30 |
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TPI COMPOSITES, INC.
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this Agreement), is made as of December 14, 2023, by and among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), and Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, (each a Purchaser and collectively, the Purchasers).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company and the Purchasers previously entered into that certain Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2021 (the Series A Purchase Agreement), pursuant to which the Purchasers purchased shares of the Companys Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Series A Preferred Stock);
WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock, on November 22, 2021 the Company filed a Certificate of Designations with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware setting forth the rights, powers, preferences and privileges of the Series A Preferred Stock (the Certificate of Designations);
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 4(a) of the Certificate of Designations, dividends accrue on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock at a rate of eleven percent (11.0%) per annum of the Original Issue Price (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) per share, and as of the date hereof, an aggregate of approximately $86,000,000 of dividends have accrued on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by the Purchasers and are unpaid (the Accrued Dividends); and
WHEREAS, the Purchasers desire to waive, cancel and terminate their respective rights with respect to an aggregate of $43,000,000 of Accrued Dividends in exchange for, and in consideration of, the issuance by the Company of an aggregate of 3,899,903 shares of the Companys common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the Common Stock), to the Purchasers, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, mutual promises, representations, warranties, covenants and conditions contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree to be legally bound as follows:
1. Purchase and Sale of Common Stock.
1.1 Sale and Issuance of Common Stock.
(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase at the Closing and the Company agrees to issue and sell to each such Purchaser at the Closing the number of shares of Common Stock set forth opposite such Purchasers name in Exhibit A hereto, in exchange for the waiver, cancellation and termination of such Purchasers rights with respect to the amount of Accrued Dividends set forth opposite such Purchasers name in Exhibit A hereto. The shares of Common Stock issued to the Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement shall be referred to in this Agreement as the Shares.
1.2 Closing; Delivery. The closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the Closing) shall take place remotely via the electronic exchange of documents and signatures on the date hereof (the Closing Date).
(a) At the Closing, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchasers:
(i) evidence reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers evidencing the ownership by the Purchasers of the applicable number of shares of Common Stock as contemplated by this Agreement;
(ii) a certificate of good standing of the Company as of a date no earlier than two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date;
(iii) counterparts to the Transaction Agreements, duly executed by the Company;
(iv) copies of the resolutions or written consents duly adopted by the Board of Directors and certified by the Companys secretary authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;
(v) pay, or cause to be paid to the Purchasers, any unpaid portion of the Transaction Expenses; and
(vi) deliver or cause to be delivered any other customary documents or certificates reasonably requested by the Purchasers which are reasonably necessary to give effect to the Closing.
(b) At the Closing:
(i) the Purchasers rights with respect to the Accrued Dividends set forth in Exhibit A hereto shall be waived, cancelled and terminated; and
(ii) the Purchasers shall deliver to the Company executed counterpart signature pages to each of the Transaction Agreements to which Purchasers are a party.
(c) Upon completion of the Closing and the issuance of the Shares to the Purchasers, the Purchasers (i) acknowledge that the Accrued Dividends set forth in Exhibit A hereto shall no longer be deemed unpaid, (ii) irrevocably waive any and all of their rights with respect to such Accrued Dividends and (iii) permanently release and discharge the Company from any and all claims, actions, causes or rights, whether known or unknown, contingent or matured, that the Purchasers may now have, or may have in the future, arising out of, or related to, such Accrued Dividends.
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1.3 Defined Terms Used in this Agreement. In addition to the terms defined above, the following terms used in this Agreement shall be construed to have the meanings set forth or referenced below.
(a) 409A Plan has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(f).
(b) 2022 Form 10-K has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.
(c) Affiliate means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person who, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person, including, without limitation, any general partner, managing member, officer, director or trustee of such Person, or any venture capital fund, private investment fund or registered investment company now or hereafter existing that is controlled by one or more general partners, managing members or investment advisers of, or shares the same management company or investment adviser with, such Person; provided that neither the Purchasers nor any of their Affiliates shall be considered Affiliates of the Company for purposes of this definition.
(d) Agreement has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(e) Board of Directors means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(f) Business Day means any day, other than a Saturday, a Sunday, any other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by law to be closed.
(g) Bylaws means the Third Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company.
(h) Certificate of Designations has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(i) Certificate of Incorporation means the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and all amendments thereto, as the same may be amended from time to time.
(j) Closing has the meaning set forth in Section 1.2.
(k) Closing Date has the meaning set forth in Section 1.2.
(l) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(m) Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(n) Common Stock Period has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1.
(o) Company has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
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(p) Company Covered Person means, with respect to the Company as an issuer for purposed of Rule 506 promulgated under the Securities Act, any Person listed in the first paragraph of Rule 506(d)(1).
(q) Company Fundamental Representations means the representations and warranties contained in Section 2.1 (Organization, Good Standing, Corporate Power and Qualification), Section 2.4 (Authorization), Section 2.5 (Valid Issuance of Shares), Section 2.11 (Certain Transactions) and Section 2.33 (Disclosure of Information).
(r) Company Indemnitor has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.
(s) Company Indemnitees has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2.
(t) Company Intellectual Property means all patents, patent applications, registered and unregistered trademarks, trademark applications, registered and unregistered service marks, service mark applications, trade names, indicia of origin, published and unpublished works of authorship, copyrights, rights in software, data, database rights, trade secrets, domain names, uniform resource locators, social media handles, mask works, information and proprietary rights and processes, similar or other intellectual property rights, subject matter of any of the foregoing, tangible embodiments of any of the foregoing, goodwill, common law rights and moral rights associated therewith (collectively, Intellectual Property Rights), in each case that are owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(u) Company Plan any benefit or compensation plan, program, policy, practice, agreement, contract, arrangement or other obligation, whether or not in writing and whether or not funded, in each case, which is sponsored or maintained by, or required to be contributed to, or with respect to which any potential liability is borne by the Company, including, but not limited to, employee benefit plans within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), employment, consulting, retirement, severance, termination or change in control agreements, deferred compensation, equity-based, incentive, bonus, supplemental retirement, profit sharing, insurance, medical, welfare, fringe or other benefits or remuneration of any kind.
(v) Confidential Information Agreements has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20.
(w) Control means, as to any Person, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. The terms Controlled by, under common Control with and Controlling have correlative meanings.
(x) Credit Agreement means the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, the guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC, as the Administrative Agent.
(y) Current Stock Plan has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(b).
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(z) Damages has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.
(aa) Direct Claim has the meaning set forth in Section 6.6.
(bb) Disclosure Schedule has the meaning set forth in Section 2.
(cc) Disqualification Event has the meaning set forth in Section 2.5(a).
(dd) Environmental Laws has the meaning set forth in Section 2.24.
(ee) ERISA has the meaning set forth in the definition of Company Plan.
(ff) ERISA Affiliate has the meaning set forth in Section 2.18(f).
(gg) Event has the meaning set forth in the definition of Material Adverse Effect.
(hh) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(ii) Existing Investor Rights Agreement means the Third Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement by and among the Registrant and the investors named therein, dated June 17, 2010, as amended through the date hereof.
(jj) Financial Statements has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14.
(kk) GAAP has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14.
(ll) Governmental Authority means any domestic or foreign governmental, legislative, judicial, administrative or regulatory authority, agency, commission, body, court or entity.
(mm) Governmental Order means any order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award entered by or with any Governmental Authority.
(nn) Hazardous Substance has the meaning set forth in Section 2.24.
(oo) Indemnitor has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2.
(pp) Indemnitee has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2.
(qq) Intellectual Property Rights has the meaning set forth in the definition of Company Intellectual Property.
(rr) Investor Rights Agreement means the agreement between the Company and the Purchasers dated as of November 22, 2021, as amended and restated as of the date hereof.
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(ss) IT Systems computer systems, servers, network equipment and other computer hardware owned or used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries .
(tt) Key Employee means any executive-level employee (including division director and vice president-level positions) as well as any employee who either alone or in concert with others develops, invents, programs or designs any Company Intellectual Property.
(uu) knowledge, including the phrase to the Companys knowledge, shall mean the actual knowledge after reasonable investigation of the President & CEO, Chief Information Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel.
(vv) Law means any federal, state, local or foreign law, statute or ordinance, or any rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ, injunction, ruling or decree of any Governmental Authority.
(ww) NASDAQ has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14.
(xx) Material Adverse Effect means any event, circumstance, effect, change, development, fact, condition or development (each an Event and collectively, Events) that, individually or taken together with one or more other Events, has or would be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on (x) the business, assets (including intangible assets), liabilities, financial condition, property, or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (y) the Companys ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Certificate of Incorporation, other than the following (none of which may be taken into account in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred other than as expressly provided below): (i) Events resulting from a general deterioration in the economy or changes in the general state of the markets or industries in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate, (ii) Events generally affecting the economy or the debt, credit or securities markets (including any decline in the price of any security or any market index or any change in interest or exchange rates), in each case, in the United States or anywhere else in the world, (iii) any hostilities or declared or undeclared acts of war, sabotage, terrorism or military actions or any escalation, worsening or diminution of any such hostilities, acts of war, sabotage, terrorism or military actions existing or underway as of the date hereof, or any acts of God, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or other national disaster, (iv) changes in applicable law or the interpretation thereof after the date hereof, (v) changes in GAAP or other accounting requirements or principles or the interpretation thereof after the date hereof, (vi) any failure of the Company or its Subsidiaries to meet or achieve the projections, forecasts or revenue or earning predictions for any period (provided, that this clause (vi) shall not prevent a determination that any Event underlying such failure has resulted in a Material Adverse Effect, to the extent such Event is not otherwise excluded from this definition of Material Adverse Effect), except, in the case of clauses (i) through (vi) above, to the extent such Event has had or is reasonably expected to have a disproportionately adverse effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses as compared to other Persons operating in a similar industry or geographic location as those that the Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective businesses operate (in which case the incremental disproportionate impact or impacts of such Events may be taken into account in determining whether there has been, or would reasonably be expected to be, a Material Adverse Effect).
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(yy) PCBs has the meaning set forth in Section 2.24.
(zz) Person means any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company, association or other entity.
(aaa) Personal Information has the meaning set forth in Section 2.25.
(bbb) Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(ii).
(ccc) Prohibited Payment means any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other payment or gift of money or anything of value (including meals or entertainment) to any officer, employee or ceremonial office holder of any government or instrumentality thereof, political party or supra-national organization (such as the United Nations), any political candidate, any royal family member or any other person who is connected or associated personally with any of the foregoing that is prohibited under any Law for the purpose of influencing any act or decision of such payee in his official capacity, inducing such payee to do or omit to do any act in violation of his lawful duty, securing any improper advantage or inducing such payee to use his influence with a government or instrumentality thereof to affect or influence any act or decision of such government or instrumentality.
(ddd) Purchaser has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(eee) Purchasers Indemnitees has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.
(fff) Purchasers Indemnitor has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2.
(ggg) Representatives means, with respect to a specified Person, the investors, officers, directors, managers, employees, agents, advisors, counsel, accountants, investment bankers and other representatives of such Person.
(hhh) SEC has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14.
(iii) SEC Documents means all forms, reports, schedules and statements that have been filed or furnished by the Company with the SEC under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act in the twelve (12) months prior to the date of this Agreement (excluding in each case any disclosures set forth in the risk factors or forward-looking statements sections of such reports, and any other disclosures included therein to the extent they are predictive or forward-looking in nature).
(jjj) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(kkk) Series A Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1(a).
(lll) Shares has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1(a).
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(mmm) Significant Subsidiary means each Subsidiary of the Company that is a significant subsidiary (as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of the SECs Regulation S-X).
(nnn) Stock Plans has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(b).
(ooo) Subsidiary of any Person means any corporation, general or limited partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other Person that is a legal entity, trust or estate of which (or in which) (a) the issued and outstanding shares having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors (or a majority of another body performing similar functions) of such corporation or other Person (irrespective of whether at the time equity interests of any other class or classes of such corporation or other Person shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency), (b) more than 50% of the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership, joint venture or limited liability company or (c) more than 50% of the beneficial interest in such trust or estate, is at the time of determination directly or indirectly beneficially owned or Controlled by such Person.
(ppp) Third Party Claim has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5.
(qqq) Trade Secrets means confidential or proprietary information, trade secrets, inventions, discoveries, ideas, improvements, information, know-how, data and databases, algorithms, techniques, processes, schematics, business and other methods, formulae, drawings, specifications, source code, prototypes, models, flow-charts, testing procedures and results, designs, customer lists and supplier lists.
(rrr) Transaction Agreements means this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the Investor Rights Agreement, and any other instruments or documents entered into in connection herewith and therewith.
(sss) Transaction Expenses has the meaning set forth in Section 6.8.
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby represents and warrants to the Purchasers, except as (1) disclosed in the SEC Documents, and (2) in the corresponding sections or subsections of the disclosure schedule attached as Exhibit B to this Agreement (the Disclosure Schedule) (provided that the Disclosure Schedules shall be arranged in sections corresponding to the numbered and lettered sections and subsections contained in this Section 2, and the disclosures in any section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedule shall qualify other sections and subsections in this Section 2 only to the extent it is readily apparent from a reading of the disclosure that such disclosure is applicable to such other sections and subsections), which exceptions shall be deemed to be part of the representations and warranties made hereunder, as of the date hereof and the Closing Date, as follows:
For purposes of these representations and warranties (other than those in Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6), the term the Company shall include any Subsidiaries of the Company, unless otherwise noted herein.
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2.1 Organization, Good Standing, Corporate Power and Qualification. The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has all requisite corporate power and authority to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the failure to so qualify would have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
2.2 Capitalization.
(a) The authorized capital of the Company consists, immediately prior to the Closing, of:
(i) 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, 43,090,956 shares of which are issued and 42,571,228 shares of which are outstanding immediately prior to the Closing. All of the outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized, are fully paid and nonassessable and were issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws.
(ii) 400,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, 350,000 of which are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Closing. All of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock have been duly authorized, are fully paid and nonassessable and were issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws.
(iii) 5,100,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share (the Preferred Stock), none of which are issued and outstanding.
(b) The Company has reserved (i) 7,325,149 shares of Common Stock for issuance to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to its Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Option and Incentive Plan duly adopted by the Board of Directors and approved by the Company stockholders (the Current Stock Plan) and (ii) 1,042,825 shares of Common Stock for issuance to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to its 2008 Stock Option and Grant Plan that is now terminated (collectively, the Stock Plans). Of such reserved shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Stock Plans, 3,162,716 shares are to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights or the settlement of unvested restricted stock units or performance-based restricted stock units, and 4,162,433 shares of Common Stock remain available for issuance to officers, directors, employees and consultants pursuant to the Current Stock Plan.
(c) The Company has no obligation (contingent or otherwise) to purchase or redeem any of its capital stock.
(d) (A) Except for the rights provided in Article III (Preemptive Rights), and Article II (Registration Rights) of the Investor Rights Agreement, and Section 4 (Preemptive Rights) and Section 2 (Registration Rights) of the Existing Investor Rights Agreement, none of the Companys or any of its Subsidiaries capital stock is subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or restrictions or liens suffered or permitted by the Company or any Subsidiary; (B) except as provided in the Existing Investor Rights Agreement and the Investor Rights Agreement, there are no contracts under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to register the sale of any of their securities under the Securities Act; (C) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to redeem a security of the
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Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (D) there are no securities or instruments or capital stock containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Shares; (E) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any stock appreciation rights or phantom stock plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement; and (F) there are no stockholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which they are bound relating to the voting of any shares, interests or capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(e) The Company has obtained valid waivers of any rights by other parties to purchase any of the Shares covered by this Agreement.
(f) To the knowledge of the Company, any nonqualified deferred compensation plan (as such term is defined under Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code and the guidance thereunder) under which the Company makes, is obligated to make or promises to make, payments (each, a 409A Plan) complies in all material respects, in both form and operation, with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and the guidance thereunder. To the knowledge of the Company, no payment to be made under any 409A Plan is, or will be, subject to the penalties of Section 409A(a)(1) of the Code.
2.3 Subsidiaries. The Company has no Significant Subsidiaries except as set forth on Exhibit 21.1 to the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (the 2022 Form 10-K) and the Company does not currently own or control, directly or indirectly, any interest in any other corporation, partnership, trust, joint venture, limited liability company, association or other business entity. The Company is the record and beneficial owner of one hundred percent (100%) of the equity interests of each Subsidiary of the Company, in each case, free and clear of any and all liens (other than restrictions imposed by applicable federal and state securities laws applicable to unregistered securities generally). The Company is not a participant in any joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement. Each Significant Subsidiary is a corporation or limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation and has all requisite corporate or limited liability company power and authority to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company and each of its Significant Subsidiaries is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the failure to so qualify would have a Material Adverse Effect.
2.4 Authorization. The Company has full power and authority to enter into the Transaction Agreements. All corporate action required to be taken by the Board of Directors and the Companys stockholders in order to authorize the Company to enter into the Transaction Agreements, and to issue the Shares at the Closing has been taken. All action on the part of the officers of the Company necessary for the execution and delivery of the Transaction Agreements, the performance of all obligations of the Company under the Transaction Agreements to be performed as of the Closing, and the issuance and delivery of the Shares has been taken. The Transaction Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, shall constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms except (i) as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, or other laws of general application relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors rights generally, or (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief, or other equitable remedies.
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2.5 Valid Issuance of Shares.
(a) The Shares, when issued, sold and delivered in accordance with the terms and for the consideration set forth in this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions on transfer under the Transaction Agreements, applicable state and federal securities laws and liens or encumbrances created by or imposed by the Purchasers. Assuming the accuracy of the representations of the Purchasers in Section 3 of this Agreement and subject to the filings described in Section 2.6, the Shares will be issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws.
(b) No bad actor disqualifying event described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i)-(viii) of the Securities Act (a Disqualification Event) is applicable to the Company or, to the Companys knowledge, any Company Covered Person, except for a Disqualification Event as to which Rule 506(d)(2)(ii-iv) or (d)(3) of the Securities Act is applicable.
2.6 Governmental Consents and Filings. Assuming the accuracy of the representations made by the Purchasers in Section 3 of this Agreement, no consent, approval, order or authorization of, or registration, qualification, designation, declaration or filing with, any federal, state or local governmental authority is required on the part of the Company in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for filings pursuant to applicable state securities laws, which have been made or will be made in a timely manner.
2.7 Litigation. There is no claim, action, suit, proceeding, arbitration, complaint, charge or investigation pending or, to the Companys knowledge, currently threatened (i) against the Company or any officer, director or Key Employee of the Company arising out of their employment or board relationship with the Company; (ii) to the Companys knowledge, that questions the validity of the Transaction Agreements or the right of the Company to enter into them, or to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements; or (iii) that would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor, to the Companys knowledge, any of its officers, its directors or the Key Employees is a party to or is named as subject to the provisions of any order, writ, injunction, judgment or decree of any court or government agency or instrumentality (in the case of officers, directors or the Key Employees, such as would affect the Company). There is no action, suit, proceeding or investigation by the Company pending or which the Company intends to initiate. The foregoing includes, without limitation, actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened in writing (or any basis therefor known to the Company) involving the prior employment of any of the Companys employees, their services provided in connection with the Companys business, any information or techniques allegedly proprietary to any of their former employers or their obligations under any agreements with prior employers.
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2.8 Intellectual Property.
(a) Except as, individually or in the aggregate, has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess sufficient rights to use all Intellectual Property Rights used in or necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted. To the Companys knowledge, the conduct of the respective businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the Intellectual Property Rights of any third Person, and to the Companys knowledge, no third Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Company Intellectual Property.
(b) The Company or its applicable Subsidiary has obtained from all current and former employees and contractors who have created or developed any material Intellectual Property Rights for or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, written, valid and enforceable present assignments of all such Intellectual Property Rights. The Company has taken reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality and value of all material Trade Secrets owned by the Company. There has been no security breach, or unauthorized encryption, access to or use, or any unscheduled unavailability, downtime or other disruption, of any IT Systems owned, used or held for use by the Company, or any information or data stored thereon, that has resulted in, or is reasonably likely to result in, material liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The Company has taken reasonable precautions to protect the IT Systems against any of the foregoing.
2.9 Compliance with Other Instruments. The Company is not in violation or default (i) of any provisions of its Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, (ii) of any instrument, judgment, order, writ or decree, (iii) under any note, indenture or mortgage, or (iv) under any lease, agreement, contract or purchase order to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or (v) of any provision of federal or state statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company, except, in the case of sub-clauses (ii) through (v), the violation of which would have a Material Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements will not result in any such violation or be in conflict with or constitute, with or without the passage of time and giving of notice, either (i) a default under any such provision, instrument, judgment, order, writ, decree, contract or agreement; or (ii) an event which results in the creation of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any assets of the Company or the suspension, revocation, forfeiture, or nonrenewal of any material permit or license applicable to the Company.
2.10 Agreements; Actions.
(a) Except for the Transaction Agreements, there are no agreements, understandings, instruments, contracts or proposed transactions to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound that involve the grant of rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other Person that limit the Companys exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market or sell its products.
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(b) The Company has not (i) declared or paid any dividends, or authorized or made any distribution upon or with respect to any class or series of its capital stock, (ii) incurred any indebtedness for money borrowed or incurred any other liabilities individually in excess of $10,000,000 or in excess of $20,000,000 in the aggregate, (iii) made any loans or advances to any Person, other than ordinary advances for travel expenses, or (iv) sold, exchanged or otherwise disposed of any of its assets or rights, other than the sale of its inventory in the ordinary course of business. For the purposes of subsections (b) and (c) of this Section 2.10, all indebtedness, liabilities, agreements, understandings, instruments, contracts and proposed transactions involving the same Person (including Persons the Company has reason to believe are affiliated with each other) shall be aggregated for the purpose of meeting the individual minimum dollar amounts of such subsection.
(c) The Company is not a guarantor or indemnitor of any indebtedness of any other Person except for parent guarantees on behalf of certain wholly-owned Company Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice of the Company.
2.11 Certain Transactions.
(a) Other than (i) standard employee benefits generally made available to all employees, (ii) standard director and officer indemnification agreements approved by the Board of Directors, and (iii) there are no agreements, understandings or proposed transactions between the Company and any of its officers, directors, consultants or Key Employees, or any Affiliate thereof.
(b) The Company is not indebted, directly or indirectly, to any of its directors, officers or employees or to their respective spouses, domestic partners or children or to any Affiliate of any of the foregoing, other than in connection with expenses or advances of expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business or employee relocation expenses and for other customary employee benefits made generally available to all employees. There have not been any transactions or contracts or series of related transactions or contracts required to be disclosed under Item 404 of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act.
2.12 Rights of Registration and Voting Rights. Except as provided in the Investor Rights Agreement and the Existing Investor Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register under the Securities Act any of its currently outstanding securities or any securities issuable upon exercise or conversion of its currently outstanding securities. To the Companys knowledge, no stockholder of the Company has entered into any agreements with respect to the voting of capital shares of the Company.
2.13 Property. The property and assets that the Company owns are free and clear of all mortgages, deeds of trust, liens, loans and encumbrances, except for statutory liens for the payment of current taxes that are not yet delinquent and encumbrances and liens that arise in the ordinary course of business and do not materially impair the Companys ownership or use of such property or assets. With respect to the property and assets it leases, the Company is in compliance with such leases and holds a valid leasehold interest free of any liens, claims or encumbrances other than those of the lessors of such property or assets or their mortgagors. The Company does not own any real property.
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2.14 SEC Documents; Financial Statements. Since December 31, 2022, the Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms, proxy statements, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act or the Securities Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits and appendices included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the SEC Documents. Prior to the date hereof, the Company has delivered or has made available to the Purchasers true, correct and complete copies of each of the SEC Documents not available on the EDGAR system. As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder and the rules and regulations of the Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ), in each case, applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. None of the Companys Subsidiaries is subject to the periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. There are no outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters from the SEC staff with respect to any of the SEC Documents. To the Companys knowledge, no SEC Document is the subject of ongoing SEC review or outstanding SEC investigation. As of their respective dates, the audited and unaudited financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents (including, in each case, the notes thereto, the Financial Statements) complied in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto as in effect as of the time of filing. The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such Financial Statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements), and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments which will not be material, either individually or in the aggregate). The Company is not currently contemplating to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements (including any notes or any letter of the independent accountants of the Company with respect thereto), nor, to the Companys knowledge, do there exist any facts or circumstances which would require the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements, in each case, in order for any of the Financial Statements to be in compliance with GAAP and the rules and regulations of the SEC. The Company has not been informed by its independent accountants that they recommend that the Company amend or restate any of the Financial Statements or that there is any need for the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements.
2.15 Internal Accounting and Disclosure Controls. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintains internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that are effective to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of the financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries for external purposes in accordance with GAAP, and includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements and (iii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company
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are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Company. The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Companys management, including its principal executive officer or officers and its principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice or correspondence from any accountants, governmental entities or other Person relating to (x) any potential material weakness or significant deficiency in any part of the internal controls over financial reporting of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (y) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves (or involved) the management or other employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries who have (or had) a significant role in the Companys or its Subsidiaries internal controls.
2.16 Changes. Since December 31, 2022, there has not been:
(a) any Material Adverse Effect;
(b) any damage, destruction or loss, whether or not covered by insurance, that would be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(c) any waiver or compromise by the Company of any right or of a debt owed to it, that would be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or
(d) any mortgage, pledge, transfer of a security interest in, or lien, created by the Company, with respect to any of its tangible or intangible properties or assets, that would be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except liens for taxes not yet due or payable and liens that arise in the ordinary course of business and do not materially impair the Companys ownership or use of such property or assets.
2.17 No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances. Except with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements, no event, liability, obligation, development or circumstance (whether absolute, accrued, contingent, fixed or otherwise) has occurred or existed, or is reasonably expected to exist or occur with respect to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses, properties, liabilities, prospects, operations (including results thereof) or condition (financial or otherwise), that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
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2.18 Employee Matters.
(a) To the Companys knowledge, none of its employees is obligated under any contract (including licenses, covenants or commitments of any nature) or other agreement, or subject to any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative agency, that would materially interfere with such employees ability to promote the interest of the Company or that would conflict with the Companys business. Neither the execution or delivery of the Transaction Agreements, nor the carrying on of the Companys business by the employees of the Company, nor the conduct of the Companys business as now conducted and as presently proposed to be conducted, will, to the Companys knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant or instrument under which any such employee is now obligated.
(b) The Company is not delinquent in payments to any of its employees, consultants or independent contractors for any wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses or other direct compensation for any service performed for it to the date hereof or amounts required to be reimbursed to such employees, consultants or independent contractors. The Company has complied in all material respects with all applicable state, federal and foreign equal employment opportunity laws and with all other applicable state, federal and foreign laws related to employment, including but not limited to those related to wages, hours, worker classification and collective bargaining. The Company has withheld and paid to the appropriate governmental entity or is holding for payment not yet due to such governmental entity all amounts required to be withheld from employees of the Company and is not liable for any arrears of wages, taxes, penalties or other sums for failure to comply with any of the foregoing.
(c) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby (either alone or in combination with another event) will (i) constitute a change in control or change of control or any similar term under any Company Plan, (ii) result in any payment becoming due to any current or former employee, director, officer or independent contractor of the Company, (iii) increase the amount of any compensation or benefits due under any Company Plan, (iv) result in the acceleration of the time of payment, vesting or funding under any Company Plan or (v) limit or restrict the right to merge, materially amend, terminate or transfer the assets of any Company Plan.
(d) To the Companys knowledge, no Key Employee intends to terminate employment with the Company or is otherwise likely to become unavailable to continue as a Key Employee, nor does the Company have a present intention to terminate the employment of any of the foregoing. The employment of each employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.
(e) The Company has not made any representations regarding equity incentives or compensation to any officer, employee, director or consultant that are inconsistent with the share amounts and terms set forth in the minutes of meetings and/or written consents of the Board of Directors (or compensation committee thereof) and provided to the Purchasers.
(f) The Company has made all required contributions and has no liability to any Company Plan, other than liability for health plan continuation coverage described in Part 6 of Title I(B) of ERISA, and has complied in all material respects with all applicable laws for any such Company Plan. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has contributed (or had any obligation of any sort) in the last six (6) years to a plan that is subject to Section 412 or 302 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA. For purposes of this Agreement, ERISA Affiliate means all employers (whether or not incorporated) that would be treated together with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code.
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(g) To the Companys knowledge, none of the Key Employees or directors of the Company has been (i) subject to voluntary or involuntary petition under the federal bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency law or the appointment of a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer by a court for his business or property; (ii) convicted in a criminal proceeding or named as a subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses); (iii) subject to any order, judgment or decree (not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated) of any court of competent jurisdiction permanently or temporarily enjoining him from engaging, or otherwise imposing limits or conditions on his engagement, in any securities, investment advisory, banking, insurance, or other type of business or acting as an officer or director of a public company; or (iv) found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the SEC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated any federal or state securities, commodities or unfair trade practices law, which such judgment or finding has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated.
(h) Other than as disclosed on Section 2.18(h) of the Disclosure Schedule, no labor union, collective bargaining organization or labor representative has requested or, to the knowledge of the Company, has sought to represent any of the employees, representatives or agents of the Company. There is no strike or other labor dispute involving the Company pending, or to the Companys knowledge, threatened.
(i) Each former Key Employee whose employment was terminated by the Company has entered into an agreement with the Company providing for the full release of any claims against the Company or any related party arising out of such employment or termination of employment.
2.19 Tax Returns and Payments. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company, (a) there are no federal, state, county, local or foreign taxes due and payable by the Company which have not been timely paid, (b) there are no accrued and unpaid federal, state, county, local or foreign taxes of the Company which are due, whether or not assessed or disputed, (c) there have been no examinations or audits of any tax returns or reports by any applicable federal, state, local or foreign governmental agency, (d) the Company has duly and timely filed all federal, state, county, local and foreign tax returns required to have been filed by it, all such returns are true, correct and complete in all respects and there are in effect no waivers of applicable statutes of limitations with respect to taxes for any year.
2.20 Employee Agreements. Each Key Employee and any other current or former employee, consultant or officer of the Company has executed an agreement with the Company regarding confidentiality and proprietary information substantially in the form or forms made available to the counsel for the Purchasers (the Confidential Information Agreements). No current or former Key Employee has excluded works or inventions from his or her assignment of inventions pursuant to such Key Employees Confidential Information Agreement. Each current and former Key Employee has executed a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement substantially in the form or forms made available to counsel for the Purchasers prior to the date hereof. Each current and former Key Employee that is a consultant to the Company has entered into a Consulting Agreement, substantially in the form previously provided or made available to the Purchasers prior to the date hereof. The Company is not aware that any of its Key Employees is in violation of any agreement covered by this Section 2.20.
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2.21 Permits. The Company has all material franchises, permits, registrations, licenses and any similar authority necessary for the conduct of its business. The Company is not in default or violation (and no event has occurred which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute a material default or violation) in any material respect of any term, condition or provision under any of such franchises, permits, registrations, licenses or other similar authority, and the Company is not the subject of any pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action by a governmental authority seeking the cancellation, revocation, suspension, termination, modification or impairment of any such franchises, permits, registrations, licenses or other similar authority.
2.22 83(b) Elections. To the Companys knowledge, all elections and notices under Section 83(b) of the Code have been or will be timely filed by all individuals who have acquired unvested shares of the Companys Common Stock.
2.23 Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is an investment company as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.
2.24 Environmental and Safety Laws. Except as has not and would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company, and to the Companys knowledge, (a) the Company is and has been in compliance with all Environmental Laws; (b) there has been no release or, to the Companys knowledge, threatened release of any pollutant, contaminant or toxic or hazardous material, substance or waste, or petroleum or any fraction thereof, (each, a Hazardous Substance) on, upon, into or from any site currently or heretofore owned, leased or otherwise used by the Company; (c) there have been no Hazardous Substances generated by the Company that have been disposed of or come to rest at any site that has been included in any published U.S. federal, state or local superfund site list or any other similar list of hazardous or toxic waste sites published by any governmental authority in the United States; and (d) there are no underground storage tanks located on, no polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or PCB-containing equipment used or stored on, and no hazardous waste as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, stored on, any site owned or operated by the Company, except for the storage of hazardous waste in compliance with Environmental Laws. The Company has made available to the Purchasers true and complete copies of all material environmental records, reports, notifications, certificates of need, permits, pending permit applications, correspondence, engineering studies, and environmental studies or assessments. For purposes of this Section 2.24, Environmental Laws means any law, regulation, or other applicable requirement relating to (a) releases or threatened release of Hazardous Substance; (b) pollution or protection of employee health or safety, public health or the environment; or (c) the manufacture, handling, transport, use, treatment, storage, or disposal of Hazardous Substances.
2.25 Data Privacy. In connection with its collection, storage, transfer (including any transfer across borders), processing and/or use of any information that is protected under laws relating to privacy or personal information (collectively, Personal Information), the Company is and has been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws to which the Company is subject (the Privacy Requirements). The Company has implemented commercially reasonable physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures and policies designed to protect all Personal Information collected, used or otherwise processed
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by it or on its behalf (a) from and against unauthorized access, use or disclosure; and (b) against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such Personal Information, and such measures and policies include access controls, device management, encryption, log-in monitoring, audit controls, password management, physical security and environmental controls, business continuity or disaster recovery and security plans. The Company has required and currently requires all third Persons to whom they disclose any such Personal Information to use reasonable measures to maintain the privacy and security of such Personal Information. The Company is and has been in compliance in all material respects with all laws relating to data loss, theft, breach of security and notification. The Company has not received any written complaint or notice of any claims alleging, or been charged with, the violation of any Privacy Requirements. There have been no material breaches, security incidents, misuse of, or unauthorized access to or disclosure of any Personal Information in the possession of or control of the Company or collected, used or otherwise processed by or on behalf of the Company, and the Company has not provided or been required to provide any notices to any Person in connection with any misuse of, or unauthorized access to or disclosure, of Personal Information.
2.26 Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company is not now and has never been a United States real property holding corporation as defined in the Code and any applicable regulations promulgated thereunder. The Company has filed with the Internal Revenue Service all statements, if any, with its United States income tax returns which are required under such regulations.
2.27 Insurance. The Company has in full force and effect insurance policies concerning such casualties as would be reasonable and customary for companies like the Company, with extended coverage, which, to the Companys knowledge, would be sufficient in amount (subject to reasonable deductions) to allow it to replace any of its properties that might be damaged or destroyed.
2.28 Anti-Corruption. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of their respective directors, officers or employees, directly or, to the knowledge of the Company, indirectly, has (i) materially violated or is in material violation of any applicable anti-corruption Law, or (ii) made, offered to make, promised to make or authorized the payment or giving of, directly or, to the knowledge of the Company, indirectly, any Prohibited Payment.
2.29 No Integrated Offering. Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor, to the Companys knowledge, any of its or their Affiliates or Representatives, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security, or solicited any offers to buy any security, in each case, under circumstances that would require registration of the issuance of any of the Shares under the Securities Act, whether through integration with prior offerings or otherwise, or caused the offering of the Shares pursuant to the Transaction Agreements to require approval of the stockholders of the Company for purposes of the Securities Act or under any applicable stockholder approval provisions, including under the rules and regulations of NASDAQ. Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Companys knowledge, its or their Affiliates, Representatives nor any Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps that would require registration of the issuance of any of the Securities under the Securities Act or cause the offering of any of the Shares pursuant to the Transaction Agreements to be integrated with other offerings of securities of the Company.
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2.30 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company and each Subsidiary is in material compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
2.31 Customers and Suppliers. (i) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in a material dispute or is in material breach or material default under any contract with any customer whose purchases from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries exceeded 5% of the consolidated net sales of the Company or suppliers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that represented greater than 5% of the cash cost of goods sold by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, in each case, during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, (ii) there has been no material adverse change in the business relationships of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any such customer or supplier, as applicable, since December 31, 2022, and (iii) no such customer or supplier has, to the Companys knowledge, threatened any material modification or change in the business relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
2.32 Application of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement. The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary actions, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, interested stockholder, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement), stockholder rights plan or other similar anti-takeover provision under any of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws or the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or otherwise which is or could become applicable to any Purchasers as a result of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements, including the Companys issuance of the Shares and ownership by Purchasers of the Shares. The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock or a change in control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
2.33 Disclosure of Information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will and are entitled to rely on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All disclosure provided to the Purchasers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their businesses and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements, including the schedules and exhibits to this Agreement, furnished by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. No event or circumstance has occurred and no information exists with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties, liabilities, operations (including results thereof) or conditions (financial or otherwise), which, under applicable Law, requires public disclosure at or before the date hereof or announcement by the Company but which has not been so publicly disclosed. All financial projections and forecasts that have been prepared by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and made available to the Purchasers have been prepared in good faith based upon reasonable assumptions and represented, at the time each such financial projection or forecast was delivered to the Purchasers, the Companys best estimate of future financial performance (it being recognized that such financial projections or forecasts are not to
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be viewed as facts and that the actual results during the period or periods covered by any such financial projections or forecasts may differ from the projected or forecasted results). The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Purchasers do not make and have not made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements other than those specifically set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement.
3. Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, hereby represents and warrants to the Company that:
3.1 Authorization. Such Purchaser has full power and authority to enter into and consummate the Transaction Agreements to which such Purchaser is a party. The Transaction Agreements to which such Purchaser is a party, when executed and delivered by such Purchaser, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Purchaser, enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance and any other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors rights generally, and as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies.
3.2 Purchase Entirely for Own Account. This Agreement is made with each such Purchaser in reliance upon such Purchasers representation to the Company that the Shares to be acquired by such Purchaser will be acquired for investment for such Purchasers own account, not as a nominee or agent, and not with a view to the resale or distribution of any part thereof, and that such Purchaser has no present intention of selling, granting any participation in, or otherwise distributing the same. By executing this Agreement, such Purchaser further represents that it does not presently have any contract, undertaking, agreement or arrangement with any Person to sell, transfer or grant participations to such Person or to any third Person, with respect to any of the Shares. Each Purchaser has sufficient knowledge and experience in financial and business matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in such the Shares and is capable of bearing the economic risks of such investment. Each Purchaser has been provided a reasonable opportunity to undertake and has undertaken such investigation and has been provided with and has evaluated such documents and information.
3.3 Disclosure of Information. Such Purchaser has had an opportunity to discuss and has discussed the Companys business, management, financial affairs and the terms and conditions of the offering of the Shares with the Companys management as it has deemed necessary to enable it to make an informed and intelligent decision with respect to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The foregoing, however, does not limit or modify the representations and warranties of the Company in Section 2 of this Agreement or the right of such Purchaser to rely thereon. Each Purchaser has conducted its own independent review and analysis of the business, operations, assets, liabilities, results of operations, financial condition and prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries and acknowledges such Purchaser has been provided with sufficient access for such purposes. The Purchasers acknowledge and agree that, except for the representations and warranties expressly set forth in Section 2 or in any certificate delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, (i) no person has been authorized by the Company to make any representation or warranty relating to itself or its business or otherwise in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and if made, such representation or warranty must not be relied upon by the Purchasers as having been authorized by the Company,
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and (ii) any estimates, projections, predictions, data, financial information, memoranda, presentations or any other materials or information provided or addressed to the Purchasers or any of its Affiliates or representatives are not and shall not be deemed to be or include representations or warranties of the Company unless any such materials or information are the subject of any express representation or warranty set forth in Section 2 or in any certificate delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, nothing in this Section 3.3 shall limit the Purchasers remedies with respect to claims of fraud or willful misconduct.
3.4 Restricted Securities. Such Purchaser understands that the Shares to be acquired by it have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act, by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent and the accuracy of such Purchasers representations as expressed herein. Such Purchaser understands that the Shares to be acquired by it are restricted securities under applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws and that, pursuant to these laws, such Purchaser must hold the Shares indefinitely unless they are registered with the SEC and qualified by state authorities, or an exemption from such registration and qualification requirements is available. Such Purchaser acknowledges that the Company has no obligation to register or qualify the Shares to be acquired by it for resale except as set forth in the Investor Rights Agreement. Such Purchaser further acknowledges that if an exemption from registration or qualification is available, it may be conditioned on various requirements, including, but not limited to, the time and manner of sale, the holding period for Shares, and on requirements relating to the Company which are outside of such Purchasers control.
3.5 Legends. Such Purchaser understands that the Shares to be acquired by it may bear one or all of the following legends:
(a) THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AND HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THE SALE OR DISTRIBUTION THEREOF. NO SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE EFFECTED WITHOUT AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATED THERETO OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN A FORM SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933;
(b) any legend set forth in, or required by, the other Transaction Agreements; or
(c) any legend required by the securities laws of any state to the extent such laws are applicable to the Shares represented by the certificate, instrument, or book entry so legended.
3.6 Accredited Investor. Such Purchaser and all of its equity owners are each accredited investors as defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act.
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3.7 No Additional Representations. The Purchasers acknowledge that the Company does not make any representation or warranty as to any matter whatsoever except as expressly set forth in Section 2 or in any certificate delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, and specifically (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing), that, except as expressly set forth in Section 2 or in any certificate delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to (a) any matters relating to the Company, its business, financial condition, results of operations, prospects or otherwise, (b) any projections, estimates or budgets delivered or made available to the Purchasers (or any of its Affiliates, officers, directors, employees or other representatives) of future revenues, results of operations (or any component thereof), cash flows or financial condition (or any component thereof) of the Company and its Subsidiaries or (c) the future business and operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, nothing in this Section 3.7 shall limit the Purchasers remedies with respect to claims of fraud or willful misconduct,
4. Covenants.
4.1 Maintenance of Existence. From and after the Closing until the date on which the Purchasers no longer hold any Shares (the Common Stock Period), the Company shall, and shall cause each of its Significant Subsidiaries to, preserve and maintain its corporate, limited partnership or limited liability company existence, as applicable, and good standing in the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation and qualify and remain qualified to transact business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required except where the failure to so qualify to transact business could not reasonably be expected to affect in any material respect the financial condition, operations, properties or business of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries.
4.2 Taxes.
(a) During the Common Stock Period, the Company is and will remain classified as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
(b) The Company shall not withhold United States federal tax from any payment (including deemed payments) made on or with respect to the Shares, unless such withholding is otherwise required by applicable law.
4.3 Notifications. During the Common Stock Period, the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prompt notice of the occurrence of any change, fact or condition which, to the Companys knowledge, upon notice, lapse of time or both would result in, or would reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.
5. [Reserved.]
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6. Indemnification.
6.1 Indemnity by the Company. From and after the date of this Agreement, the Company (the Company Indemnitor) agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless each Purchaser and its Affiliates, agents, representatives, equity holders, directors and officers and their respective successors, assigns, heirs and personal representatives (collectively, the Purchasers Indemnitees) from and against and to pay Purchasers for any and all payment, cost, liability, interest, damage, disbursement, expense, loss, injury, deficiency, penalty, settlement and fees, tax, costs or expenses (including all reasonable legal, accounting and other professional fees and all reasonable expenses and costs arising from the collection, prosecution, and defense of such in connection therewith) (collectively, Damages), incurred or suffered by any Purchasers Indemnitee to the extent arising directly or indirectly out of any breach or violation of, or any inaccuracy in, any representation or warranty in Section 2 or by the Company in any certificate delivered pursuant to this Agreement or any covenant made by the Company in this Agreement.
6.2 Indemnity by the Purchasers. From and after the date of this Agreement, each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, (the Purchasers Indemnitor, and together with the Company Indemnitor, the Indemnitors and each an Indemnitor) agrees to indemnify, defend and hold the Company and its Affiliates, agents, representatives, equity holders (other than Purchasers), directors and officers and their respective successors, assigns, heirs and personal representatives (collectively, the Company Indemnitees, and together with the Purchasers Indemnitees, the Indemnitees and each an Indemnitee) harmless from and against and to pay the Company for any and all Damages incurred or suffered by any Company Indemnitee to the extent arising directly or indirectly out of any breach or violation of, or any inaccuracy in, any representation or warranty in Section 3 or any covenant made by such Purchaser in this Agreement.
6.3 Expiration of Representations and Warranties; Exclusive Remedy.
(a) Except in the case of fraud or willful misconduct, (i) the Company Fundamental Representations shall survive the Closing indefinitely, (ii) the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.2 (Taxes) shall survive the Closing until the date that is sixty (60) days after the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations and (iii) all the representations and warranties of the Company and Purchasers contained in this Agreement and not described in clause (i) shall survive the Closing until the date that is eighteen (18) months following the date of the Closing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any bona fide claims asserted in good faith with reasonably specificity (to the extent known at such time) and in writing by notice from the Indemnitees to the Indemnitor prior to the expiration date of the applicable survival period shall not thereafter be barred by the expiration of such survival period and such claims shall survive until finally resolved. All covenants and agreements made by any party in this Agreement shall survive until performed or the obligation to so perform shall have expired and any claim for indemnification for a breach of any such covenant or agreement shall survive until the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations.
(b) It is the intention of the parties to this Agreement that the survival periods set forth in Section 6.3(a) supersede any statute of limitation applicable to the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or claim in respect thereof, except in the case of fraud or willful misconduct. Except in the case of fraud or willful misconduct, the monetary remedies set forth in this Section 6.3(b) shall provide the sole and exclusive remedies arising out of or in connection with any breach or alleged breach of any representation or warranty made herein. Each of the parties to this Agreement acknowledges that this Section 6.3 has been negotiated fully and at arms length and that the parties would not have entered into this Agreement but for this Section 6.3.
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6.4 Limitations on Liability. Except in the case of fraud or willful misconduct, in no event shall the aggregate liability of an Indemnitor under Section 6.1 or Section 6.2, as applicable, exceed an aggregate amount equal to the Accrued Dividends set forth in Exhibit A hereto. The right of a Person to any remedy pursuant to this Section 6 shall not be affected by any investigation or examination conducted, or any knowledge possessed or acquired (or capable of being possessed or acquired), by such Person at any time concerning any circumstance, action, omission or event relating to the accuracy or performance of any representation, warranty, covenant or obligation. In no event shall any Indemnitee be entitled to recover or make a claim for any amounts in respect of, and in no event shall Damages be deemed to include, lost profits or revenues (including any damages on account of lost or delayed opportunities) or punitive damages other than those required by or awarded to a third party.
6.5 Third-Party Claims.
(a) If any Indemnitee receives notice of the assertion or commencement of any action, suit, claim, arbitration, mediation or other legal proceeding made or brought by any Person who is not a party to this Agreement or an Affiliate of a party to this Agreement (a Third-Party Claim) against such Indemnitee with respect to which the Indemnitor is obligated to provide indemnification under this Agreement, the Indemnitee shall give the Indemnitor prompt written notice thereof. The failure to give such prompt written notice shall not, however, relieve the Indemnitor of its indemnification obligations, except to the extent that the Indemnitor is materially prejudiced by reason of such failure. Such notice by the Indemnitee shall describe the Third-Party Claim in reasonable detail, and shall, to the extent reasonably practicable, include copies of material written evidence thereof and material correspondence from or to such third-party (or its representatives) related to the matter giving rise to such Third-Party Claim and shall indicate the estimated amount (which estimate shall not be conclusive of the final amount of such Third-Party Claim), if reasonably practicable, of the Damages that have been sustained by the Indemnitee.
(b) The Indemnitor and the Indemnitee shall cooperate with each other in all reasonable respects in connection with the defense of any Third-Party Claim, including, granting reasonable access to the other party during normal business hours to the premises, personnel and documents or records of the Indemnitor and the Indemnitee, as applicable, at the expense of the requesting party, as may be reasonably requested for the defense and preparation of the defense of such Third-Party Claim; provided, that the requesting party shall (A) use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the disruption of the business of the other party and its Affiliates, and (B) not request disclosure of any confidential or legally privileged information, or any personal information, other than in compliance with applicable law.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Indemnitor nor the Indemnitee shall enter into settlement or compromise of, or offer to settle or compromise, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any Third-Party Claim without the prior written consent of the other (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); provided that such consent may be withhold in Indemnitees sole discretion in the event such settlement or compromise of, or offer to settle or compromise, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any Third-Party Claim is on a basis that would result in (A) the imposition of a consent order, injunction or decree that would restrict the future
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activity or conduct of the Indemnitee or any of its Affiliates, (B) a finding or admission of any violation of laws or any violation of the rights of any Person by the Indemnitee or any of its Affiliates, (C) a finding or admission that would have an adverse effect on the reputation of the Indemnitee or any of its Affiliates or on any other claims made or threatened against any such Persons, (D) any monetary liability that is not paid in full by the Indemnitor or (E) any non-monetary condition or obligation being imposed on the Indemnitee or any of its Affiliates.
6.6 Direct Claims. Any claim by an Indemnitee on account of a Damage which does not result from a Third-Party Claim (a Direct Claim) shall be asserted by the Indemnitee giving the Indemnitor prompt written notice thereof. The failure to give such prompt written notice shall not, however, relieve the Indemnitor of its indemnification obligations, except to the extent that the Indemnitor is materially prejudiced by reason of such failure. Such notice by the Indemnitee shall describe the Direct Claim in reasonable detail, shall include copies of all material written evidence thereof and shall indicate the estimated amount (which estimate shall not be conclusive of the final amount of such Direct Claim), if reasonably practicable, of the Damages that have been sustained by the Indemnitee. The Indemnitor shall have thirty (30) days after its receipt of such notice to respond in writing to such Direct Claim. During such thirty (30)-day period, the Indemnitee shall use commercially reasonable efforts to allow the Indemnitor and its professional advisors to investigate the matter or circumstance alleged to give rise to the Direct Claim, and whether and to what extent any amount is payable in respect of the Direct Claim and the Indemnitee shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assist the Indemnitors investigation by providing reasonable access during normal business hours to the Indemnitees premises and personnel and documents or records as the Indemnitor or any of its professional advisors may reasonably request; provided, that the Indemnitor shall (i) use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the disruption of the business of the Indemnitor and its Affiliates, and (ii) not request the Indemnitee to disclose any confidential or legally privileged information, or any personal information, other than in compliance with applicable law. If the Indemnitor does not so respond within such thirty (30)-day period, the Indemnitor shall be deemed to have rejected such Direct Claim, in which case the Indemnitee shall be free to pursue any remedies as may be available to the Indemnitee under this Agreement.
6.7 Tax Characterization.
All indemnification payments under this Section 6 shall be treated as adjustments to the applicable Purchasers relevant Purchase Price for all tax purposes, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
7. Miscellaneous.
7.1 Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the parties hereto and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by each person who shall be a holder of the Shares from time to time; provided, however, that prior to the receipt by the Company of adequate written notice of the transfer of the Shares specifying the full name and address of the transferee, the Company may deem and treat the person listed as the holder of such Shares in its records as the absolute owner and holder of such Shares for all purposes; provided, further, that the Purchasers may transfer or assign their rights and obligations under this Agreement in whole or from time to time in part, to (1) one or more of their Affiliates at any time, and (2) after the Closing Date, to any Person; provided that such transfer or assignment shall not relieve the Purchasers of their obligations hereunder or enlarge, alter or change any obligation of any other party hereto or due to the Purchasers.
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7.2 Governing Law. This Agreement and any controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as to matters within the scope thereof, and as to all other matters shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law principles that would result in the application of any law other than the law of the State of Delaware.
7.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including .pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.
7.4 Titles and Subtitles. The titles and subtitles used in this Agreement are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Agreement.
7.5 Notices. All notices and other communications given or made pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon the earlier of actual receipt or: (a) personal delivery to the party to be notified, (b) when sent, if sent by electronic mail or facsimile during normal business hours of the recipient, and if not sent during normal business hours, then on the recipients next Business Day, (c) five (5) days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (d) one (1) Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, freight prepaid, specifying next Business Day delivery, with written verification of receipt. If notice is given to the Company, it shall be sent to TPI Composites, Inc., 9200 E. Pima Center Parkway, Suite 250, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, Attention: William E. Siwek (bsiwek@tpicomposites.com) and Steven Fishbach (sfishbach@tpicomposites.com); and a copy (which shall not constitute notice) shall also be sent to Goodwin Procter LLP, 601 Marshall Street, Redwood City, California 94063, Attention: Bradley C. Weber (bweber@goodwinlaw.com) and Kim de Glossop (kdeglossop@goodwinlaw.com). If notice is given to Purchasers, it shall be sent to c/o Oaktree Capital Management, LP, 333 S. Grand Ave., 28th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90071, Attention: Jordan Mikes (jmikes@oaktreecapital.com), Andrew Moir (amoir@oaktreecapital.com), and Brook Hinchman (bhinchman@oaktreecapital.com); and a copy (which shall not constitute notice) shall also be sent to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 1888 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067, Attention: Rita-Anne ONeill (oneillr@sullcrom.com) and Patrick S. Brown (brownp@sullcrom.com).
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7.6 No Finders Fees. Each party represents that it neither is nor will be obligated for any finders fee or commission in connection with this transaction whose fees the other party would be required to pay. The Purchasers agree to indemnify and to hold harmless the Company from any liability for any commission or compensation in the nature of a finders or brokers fee arising out of this transaction (and the costs and expenses of defending against such liability or asserted liability) for which the Purchasers or any of its officers, employees or representatives is responsible. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Purchasers from any liability for any commission or compensation in the nature of a finders or brokers fee arising out of this transaction (and the costs and expenses of defending against such liability or asserted liability) for which the Company or any of its officers, employees or representatives is responsible.
7.7 Further Assurances. Following the date of this Agreement, the parties to this Agreement shall cooperate with one another to prepare and file all documents and forms and amendments thereto as may be required under applicable law with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and/or the other Transaction Agreements, including but not limited to any required notification and report forms under the applicable laws of any Governmental Authority required for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and/or the other Transaction Agreements and any concurrent offering of the Company to the Purchasers or any of its Affiliates.
7.8 Transaction Expenses. At the Closing, the Company shall pay or reimburse all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, costs, and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonable consultant costs and expenses, filing and recording fees, and reasonable costs and expenses associated with business, accounting, asset, tax and legal due diligence, travel, appraisals, valuations, and audits) (the Transaction Expenses) incurred by or on behalf of the Purchasers, its Affiliates and Representatives (whether before, on, or after the date hereof) in connection with (i) business, accounting, asset, tax and legal due diligence, (ii) the preparation, negotiation, execution, and delivery of this Agreement and the Transaction Agreements, and (iii) the enforcement of any of the Purchasers rights and remedies under this Agreement, in each case irrespective of whether the Closing occurs (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any costs and expenses incurred in connection with the collection of the Transaction Expenses) promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) following request therefor by the Purchasers.
7.9 Amendments and Waivers. Any provision of this Agreement may be amended or waived if, and only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and signed, in the case of an amendment, by Purchasers and the Company, or in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom the waiver is to be effective. No failure or delay by any party in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
7.10 Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
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7.11 Delays or Omissions. No delay or omission to exercise any right, power or remedy accruing to any party under this Agreement, upon any breach or default of any other party under this Agreement, shall impair any such right, power or remedy of such non-breaching or non-defaulting party nor shall it be construed to be a waiver of any such breach or default, or an acquiescence therein, or of or in any similar breach or default thereafter occurring; nor shall any waiver of any single breach or default be deemed a waiver of any other breach or default theretofore or thereafter occurring. Any waiver, permit, consent or approval of any kind or character on the part of any party of any breach or default under this Agreement, or any waiver on the part of any party of any provisions or conditions of this Agreement, must be in writing and shall be effective only to the extent specifically set forth in such writing. All remedies, either under this Agreement or by law or otherwise afforded to any party, shall be cumulative and not alternative.
7.12 Entire Agreement. This Agreement (including the Exhibits hereto) and the other Transaction Agreements constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and any other written or oral agreement relating to the subject matter hereof existing between the parties are expressly canceled.
7.13 Dispute Resolution. The parties (a) hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of the state courts of the State of Delaware and to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware for the purpose of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement, (b) agree not to commence any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement except in the state courts of the State of Delaware or the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and (c) hereby waive, and agree not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any such suit, 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 suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the suit, action or proceeding is improper or that this Agreement or the subject matter hereof may not be enforced in or by such court.
Each party will bear its own costs in respect of any disputes arising under this Agreement. The prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys fees, costs, and necessary disbursements in addition to any other relief to which such party may be entitled.
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7.14 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, THE SECURITIES OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF OR THEREOF. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS, AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. THIS SECTION HAS BEEN FULLY DISCUSSED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THESE PROVISIONS WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY EXCEPTIONS. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT SUCH PARTY HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT SUCH PARTY KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Common Stock Purchase Agreement as of the date first written above.
COMPANY:
TPI Composites, Inc. | ||
By: | /s/ William E. Siwek | |
Name: William E. Siwek | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to Common Stock Purchase Agreement]
PURCHASERS:
Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P.
By: Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V GP, L.P. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V GP, Ltd. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. Its: Director | ||
By: | /s/ Peter Jonna | |
Name: Peter Jonna | ||
Title: Authorized Signatory | ||
By: | /s/ Robert Wu | |
Name: Robert Wu | ||
Title: Authorized Signatory |
[Signature Page to Common Stock Purchase Agreement]
Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC
By: Oaktree Fund GP, LLC Its: Manager
By: Oaktree Fund GP I, L.P. Its: Managing Member | ||
By: | /s/ Brook Hinchman | |
Name: Brook Hinchman | ||
Title: Authorized Signatory | ||
By: | /s/ Jordan Mikes | |
Name: Jordan Mikes | ||
Title: Authorized Signatory |
[Signature Page to Common Stock Purchase Agreement]
Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P.
By: Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund GP, L.P. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund GP Ltd. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. Its: Director | ||
By: | /s/ Pavel Kaganas | |
Name: Pavel Kaganas | ||
Title: Vice President | ||
By: | /s/ Jordan Mikes | |
Name: Jordan Mikes | ||
Title: Managing Director |
[Signature Page to Common Stock Purchase Agreement]
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A - | SCHEDULE OF PURCHASERS | |
Exhibit B - | DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE |
EXHIBIT A
SCHEDULE OF PURCHASERS
Purchaser |
Number of Shares of Common Stock |
Accrued Dividend Amount |
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Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P. |
1,462,463 | $ | 16,125,000.05 | |||||
Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC |
2,369,191 | $ | 26,122,501.06 | |||||
Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P. |
68,249 | $ | 752,498.90 | |||||
Total |
3,899,903 | $ | 43,000,000 |
A-1
EXHIBIT B
DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE
B-1
Exhibit 10.3
EXECUTION VERSION
TPI COMPOSITES, INC.
AMENDED & RESTATED
INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This AMENDED & RESTATED INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated December 14, 2023 (this Agreement) is entered into by and among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), and Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, (each an Investor and collectively, the Investors), and the Holders that from time to time after the date hereof become a party hereto by executing a joinder in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto.
WHEREAS, the Investors and the Company previously entered into that certain Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2021, by and among the Company and the Investors (the Series A Purchase Agreement);
WHEREAS, in connection with the Series A Purchase Agreement, the Investors and the Company entered into that certain Investor Rights Agreement, dated November 22, 2021 (the Prior Agreement);
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty and the Common Stock Purchase Agreement, each dated as of the date hereof (the Credit Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, respectively), the Investors are exchanging all shares of Series A Preferred Stock currently held by such Investors, representing all shares of the Series A Preferred stock outstanding as of the date hereof, issued pursuant to the Series A Purchase Agreement, and accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, into loans pursuant to the Credit Agreement and shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, respectively; and
WHEREAS, in connection with the entry into the Credit Agreement and the Purchase Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, the Company and the Investors desire to amend and restate the Prior Agreement in its entirety as set forth below.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
Affiliate means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person who, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person, including, without limitation, any general partner, managing member, officer, director or trustee of such Person, or any venture capital fund, private investment fund or registered investment company now or hereafter existing that is controlled by one or more general partners, managing members or investment advisers of, or shares the same management company or investment adviser with, such Person; provided that neither the Investors nor any of their Affiliates shall be considered Affiliates of the Company for purposes of this definition.
Aggregate Basis means as to any calculation, such calculation made, aggregating the beneficial ownership of the Holders that are Affiliates of each other.
Automatic Shelf Registration Statement means an automatic shelf registration statement as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act.
beneficial ownership has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act. The terms beneficially own and beneficial owner shall have correlative meanings.
Board of Directors means the Board of Directors of the Company.
Business Day means any day, other than a Saturday, a Sunday, any other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by law to be closed.
Bylaws means the bylaws of the Company, as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
Certificate of Incorporation means the certificate of incorporation of the Company, as it may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
Common Stock means the shares of the Companys common stock, par value $0.01 per share.
Common Stock Equivalents means any options, warrants or other securities or rights convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, whether directly or following conversion into or exercise or exchange for other options, warrants or other securities or rights, shares of Common Stock.
Control (including the terms controlling and controlled), with respect to the relationship between or among two or more Persons, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the affairs or management of such subject Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, as trustee or executor, by contract or otherwise.
Exchange Act means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time, together with all the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
FINRA means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority or any successor agency.
Free Writing Prospectus means a free-writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Governmental Authority means the government of any nation, state, city, locality or other political subdivision thereof, any entity or self-regulatory organization exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government (including FINRA and any national or regional stock exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or is proposed to be listed), and any corporation or other entity owned or controlled, through stock or capital ownership or otherwise, by any of the foregoing.
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Holders means the holders of Registrable Securities and the term Holder means any such Person.
Law means any United States federal, state or local or foreign law, rule, regulation, form, statute, Order or other legally enforceable requirement (including common law) issued, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority of any Governmental Authority.
Listing means, with respect to a security, the listing of such security for trading on the relevant stock exchange in compliance with the rules and regulations of such stock exchange, which Listing may be subject to official notice of issuance.
NASDAQ means the Nasdaq Global Market.
Order means any judgment, decision, writ, order, injunction, award, decree or other determination of or by any Governmental Authority.
Organizational Documents means the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws.
Permitted Transferee means a Person to whom a Holder of Registrable Securities transfers such Registrable Securities in accordance with this Agreement, to the extent such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer.
Person means any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company, association or other entity.
Prospectus means the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, all amendments and supplements to such prospectus, including pre- and post-effective amendments to such Registration Statement, and all other material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.
Public Offering means the offer for sale of securities pursuant to an effective Registration Statement filed under the Securities Act.
Registrable Securities means (a) all Common Stock held by an Investor as of the date of this Agreement, including those shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, and (b) all Common Stock issued as, or issuable upon the conversion or exercise of any warrant, right or other security which is issued as, a dividend or other distribution with respect to, or in exchange for or in replacement of, the shares referenced in clause (a); in each case of clauses (a) and (b), in each case held by (i) the Investors, (ii) any fund managed by or under common management with the Investors and (iii) any Affiliate of the foregoing, and their respective Permitted Transferees, and in the case of clause (b), whether now owned or hereafter acquired; provided, however, that any such Registrable Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities to the extent (A) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such Registrable Securities has been declared effective under the Securities Act and such Registrable Securities have been disposed of in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement, (B) such Registrable Securities have been disposed of pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 145 of the Securities Act (or any successor rule) or such securities may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Rule 144) (or any similar provisions in force) without regard to volume or manner of sale limitations and represent beneficial ownership of less than 1.0% of the outstanding Common Stock on an Aggregate Basis.
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Registration means a registration with the SEC of the offer and sale of the securities of the Company to the public under a Registration Statement. The term Register shall have a correlative meaning.
Registration Expenses means any and all expenses incident to the Companys performance of or compliance with obligations under Article II to register the Registrable Securities, regardless of whether the applicable Registration Statement is declared effective, and with respect to any Underwritten Offering conducted in connection therewith, including, but not limited to, (a) all registration and filing fees, (b) fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including disbursements of counsel in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities), (c) expenses in connection with preparing, printing, mailing and delivering Registration Statements, prospectuses, any documents in connection therewith and any amendments or supplements to the forgoing, (d) security engraving and printing expenses, (e) reasonable fees and expenses of any special experts retained by the Company in connection with such registration, (f) costs of printing and producing any agreements among Underwriters, underwriting agreements, any blue sky or legal investment memoranda and any selling agreements and other documents in connection with the offering, sale or delivery of the Registrable Securities, (g) expenses relating to any analyst or investor presentations or any road shows undertaken in connection with the registration, marketing or selling of the Registrable Securities, (h) messenger and delivery expenses, (i) fees and disbursements of custodians, counsel for the Company, and all independent certified public accountants (including the expenses relating to any comfort letters or costs associated with the delivery by independent certified public accountants of any comfort letters or any special audits incidental to or required by any registration or qualification), (j) fees and disbursements of Underwriters customarily paid by issuers of securities, including, if necessary, a qualified independent underwriter within the meaning of the rules of the FINRA (in each case, excluding underwriting discounts, commissions and transfer taxes), and other Persons retained by the Company, (k) the Companys internal expenses (including all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), (l) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Company or its appropriate officers in connection with their compliance with Article II, (m) the expense of any annual audit or quarterly review, (n) the expense of any liability insurance, (o) fees and expenses in connection with any review by FINRA of the underwriting arrangements or other terms of the offering, (p) reasonable fees, out- of-pocket costs and out-of-pocket costs expenses of one counsel to the Holders holding Registrable Securities covered by each Registration Statement (Holders Counsel), selected pursuant to Section 2.9, (q) transfer agents and registrars fees and expenses and the fees and expenses of any other agent or trustee appointed in connection with such offering, (r) fees and expenses payable in connection with any ratings of the Registrable Securities, including expenses relating to any presentations to rating and (s) the expenses and fees for listing the securities on any securities exchange or automated interdealer quotation system; provided, that Registration Expenses shall not include any underwriting discounts or commissions, or transfer taxes, if any, attributable to the sale of Registrable Securities by a Holder.
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Registration Participant means, with respect to any Registration, including a public sale or shelf take-down, any holder of Registrable Securities participating as a selling stockholder in such Registration; provided, that a holder of Registrable Securities shall not be considered a Registration Participant in connection with a shelf registration unless and until such holder of Registrable Securities participates in such shelf take-down.
Registration Statement means any registration statement of the Company that covers the offer and sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement filed with, or to be filed with, the SEC under the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act, including the related Prospectus, amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including pre- and post-effective amendments, and all exhibits and all material incorporated by reference in such registration statement.
Regulatory Approval Condition means the Investors or any of their Affiliates is required to wait for the expiration of any waiting period under, file any notice, report or other submission with, or obtain any consent, registration, approval, permit or authorization from any Governmental Entity under any applicable Law in connection with such transaction, including under (a) any U.S. or non-U.S. competition, merger control, antitrust or similar law, (b) any law that may be applicable to the direct or indirect ownership of equity in the Company and its Subsidiaries or (c) any law related to the foregoing.
Rule 144 means Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as amended.
S-3 Shelf Eligible means the Company is eligible to use Form S-3 in connection with a secondary public offering of its equity securities on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, in accordance with SEC Guidance.
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any similar agency having jurisdiction to enforce the Securities Act.
SEC Guidance means (a) any publicly available written or oral interpretations, questions and answers, guidance and forms of the SEC, (b) any oral or written comments, requirements or requests of the SEC or its staff, (c) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and (d) any other rules, bulletins, releases, manuals and regulations of the SEC.
Securities means (a) with respect to the Company, shares of Common Stock, preferred stock or any other class or series of capital stock of the Company, (b) with respect to any Subsidiary of the Company, any equity securities, (c) any warrants, options, rights or other securities exchangeable or exercisable for, or convertible into, any Securities described in clause (a) or clause (b), and (c) any indebtedness instrument for borrowed money (including any promissory note), whether issued by the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, exchangeable or exercisable for, or convertible into, any Securities described in clause (a) or clause (b).
Securities Act means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as it may be amended from time to time, together with all the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Series A Preferred Stock means the preferred stock of the Company designated as Series A Preferred Stock.
Shelf Registration Statement means a Registration Statement filed with the SEC for an offering to be made on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision) covering the offer and sale of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities, as applicable.
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Shelf Registered Securities means any Registrable Securities whose offer and sale is registered pursuant to a Registration Statement filed in connection with a Shelf Registration (including an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement).
Subsidiaries means, with respect to any Person, any Affiliate controlled by such Person, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries.
Third Party means any Person other than the Investors, the Holders, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates.
Trading Day means a day on which NASDAQ is open for the transaction of business.
Transaction Agreements means this Agreement, the Credit Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, and any other instruments or documents entered into in connection with herewith and therewith.
Transfer means any sale, assignment, transfer, exchange, gift, bequest, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition or encumbrance of Securities, in each case whether direct or indirect, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, whether for value or no value and whether voluntary or involuntary.
Underwriters means an underwriter or underwriters with respect to any Underwritten Public Offering.
Underwritten Offering means a Public Offering in which securities of the Company are sold to Underwriters for reoffering to the public (including any underwritten block trade).
Well-Known Seasoned Issuer means a well-known seasoned issuer as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act and which (a) (i) is a well-known seasoned issuer under paragraph (1)(i)(A) of such definition or (ii) is a well-known seasoned issuer under paragraph (1)(i)(B) of such definition and is also eligible to Register a primary offering of its securities relying on General Instruction I.B.1 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act and (b) is not an ineligible issuer as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act.
ARTICLE II
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
2.1 Demand Registration Rights.
(a) Demand Rights. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including those in the next succeeding sentence, from and after the date hereof, from time to time, at any time the Company is not in compliance with its obligations under Section 2.2 to file and maintain the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement, if the Holders of at least 25% of the Registrable Securities provide notice (a Demand) requesting that the Company effect the Registration (a Demand Registration) under the Securities Act of any or all of the Registrable Securities, as the case may be (the Demanding Holders), which Demand shall specify the number of such Registrable Securities to be registered by the Demanding Holders and the intended method or methods of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as promptly as practicable, the registration of the offer and sale of such Registrable Securities under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, under a Registration Statement on such form as may be
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permitted under SEC Guidance (which shall be on Form S-3 or Form S-3ASR, to the extent permitted by SEC Guidance), and to keep such Registration Statement (the Demand Registration Statement) effective for so long as is necessary to permit the disposition of such Registrable Securities, in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such Demand. At any time and from time to time after the date hereof, a Holder shall have the right to initiate up to three Demand Registration hereunder on behalf of the Holders of Registrable Securities; provided, that in each case, (i) the gross proceeds reasonably anticipated to be generated from the offering subject to such Demand Registration (as determined in good faith by the relevant Demanding Holders and their Underwriters) equals or exceeds $10,000,000, unless such registration shall include all of the Registrable Securities, as the case may be, then owned by such Demanding Holder, as the case may be, and (ii) the Company shall not be required to effect more than one Demand Registration in any consecutive 120-day period; provided, however, that a Demand Registration shall not be counted for such purposes unless the Demand Registration Statement shall have been deemed effective in accordance with Section 2.1(b). A Demand Registration Statement may be for an offering of securities on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 of the Securities Act and shall be on such appropriate form that the Company is eligible to use pursuant to SEC Guidance as shall be selected by the Company and as shall permit the intended method or methods of distribution specified by the Demanding Holders, including a distribution to, and resale by, the partners, equityholders or Affiliates of the Demanding Holders. At the request of the Demanding Holders, the Plan of Distribution section of any Registration Statement filed in respect of a Demand Registration or Shelf Registration (as defined below) shall permit, in addition to firm commitment Underwritten Offerings, any other lawful means of disposition of Registrable Securities, including agented transactions, block trades, sales directly into the market, purchases or sales by brokers, derivative transactions, short sales, stock loan or stock pledge transactions and sales not involving a Public Offering (each, an Alternative Transaction). The Underwriter or Underwriters selected for any Underwritten Offering registered pursuant to a Demand shall be selected in accordance with Section 2.7(f). Upon receipt of a Demand, the Company shall promptly give written notice of such Demand to each other Holder of Registrable Securities in the manner provided in Section 2.3, and the Company shall, subject to Section 2.1(c), use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration on a Demand Registration Statement under the Securities Act of the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities that the Holders, whether in connection with the exercise of Demand rights pursuant to Section 2.1 or piggyback rights pursuant to Section 2.3 below, have requested the Company to register; provided, that the Company may also include in such Demand Registration Statement securities to be sold for its own account, subject to Section 2.1(c). The rights of Holders with respect to a Demand shall be subject to Suspension Periods, as provided in Section 2.5. The terms and conditions of any customary underwriting or purchase arrangements pursuant to which Registrable Securities shall be sold in a Demand shall be approved by the Demanding Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities included in the Demand Registration Statement for the Demanding Holders.
(b) Fulfillment of Registration Obligations. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) if the Demand Registration Statement has not become effective; (ii) if, after the Demand Registration Statement has become effective, such Demand Registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other Governmental Entity for any reason and the Registrable Securities requested to be registered cannot legally be distributed pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement; (iii) if such Demand Registration Statement does not remain effective for the period required under Section 2.7(a);
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(iv) in the event of an Underwritten Offering or Alternative Transaction, if the conditions to closing specified in the relevant underwriting or other agreement entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived (other than by reasons primarily attributable to the Demanding Holders); and (v) if the Common Stock and Registrable Securities, as the case may be, have not been approved for Listing.
(c) Priority. In connection with an Underwritten Offering registered pursuant to a Demand Registration, if the managing Underwriter advises the Company that, in its view, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Underwritten Offering registered under such Demand Registration (including any securities that the Company proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the largest number of securities that can be sold without having a material and adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (with respect to any such offering, the Maximum Offering Size), the Company shall include in such offering the following securities, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, Registrable Securities that are requested to be included in such offering pursuant to Section 2.1, on a pro rata basis based on the requesting Holders beneficial ownership of Registrable Securities;
(ii) second, any other securities that are requested to be included in such offering pursuant to the exercise of piggyback rights by any persons with rights to participate therein; and
(iii) third, all shares of Common Stock that are requested to be included in such offering by the Company for its own account.
2.2 Shelf Registration Statements.
(a) Initial Shelf Registration. Provided that a Shelf Registration Statement registering Registrable Securities for resale is not then effective (subject to any applicable Suspension Period), the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case no later than 30 days following the date hereof, a Shelf Registration Statement for an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act (a Shelf Registration), with respect to all of the Registrable Securities, and to use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Shelf Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable after such filing. If the Company is S-3 Shelf Eligible, the Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3 (a Form S-3 Shelf). If the Company is not S-3 Shelf Eligible, the Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-1 (a Form S-1 Shelf); provided that the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to convert the Form S-1 Shelf to a Form S-3 Shelf as soon as practicable after the Company is S-3 Shelf Eligible. The Company shall promptly give notice at least 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of such Shelf Registration to all Holders of Registrable Securities, and offer such Holders the opportunity to register the number of Registrable Securities as each such Holder may request by written notice to the Company, given within five Business Days after such Holders are given the Companys notice of the Shelf Registration. The Plan of Distribution section of such Shelf Registration shall permit, in addition to firm commitment Underwritten Offerings, any other lawful means of disposition of Registrable Securities, including Alternative Transactions. With respect to each Shelf Registration, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to remain effective until the date set forth in Section 2.7(a)(ii). No Holder shall be
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entitled to include any of its Registrable Securities in a Shelf Registration unless such Holder has complied with Section 2.8. The obligations set forth in this Section 2.2(a) shall not apply if the Company has a currently effective Automatic Shelf Registration Statement covering all Registrable Securities in accordance with Section 2.7(f) and has otherwise complied with its obligations pursuant to this Article II. The rights of Holders with respect to any Shelf Registration shall be subject to Suspension Periods, as provided in Section 2.5.
(b) Shelf Take-Downs. A Holder of Shelf Registered Securities may sell pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement from time to time in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement. A Holder or Holders of Shelf Registered Securities may also request (the Shelf Public Offering Request) that a shelf take-down be in the form of an Underwritten Offering (a Shelf Public Offering) if the gross proceeds reasonably anticipated to be generated from the sale of the Shelf Registered Securities (as determined in good faith by the relevant Holders and their Underwriters) equals or exceeds $7,500,000. Promptly upon receipt of a Shelf Public Offering Request, the Company shall provide notice (the Shelf Public Offering Notice) of such proposed Underwritten Offering (which notice shall state the material terms of such proposed Underwritten Offering, to the extent known, as well as the identity of the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder) to the other Holders holding Shelf Registered Securities. Such other Holders may, by written request to the Company and the Underwriter for such Underwritten Offering, within five Business Days after receipt of such Shelf Public Offering Notice, offer and sell up to all of their Shelf Registered Securities of the same class or series as the Shelf Registered Securities proposed to be sold in such Underwritten Offering. No Holder shall be entitled to include any of its Registrable Securities in a Shelf Public Offering unless such Holder has complied with Section 2.8. The Underwriter or Underwriters selected for such Underwritten Offering shall be selected in accordance with Section 2.7(f). The terms and conditions of any customary underwriting or purchase arrangements pursuant to which Registrable Securities shall be sold in a Shelf Public Offering shall be approved by the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder.
(c) Priority. In a Shelf Public Offering, if the managing Underwriter advises the Company and the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder that, in its view, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Shelf Public Offering (including any securities that the Company proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Maximum Offering Size, the Company shall include in such Shelf Public Offering the following securities, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, Registrable Securities that are requested to be included in such Shelf Public Offering, on a pro rata basis on the basis of the Holders of Registrable Securities beneficial ownership of the Common Stock; and
(ii) second, all securities that are registered on the applicable Shelf Registration Statement and are requested to be included in such Shelf Public Offering by the Company.
(d) Subsequent Shelf Registration. After the Registration Statement with respect to a Shelf Registration is declared effective, upon written request by one or more Holders (which written request shall specify the amount of such Holders Registrable Securities to be registered), the Company shall, as permitted by SEC Guidance, (i) as promptly as practicable after receiving a request from a Holder that is a Permitted Transferee of a former Holder of Shelf Registrable Securities, file a prospectus supplement to include such Permitted Transferee as a selling stockholder in such Registration Statement, (ii) if it is a Well-Known
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Seasoned Issuer and such Registration Statement is an unallocated Automatic Shelf Registration Statement to which additional selling stockholders may be added by means of a prospectus supplement under Rule 430B, as promptly as practicable after receiving such request, file a prospectus supplement to include such Holders as selling stockholders in such Registration Statement, or (iii) otherwise, as promptly as practicable after the date the Registrable Securities requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 2.2(d) that have not already been so registered represent more than 1.5% of the outstanding Registrable Securities, file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a new Shelf Registration Statement, as applicable, to include such Holders in such Shelf Registration and use its commercially reasonable efforts to have such post-effective amendment or new Shelf Registration Statement declared effective. To the extent that any Registration Statement with respect to a Shelf Registration is expected to no longer be usable for the resale of Registrable Securities registered thereon (Remaining Registrable Securities) pursuant to SEC Guidance, the Company shall, not later than 90 days prior to the date such Registration Statement is expected to no longer be usable, use its commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file a new Registration Statement with respect to such Shelf Registration, as if the holders of such Remaining Registrable Securities had requested a Shelf Registration with respect thereto pursuant to Section 2.2(a) and perform all actions required under this Agreement with respect to such Shelf Registration.
(e) Automatic Shelf Registration Statements. At any time upon which the Company becomes and remains a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer eligible to use an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement in accordance with SEC Guidance, upon the request of the Holders of at least 25% of the Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, register such Registrable Securities under an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, but in no event later than 15 Business Days thereafter, and to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Automatic Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective thereafter until the date set forth in Section 2.7(a)(ii). At any time after the filing of an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement by the Company, if it is reasonably likely that it shall no longer be a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer as of a future determination date (the Determination Date), as promptly as practicable and at least 30 days prior to such Determination Date, the Company shall (i) give written notice thereof to all of the Holders and (ii) if the Company is S-3 Shelf Eligible, file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 with respect to a Shelf Registration in accordance with Section 2.2(a) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to have such Registration Statement declared effective prior to the Determination Date. If the Company has filed an existing Automatic Shelf Registration Statement that is effective, and it is likely that such existing Automatic Shelf Registration Statement shall no longer be effective pursuant to SEC Guidance as of a Determination Date, although the Company shall remain a Well- Known Seasoned Issuer as of such Determination Date, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to file a new Automatic Shelf Registration Statement to replace such existing Automatic Shelf Registration Statement prior to such Determination Date and cause such Automatic Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective thereafter until the date set forth in Section 2.7(a)(ii).
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2.3 Piggyback Registration Rights.
(a) At any time the Company proposes to file a Registration Statement to register Common Stock under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to Sections 2.1 or 2.2), or to conduct an Underwritten Offering from an existing Shelf Registration Statement, whether or not for its own account (other than pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor form under the Securities Act) or for the account of any person (other than a Holder pursuant to Sections 2.1 or 2.2), the Company shall give written notice thereof to each Holder at least 10 Business Days before such filing or the commencement of such Underwritten Offering, as applicable, offering each Holder the opportunity to register on such Registration Statement or to be included in such Underwritten Offering, as applicable, such number of Registrable Securities as such Holder may request in writing not later than five Business Days after receiving such notice in writing from the Company (a Piggyback Registration). Upon receipt by the Company of any such request, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to, or in the case of an Underwritten Offering, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Underwriters to, include such Registrable Securities in such Registration Statement (or in a separate Registration Statement concurrently filed) and to cause such Registration Statement to become effective with respect to such Registrable Securities. If no request for inclusion from a Holder is received by the Company within the deadlines specified above, such Holder shall have no further right to participate in such Piggyback Registration. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time after giving written notice of a registration in accordance with the first sentence of this paragraph (a) and before the effectiveness of the Registration Statement described in such notice, the Company determines for any reason either not to effect such registration or to delay such registration, the Company may, at its election, by delivery of written notice to each Holder exercising its rights to Piggyback Registration, (i) in the case of a determination not to effect registration, relieve itself of its obligation to effect a Piggyback Registration of the Registrable Securities in connection with such registration or (ii) in the case of a determination to delay registration, delay the Piggyback Registration of such Registrable Securities of the Holders for the same period as the delay in the registration of such other Registrable Securities; provided, that in the case of any such termination, withdrawal or delay, all expenses incurred in connection with such Piggyback Registration shall be borne entirely by the Company as set forth in Section 2.9. If any Holder requests inclusion in a registration pursuant to this Section 2.3, such Holder may, at any time before the effective date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke such request by delivering written notice of such revocation to the Company; provided, however, that if the Company, in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, determines that such revocation would materially delay the registration or otherwise require a recirculation of the prospectus contained in the Registration Statement, then such Holder shall have no right to so revoke his, her, or its request. The Company shall keep the Holder reasonably informed as to the status or expected timing of the launch of any Public Offering registered pursuant to any such Piggyback Registration. No registration of Registrable Securities effected under this Section 2.3 shall relieve the Company of its obligations to effect any Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.1 or Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 2.2. The rights of Holders with respect to a Piggyback Registration shall be subject to Suspension Periods, as provided in Section 2.5. To the extent an Underwritten Offering is made under any such Registration Statement, all Holders exercising their right to Piggyback Registration must sell their Registrable Securities to the Underwriters selected as provided in Section 2.7(f) on the same terms and conditions as apply to the other securityholders selling in such Underwritten Offering.
(b) If a Piggyback Registration involves an Underwritten Offering (other than any Demand Registration, in which case the provisions with respect to priority of inclusion in such offering set forth in Section 2.1(c) shall apply or a Shelf Public Offering, in which case the provisions with respect to priority of inclusion in such offering set forth in Section 2.2(c) shall apply) and the managing Underwriter advises the Company that, in its view, the number of Registrable Securities that the Holders and the Common Stock that the Company intend to include in such Underwritten Offering exceeds the Maximum Offering Size, the Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering the following securities, in the following priority, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
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(i) first, all Common Stock that is requested to be included by the Company in the Underwritten Offering for its own account;
(ii) second, Registrable Securities that are requested to be included in the Underwritten Offering pursuant to this Section 2.3 by any Holder on a pro rata basis on the basis of the requesting Holders beneficial ownership of the Common Stock; and
(iii) third, all other securities that are requested to be included in the Underwritten Offering for the account of any other Persons with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
2.4 Underwritten Offering. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Holder may participate in any Underwritten Offering hereunder unless such Holder completes and executes in a timely manner all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, custody agreements, underwriting agreements (as approved in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), and other documents reasonably requested under the terms of such underwriting arrangements; provided, that all Persons participating in such Underwritten Offering shall be required to complete and execute, on the same terms and conditions, such questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, custody agreements, underwriting agreements, and other documents (if applicable). The right of a Holder to register and sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering shall also be subject to any restrictions, limitations or prohibitions on the sale of Registrable Securities (subject to the limitations in Section 2.6) as may be required by the Underwriters in the interests of the offering (and, without limiting the foregoing, each Holder shall in connection therewith agree to be bound by (and if requested, execute and deliver) a lock-up agreement with the Underwriter(s) of any such Underwritten Offering as provided in Section 2.6).
2.5 Suspension. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article II, but subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 2.5, the Company shall be entitled to suspend its obligation to (a) file or submit (but not to prepare) any Registration Statement in connection with any Demand Registration or Shelf Registration, (b) file or submit any amendment to such a Registration Statement, (c) file, submit or furnish any supplement or amendment to a prospectus included in such a Registration Statement, (d) make any other filing with the SEC, (e) cause such a Registration Statement or other filing with the SEC to become or remain effective or (f) take any similar actions or actions related thereto (including entering into agreements and actions related to the marketing of securities) (collectively, Registration Actions) (A) upon (i) the issuance by the SEC of a stop order suspending the effectiveness of any such Registration Statement or the initiation of proceedings with respect to such a Registration Statement under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Securities Act, (ii) the Board of Directors determination, in its good faith judgment, that any such Registration Action should not be taken because it would reasonably be expected to materially interfere with or require the public disclosure of any material corporate development or plan, including any material financing, securities offering, acquisition, disposition, corporate reorganization or merger or other transaction involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) the Company possessing material non-public information the disclosure of which the Board of Directors
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determines, in its good faith judgment, would reasonably be expected to not be in the best interests of the Company or (B) to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with the Companys insider trading policy. Upon the occurrence of any of the conditions described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above in connection with undertaking a Registration Action, the Company shall give prompt notice of such suspension (and whether such action is being taken pursuant to clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) (a Suspension Notice) to the Holders. Upon the termination of such condition, the Company shall give prompt notice thereof to the Holders and shall promptly proceed with all Registration Actions that were suspended pursuant to this paragraph. The Company may only suspend Registration Actions pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) above on two occasions during any period of 12 consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the Suspension Notice but not exceeding an aggregate of 90 days (which period may not be extended or renewed) during such 12 consecutive month period (each such occasion, a Suspension Period). Each Suspension Period shall be deemed to begin on the date the relevant Suspension Notice is given to the Holders and shall be deemed to end on the earlier to occur of (1) the date on which the Company gives the Holders a notice that the Suspension Period has terminated and (2) the date on which the number of days during which a Suspension Period has been in effect exceeds the 90-day limit during such 12 consecutive month period. If the filing of any Demand Registration or Shelf Registration is suspended pursuant to this Section 2.5, once the Suspension Period ends the Holders requesting such registration may request a new Demand Registration or Shelf Registration (and any such request for a Demand Registration shall not be counted as an additional Demand Registration for purposes of Section 2.1(a)). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article II, the Company shall not be in breach of, or have failed to comply with, any obligation under this Article II where the Company acts or omits to take any action in order to comply with applicable Law, any SEC Guidance or any Order. Each Holder shall keep confidential the fact that a Suspension Period is in effect unless otherwise notified by the Company, except (a) for disclosure to the Registration Participants or Holders, as applicable, and their employees, agents and professional advisers who reasonably need to know such information for purposes of assisting such Registration Participants or Holders with respect to its investment in the Common Stock and agree to keep it confidential, (b) for disclosures to the extent required in order to comply with reporting obligations to its limited partners or other direct or indirect investors who are subject to confidentiality arrangements with such Holder, (c) if and to the extent such matters are publicly disclosed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Person that, to the actual knowledge of such Holder, was not subject to an obligation or duty of confidentiality to the Company and its Subsidiaries, (d) as required by applicable Law (provided, that the Holder gives prior written notice to the Company of such requirement and the contents of the proposed disclosure to the extent it is permitted to do so under applicable Law), and (e) for disclosure to any other Holder who is subject to the foregoing confidentiality requirement.
2.6 Lockup Agreements.
(a) Each Holder owning Registrable Securities representing beneficial ownership of 1% or more of the outstanding Common Stock hereby agrees that, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, except for sales in such Underwritten Offering:
(i) it shall not effect any public sale or distribution (including sales pursuant to Rule 144 and pursuant to derivative transactions) of Common Stock (1) in connection with an Underwritten Offering that is being made pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement, a Shelf Registration Statement or a Piggyback Registration, in each case in accordance with this Article II, during (A) the period commencing on the
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seventh day prior to the expected time of circulation of a preliminary prospectus with respect to such Underwritten Offering (or, if no preliminary prospectus is circulated, the commencement of any marketing efforts with respect to such Underwritten Offering) and ending on the 90th day following the date of the final prospectus covering such Registrable Securities in connection with such Underwritten Offering or (B) such shorter period as the Underwriters with respect to such Underwritten Offering may require; provided, that the duration of the restrictions described in this clause (i) shall be no longer than the duration of the shortest restriction generally imposed by the Underwriters on the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or Persons in substantially equivalent positions) in connection with such Underwritten Offering; and
(ii) it shall execute a lock-up agreement in favor of the Underwriters in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Underwriters to such effect.
(b) In connection with an Underwritten Offering, except for sales in such Underwritten Offering, the Company (and its directors and officers) agrees that it:
(i) shall not effect any public sale or distribution of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock (except pursuant to (a) registrations on Form S-8 or Form S-4 or any similar or successor form under the Securities Act or (b) a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act) during (1) the period commencing on the seventh day prior to the expected time of circulation of a preliminary prospectus with respect to such Underwritten Offering (or, if no preliminary prospectus is circulated, the commencement of any marketing efforts with respect to such Underwritten Offering) and ending on the 90th day following the date of the final prospectus covering such Registrable Securities in connection with such Underwritten Offering or (2) such shorter period as the Underwriters with respect to such Underwritten Offering may require; and
(ii) to the extent requested by the Underwriters participating in such Underwritten Offering, it shall agree to include provisions in the relevant underwriting or other similar agreement giving effect to the restrictions described in clause (i) above, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such Underwriters.
2.7 Registration Procedures. Whenever the Holders of Registrable Securities have requested that any Registrable Securities be registered pursuant to this Agreement, subject to Section 2.5, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration and the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof as soon as reasonably practicable, and, in connection with any such request:
(a) The Company shall, as soon as practicable, prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on the form required by this Article II under which such Registration Statement is required to be filed, which form shall be available, pursuant to SEC Guidance, for the sale of the Registrable Securities to be registered thereunder in accordance with the intended method of distribution thereof, and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such filed Registration Statement to become and remain effective, to the extent permitted by SEC Guidance, for a period of (i) not less than 180 days (or, if sooner, until all Registrable Securities have been sold under such Registration Statement), which duration shall not count any Suspension Period, or (ii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, until the date on which all of the securities covered by such Shelf Registration are no longer Registrable Securities.
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(b) Prior to filing a Registration Statement or related prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (including any documents incorporated by reference therein), or before using any Free Writing Prospectus, the Company shall provide to each Holder, the Holders Counsel and each Underwriter, if any, with an adequate and appropriate opportunity to review and comment on such Registration Statement, each Prospectus included therein (and each amendment or supplement thereto) and each Free Writing Prospectus proposed to be filed with the SEC, and thereafter the Company shall furnish to such Holder, the Holders Counsel and Underwriter, if any, such number of copies of such Registration Statement, each amendment and supplement thereto filed with the SEC (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each preliminary prospectus and any summary prospectus) and any other prospectus filed under Rule 424, Rule 430A, Rule 430B or Rule 430C under the Securities Act and such other documents as such Holder or Underwriter may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder; provided, however, that in no event shall the Company be required to provide to any Person any materials, information or document required to be filed by the Company pursuant to the Exchange Act prior to its filing other than in connection with a Public Offering (other than as provided in the Agreement of which this Article II forms a part). In addition, the Company shall, as expeditiously as practicable, keep the Holders advised in writing as to the initiation and progress of any registration under Sections 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 and provide each Holder with copies of all correspondence (including any comment letter) with the SEC or any other Governmental Authority in connection with any such Registration Statement. Each Holder shall have the right to request that the Company modify any information contained in such Registration Statement, amendment and supplement thereto pertaining to such Holder, and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply with such request; provided, however, that the Company shall not have any obligation to modify any information if such modification the Company reasonably expects would cause the relevant document to contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) After the filing of the Registration Statement, the Company shall (i) cause the related prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement, and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, (ii) comply with the provisions of the Securities Act and other SEC Guidance applicable to the Company with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement during the applicable period in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the Holder thereof set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to such prospectus and (iii) promptly notify each Holder holding Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement and the Holders Counsel any stop order issued or threatened by the SEC or any state securities commission with respect thereto and take all reasonable actions required to prevent the entry of such stop order or to remove it if entered.
(d) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement under such securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as any Holder holding such Registrable Securities reasonably (in light of such Holders intended plan of distribution) requests, and continue such registration or qualification in effect in such
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jurisdiction for the shortest of (1) as long as permissible pursuant to the Laws of such jurisdiction, (2) as long as any such Holder requests or (3) until all such Registrable Securities are sold and (ii) cause such Registrable Securities to be registered with or approved by such other Governmental Authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such Holder to consummate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder; provided, that the Company shall not be required to (1) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 2.7(d), (2) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction or (3) consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction.
(e) The Company shall as promptly as practicable notify each Holder holding such Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (i) at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, upon the discovery that, or upon the occurrence of an event as a result of which, the preparation of a supplement or amendment to such prospectus is required so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities, such prospectus shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements in light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading and the Company shall promptly prepare and make available to each Holder and file with the SEC any such supplement or amendment, (ii) if the Company becomes aware of any request by the SEC or any other Governmental Authority for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or related prospectus covering Registrable Securities or for additional information relating thereto, (iii) if the Company becomes aware of the issuance or threatened issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending or threatening to suspend the effectiveness of a Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities or of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.
(f) (i) The Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in a Demand Registration or intended to be sold pursuant to a Shelf Public Offering pursuant to a take down under a Shelf Registration, but not, for the avoidance of doubt, a Piggyback Registration, shall have the right to select Underwriters in connection with any Underwritten Offering resulting from the exercise of a Demand Registration or a Shelf Registration (which Underwriters may include any Affiliate of any Holder so long as including such Affiliate would not require that the separate engagement of a qualified independent underwriter with respect to such offering), subject to the Companys approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and (ii) the Company shall select Underwriters in connection with any other Underwritten Offering. In connection with any Underwritten Offering, the Company shall enter into customary agreements (including an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all other actions as are reasonably required in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in any such Underwritten Offering, including, if required, the engagement of a qualified independent underwriter in connection with the qualification of the underwriting arrangements with FINRA.
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(g) Subject to confidentiality arrangements or agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Board of Directors, the Company shall make available for inspection (upon reasonable notice and during normal business hours) by any Holder and any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to a Registration Statement being filed by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.7 and any attorney, accountant or other professional retained by any such Holder or Underwriter (collectively, the Inspectors), all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company (collectively, the Records) as shall be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable them to exercise their due diligence responsibility, and cause the officers and the employees of the Company to supply all information reasonably requested by any Inspectors in connection with such Registration Statement. Records that the Company determines, in good faith, to be confidential and that it notifies the Inspectors are confidential shall not be disclosed by the Inspectors unless (i) the disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in such Registration Statement, (ii) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction, (iii) disclosure of such Records is necessary to comply with SEC Guidance, Law or legal or administrative process, (iv) the information in such Records was known to the Inspectors on a non-confidential basis prior to its disclosure by the Company or has been made generally available to the public other than as a result of a violation of this Section 2.7(g) or any other agreement or duty of confidentiality, (v) the information in such Records is or becomes available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by any Inspector in violation the confidentiality agreements or, (vi) the information in such Records is or was independently developed by any Inspector without the benefit of the information in such Records. Each Holder agrees that information obtained by it as a result of such inspections shall be deemed confidential and shall not be used by it or its Affiliates for any other purpose, including as the basis for any market transactions in any securities of the Company, unless and until such information is made generally available to the public. Each Holder further agrees that, upon learning that disclosure of such Records is sought in a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, give notice to the Company and allow the Company, at its expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of the Records deemed confidential.
(h) The Company shall furnish to each Holder, and to each Underwriter, if any, a signed counterpart, addressed to such Underwriter, of (i) an opinion or opinions of counsel to the Company and (ii) a comfort letter or comfort letters from the Companys independent public accountants, each in customary form and covering such matters of the kind customarily covered by opinions or comfort letters, as the case may be, the managing Underwriter therefor reasonably requests.
(i) The Company shall otherwise comply with all applicable SEC Guidance and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement or such other document that shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the requirements of Rule 158 thereunder.
(j) The Company may require each Holder promptly to furnish in writing to the Company such information regarding the distribution of the Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request and such other information as may be reasonably required in connection with such registration.
(k) Each Holder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 2.7(e), such Holder shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement (including any Shelf Registration) covering such Registrable Securities until such Holders receipt of (i) copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus from the Company
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or (ii) further notice from the Company that distribution can proceed without an amended or supplemented prospectus, and, in the circumstances described in clause (i) above, if so directed by the Company, such Holder shall deliver to the Company (or otherwise destroy and promptly certify in writing to such destruction) all copies, other than any file copies then in such Holders possession, of the most recent prospectus covering such Registrable Securities at the time of receipt of such notice. If the Company shall give such notice, the Company shall extend the period during which such registration statement shall be maintained effective (including the period referred to in Section 2.7(a)) by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of notice pursuant to Section 2.7(e) to the date when the Company shall (1) make available to such Holder a prospectus supplemented or amended to conform with the requirements of Section 2.7(e) or (2) deliver to such Holder the notice described in clause (ii) above.
(l) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the listing of all Registrable Securities of any class or series covered by such Registration Statement on NASDAQ or another U.S. national securities exchange.
(m) The Company shall have appropriate officers (i) upon reasonable request and at reasonable times prepare and make presentations at any road shows in connection with Underwritten Offerings and (ii) otherwise use their commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate as requested by the Underwriters in the offering, marketing or selling of the Registrable Securities.
(n) The Company shall as soon as possible following its actual knowledge thereof, notify each Holder: (i) of any request by the SEC or any other Governmental Authority for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement, a related prospectus (including a Free Writing Prospectus) or for any other additional information; or (ii) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for such purpose.
(o) The Company shall reasonably cooperate with each Holder and each Underwriter participating in the disposition of such Registrable Securities and their respective counsel in connection with any filings required to be made by FINRA.
(p) The Company shall take all other steps reasonably necessary to effect the registration of such Registrable Securities and reasonably cooperate with the holders of such Registrable Securities to facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities.
(q) The Company shall, within the deadlines specified by SEC Guidance, make all required filings of all prospectuses (including any Free Writing Prospectus) with the SEC and make all required filing fee payments in respect of any Registration Statement or related prospectus used under this Article II (and any offering covered hereby).
(r) The Company shall, if such registration is pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration, include in such Registration Statement such additional information for marketing purposes as the Underwriters reasonably request (which information may be provided by means of a prospectus supplement if permitted by SEC Guidance).
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2.8 Holder Obligations.
(a) If Registrable Securities owned by any Holder are included in a Demand Registration Statement, a Shelf Registration Statement or a Piggyback Registration, such Holder shall furnish promptly to the Company such information regarding itself and the distribution of such Registrable Securities by such Holder as is required under SEC Guidance or as the Company may otherwise from time to time reasonably request in writing.
(b) Each Holder that has requested inclusion of its Registrable Securities in any Registration Statement shall (i) furnish to the Company (as a condition precedent to such Holders participation in such registration) in writing such information with respect to such Holder, its ownership of Common Stock and the intended method of disposition of its Registrable Securities as the Company may reasonably request or as may be required by SEC Guidance for use in connection with any related Registration Statement or prospectus (or amendment or supplement thereto) and any Free Writing Prospectus related thereto and all information required to be disclosed in order to make the information previously furnished to the Company by such Holder not cause such Registration Statement, prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus (A) to fail to comply with SEC Guidance or (B) contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading and (ii) comply with SEC Guidance and all applicable state securities laws and comply with all applicable regulations in connection with the registration and the disposition of Registrable Securities.
(c) Each Holder shall, as promptly as practicable, to the extent it is a Registration Participant in a Registration Statement, following its actual knowledge thereof, notify the Company of the occurrence of any event that would reasonably be expected to cause a Registration Statement or prospectus in which its Registrable Securities or any related Free Writing Prospectus are included, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading.
(d) Each Holder shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Company in preparing the applicable Registration Statement to the extent it is a Registration Participant and any related prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus.
(e) Each Holder agrees that no Holder shall be entitled to sell any Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement or to receive a prospectus relating thereto unless such Holder has complied with its obligations under this Article II.
2.9 Registration Expenses. In connection with the Company performing its obligations under this Article II, the Registration Expenses of all Registrations shall be borne by the Company, regardless of whether the Registration Statement becomes effective or such offering or other transaction is completed.
2.10 Indemnification.
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by law, each Holder holding Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement, its Affiliates, stockholders, employees, agents, officers, partners, members, and directors, and each Person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act) (collectively the Holder Parties), for whom Registrable
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Securities are to be registered pursuant to this Article II against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable expenses of investigation and reasonable attorneys, accountants and experts fees and expenses) (Damages) caused by or relating to (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any documents incorporated by reference therein, or any Free Writing Prospectus utilized in connection therewith; (ii) any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; or (iii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact in the information conveyed to any purchaser at the time of the sale to such purchaser, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, and shall reimburse each such Holder Party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such Damages or in related actions or proceedings, except, in each case, insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information regarding such holder furnished in writing to the Company by such holder expressly for use therein. The Company also agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Underwriters of the Registrable Securities (including any Holders who is deemed to be an Underwriter within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act), their respective officers and directors and each Person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act on substantially the same basis as that of the indemnification of the Holders provided in this Section 2.10.
(b) In connection with any Registration Statement in which a Holder for whom Registrable Securities are to be registered pursuant to this Article II is participating, each such Holder shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify (i) the Company, (ii) each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, (iii) each other Holder participating in any offering of Registrable Securities and (iv) the respective partners, Affiliates, stockholders, members, officers, directors, employees and agents of each of the Persons specified in clauses (i) through (iv), from and against all Damages to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company resulting from or relating to (1) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in the Registration Statement, prospectus, or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any Free Writing Prospectus utilized in connection therewith; (2) any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; or (3) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact in the information conveyed to any purchaser at the time of the sale to such purchaser, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, but only to the extent, in each such case, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission is contained in any information or affidavit regarding such holder so furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use therein; provided, that the obligation to indemnify shall be individual, not joint and several, for each Holder and shall be limited to the net amount of proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. As a condition to including Registrable Securities in any Registration Statement filed in accordance with this Article II, the Company may require that it shall have received an undertaking reasonably satisfactory to it from any Underwriter to indemnify and hold it harmless to the extent customarily provided by Underwriters with respect to similar securities and offerings. No Holder shall be liable under this Section 2.10 for any Damages in excess of the net proceeds realized by such Holder in the sale of Registrable Securities of such Holder to which such Damages relate.
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(c) If any proceeding (including any investigation by any Governmental Authority) shall be instituted involving any Person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 2.10(a) or 2.10(b), such Person (an Indemnified Party) shall promptly notify the Person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the Indemnifying Party) in writing and the Indemnifying Party shall assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party, and shall assume the payment of all reasonable fees and expenses; provided, that the failure of any Indemnified Party so to notify the Indemnifying Party shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations hereunder except to the extent that the Indemnifying Party is materially prejudiced by such failure to notify. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Party unless (i) the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) in the reasonable judgment of such Indemnified Party (1) representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them or (2) there would be rights or defenses that would be available to such Indemnified Party that are not available to the Indemnifying Party. It is understood that, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, the Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) at any time for all such Indemnified Parties, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed promptly after receipt of an invoice setting forth such fees and expenses in reasonable detail. In the case of any such separate firm for the Indemnified Parties, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Indemnified Parties. The Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent, or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Party shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Party from and against any Damages (to the extent obligated herein) by reason of such settlement or judgment. Without the prior written consent of each affected Indemnified Party, no Indemnifying Party shall effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which such Indemnified Party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability arising out of such proceeding.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in Section 2.10(a) or Section 2.10(b) is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to the Indemnified Parties or is insufficient in respect of any Damages, then each Indemnifying Party, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such Damages in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Parties in connection with such actions which resulted in such Damages, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Parties shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact has been made by, or relates to information supplied by, such Indemnifying Party or the Indemnified Parties and the parties relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 2.10(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the Damages referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in
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Section 2.10(a) or Section 2.10(b), any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by a party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 2.10, no Holder shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the net proceeds (after deducting the Underwriters discounts and commissions) received by such Holder in the offering. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. Each Holders obligation to contribute pursuant to this Section 2.10 is several in the proportion that the proceeds of the offering received by such Holder bears to the total proceeds of the offering received by all such Holders and not joint. The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director, or controlling Person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities. The Company also agrees to make such provisions, as are reasonably requested by any indemnified party, for contribution to such party in the event the Companys indemnification is unavailable for any reason.
2.11 Rule 144. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to file any reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and it shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to take such further action as any holder may reasonably request to make available adequate current public information with respect to the Company meeting the current public information requirements of Rule 144(c) under the Securities Act, to the extent required to enable such holder to sell Registrable Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by (i) Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as such rule may be amended from time to time, or (ii) any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.
2.12 Inconsistent Agreements. The Company and its Affiliates shall not, without the prior written consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities at the time in question, enter into any agreement with respect to the registration or sale of its securities that is inconsistent with or senior to the rights granted under this Article II.
ARTICLE III
PREMPTIVE RIGHTS
3.1 Grant of Preemptive Rights. If, for so long as the Investors or their Affiliates hold at least 25% of the shares of Common Stock held by the Investors and their Affiliates as of the date hereof (including, for the avoidance of doubt, those issued pursuant to the Exchange Agreement), the Company or any of its Subsidiaries proposes to issue or Transfer (or offer to issue or Transfer) to any Person any Securities, other than Securities described in Section 3.5 (such Securities, New Securities), then the Company shall first deliver to the Investors a written notice (an Offer Notice) setting forth (a) the aggregate number of New Securities proposed to be issued or Transferred, (b) the price per New Security and all other material terms and conditions applicable to the offer and the New Securities (whether proposed to be set forth in the Organizational Documents, an agreement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise), (c) the identity of each Person to whom securities are proposed to be issued (or, if unknown, how such Persons shall be identified), (d) all written financial information and other disclosures provided by the Company or its representatives to any other proposed recipient of the New Securities and (e) an offer to issue or Transfer to the Investors, on the same terms and conditions described in the Offer Notice, up to a portion of such New Securities which equals the proportion that the number of shares of Common Stock issued and held, or issuable upon the conversion of any other securities convertible into, or otherwise exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock then held by such Investor bears to the total number of shares of Common Stock of the Company then outstanding.
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3.2 Exercise of Preemptive Rights. The Investors may irrevocably elect to purchase New Securities on the terms set forth in the Offer Notice by delivering a written notice to the Company within 15 days after receipt of the Offer Notice (or such longer period as the Company may specify therein) setting forth the amount of New Securities that the Investors desire to purchase (a Purchase Notice).
3.3 Issuance of New Securities. Subject to Section 3.5, in the event the Investors timely deliver a Purchase Notice, then the issuance or Transfer of New Securities set forth in the Purchase Notice delivered by the Investors shall take place no later than 60 days after the date of the Offer Notice and, except as otherwise agreed in writing between the Company and the Investors, concurrent with the issuance of New Securities to other Person(s), if any, participating in such issuance or Transfer of New Securities, and the number of New Securities issued to Persons other than the Investors shall be no greater than the number of New Securities described in the Offer Notice minus the number of New Securities elected to be purchased by the Investors in the related Purchase Notice. In the event that the Investors do not timely deliver a Purchase Notice, then the Company or its Subsidiary, as applicable, shall have the right, but shall not be obligated, to issue or Transfer no later than 60 days after the date of the Offer Notice up to the number of New Securities described in the Offer Notice. In any event, New Securities issued hereunder to the Investors shall be on the terms set forth in the related Offer Notice, and New Securities issued to any other Person(s) shall be at a price and on other terms and conditions not more favorable to such Person(s) than those offered to the Investors in the related Offer Notice. No New Securities may be issued or Transferred by the Company or its Subsidiaries following the 60th day after the date of the Offer Notice without delivering to the Investors an additional Offer Notice in compliance with this Article III.
3.4 Right of Assignment. The Investors may assign, in whole or in part, their right to purchase New Securities pursuant to this Article III to any Affiliate and, upon such assignment, such Person shall be entitled to exercise the rights of the Investors hereunder.
3.5 Exceptions to Preemptive Rights. The rights of the Investors under this Article III shall not apply to Securities issued or Transferred (a) pursuant to the Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Option and Incentive Plan of the Company or any similar equity- or incentive-based compensation plan or agreement approved by the Board of Directors after the date of this Agreement, (b) as a result of any stock or equity split (or reverse split) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries effected on a pro rata basis among all equity interests of the same class or series, (c) by a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or another direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company, (d) in accordance with an express waiver of the provisions of this Article III executed by the Investors, (e) to Persons as direct consideration for the acquisition of another corporation or other entity, or the acquisition of a line of business or of assets of another corporation or other entity, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, by stock purchase, merger, purchase of all or substantially all assets or other reorganization or (f) upon the conversion or exchange of any other Securities that were (i) issued prior to the date of this Agreement, (ii) offered to the Investors pursuant to this Article III (iii) exempt from this Article III.
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3.6 Regulatory Conditions. If, as a result of the exercise of a right pursuant to this Article III, the Investors notify the Company within five Business Days of their exercise of such right that the Investors reasonably believe a Regulatory Approval Condition may apply, then the Investors and the Company shall cooperate in good faith to determine the applicability of any such Regulatory Approval Condition and use (and cause their respective Affiliates to use) their respective reasonable best efforts to take or cause to be taken all actions reasonably necessary or advisable on their part to cause the satisfaction of any such Regulatory Approval Condition, including by (a) furnishing the other with all information concerning itself and its Affiliates, directors, officers and stockholders and such other matters as may be reasonably necessary or advisable in connection with any statement, filing, notice or application made by or on behalf of the Investors, or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates to any Governmental Authority in connection with such exercise; and (b) preparing and filing as promptly as reasonably practicable all documentation to effect all necessary notices, reports and other filings and to obtain as promptly as reasonably practicable all consents, clearances, registrations, approvals, permits and authorizations necessary or advisable to be obtained from any Governmental Authority in order to consummate such purchase of New Securities. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall any transaction pursuant to this Article III occur without the written consent of the Investors and the Company unless and until the satisfaction of all Regulatory Approval Conditions that either such Person reasonably determines are applicable to such conversion. The costs and expenses of all activities required pursuant to this Article III shall be borne by the Person or Persons incurring such costs and expenses.
ARTICLE IV
TAX MATTERS
4.1 Corporation Status. Until the date that the Investors or their Affiliates no longer hold any of the shares of Common Stock held by such Investors or Affiliates as of the date hereof, the Company shall not be liquidated, merged or converted into a limited liability company, or otherwise enter into a transaction pursuant to which the Company (or any resulting entity (including an interim entity in a series of steps)) ceases to exist as an entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes (and state and local tax purposes, where applicable) without the Investors prior written approval.
ARTICLE V
INDEMNIFICATION
5.1 Right to Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, the Oaktree Director and/or the Observer, as applicable (each as defined in the Credit Agreement), the Investors and their respective Affiliates (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) and direct and indirect partners (including partners of partners and stockholders and members of partners), members, stockholders, managers, directors, officers, employees and agents and each Person who controls any of them within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (the Covered Persons) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees), sustained or suffered by any such Covered Person based upon, relating to, arising out of, or by reason of any third party or governmental claims relating to such Covered Persons status as a stockholder or controlling person of the Company (including any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, which relate directly or indirectly to the registration, purchase, sale or ownership of any equity securities of the Company or to any fiduciary obligation owed with respect thereto), including in connection with any third party
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or governmental action or claim relating to any action taken or omitted to be taken or alleged to have been taken or omitted to have been taken by any Covered Person as a stockholder or controlling person, including claims alleging so-called control person liability or securities law liability (any such claim, a Claim), except to the extent such Claim is due to or stems from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud of the Oaktree Director and/or the Observer, as applicable, the Investors and their respective Affiliates (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the aggregate liability of the Company under this Article V exceed an amount equal to the Total Accrued Dividend Amount set forth in Exhibit A to the Purchase Agreement.
5.2 Prepayment of Expenses. To the extent not prohibited by applicable Law, the Company shall pay the expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) incurred by a Covered Person in defending any Claim in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, to the extent required by applicable Law, such payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of such Claim shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by such Covered Person to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that such Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article Article V or otherwise.
5.3 Claims. If a claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Article Article V is not paid in full within 30 days after a written claim therefor by the Covered Person has been received by the Company, such Covered Person may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any such action the Company shall have the burden of proving that the Covered Person is not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses under applicable Law.
5.4 Nonexclusivity of Rights. The rights conferred on any Covered Person by this Article Article V shall not be exclusive of any other rights that such Covered Person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of any Organizational Documents of the Company or its Subsidiaries or any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
5.5 Other Sources. Subject to Section 5.6, the Companys obligation, if any, to indemnify or to advance expenses to any Covered Person shall be reduced by any amount such Covered Person may collect as indemnification or advancement of expenses from any other Person.
5.6 Indemnitor of First Resort. The Company hereby acknowledges that the Covered Persons may have certain rights to advancement or indemnification other than from the Company (collectively, the Other Indemnitors). In all events, (i) the Company hereby agrees that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligation to a Covered Person to provide advancement and/or indemnification to such Covered Person are primary and any obligation of the Other Indemnitors (including any Affiliate thereof other than the Company) to provide advancement or indemnification hereunder or under any other indemnification agreement (whether pursuant to contract, by-laws or charter), or any obligation of any insurer of the Other Indemnitors to provide insurance coverage, for the same expenses, liabilities, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of such expenses, liabilities, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement) incurred by such Covered Person are secondary and (ii) if any Other Indemnitor (or any Affiliate thereof, other than the Company) pays or causes to be paid, for any reason, any amounts otherwise indemnifiable
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hereunder or under any other indemnification agreement (whether pursuant to contract, bylaws or charter) with such Covered Person, then (x) such Other Indemnitor (or such Affiliate, as the case may be) shall be fully subrogated to all rights of such Covered Person with respect to such payment and (y) the Company shall fully indemnify, reimburse and hold harmless such Other Indemnitor (or such other Affiliate, as the case may be) for all such payments actually made by such Other Indemnitor (or such other Affiliate, as the case may be).
ARTICLE VI
MISCELLANEOUS
6.1 Successors and Assigns.
(a) The terms and conditions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the respective successors and assigns of the parties. Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any party other than the parties hereto or their respective successors and assigns any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement, except as expressly provided in this Agreement.
(b) The rights and obligations under this Agreement shall be automatically assignable by the Holders to any transferee of all or any portion of such Holders Registrable Securities if (i) the transferring Holder agrees in writing with the transferee to assign such rights and obligations, and a copy of such agreement is furnished to the Company within a reasonable time after such assignment, (ii) such transferee becomes a party to this Agreement by executing a joinder hereto, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, (iii) giving effect to such transfer, the Registrable Securities transferred to such transferee would be Registrable Securities, and (iv) such transfer shall have been made in accordance with the requirements of applicable Law and SEC Guidance. Upon compliance with the foregoing sentence any such transferee shall become a Holder under this Agreement.
6.2 Governing Law. This Agreement and any controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as to matters within the scope thereof, and as to all other matters shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law principles that would result in the application of any law other than the law of the State of Delaware.
6.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including .pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.
6.4 Titles and Subtitles. The titles and subtitles used in this Agreement are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Agreement.
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6.5 Notices. All notices and other communications given or made pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon the earlier of actual receipt or: (a) personal delivery to the party to be notified, (b) when sent, if sent by electronic mail or facsimile during normal business hours of the recipient, and if not sent during normal business hours, then on the recipients next Business Day, (c) five days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (d) one (1) Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, freight prepaid, specifying next Business Day delivery, with written verification of receipt. If notice is given to the Company, it shall be sent to TPI Composites, Inc., 8501 N. Scottsdale Road, Gainey Center II, Suite 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85253, Attention: William E. Siwek (bsiwek@tpicomposites.com) and Steven Fishbach (sfishbach@tpicomposites.com); and a copy (which shall not constitute notice) shall also be sent to Goodwin Procter LLP, 601 Marshall Street, Redwood City, California 94063, Attention: Bradley C. Weber (bweber@goodwinlaw.com) and Kim de Glossop (kdeglossop@goodwinlaw.com). If notice is given to the Investors, it shall be sent to c/o Oaktree Capital Management, LP, 333 S. Grand Ave., 28th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90071, Attention: Jordan Mikes (jmikes@oaktreecapital.com) and Brook Hinchman (bhinchman@oaktreecapital.com); and a copy (which shall not constitute notice) shall also be sent to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 1888 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067, Attention: Patrick S. Brown (brownp@sullcrom.com) and Rita-Anne ONeill (oneillr@sullcrom.com).
6.6 Amendments and Waivers. Any provision of this Agreement may be amended or waived if, and only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Investors and the Company, or in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom the waiver is to be effective. No failure or delay by any party in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
6.7 Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
6.8 Delays or Omissions. No delay or omission to exercise any right, power or remedy accruing to any party under this Agreement, upon any breach or default of any other party under this Agreement, shall impair any such right, power or remedy of such non-breaching or non-defaulting party nor shall it be construed to be a waiver of any such breach or default, or an acquiescence therein, or of or in any similar breach or default thereafter occurring; nor shall any waiver of any single breach or default be deemed a waiver of any other breach or default theretofore or thereafter occurring. Any waiver, permit, consent or approval of any kind or character on the part of any party of any breach or default under this Agreement, or any waiver on the part of any party of any provisions or conditions of this Agreement, must be in writing and shall be effective only to the extent specifically set forth in such writing. All remedies, either under this Agreement or by law or otherwise afforded to any party, shall be cumulative and not alternative.
6.9 Entire Agreement. This Agreement (including the Exhibits hereto), and the other Transaction Agreements constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and any other written or oral agreement relating to the subject matter hereof existing between the parties are expressly canceled.
6.10 Dispute Resolution. The parties (a) hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of the state courts of the State of Delaware and to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware for the purpose of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement, (b) agree not to commence
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any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement except in the state courts of the State of Delaware or the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and (c) hereby waive, and agree not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any such suit, 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 suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the suit, action or proceeding is improper or that this Agreement or the subject matter hereof may not be enforced in or by such court. Each party shall bear its own costs in respect of any disputes arising under this Agreement. The prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys fees, costs, and necessary disbursements in addition to any other relief to which such party may be entitled.
6.11 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, THE SECURITIES OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF OR THEREOF. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS, AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. THIS SECTION HAS BEEN FULLY DISCUSSED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THESE PROVISIONS SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY EXCEPTIONS. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT SUCH PARTY HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT SUCH PARTY KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL.
6.12 Specific Performance. Each party hereto expressly acknowledges and agrees that it would be difficult to measure the damages that might result from any actual or threatened breach of this Agreement, and that any actual or threatened breach by a party hereto of any of the provisions of this Agreement may result in immediate, irreparable and continuing injury to the other party hereto for which a remedy at law would be inadequate. Each of the parties hereto therefore agrees that, in addition to any other available remedies the other party hereto may have in equity or at law, such other party shall be entitled, without the posting of a bond, to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement and to obtain temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive relief or other equitable relief, in each case issued by a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with Section 6.10, in case of any such actual or threatened breach by such party.
6.13 Enforcement of Remedies. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that no Holder shall have any right to enforce this Agreement against any other Holder or compel or seek to compel any Holder to enforce this Agreement against any other Holder, and such right to enforce this Agreement against a Holder shall be solely and exclusively vested in the Company (and its successors and assigns).
6.14 Third Parties. Except as expressly set forth herein, nothing expressed or implied in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to confer on any Person, other than the parties hereto, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or with respect to this Agreement or any provision of this Agreement.
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6.15 Certain Representations and Warranties; Covenants. Each party hereby represents and warrants to the other parties as follows: (a)(i) if such party is an entity, such party has all requisite authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder and (ii) if such party is an individual, such party has all requisite capacity to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform his or her obligations hereunder, (b) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such party and constitutes a valid, legal and binding agreement of such party, enforceable against such party in accordance with its terms and (c) neither the execution of this Agreement by such party nor the performance of such partys obligations hereunder shall conflict with or violate, or result in a breach or default under, any applicable Law or legal requirement or any agreement to which such party is a party or is otherwise bound.
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INVESTORS:
Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V (Delaware) Holdings, L.P.
By: Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V GP, L.P. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Power Opportunities Fund V GP, Ltd. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. Its: Director | ||||
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Name: | Peter Jonna | |||
Title: | Authorized Signatory | |||
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Name: | Robert Wu | |||
Title: | Authorized Signatory |
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Opps TPIC Holdings, LLC
By: Oaktree Fund GP, LLC Its: Manager
By: Oaktree Fund GP I, L.P. Its: Managing Member | ||||
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Name: | Brook Hinchman | |||
Title: | Authorized Signatory | |||
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Name: | Jordan Mikes | |||
Title: | Authorized Signatory |
[Signature Page to the Investor Rights Agreement]
Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund, L.P.
By: Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund GP, L.P. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Phoenix Investment Fund GP Ltd. Its: General Partner
By: Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. Its: Director | ||||
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Name: | Pavel Kaganas | |||
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[Signature Page to the Investor Rights Agreement]
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT TO AMENDED & RESTATED INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This JOINDER (the Joinder Agreement) to the Amended & Restated Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of [] by and among TPI Composites, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company) and [] (the Investor Rights Agreement), is made as of [], by and between the Company and [] (Holder). Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Investor Rights Agreement.
WHEREAS, on the date hereof, Holder has acquired [] [shares of Common Stock] (the Holder Stock) from [] and the Investor Rights Agreement and the Company require Holder, as a holder of such Common Stock, to become a party to the Investor Rights Agreement, and Holder agrees to do so in accordance with the terms hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Joinder Agreement hereby agree as follows:
1. | Agreement to be Bound. Holder hereby (i) acknowledges that it has received and reviewed a complete copy of the Investor Rights Agreement and (ii) agrees that upon execution of this Joinder Agreement, it shall become a party to the Investor Rights Agreement and shall be fully bound by, and subject to, all of the covenants, terms and conditions of the Investor Rights Agreement as though an original party thereto and shall be deemed a Holder for all purposes thereof. |
2. | Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise provided herein, this Joinder Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Company and its successors and assigns and Holder and any subsequent holders of any Holder Stock and the respective successors and assigns of each of them, so long as they hold any Holder Stock. |
3. | Notices. For purposes of Section 6.5 of the Investor Rights Agreement, all notices, demands or other communications to the Holder shall be directed to: |
[Name]
[Address]
[Email]
4. | Governing Law. This Joinder Agreement and any controversy arising out of or relating to this Joinder Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as to matters within the scope thereof, and as to all other matters shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law principles that would result in the application of any law other than the law of the State of Delaware. The parties (a) hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of the state courts of the State of Delaware and to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware for the purpose of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement, (b) agree not to commence any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or based upon this Joinder Agreement except in the |
state courts of the State of Delaware or the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and (c) hereby waive, and agree not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any such suit, 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 suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the suit, action or proceeding is improper or that this Agreement or the subject matter hereof may not be enforced in or by such court. Each party shall bear its own costs in respect of any disputes arising under this Joinder Agreement. The prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys fees, costs, and necessary disbursements in addition to any other relief to which such party may be entitled. THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE, 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 JOINDER AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREBY. |
5. | Counterparts. This Joinder Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including .pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes. |
6. | Amendments. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Joinder Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto. |
7. | Titles and Subtitles. The titles and subtitles used in this Joinder Agreement are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Joinder Agreement. |
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Exhibit 99.1
TPI Composites, Inc. Announces Refinancing Transaction with Oaktree,
Significantly Strengthening Companys Liquidity Position and Enhancing Financial Flexibility
Improves liquidity by approximately $190 million
Permanently reduces future obligations by up to $90 million
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, December 14, 2023 TPI Composites, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPIC) (TPI or the Company) announced today that it has entered into a binding agreement (the Agreement) with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (Oaktree) to refinance Oaktrees outstanding Series A Preferred Stock holdings in the Company. The refinancing closed concurrently with the execution of the Agreement.
Under the terms of the Agreement, Oaktree converted its existing $436 million Series A Preferred Stock investment into a $393 million senior secured term loan, with the remaining $43 million exchanged into common equity pursuant to a separate purchase agreement. Including Oaktrees existing common equity position in TPI, Oaktree holds 9.9% of TPIs common equity on a pro forma basis. In connection with this refinancing, the maturity of the term loan was extended to March 31, 2027, from November 22, 2026, the optional redemption date for the Series A Preferred Stock.
Under the terms of the term loan, the Company has the ability to pay in kind all interest payments through December 31, 2025, and 50% of the interest payments from January 1, 2026, through maturity. If the Company elects to pay in cash any interest payments that could have been paid in kind, the applicable interest rate will be reduced by 2%, resulting in an effective interest rate of 9% for such portion of interest. Importantly, TPI and Oaktree have also agreed that the term loan will not be subject to the minimum fixed charge dividend coverage ratio or other financial maintenance covenants that were previously in effect, other than the requirement to maintain a minimum cash balance in the U.S.
The refinancing transaction is expected to confer a number of benefits to the Company, summarized as follows:
| Improves liquidity by approximately $190 million through the life of the term loan, primarily due to the extension of time the Company can pay in-kind dividends |
| Permanently reduces future obligations by up to $90 million through the refinance of $43 million of accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock to approximately 3.9 million shares of TPIs common equity, elimination of dividends/interest on the refinanced principal and avoidance of 200 basis points of potential dividends owing to the elimination of the minimum fixed charge dividend coverage ratio covenant |
| Provides the Company with significant refinancing flexibility by both extending the maturity into 2027 and eliminating the prepayment penalties that were associated with the Series A Preferred Stock |
We are pleased to announce this refinancing transaction with Oaktree, who has been a supportive partner over the last two years and is demonstrating their commitment to and confidence in TPI with this refinancing, said Bill Siwek, President, and CEO of TPI. This transaction will provide significantly greater financial flexibility to execute on our strategic initiatives as we continue to navigate the near-term challenges in the wind industry and positions us to support the growth anticipated by our customers as market conditions improve.
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TPI has a unique position of competitive strength, fueled by its global footprint, long-term and trusted customer relationships and the key role it continues to play in accelerating the clean energy transition, said Andrew Moir, Senior Vice President at Oaktree and a Director of TPI. We are excited to deepen our relationship through this transaction and working with the TPI team to realize the full potential of the Companys opportunities and impact in the industry.
Additional information regarding the Agreement will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by TPI with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Lazard acted as TPIs financial advisor. Goodwin Procter LLP acted as TPIs legal advisor and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP acted as Oaktrees legal advisor.
About TPI Composites, Inc.
TPI Composites, Inc. is a global company focused on innovative and sustainable solutions to decarbonize and electrify the world. TPI delivers high-quality, cost-effective composite solutions through long-term relationships with leading OEMs in the wind and automotive markets. TPI is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and operates factories in the U.S., Mexico, Türkiye and India. TPI operates additional engineering development centers in Denmark and Germany and global service training centers in the U.S. and Spain.
About Oaktree
Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $183 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2023. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities. The firm has over 1,200 employees and offices in 21 cities worldwide. For additional information, please visit Oaktrees website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains 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. Forward-looking statements contained in this release include, but are not limited to, statements about the Companys industry, market conditions, and the benefits of the refinancing. These forward-looking statements are often characterized by the use of words such as may, should, expects, plans, anticipates, could, intends, targets, projects, contemplates, believes, estimates, predicts, potential or continue or the negative of these terms or other similar words. Forward-looking statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and our projections about future events. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements for any reason. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the matters discussed in Risk Factors, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports that we will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Investor Relations
480-315-8742
Investors@TPIComposites.com
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