SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form
6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
Pursuant to
Rule
13a-16
or
15d-16
of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of May 2006
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
(Translation of registrants name into English)
Else-Kröner Strasse 1
61346 Bad Homburg
Germany
(Address of principal executive offices)
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annual reports under cover of
Form
20-F
or
Form
40-F.
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(i)
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1
Financial Statements
Consolidated Statements of Income
For the three months ended March 31,
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except per share data)
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2006
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2005
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Net revenue:
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Dialysis Care
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$
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1,272,533
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$
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1,162,461
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Dialysis Products
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474,397
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446,542
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1,746,930
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1,609,003
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Costs of revenue:
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Dialysis Care
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927,045
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868,570
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Dialysis Products
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241,595
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231,688
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1,168,640
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1,100,258
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Gross profit
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578,290
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508,745
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Operating expenses:
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Selling, general and administrative
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321,671
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275,514
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Research and development
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12,774
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13,248
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Operating income
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243,845
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219,983
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Other (income) expense:
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Interest income
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(4,809
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)
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(2,245
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)
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Interest expense
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61,004
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44,532
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Income before income taxes and minority interest
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187,650
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177,696
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Income tax expense
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71,133
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69,643
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Minority interest
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480
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582
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Net income
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$
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116,037
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$
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107,471
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Basic income per Ordinary share
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$
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1.19
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$
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1.11
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Fully diluted income per Ordinary share
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$
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1.18
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$
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1.10
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See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements
1
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
Consolidated Balance Sheets
At March 31, 2006 (unaudited) and December 31,
2005
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
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2006
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2005
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(Unaudited)
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ASSETS
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Current assets:
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Cash and cash equivalents
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$
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364,389
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$
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85,077
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Trade accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts
of $203,355 in 2006 and $176,568 in 2005
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1,778,051
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1,469,933
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Accounts receivable from related parties
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61,278
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33,884
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Inventories
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493,813
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430,893
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets
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347,996
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261,590
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Assets held for sale
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473,150
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Deferred taxes
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211,590
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179,561
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Total current assets
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3,730,267
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2,460,938
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Property, plant and equipment, net
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1,532,381
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1,215,758
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Intangible assets
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617,351
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585,689
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Goodwill
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6,888,697
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3,456,877
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Deferred taxes
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39,509
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35,649
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Other assets
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335,746
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228,189
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Total assets
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$
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13,143,951
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$
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7,983,100
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LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY
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Current liabilities:
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Accounts payable
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$
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227,938
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$
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201,317
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Accounts payable to related parties
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144,123
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107,938
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Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
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1,280,452
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838,768
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Short-term borrowings
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441,679
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151,113
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Short-term borrowings from related parties
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242,134
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18,757
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Current portion of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
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161,091
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126,269
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Income tax payable
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184,611
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120,138
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Deferred taxes
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20,278
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13,940
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Total current liabilities
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2,702,306
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1,578,240
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Long-term debt and capital lease obligations, less current
portion
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4,067,536
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707,100
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Other liabilities
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132,513
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112,418
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Pension liabilities
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109,626
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108,702
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Deferred taxes
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390,948
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300,665
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Company-obligated mandatorily redeemable preferred securities of
subsidiary Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trusts holding solely
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Company-guaranteed debentures of subsidiaries
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1,204,972
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1,187,864
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Minority interest
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70,520
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14,405
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Total liabilities
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8,678,421
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4,009,394
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Shareholders equity:
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Preference shares, no par,
2.56 nominal value, 4,118,960 shares authorized,
1,170,659 issued and outstanding
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3,156
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74,476
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Ordinary shares, no par,
2.56 nominal value, 122,916,240 shares authorized,
96,743,276 issued and outstanding
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301,281
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229,494
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Additional paid-in capital
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3,160,015
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2,837,144
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Retained earnings
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1,091,408
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975,371
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Accumulated other comprehensive loss
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(90,330
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(142,779
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Total shareholders equity
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4,465,530
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3,973,706
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Total liabilities and shareholders equity
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$
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13,143,951
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$
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7,983,100
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See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements
2
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
For the three months ended March 31,
(Unaudited)
(In thousands)
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2006
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2005
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Operating Activities:
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Net income
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$
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116,037
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$
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107,471
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Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash and cash equivalents
provided by (used in) operating activities:
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Settlement of shareholder proceedings
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(850
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Depreciation and amortization
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61,275
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59,711
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Change in deferred taxes, net
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8,578
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18,542
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Loss (gain) on sale of fixed assets
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446
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(30
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Compensation expense related to stock options
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3,467
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424
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Changes in assets and liabilities, net of amounts from
businesses acquired:
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Trade accounts receivable, net
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4,818
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(18,513
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)
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Inventories
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(30,278
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(15,798
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)
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Prepaid expenses, other current and non-current assets
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(47,568
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(22,859
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Accounts receivable from/payable to related parties
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4,629
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2,560
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Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current and
non-current liabilities
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12,846
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20,320
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Income tax payable
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28,260
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(13,353
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Net cash provided by operating activities
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161,660
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138,475
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Investing Activities:
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Purchases of property, plant and equipment
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(70,237
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(43,524
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Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment
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5,365
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3,479
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Acquisitions and investments, net of cash acquired
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(3,950,974
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)
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(21,988
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Net cash used in investing activities
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(4,015,846
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)
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(62,033
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Financing Activities:
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Proceeds from short-term borrowings
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25,044
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11,019
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Repayments of short-term borrowings
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(31,531
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)
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(31,111
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)
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Proceeds from short-term borrowings related parties
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242,111
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Repayments of short-term borrowings related parties
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(19,117
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)
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Proceeds from long-term debt and capital lease obligations (net
of debt issuance costs of $85,333 in 2006)
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3,777,670
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25,930
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Repayments of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
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(484,282
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)
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(22,993
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)
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Increase (decrease) of accounts receivable securitization program
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296,000
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(70,765
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)
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Proceeds from exercise of stock options
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13,580
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4,317
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Proceeds from conversion of preference shares into ordinary
shares
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308,657
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Change in minority interest
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350
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452
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Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
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4,128,482
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(83,151
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)
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Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
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5,016
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(1,441
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)
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Cash and Cash Equivalents:
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Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
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279,312
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(8,150
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)
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Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
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85,077
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58,966
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Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
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$
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364,389
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$
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50,816
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See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements
3
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
Consolidated Statement of Shareholders Equity
For the three months ended March 31, 2006
(unaudited) and year ended December 31, 2005
(In thousands, except share data)
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Accumulated Other
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Comprehensive Income (Loss)
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Preference Shares
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Ordinary Shares
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Additional
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Retained
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Foreign
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Minimum
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Number of
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No Par
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Number of
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No Par
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Paid In
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Earnings
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Currency
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Cash Flow
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Pension
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Shares
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Value
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Shares
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Value
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Capital
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(Deficit)
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Translation
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Hedges
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Liability
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Total
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Balance at December 31, 2004
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26,296,086
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$
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69,878
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70,000,000
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|
|
$
|
229,494
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|
|
$
|
2,746,473
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$
|
657,906
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|
|
$
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(1,462
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)
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$
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(24,164
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)
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$
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(43,309
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)
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$
|
3,634,816
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Proceeds from exercise of options and related tax effects
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|
1,466,093
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|
|
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4,598
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|
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81,973
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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86,571
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|
Compensation expense related to stock options
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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1,363
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
1,363
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Dividends paid
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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(137,487
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)
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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(137,487
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)
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Settlement of shareholder proceedings
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|
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|
|
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7,335
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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7,335
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Comprehensive income (loss)
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|
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Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
454,952
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
454,952
|
|
|
Other comprehensive income (loss) related to:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flow hedges, net of related tax effects
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
43,128
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
43,128
|
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation adjustment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(104,723
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(104,723
|
)
|
|
|
Minimum pension liability, net of related tax effects
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(12,249
|
)
|
|
|
(12,249
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
381,108
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance at December 31, 2005
|
|
|
27,762,179
|
|
|
$
|
74,476
|
|
|
|
70,000,000
|
|
|
$
|
229,494
|
|
|
$
|
2,837,144
|
|
|
$
|
975,371
|
|
|
$
|
(106,185
|
)
|
|
$
|
18,964
|
|
|
$
|
(55,558
|
)
|
|
$
|
3,973,706
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from exercise of options and related tax effects
|
|
|
37,902
|
|
|
|
117
|
|
|
|
113,854
|
|
|
|
350
|
|
|
|
13,113
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,580
|
|
Proceeds from conversion of preference shares into ordinary
shares
|
|
|
(26,629,422
|
)
|
|
|
(71,437
|
)
|
|
|
26,629,422
|
|
|
|
71,437
|
|
|
|
307,141
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
307,141
|
|
Compensation expense related to stock options
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,467
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,467
|
|
Settlement of shareholder proceedings
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(850
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(850
|
)
|
Comprehensive income (loss)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
116,037
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
116,037
|
|
|
Other comprehensive income (loss) related to:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flow hedges, net of related tax effects
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28,689
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28,689
|
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation adjustment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,760
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,760
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comprehensive income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
168,486
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance at March 31, 2006
|
|
|
1,170,659
|
|
|
$
|
3,156
|
|
|
|
96,743,276
|
|
|
$
|
301,281
|
|
|
$
|
3,160,015
|
|
|
$
|
1,091,408
|
|
|
$
|
(82,425
|
)
|
|
$
|
47,653
|
|
|
$
|
(55,558
|
)
|
|
$
|
4,465,530
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements
4
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
1.
|
The Company and Basis of Presentation
|
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FMC-AG
& CO. KGaA or the Company), a German
partnership limited by shares
(Kommanditgesellschaft auf
Aktien)
, formerly Fresenius Medical Care AG
(FMC-AG), a German stock corporation
(Aktiengesellschaft)
, is the worlds largest kidney
dialysis company, operating in both the field of dialysis
services and the field of dialysis products for the treatment of
end-stage renal disease. The Companys dialysis business is
vertically integrated, providing dialysis treatment at dialysis
clinics it owns or operates and supplying these clinics with a
broad range of products. In addition, the Company sells dialysis
products to other dialysis service providers. In the United
States, the Company also performs clinical laboratory testing
and provides perfusion, therapeutic apheresis and
autotransfusion services. For information regarding the
transformation of the Companys legal form from a stock
corporation into a partnership limited by shares and the related
conversion of preference shares into ordinary shares, see
Note 2, Transformation of Legal Form and Conversion of
Preference Shares.
On March 31, 2006, the Company completed its acquisition of
Renal Care Group, Inc. (RCG) for an all cash
purchase price approximating $3,943,700. See Note 3 to the
Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of these
transactions.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America
(U.S. GAAP).
|
|
|
a) Principles of Consolidation
|
The consolidated financial statements at March 31, 2006 and
for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2006 and 2005
in this report are unaudited and should be read in conjunction
with the consolidated financial statements in the Companys
2005 Annual Report on
Form
20-F.
The
consolidated financial statements include all companies in which
the Company has legal or effective control. The operating
results of RCG will be included in the Companys
consolidated financial statements starting April 1, 2006.
Such financial statements reflect all adjustments that, in the
opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of
the results of the periods presented. All such adjustments are
of a normal recurring nature.
The results of operations for the three-month periods ended
March 31, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the
results of operations for the year ending December 31, 2006.
Certain items in the prior years comparative consolidated
financial statements have been reclassified to conform with the
current years presentation. The reclassification includes
$30,224 relating to rents for clinics which were removed from
selling, general and administrative operating expenses for the
international segment and included in its cost of revenue for
Dialysis Care.
|
|
|
c) Accounting Changes Standards
Implemented
|
Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the
provisions of FAS 123(R) using the modified prospective
method (see Note 7) The following table illustrates the
effect on net income and earnings per
5
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
share in the first quarter 2005 if the Company had applied the
fair value recognition provisions of SFAS No. 123 to
stock based employee compensation:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months
|
|
|
|
Ended March 31,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income:
|
|
|
|
|
|
As reported
|
|
$
|
107,471
|
|
|
Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in
reported net income, net of tax effects
|
|
|
424
|
|
|
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense
determined under fair value method for all awards, net of
related tax effects
|
|
|
(2,008
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pro forma
|
|
$
|
105,887
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic net income per:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ordinary share
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As reported
|
|
$
|
1.11
|
|
|
|
Pro forma
|
|
$
|
1.09
|
|
|
Preference share
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As reported
|
|
$
|
1.13
|
|
|
|
Pro forma
|
|
$
|
1.11
|
|
Fully diluted net income per:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ordinary share
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As reported
|
|
$
|
1.10
|
|
|
|
Pro forma
|
|
$
|
1.08
|
|
|
Preference share
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As reported
|
|
$
|
1.12
|
|
|
|
Pro forma
|
|
$
|
1.10
|
|
|
|
2.
|
Transformation of Legal Form and Conversion of Preference
Shares
|
On February 10, 2006, the Company completed a
transformation of its legal form under German law as approved by
its shareholders during an Extraordinary General Meeting held on
August 30, 2005 (EGM). Upon registration of the
transformation of legal form in the commercial register of the
local court in Hof an der Saale, on February 10, 2006,
Fresenius Medical Care AGs legal form was changed from a
stock corporation
(Aktiengesellschaft)
to a partnership
limited by shares
(Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien)
with
the name Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
(FMC-AG & Co. KGaA). The Company as a KGaA is
the same legal entity under German law, rather than a successor
to the AG. Fresenius Medical Care Management AG
(Management AG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Fresenius AG, the majority voting shareholder of FMC-AG prior to
the transformation, is the general partner of FMC-AG & Co.
KGaA. Upon effectiveness of the transformation of legal form,
the share capital of FMC-AG became the share capital of FMC-AG
& Co. KGaA, and persons who were shareholders of FMC-AG
became shareholders of the Company in its new legal form. As
used in the notes to these financial statements, the
Company refers to both FMC-AG prior to the
transformation of legal form and FMC-AG & Co. KGaA after the
transformation.
Prior to registration of the transformation of legal form, the
Company offered holders of its non-voting preference shares
(including preference shares represented by American Depositary
Shares (ADSs)) the
6
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
opportunity to convert their shares into ordinary shares at a
conversion ratio of one preference share plus a conversion
premium of
9.75 per ordinary share. Holders of a total of
26,629,422 preference shares accepted the offer, resulting in an
increase of 26,629,422 ordinary shares of FMC-AG & Co. KGaA
(including 2,099,847 ADSs representing 699,949 ordinary shares
of FMC-AG & Co. KGaA) outstanding. The Company received a
total of $308,656 in premiums from the holders upon the
conversion of their preference shares. Immediately after the
conversion and transformation of legal form, there were
96,629,422 ordinary shares outstanding. Former holders of
preference shares who elected to convert their shares now hold a
number of ordinary shares of FMC-AG & Co. KGaA equal to the
number of preference shares they elected to convert. The
1,132,757 preference shares that were not converted remained
outstanding and became preference shares of FMC-AG & Co.
KGaA in the transformation. As a result, preference shareholders
who elected not to convert their shares into ordinary shares
hold the same number of non-voting preference shares in FMC-AG
& Co. KGaA as they held in FMC-AG prior to the
transformation. Shareholders who held ordinary shares in FMC-AG
prior to the transformation hold the same number of voting
ordinary shares in FMC-AG & Co. KGaA.
The conversion of the Companys preference shares was
expected to have an impact on the earnings (or loss) per share
available to the holders of the Companys ordinary shares
upon conversion of the preference shares into ordinary shares,
under U.S. GAAP. Upon completion of its review, the Company
determined that there was no impact for either the holders of
ordinary or preferences shares, therefore, no further reductions
or benefits in the Companys financial statements were
recorded.
Several ordinary shareholders challenged the resolutions adopted
at the EGM approving the conversion of the preference shares
into ordinary shares, the adjustment of the employee
participation programs, the creation of authorized capital and
the transformation of the legal form of the Company, with the
objective of having the resolutions declared null and void. On
December 19, 2005 the Company and the claimants agreed to a
settlement with the participation of Fresenius AG and Management
AG, and all proceedings were terminated.
Pursuant to the settlement, Management AG undertook to
(i) make an
ex gratia
payment to the ordinary
shareholders of the Company (other than Fresenius AG), of
0.12 for every
share issued as an ordinary share up to August 30, 2005 and
(ii) to pay to ordinary shareholders who, at the EGM of
August 30, 2005, voted against the conversion proposal, an
additional
0.69 per ordinary share. Ordinary shareholders who
were shareholders at the close of business on the day of
registration of the conversion and transformation with the
commercial register were entitled to a payment under
(i) above. Ordinary shareholders who voted against the
conversion resolution in the extraordinary general meeting on
August 30, 2005, as evidenced by the voting cards held by
the Company, were entitled to a payment under (ii) above,
but only in respect of shares voted against the conversion
resolution. The right to receive payment under (ii) has
lapsed as to any shareholder who did not make a written claim
for payment with the Company by February 28, 2006.
The Company also agreed to bear court fees and shareholder legal
expenses in connection with the settlement. The total costs of
the settlement were estimated to be approximately $7,335. A
further part of the settlement agreement and German law require
that these costs be borne by Fresenius AG and the general
7
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
partner, Management AG. Under U.S. GAAP, however, these
costs must be reflected by the entity benefiting from the
actions of its controlling shareholder. As a result, the Company
recorded the settlement amount as an expense in Selling, General
and Administrative expense and a contribution in Additional Paid
in Capital in Shareholders Equity in the fourth quarter of
2005. The actual total costs of the settlement were
approximately $6,485. The difference of $850 was recorded as a
Selling, General and Administrative expense reduction and a
reduction in Additional Paid in Capital in Shareholders
Equity during the period ending March 31, 2006.
As part of the settlement, the Company, with the participation
of Fresenius AG and the general partner, Management AG, also
agreed to establish, at the first ordinary general meeting after
registration of the transformation of legal form, a joint
committee (the Joint Committee)
(gemeinsamer
Ausschuss)
of the supervisory boards of Management AG and
FMC-AG & Co. KGaA with authority to advise and decide on
certain significant transactions between the Company and
Fresenius AG and to approve certain significant acquisitions,
dispositions, spin-offs and similar matters. The Company also
agreed to establish an Audit and Corporate Governance Committee
of the FMC-AG & Co. KGaA Supervisory Board to review the
report of the general partner on relations with related parties
and report to the overall supervisory board thereon.
Additionally, Management AG undertook in the settlement to
provide data on the individual remuneration of its management
board members in accordance with the German Commercial Code
commencing with remuneration paid for the year ending
December 31, 2006.
|
|
3.
|
Acquisitions and Divestitures
|
On March 31, 2006, the Company completed the acquisition of
Renal Care Group, Inc. (RCG and the RCG
Acquisition), a Delaware corporation with principal
offices in Nashville, Tennessee, for an all cash purchase price,
net of cash acquired, of approximately $3,943,700 for all of the
outstanding common stock, the retirement of RCG stock options,
and the concurrent repayment of approximately $657,769
indebtedness of RCG. RCG provides dialysis and ancillary
services to over 32,360 patients through more than
450 owned outpatient dialysis centers in 34 states
within the United States, in addition to providing acute
dialysis services to more than 200 hospitals.
In order to finance the RCG acquisition, the Company borrowed a
total of $4,493,000 consisting of long-term borrowings of
$3,863,000 from its new credit agreement, short-term borrowing
$390,000 from its Accounts Receivable Facility (See Note 6)
and short-term borrowings of $240,000 from its controlling
owner, Fresenius AG (See Note 5). These borrowings were
used to: (a) pay $85,333 fees related to the new credit
agreement, (b) retire the Companys previous 2003
credit agreement in the amount of $245,000, (c) retire
RCGs debt and related fees in the amount of $657,769, and
(d) pay the purchase price, less cash acquired, for
RCGs equity and related fees in the amount of $3,282,794
with the remaining $222,104 increasing cash and cash equivalents
to be used to reduce other indebtedness or for general corporate
purposes.
8
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
The following table summarizes the estimated fair values of
assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of the
acquisition. This preliminary allocation of the purchase price
is based upon the best information available to management. Any
adjustments to the preliminary allocation, net of related income
tax effects, will be recorded with a corresponding adjustment to
goodwill.
The preliminary purchase price allocation is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets
|
|
$
|
728,835
|
|
Property, plant and equipment
|
|
|
311,030
|
|
Intangible assets and other assets
|
|
|
90,128
|
|
Goodwill
|
|
|
3,463,797
|
|
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities
|
|
|
(462,691
|
)
|
Income tax payable and deferred taxes
|
|
|
(102,613
|
)
|
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations
|
|
|
(4,886
|
)
|
Other liabilities
|
|
|
(79,900
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
Aggregate purchase price (net of cash acquired)
|
|
$
|
3,943,700
|
|
|
|
|
|
In connection with the Companys RCG Acquisition, the
Company performed a detailed review of the identification of
intangible assets related to its dialysis clinic operations in
the United States. In connection with this review, the Company
considered the conditions for recognition as an intangible asset
apart from goodwill and practices in the dialysis care industry.
The amortizable intangible assets acquired included $67,400 for
non-compete agreements, and $3,500 for acute care agreements. As
a result of this review the Company concluded that its past
practice of identifying a separate intangible asset associated
with patient relationships should be discontinued.
Accordingly, the carrying amount of patient relationships that
had been identified as separate intangible assets in prior
business combinations involving clinics in the U.S. and related
income tax effects have been reallocated to goodwill. These
changes result in an increase of Goodwill as of January 1,
2006 of $35,240, a corresponding decrease of intangible assets
of $37,319 and deferred income tax liabilities of $2,079. The
amortization recorded in prior periods on such intangible assets
that should have been included in goodwill did not result in a
material understatement of the Companys results of
operations for any prior period, the aggregate effect does not
materially understate the Companys shareholders
equity.
The operations of RCG will be included in the Companys
consolidated statements of income and cash flows from
April 1, 2006.
The Company was required to divest a total of 105 renal
dialysis centers in order to complete the RCG acquisition in
accordance with a consent order issued by the United States
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on March 31,
2006. The Company sold 96 of such centers on April 7, 2006,
to a wholly owned subsidiary of DSI Holding Company, Inc.
(DSI) and entered into an agreement to sell DSI an
additional 9 centers which is expected to close in the
second quarter, 2006. The Company will receive cash
consideration of approximating $512,000 for all centers
divested, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The
sale of the Companys legacy clinics which form part of the
divestitures is expected to result in a gain of approximately
$38,381 before income taxes, representing the excess of the
sales price over the carrying amount of the assets being sold.
The amount allocated in purchase accounting to the former RCG
clinics that are part of the divested clinics corresponds to the
expected proceeds; the Company will not recognize a gain on such
former RCG clinics sold. The 105 divested dialysis centers were
reported as Assets held for sale at March 31,
2006.
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
As a result of estimated income taxes of $43,874 related to the
gain on the sale of the Companys legacy clinics, the
disposal is expected to result in a loss of approximately
$5,493. The Company will continue to treat patients in the same
markets and to sell products to the divested clinics under the
terms of a supply agreement that continues through March 2009.
Pro Forma Financial Information
The following financial information, on a pro forma basis,
reflects the consolidated results of operations as if the RCG
Acquisition and the divestitures described above had been
consummated at the beginning of 2006 and 2005. The pro forma
information includes adjustments primarily for elimination of
amortization of intangible assets, interest expense on
acquisition debt, and income taxes. The pro-forma financial
information is not necessarily indicative of the results of
operations as it would have been had the transactions been
consummated at the beginning of the respective periods.
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Three Months Ended
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|
Three Months Ended
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March 31, 2006
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March 31, 2005
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|
|
|
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|
|
Pro forma net revenue
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|
$
|
2,057,465
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|
|
$
|
1,901,081
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Pro forma net income
|
|
|
106,366
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|
|
|
84,632
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Pro forma net income per Ordinary share:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
|
|
|
1.09
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|
|
|
0.87
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|
Fully Diluted
|
|
|
1.08
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|
|
|
0.87
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The Company made other acquisitions in the normal course of its
operations for the period ending March 31, 2006 totaling
approximately $10,411 for dialysis centers.
The assets and liabilities of all acquisitions were recorded at
their estimated fair market values at the dates of the
acquisitions and are included in the Companys financial
statements and operating results from the effective date of
acquisition.
As of March 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005,
inventories consisted of the following:
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March 31,
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December 31,
|
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|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Raw materials and purchased components
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$
|
98,740
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|
|
$
|
88,797
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Work in process
|
|
|
35,300
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|
|
|
32,763
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Finished goods
|
|
|
258,315
|
|
|
|
233,743
|
|
Health care supplies
|
|
|
101,458
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|
|
|
75,590
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inventories
|
|
$
|
493,813
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|
|
$
|
430,893
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|
|
|
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5.
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Related Party Transactions
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In conjunction with the RCG acquisition (See Note 3), on
March 31, 2006, the Company, through various direct and
indirect subsidiaries, entered into an Amended and Restated
Subordinated Loan Note (the Note) with Fresenius AG
(FAG) which amended the Subordinated Loan Note dated
May 18, 1999. Under the Note, the Company or its
subsidiaries may request and receive one or more advances (each
an
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
Advance) up to an aggregate amount of $400,000
during the period ending March 31, 2011. The Advances may
be repaid and reborrowed during the period but FAG is under no
obligation to make an advance. Each advance is repayable in full
one, two or three months after the date of the Advance or any
other date as agreed to by the parties to the Advance or, if no
maturity date is so agreed, the Advance will have a one month
term.
All Advances will bear interest at a variable rate per annum
equal to LIBOR plus an applicable margin that is based upon the
Companys consolidated leverage ratio, as defined in the
2006 Credit Agreement. Advances are subordinated to outstanding
loans under the 2006 Credit Agreement and all other indebtedness
of the Company.
Advances were made on March 31, 2006 in the amount of
$240,000 in conjunction with the RCG acquisition (See
Note 3) and bear interest at 5.7072% and are repayable in
May 2006.
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6.
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Short-term Borrowings, Long-term Debt and Capital Lease
Obligations
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Short-Term Borrowings
As of March 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, short-term
borrowings, other than short-term borrowings from Fresenius AG
(See Note 5) consisted of the following:
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March 31,
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December 31,
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|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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Borrowings under lines of credit
|
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$
|
51,679
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|
|
$
|
57,113
|
|
Accounts receivable facility
|
|
|
390,000
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|
|
|
94,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
441,679
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|
|
$
|
151,113
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|
|
|
|
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At March 31, 2006, the Company borrowed $390,000 under the
current terms of its accounts receivable facility in conjunction
with the RCG Acquisition (See Note 3).
Long-Term Borrowings and Capital Lease Obligations
At March 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, long-term
debt and capital lease obligations consisted of the following:
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|
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March 31,
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|
December 31,
|
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|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior Credit Agreement
|
|
$
|
3,863,000
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|
|
$
|
470,700
|
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Euro Notes
|
|
|
242,080
|
|
|
|
235,940
|
|
EIB Agreement
|
|
|
48,806
|
|
|
|
48,806
|
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Capital lease obligations
|
|
|
9,018
|
|
|
|
4,596
|
|
Other
|
|
|
65,723
|
|
|
|
73,327
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,228,627
|
|
|
|
833,369
|
|
Less current maturities
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|
|
(161,091
|
)
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|
|
(126,269
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
4,067,536
|
|
|
$
|
707,100
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Company entered into a new $4,600,000 syndicated credit
facility with Bank of America, N.A. (BofA); Deutsche
Bank AG New York Branch; The Bank of Nova Scotia, Credit Suisse,
Cayman Islands Branch; JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association; and certain other lenders (collectively, the
2006
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
Credit Agreement) on March 31, 2006 which replace the
existing credit facility (collectively, the 2003 Credit
Agreement). The new credit facility consists of:
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a
5-year
$1,000,000
revolving credit facility (of which up to $250,000 is available
for letters of credit, up to $300,000 is available for
borrowings in certain
non-U.S.
currencies,
up to $150,000 is available as swing lines in U.S. dollars,
up to $250,000 is available as a competitive loan facility and
up to $50,000 is available as swing lines in certain
non-U.S.
currencies,
the total of which cannot exceed $1,000,000) which will be due
and payable on March 31, 2011 (the Revolver and
referred to as the Bank Credit Agreement in the
exhibits hereto).
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a
5-year
term loan
facility (Loan A) of $1,850,000, also scheduled
to expire on March 31, 2011. The terms of the 2006 Credit
Agreement require 20 quarterly payments that permanently
reduce the term loan facility. The repayment begins
June 30, 2006 and amounts to $30,000 per quarter. The
remaining amount outstanding is due on March 31, 2011.
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|
a
7-year
term loan
facility (Loan B) of $1,750,000 scheduled to
expire on March 31, 2013. The terms of the 2006 Credit
Agreement require 28 quarterly payments that permanently reduce
the term loan facility. The repayment begins June 30, 2006.
The first 24 quarterly payments will be equal to one
quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the original principal balance
outstanding, payments 25 through 28 will be equal to
twenty-three and one half percent (23.5%) of the original
principal balance outstanding with the final payment due on
March 31, 2013 subject to an early repayment requirement on
March 1, 2011 if the Trust Preferred Securities due
June 15, 2011 are not repaid or refinanced or their
maturity is not extended prior to that date. (Loan A and Loan B
are collectively part of the Term Loan Credit Agreement
referenced in the exhibits hereto.)
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Interest on the new credit facility will be at the
Companys option depending on the interest
periods chosen at a rate equal to either
(i) LIBOR plus an applicable margin or (ii) the higher
of (a) BofAs prime rate or (b) the Federal Funds
rate plus 0.5%, plus an applicable margin.
The applicable margin is variable and depends on the
Companys Consolidated Leverage Ratio which is a ratio of
its Consolidated Funded Debt less up to $30,000 cash and cash
equivalents held by the Consolidated Group to Consolidated
EBITDA (as these terms are defined in the 2006 Credit Agreement).
In addition to scheduled principal payments, indebtedness
outstanding under the 2006 Credit Agreement will be reduced by
portions of the net cash proceeds from certain sales of assets,
securitization transactions other than the Companys
existing accounts receivable facility and the issuance of
subordinated debt other than certain intercompany transactions.
The 2006 Credit Agreement contains affirmative and negative
covenants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries and
other payment restrictions. Some of the covenants limit
indebtedness of the Company and investments by the Company, and
require the Company to maintain certain ratios defined in the
agreement. Additionally, the 2006 Credit Agreement provides for
a dividend restriction which is $220 for dividends paid in 2006,
and increases in subsequent years. In default, the outstanding
balance under the 2006 Credit Agreement becomes immediately due
and payable at the option of the Lenders. As of March 31,
2006, the Company is in compliance with all financial covenants
under the 2006 Credit Agreement.
Upon closing of the 2006 Credit Agreement, the Company borrowed
$263,000 on the Revolver at 6.3% interest through the period
ending April 11, 2006, $1,850,000 on Term Loan A at an
average interest of 6.43% for the period ending June 30,
2006, and $1,750,000 on Term Loan B at an average interest
of 6.43% for the period ending June 30, 2006, the proceeds
of which were used in conjunction with the RCG Acquisition (See
note 3), to refinance the 2003 Credit Agreement and for
general corporate purposes.
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
In conjunction with the new 2006 Credit Agreement and the
related variable rate based interest payments, the Company
entered into interest rate swaps in the notional amount of
$2,465,000. These instruments, designated as cash flow hedges,
effectively convert forecasted LIBOR based interest payments
into fixed rate based interest payments which fix the interest
rate on $2,465,000 of the financing under the new 2006 Credit
Agreement at 4.32% plus applicable margin. These swaps are
denominated in U.S. dollars and expire at various dates
between 2008 and 2012.
The Company incurred fees of approximately $85,333 in
conjunction with the 2006 Credit Agreement which will be
amortized over the life of the credit agreement and wrote off
approximately $14,576 in unamortized fees related to its prior
2003 Credit Agreement at March 31, 2006.
7. Stock Options
Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the
provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard
No. 123R (revised 2004) (FAS 123(R)),
Share-Based Payment
(SBP) using the modified
prospective transition method. Under this transition method,
compensation cost recognized in the quarter ended March 31,
2006, includes applicable amounts of: (a) compensation cost
of all stock-based payments granted prior to, but not yet vested
as of, January 1, 2006 (based on the grant-date fair value
estimated in accordance with the original provisions of
SFAS No. 123 and previously presented in the
Companys pro forma footnote disclosures), and
(b) compensation cost for all stock-based payments
subsequent to January 1, 2006 (based on the grant-date fair
value estimated in accordance with the new provisions of
FAS 123(R)). As a result of the adoption of this standard,
the Company incurred compensation costs of $3,174 which would
not have been recognized under its previous accounting policy in
accordance with APB Opinion No. 25 and is included in its
total compensation expense of $3,467 for the period ending
March 31, 2006. There were no capitalized compensation
costs during the period. The Company also recorded a related
deferred income tax of $965 for the period.
Stock Option Plans
At March 31, 2006, the Company has awards outstanding under
the terms of various stock-based compensation plans, including
the Fresenius Medical Care 2001 International Stock Plan (the
2001 Plan), which is the only plan with stock option
awards currently available for grant. Under the 2001 Plan,
convertible bonds with a principal of up to
10,240 may be
issued to the members of the Management Board and other
employees of the Company representing grants for up to
4 million non-voting preference shares. The convertible
bonds have a par value of
2.56 and bear interest at a rate of 5.5%. Except for the
members of the Management Board, eligible employees may purchase
the bonds by issuing a non-recourse note with terms
corresponding to the terms of and secured by the bond. The
Company has the right to offset its obligation on a bond against
the employees obligation on the related note; therefore,
the convertible bond obligations and employee note receivables
represent stock options issued by the Company and are not
reflected in the consolidated financial statements. The options
expire ten years from issuance and can be exercised beginning
two, three or four years after issuance. Bonds issued to
Management Board members who did not issue a note to the Company
are recognized as a liability on the Companys balance
sheet.
Upon issuance of the option, the employees have the right to
choose options with or without a stock price target. The
conversion price of options subject to a stock price target
becomes the stock exchange quoted price of the preference shares
upon the first time the stock exchange quoted price exceeds the
Initial Value by at least 25%. The Initial Value is the average
price of the preference shares during the last 30 trading
days prior to the date of grant. In the case of options not
subject to a stock price target, the number of convertible bonds
awarded to the eligible employee would be 15% less than if the
employee elected options subject to the stock
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
price target. The conversion price of the options without a
stock price target is the Initial Value. Each option entitles
the holder thereof, upon payment of the respective conversion
price, to acquire one preference share. Up to 20% of the total
amount available for the issuance of awards under the 2001 Plan
may be issued each year through May 8, 2006.
In connection with the conversion of the Companys
preference shares into ordinary shares, holders of options to
acquire preference shares had the opportunity to convert their
options so that they would be exercisable to acquire ordinary
shares. Holders of 234,311 options elected not to convert.
Holders of 3,863,470 options converted resulting in 2,849,318
options for ordinary shares (See Note 2). The Table below
provides reconciliations for options outstanding at
March 31, 2006, as compared to December 31, 2005
taking in consideration the conversion, options exercised and
forfeited. There were no options granted during the period
ending March 31, 2006.
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted
|
|
|
Weighted
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average
|
|
|
Average
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercise
|
|
|
Exercise
|
|
|
|
Options
|
|
|
Price
|
|
|
Price
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
|
Balance at December 31, 2005
|
|
|
4,103
|
|
|
|
47.88
|
|
|
|
57.95
|
|
|
Forfeited prior to conversion
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
|
41.00
|
|
|
|
49.63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eligible for conversion
|
|
|
4,098
|
|
|
|
47.94
|
|
|
|
58.02
|
|
|
Options not converted
|
|
|
235
|
|
|
|
49.18
|
|
|
|
59.53
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Options converted
|
|
|
3,863
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reduction due to impact of conversion ratios
|
|
|
1,014
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance of options outstanding after conversion into ordinary
shares as of February 10, 2006
|
|
|
2,849
|
|
|
|
64.22
|
|
|
|
77.73
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercised
|
|
|
114
|
|
|
|
72.83
|
|
|
|
88.16
|
|
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
11
|
|
|
|
78.00
|
|
|
|
94.41
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance at March 31, 2006 (Ordinary Shares)
|
|
|
2,724
|
|
|
|
63.80
|
|
|
|
77.23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance of options not converted as of February 10, 2006
|
|
|
235
|
|
|
|
49.18
|
|
|
|
59.53
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercised
|
|
|
38
|
|
|
|
49.38
|
|
|
|
59.77
|
|
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
59.56
|
|
|
|
72.09
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance at March 31, 2006 (Preference shares)
|
|
|
193
|
|
|
|
48.96
|
|
|
|
59.26
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
The following table provides a summary of fully vested options
outstanding and exercisable for both preference and ordinary
shares at March 31, 2006:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fully Vested Outstanding and Exercisable Options
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average
|
|
|
Weighted
|
|
|
Weighted
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number
|
|
|
Remaining
|
|
|
Average
|
|
|
Average
|
|
|
Aggregate
|
|
|
Aggregate
|
|
|
|
of
|
|
|
Contractual
|
|
|
Exercise
|
|
|
Exercise
|
|
|
Intrinsic
|
|
|
Intrinsic
|
|
|
|
Options
|
|
|
Life
|
|
|
Price
|
|
|
Price
|
|
|
Value
|
|
|
Value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
|
Options for preference shares
|
|
|
120,093
|
|
|
|
3.67
|
|
|
|
47.86
|
|
|
|
59.36
|
|
|
|
5,505
|
|
|
|
6,663
|
|
Options for ordinary shares
|
|
|
791,741
|
|
|
|
4.84
|
|
|
|
59.53
|
|
|
|
73.82
|
|
|
|
30,936
|
|
|
|
37,445
|
|
The Companys determination of the fair value of grants is
based on the Black-Scholes option pricing Model. No options have
been granted in 2006. The fair value of grants made during the
years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assumptions at Grant Date
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-average assumptions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Expected dividend yield
|
|
|
2.87
|
%
|
|
|
2.60
|
%
|
|
Risk-free interest rate
|
|
|
3.50
|
%
|
|
|
3.80
|
%
|
|
Expected volatility
|
|
|
40.00
|
%
|
|
|
40.00
|
%
|
|
Expected life of options
|
|
|
5.3 years
|
|
|
|
5.3 years
|
|
|
Estimated weighted average fair value per option
|
|
$
|
22.32
|
|
|
$
|
15.76
|
|
|
Fair value of total options granted during year
|
|
$
|
23,312
|
|
|
$
|
16,070
|
|
The Black-Scholes option valuation model was developed for use
in estimating the fair values of options that have no vesting
restrictions. Option valuation models require the input of
highly subjective assumptions including the expected stock price
volatility. The Companys assumptions are based upon its
past experiences, market trends and the experiences of other
entities of the same size and in similar industries and
discussions with third parties with valuation experience. The
Companys stock options may have characteristics that vary
significantly from traded options and changes in subjective
assumptions can materially affect the fair value of the option.
15
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
At March 31, 2006, there was $22,540 of total unrecognized
compensation costs related to non-vested SBP awards granted
under the 2001 Plan. These costs are expected to be recognized
over a weighted-average period of 1.8 years. The table
below provides a reconciliation of the Companys unvested
outstanding options:
Nonvested Options to Acquire Ordinary Shares Issued Under the
Plan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-Average
|
|
|
Weighted-Average
|
|
|
|
Number of
|
|
|
Grant-Date
|
|
|
Grant-Date
|
|
|
|
Options
|
|
|
Fair Value
|
|
|
Fair Value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(000)
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at January 1, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at February 10, 2006
|
|
|
1,870
|
|
|
|
23.88
|
|
|
|
19.73
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
11
|
|
|
|
26.94
|
|
|
|
22.25
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at March 31, 2006
|
|
|
1,859
|
|
|
|
23.86
|
|
|
|
19.71
|
|
Nonvested Options to Acquire Preference Shares Issued Under
the Plan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-Average
|
|
|
Weighted-Average
|
|
|
|
Number of
|
|
|
Grant-Date
|
|
|
Grant-Date
|
|
|
|
Options
|
|
|
Fair Value
|
|
|
Fair Value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(000)
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at January 1, 2006
|
|
|
2,566
|
|
|
|
17.96
|
|
|
|
14.84
|
|
Nonvested Options not converted
|
|
|
76
|
|
|
|
18.08
|
|
|
|
14.94
|
|
Nonvested Options converted to options for ordinary shares
|
|
|
2,490
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reduction due to impact of conversion ratios
|
|
|
620
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance of options for ordinary shares after conversion as of
February 10, 2006
|
|
|
1,870
|
|
|
|
23.88
|
|
|
|
19.73
|
|
Nonvested at February 10, 2006
|
|
|
76
|
|
|
|
18.08
|
|
|
|
14.94
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
3
|
|
|
|
20.63
|
|
|
|
17.04
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at March 31, 2006
|
|
|
73
|
|
|
|
17.97
|
|
|
|
14.84
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
During the period ended March 31, 2006, the company
received $12,217 from the exercise of stock options. The
intrinsic value of options exercised in the first quarter of
2006 and 2005 was $4,063 and $543, respectively. A related tax
benefit to the Company of $1,363 for 2006 was recorded as cash
provided from financing activities; prior to the adoption of
FAS 123(R) such tax benefits related to the exercise of
options were included in cash flows provided by operating
activities.
16
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
Basic and fully diluted income per preference share for the
period ending March 31, 2006 is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic income per Preference share
|
|
$
|
1.20
|
|
|
$
|
1.13
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fully diluted income per Preference share
|
|
$
|
1.19
|
|
|
$
|
1.12
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The following table contains reconciliations of the numerators
and denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per share
computations for the three-month periods ended March 31,
2006 and 2005.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months
|
|
|
|
Ended March 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Numerators:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
$
|
116,037
|
|
|
$
|
107,471
|
|
less:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dividend preference on Preference shares
|
|
|
20
|
|
|
|
511
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income available to all classes of shares
|
|
$
|
116,017
|
|
|
$
|
106,960
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Denominators:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average number of:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ordinary shares outstanding
|
|
|
96,629,422
|
|
|
|
70,000,000
|
|
Preference shares outstanding
|
|
|
1,144,162
|
|
|
|
26,330,125
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total weighted average shares outstanding
|
|
|
97,773,584
|
|
|
|
96,330,125
|
|
Potentially dilutive Preference shares
|
|
|
724,406
|
|
|
|
555,144
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total weighted average shares outstanding assuming dilution
|
|
|
98,497,990
|
|
|
|
96,885,269
|
|
Total weighted average Preference shares outstanding assuming
dilution
|
|
|
1,868,568
|
|
|
|
26,885,269
|
|
Basic income per Ordinary share
|
|
$
|
1.19
|
|
|
$
|
1.11
|
|
Plus preference per Preference shares
|
|
|
0.01
|
|
|
|
0.02
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic income per Preference share
|
|
$
|
1.20
|
|
|
$
|
1.13
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fully diluted income per Ordinary share
|
|
$
|
1.18
|
|
|
$
|
1.10
|
|
Plus preference per Preference shares
|
|
|
0.01
|
|
|
|
0.02
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fully diluted income per Preference share
|
|
$
|
1.19
|
|
|
$
|
1.12
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
9.
|
Employee Benefit Plans
|
The Company currently has two principal pension plans, one for
German employees, the other covering employees in the United
States. Plan benefits are generally based on years of service
and final salary. Consistent with predominant practice in
Germany, the Companys pension obligations in Germany are
unfunded. Each year FMCH contributes to the plan covering United
States employees at least the minimum required by the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. There is no
minimum funding requirement for FMCH for the defined benefit
pension plan in 2006. FMCH made $5,097 in contributions in the
first three months of 2006 and at this time expects to
voluntarily contribute $20,750 in total during 2006. The
following table provides the calculations of net periodic
benefit cost for the three-month periods ended March 31,
2006 and 2005.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended
|
|
|
|
March 31
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Components of net period benefit cost:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Service cost
|
|
$
|
1,982
|
|
|
$
|
1,330
|
|
Interest cost
|
|
|
4,174
|
|
|
|
4,018
|
|
Expected return on plan assets
|
|
|
(3,840
|
)
|
|
|
(3,085
|
)
|
Amortization unrealized losses
|
|
|
2,204
|
|
|
|
1,600
|
|
Amortization of prior service cost
|
|
|
50
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net periodic benefit cost
|
|
$
|
4,570
|
|
|
$
|
3,863
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10.
|
Commitments and Contingencies
|
Legal Proceedings
The Company was originally formed as a result of a series of
transactions pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of
Reorganization (the Merger) dated as of
February 4, 1996 by and between W.R. Grace &
Co. and Fresenius AG. At the time of the Merger, a
W.R. Grace & Co. subsidiary known as
W.R. Grace &
Co.-Conn.
had, and
continues to have, significant liabilities arising out of
product-liability related litigation (including asbestos-related
actions), pre-Merger tax claims and other claims unrelated to
NMC, which was W.R. Grace & Co.s dialysis
business prior to the Merger. In connection with the Merger,
W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. agreed to indemnify the
Company, FMCH, and NMC against all liabilities of
W.R. Grace & Co., whether relating to events
occurring before or after the Merger, other than liabilities
arising from or relating to NMCs operations.
W.R. Grace & Co. and certain of its subsidiaries
filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code (the Grace Chapter 11
Proceedings) on April 2, 2001.
W.R. Grace & Co. and certain of its subsidiaries
filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code (the Grace Chapter 11
Proceedings) on April 2, 2001.
Pre-Merger tax claims or tax claims that would arise if events
were to violate the tax-free nature of the Merger, could
ultimately be the Companys obligation. In particular, W.R.
Grace & Co. has disclosed in its filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission that: its tax returns for the
1993 to 1996 tax years are under audit by the Internal Revenue
Service (the Service); W.R. Grace & Co. has
received the Services examination report on tax periods
1993 to 1996; that during those years W.R. Grace &
Co. deducted approximately $122,100 in interest attributable to
corporate owned life insurance (COLI) policy loans;
and that a U.S. District Court ruling has denied interest
deductions of a taxpayer in a similar situation.
18
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
W.R. Grace & Co. has paid $21,200 of tax and
interest related to COLI deductions taken in tax years prior to
1993.
In October 2004, W.R. Grace & Co. obtained
bankruptcy court approval to settle its COLI claims with the
Service. In January 2005, W.R. Grace & Co., FMCH
and Sealed Air Corporation executed a settlement agreement with
respect to the Services COLI-related claims and other tax
claims. On April 14, 2005, W.R. Grace & Co.
paid the Service approximately $90 million in connection
with taxes owed for the tax periods 1993 to 1996 pursuant to a
bankruptcy court order directing W.R. Grace & Co.
to make such payment. Subject to certain representations made by
W.R. Grace & Co., the Company and Fresenius AG,
W.R. Grace & Co. and certain of its affiliates had
agreed to indemnify the Company against this and other
pre-Merger and Merger-related tax liabilities.
Prior to and after the commencement of the Grace Chapter 11
Proceedings, class action complaints were filed against
W.R. Grace & Co. and FMCH by plaintiffs claiming
to be creditors of W.R. Grace &
Co.-Conn.,
and by the
asbestos creditors committees on behalf of the
W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy estate in the Grace
Chapter 11 Proceedings, alleging among other things that
the Merger was a fraudulent conveyance, violated the uniform
fraudulent transfer act and constituted a conspiracy. All such
cases have been stayed and transferred to or are pending before
the U.S. District Court as part of the Grace
Chapter 11 Proceedings.
In 2003, the Company reached agreement with the asbestos
creditors committees on behalf of the
W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy estate and
W.R. Grace & Co. in the matters pending in the
Grace Chapter 11 Proceedings for the settlement of all
fraudulent conveyance and tax claims against it and other claims
related to the Company that arise out of the bankruptcy of
W.R. Grace & Co. Under the terms of the settlement
agreement as amended (the Settlement Agreement),
fraudulent conveyance and other claims raised on behalf of
asbestos claimants will be dismissed with prejudice and the
Company will receive protection against existing and potential
future W.R. Grace & Co. related claims, including
fraudulent conveyance and asbestos claims, and indemnification
against income tax claims related to the non-NMC members of the
W.R. Grace & Co. consolidated tax group upon
confirmation of a W.R. Grace & Co. final
bankruptcy reorganization plan that contains such provisions.
Under the Settlement Agreement, the Company will pay a total of
$115,000 to the W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy
estate, or as otherwise directed by the Court, upon plan
confirmation. No admission of liability has been or will be
made. The Settlement Agreement has been approved by the
U.S. District Court. Subsequent to the Merger,
W.R. Grace & Co. was involved in a multi-step
transaction involving Sealed Air Corporation (Sealed
Air, formerly known as Grace Holding, Inc.). The Company
is engaged in litigation with Sealed Air to confirm its
entitlement to indemnification from Sealed Air for all losses
and expenses incurred by the Company relating to pre-Merger tax
liabilities and Merger-related claims. Under the Settlement
Agreement, upon confirmation of a plan that satisfies the
conditions of the Companys payment obligation, this
litigation will be dismissed with prejudice.
On April 4, 2003, FMCH filed a suit in the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California,
Fresenius USA, Inc., et al., v. Baxter
International Inc., et al.
, Case No. C
03-1431,
seeking a
declaratory judgment that FMCH does not infringe on patents held
by Baxter International Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates
(Baxter), that the patents are invalid, and that
Baxter is without right or authority to threaten or maintain
suit against FMCH for alleged infringement of Baxters
patents. In general, the alleged patents concern touch screens,
conductivity alarms, power failure data storage, and balance
chambers for hemodialysis machines. Baxter has filed
counterclaims against FMCH seeking monetary damages and
injunctive relief, and alleging that FMCH willfully infringed on
Baxters patents. Both parties have filed multiple
dispositive motions, some of which have been decided by the
court. Trial is currently scheduled for June 2006. FMCH believes
its claims are meritorious, although the ultimate outcome of any
such proceedings cannot be
19
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
predicted at this time and an adverse result could have a
material adverse effect on the Companys business,
financial condition, and results of operations.
For information regarding the settlement of shareholder
litigation that challenged the resolutions approving the
Companys transformation of legal form and the conversion
of preference shares to ordinary shares, see Note 2,
Transformation of Legal Form and Conversion of preference Shares.
|
|
|
Other Litigation and Potential Exposures
|
Several ordinary shareholders challenged the resolutions adopted
at the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) approving
the conversion of the preference shares into ordinary shares,
the adjustment of the employee participation programs, the
creation of authorized capital and the transformation of the
legal form of the Company, with the objective of having the
resolutions declared null and void. On December 19, 2005
the Company and the claimants agreed to a settlement
(Prozessvergleich) with the participation of Fresenius AG and
Management AG, the general partner, and all proceedings were
terminated.
Pursuant to the settlement, Management AG undertook to
(i) make an ex gratia payment to the ordinary shareholders
of the Company (other than Fresenius AG), of
0.12 for every
share issued as an ordinary share up to August 30, 2005 and
(ii) to pay to ordinary shareholders who, at the EGM of
August 30, 2005, voted against the conversion proposal, an
additional
0.69 per ordinary share. Ordinary shareholders who
were shareholders at the close of business on the day of
registration of the conversion and transformation with the
commercial register were entitled to a payment under
(i) above. Ordinary shareholders who voted against the
conversion resolution in the extraordinary general meeting on
August 30, 2005, as evidenced by the voting cards held by
the Company, were entitled to a payment under (ii) above,
but only in respect of shares voted against the conversion
resolution. The right to receive payment under (ii) has
lapsed as to any shareholder who did not make a written claim
for payment with the Company by February 28, 2006.
The Company also agreed to bear court fees and shareholder legal
expenses in connection with the settlement.
The total costs of the settlement were approximately $6,485. A
further part of the settlement agreement and German law require
that these costs be borne by Fresenius AG and the general
partner, Management AG. Under U.S. GAAP, however, these
costs must be reflected by the entity benefiting from the
actions of its controlling shareholder. As a result, the Company
has recorded the settlement amount as an expense in Selling,
General and Administrative expense and a contribution in
Additional Paid in Capital in Shareholders Equity.
As part of the settlement, the Company, with the participation
of Fresenius AG and the general partner, Management AG, also
agreed to establish, at the first ordinary general meeting after
registration of the transformation of legal form, a joint
committee (the Joint Committee) (
gemeinsamer
Ausschuss
) of the supervisory boards of Management AG and
FMC AG & Co. KGaA with authority to advise and
decide on certain significant transactions between the Company
and Fresenius AG and to approve certain significant
acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs and similar matters. The
Company also agreed to establish an Audit and Corporate
Governance Committee of the FMC AG & Co. KGaA
Supervisory Board to review the report of the general partner on
relations with related parties and report to the overall
supervisory board thereon. The general partner Management AG
also undertook in this settlement to provide data on the
individual remuneration of its management board members
according to provisions of the German Commercial Code,
commencing with remuneration paid for the year ending,
December 31, 2006.
On May 11, 2005, Renal Care Group was served with a
complaint in the Chancery Court for the State of Tennessee
Twentieth Judicial District at Nashville styled
Plumbers
Local #65 Pension Fund, on behalf of
20
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
itself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, vs.
Renal Care Group, Inc., William P. Johnston, Gary Brukardt,
Peter J. Grua, Joseph C. Hutts, Harry R. Jacobson, William V.
Lapham, Thomas A. Lowery, Stephen D. McMurray and C. Thomas
Smith, Defendants.
On May 26, 2005, Renal Care Group
was served with a complaint in the Chancery Court for the State
of Tennessee Twentieth Judicial District at Nashville styled
Hawaii Structural Ironworkers Pension Trust Fund, on
behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff,
vs. Renal Care Group, Inc., William P. Johnston, Gary Brukardt,
Peter J. Grua, Joseph C. Hutts, Harry R. Jacobson, William V.
Lapham, Thomas A. Lowery, Stephen D. McMurray and C. Thomas
Smith, Defendants.
On May 31, 2005, Renal Care Group
was served with a complaint in the Chancery Court for the State
of Tennessee Twentieth Judicial District at Nashville styled
Indiana State District Council of Laborers and Hod Carriers
Pension Fund, on behalf of itself and others similar situated,
Plaintiff, vs. Renal Care Group, Inc., William P. Johnston, Gary
Brukardt, Peter J. Grua, Joseph C. Hutts, Harry R. Jacobson,
William V. Lapham, Thomas A. Lowery, Stephen D. McMurray and C.
Thomas Smith, Defendants.
The original complaints in these
three lawsuits were substantially identical. Each complaint was
brought by the plaintiff shareholder as a purported class action
on behalf of all shareholders similarly situated. The complaints
allege that Renal Care Group and its directors engaged in
self-dealing and breached their fiduciary duties to Renal Care
Groups shareholders in connection with the merger
agreement between Renal Care Group and the Company because,
among other things, Renal Care Group used a flawed process, the
existence of the previously disclosed subpoena from the
Department of Justice, the lack of independence of one of Renal
Care Groups financial advisors and the existence of Renal
Care Groups supplemental executive retirement plan. Renal
Care Group removed these cases to federal court in June 2005.
The plaintiffs in the first two cases dismissed them without
prejudice in July 2005, and the third plaintiff filed an amended
complaint. The amended complaint asserts the same grounds
articulated in the original complaint adding more specific
allegations regarding the termination fee, the no solicitation
clause and the matching rights provision in the Merger
Agreement, and it adds allegations that RCGs Proxy
Statement makes material misrepresentations and omissions
regarding the process by which the Merger Agreement was
negotiated. Specifically, the Amended Complaint asserts that the
Proxy Statement makes material misstatements or omissions
regarding: (1) the reason why RCGs management and
Board engaged in a closed process of negotiating a potential
merger with the Company and did not solicit potential competing
bids from alternative purchasers; (2) the reason why
RCGs Board did not appoint a special committee to evaluate
the fairness of the merger; (3) the alternatives available
to RCG, including potential alternative transactions and other
strategic business opportunities, which purportedly were
considered by RCGs Board during the strategic planning
process the Board engaged in during the second half of 2004;
(4) all information regarding conflicts of interest
suffered by defendants and their financial and legal advisors as
alleged herein; (5) all information regarding past
investment banking services Bank of America has performed for
RCG and the Company and the compensation Bank of America
received for those services; (6) the forecasts and
projections prepared by RCGs management for fiscal years
2005 through 2008 that were referenced in the fairness opinions
by Morgan Stanley; (7) the estimates of transaction
synergies provided by RCGs management that were referenced
in the fairness opinions by Morgan Stanley; and
(8) information concerning the amount of money Bank of
America and Morgan Stanley received in connection with the
Acquisition. The Company believes that the allegations in the
pending complaint are without merit. The pending complaint
sought to enjoin and prevent the parties from completing the
merger. The pending complaint was remanded to Tennessee state
court in September 2005.
FMCH and its subsidiaries received subpoenas from the
U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of Missouri,
in connection with a joint civil and criminal investigation. The
subpoenas require production of a broad range of documents
relating to the FMCHs operations, with specific attention
to documents related to clinical quality programs, business
development activities, medical director compensation and
physician
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
relations, joint ventures and anemia management programs. The
Company is cooperating with the governments requests for
information. An adverse determination in this investigation
could have a material adverse effect on the Companys
business, financial condition and results of operations.
RCG received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of
Justice, Eastern District of Missouri in connection with a joint
civil and criminal investigation. The subpoena requires the
production of documents related to numerous aspects of
RCGs business and operations. The areas covered by the
subpoena include RCGs supply company, pharmaceutical and
other services that RCG provides to patients, RCGs
relationships to pharmaceutical companies, RCGs
relationships with physicians, medical director compensation and
joint ventures with physicians and its purchase of dialysis
equipment from the Company. The Company is cooperating with the
governments investigation.
FMCH and its subsidiaries have received subpoenas from the
U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York in
connection with a civil and criminal investigation, which
requires production of a broad range of documents relating to
the FMCHs operations, with specific attention to documents
relating to laboratory testing for parathyroid hormone
(PTH) levels and vitamin D therapies. The Company is
cooperating with the governments requests for information.
While the Company believes that it has complied with applicable
laws relating to PTH testing and use of vitamin D therapies, an
adverse determination in this investigation could have a
material adverse effect on the Companys business,
financial condition, and results of operations.
RCG received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of
Justice, Eastern District of New York. The subpoena requires the
production of documents related to numerous aspects of
RCGs business and operations, including those of RenaLab,
Inc., its laboratory. The subpoena includes specific requests
for documents related to testing for parathyroid hormone
(PTH) levels and vitamin D therapies. The Company is
cooperating with the governments request for information.
From time to time, the Company is a party to or may be
threatened with other litigation, claims or assessments arising
in the ordinary course of its business. Management regularly
analyzes current information including, as applicable, the
Companys defenses and insurance coverage and, as
necessary, provides accruals for probable liabilities for the
eventual disposition of these matters.
The Company, like other health care providers, conducts its
operations under intense government regulation and scrutiny. It
must comply with regulations which relate to or govern the
safety and efficacy of medical products and supplies, the
operation of manufacturing facilities, laboratories and dialysis
clinics, and environmental and occupational health and safety.
The Company must also comply with the Anti-Kickback Statute, the
False Claims Act, the Stark Statute, and other federal and state
fraud and abuse laws. Applicable laws or regulations may be
amended, or enforcement agencies or courts may make
interpretations that differ from the Companys or the
manner in which it conducts its business. Enforcement has become
a high priority for the federal government and some states. In
addition, the provisions of the False Claims Act authorizing
payment of a portion of any recovery to the party bringing the
suit encourage private plaintiffs to commence whistle
blower actions. By virtue of this regulatory environment,
as well as the Companys corporate integrity agreement with
the U.S. federal government, the Companys business
activities and practices are subject to extensive review by
regulatory authorities and private parties, and continuing
audits, investigative demands, subpoenas, other inquiries,
claims and litigation relating to the Companys compliance
with applicable laws and regulations. The Company may not always
be aware that an inquiry or action has begun, particularly in
the case of whistle blower actions, which are
initially filed under court seal.
The Company operates many facilities throughout the United
States. In such a decentralized system, it is often difficult to
maintain the desired level of oversight and control over the
thousands of individuals employed
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
by many affiliated companies. The Company relies upon its
management structure, regulatory and legal resources, and the
effective operation of its compliance program to direct, manage
and monitor the activities of these employees. On occasion, the
Company may identify instances where employees, deliberately or
inadvertently, have submitted inadequate or false billings. The
actions of such persons may subject the Company and its
subsidiaries to liability under the Anti-Kickback Statute, the
Stark Statute and the False Claims Act, among other laws.
Physicians, hospitals and other participants in the health care
industry are also subject to a large number of lawsuits alleging
professional negligence, malpractice, product liability,
workers compensation or related claims, many of which
involve large claims and significant defense costs. The Company
has been and is currently subject to these suits due to the
nature of its business and expects that those types of lawsuits
may continue. Although the Company maintains insurance at a
level which it believes to be prudent, it cannot assure that the
coverage limits will be adequate or that insurance will cover
all asserted claims. A successful claim against the Company or
any of its subsidiaries in excess of insurance coverage could
have a material adverse effect upon it and the results of its
operations. Any claims, regardless of their merit or eventual
outcome, could have a material adverse effect on the
Companys reputation and business.
The Company has also had claims asserted against it and has had
lawsuits filed against it relating to alleged patent
infringements or businesses that it has acquired or divested.
These claims and suits relate both to operation of the
businesses and to the acquisition and divestiture transactions.
The Company has, when appropriate, asserted its own claims, and
claims for indemnification. A successful claim against the
Company or any of its subsidiaries could have a material adverse
effect upon it and the results of its operations. Any claims,
regardless of their merit or eventual outcome, could have a
material adverse effect on the Companys reputation and
business.
|
|
|
Accrued Special Charge for Legal Matters
|
At December 31, 2001, the Company recorded a pre-tax
special charge to reflect anticipated expenses associated with
the defense and resolution of pre-Merger tax claims,
Merger-related claims, and commercial insurer claims. The costs
associated with the Settlement Agreement and settlements with
insurers have been charged against this accrual. While the
Company believes that its remaining accruals reasonably estimate
its currently anticipated costs related to the continued defense
and resolution of the remaining matters, no assurances can be
given that its actual costs incurred will not exceed the amount
of this accrual.
|
|
11.
|
Business Segment Information
|
The Company has identified three business segments, North
America, International, and Asia Pacific, which were determined
based upon how the Company manages its businesses. All segments
are primarily engaged in providing dialysis services and
manufacturing and distributing products and equipment for the
treatment of end-stage renal disease. Additionally, the North
America segment engages in performing clinical laboratory
testing and providing perfusion, therapeutic apheresis and
autotransfusion services. . The Company has aggregated the
International and Asia Pacific operating segments as
International. The segments are aggregated due to
their similar economic characteristics. These characteristics
include the same products sold, the same type patient
population, similar methods of distribution of products and
services and similar economic environments.
Management evaluates each segment using a measure that reflects
all of the segments controllable revenues and expenses.
Management believes that the most appropriate measure in this
regard is operating income which measures the Companys
source of earnings. Financing is a corporate function, which the
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
Companys segments do not control. Therefore, the Company
does not include interest expense relating to financing as a
segment measure. The Company also regards income taxes to be
outside the segments control.
Information pertaining to the Companys business segments
for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2006 and 2005
is set forth below:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
America
|
|
|
International
|
|
|
Corporate
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three months ended March 31, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue external customers
|
|
$
|
1,193,517
|
|
|
$
|
553,413
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
1,746,930
|
|
|
Inter-segment revenue
|
|
|
181
|
|
|
|
12,586
|
|
|
|
(12,767
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total net revenue
|
|
|
1,193,698
|
|
|
|
565,999
|
|
|
|
(12,767
|
)
|
|
|
1,746,930
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
(35,015
|
)
|
|
|
(25,784
|
)
|
|
|
(459
|
)
|
|
|
(61,258
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income
|
|
|
164,171
|
|
|
|
95,718
|
|
|
|
(16,044
|
)
|
|
|
243,845
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Segment assets(1)
|
|
|
10,665,705
|
|
|
|
2,321,358
|
|
|
|
156,888
|
|
|
|
13,143,951
|
|
|
Capital expenditures and acquisitions(2)
|
|
|
3,986,937
|
|
|
|
34,258
|
|
|
|
16
|
|
|
|
4,021,211
|
|
|
Three months ended March 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue external customers
|
|
$
|
1,088,185
|
|
|
$
|
520,818
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
1,609,003
|
|
|
Inter-segment revenue
|
|
|
230
|
|
|
|
12,185
|
|
|
|
(12,415
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total net revenue
|
|
|
1,088,415
|
|
|
|
533,003
|
|
|
|
(12,415
|
)
|
|
|
1,609,003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
(33,785
|
)
|
|
|
(25,428
|
)
|
|
|
(498
|
)
|
|
|
(59,711
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income
|
|
|
146,285
|
|
|
|
82,150
|
|
|
|
(8,452
|
)
|
|
|
219,983
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Segment assets
|
|
|
5,541,167
|
|
|
|
2,308,148
|
|
|
|
44,309
|
|
|
|
7,893,624
|
|
|
Capital expenditures and acquisitions(3)
|
|
|
38,420
|
|
|
|
27,063
|
|
|
|
29
|
|
|
|
65,512
|
|
|
|
(1)
|
Segment assets of North America include the assets of RCG of
$4,650,426 as of March 31, 2006.
|
|
(2)
|
North America and International acquisitions exclude $(6,282)
and $4,771, respectively, of non-cash acquisitions for 2006.
North America acquisitions include $3,940,563 for the
acquisition of RCG at March 31, 2006.
|
|
(3)
|
International acquisitions exclude $687 of non-cash acquisitions
for 2005.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended
|
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reconciliation of Measures to Consolidated Totals
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operating income of reporting segments
|
|
$
|
259,889
|
|
|
$
|
228,435
|
|
|
Corporate expenses
|
|
|
(16,044
|
)
|
|
|
(8,452
|
)
|
|
Interest expense
|
|
|
(61,004
|
)
|
|
|
(44,532
|
)
|
|
Interest income
|
|
|
4,809
|
|
|
|
2,245
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total income before income taxes and minority interest
|
|
$
|
187,650
|
|
|
$
|
177,696
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
12.
|
Supplementary Cash Flow Information
|
The following additional information is provided with respect to
the consolidated statements of cash flows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended
|
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supplementary cash flow information:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for interest
|
|
$
|
54,262
|
|
|
$
|
51,344
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for income taxes
|
|
$
|
25,321
|
|
|
$
|
68,053
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash inflow for income taxes from stock option exercises
|
|
$
|
1,363
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Details for acquisitions:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assets acquired
|
|
$
|
4,654,718
|
|
|
$
|
17,946
|
|
|
Liabilities assumed
|
|
|
586,226
|
|
|
|
70
|
|
|
Minorities
|
|
|
56,023
|
|
|
|
(5,017
|
)
|
|
Notes assumed in connection with acquisition
|
|
|
4,771
|
|
|
|
687
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid
|
|
|
4,007,698
|
|
|
|
22,206
|
|
|
Less cash acquired
|
|
|
56,724
|
|
|
|
218
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash paid for acquisitions
|
|
$
|
3,950,974
|
|
|
$
|
21,988
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13. Supplemental Condensed
Combining Information
FMC Trust Finance S.à.r.l. Luxembourg and FMC
Trust Finance S.à.r.l. Luxembourg-III, each of which
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, are the obligors on
senior subordinated debt securities which are fully and
unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on a senior
subordinated basis, by the Company and by Fresenius Medical Care
Deutschland GmbH (D-GmbH), a wholly-owned subsidiary
of the Company, and by FMCH, a substantially wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company (D-GmbH and FMCH being Guarantor
Subsidiaries). The subordinated debt and guarantees are
held by four Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trusts, statutory
business trusts organized under the laws of the State of
Delaware which have issued trust preferred securities that are
guaranteed by the Company through a series of undertakings by
the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors. The Company owns all
of the common securities of these trusts. In December 2004, the
Company assumed the obligations of its wholly owned subsidiaries
as the issuer of senior subordinated indebtedness held by
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust III and Fresenius
Medical Care Capital Trust V, respectively. The following
combining financial information for the Company is as of
March 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005 and for the
three-months ended March 31, 2006 and 2005, segregated
between the Company, D-GmbH, FMCH and each of the Companys
other businesses (the Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries).
For purposes of the condensed combining information, the Company
and the Guarantor Subsidiaries carry their investments under the
equity method. Other (income) expense includes income (loss)
related to investments in consolidated subsidiaries recorded
under the equity method for purposes of the condensed combining
information. In addition, other (income) expense includes income
and losses from profit and loss transfer agreements as well as
dividends received. Separate
25
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
financial statements and other disclosures concerning D-GmbH and
FMCH are not presented herein because management believes that
they are not material to investors.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months Period Ended March 31, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FMC-AG &
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Guarantor
|
|
|
Combining
|
|
|
Combined
|
|
|
|
Co. KGaA
|
|
|
D-GmbH
|
|
|
FMCH
|
|
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
|
Adjustment
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
384,492
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
1,698,246
|
|
|
$
|
(335,808
|
)
|
|
$
|
1,746,930
|
|
Cost of revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
286,786
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,216,514
|
|
|
|
(334,660
|
)
|
|
|
1,168,640
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross profit
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
97,706
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
481,732
|
|
|
|
(1,148
|
)
|
|
|
578,290
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating (income) expenses:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative
|
|
|
22,910
|
|
|
|
35,243
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
271,673
|
|
|
|
(8,155
|
)
|
|
|
321,671
|
|
|
Research and development
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,375
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,399
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12,774
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income (loss)
|
|
|
(22,910
|
)
|
|
|
53,088
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
206,660
|
|
|
|
7,007
|
|
|
|
243,845
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other (income) expense:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest, net
|
|
|
9,596
|
|
|
|
3,848
|
|
|
|
22,426
|
|
|
|
20,023
|
|
|
|
302
|
|
|
|
56,195
|
|
|
Other, net
|
|
|
(149,120
|
)
|
|
|
30,823
|
|
|
|
(82,130
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
200,427
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes and minority interest
|
|
|
116,614
|
|
|
|
18,417
|
|
|
|
59,704
|
|
|
|
186,637
|
|
|
|
(193,722
|
)
|
|
|
187,650
|
|
|
Income tax expense (benefit)
|
|
|
577
|
|
|
|
18,921
|
|
|
|
(8,970
|
)
|
|
|
64,420
|
|
|
|
(3,815
|
)
|
|
|
71,133
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (loss) before minority interest
|
|
|
116,037
|
|
|
|
(504
|
)
|
|
|
68,674
|
|
|
|
122,216
|
|
|
|
(189,907
|
)
|
|
|
116,517
|
|
Minority interest
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
480
|
|
|
|
480
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$
|
116,037
|
|
|
$
|
(504
|
)
|
|
$
|
68,674
|
|
|
$
|
122,216
|
|
|
$
|
(190,387
|
)
|
|
$
|
116,037
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FMC-AG &
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Guarantor
|
|
|
Combining
|
|
|
Combined
|
|
|
|
Co. KGaA
|
|
|
D-GmbH
|
|
|
FMCH
|
|
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
|
Adjustment
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
257,680
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
1,656,037
|
|
|
$
|
(304,714
|
)
|
|
$
|
1,609,003
|
|
Cost of revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
161,905
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,240,601
|
|
|
|
(302,248
|
)
|
|
|
1,100,258
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross profit
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
95,775
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
415,436
|
|
|
|
(2,466
|
)
|
|
|
508,745
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating (income) expenses:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative
|
|
|
17,664
|
|
|
|
25,658
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
201,934
|
|
|
|
30,258
|
|
|
|
275,514
|
|
|
Research and development
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,841
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,407
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,248
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income (loss)
|
|
|
(17,664
|
)
|
|
|
60,276
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
210,095
|
|
|
|
(32,724
|
)
|
|
|
219,983
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other (income) expense:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest, net
|
|
|
8,219
|
|
|
|
3,891
|
|
|
|
12,657
|
|
|
|
26,117
|
|
|
|
(8,597
|
)
|
|
|
42,287
|
|
|
Other, net
|
|
|
(142,642
|
)
|
|
|
36,327
|
|
|
|
(72,197
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
178,512
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes and minority interest
|
|
|
116,759
|
|
|
|
20,058
|
|
|
|
59,540
|
|
|
|
183,978
|
|
|
|
(202,639
|
)
|
|
|
177,696
|
|
|
Income tax expense (benefit)
|
|
|
9,288
|
|
|
|
19,324
|
|
|
|
(5,063
|
)
|
|
|
58,262
|
|
|
|
(12,168
|
)
|
|
|
69,643
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (loss) before minority interest
|
|
|
107,471
|
|
|
|
734
|
|
|
|
64,603
|
|
|
|
125,716
|
|
|
|
(190,471
|
)
|
|
|
108,053
|
|
Minority interest
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
582
|
|
|
|
582
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$
|
107,471
|
|
|
$
|
734
|
|
|
$
|
64,603
|
|
|
$
|
125,716
|
|
|
$
|
(191,053
|
)
|
|
$
|
107,471
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
At March 31, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
FMC-AG &
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Guarantor
|
|
|
Combining
|
|
|
Combined
|
|
|
|
Co. KGaA
|
|
|
D-GmbH
|
|
|
FMCH
|
|
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
|
Adjustment
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
91
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
364,298
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
364,389
|
|
|
Trade accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
116,361
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,661,690
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,778,051
|
|
|
Accounts receivable from related parties
|
|
|
1,227,892
|
|
|
|
367,697
|
|
|
|
217,093
|
|
|
|
1,348,237
|
|
|
|
(3,099,641
|
)
|
|
|
61,278
|
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
133,018
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
417,004
|
|
|
|
(56,209
|
)
|
|
|
493,813
|
|
|
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
|
|
|
10,371
|
|
|
|
17,179
|
|
|
|
200
|
|
|
|
320,175
|
|
|
|
71
|
|
|
|
347,996
|
|
|
Assets held for sale
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
473,150
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
473,150
|
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
248
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
188,686
|
|
|
|
22,656
|
|
|
|
211,590
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
1,238,511
|
|
|
|
634,346
|
|
|
|
217,293
|
|
|
|
4,773,240
|
|
|
|
(3,133,123
|
)
|
|
|
3,730,267
|
|
Property, plant and equipment, net
|
|
|
123
|
|
|
|
88,180
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,488,586
|
|
|
|
(44,508
|
)
|
|
|
1,532,381
|
|
Intangible assets
|
|
|
977
|
|
|
|
13,064
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
603,310
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
617,351
|
|
Goodwill
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,311
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,885,386
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,888,697
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,166
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,027
|
|
|
|
16,316
|
|
|
|
39,509
|
|
Other assets
|
|
|
4,736,334
|
|
|
|
859,684
|
|
|
|
7,325,286
|
|
|
|
(447,380
|
)
|
|
|
(12,138,178
|
)
|
|
|
335,746
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets
|
|
$
|
5,975,945
|
|
|
$
|
1,603,751
|
|
|
$
|
7,542,579
|
|
|
$
|
13,321,169
|
|
|
$
|
(15,299,493
|
)
|
|
$
|
13,143,951
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
$
|
704
|
|
|
$
|
17,264
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
209,970
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
227,938
|
|
|
Accounts payable to related parties
|
|
|
1,126,073
|
|
|
|
205,954
|
|
|
|
892,498
|
|
|
|
1,839,544
|
|
|
|
(3,919,946
|
)
|
|
|
144,123
|
|
|
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
|
|
|
14,941
|
|
|
|
96,573
|
|
|
|
705
|
|
|
|
1,165,731
|
|
|
|
2,502
|
|
|
|
1,280,452
|
|
|
Short-term borrowings
|
|
|
52
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
441,627
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
441,679
|
|
|
Short-term borrowings from related parties
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,798
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
242,134
|
|
|
|
(1,798
|
)
|
|
|
242,134
|
|
|
Current portion of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
|
|
|
993
|
|
|
|
847
|
|
|
|
137,500
|
|
|
|
21,750
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
161,091
|
|
|
Income tax payable
|
|
|
7,766
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
176,197
|
|
|
|
648
|
|
|
|
184,611
|
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,824
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12,286
|
|
|
|
4,168
|
|
|
|
20,278
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
1,150,529
|
|
|
|
326,260
|
|
|
|
1,030,703
|
|
|
|
4,109,230
|
|
|
|
(3,914,426
|
)
|
|
|
2,702,306
|
|
Long term debt and capital lease obligations, less current
portion
|
|
|
293,876
|
|
|
|
363
|
|
|
|
3,916,029
|
|
|
|
4,005,859
|
|
|
|
(4,148,591
|
)
|
|
|
4,067,536
|
|
Long term borrowings from related parties
|
|
|
3,817
|
|
|
|
185,660
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(189,477
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
Other liabilities
|
|
|
36,620
|
|
|
|
4,582
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
85,270
|
|
|
|
6,041
|
|
|
|
132,513
|
|
Pension liabilities
|
|
|
2,812
|
|
|
|
80,299
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26,515
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
109,626
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
28,254
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
321,421
|
|
|
|
41,273
|
|
|
|
390,948
|
|
Company obligated mandatorily redeemable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
preferred securities of subsidiary Fresenius
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Medical Care Capital Trusts holding solely Company-guaranteed
debentures of subsidiary
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,204,972
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,204,972
|
|
Minority interest
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,412
|
|
|
|
63,108
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
70,520
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities
|
|
|
1,515,908
|
|
|
|
597,164
|
|
|
|
4,954,144
|
|
|
|
9,816,385
|
|
|
|
(8,205,180
|
)
|
|
|
8,678,421
|
|
Shareholders equity:
|
|
|
4,460,037
|
|
|
|
1,006,587
|
|
|
|
2,588,435
|
|
|
|
3,504,784
|
|
|
|
(7,094,313
|
)
|
|
|
4,465,530
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and shareholders equity
|
|
$
|
5,975,945
|
|
|
$
|
1,603,751
|
|
|
$
|
7,542,579
|
|
|
$
|
13,321,169
|
|
|
$
|
(15,299,493
|
)
|
|
$
|
13,143,951
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
At December 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
FMC-AG &
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Guarantor
|
|
|
Combining
|
|
|
Combined
|
|
|
|
Co. KGaA
|
|
|
D-GmbH
|
|
|
FMCH
|
|
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
|
Adjustment
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$
|
1
|
|
|
$
|
26
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
82,558
|
|
|
$
|
2,492
|
|
|
$
|
85,077
|
|
|
Trade accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
108,426
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,361,507
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,469,933
|
|
|
Accounts receivable from related parties
|
|
|
852,926
|
|
|
|
338,097
|
|
|
|
216,337
|
|
|
|
1,248,942
|
|
|
|
(2,622,418
|
)
|
|
|
33,884
|
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
113,359
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
371,638
|
|
|
|
(54,104
|
)
|
|
|
430,893
|
|
|
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
|
|
|
17,399
|
|
|
|
12,329
|
|
|
|
13
|
|
|
|
231,734
|
|
|
|
115
|
|
|
|
261,590
|
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
163,975
|
|
|
|
15,586
|
|
|
|
179,561
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
870,326
|
|
|
|
572,237
|
|
|
|
216,350
|
|
|
|
3,460,354
|
|
|
|
(2,658,329
|
)
|
|
|
2,460,938
|
|
Property, plant and equipment, net
|
|
|
157
|
|
|
|
86,386
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,174,252
|
|
|
|
(45,037
|
)
|
|
|
1,215,758
|
|
Intangible assets
|
|
|
970
|
|
|
|
12,220
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
572,499
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
585,689
|
|
Goodwill
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,227
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,453,650
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,456,877
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,562
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27,994
|
|
|
|
3,093
|
|
|
|
35,649
|
|
Other assets
|
|
|
4,552,128
|
|
|
|
811,728
|
|
|
|
3,812,542
|
|
|
|
(829,742
|
)
|
|
|
(8,118,467
|
)
|
|
|
228,189
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets
|
|
$
|
5,423,581
|
|
|
$
|
1,490,360
|
|
|
$
|
4,028,892
|
|
|
$
|
7,859,007
|
|
|
$
|
(10,818,740
|
)
|
|
$
|
7,983,100
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
$
|
19
|
|
|
$
|
13,401
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
187,897
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
201,317
|
|
|
Accounts payable to related parties
|
|
|
1,059,718
|
|
|
|
160,884
|
|
|
|
882,439
|
|
|
|
1,397,213
|
|
|
|
(3,392,316
|
)
|
|
|
107,938
|
|
|
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
|
|
|
22,205
|
|
|
|
92,545
|
|
|
|
775
|
|
|
|
731,208
|
|
|
|
(7,965
|
)
|
|
|
838,768
|
|
|
Short-term borrowings
|
|
|
33
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
151,080
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
151,113
|
|
|
Short-term borrowings from related parties
|
|
|
18,757
|
|
|
|
1,752
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,752
|
)
|
|
|
18,757
|
|
|
Current portion of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
|
|
|
968
|
|
|
|
826
|
|
|
|
100,000
|
|
|
|
24,475
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
126,269
|
|
|
Income tax payable
|
|
|
15,106
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
81,593
|
|
|
|
23,439
|
|
|
|
120,138
|
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
2,489
|
|
|
|
3,735
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
34,266
|
|
|
|
(26,550
|
)
|
|
|
13,940
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
1,119,295
|
|
|
|
273,143
|
|
|
|
983,214
|
|
|
|
2,607,732
|
|
|
|
(3,405,144
|
)
|
|
|
1,578,240
|
|
Long term debt and capital lease obligations, less current
portion
|
|
|
294,131
|
|
|
|
590
|
|
|
|
561,229
|
|
|
|
651,297
|
|
|
|
(800,147
|
)
|
|
|
707,100
|
|
Long term borrowings from related parties
|
|
|
3,720
|
|
|
|
180,951
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(184,671
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
Other liabilities
|
|
|
419
|
|
|
|
5,013
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
89,112
|
|
|
|
17,874
|
|
|
|
112,418
|
|
Pension liabilities
|
|
|
2,578
|
|
|
|
75,880
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
42,680
|
|
|
|
(12,436
|
)
|
|
|
108,702
|
|
Deferred taxes
|
|
|
29,732
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
235,538
|
|
|
|
35,395
|
|
|
|
300,665
|
|
Company obligated mandatorily redeemable preferred securities of
subsidiary Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trusts holding solely
Company-guaranteed debentures of subsidiary
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,187,864
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,187,864
|
|
Minority interest
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,412
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,993
|
|
|
|
14,405
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities
|
|
|
1,449,875
|
|
|
|
535,577
|
|
|
|
1,551,855
|
|
|
|
4,814,223
|
|
|
|
(4,342,136
|
)
|
|
|
4,009,394
|
|
Shareholders equity:
|
|
|
3,973,706
|
|
|
|
954,783
|
|
|
|
2,477,037
|
|
|
|
3,044,784
|
|
|
|
(6,476,604
|
)
|
|
|
3,973,706
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and shareholders equity
|
|
$
|
5,423,581
|
|
|
$
|
1,490,360
|
|
|
$
|
4,028,892
|
|
|
$
|
7,859,007
|
|
|
$
|
(10,818,740
|
)
|
|
$
|
7,983,100
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months Period Ended March 31, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
FMC-AG &
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Guarantor
|
|
|
Combining
|
|
|
Combined
|
|
|
|
Co. KGaA
|
|
|
D-GmbH
|
|
|
FMCH
|
|
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
|
Adjustment
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$
|
116,037
|
|
|
$
|
(504
|
)
|
|
$
|
68,674
|
|
|
$
|
122,216
|
|
|
$
|
(190,387
|
)
|
|
$
|
116,037
|
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash and cash equivalents
provided by (used in) operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity affiliate income
|
|
|
(93,646
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(82,130
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
175,776
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Settlement of shareholder proceedings
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(850
|
)
|
|
|
(850
|
)
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
460
|
|
|
|
6,599
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
58,353
|
|
|
|
(4,137
|
)
|
|
|
61,275
|
|
|
|
Change in deferred taxes, net
|
|
|
(4,580
|
)
|
|
|
(398
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,409
|
|
|
|
8,147
|
|
|
|
8,578
|
|
|
|
(Gain) loss on sale of fixed assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(204
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
650
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
446
|
|
|
|
Compensation expense related to stock options
|
|
|
3,467
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,467
|
|
|
|
Cash (outflow) inflow from hedging
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(865
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
865
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of amounts from
businesses acquired:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade accounts receivable, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(25,742
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,560
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,818
|
|
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(16,595
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(15,138
|
)
|
|
|
1,455
|
|
|
|
(30,278
|
)
|
|
|
Prepaid expenses and other current and non-current assets
|
|
|
13,644
|
|
|
|
(3,680
|
)
|
|
|
10,338
|
|
|
|
(56,734
|
)
|
|
|
(11,136
|
)
|
|
|
(47,568
|
)
|
|
|
Accounts receivable from/payable to related parties
|
|
|
(13,539
|
)
|
|
|
42,178
|
|
|
|
12,309
|
|
|
|
(48,964
|
)
|
|
|
12,645
|
|
|
|
4,629
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current and
non-current liabilities
|
|
|
(4,868
|
)
|
|
|
4,026
|
|
|
|
(76
|
)
|
|
|
8,611
|
|
|
|
5,153
|
|
|
|
12,846
|
|
|
|
Income tax payable
|
|
|
(7,681
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(8,970
|
)
|
|
|
45,202
|
|
|
|
(291
|
)
|
|
|
28,260
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
|
|
|
9,294
|
|
|
|
4,815
|
|
|
|
145
|
|
|
|
151,030
|
|
|
|
(3,625
|
)
|
|
|
161,660
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investing Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchases of property, plant and equipment
|
|
|
(3
|
)
|
|
|
(6,806
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(66,204
|
)
|
|
|
2,776
|
|
|
|
(70,237
|
)
|
|
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment
|
|
|
14
|
|
|
|
340
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,011
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,365
|
|
|
Disbursement of loans to related parties
|
|
|
(306,817
|
)
|
|
|
31
|
|
|
|
(3,324,687
|
)
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
3,631,472
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acquisitions and investments, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
(210
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3,950,897
|
)
|
|
|
133
|
|
|
|
(3,950,974
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
|
|
|
(307,016
|
)
|
|
|
(6,435
|
)
|
|
|
(3,324,687
|
)
|
|
|
(4,012,089
|
)
|
|
|
3,634,381
|
|
|
|
(4,015,846
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Financing Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Short-term borrowings, net
|
|
|
(19,098
|
)
|
|
|
1,683
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
233,922
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
216,507
|
|
|
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations, net
|
|
|
(7,560
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,311,265
|
|
|
|
3,621,155
|
|
|
|
(3,631,472
|
)
|
|
|
3,293,388
|
|
|
Increase of accounts receivable securitization program
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
296,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
296,000
|
|
|
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
|
|
|
12,217
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,363
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,580
|
|
|
Proceeds from conversion of preference shares into ordinary
shares
|
|
|
308,657
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
308,657
|
|
|
Dividends paid
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(728
|
)
|
|
|
728
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital Increase
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,407
|
|
|
|
(13,274
|
)
|
|
|
(133
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Change in minority interest
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(130
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
480
|
|
|
|
350
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
294,216
|
|
|
|
1,683
|
|
|
|
3,324,542
|
|
|
|
4,138,438
|
|
|
|
(3,630,397
|
)
|
|
|
4,128,482
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
3,505
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,869
|
|
|
|
(359
|
)
|
|
|
5,016
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and Cash Equivalents:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
(1
|
)
|
|
|
64
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
279,249
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
279,312
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
26
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
85,050
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
85,077
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
90
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
364,299
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
364,389
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Continued)
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months Period Ended March 31, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantor Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
FMC-AG &
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-Guarantor
|
|
|
Combining
|
|
|
Combined
|
|
|
|
Co. KGaA
|
|
|
D-GmbH
|
|
|
FMCH
|
|
|
Subsidiaries
|
|
|
Adjustment
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$
|
107,471
|
|
|
$
|
734
|
|
|
$
|
64,603
|
|
|
$
|
125,716
|
|
|
$
|
(191,053
|
)
|
|
$
|
107,471
|
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash and cash equivalents
provided by (used in) operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity affiliate income
|
|
|
(79,973
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(72,197
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
152,170
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
498
|
|
|
|
7,386
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
55,550
|
|
|
|
(3,723
|
)
|
|
|
59,711
|
|
|
|
Change in deferred taxes, net
|
|
|
(3,717
|
)
|
|
|
665
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,842
|
|
|
|
5,752
|
|
|
|
18,542
|
|
|
|
(Gain) loss on sale of fixed assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(55
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(30
|
)
|
|
|
Compensation expense related to stock options
|
|
|
424
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
424
|
|
|
|
Cash (outflow) inflow from hedging
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(469
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
469
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of amounts from
businesses acquired:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade accounts receivable, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7,576
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,937
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(18,513
|
)
|
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,913
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,115
|
)
|
|
|
3,230
|
|
|
|
(15,798
|
)
|
|
|
Prepaid expenses and other current and non-current assets
|
|
|
12,366
|
|
|
|
(2,562
|
)
|
|
|
742
|
|
|
|
(50,520
|
)
|
|
|
17,115
|
|
|
|
(22,859
|
)
|
|
|
Accounts receivable from/payable to related parties
|
|
|
(20,034
|
)
|
|
|
(16,717
|
)
|
|
|
9,309
|
|
|
|
29,517
|
|
|
|
485
|
|
|
|
2,560
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current and
non-current liabilities
|
|
|
(720
|
)
|
|
|
30,783
|
|
|
|
467
|
|
|
|
(23,316
|
)
|
|
|
13,106
|
|
|
|
20,320
|
|
|
|
Income tax payable
|
|
|
(3,549
|
)
|
|
|
940
|
|
|
|
(5,063
|
)
|
|
|
(5,681
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(13,353
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
|
|
|
12,766
|
|
|
|
3,216
|
|
|
|
(2,139
|
)
|
|
|
127,550
|
|
|
|
(2,918
|
)
|
|
|
138,475
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investing Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchases of property, plant and equipment
|
|
|
(30
|
)
|
|
|
(3,340
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(42,088
|
)
|
|
|
1,934
|
|
|
|
(43,524
|
)
|
|
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
396
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,083
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,479
|
|
|
Disbursement of loans to related parties
|
|
|
(4,910
|
)
|
|
|
33
|
|
|
|
(19,931
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24,808
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acquisitions and investments, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
(13,839
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(21,908
|
)
|
|
|
13,759
|
|
|
|
(21,988
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
|
|
|
(18,779
|
)
|
|
|
(2,911
|
)
|
|
|
(19,931
|
)
|
|
|
(60,913
|
)
|
|
|
40,501
|
|
|
|
(62,033
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Financing Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Short-term borrowings, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
76
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(20,168
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(20,092
|
)
|
|
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations, net
|
|
|
(371
|
)
|
|
|
(412
|
)
|
|
|
22,200
|
|
|
|
6,328
|
|
|
|
(24,808
|
)
|
|
|
2,937
|
|
|
Decrease of accounts receivable securitization program
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(70,765
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(70,765
|
)
|
|
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
|
|
|
4,317
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,317
|
|
|
Dividends paid
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
234
|
|
|
|
(234
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital Increase of Non-Guarantor-Subsidiaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,760
|
|
|
|
(13,760
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Change in minority interest
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(130
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
582
|
|
|
|
452
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
3,946
|
|
|
|
(336
|
)
|
|
|
22,070
|
|
|
|
(70,611
|
)
|
|
|
(38,220
|
)
|
|
|
(83,151
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
(81
|
)
|
|
|
(4
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,993
|
)
|
|
|
637
|
|
|
|
(1,441
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and Cash Equivalents:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
(2,148
|
)
|
|
|
(35
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(5,967
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(8,150
|
)
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
|
|
|
2,152
|
|
|
|
35
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
56,779
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
58,966
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
|
|
$
|
4
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
50,812
|
|
|
$
|
|
|
|
$
|
50,816
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31
PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and 2005
You should read the following discussion and analysis of the
results of our operations in conjunction with our unaudited
consolidated financial statements and related notes contained
elsewhere in this report. Some of the statements contained
below, including those concerning future revenue, costs and
capital expenditures and possible changes in our industry and
competitive and financial conditions include forward-looking
statements. Because such statements involve risks and
uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from the
results which the forward looking statements express or imply.
Financial Condition and Results of Operations
This report 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. We have based these forward-looking statements
on current estimates and assumptions made to the best of our
knowledge. By their nature, such forward-looking statements
involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors
which could cause actual results, including our financial
condition and profitability, to differ materially and be more
negative than the results expressly or implicitly described in
or suggested by these statements. Moreover, forward-looking
estimates or predictions derived from third parties
studies or information may prove to be inaccurate. Consequently,
we cannot give any assurance regarding the future accuracy of
the opinions set forth in this prospectus or the actual
occurrence of the predicted developments. In addition, even if
our future results meet the expectations expressed here, those
results may not be indicative of our performance in future
periods. These risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other
factors include, among others, the following:
|
|
|
|
|
dependence on government reimbursements for dialysis services;
|
|
|
|
a possible decline in EPO utilization or EPO reimbursement;
|
|
|
|
creditors claims and tax risks relating to the merger with
W.R. Grace & Co.;
|
|
|
|
the influence of managed care organizations and healthcare
reforms;
|
|
|
|
our ability to remain competitive in our markets;
|
|
|
|
product liability risks;
|
|
|
|
risks relating to the integration of the RCG and other
acquisitions and our dependence on additional acquisitions;
|
|
|
|
the impact of currency fluctuations; and
|
|
|
|
other statements of our expectations, beliefs, future plans and
strategies, anticipated development and other matters that are
not historical facts.
|
When used in this report, the words expects,
anticipates, intends, plans,
believes, seeks, estimates,
outlook and similar expressions are generally
intended to identify forward looking statements. Although we
believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking
statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are
inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which
cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not
even be anticipated. Future events and actual results, financial
and otherwise, could differ materially from those set forth in
or contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained
elsewhere in this report. Important factors that could
contribute to such differences are noted in our Annual Report on
Form
20-F
for the
year ended December 31, 2005 in the Risk
Factors section, Business Overview in
Item 4. Information on the Company,
Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and
Prospects and Item 8.A.7. Legal
Proceedings. These risks and uncertainties include: general
32
PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
economic, currency exchange and other market conditions,
litigation and regulatory compliance risks, changes in
government reimbursement for our dialysis care and
pharmaceuticals, the investigation by the Department of Justice,
Eastern District of New York, and changes to pharmaceutical
utilization patterns.
This report should be read in conjunction with our disclosures
and discussions contained in our Annual Report on
Form
20-F
for the
year ended December 31, 2005.
Our business is also subject to other risks and uncertainties
that we describe from time to time in our public filings.
Developments in any of these areas could cause our results to
differ materially from the results that we or others have
projected or may project.
Overview
We are engaged primarily in providing dialysis services and
manufacturing and distributing products and equipment for the
treatment of end-stage renal disease. In the U.S., we also
perform clinical laboratory testing. We estimate that providing
dialysis services and distributing dialysis products and
equipment represents an over $50 billion worldwide market
with expected annual patient growth of 6%. Patient growth
results from factors such as the aging population; increasing
incidence of diabetes and hypertension, which frequently
precedes the onset of ESRD; improvements in treatment quality,
which prolong patient life; and improving standards of living in
developing countries, which make life saving dialysis treatment
available. Key to continued growth in revenue is our ability to
attract new patients in order to increase the number of
treatments performed each year. For that reason, we believe the
number of treatments performed each year is a strong indicator
of continued revenue growth and success. In addition, the
reimbursement and ancillary services utilization environment
significantly influences our business. In the past we
experienced and also expect in the future generally stable
reimbursements for dialysis services. This includes the
balancing of unfavorable reimbursement changes in certain
countries with favorable changes in other countries. The
majority of treatments are paid for by governmental institutions
such as Medicare in the United States. As a consequence of the
pressure to decrease health care costs, reimbursement rate
increases have been limited. Our ability to influence the
pricing of our services is limited. Profitability depends on our
ability to manage rising labor, drug and supply costs.
On December 8, 2003, the Medicare Prescription Drug,
Modernization and Improvement Act of 2003 was enacted (the
Medicare Modernization Act). This law makes several
significant changes to U.S. government payment for dialysis
services and pharmaceuticals. First, it increased the composite
rate for renal dialysis facilities by 1.6% on January 1,
2005. Second, effective January 1, 2005, payments for ten
separately billable dialysis-related medications were based on
average acquisition cost (as determined by the Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) and updated by Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (CMS)) and payments for
the remaining separately billable dialysis-related medications
are based on average sales price (ASP) plus 6% (ASP
is defined in the law as a manufacturers ASP to all
purchasers in a calendar quarter per unit of each drug and
biological sold in that same calendar quarter, excluding sales
exempt from best price and nominal price sales and including all
discounts, chargebacks and rebates). Third, the difference
between the determined acquisition cost-based reimbursement and
what would have been received under the prior average wholesale
price-based (AWP-based) reimbursement methodology
was added to the composite rate. Fourth, effective April 1,
2005, providers received higher composite rate payments for
certain patients based on their age, body mass index and body
surface area. Fifth, beginning in 2006, the Secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services (the
Secretary) was authorized to set payment for all
separately billed drugs and biologicals at
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ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
either acquisition cost or average sales price. Lastly, the
Secretary was required to establish a three-year demonstration
project to test the use of a fully case-mix adjusted payment
system for ESRD services, beginning January 1, 2006. Under
this project, separately billable drugs and biologicals and
related clinical laboratory tests would be bundled into the
facility composite rate. Participating facilities would receive
an additional 1.6% composite rate increase. The demonstration
project has not yet been announced.
On November 2, 2005, CMS released the final physician fee
schedule for calendar year (CY) 2006. The key
provisions affecting ESRD facilities include revisions to the
pricing methodology for separately billable drugs, revisions to
the drug add-on payment methodology and calculation of the drug
add-on for CY 2006, and revisions to the geographic adjustment
to the composite rate. In addition, CMS has decided to maintain
the case-mix adjustments finalized in last years rule, as
well as the base composite rate. For CY 2006, CMS has decided to
pay for separately billable drugs and biologicals provided by
both hospital-based and independent dialysis facilities using
the average sales price plus six percent methodology
(ASP+6%). According to CMS, the drug add-on
adjustment for 2006 will be 14.7%. CMS is also implementing
several changes to the ESRD wage index. First, over a four-year
transition period, CMS will apply the Office of Management and
Budgets revised core-based statistical area (CBSA) -based
definitions as the basis for revising the urban/rural locales
and corresponding wage index values reflected in the composite
rate. Since the Medicare Modernization Act requires that any
revisions to the ESRD composite rate payment system be budget
neutral, CMS will apply the budget neutrality adjustment factor
directly to the revised ESRD wage index values (rather than the
base composite payment rates). CMS estimates the overall impact
of the changes to be a 1.9% increase for independent facilities.
The Companys estimates of the impact of such changes on
its business are consistent with the CMS calculations. For a
discussion of the composite rate for reimbursement of dialysis
treatments, see Item 4, Section B, Business
Overview Regulatory and Legal Matters
Reimbursement in our Annual Report on
Form
20-F
for the
year ended December 31, 2005.
The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of February 1,
2006, further increased the composite rate by an additional 1.6%
effective January 1, 2006. To account for this increase to
the composite rate and to preserve the originally intended
economic impact of the Medicare Modernization Act, the drug add
on percentage was reduced to 14.5%.
On November 9, 2005, CMS announced a new national
monitoring policy for claims for Epogen and Aranesp for ESRD
patients treated in renal dialysis facilities. Previously,
claims for Epogen reimbursement were subject to focused CMS
review when the ESRD patients hematocrit level reached
37.5 or more. In the new monitoring policy, CMS recognized that
there is considerable natural variability in individual patient
hematocrit levels which makes it difficult to maintain a
hematocrit level within an narrow range. Consequently, CMS will
not initiate monitoring of claims until the patients
hematocrit level reaches 39.0 (hemoglobin of 13.0). Under the
new monitoring policy, for services furnished on or after
April 1, 2006, CMS will expect a 25 percent reduction
in the dosage of Epogen or Aranesp administered to ESRD patients
whose hematocrit exceeds 39.0 (or hemoglobin exceeds 13.0). If
the dosage is not reduced by 25 percent, payment will be
made by CMS as if the dosage reduction had occurred. This
payment reduction may be appealed under the normal appeal
process. In addition, effective April 1, 2006, CMS will
limit Epogen and Aranesp reimbursement to a maximum per patient
per month aggregate dose of 500,000 IU for Epogen and 1500 mcg
for Aranesp. We are in the process of implementing CMSs
new Epogen and Aranesp monitoring policy and we expect it to
have a slightly negative impact on our operating results. The
administration of EPO represented approximately 23% and 24% of
total North America dialysis care revenue for the periods ending
March 31, 2006 and March 31, 2005, respectively.
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ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
The recent proposal included in the Bush administration budget
to extend the Medicare coordination of benefits period to five
years would generally be favorable to us and other dialysis
providers since it would extend the period during which
providers would receive the generally higher payments by
employer group health plans prior to the commencement of primary
Medicare coverage for dialysis treatment. However, the proposal
in the same budget to eliminate Medicare bad-debt recoveries, if
adopted as proposed, would have a material adverse impact on our
operating results. There can be no assurance that either
proposal will be adopted as proposed, or at all.
Our operations are organized geographically and accordingly we
have identified three operating segments, North America,
International, and Asia Pacific. For reporting purposes, we have
aggregated the International and Asia Pacific segments as
International. We aggregated these segments due to
their similar economic characteristics. These characteristics
include same services provided and same products sold, same type
patient population, similar methods of distribution of products
and services and similar economic environments. Our management
board members responsible for the profitability and cash flow of
each segments various businesses supervises the management
of each operating segment. The accounting policies of the
operating segments are the same as those we apply in preparing
our consolidated financial statements under accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States
(U.S. GAAP). Our management evaluates each
segment using a measure that reflects all of the segments
controllable revenues and expenses.
With respect to the performance of our business operations, our
management believes the most appropriate measure in this regard
is operating income, which measures our source of earnings.
Financing is a corporate function which segments do not control.
Therefore, we do not include interest expense relating to
financing as a segment measurement. We also regard income taxes
to be outside the segments control. Accordingly, these
items are not included in our analysis of segment results but
are discussed separately below under the heading
Corporate. For information regarding the anticipated
effects of the RCG acquisition, which is not included in our
results of operations for the period ending March 31, 2006,
see Liquidity and Capital Resources
Outlook below.
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
Results of Operations
The following table summarizes our financial performance and
certain operating results by segment for the periods indicated.
Inter-segment sales primarily reflect sales of medical equipment
and supplies from the International segment to the North America
segment. We prepared the information using a management
approach, consistent with the basis and manner in which our
management internally disaggregates financial information to
assist in making internal operating decisions and evaluating
management performance.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For the Three Months
|
|
|
|
Ended March 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited)
|
|
|
|
(In millions)
|
|
Total revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America
|
|
$
|
1,194
|
|
|
$
|
1,088
|
|
|
International
|
|
|
566
|
|
|
|
533
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Totals
|
|
|
1,760
|
|
|
|
1,621
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inter-segment revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
International
|
|
|
13
|
|
|
|
12
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Totals
|
|
|
13
|
|
|
|
12
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total net revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America
|
|
|
1,194
|
|
|
|
1,088
|
|
|
International
|
|
|
553
|
|
|
|
521
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Totals
|
|
|
1,747
|
|
|
|
1,609
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amortization and depreciation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America
|
|
|
35
|
|
|
|
34
|
|
|
International
|
|
|
26
|
|
|
|
26
|
|
|
Corporate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Totals
|
|
|
61
|
|
|
|
60
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America
|
|
|
164
|
|
|
|
146
|
|
|
International
|
|
|
96
|
|
|
|
82
|
|
|
Corporate
|
|
|
(16
|
)
|
|
|
(8
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Totals
|
|
|
244
|
|
|
|
220
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest income
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
Interest expense
|
|
|
(61
|
)
|
|
|
(44
|
)
|
Income tax expense
|
|
|
(71
|
)
|
|
|
(70
|
)
|
Minority interest
|
|
|
(1
|
)
|
|
|
(1
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net Income
|
|
$
|
116
|
|
|
$
|
107
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
Three months ended March 31, 2006 compared to three
months ended March 31, 2005
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Key Indicators for Consolidated Financial Statements
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Change in %
|
|
|
|
Three Months
|
|
|
Three Months
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ended
|
|
|
Ended
|
|
|
|
|
At Constant
|
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
As
|
|
|
Exchange
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
Reported
|
|
|
Rates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number of treatments
|
|
|
5,022,000
|
|
|
|
4,716,000
|
|
|
|
6
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Same market treatment growth in %
|
|
|
4.9
|
%
|
|
|
4.4
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue in $ million
|
|
|
1,747
|
|
|
|
1,609
|
|
|
|
9
|
%
|
|
|
10
|
%
|
Gross profit in % of revenue
|
|
|
33.1
|
%
|
|
|
31.6
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative costs in % of revenue
|
|
|
18.4
|
%
|
|
|
17.1
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income in $ million
|
|
|
116
|
|
|
|
107
|
|
|
|
8
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue increased for the quarter ended March 31, 2006
over the comparable period in 2005 due to growth in revenue in
both dialysis care and dialysis products.
Dialysis care revenue grew by 9% to $1,273 million (10% at
constant exchange rates) in the first quarter of 2006 mainly due
to increased revenue per treatment (4%) and the growth in same
market treatments (5%) combined with acquisitions (1%), not
including the RCG Acquisition, partially offset by a decrease in
revenue due to foreign exchange effects (1%).
The number of treatments in the first quarter of 2006 represents
an increase of 6% over the same period in 2005. Same store
treatment growth was 5% with additional growth of 2% from
acquisitions. This was partially offset by the effects of sold
or closed clinics (1%).
At March 31, 2006, excluding the effects of the RCG
Acquisition which closed on March 31, 2006, we owned,
operated or managed 1,700 clinics compared to 1,630 clinics at
March 31, 2005. During the first quarter of 2006, we
acquired 8 clinics, opened 16 clinics and combined or closed 6
clinics. The number of patients treated in clinics that we own,
operate or manage increased by 6% to approximately 133,100 at
March 31, 2006 from approximately 125,900 at March 31,
2005. Average revenue per treatment for world-wide dialysis
services increased to $253 from $246 mainly due to the
world-wide improved revenue rate per treatment partially offset
by unfavorable currency translation effects.
Dialysis product revenue increased by 6% to $474 million
(11% at constant exchange rates) in the same period.
The increase in gross profit margin is primarily a result of
higher treatment rates in North America, favorable operational
performance in Latin America and operating improvements in the
Asia Pacific region partially offset by higher personnel
expenses in North America. Depreciation and amortization expense
for the first quarter of 2006 was $61 million compared to
$60 million for the same period in 2005.
Selling, general and administrative costs increased from
$276 million in the first quarter of 2005 to
$322 million in the same period of 2006. Selling, general
and administrative costs as a percentage of sales increased from
17.1% in the first quarter of 2005 to 18.4% in the same period
of 2006. The percentage increase is mainly due to compensation
received in 2005 for cancellation of a distribution contract in
Japan and a patent litigation settlement which had favorable
effects in the first quarter 2005. In addition, in the first
quarter 2006, the following developments added to the increase:
higher personnel cost and higher delivery costs due to
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
fuel price increases in North America, the impact of the
implementation of FAS 123(R) for fair value accounting for
stock options and the costs related to the transformation of our
legal form. These were partially offset by the one time impact
of collections of previously written off receivables and the
lower bad debt expense as a percentage of sales.
Bad debt expense remained constant at $30 million for both
periods, decreasing slightly to 1.7% of sales for the
three-month period ending March 31, 2006 as compared to
1.9% of sales for the same period in 2005.
Operating income margin increased from 13.7% for the period
ending March 31, 2005 to 14.0% for the same period in 2006.
Stock compensation costs which were measured at the fair value
in the period ending March 31, 2006 due to an accounting
change and costs related to the transformation resulted in a
0.2% negative impact on the operating income margin for the
period ending March 31, 2006.
Interest expense increased from $44 million for the first
quarter in 2005 to $61 million for the same period in 2006
mainly as a result of the write off of unamortized fees
approximating $15 million related to our 2003 Credit
Agreement which was replaced by a new credit agreement in
conjunction with the acquisition of RCG.
Net income increased from $107 million in the period ending
March 31, 2005 to $116 million in the same period in
2006 despite the effects of the $3 million costs relating
to the accounting change for stock options, the $1 million
costs related to the transformation and the $15 million
write off of fees related to our 2003 credit agreement (in the
aggregate, $11 million of after tax cost).
The following discussions pertain to our business segments
and the measures we use to manage these segments.
North America Segment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Key Indicators for North America Segment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months
|
|
|
Three Months
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ended
|
|
|
Ended
|
|
|
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
Change in %
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number of treatments
|
|
|
3,376,000
|
|
|
|
3,250,000
|
|
|
|
4
|
%
|
Same market treatment growth in %
|
|
|
2.4
|
%
|
|
|
3.8
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue in $ million
|
|
|
1,194
|
|
|
|
1,088
|
|
|
|
10
|
%
|
Depreciation and amortization in $ million
|
|
|
35
|
|
|
|
34
|
|
|
|
4
|
%
|
Operating income in $ million
|
|
|
164
|
|
|
|
146
|
|
|
|
12
|
%
|
Operating income margin in %
|
|
|
13.8
|
%
|
|
|
13.4
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue for the North America segment for the first quarter
2006 increased as a result of increases in dialysis care revenue
by 9% from $968 to $1,059 million and product sales revenue
by 12% from $120 million to $135 million.
The increase in dialysis care revenue was driven by a 4%
increase in treatments with same store treatment growth of 2%
and 2% resulting from acquisitions. In addition, revenue per
treatment improved 5%. The administration of EPO represented
approximately 23% and 24% of total North America dialysis care
revenue for the periods ending March 31, 2006 and
March 31, 2005, respectively.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
At March 31, 2006, approximately 89,800 patients (a 3%
increase over the same period in the prior year) were being
treated in the 1,165 clinics that we own, operate or manage in
the North America segment, excluding the RCG clinics, compared
to approximately 87,000 patients treated in 1,140 clinics
at March 31, 2005. The average revenue per treatment in the
first quarter increased from $291 in 2005 to $307 during 2006.
In the U.S., the average revenue per treatment increased form
$293 for the first quarter 2005 to $310 in the first quarter
2006. The improvement in the revenue rate per treatment is
primarily due to increases in improved commercial payor
contracts, increases in the dialysis treatment reimbursement
rates including the 1.6% legislated increase from Medicare and
the transfer of Medicare drug reimbursements for separately
billable items into the composite rate (see Overview above).
Product revenue increase was driven mostly by increased sales
volume of machines and dialyzers.
Operating income increased by 12% from $146 million for the
period ended March 31, 2005 to $164 million for the
same period in 2006 primarily due to increased treatments and a
higher volume of products sold. Operating income margin
increased from 13.4% for the first period in 2005 as compared to
13.8% for the same period in 2006. Operating income margin
increased as a result of increased treatment volume, increased
revenue per treatment and increased product sales, partially
offset by higher personnel expenses, higher delivery costs due
to higher fuel prices and higher bad debt expense. Cost per
treatment increased to $263 in 2006 from $253 in 2005.
International Segment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Key Indicators for International Segment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Change in %
|
|
|
|
Three Months
|
|
|
Three Months
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ended
|
|
|
Ended
|
|
|
|
|
At Constant
|
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
As
|
|
|
Exchange
|
|
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2005
|
|
|
Reported
|
|
|
Rates
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number of treatments
|
|
|
1,646,000
|
|
|
|
1,466,000
|
|
|
|
12
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Same market treatment growth in %
|
|
|
10.4
|
%
|
|
|
5.6
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue in $ million
|
|
|
553
|
|
|
|
521
|
|
|
|
6
|
%
|
|
|
12
|
%
|
Depreciation and amortization in $ million
|
|
|
26
|
|
|
|
26
|
|
|
|
1
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income in $ million
|
|
|
96
|
|
|
|
82
|
|
|
|
17
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income margin in %
|
|
|
17.3
|
%
|
|
|
15.8
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The increase in net revenues for the International segment
resulted from increases in both dialysis care and dialysis
product revenues. Acquisitions contributed approximately 1%
partially offset by closed or sold clinics 1%. Organic growth
during the period was 12% at constant exchange rates. This
increase was offset by a 6% exchange rate effect due to the
strengthening of the dollar against various local currencies.
Including the effects of the acquisitions, European region
revenue increased 2% (10% at constant exchange rates), Latin
America region revenue increased 25% (18% at constant exchange
rates), and Asia Pacific region revenue increased 13% (16% at
constant exchange rates).
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
Total dialysis care revenue for the entire International segment
increased during the first quarter of 2006 by 10% (15% at
constant exchange rates) to $213 million in 2006 from
$194 million in the same period of 2005. This increase is a
result of organic growth of 11%, a 3% increase in contributions
from acquisitions, 1% as a result of revenue per treatment
increase partially offset by approximately 5% due to exchange
rate fluctuations.
As of March 31, 2006, approximately 43,300 patients
(an 11% increase over the same period in the prior year) were
being treated at 535 clinics that we own, operate or manage in
the International segment compared to 38,900 patients
treated at 490 clinics at March 31, 2005. The average
revenue per treatment decreased to $130 ($136 at constant
exchange rates) from $132 due to the strengthening of the dollar
against local currencies partially offset by increased
reimbursement rates.
Total dialysis product revenue for the first quarter of 2006
increased by 4% (10% at constant exchange rates) to
$340 million driven mostly by increased sales of
hemodialysis and peritoneal machines.
Our operating income increased by 17% to $96 million
primarily as a result of an increase in treatment volume and in
volume of products sold. Operating margin increased from 15.8%
to 17.3%. The main causes for the margin increase were
improvements in our operations in Latin America and Asia
Pacific, the one time impact of receipt of collections of
previous written off receivables, and lower bad debt expense
partially offset by the one time effects of income associated
with the cancellation of a distribution agreement and patent
litigation settlement in 2005.
Corporate
We do not allocate corporate costs to our segments
in calculating segment operating income as we believe that these
costs are not within the control of the individual segments.
These corporate costs primarily relate to certain headquarters
overhead charges including accounting and finance, professional
services, etc.
Total corporate operating loss was $16 million in the
quarter ended March 31, 2006 compared to an operating loss
of $8 million in the same period of 2005. This increase
includes approximately $3 million due to the adoption of
the change in accounting for stock compensation and
approximately $1 million in transformation costs.
The following discussions pertain to our total Company
costs.
Interest expense for the first quarter of 2006 increased 37% to
$61 million as compared to $44 million in the same
period in 2005 mainly due to the write off of unamortized fees
of approximately $15 million related to the 2003 Credit
Agreement that was replaced by the 2006 Credit Agreement in
conjunction with the acquisition of RCG.
The effective tax rate for the quarter ended March 31, 2006
was 37.9% compared to 39.2% during the same period in 2005
mainly related to the financing structure for the RCG
Acquisition.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Three months ended March 31, 2006 compared to three
months ended March 31, 2005
Liquidity
We require capital primarily to acquire and develop free
standing renal dialysis centers, to purchase property for new
renal dialysis centers and production sites, equipment for
existing or new renal dialysis centers and production centers
and to finance working capital needs. At March 31, 2006,
our working capital was $1,028 million; cash and cash
equivalents $364 million; and our current ratio was 1.4 to
1.0.
Our primary sources of liquidity have historically been cash
from operations, cash from short-term borrowings as well as from
long-term debt from third parties and from related parties and
cash from issuance of equity securities and trust preferred
securities. Cash from operations is impacted by the
profitability of our business and the development of our working
capital, principally receivables. The profitability of our
business depends significantly on reimbursement rates.
Approximately 73% of our revenues are generated by providing
dialysis treatment a major portion of which is reimbursed by
either public health care organizations or private insurers. For
the period ended March 31, 2006, approximately 36% of our
consolidated revenues resulted from U.S. federal health
care benefit programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid
reimbursement. Legislative changes could affect all Medicare
reimbursement rates for the services we provide, as well as the
scope of Medicare coverage. A decrease in reimbursement rates
could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial
condition and results of operations and thus on our capacity to
generate cash flow. See Overview, above, for a
discussion of recent Medicare reimbursement rate changes.
Furthermore cash from operations depends on the collection of
accounts receivable. We could face difficulties in enforcing and
collecting accounts receivable under some countries legal
systems. Some customers and governments may have longer payment
cycles. Should this payment cycle lengthen, then this could have
a material adverse effect on our capacity to generate cash flow.
The accounts receivable balance at March 31, 2006 and
December 31 2005, net of valuation allowances, represented
approximately 78 and 82 days of net revenue, respectively.
This favorable development is mainly a result of our management
effort to improve collection of receivables. The development of
days sales outstanding by operating segment is shown in the
table below.
Development of Days Sales Outstanding
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March 31,
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December 31,
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2006
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2005
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North America
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60
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63
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International
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117
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120
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Total
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78
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82
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We are party to a $4.6 billion syndicated credit facility
with Bank of America, N.A. (BofA); Deutsche Bank AG
New York Branch; The Bank of Nova Scotia, Credit Suisse, Cayman
Islands Branch; JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association; and
certain other lenders (collectively, the 2006 Credit
Agreement) on
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
March 31, 2006 which replace the existing credit facility
(the 2003 Credit Agreement). The new credit facility
consists of:
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a
5-year
$1 billion revolving credit facility (of which up to
$0.25 billion is available for letters of credit, up to
$0.3 billion is available for borrowings in certain
non-U.S.
currencies,
up to $0.15 billion is available as swing lines in
U.S. dollars, up to $0.25 billion is available as a
competitive loan facility and up to $0.05 billion is
available as swing lines in certain
non-U.S.
currencies,
the total of which cannot exceed $1 billion) which will be
due and payable on March 31, 2011 (the Revolver
and referred to as the Bank Credit Agreement in the
exhibits hereto).
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a
5-year
term loan
facility (Loan A) of $1.85 billion, also
scheduled to expire on March 31, 2011. The terms of the
2006 Credit Agreement require 20 quarterly payments that
permanently reduce the term loan facility. The repayment begins
June 30, 2006 and amounts to $0.03 billion per
quarter. The remaining amount outstanding is due on
March 31, 2011.
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a
7-year
term loan
facility (Loan B) of $1.75 billion
scheduled to expire on March 31, 2013. The terms of the
2006 Credit Agreement require 28 quarterly payments that
permanently reduce the term loan facility. The repayment begins
June 30, 2006. The first 24 quarterly payments will be
equal to one quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the original
principal balance outstanding, payments 25 through 28 will be
equal to twenty-three and one half percent (23.5%) of the
original principal balance outstanding with the final payment
due on March 31, 2013 subject to an early repayment
requirement on March 1, 2011 if the Trust Preferred
Securities due June 15, 2011 are not repaid or refinanced
or their maturity is not extended prior to that date. (Loan A
and Loan B are collectively part of the Term Loan Credit
Agreement referenced in the exhibits hereto.)
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Interest on the new credit facility will be our
option depending on the interest periods
chosen at a rate equal to either (i) LIBOR plus
an applicable margin or (ii) the higher of
(a) BofAs prime rate or (b) the Federal Funds
rate plus 0.5%, plus an applicable margin.
The applicable margin is variable and depends on our
Consolidated Leverage Ratio which is a ratio of our Consolidated
Funded Debt less up to $0.03 billion cash and cash
equivalents held by the Consolidated Group to Consolidated
EBITDA (as these terms are defined in the 2006 Credit Agreement).
In addition to scheduled principal payments, indebtedness
outstanding under the 2006 Credit Agreement will be reduced by
portions of the net cash proceeds from certain sales of assets,
securitization transactions other than the Companys
existing accounts receivable facility and the issuance of
subordinated debt other than certain intercompany transactions.
The 2006 Credit Agreement contains affirmative and negative
covenants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries and
other payment restrictions. Some of the covenants limit
indebtedness of the Company and investments by the Company, and
require the Company to maintain certain ratios defined in the
agreement. Additionally, the 2006 Credit Agreement provides for
a dividend restriction which is $0.22 billion for dividends
paid in 2006, and increases in subsequent years. In default, the
outstanding balance under the 2006 Credit Agreement becomes
immediately due and payable at the option of the Lenders. As of
March 31, 2006, the Company is in compliance with all
financial covenants under the 2006 Credit Agreement.
Upon closing of the 2006 Credit Agreement, we borrowed
$0.263 billion on the Revolver at 6.3% interest through the
period ending April 11, 2006, $1.85 billion on Term
Loan A at an average interest of 6.43% for the period
ending June 30, 2006, and $1.75 billion on Term
Loan B at an average interest of 6.43% for the
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
period ending June 30, 2006, the proceeds of which were
used in conjunction with the RCG Acquisition, to refinance our
2003 credit agreement (the 2003 Credit Agreement)
and for general corporate purposes.
In conjunction with the new 2006 credit facilities and the
related variable rate based interest payments, we entered into
interest rate swaps in the notional amount of
$2.465 billion. These instruments, designated as cash flow
hedges, effectively convert forecasted LIBOR based interest
payments into fixed rate based interest payments which fix the
interest rate on $2.465 billion of the forecasted financing
under the new senior credit facilities at 4.32% plus applicable
margin. These swaps are denominated in U.S. dollars and
expire at various dates between 2008 and 2012.
We incurred fees of approximately $0.085 billion in
conjunction with the 2006 Credit Agreement which will be
amortized over the life of the credit agreement and wrote off
approximately $0.015 billion in unamortized fees related to
our 2003 Credit Agreement at March 31, 2006.
We are also party to, through various direct and indirect
subsidiaries, an Amended and Restated Subordinated Loan Note
(the Note) entered into on March 31, 2006, with
Fresenius AG (FAG) which amended the Subordinated
Loan Note dated May 18, 1999. Under the Note, we or our
subsidiaries may request and receive one or more advances (each
an Advance) up to an aggregate amount of $400,000
during the period ending March 31, 2011. The Advances may
be repaid and reborrowed during the period but FAG is under no
obligation to make an advance. Each advance is repayable in full
one, two or three months after the date of the Advance or any
other date as agreed to by the parties to the Advance or, if no
maturity date is so agreed, the Advance will have a one month
term.
All Advances will bear interest at a variable rate per annum
equal to LIBOR plus an applicable margin that is based upon the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio, as defined in the 2006 Credit
Agreement. Advances are subordinated to outstanding loans under
the 2006 Credit Agreement and all other indebtedness of the
borrower or to which a borrower is a guarantor.
Advances were made on March 31, 2006 in the amount of
$0.24 billion most of the proceeds of which were used in
conjunction with the RCG acquisition and other corporate
purposes.
Liquidity is also provided from short-term borrowings generated
by selling interests in our accounts receivable (A/ R
Facility) which is available to us through
October 19, 2006 and which is typically renewed annually
subject to the availability of sufficient accounts receivable
that meet certain criteria defined in the A/R Facility agreement
with the third party funding corporation. A lack of availability
of such accounts receivable could preclude us from utilizing the
A/ R Facility for our financial needs.
Additional long-term financing has been provided through our
borrowings under the European Investment Bank (EIB)
Agreement which was entered into on July 13, 2005 with the
revolving portion terminating on July 12, 2013 and the term
portion terminating on September 13, 2013.
We also issued euro denominated notes (Euro Notes)
on July 27, 2005 that provide long-term working capital
through their maturity on July 27, 2009.
We are also party to letters of credit which have been issued
under our 2006 Credit Agreement and by banks utilized by our
subsidiaries.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
From time to time, we also issue long-term securities
(Trust Preferred Securities) which require the
payment of fixed annual distributions to the holders of the
securities. The current outstanding Trust Preferred
Securities are mandatorily redeemable between 2008 and 2011.
Our 2006 Credit Agreement, EIB agreement, Euro Notes and the
indentures relating to our trust preferred securities include
covenants that require us to maintain certain financial ratios
or meet other financial tests. Under our 2006 Credit Agreement,
we are obligated to maintain a minimum consolidated fixed charge
ratio (ratio of consolidated EBITDAR (sum of EBITDA plus rent
expense under operating leases) to Consolidated Fixed Charges as
these terms are defined in the 2006 Credit Agreement) and a
maximum consolidated leverage ratio (ratio of consolidated
funded debt to consolidated EBITDA as these terms are defined in
the 2006 Credit Agreement). Other covenants in one or more of
each of these agreements restrict or have the effect of
restricting our ability to dispose of assets, incur debt, pay
dividends (limited to $220 million in 2006, dividends paid
in 2005 were $137 million and have been proposed for
payment in 2006 in the amount of approximately
$145 million) and make other restricted payments or create
liens. In addition, we are limited as to annual amounts of
Consolidated Capital Expenditures we can incur
($600 million in 2006).
The breach of any of the covenants could result in a default
under the 2006 Credit Agreement, the European Investment Bank
Agreement, the Euro Notes or the notes underlying our trust
preferred securities, which could, in turn, create additional
defaults under the agreements relating to our other long-term
indebtedness. In default, the outstanding balance under the 2006
Credit Agreement becomes due at the option of the Lenders. As of
March 31, 2006, we are in compliance with all financial
covenants under the 2006 Credit Agreement and our other
financing agreements.
The settlement agreement with the asbestos creditors committees
on behalf of the W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy estate
(see Item 8.A.7, Financial Information
Legal Proceedings in our Annual Report on
Form
20-F
for the
year ended December 31, 2005) provides for payment by the
Company of $115 million upon approval of the settlement
agreement by the U.S. District Court, which has occurred,
and confirmation of a W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy
reorganization plan that includes the settlement. The
$115 million obligation was included in the special charge
we recorded in 2001 to address 1996 merger-related legal
matters. The payment obligation is not interest-bearing.
We are subject to ongoing tax audits in the U.S., Germany and
other jurisdictions. We have received notices of unfavorable
adjustments and disallowances in connection with certain of the
audits. We are contesting, including appealing certain of these
unfavorable determinations. In conjunction with a disputed tax
assessment in Germany, we made a $78 million payment to
discontinue the accrual of additional non-tax deductible
interest until the final resolution of the disputed assessment.
We may be subject to additional unfavorable adjustments and
disallowances in connection with ongoing audits. If our
objections and any final audit appeals are unsuccessful, we
could be required to make additional tax payments. With respect
to adjustments and disallowances currently on appeal, we do not
anticipate that an unfavorable ruling would have a material
impact on our results of operations. We are not currently able
to determine the timing of these potential additional tax
payments. If all potential additional tax payments and the Grace
Chapter 11 Proceedings settlement payment were to occur
contemporaneously, there could be a material adverse impact on
our operating cash flow in the relevant reporting period.
Nonetheless, we anticipate that cash from operations and, if
required, our available liquidity will be sufficient to satisfy
all such obligations if and when they come due.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
Analysis of Cash Flow
We generated cash from operating activities of $162 million
in the first three months of 2006 and $138 million in the
comparable period in 2005, an increase of approximately 17% over
the prior year. Cash flows were primarily generated by an
increase in net income and working capital improvements. Cash
flows were impacted principally by a reduction of days sales
outstanding and a $41 million tax payment made in 2005 in
the US and partially offset by increases in accounts receivables
for vendor rebates and increased inventories. Cash flows were
used mainly for investing (capital expenditures and
acquisitions), and to pay down debt.
Cash used in investing activities increased from
$62 million to $4,016 million mainly because of the
RCG acquisition cost of $3,941. Additionally, in the period
ending March 31, 2006, we paid approximately
$10 million cash in the International segment for
acquisitions consisting primarily of dialysis clinics. In the
same period in 2005, we paid approximately $22 million
($15 million for the North American segment and
$7 million for the International segment) cash for
acquisitions consisting primarily of dialysis clinics.
Capital expenditures for property, plant and equipment net of
disposals were $65 million in the period ending
March 31, 2006 and $40 million in same period in 2005.
In the first quarter of 2006, capital expenditures were
$46 million in the North America segment and
$19 million for the International segment. In 2005, capital
expenditures were $22 million in the North America segment
and $18 million for the International segment. The majority
of our capital expenditures was used for the replacement of
assets in our existing clinics, equipping new clinics, the
modernization and expansion of production facilities primarily
in North America, Germany and France. Capital expenditures were
approximately 4% of total revenue.
Net cash provided by financing was $4,128 million for the
first quarter 2006 compared to cash used in financing of
$83 million for the first quarter 2005 mainly due to the
$3,941 million required for the RCG acquisition. In
addition, the conversion premium paid in connection with the
conversion of preference shares to ordinary shares generated
approximately $309 million cash. Cash on hand was
$364 million at March 31, 2006 compared to
$85 million at March 31, 2005.
Outlook
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Acquisition and Divestures
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As part of the RCG Acquisition, we were required to divest a
total of 105 renal dialysis centers in order to complete the RCG
acquisition in accordance with a consent order issued by the
United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on
March 31, 2006. We sold 96 free standing renal dialysis
centers on April 7, 2006 to National Renal Institutes,
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DSI Holding Company, Inc.,
and we also entered into an agreement to sell DSI an additional
9 centers, which is expected to close in the second quarter of
2006. We will receive aggregate cash consideration of
approximately $512 million for all of the centers being
divested, subject to customary post-closing adjustments.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
We believe the RCG acquisition will be earnings neutral to
slightly accretive in 2006 after excluding the transaction
related expenses and accretive from 2007 onward.
The following is a summary of certain statistical indicators for
our operations at March 31, 2006 before and after giving
effect to the RCG acquisition as if the RCG acquisition and
related divestures had occurred on January 1, 2006:
Patients
In the first quarter of 2006, we treated approximately 133,100
patients worldwide, which represents a 6% increase in patients
over the prior year. North America provided dialysis treatments
for more than 89,800 patients (up 3%) and the International
segment served approximately 43,300 patients (up 11%). Including
RCG and after the related divestitures, we provide dialysis for
approximately 158,700 patients worldwide, including 115,400
patients in North America as of March 31, 2006.
Clinics
As of March 31, 2006 and ignoring the RCG Acquisition and
related divestitures, we operate a total of 1,700 clinics
worldwide, comprised of 1,165 clinics, an increase of 2% in
North America, and 535 clinics, an increase of 9% in the
International segment. Including RCG and after divestitures, we
operate a total of 2,045 clinics worldwide, including 1,510
clinics in North America.
Treatments
For the period ended March 31, 2006 we delivered
approximately 5.02 million dialysis treatments worldwide,
which represents an increase of 6% year over year. North America
accounted for 3.38 million treatments, an increase of 4%,
and the International segment delivered 1.65 million
treatments, an increase of 12% over last year. Giving effect to
the RCG Acquisition and related divestitures as if they had
occurred at January 1, 2006, we delivered approximately
6.01 million dialysis treatments worldwide, including
4.36 million dialysis treatments in North America.
Net Income
For the remainder of 2006, we intend to include in our reports
financial information showing our results as if the RCG
Acquisition and the related divestiture of the 105 dialysis
centers had occurred on January 1, 2006, and excluding the
one-time costs related to the RCG acquisition, such as
integration costs and the write-off of non-amortized prepaid
financing fees, and excluding the additional costs related to
the change of accounting principle for stock options (FAS
123(R)). We expect net income for 2006 calculated on this basis
to be
10-15%
higher
than net income of $472 million in 2005 after excluding one
time costs related to our transformation of legal form and costs
associated with the settlement of shareholder lawsuits. We
believe that providing financial information that excludes the
effects of these costs will better facilitate the comparability
of our operating results for this year. Our presentation of Net
Income excluding these costs should not be viewed as a
substitute for a pro forma statement of operations prepared in
accordance with the rules of the SEC for preparation of pro
forma financial information. For pro forma financial information
showing the effects of the RCG acquisition and related
divestitures on our results of operations, see Note 3 to
our Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
The following table sets forth a reconciliation between our
expected Net Income for 2006 and our actual Net Income for 2005
and our expected or actual Net Income for such years as adjusted
for the foregoing expenses.
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For year ending
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December 31,
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(Amounts in millions)
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2006
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2005
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Net Income (Range estimated for 2006, actual for 2005
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455-475
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455
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Add back after tax effects of:
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Transformation and settlement costs
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1
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17
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RCG integration costs
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30
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Change in stock option compensation expense (FAS 123(R))
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14
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Write off of unamortized prepaid financing fees
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9
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Impact of FTC mandated clinic divesture
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6
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Additional contribution of RCG if acquisitions would have
closed on January 1, 2006
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5
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Outlook Net Income after add backs
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520-540
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472
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% change over 2005
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10-15%
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Investing
During 2006, we plan to make acquisitions in the range of
$100 million excluding the Acquisition of RCG noted above,
and capital expenditures in the range of $450 million
including the acquisitions and capital expenditures made during
the period ending March 31, 2006.
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Accounting Treatment for the Conversion of our Preference
Shares into Ordinary Shares
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The conversion of the Companys preference shares was
expected to have an impact on the earnings (or loss) per share
available to the holders of the Companys ordinary shares
upon conversion of the preference shares into ordinary shares,
under U.S. GAAP. Upon completion of our review, we determined
that there was no impact for either the holders of ordinary or
preferences shares, therefore, no further reductions or benefits
in our financial statements were recorded.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations
For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and
2005 (Continued)
Debt Covenant Disclosure EBITDA
EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and
amortization) was approximately $305 million, 17.5% of
sales, for the period ending March 31, 2006. EBITDA is the
basis for determining compliance with certain covenants
contained in our 2006 Credit Agreement, our Euro Notes and the
indentures relating to our outstanding trust preferred
securities. You should not consider EBITDA to be an alternative
to net earnings determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP or
to cash flow from operations, investing activities or financing
activities. In additions, not all funds depicted by EBITDA are
available for managements discretionary use. For example,
a substantial portion of such funds are subject to contractual
restrictions and functional requirements for debt service, to
fund necessary capital expenditures and to meet other
commitments from time to time as described in more detail
elsewhere in our annual report on
Form
20-F
for the
year ended December 31, 2005. EBITDA, as calculated, may
not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other
companies. A reconciliation of cash flow provided by operating
activities to EBITDA is calculated as follows:
Reconciliation of measures for consolidated totals
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For the Three Months
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Ended March 31,
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In thousands
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2006
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2005
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Total EBITDA
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$
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305,103
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$
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279,694
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Settlement of shareholder proceedings
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(850
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Interest expense (net of interest income)
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(56,195
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(42,287
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Income tax expense
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(71,133
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)
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(69,643
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Change in deferred taxes, net
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8,578
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18,542
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Changes in operating assets and liabilities
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(27,293
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)
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(47,643
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)
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Other items, net
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3,450
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(188
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Net cash provided by operating activities
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$
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161,660
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$
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138,475
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 3
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
During the period ended March 31, 2006, no material changes
occurred to the information presented in Item 11 of the
Companys
Form
20-F
annual
report for the year ended December 31, 2005. For additional
information, see Item 11, Quantitative and
Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk in the
Companys Form
20-F
annual report for
the year ended December 31, 2005.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 4
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
The Companys management, including the Chief Executive
Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Companys
general partner, have conducted an evaluation of the
effectiveness of the Companys disclosure controls and
procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report,
as contemplated by Securities Exchange Act
Rule
13a-14.
Based
on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief
Financial Officer concluded that the disclosure controls and
procedures are effective in ensuring that all material
information required to be filed in this quarterly report has
been made known to them in a timely fashion. During the past
fiscal quarter, there have been no significant changes in
internal controls, or in factors that could significantly affect
internal controls.
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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
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Commercial Litigation
We were formed as a result of a series of transactions pursuant
to the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the
Merger) dated as of February 4, 1996 by and
between W.R. Grace & Co. and Fresenius AG. At the time
of the Merger, a W.R. Grace & Co. subsidiary known as
W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. had, and continues to have,
significant liabilities arising out of product-liability related
litigation (including asbestos-related actions), pre-Merger tax
claims and other claims unrelated to NMC, which was W.R.
Grace & Co.s dialysis business prior to the
Merger. In connection with the Merger, W.R. Grace &
Co.-Conn. agreed to indemnify us, FMCH, and NMC against all
liabilities of W.R. Grace & Co., whether relating to
events occurring before or after the Merger, other than
liabilities arising from or relating to NMCs operations.
W.R. Grace & Co. and certain of its subsidiaries filed
for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code (the Grace Chapter 11
Proceedings) on April 2, 2001.
Pre-Merger tax claims or tax claims that would arise if events
were to violate the tax-free nature of the Merger, could
ultimately be our obligation. In particular, W. R.
Grace & Co. has disclosed in its filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission that: its tax returns for the
1993 to 1996 tax years are under audit by the Internal Revenue
Service (the Service); W. R. Grace & Co.
has received the Services examination report on tax
periods 1993 to 1996; that during those years W.R.
Grace & Co. deducted approximately $122 million in
interest attributable to corporate owned life insurance
(COLI) policy loans; that W.R. Grace & Co.
has paid $21 million of tax and interest related to COLI
deductions taken in tax years prior to 1993; that a
U.S. District Court ruling has denied interest deductions
of a taxpayer in a similar situation.
In October 2004, W.R. Grace & Co. obtained bankruptcy
court approval to settle its COLI claims with the Service. In
January 2005, W.R. Grace & Co., FMCH and Sealed Air
Corporation executed a settlement agreement with respect to the
Services COLI-related claims and other tax claims. On
April 14, 2005, W.R. Grace & Co. paid the Service
approximately $90 million in connection with taxes owed for
the tax periods 1993 to 1996 pursuant to a bankruptcy court
order directing W.R. Grace & Co. to make such payment.
Subject to certain representations made by W.R. Grace &
Co., the Company and Fresenius AG, W.R. Grace & Co. and
certain of its affiliates agreed to indemnify us against this
and other pre-Merger and Merger-related tax liabilities.
Prior to and after the commencement of the Grace Chapter 11
Proceedings, class action complaints were filed against W.R.
Grace & Co. and FMCH by plaintiffs claiming to be
creditors of W.R. Grace & Co.- Conn., and by the
asbestos creditors committees on behalf of the W.R.
Grace & Co. bankruptcy estate in the Grace
Chapter 11 Proceedings, alleging among other things that
the Merger was a fraudulent conveyance, violated the uniform
fraudulent transfer act and constituted a conspiracy. All such
cases have been stayed and transferred to or are pending before
the U.S. District Court as part of the Grace
Chapter 11 Proceedings.
In 2003, we reached agreement with the asbestos creditors
committees on behalf of the W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy
estate and W.R. Grace & Co. in the matters pending in
the Grace Chapter 11 Proceedings for the settlement of all
fraudulent conveyance and tax claims against it and other claims
related to us that arise out of the bankruptcy of W.R.
Grace & Co. Under the terms of the settlement agreement
as amended (the Settlement Agreement), fraudulent
conveyance and other claims raised on behalf of asbestos
claimants will be dismissed with prejudice and we will receive
protection against existing and potential future W.R.
Grace & Co. related claims, including fraudulent
conveyance and asbestos claims, and indemnification against
income tax claims related to the non-NMC members of the W.R.
Grace & Co. consolidated tax group upon confirmation of
a W.R. Grace & Co. bankruptcy reorganization plan that
contains such provisions. Under the Settlement Agreement, we
will pay a total of $115 million to the W.R.
Grace & Co. bankruptcy estate, or as otherwise directed
by the Court, upon plan confirmation. No admission of liability
has been or will be made. The Settlement Agreement has been
approved by the U.S. District Court. Subsequent to the
Merger, W.R.
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Grace & Co. was involved in a multi-step transaction
involving Sealed Air Corporation (Sealed Air,
formerly known as Grace Holding, Inc.). We are engaged in
litigation with Sealed Air to confirm our entitlement to
indemnification from Sealed Air for all losses and expenses
incurred by the Company relating to pre-Merger tax liabilities
and Merger-related claims. Under the Settlement Agreement, upon
confirmation of a plan that satisfies the conditions of our
payment obligation, this litigation will be dismissed with
prejudice.
On April 4, 2003, FMCH filed a suit in the United States
District Court for the Northern District of California,
Fresenius USA, Inc., et al., v. Baxter International
Inc., et al., Case No. C
03-1431,
seeking a
declaratory judgment that it does not infringe on patents held
by Baxter International Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates
(Baxter), that the patents are invalid, and that
Baxter is without right or authority to threaten or maintain
suit against it for alleged infringement of Baxters
patents. In general, the alleged patents concern touch screens,
conductivity alarms, power failure data storage, and balance
chambers for hemodialysis machines. Baxter has filed
counterclaims against FMCH seeking monetary damages and
injunctive relief, and alleging that it willfully infringed on
Baxters patents. Both parties have filed multiple
dispositive motions, some of which have been decided by the
court. Trial is currently scheduled for June 2006. FMCH believes
its claims are meritorious, although the ultimate outcome of any
such proceedings cannot be predicted at this time and an adverse
result could have a material adverse effect on our business,
financial condition, and results of operations.
Other Litigation and Potential Exposures
Several ordinary shareholders challenged the resolutions adopted
at the EGM approving the conversion of the preference shares
into ordinary shares, the adjustment of the employee
participation programs, the creation of authorized capital and
the transformation of the legal form of the Company, with the
objective of having the resolutions declared null and void. On
December 19, 2005 the Company and the claimants agreed to a
settlement (Prozessvergleich) with the participation of
Fresenius AG and Management AG, the general partner, and all
proceedings were terminated.
Pursuant to the settlement, Management AG undertook to
(i) make an ex gratia payment to the ordinary shareholders
of the Company (other than Fresenius AG), of
0.12 for every
share issued as an ordinary share up to August 30, 2005 and
(ii) to pay to ordinary shareholders who, at the EGM of
August 30, 2005, voted against the conversion proposal, an
additional
0.69 per ordinary share. Ordinary shareholders who
were shareholders at the close of business on the day of
registration of the conversion and transformation with the
commercial register were entitled to a payment under
(i) above. Ordinary shareholders who voted against the
conversion resolution in the extraordinary general meeting on
August 30, 2005, as evidenced by the voting cards held by
the Company, were entitled to a payment under (ii) above,
but only in respect of shares voted against the conversion
resolution. The right to receive payment under (ii) has
lapsed as to any shareholder who did not make a written claim
for payment with the Company by February 28, 2006.
The Company also agreed to bear court fees and shareholder legal
expenses in connection with the settlement.
The total costs of the settlement were approximately
$6.5 million. A further part of the settlement agreement
and German law require that these costs be borne by Fresenius AG
and the general partner, Management AG. Under U.S. GAAP,
however, these costs must be reflected by the entity benefiting
from the actions of its controlling shareholder. As a result,
the Company has recorded the settlement amount as an expense in
Selling, General and Administrative expense and a contribution
in Additional Paid in Capital in Shareholders Equity.
As part of the settlement, the Company, with the participation
of Fresenius AG and the general partner, Management AG, also
agreed to establish, at the first ordinary general meeting after
registration of the transformation of legal form, a joint
committee (the Joint Committee)
(gemeinsamer
Ausschuss)
of the
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OTHER INFORMATION (Continued)
supervisory boards of Management AG and FMC AG &
Co. KGaA with authority to advise and decide on certain
significant transactions between the Company and Fresenius AG
and to approve certain significant acquisitions, dispositions,
spin-offs and similar matters. The Company also agreed to
establish an Audit and Corporate Governance Committee of the
FMC AG & Co. KGaA Supervisory Board to review
the report of the general partner on relations with related
parties and report to the overall supervisory board thereon. The
general partner Management AG also undertook in this settlement
to provide data on the individual remuneration of its management
board members according to provisions of the German Commercial
Code, commencing with remuneration paid for the year ending
December 31, 2006.
On May 11, 2005, Renal Care Group was served with a
complaint in the Chancery Court for the State of Tennessee
Twentieth Judicial District at Nashville styled
Plumbers
Local #65 Pension Fund, on behalf of itself and all others
similarly situated, Plaintiff, vs. Renal Care Group, Inc.,
William P. Johnston, Gary Brukardt, Peter J. Grua, Joseph C.
Hutts, Harry R. Jacobson, William V. Lapham, Thomas A. Lowery,
Stephen D. McMurray and C. Thomas Smith, Defendants
. On
May 26, 2005, Renal Care Group was served with a complaint
in the Chancery Court for the State of Tennessee Twentieth
Judicial District at Nashville styled
Hawaii Structural
Ironworkers Pension Trust Fund, on behalf of itself and all
others similarly situated, Plaintiff, vs. Renal Care Group,
Inc., William P. Johnston, Gary Brukardt, Peter J. Grua, Joseph
C. Hutts, Harry R. Jacobson, William V. Lapham, Thomas A.
Lowery, Stephen D. McMurray and C. Thomas Smith,
Defendants
. On May 31, 2005, Renal Care Group was
served with a complaint in the Chancery Court for the State of
Tennessee Twentieth Judicial District at Nashville styled
Indiana State District Council of Laborers and Hod Carriers
Pension Fund, on behalf of itself and others similar situated,
Plaintiff, vs. Renal Care Group, Inc., William P. Johnston, Gary
Brukardt, Peter J. Grua, Joseph C. Hutts, Harry R. Jacobson,
William V. Lapham, Thomas A. Lowery, Stephen D. McMurray and
C. Thomas Smith, Defendants
. The original complaints in
these three lawsuits were substantially identical. Each
complaint was brought by the plaintiff shareholder as a
purported class action on behalf of all shareholders similarly
situated. The complaints allege that Renal Care Group and its
directors engaged in self-dealing and breached their fiduciary
duties to Renal Care Groups shareholders in connection
with the merger agreement between Renal Care Group and the
Company because, among other things, Renal Care Group used a
flawed process, the existence of the previously disclosed
subpoena from the Department of Justice, the lack of
independence of one of Renal Care Groups financial
advisors and the existence of Renal Care Groups
supplemental executive retirement plan. Renal Care Group removed
these cases to federal court in June 2005.
The plaintiffs in the first two cases dismissed them without
prejudice in July 2005, and the third plaintiff filed an amended
complaint. The amended complaint asserts the same grounds
articulated in the original complaint adding more specific
allegations regarding the termination fee, the no solicitation
clause and the matching rights provision in the Merger
Agreement, and it adds allegations that RCGs Proxy
Statement makes material misrepresentations and omissions
regarding the process by which the Merger Agreement was
negotiated. Specifically, the Amended Complaint asserts that the
Proxy Statement makes material misstatements or omissions
regarding: (1) the reason why RCGs management and
Board engaged in a closed process of negotiating a potential
merger with the Company and did not solicit potential competing
bids from alternative purchasers; (2) the reason why
RCGs Board did not appoint a special committee to evaluate
the fairness of the merger; (3) the alternatives available
to RCG, including potential alternative transactions and other
strategic business opportunities, which purportedly were
considered by RCGs Board during the strategic planning
process the Board engaged in during the second half of 2004;
(4) all information regarding conflicts of interest
suffered by defendants and their financial and legal advisors as
alleged herein; (5) all information regarding past
investment banking services Bank of America has performed for
RCG and the Company and the compensation Bank of America
received for those services; (6) the forecasts and
projections prepared by RCGs management for fiscal years
2005 through 2008 that were referenced in the fairness opinions
by Morgan Stanley; (7) the estimates of transaction
synergies provided by RCGs management that were referenced
in the fairness opinions by Morgan Stanley; and
(8) information concerning the amount of money
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OTHER INFORMATION (Continued)
Bank of America and Morgan Stanley received in connection with
the Acquisition. We believe that the allegations in the pending
complaint are without merit. The pending complaint sought to
enjoin and prevent the parties from completing the merger. The
pending complaint was remanded to Tennessee state court in
September 2005.
FMCH and its subsidiaries received subpoenas from the
U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of Missouri,
in connection with a joint civil and criminal investigation. The
subpoenas require production of a broad range of documents
relating to the FMCHs operations, with specific attention
to documents related to clinical quality programs, business
development activities, medical director compensation and
physician relations, joint ventures and anemia management
programs. We are cooperating with the governments requests
for information. An adverse determination in this investigation
could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial
condition and results of operations.
RCG received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of
Justice, Eastern District of Missouri in connection with a joint
civil and criminal investigation. The subpoena requires the
production of documents related to numerous aspects of
RCGs business and operations. The areas covered by the
subpoena include RCGs supply company, pharmaceutical and
other services that RCG provides to patients, RCGs
relationships to pharmaceutical companies, RCGs
relationships with physicians, medical director compensation and
joint ventures with physicians and its purchase of dialysis
equipment from the Company. We are cooperating with the
governments investigation.
FMCH and its subsidiaries have received subpoenas from the
U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York in
connection with a civil and criminal investigation, which
requires production of a broad range of documents relating to
our operations, with specific attention to documents relating to
laboratory testing for parathyroid hormone (PTH)
levels and vitamin D therapies. We are cooperating with the
governments requests for information. While we believe
that we have complied with applicable laws relating to PTH
testing and use of vitamin D therapies, an adverse determination
in this investigation could have a material adverse effect on
our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
RCG received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of
Justice, Eastern District of New York. The subpoena requires the
production of documents related to numerous aspects of
RCGs business and operations, including those of RenaLab,
Inc., its laboratory. The subpoena includes specific requests
for documents related to testing for parathyroid hormone
(PTH) levels and vitamin D therapies. We are cooperating
with the governments request for information.
From time to time, we are a party to or may be threatened with
other litigation or arbitration, claims or assessments arising
in the ordinary course of our business. Management regularly
analyzes current information including, as applicable, our
defenses and insurance coverage and, as necessary, provides
accruals for probable liabilities for the eventual disposition
of these matters.
We, like other health care providers, conduct our operations
under intense government regulation and scrutiny. We must comply
with regulations which relate to or govern the safety and
efficacy of medical products and supplies, the operation of
manufacturing facilities, laboratories and dialysis clinics, and
environmental and occupational health and safety. We must also
comply with the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, the
Stark Statute, and other federal and state fraud and abuse laws.
Applicable laws or regulations may be amended, or enforcement
agencies or courts may make interpretations that differ from our
interpretations or the manner in which it conducts its business.
Enforcement has become a high priority for the federal
government and some states. In addition, the provisions of the
False Claims Act authorizing payment of a portion of any
recovery to the party bringing the suit encourage private
plaintiffs to commence whistle blower actions. By
virtue of this regulatory environment, as well as our corporate
integrity agreement with the government, our business activities
and practices are subject to extensive review by regulatory
authorities and private parties, and continuing audits,
investigative demands, subpoenas, other inquiries, claims and
litigation relating to our compliance with applicable laws and
regulations. We may not always be
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aware that an inquiry or action has begun, particularly in the
case of whistle blower actions, which are initially
filed under court seal.
We operate many facilities throughout the U.S. In such a
decentralized system, it is often difficult to maintain the
desired level of oversight and control over the thousands of
individuals employed by many affiliated companies. We rely upon
our management structure, regulatory and legal resources, and
the effective operation of our compliance program to direct,
manage and monitor the activities of these employees. On
occasion, we may identify instances where employees,
deliberately or inadvertently, have submitted inadequate or
false billings. The actions of such persons may subject us and
our subsidiaries to liability under the Anti-Kickback Statute,
the Stark Statute and the False Claims Act, among other laws.
Physicians, hospitals and other participants in the health care
industry are also subject to a large number of lawsuits alleging
professional negligence, malpractice, product liability,
workers compensation or related claims, many of which
involve large claims and significant defense costs. We have been
and are currently subject to these suits due to the nature of
our business and expect that those types of lawsuits may
continue. Although we maintain insurance at a level which we
believe to be prudent, we cannot assure that the coverage limits
will be adequate or that insurance will cover all asserted
claims. A successful claim against us or any of our subsidiaries
in excess of insurance coverage could have a material adverse
effect upon it and the results of our operations. Any claims,
regardless of their merit or eventual outcome, could have a
material adverse effect on our reputation and business.
We have also had claims asserted against us and have had
lawsuits filed against us relating to businesses that we have
acquired or divested. These claims and suits relate both to
operation of the businesses and to the acquisition and
divestiture transactions. When appropriate, we have asserted our
own claims, and claims for indemnification. A successful claim
against us or any of our subsidiaries could have a material
adverse effect upon us and the results of our operations. Any
claims, regardless of their merit or eventual outcome, could
have a material adverse effect on our reputation and business.
Accrued Special Charge for Legal Matters
At December 31, 2001, we recorded a pre-tax special charge
of $258 million to reflect anticipated expenses associated
with the defense and resolution of pre-Merger tax claims,
Merger-related claims, and commercial insurer claims. The costs
associated with the Settlement Agreement and settlements with
insurers have been charged against this accrual. While we
believe that our remaining accruals reasonably estimate our
currently anticipated costs related to the continued defense and
resolution of the remaining matters, no assurances can be given
that our actual costs incurred will not exceed the amount of
this accrual.
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Unregistered Sales of Securities and Use of
Proceeds
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On February 10, 2006, the Company completed a
transformation of its legal form under German law. See
Item 2, Managements Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations The
Company. Prior to registration of the transformation of
legal form in the German commercial register, the Company
offered holders of its non-voting preference shares (including
preference shares represented by ADSs) the opportunity to
convert their shares into ordinary shares at a conversion ratio
of one preference share plus a conversion premium of
9.75 per ordinary share. Holders of a total of
26,629,422 preference shares accepted the offer, resulting in an
the issuance of 26,629,422 ordinary shares (including 2,099,847
ADSs representing 699,949 ordinary shares) outstanding. The
Company received approximately $308,657,000 in conversion
premiums from the holders upon the conversion of their
preference shares. The issuance of ordinary shares in the
conversion offer to U.S. holders of the Companys
preference shares was registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the Securities Act). The issuance
of shares to
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non-U.S.
holders
of the Companys preference shares was effected without
registration pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities
Act.
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OTHER INFORMATION
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Exhibit No.
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Bank Credit Agreement dated as of March 31, 2006 by and
between the Company, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.,
certain subsidiaries of the Company as Borrowers and Guarantors,
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG
New York Branch, as Sole Syndication Agent, The Bank of Nova
Scotia, Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, and JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association, as Co-Documentation Agents, and the
Lenders named
therein.
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Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of March 31, 2006 by
and between the Company, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.,
certain subsidiaries of the Company as Borrowers and Guarantors,
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG
New York Branch, as Sole Syndication Agent, The Bank of Nova
Scotia, Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, and JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association, as Co-Documentation Agents, and the
Lenders named
therein.
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Amended and Restated Subordinated Loan Note dated as of
March 31, 2006 among National Medical Care, Inc. and
certain of its subsidiaries as borrowers, and Fresenius AG as
lender.
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Agreement Containing Consent Orders, United States of America
before Federal Trade Commission, In the Matter of Fresenius AG,
File No. 051-0154.
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Complaint, United States of America before Federal Trade
Commission, In the Matter of Fresenius AG.
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Decision and Order, United States of America before Federal
Trade Commission, In the Matter of Fresenius AG.
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Order to Maintain Assets, United States of America before
Federal Trade Commission, In the Matter of Fresenius AG.
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to
18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to
18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted
Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(This exhibit accompanies this report as required by the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and is not to be deemed
filed for purposes of Section 18 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.)
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Confidential treatment has been requested as to certain portions
of this document in accordance with the applicable rules of the
Securities and Exchange Commission
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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Fresenius Medical Care
AG & Co.
KGaA
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a partnership limited by shares, represented by:
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Fresenius Medical Care
Management AG,
its
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Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of
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Date: May 17, 2006
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Exhibit 4.1
EXECUTION VERSION
Published CUSIP Number: 35803GAD1
BANK CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of March 31, 2006
among
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA,
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.
and the other Borrowers and Guarantors identified herein,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent,
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Sole Syndication Agent,
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Co-Documentation Agents,
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
and
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Book Running Managers
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SECTION 2.17 Removal of Borrowers
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ARTICLE III TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
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SECTION 3.02 Illegality
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SECTION 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates
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SECTION 3.04 Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital
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SECTION 3.05 Funding Losses
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SECTION 3.06 Matters Applicable to all Requests for
Compensation
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SECTION 3.07 Survival
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ARTICLE IV GUARANTY
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SECTION 4.01 The Guaranty
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SECTION 4.02 Obligations Unconditional
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SECTION 4.03 Reinstatement
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SECTION 4.04 Certain Waivers
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SECTION 4.05 Remedies
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SECTION 4.06 Rights of Contribution
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SECTION 4.07 Guaranty of Payment; Continuing Guaranty
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ARTICLE V CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
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SECTION 5.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extensions
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SECTION 5.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions
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ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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SECTION 6.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance
with Laws
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SECTION 6.02 Authorization; No Contravention
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SECTION 6.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents
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SECTION 6.04 Binding Effect
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SECTION 6.05 Financial Statements
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SECTION 6.06 No Material Adverse Effect
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SECTION 6.07 Litigation
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SECTION 6.08 No Default
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SECTION 6.09 Ownership of Property; Liens
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SECTION 6.10 Environmental Compliance
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SECTION 6.11 Insurance
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SECTION 6.12 Taxes
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SECTION 6.13 ERISA Compliance
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SECTION 6.14 Jurisdiction of Organization, Capital Stock
and Ownership of Credit Parties
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SECTION 6.15 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act;
Public Utility Holding Company Act
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SECTION 6.16 Disclosure
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SECTION 6.17 Compliance with Laws
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SECTION 6.18 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc
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SECTION 6.19 Pledge Agreements
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SECTION 6.20 Reimbursement from Medical Reimbursement
Programs
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100
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ARTICLE VII AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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100
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SECTION 7.01 Financial Statements
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SECTION 7.02 Certificates; Other Information
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SECTION 7.03 Notification
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SECTION 7.04 Payment of Obligations
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SECTION 7.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc.
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SECTION 7.06 Maintenance of Properties
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SECTION 7.07 Maintenance of Insurance
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SECTION 7.08 Compliance with Laws
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SECTION 7.09 Books and Records
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SECTION 7.10 Inspection Rights
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SECTION 7.11 Use of Proceeds
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SECTION 7.12 Joinder of Additional Guarantors
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SECTION 7.13 Pledge of Capital Stock
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SECTION 7.14 Ownership
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SECTION 7.15 Interest Rate Protection
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SECTION 7.16 Pledge of Additional Collateral
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ARTICLE VIII NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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SECTION 8.01 Indebtedness
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SECTION 8.02 Liens
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SECTION 8.03 Investments
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SECTION 8.04 Merger and Consolidation; Dissolution;
Restriction on Certain Foreign Subsidiaries
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SECTION 8.05 Dispositions
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SECTION 8.06 Restricted Payments
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SECTION 8.07 Change in Nature of Business
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SECTION 8.08 Transactions with Affiliates
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SECTION 8.09 No Further Negative Pledges
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SECTION 8.10 Fiscal Year
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SECTION 8.11 Financial Covenants
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ARTICLE IX EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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SECTION 9.01 Events of Default
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SECTION 9.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default
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SECTION 9.03 Application of Funds
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ARTICLE X ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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SECTION 10.01 Appointment and Authorization of
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
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SECTION 10.02 Delegation of Duties
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SECTION 10.03 Liability of Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.05 Notice of Default
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SECTION 10.06 Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by
Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.07 Indemnification of Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.08 Administrative Agent in its Individual
Capacity
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SECTION 10.09 Successor Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.10 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim
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SECTION 10.11 Collateral and Guaranty Matters
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SECTION 10.12 Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers
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SECTION 11.01 Amendments, Etc
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SECTION 11.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile
Copies
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SECTION 11.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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SECTION 11.04 Attorney Costs and Expenses
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SECTION 11.05 Indemnification by the Borrowers
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SECTION 11.06 Payments Set Aside
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SECTION 11.07 Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 11.08 Confidentiality
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SECTION 11.09 Set-off
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SECTION 11.10 Interest Rate Limitation
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SECTION 11.11 Counterparts
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SECTION 11.12 Integration; Effectiveness
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SECTION 11.13 Survival of Representations and Warranties
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SECTION 11.14 Severability
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SECTION 11.15 Tax Forms
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SECTION 11.16 Replacement of Lenders
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SECTION 11.17 Source of Funds
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SECTION 11.18 Nature of Obligations of the Borrowers
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SECTION 11.19 Judgment Currency
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SECTION 11.20 Power of Attorney
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SECTION 11.21 GOVERNING LAW
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SECTION 11.22 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY
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SECTION 11.23 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
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SECTION 11.26 German Money Laundering Act
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SECTION 11.27 Additional Provisions In Respect of
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SCHEDULES
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1.01
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Material Domestic Subsidiaries
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2.01
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Commitments and Commitment Percentages
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2.08
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Existing Letters of Credit
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2.16
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Designated Borrowers
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3.04
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Mandatory Cost Rate
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6.14
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Credit Party Information
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8.01
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Existing Indebtedness
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8.02
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Existing Liens
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8.03
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Existing Investments
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8.06
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Restricted Payments
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8.08
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Transactions with Affiliates
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11.02
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Notice Addresses
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11.07
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Processing and Recordation Fees
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EXHIBITS
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2.01(g)
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Form of Revolving Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.01(h)
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Form of Incremental Tranche A Term Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.01(i)
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Form of Incremental Tranche B Term Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.01(j)
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Form of Tranche C Term Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.02
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Form of Loan Notice
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2.09
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Form of Domestic Swing Line Loan Notice
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2.10
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Form of Foreign Swing Line Loan Notice
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2.11-1
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Form of Competitive Revolving Loan Bid Request
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2.11-2
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Form of Competitive Bid
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2.13
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Form of Revolving Note
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2.16
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Form of Borrower Joinder Agreement
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7.02
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Form of Compliance Certificate
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7.12
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Form of Guarantor Joinder Agreement
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11.07
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Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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v
BANK CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS BANK CREDIT AGREEMENT (
Credit Agreement
)
is entered into as of March 31, 2006, among FRESENIUS
MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA, a German partnership
limited by shares, FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC., a New
York corporation, and the other Borrowers identified herein, the
Guarantors identified herein, the Lenders party hereto and BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, a $1.2 billion credit facility has been
established in favor of FMCAG, FMCH and certain subsidiaries and
affiliates pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement, consisting
of a $750 million revolving credit facility and a
$450 million
Tranche
A-1
Term
Loan;
WHEREAS, a $4.6 billion credit facility will be established
in favor of FMCAG, FMCH and certain subsidiaries and affiliates
pursuant to this Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit
Agreement, consisting of a $1.0 billion revolving credit
facility under this Credit Agreement and a $1.85 billion
Tranche A Term Loan and a $1.75 billion Tranche B
Term Loan under the Term Loan Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the loans and extensions of credit under this Credit
Agreement and the Term Loan Credit Agreement will refinance the
indebtedness owing under the Existing Credit Agreement and this
Credit Agreement will replace the commitments thereunder;
WHEREAS, the Lenders hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit
Agreement have agreed to make the requested facilities available
on the terms and conditions set forth herein and therein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of these premises and the
mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION 1.01
Defined Terms
. Capitalized terms
used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning
provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement. As used in this
Credit Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings
set forth below:
Absolute Rate
means a fixed rate of interest
expressed in multiples of 1/100th of one basis point.
Absolute Rate Loan
means a Competitive
Revolving Loan that bears interest at a rate determined with
reference to an Absolute Rate.
Acquisition
means the purchase or acquisition
by any Person of (a) more than fifty percent (50%) of the
Capital Stock of another Person (other than in respect of a
Person that is already a member of the Consolidated Group) with
ordinary voting power, (b) all or any substantial portion
of the property (other than Capital Stock) of another such
Person, whether or not involving a merger or consolidation with
such other Person or (c) assets of another Person that
constitute a business unit.
Administrative Agent
means Bank of America in
its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Credit
Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
Administrative Agents Office
means the
Administrative Agents address and, as appropriate, account
as set forth on
Schedule 11.02
, or such other
address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to
time notify FMCAG, FMCH and the Lenders.
Administrative Questionnaire
means an
Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the
Administrative Agent.
Affiliate
means, with respect to any Person,
another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with such other Person.
AG Debt
has the meaning provided in
Section 8.01(k)
.
Agent-Related Persons
means the
Administrative Agent, together with its Affiliates (including,
in the case of Bank of America in its capacity as the
Administrative Agent, BAS), and the officers, directors,
employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons and
Affiliates.
Aggregate Commitments
means the Commitments
of all the Lenders.
Aggregate Foreign Revolving Committed Amount
has the meaning provided in
Section 2.01(a)
.
Aggregate Revolving Commitments
means the
Revolving Commitments of all the Lenders.
Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount
has the
meaning provided in
Section 2.01(a)
.
Alternative Foreign Currency
means any
foreign currency that is not Dollars or Available Foreign
Currency.
Applicable Currency
means Dollars or the
applicable Foreign Currency.
Applicable Percentage
means the following
percentages per annum:
2
APPLICABLE PERCENTAGES FOR REVOLVING LOANS, LETTERS OF
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Applicable Percentages for Revolving Loans (including Swing Line
Loans and Letters of Credit) and the Commitment Fee will be
based on the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the
most recent Compliance Certificate received by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 7.02(b)
. Any
increase or decrease in such Applicable Percentage resulting
from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become
effective on the first Business Day immediately following the
date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to
Section 7.02(b)
;
provided
, however, that if a
Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance
therewith, then Pricing Level * shall apply as of the first
Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate
was required to have been delivered until the first Business Day
immediately following delivery thereof. The Applicable
Percentage in effect from the Closing Date through the date for
delivery of the first Compliance Certificate after the Closing
Date shall be Pricing Level *;
provided
that until
the earlier of (x) the tenth day after the Closing Date or
(y) the date of the closing of the Dispositions required by
the Federal Trade Commission in connection with the RCG
Acquisition, the Applicable Percentage shall be
(i) * percent (*%), in the case of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans and the Standby Letter of Credit Fee,
(ii) * percent (*%), in the case of Base Rate Loans
and (iii) * percent (*%), in the case of the
Commitment Fee.
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Pricing Level shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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Applicable Time
means, with respect to
borrowings and payments in Foreign Currencies, the local times
in the place of settlement for such Foreign Currencies as may be
determined by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, the
Competitive Bid Agent, to be necessary for timely settlement on
the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures
in the place of payment as previously notified in writing to
FMCAG and FMCH.
Applicant Borrower
has the meaning provided
in
Section 2.16
.
Approved Bank
means (a) any Lender,
(b) any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing
having capital and surplus in excess of $500 million or
(c) any bank whose short-term commercial paper rating from
S&P is at least
A-1
or the equivalent thereof or from Moodys is at least
P-1
or the equivalent
thereof.
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portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Approved Fund
means any Fund that is
administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an
Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of
an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
Approved Jurisdiction
means Australia,
Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, Bermuda, any other Participating Member State as of the
Closing Date, any jurisdiction of organization of a Domestic
Subsidiary and any other jurisdiction approved by the Required
Lenders.
Arrangers
means BAS and DBSI, each in its
capacity as a joint lead arranger and book running manager.
Assignee Group
means two or more Eligible
Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more
Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
Assignment and Assumption Agreement
means an
Assignment and Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 11.07
.
Attorney Costs
means and includes all
reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or
other external counsel.
Attributable Principal Amount
means
(a) in the case of capital leases, the amount of capital
lease obligations determined in accordance with GAAP,
(b) in the case of Synthetic Leases, an amount determined
by capitalization of the remaining lease payments thereunder as
if it were a capital lease determined in accordance with GAAP,
(c) in the case of Securitization Transactions, the
outstanding principal amount of such financing, after taking
into account reserve amounts and making appropriate adjustments,
determined by the Administrative Agent after consultation with
the Lenders and (d) in the case of Sale and Leaseback
Transactions, the present value (discounted in accordance with
GAAP at the debt rate implied in the applicable lease) of the
obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the term of
such lease).
Available Foreign Currency
means
(a) Euros, (b) British pounds sterling, (c) Swiss
francs, (d) Japanese yen and (e) any other lawful
currency approved by all the Revolving Lenders in accordance
with
Section 1.08
,
provided
in each case that
such currency is freely available, freely transferable and
freely convertible into Dollars.
Bank of America
means Bank of America, N.A.,
together with its successors.
BAS
means Banc of America Securities LLC,
together with its successors.
Base Rate
means for any day a fluctuating
rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) the Federal Funds
Rate
plus
one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) and
(b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly
announced from time to time by Bank of America as its
prime rate. The prime rate is a rate set
by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of
Americas costs and desired return, general economic
conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point
for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below
such
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announced rate. Any change in the prime rate announced by Bank
of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the
day specified in the public announcement of such change.
Base Rate Loan
means a Loan that bears
interest based on the Base Rate. All Base Rate Loans shall be
denominated in Dollars.
Bid Borrowing
means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Competitive Revolving Loans of the same Type from
each of the Revolving Lenders whose offer to make one or more
Competitive Revolving Loans as part of such borrowing has been
accepted under the auction bidding procedures described in
Section 2.11
.
Bid Request
means a written request for one
or more Competitive Revolving Loans substantially in the form of
Exhibit
2.11-1
.
Borrower Joinder Agreement
means a Borrower
Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.16
.
Borrowers
means (a) FMCAG,
(b) FMCH, (c) FMCF-V, (d) the Co-Borrowers and
(e) the Designated Borrowers, in each case together with
their successors and permitted assigns and subject to the
provisions of
Sections 2.16
and
2.17
.
Borrowing
means (a) a borrowing
consisting of simultaneous Committed Loans of the same Type, in
the same currency and having the same Interest Period,
(b) a Bid Borrowing or (c) a Swing Line Borrowing, as
appropriate.
Business Day
means any day other than a
Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are
authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in,
the state where the Administrative Agents Lending Office
with respect to Obligations denominated in Dollars is located or
New York and (a) if such day relates to any Eurocurrency
Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Euro,
Business Day means any such day on which dealings in
deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between
banks in the London, England or other applicable offshore
interbank market for such currency, (b) if such day relates
to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro,
Business Day means a TARGET Day or (c) if such
day relates to any Foreign Swing Line Loan, Business
Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other
day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the
Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the jurisdiction where the
Foreign Swing Line Lenders Lending Office with respect to
Foreign Swing Line Loans is located.
Capital Stock
means (a) in the case of a
corporation, capital stock, (b) in the case of an
association or business entity, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated)
of capital stock, (c) in the case of a partnership
(including, without limitation, a KGaA (
Kommanditgesellschaft
auf Aktien
)), partnership interests (whether general or
limited) or other equivalents (however designated) of capital
stock, (d) in the case of a limited liability company,
membership interests and (e) any other interest or
participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a
share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets
of, the issuing Person.
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Cash Collateralize
means to pledge and
deposit with or deliver to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit
of the L/ C Issuer and the Lenders, as collateral for the L/ C
Obligations, cash or deposit account balances pursuant to
documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Collateral Agent and the L/ C Issuer.
Cash Equivalents
means (a) securities
issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by
(i) the United States or any agency or instrumentality
thereof (
provided
that the full faith and credit of the
United States is pledged in support thereof) or (ii) the
governments of Germany or the United Kingdom, in each case
having maturities of not more than twelve months from the date
of acquisition, (b) Dollar or Available Foreign Currency
denominated time deposits and certificates of deposit of any
Approved Bank, in each case with maturities of not more than
270 days from the date of acquisition, (c) commercial
paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by any Approved
Bank (or by the parent company thereof) or any variable rate
notes issued by, or guaranteed by, any domestic corporation
rated A-1 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or
P-1 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moodys and
maturing within six months of the date of acquisition,
(d) repurchase agreements entered into by any Person with a
bank or trust company (including any of the Lenders) or
recognized securities dealer having capital and surplus in
excess of $500 million for direct obligations issued by or
fully guaranteed by the United States in which such Person shall
have a perfected first priority security interest (subject to no
other Liens) and having, on the date of purchase thereof, a fair
market value of at least one hundred percent (100%) of the
amount of the repurchase obligations and (e) Investments
(classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets) in money
market investment programs registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended, that are administered by
reputable financial institutions having capital of at least
$500 million and the portfolios of which are limited to
Investments of the character described in the foregoing
subclauses hereof.
CHAMPUS
means the United States Department of
Defense Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed
Services or any successor thereto, including TRICARE.
Change of Control
means if the general
partner of the KGaA charged with management of FMCAG shall at
any time fail to be a Subsidiary of Fresenius AG, or if
Fresenius AG shall fail at any time to own and control more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the Capital Stock with ordinary
voting power in FMCAG.
CIA
means the Corporate Integrity Agreement
dated as of January 18, 2000 between the OIG and FMCH, as
in effect from time to time.
Closing Date
means the date hereof.
CMS
means the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, any successor thereof and any predecessor
thereof, including the United States Health Care Financing
Administration.
Co-Borrowers
means the Subsidiaries of FMCH
that are identified on
Schedule 2.16
and each
Designated Borrower that has been designated as a
Co-Borrower
in a Borrower Joinder Agreement executed pursuant to
Section 2.16
.
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Co-Documentation Agents
means (i) The
Bank of Nova Scotia, (ii) Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands
Branch, (iii) Dresdner Bank AG, Niederlassung Luxemburg and
(iv) JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, each in
their capacity as a co-documentation agent hereunder, and their
successors in such capacity.
Collateral
means a collective reference to
the collateral that is identified in, and at any time will be
covered by, the Collateral Documents.
Collateral Agent
means Bank of America in its
capacity as collateral agent for the Lenders under the
Collateral Documents, together with its successors and assigns
in such capacity.
Collateral Documents
means a collective
reference to the Pledge Agreements and any pledge agreement,
security agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement
or document granting a lien on or security interest in
Collateral provided by any Credit Party in connection with
Section 7.16
.
Commitment
means the Revolving Commitment,
the L/ C Commitment, the Swing Line Commitment and the Term Loan
Commitment.
Commitment Percentages
means the Revolving
Commitment Percentage, the Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
Percentage, the Tranche B Term Loan Commitment Percentage
and/or the Tranche C Term Loan Commitment Percentage, as
context requires.
Commitment Period
means the period from and
including the Closing Date to (i) in the case of Revolving
Loans and Swing Line Loans, the Termination Date, and
(ii) in the case of Letters of Credit, the Letter of Credit
Expiration Date, or, in any case, any earlier date on which the
Revolving Commitments shall have been terminated.
Committed Loans
means Committed Revolving
Loans and the Term Loans.
Committed Revolving Loans
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(a)
.
Committed Revolving Obligations
means
Committed Revolving Loans, L/ C Obligations, Domestic Swing Line
Loans and Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans.
Competitive Bid
means a written offer by a
Revolving Lender to make one or more Competitive Revolving
Loans, substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.11-2
,
duly completed and signed by a Revolving Lender.
Competitive Bid Agent
means (a) any
Lender that agrees to act as Competitive Bid Agent or any
successor thereto in such capacity or (b) if at any time no
Lender is willing or available to serve in such capacity, FMCH.
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Competitive Revolving Loan Maximum Amount
has
the meaning provided in
Section 2.01(e)
.
Competitive Revolving Loans
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(e)
.
Compliance Certificate
means a certificate
substantially in the form of
Exhibit 7.02
.
Consolidated Capital Expenditures
means, for
any period for the Consolidated Group, without duplication, all
cash expenditures during such period that, in accordance with
GAAP, are or should be included in additions to property, plant
and equipment or similar items reflected in the consolidated
statement of cash flows for such period;
provided
, that
Consolidated Capital Expenditures shall not include, for
purposes hereof, (i) expenditures of proceeds of insurance
settlements, condemnation awards and other settlements in
respect of lost, destroyed, damaged or condemned assets,
equipment or other property to the extent such expenditures are
made to replace or repair such lost, destroyed, damaged or
condemned assets, equipment or other property or otherwise to
acquire assets or properties useful in the business of the
members of the Consolidated Group, (ii) expenditures made
on reinvestment of proceeds from Dispositions within the
reinvestment period under
Section 2.06(b)(ii)
(regardless of whether the proceeds of the Disposition are
subject to mandatory prepayment if not reinvested) or
(iii) expenditures made in connection with a Permitted
Acquisition.
Consolidated EBITDA
means, for any period for
the Consolidated Group, the sum of (i) Consolidated Net
Income,
plus
(ii) to the extent deducted in
determining net income, (A) Consolidated Interest Expense,
(B) tax expense based on income and (C) depreciation,
amortization and other non-cash charges (but not including, for
purposes hereof, restructuring charges which do not initially
involve a cash payment but as for which there will be a
subsequent cash payment) and up to $50 million in
restructuring charges that will be paid in cash taken from the
Closing Date through June 30, 2007, in each case on a
consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP. Except as
otherwise expressly provided, the applicable period shall be the
four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated EBITDAR
means, for any period
for the Consolidated Group, the sum of (i) Consolidated
EBITDA,
plus
(ii) rent expense under operating
leases, in each case on a consolidated basis determined in
accordance with GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided,
the applicable period shall be the four consecutive fiscal
quarters ending as of the date of determination.
Consolidated Excess Cash Flow
means, for any
period for the Consolidated Group, (a) reported cash flows
from operating activities,
minus
(b) the sum of
(i) scheduled principal payments made on Consolidated
Funded Debt (including for purposes hereof, mandatory commitment
reductions, sinking fund payments, payments in respect of the
principal components under capital leases and the like relating
thereto), (ii) Consolidated Capital Expenditures,
(iii) Permitted Acquisitions, (iv) optional
prepayments of Funded Debt (other than Revolving Loans owing
under this Credit Agreement), (v) dividend or distribution
payments by FMCAG to the extent permitted under
Section 8.06
hereof, (vi) any amounts paid
during such period as a result of the audit of the German tax
liability of FMCAG in respect of deductions taken in
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respect of the writing down of FMCAGs investment in
certain subsidiaries for German tax purposes only as of
December 31, 1997, to the extent accrued as of or before
December 31, 2002, adjusted for currency fluctuations and
interest thereon and (vii) payments under the First Amended
Settlement Agreement and Release of Claims, dated as of
February 6, 2003, among FMCH, NMC and the Official
Committee of Asbestos Personal Injury Claimants and the Official
Committee of Asbestos Property Defense Claimants, W.R. Grace
suing on behalf of the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Estate of W.R.
Grace et al, as modified and in effect from time to time. Except
as otherwise expressly provided, the applicable period shall be
for the four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of
the date of determination.
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
means, as of the end of each fiscal quarter for the period of
four consecutive fiscal quarters then ending, the ratio of
(i) Consolidated EBITDAR to (ii) Consolidated Fixed
Charges.
Consolidated Fixed Charges
means, for any
period for the Consolidated Group, the sum of
(i) Consolidated Interest Expense,
plus
(ii) rent expense under operating leases,
plus
(iii) scheduled maturities of Consolidated Funded Debt
(excluding, for purposes hereof, scheduled maturities and
amortization of the AG Debt and the final bullet payments
relating to each of the Schuldscheindarlehen (and any
replacement or refinancing thereof), the Revolving Loans, the
Term Loans, the EIB Loan and the Trust Preferred Securities
maturing in 2008) paid during the applicable period
(
provided
that refinancings and extensions shall not be
considered payments or repayments for purposes hereof),
plus
(iv) without duplication, Restricted Payments
made by FMCAG and payments by members of the Consolidated Group
on any Subordinated Debt (other than the AG Debt) and Trust
Preferred Securities,
plus
(v) cash tax payments
based on income during the applicable period; but excluding
(A) repurchases of Trust Preferred Securities in an
aggregate amount during the term of this Credit Agreement not to
exceed $50 million by members of the Consolidated Group,
provided
that the Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio
shall be less than 2.0:1.0 at the time of repurchase,
(B) any amounts paid during such period as a result of the
audit of the German tax liability of FMCAG in respect of
deductions taken in respect of the writing down of FMCAGs
investment in certain subsidiaries for German tax purposes only
as of December 31, 1997, to the extent accrued as of or
before December 31, 2002, adjusted for currency
fluctuations, and interest thereon, and (C) any payments
made in connection with non-recurring charges taken during the
year ending December 31, 2001 by members of the
Consolidated Group in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$258 million with respect to (1) any claims of FMCAG
or any of its Subsidiaries against WRG-Conn or its Affiliates,
successors or assigns relating to the Reorganization or arising
from the Reorganization Documents, (2) any other costs
relating directly or indirectly, or arising from, the
Reorganization or the conduct of the business of FMCH or to its
Subsidiaries before the consummation of the Reorganization, in
each case, together with related costs and expenses, or
(3) any amounts payable with respect to the litigation and
other disputes with insurance companies relating to the business
of FMCH and its Subsidiaries in the period before the
consummation of the Reorganization, which relate to the
practices that were the subject of investigations by the OIG and
other Governmental Authorities, and any related costs or
expenses and any accounting charges taken by any member of the
Consolidated Group as a result thereof or relating thereto or to
the settlement of such disputes, in each case on a consolidated
basis determined in accordance
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with GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided, the
applicable period shall be the four consecutive fiscal quarters
ending as of the date of determination.
Consolidated Funded Debt
means, for the
Consolidated Group, Funded Debt determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding for purposes hereof
Indebtedness in respect of convertible bonds referred to in
Section 8.03(g)
.
Consolidated Group
means FMCAG and its
Subsidiaries.
Consolidated Interest Expense
means, for any
period for the Consolidated Group, all interest expense,
including the amortization of debt discount and premium, the
interest component under capital leases and the implied interest
component under Securitization Transactions, in each case on a
consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP. Except as
expressly provided otherwise, the applicable period shall be the
four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated Leverage Ratio
means, as of the
last day of each fiscal quarter, the ratio of (i) the sum
of Consolidated Funded Debt on such day
minus
an amount
up to $30 million equal to cash and cash equivalents held
by members of the Consolidated Group with Lenders on such day,
to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such day.
Consolidated Net Income
means, for any period
for the Consolidated Group, net income (or loss) determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding for
purposes of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, extraordinary gains
and losses and gains and losses from discontinued operations,
and, in each such case, related tax effects thereon. Except as
otherwise expressly provided, the applicable period shall be the
four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated Net Worth
means, as of any day
for the Consolidated Group, net worth determined in accordance
with GAAP, but excluding, for purposes hereof, (i) foreign
currency translation adjustments of up to $100 million at
any time and (ii) the fair value of Swap Contracts.
Consolidated Senior Funded Debt
means the
difference of Consolidated Funded Debt
minus
Consolidated
Subordinated Debt.
Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio
means, as
of the last day of each fiscal quarter, the ratio of
(i) the sum of Consolidated Senior Funded Debt
minus
cash and Cash Equivalents held by members of the Consolidated
Group in accounts maintained with a Lender in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $30 million, in each case on such day,
to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four fiscal
quarters ending on such day.
Consolidated Subordinated Debt
means
Subordinated Debt for the Consolidated Group determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
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Contractual Obligation
means, as to any
Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or
of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such
Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
Control
means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability
to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Person shall be
deemed to be Controlled by another Person if such other Person
possesses, directly or indirectly, power to vote ten percent
(10%) or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for
the election of directors, managing general partners or the
equivalent.
Credit Agreement
means this Credit Agreement.
Credit Documents
means this Credit Agreement,
the Notes hereunder, the Revolving Loan Joinder Agreements, the
Collateral Documents, the Fee Letter, the Letters of Credit, the
Letter of Credit Applications, the Borrower Joinder Agreements,
the Guarantor Joinder Agreements, the Parallel Debt Agreement
and all other documents, instruments or agreements from time to
time executed by any Responsible Officer or duly authorized
signatory of a member of the Consolidated Group and delivered in
connection with this Credit Agreement.
Credit Extension
means each of the following:
(a) a Borrowing, (b) the conversion or continuation of
a Borrowing, and (c) an L/ C Credit Extension.
Credit Parties
means, collectively, the
Borrowers and the Guarantors.
DBNY
means Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch.
DBSI
means Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Debt Rating
means long term secured senior,
non-credit enhanced debt ratings for FMCAG provided by the
Rating Services.
Debt Transactions
means, with respect to any
member of the Consolidated Group, any sale, issuance or
placement of Funded Debt under
Section 8.01(j)
(but
specifically excluding any refinancing of any such Funded Debt,
unless Net Cash Proceeds are generated therefrom).
Debtor Relief Laws
means the Bankruptcy Code
of the United States, and all other liquidation,
conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of
creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency,
reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United
States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in
effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Default
means any event, act or condition
that, with notice, the passage of time, or both, would
constitute an Event of Default.
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Default Rate
means an interest rate equal to
(a) the Base Rate
plus
(b) the Applicable
Percentage, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans
plus
(c) two percent (2%) per annum;
provided
, however,
that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate
shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including
any Applicable Percentage) otherwise applicable to such Loan
plus
two percent (2%) per annum, in each case to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Defaulting Lender
means any Lender that
(a) has failed to fund any portion of the Revolving Loans,
participations in L/ C Obligations or participations in Swing
Line Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within one
Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder
and has not cured such failure prior to the date of
determination, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount
required to be paid by it hereunder within one Business Day of
the date when due and has not cured such failure prior to the
date of determination, unless the subject of a good faith
dispute, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the
subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
Designated Alternative Foreign Currencies
means (a) Canadian dollars and (b) Mexican pesos.
Designated Borrower
means the Borrowers
identified on
Schedule 2.16
and any Applicant
Borrower that becomes a Borrower hereunder in accordance with
the provisions of
Section 2.16
.
Designated Borrowing Limit
means, with
respect to any Primary Borrower, the full amount of the
Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount, or in the case of
Designated Borrower, the amount set forth in the Borrower
Joinder Agreement.
Disposition
or
Dispose
means the sale, transfer or other disposition (including any
Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of any property by any Person,
including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with
or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any
rights and claims associated therewith;
provided
, that
for purposes of the definition of Pro Forma Basis,
Disposition
shall mean any Disposition to a
Person that is not a member of the Consolidated Group of
(i) more than 50% of the Capital Stock of any member of the
Consolidated Group, (ii) all or any substantial portion of
the property of any member of the Consolidated Group or
(iii) any business unit.
Dollar
or
$
means the
lawful currency of the United States.
Dollar Equivalent
means, at any time,
(a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such
amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in a
Foreign Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as
determined by the Administrative Agent (or, with respect to
Letters of Credit, as determined by the L/C Issuer) at such
time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined as of the most
recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such
Foreign Currency.
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Domestic Credit Party
means any Credit Party
that is organized under the laws of any State of the United
States or the District of Columbia.
Domestic Subsidiary
means any Subsidiary that
is organized under the laws of any State of the United States or
the District of Columbia.
Domestic Swing Line Borrowing
means a
borrowing of a Domestic Swing Line Loan pursuant to
Section 2.01(c)
.
Domestic Swing Line Commitment
means, with
respect to the Domestic Swing Line Lender, the commitment of
such Lender to make Domestic Swing Line Loans hereunder, and
with respect to each Revolving Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to participate in Domestic Swing Line Loans hereunder.
Domestic Swing Line Committed Amount
has the
meaning provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Domestic Swing Line Lender
means
(a) Bank of America and (b) any other Lender that
agrees to act as a Domestic Swing Line Lender hereunder, or in
each case any successor in such capacity.
Domestic Swing Line Loans
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Domestic Swing Line Loan Notice
means a
notice of a Domestic Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.09(a)
, which, if in writing, shall be
substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.09
.
Dresdner
means Dresdner Bank AG,
Niederlassung Luxemburg.
EIB Loan
means the loan facilities provided
by The European Investment Bank to FMCAG pursuant to loan
documentation dated as of July 13, 2005, as amended or
modified and as in effect from time to time, and any additional
or supplemental loans provided by the European Investment Bank
on terms materially no less favorable to the Lenders.
Eligible Assignee
means (a) a Lender;
(b) an Affiliate of a Lender; (c) an Approved Fund;
and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person)
approved by (i) the Administrative Agent (and, to the
extent required by
Section 11.07(b)
with respect to
any assignment of Revolving Commitments, the L/ C Issuers and
Swing Line Lenders), and (ii) unless an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, FMCAG (each such approval not to
be unreasonably withheld or delayed);
provided
that
notwithstanding the foregoing, Eligible Assignee
shall not include the Borrowers or any of the Borrowers
Affiliates or Subsidiaries.
EMU
means the economic and monetary union in
accordance with the Treaty of Rome 1957, as amended by the
Single European Act 1986, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 and the
Amsterdam Treaty of 1998, as amended from time to time.
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EMU Legislation
means the legislative
measures of the European Council for the introduction of,
changeover to or operation of the Euro and any related
legislative measures of any Participating Member State.
Environmental Laws
means any and all federal,
state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations,
ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits,
concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or
governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the
protection of the environment or the release of any materials
into the environment, including those related to hazardous
substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or
public systems.
Equity Transaction
means, with respect to any
member of the Consolidated Group, any issuance or sale of shares
of its Capital Stock, other than an issuance (a) to a
member of the Consolidated Group, (b) in connection with a
conversion of debt securities to equity, (c) in connection
with the exercise by a present or former employee, officer or
director under a stock incentive plan, stock option plan or
other equity-based compensation plan or arrangement, and
(d) in connection with any Permitted Acquisition hereunder.
ERISA
means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974.
ERISA Affiliate
means any trade or business
(whether or not incorporated) under common control with any
Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or
(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (and Sections 414(m)
and (o) of the Internal Revenue Code for purposes of
provisions relating to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code).
ERISA Event
means (a) a Reportable Event
with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by FMCH or
any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to
Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a
substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a
withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a
complete or partial withdrawal by FMCH or any ERISA Affiliate
from a Multiemployer Plan or notification to FMCH or any ERISA
Affiliate that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization;
(d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the
treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under
Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of
proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition that could
reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under
Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the
appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; or (f) the imposition of any material
liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC
premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of
ERISA, upon FMCH or any ERISA Affiliate.
Euro
or
means the lawful currency of the Participating Member States
adopted in accordance with the EMU Legislation.
Eurocurrency Bid Margin
means the margin
above or below the Eurocurrency Rate to be added to or
subtracted from the Eurocurrency Rate, which margin shall be
expressed in multiples of 1/100th of one basis point.
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Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loan
means a
Competitive Revolving Loan that bears interest at a rate based
on the Eurocurrency Rate.
Eurocurrency Rate
means, for any Interest
Period with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan:
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(a) if in relation to an advance denominated in Euros, the
interest rate appearing on the relevant Reuters screen (as of
the Closing Date, Reuters page EURIBOR 01) or if such page is
not available, Telerate screen page 248 (or any successor
thereto) as an annual interest rate, determined by the Banking
Federation of the European Union, for deposits in Euro, as of
11:00 a.m. (Brussels time) two Business Days prior to the
first day of such Interest Period, or if in relation to an
advance denominated in any other applicable currency, the rate
per annum equal to the rate determined by the Administrative
Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the page of the
Telerate screen (or any successor thereto) that displays an
average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for
deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first
day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such
Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period, or
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(b) if the rate referenced in the preceding clause
(a) does not appear on such page or service or such page or
service shall not be available, the rate per annum equal to the
rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered
rate on such other page or other service that displays an
average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for
deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first
day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such
Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period, or
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(c) if the rates referenced in the preceding
clauses
(a)
and
(b)
are not available, the rate per annum
determined by the Administrative Agent as the rate of interest
at which deposits in the applicable currency for delivery on the
first day of such Interest Period in Same Day Funds in the
approximate amount of the Eurocurrency Rate Loan being made,
continued or converted by Bank of America and with a term
equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank of
Americas London Branch to major banks in the London
interbank eurocurrency market at their request at approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the
first day of such Interest Period;
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provided
that (A) notwithstanding the foregoing, in
the case of Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans that are denominated
in Mexican pesos, the Eurocurrency Rate shall be any
such reference rate as may be determined by the applicable
Foreign Swing Line Lender in its discretion and (B) in each
case that, if the Borrowers request and the Administrative Agent
approves any Eurocurrency Rate Loan having an Interest Period
with a duration other than one, two, three or six months (but
not longer than six months), the applicable interest rate for
such period shall be the rate determined by the Administrative
Agent by means of straight-line
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interpolation of (i) the rate that would be applicable for
the next closest Interest Period otherwise available with a
duration shorter than the requested period and (ii) the
rate that would be applicable for the next closest Interest
Period otherwise available with a duration longer than the
requested period;
provided
that if the requested period
extends over any year-end, the higher of the two rates will
apply.
Eurocurrency Rate Committed Loan
means a
Committed Revolving Loan or Term Loan that bears interest at a
rate based on the Eurocurrency Rate.
Eurocurrency Rate Loan
means a Eurocurrency
Rate Committed Loan or a Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loan.
Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be denominated in Dollars or in
Available Foreign Currencies and, with respect to Competitive
Revolving Loans, may be denominated in Alternative Foreign
Currencies and, with respect to Foreign Swing Line Loans, may be
denominated in Designated Alternative Foreign Currencies. All
Loans denominated in Foreign Currencies must be Eurocurrency
Rate Loans.
Event of Default
has the meaning provided in
Section 9.01
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Excluded Personal Property
means (a) in
the case of personal property located in the United States, any
personal property in respect of which perfection of a lien is
not governed by the Uniform Commercial Code (such as motor
vehicles) or may be effected by the filing of a notice of lien
in respect of intellectual property with the United States
Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, (b) any property that is the subject of
Securitization Transaction permitted hereunder or any related
property that is subject to the agreements relating thereto,
(c) any property that is the subject of a Lien permitted
under
Section 8.02(j
) (and any related property), if
and to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein as
contemplated by this Credit Agreement is prohibited or would
result in the right to terminate, accelerate the indebtedness
secured thereby, but only to the extent that any such provisions
are not rendered ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code
or other applicable Law, and (d) any permit, lease,
license, contract or instrument, if and to the extent that a
grant of a security interest therein as contemplated by this
Credit Agreement or under applicable Law, is prohibited or would
result in the termination thereof or give the other parties
thereto the right to terminate, accelerate or otherwise
materially alter the Credit Partys rights, titles and
interests thereunder (whether upon the giving of notice, the
lapse of time or both), but only to the extent that any such
provisions are not rendered ineffective under the Uniform
Commercial Code or other applicable Law.
Excluded Securitization Transactions
means
(a) the accounts receivable financing facility of NMC
contemplated by the Third Amended and Restated Transfer and
Administration Agreement dated as of October 23, 2003,
among NMC Funding Corporation, as transferor, NMC, as collection
agent, Paradigm Funding, LLC, Giro Multi-Funding Corporation,
Asset One Securitization, LLC and Liberty Street Funding Corp.,
each as conduit investors, the financial institutions party
thereto, as investors, and Bayerische Landesbank, New York
Branch, Société General, The Bank of Nova Scotia and
WestLB AG, New York Branch, each as an administrative agent for
the investors, as amended and supplemented from time to time,
and any Permitted Receivables Financing entered into in
replacement thereof, and (b) any other Permitted
Receivables Financing, but only to the extent that the aggregate
Attributed Principal Amount of
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the foregoing Securitization Transactions described in
clauses (a)
and
(b)
hereof shall not exceed
$750 million (any greater amount being subject to the
mandatory prepayment provisions of
Section 2.06(b)(iv)
hereof).
Exclusion Event
means an event or events
where (a) one or more members of the Consolidated Group
other than any member of the Consolidated Group that either
ceased operations or discontinued a material portion of its
business or operations before September 30, 1999 are
excluded from participation in any state or federal Medical
Reimbursement Program and (b) in the prior fiscal year
revenues from such excluded programs generated by the members of
the Consolidated Group excluded from such programs represented
more than five percent (5%) of consolidated revenues for the
Consolidated Group.
Existing Credit Agreement
means that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of February 21, 2003 among FMCAG,
FMCH and certain subsidiaries and affiliates, as borrowers,
certain subsidiaries and affiliates of FMCAG, as guarantors, the
lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as agent, as
the same has been amended or modified from time to time, as in
effect on the Closing Date immediately prior to the
effectiveness of this Credit Agreement.
Existing Letters of Credit
means the letters
of credit outstanding on the Closing Date and identified on
Schedule 2.08
.
Federal Funds Rate
means, for any day, the
rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on
overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers on such day, as
published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the
Business Day next succeeding such day;
provided
that
(a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds
Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the
immediately preceding Business Day as so published on the next
succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so
published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal
Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded
upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100%)
charged to Bank of America on such day on such transactions as
determined by the Administrative Agent.
Fee Letter
means that certain letter
agreement, dated as of April 29, 2005, among FMCAG, Bank of
America, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and the Arrangers, as
amended or supplemented and as in effect from time to time.
First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary
means any
Foreign Subsidiary that is owned directly by FMCH or a Domestic
Subsidiary of FMCH.
FMCAG
means Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA, a German partnership limited by shares
(
Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
), transformed under
German law from Fresenius Medical Care AG, a German corporation,
on February 10, 2006.
FMCD
means Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland
GmbH, a German corporation.
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FMCF-V
means FMC Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg V, a private limited company (société
à responsabilité limitée) organized under the
laws of Luxembourg.
FMCH
means Fresenius Medical Care Holdings,
Inc., a New York corporation.
FMC-USDLP
means Fresenius Medical Care North
America Holdings Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited
partnership.
Foreign Currencies
means lawful currencies
other than Dollars (including Available Foreign Currencies and
Alternative Foreign Currencies).
Foreign Currency Equivalent
means, at any
time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the
equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Foreign Currency as
determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis
of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent
Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Foreign Currency with
Dollars.
Foreign Lender
has the meaning provided in
Section 11.15(a)
.
Foreign Subsidiary
means any Subsidiary that
is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
Foreign Swing Line Borrowing
means a
borrowing of a Foreign Swing Line Loan pursuant to
Section 2.01(d)
.
Foreign Swing Line Commitment
means, with
respect to the Foreign Swing Line Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to make Foreign Swing Line Loans hereunder, and with
respect to each Revolving Lender, the commitment of such Lender
to participate in Foreign Swing Line Loans hereunder.
Foreign Swing Line Committed Amount
has the
meaning provided in
Section 2.01(d)
.
Foreign Swing Line Lender
means Dresdner,
Bank of America and/or other Revolving Lenders reasonably
acceptable to the Borrowers, and their respective affiliates.
There may be more than one Foreign Swing Line Lender at any time.
Foreign Swing Line Loan
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(d)
.
Foreign Swing Line Loan Notice
means a notice
of a Foreign Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.10(a)
, which, if in writing, shall be
substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.10
.
FRB
means the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System of the United States.
Fresenius AG
means Fresenius AG, a German
corporation.
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Fund
means any Person (other than a natural
person) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise
investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit
in the ordinary course of its business.
Funded Debt
means, as to any Person at a
particular time, without duplication, all of the following,
whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in
accordance with GAAP:
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(a) all obligations for borrowed money, whether current or
long-term (including the Obligations hereunder), and all
obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan
agreements or other similar instruments;
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(b) all purchase money indebtedness (including indebtedness
and obligations in respect of conditional sales and title
retention arrangements, except for customary conditional sales
and title retention arrangements with suppliers that are entered
into in the ordinary course of business) and all indebtedness
and obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than trade accounts payable incurred
the ordinary course of business and payable on customary trade
terms);
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(c) all obligations under financial letters of credit
issued to support tax obligations of FMCH and its subsidiaries
for the payment of such obligations in connection with the
settlement of claims related to the W.R. Grace bankruptcy;
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(d) the Attributable Principal Amount of capital leases and
Synthetic Leases;
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(e) the Attributable Principal Amount of Securitization
Transactions;
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(f) all preferred stock and comparable equity interests
providing for mandatory redemption, sinking fund or other like
payments issued to a Person that is not a member of the
Consolidated Group;
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(g) Support Obligations in respect of Funded Debt of
another Person; and
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(h) Funded Debt of any partnership or joint venture or
other similar entity in which such Person is a general partner
or joint venturer, and, as such, has personal liability for such
obligations, but only to the extent there is recourse to such
Person for payment thereof.
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For purposes hereof, the amount of Funded Debt shall be
determined based on the outstanding principal amount in the case
of borrowed money indebtedness under
clause (a)
and
purchase money indebtedness and the deferred purchase
obligations under
clause (b)
, based on the maximum amount
available to be drawn in the case of letter of credit
obligations and the other obligations under
clause (c)
,
and based on the amount of Funded Debt that is the subject of
the Support Obligations in the case of Support Obligations under
clause (g)
.
GAAP
means generally accepted accounting
principles in effect in the United States applied on a
consistent basis, subject to the provisions of
Section 1.03
.
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Governmental Authority
means any nation or
government, any state or other political subdivision thereof,
and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body,
court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory
or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to
government (including any supra-national bodies such as the
European Union or the European Central Bank).
Governmental Reimbursement Program Costs
means with respect to and payable by members of the Consolidated
Group the sum of:
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(a) all amounts (including punitive and other similar
amounts) agreed to be paid in settlement or payable as a result
of a final, non-appealable judgment, award or similar order
relating to Medical Reimbursement Programs;
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(b) all final, non-appealable fines, penalties, forfeitures
or other amounts rendered pursuant to criminal indictments or
other criminal proceedings relating to Medical Reimbursement
Programs; and
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(c) the amount of final, non-appealable recovery, damages,
awards, penalties, forfeitures or similar amounts rendered in
any litigation, suit, arbitration, investigation or other legal
or administrative proceeding of any kind relating to Medical
Reimbursement Programs;
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provided
, however, that Governmental Reimbursement
Program Costs for purposes of this Credit Agreement shall not
include any judgments, awards, fines, penalties or similar
amounts that total less than $5 million in the aggregate.
Guarantor Joinder Agreement
means a Guarantor
Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 7.12
.
Guarantors
means (a) FMCAG,
(b) FMCH, (c) FMCF-V, (d) NMC, (e) FMCD,
(f) Fresenius Medical Care Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH,
(g) FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg,
(h) FMC Finance II S.à.r.l., (i) FMC
Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III, (j) FMC
Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-IV, (k) National Medical
Care of Spain, S.A., (l) those other Subsidiaries of FMCAG
identified on the signature pages hereto as
Guarantors and (m) any other Person that
becomes a Guarantor after the Closing Date, in each case
together with their successors and permitted assigns and subject
to the provisions of
Sections 8.04
and
8.05
.
HIPAA
means the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996, as the same may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, and any and all
rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder,
including 45 CFR Parts 160, 162 and 164.
Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary
means a Foreign
Subsidiary of FMCAG that is not a Credit Party and owns assets
with a fair market value of less than $5 million.
Incremental Loan Facilities
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(f)
.
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Incremental Revolving Loans
has the meaning
provided in Section 2.01(f).
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan
has the
meaning provided in Section 2.01(f).
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan Joinder
Agreement
means a joinder agreement substantially in
the form of Exhibit 2.01(h) executed and delivered in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.01(h).
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan
has the
meaning provided in Section 2.01(f).
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan Joinder
Agreement
means a joinder agreement substantially in
the form of
Exhibit 2.01(i)
executed and delivered
in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.01(i)
.
Indebtedness
means, as to any Person at a
particular time, without duplication, all of the following,
whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in
accordance with GAAP:
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(a) all Funded Debt;
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(b) all contingent obligations under letters of credit
(including standby and commercial), bankers acceptances
and similar instruments (including bank guaranties, surety
bonds, comfort letters, keep-well agreements and capital
maintenance agreements to the extent such instruments or
agreements support financial, rather than performance,
obligations);
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(c) net obligations under any Swap Contract;
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(d) Support Obligations in respect of Indebtedness of
another Person; and
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(e) Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture or
other similar entity in which such Person is a general partner
or joint venturer, and, as such, has personal liability for such
obligations, but only to the extent there is recourse to such
Person for payment thereof.
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For purposes hereof, the amount of Indebtedness shall be
determined based on Swap Termination Value in the case of net
obligations under Swap Contracts under
clause (c)
and
based on the outstanding principal amount of the Indebtedness
that is the subject of the Support Obligations in the case of
Support Obligations under
clause (d)
.
Indemnified Liabilities
has the meaning set
forth in
Section 11.05
.
Indemnitees
has the meaning set forth in
Section 11.05
.
Information
means all information received
from any Credit Party relating to any Credit Party or its
business, other than any such information that is available to
the
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Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis
prior to disclosure by any Credit Party;
provided
that,
in the case of information received from a Credit Party after
the date hereof, such information is clearly identified in
writing at the time of delivery as confidential.
Interest Payment Date
means (a) as to
any Base Rate Loan (other than a Swing Line Loan), the last
Business Day of each March, June, September and December, the
Termination Date and the dates of the final principal
amortization installment on the Term Loans, (b) as to any
Swing Line Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June,
September and December and the Termination Date, or such other
days as may be mutually agreed upon by the Borrowers and the
Swing Line Lender, and (c) as to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan
or any Absolute Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each
Interest Period for such Loan, the date of repayment of
principal of such Loan, the Termination Date and the dates of
the final principal amortization installment on the Term Loans,
as applicable, and in addition, where the applicable Interest
Period exceeds three months, the date every three months after
the beginning of such Interest Period. If an Interest Payment
Date falls on a date that is not a Business Day, such Interest
Payment Date shall be deemed to be the next succeeding Business
Day.
Interest Period
means (a) as to each
Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such
Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as such and
ending on (i) the date one, two, three or six months and,
in the case of Revolving Loans and the Tranche A Term Loan,
with the prior written consent of all applicable Lenders, nine
and twelve months thereafter, as selected by the applicable
Borrower in its Loan Notice, or (ii) such other date not
more than six months from the commencement thereof as requested
by the Borrower in its Loan Notice and approved by the
Administrative Agent and (b) as to each Absolute Rate Loan,
a period of not less than seven days and not more than
180 days as selected by the applicable Borrower in the Bid
Request;
provided
that:
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(A) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day
that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurocurrency
Rate Loan, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in
which case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately
preceding Business Day;
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(B) any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month
(or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day
in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall
end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of
such Interest Period; and
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(C) with respect to Revolving Commitments, no Interest
Period shall extend beyond the Termination Date.
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Internal Revenue Code
means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as in effect from time to time.
Investment
means, as to any Person, any
direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person,
whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition
of Capital Stock or other
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securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or
capital contribution to, guaranty or assumption of debt of, or
purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity
participation or interest in (including by way of repurchase
arrangements), another Person, including any partnership or
joint venture interest in such other Person, or (c) the
purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of
transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute a
business unit. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount
of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without
adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of
such Investment.
IP Rights
has the meaning set forth in
Section 6.18
.
IRS
means the United States Internal Revenue
Service.
ISP
means, with respect to any Letter of
Credit, the International Standby Practices 1998
published by the Institute of International Banking Law &
Practice (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at
the time of issuance).
Joinder Agreements
means any Revolving Loan
Joinder Agreement, the Incremental Tranche A Term Loan
Joinder Agreement, the Incremental Tranche B Term Loan
Joinder Agreement, the Tranche C Term Loan Joinder
Agreement and any other joinder agreement entered into in
connection with the Incremental Loan Facilities.
Laws
means, collectively, all international,
foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules,
guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or
judicial precedents or authorities, including the 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.
L/ C Advance
means, with respect to each
Lender, such Lenders funding of its participation in any
L/ C Borrowing.
L/ C Borrowing
means any extension of credit
resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit that has not
been reimbursed or refinanced as a Borrowing of Revolving Loans.
L/ C Commitment
means, with respect to the L/
C Issuer, the commitment of the L/ C Issuer to issue and to
honor payment obligations under Letters of Credit, and, with
respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to
purchase participation interests in L/ C Obligations up to such
Lenders Revolving Commitment Percentage thereof.
L/ C Committed Amount
has the meaning
provided in Section 2.01(b).
L/ C Credit Extension
means, with respect to
any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the
expiry date thereof, or the renewal or increase of the amount
thereof.
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L/ C Issuer
means (a) as to Existing
Letters of Credit, those Lenders identified as such on
Schedule 2.08
, and (b) as to Letters of Credit
issued hereunder, (i) Bank of America, (ii) The Bank
of Nova Scotia or (iii) any other Revolving Lender that
shall agree to become an L/ C Issuer and that the Administrative
Agent may approve in its reasonable discretion, in each case in
their capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder,
together with their successors in such capacity.
L/ C Obligations
means, at any time, the
Dollar Equivalent of the sum of (a) the maximum amount
available to be drawn under Letters of Credit then outstanding,
assuming compliance with all requirements for drawings
referenced therein,
plus
(b) the aggregate amount of
all Unreimbursed Amounts, including L/ C Borrowings. For
purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any
Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be
determined in accordance with
Section 1.10
. For all
purposes of this Credit Agreement, if on any date of
determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but
any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the
operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit
shall be deemed to be outstanding in the amount so
remaining available to be drawn.
Lender
means each of the persons identified
as a Lender on the signature pages hereto, on the
signature pages to the Term Loan Credit Agreement and in any
Joinder Agreement (and, as appropriate, includes the L/ C Issuer
and the Swing Line Lender), together with their respective
successors and assigns.
Lending Office
means, as to any Lender, the
office or offices of such Lender set forth on
Schedule 11.02
, or such other office or offices as a
Lender may from time to time notify FMCAG and the Administrative
Agent.
Letter of Credit
means each Existing Letter
of Credit and each standby letter of credit issued hereunder.
Letter of Credit Application
means an
application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a
Letter of Credit.
Letter of Credit Expiration Date
means the
day that is ten Business Days prior to the Termination Date then
in effect (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the
immediately preceding Business Day).
Lien
means any mortgage, pledge,
hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance,
lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or
other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind
or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement, and any financing lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
Loan
means any Revolving Loan or Swing Line
Loan and the Base Rate Loans and Eurocurrency Rate Loans
comprising such Loans.
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Loan Notice
means a notice of a Borrowing
pursuant to
Section 2.02(a)
, which, if in writing,
shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.02
.
Loan Obligations
means the Revolving
Obligations and the Term Loans.
Mandatory Cost Rate
means, with respect to
any period, a rate per annum determined in accordance with
Schedule 3.04
.
Mandatory Cost Reference Lender
means the
London branch of each of Bank of America and Dresdner.
Mandatory Prepayment Modification Event
shall
occur if FMCAG shall either:
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(a) obtain a rating for its unsecured non-credit enhanced
long-term senior debt of at least BBB- or higher from S&P
and Baa3 or higher from Moodys; or
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(b) achieve the following financial ratios as of the end of
any fiscal quarter:
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(i) a Consolidated Leverage Ratio of less than or equal to
2.0:1.0; and
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(ii) a ratio of Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated
Interest Expense of greater than or equal to 4.0:1.0.
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Material Adverse Effect
means (a) a
material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon,
the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or
contingent), condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of
any of the Borrowers or the Consolidated Group taken as a whole;
(b) a material impairment of the ability of any Credit
Party to perform its obligations under any Credit Document to
which it is a party; or (c) a material adverse effect upon
the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against
any Credit Party of any Credit Document to which it is a party;
provided
that, notwithstanding anything contained herein
to the contrary, for purposes of the initial Credit Extension
hereunder on the Closing Date, but only in such instance,
Material Adverse Effect shall mean an RCG Material
Adverse Effect.
Material Domestic Subsidiary
means
(i) FMCH, (ii) NMC, (iii) those Domestic
Subsidiaries shown on
Schedule 1.01
, and
(iv) any Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary that, on an
unconsolidated basis, has at least $150 million in assets
or generates at least $30 million of Consolidated EBITDA
for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently
ended;
provided
, however, that for purposes hereof
(a) neither Lifechem, Inc. nor any Securitization
Subsidiary shall be considered a Material Domestic
Subsidiary and (b) for purposes of determining
whether any special purpose Subsidiary of FMCAG that issues or
assumes Trust Preferred Securities is a Material Domestic
Subsidiary hereunder, the proceeds of such Trust Preferred
Securities shall not be considered for the purpose of
determining assets of such Subsidiary to the extent such
proceeds have been lent as Trust Preferred Subdebt or
contributed to another member of the Consolidated Group, and any
interest in respect of any such loan shall not be considered for
the purpose of determining Consolidated EBITDA of such
Subsidiary.
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Material Foreign Subsidiary
means
(i) FMCD, (ii) Fresenius Medical Care
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, (iii) FMCF-V, (iv) FMC
Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg, (v) FMC
Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III, (vi) FMC
Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-IV, (vii) FMC Finance II
S.à.r.l., (ix) National Medical Care of Spain, S.A.
and (x) any Wholly Owned Foreign Subsidiary that, on an
unconsolidated basis, has at least $150 million in assets
or generates at least $30 million of Consolidated EBITDA
for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently
ended;
provided
, however, that for purposes hereof no
Securitization Subsidiary shall be considered a Material
Foreign Subsidiary.
Material Subsidiary
means a Material Domestic
Subsidiary or a Material Foreign Subsidiary.
Medicaid
means that means-tested entitlement
program under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, which
provides federal grants to states for medical assistance based
on specific eligibility criteria, as set forth at
Section 1396, et seq. of Title 42 of the United States
Code, as amended, and any successor statute thereto.
Medicaid Provider Agreement
means an
agreement entered into between a state agency or other such
entity administering the Medicaid program and a health care
provider or supplier, under which the health care provider or
supplier agrees to provide services for Medicaid patients in
accordance with the terms of the agreement and Medicaid
Regulations.
Medicaid Regulations
means, collectively,
(a) all federal statutes (whether set forth in
Title XIX of the Social Security Act or elsewhere)
affecting the medical assistance program established by
Title XIX of the Social Security Act and any successor
statutes thereto; (b) all applicable provisions of all
federal rules, regulations, manuals and orders of all
Governmental Authorities promulgated pursuant to or in
connection with the statutes described in
clause (a)
above and all federal administrative, reimbursement and other
guidelines of all Governmental Authorities having the force of
law promulgated pursuant to or in connection with the statutes
described in
clause (a)
above; (c) all state
statutes and plans for medical assistance enacted in connection
with the statutes and provisions described in
clauses (a)
and
(b)
above; and (d) all applicable provisions of
all rules, regulations, manuals and orders of all Governmental
Authorities promulgated pursuant to or in connection with the
statutes described in
clause (c)
above and all state
administrative, reimbursement and other guidelines of all
Governmental Authorities having the force of law promulgated
pursuant to or in connection with the statutes described in
clause (b)
above, in each case as may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Medical Reimbursement Programs
means a
collective reference to the Medicare, Medicaid, CHAMPUS and
TRICARE programs and any other health care program operated by
or financed in whole or in part by any foreign or domestic
federal, state or local government and any other non-government
funded third party payor programs.
Medicare
means that government-sponsored
entitlement program under Title XVIII of the Social
Security Act, which provides for a health insurance system for
eligible elderly and
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disabled individuals, as set forth at Section 1395, et seq.
of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended, and any
successor statute thereto.
Medicare Provider Agreement
means an
agreement entered into between CMS (or other such entity
administering the Medicare program on behalf of the CMS) and a
health care provider or supplier, under which the health care
provider or supplier agrees to provide services for Medicare
patients in accordance with the terms of the agreement and
Medicare Regulations.
Medicare Regulations
means, collectively, all
federal statutes (whether set forth in Title XVIII of the
Social Security Act or elsewhere) affecting the health insurance
program for the aged and disabled established by
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act and any successor
statutes thereto; together with all applicable provisions of all
rules, regulations, manuals and orders and administrative,
reimbursement and other guidelines having the force of law of
all Governmental Authorities (including CMS, the OIG, the United
States Department of Health and Human Services, or any person
succeeding to the functions of any of the foregoing) promulgated
pursuant to or in connection with any of the foregoing having
the force of law, as each may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
Moodys
means Moodys Investors
Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Multiemployer Plan
means any employee benefit
plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA,
to which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is
obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five
plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
Net Cash Proceeds
means the aggregate
proceeds paid in cash or Cash Equivalents received by any member
of the Consolidated Group in connection with any Disposition,
Debt Transaction or Securitization Transaction, net of
(a) direct costs (including legal, accounting and
investment banking fees, sales commissions, and underwriting
discounts) and (b) estimated taxes paid or payable as a
result thereof. For purposes hereof, Net Cash
Proceeds shall include any cash or Cash Equivalents
received upon the disposition of any non-cash consideration
received by any member of the Consolidated Group in any
Disposition, Equity Transaction or Debt Transaction.
NMC
means National Medical Care, Inc., a
Delaware corporation.
Non-Consenting Lender
has the meaning
provided in
Section 11.16
.
Non-Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans
has the
meaning provided in
Section 2.01(d)
.
Non-Shared Foreign Swing Line Maximum Amount
has the meaning provided in
Section 2.01(d)
.
Note
means each of the Revolving Notes and
the Term Notes.
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Obligations
means, without duplication,
(a) all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations,
covenants and duties of, any Credit Party arising under any
Credit Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter
of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired
by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due,
now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and
fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Credit
Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any
Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such
proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are
allowed claims in such proceeding, and (b) all obligations
under any Swap Contract of any Credit Party to which a Lender or
any Affiliate of a Lender is a party.
OIG
means the Office of Inspector General of
the United States Department of Health and Human Services or any
other regulatory body which succeeds to the functions thereof.
Organization Documents
means, (a) with
respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of
incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable
constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S.
jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability
company, the certificate or articles of formation or
organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect
to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of
business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other
applicable agreement of formation or organization and any
agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto
filed in connection with its formation or organization with the
applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its
formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or
articles of formation or organization of such entity.
Other Taxes
has the meaning provided in
Section 3.01(b)
.
Outstanding Amount
means (a) with
respect to Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving
effect to any Borrowings and prepayments or repayments of
Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be,
occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/ C
Obligations on any date, the amount of such L/ C Obligations on
such date after giving effect to any L/ C Credit Extension
occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate
amount of the L/ C Obligations as of such date, including as a
result of any reimbursements of outstanding unpaid drawings
under any Letters of Credit or any reductions in the maximum
amount available for drawing under Letters of Credit taking
effect on such date.
Overnight Rate
means, for any day,
(a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the
Federal Funds Rate and (b) with respect to any amount
denominated in a Foreign Currency, the rate of interest per
annum at which overnight deposits in the applicable Foreign
Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with
respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered
for such day by a branch or Affiliate of Bank of America located
in the applicable interbank market for such currency to major
banks in such interbank market.
Parallel Debt Agreement
means that certain
Parallel Debt Agreement dated as of the Closing Date between the
Collateral Agent (and, pursuant to the powers of attorney
granted by
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the Lenders pursuant to
Section 11.20
hereof, each
of the Lenders) and FMCAG (and, pursuant to the power of
attorney granted to FMCAG by the other Credit Parties pursuant
to
Section 11.20
hereof, each other Credit Party),
or any substantially similar agreement that creates an
obligation of the Credit Parties (as debt acknowledgement or
abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis
) in favor of the Collateral
Agent under this Credit Agreement under the Law of Germany, in
each case as amended or modified from time to time.
Participant
has the meaning provided in
Section 11.07(d)
.
Participating Member State
means any member
state of the European Union that has adopted (or that adopts)
the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with the EMU
Legislation.
PBGC
means the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
Pension Plan
means any employee pension
benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(2)
of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to
Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute,
or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in
Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any
time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
Permitted Acquisition
means (a) the RCG
Acquisition and (b) any Acquisition that satisfies the
following conditions:
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(i) the aggregate cost of any individual Acquisition shall
not exceed an amount equal to the sum of
(A) $300 million,
plus
(B) the fair value of
Capital Stock given as part of the purchase price
plus
(C) any portion of Net Cash Proceeds retained by members of
the Consolidated Group from any Equity Transaction after making
the mandatory prepayment in respect thereof under
Section 2.06(b)(v)
and used therefor occurring no
more than three months prior to or three months after the
respective individual Acquisition
plus
(D) any
portion of Net Cash Proceeds of any Dispositions that are
permitted to be reinvested or retained pursuant to
Section 2.06(b)(ii)
;
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(ii) the aggregate cost of all such Acquisitions in any
calendar year shall not exceed an amount equal to the sum of (A)
$750 million
plus
(B) the fair value of Capital
Stock given as part of the purchase price
plus
(C) any portion of Net Cash Proceeds retained by the
members of the Consolidated Group from any Equity Transaction
after making the mandatory prepayment in respect thereof under
Section 2.06(b)(v)
and used therefor occurring no
more than three months prior to or three months after the
respective Acquisition
plus
(D) any portion of Net
Cash Proceeds of any Dispositions that are permitted to be
reinvested or retained pursuant to
Section 2.06(b)(ii)
;
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(iii) in the case of an Acquisition of the Capital Stock,
the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of
such other Person shall have approved the Acquisition; and
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(iv) (A) no Default or Event of Default shall then
exist and be continuing immediately before or immediately after
giving effect thereto, (B) the Consolidated Group shall be
in compliance with the financial covenants hereunder after
giving effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis, and (C) with
respect to any Acquisition (or series of related Acquisitions)
for which cash consideration together with the principal amount
of Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith exceeds
$100 million in the aggregate, a Responsible Officer of
FMCAG shall provide a compliance certificate, in form and detail
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, affirming the matters
under the foregoing subclauses.
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Permitted Receivables Financings
means
(a) the Securitization Transactions described in
clause
(a)
of the definition of Excluded Securitization
Transactions and (b) other Securitization
Transactions, in each case as amended and in effect from time to
time;
provided
that (i) with respect to all such
Securitization Transactions described in
clause (b)
that are entered into after the Closing Date, (A) each such
Securitization Transaction relating to accounts receivable
originating in or payable in the United States or any state
thereof, and (B) each such Securitization Transaction
exceeding $50 million in any instance or $150 million
in the aggregate, the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders shall be reasonably satisfied with the structure and
documentation thereof and shall be reasonably satisfied that the
terms thereof, including the discount applicable to the subject
accounts receivable and the termination events, are (in the good
faith understanding of the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders) consistent with those prevailing in the market at the
time of commitment thereto for similar transactions involving a
receivables originator/servicer of similar credit quality and a
receivables pool of similar characteristics; and (ii) with
respect to all such Permitted Receivables Financings, the
documentation therefor shall not be amended or modified in a way
that is materially detrimental to the Lenders without the prior
written approval of the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders.
Person
means any natural person, corporation,
limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association,
company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Plan
means any employee benefit
plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA) established by any Borrower or, with respect to any such
plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.
Platform
has the meaning provided in
Section 7.02
.
Pledge Agreement
means those pledge
agreement(s) dated as of the Closing Date given by the members
of the Consolidated Group identified therein, as pledgors, to
the Collateral Agent, to secure the Obligations hereunder and
the Obligations under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, and any
other pledge agreements that may be given by any Person pursuant
to the terms hereof, as such pledge agreements may be amended
and modified from time to time.
Primary Borrowers
means (a) FMCAG,
(b) FMCH, (c) FMCF-V, (d) FMC-USDLP, (e) any
Co-Borrower and (f) any Designated Borrower approved as a
Primary Borrower pursuant
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to
Section 2.16
, in each case together with their
successors and permitted assigns, subject to the provisions of
Sections 2.16
and
2.17
.
Pro Forma Basis
means, for purposes of
determining (a) the applicable pricing level under the
definition of Applicable Percentage,
(b) compliance with the financial covenants hereunder
(other than the covenant limiting Consolidated Capital
Expenditures under
Section 8.11(c)
),
(c) Permitted Acquisitions hereunder, and (d) making
Restricted Payments hereunder, that the event or transaction
relevant to the applicable calculation shall be deemed to have
occurred as of the first day of the period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters ending as of the end of the most recent fiscal
quarter for which annual or quarterly financial statements shall
have been delivered in accordance with the provisions hereof.
Further, for purposes of making calculations on a Pro
Forma Basis hereunder, (i) in the case of any
Disposition, (A) income statement items (whether positive
or negative) attributable to the property, entities or business
units that are the subject of such Disposition shall be excluded
to the extent relating to any period prior to the date of such
Disposition, and (B) Indebtedness paid or retired in
connection with such Disposition shall be deemed to have been
paid and retired as of the first day of the applicable period;
and (ii) in the case of any Acquisition, (A) income
statement items (whether positive or negative, but excluding
transaction expenses and any one-time expenses incurred in
connection with the Acquisition) attributable to the property,
entities or business units that are the subject of such
acquisition shall be included to the extent relating to any
period prior to the date of such acquisition, and
(B) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the subject
transaction shall be deemed to have been incurred as of the
first day of the applicable period (and interest expense shall
be imputed for the applicable period assuming prevailing
interest rates hereunder).
Rating Services
means S&P and
Moodys.
RCG
means Renal Care Group, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
RCG Acquisition
means the acquisition by a
subsidiary of FMCAG of RCG and its Subsidiaries pursuant to the
terms of the RCG Merger Agreement.
RCG Material Adverse Effect
means (A) a
material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities,
results of operations or financial condition of RCG and its
Subsidiaries (as defined below) taken as a whole, (B) a
material adverse effect on the ability of RCG to perform its
obligations under the RCG Merger Agreement or (C) a
material adverse effect on the ability of RCG to consummate the
RCG Acquisition and the other Transactions (as defined below);
provided
, that none of the following, either alone or in
combination, shall be considered in determining whether there
has been a RCG Material Adverse Effect: (1) events,
circumstances, changes or effects that generally affect
providers of dialysis services in the United States, except to
the extent that RCG and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are
disproportionately affected in a material and adverse manner
relative to FMCAG and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(2) any circumstance, change or effect that results
principally from any suit, action, proceeding or investigation
undertaken by or on behalf of any Governmental Entity (as
defined below) in connection with any subpoenas served upon or
claims made against RCG or any of its Subsidiaries or any
investigation conducted by the Office of Inspector General of
the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the
United States Department of Justice or
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any State Governmental Entity that (A) has been publicly
disclosed by RCG in the Available RCG SEC Documents (as defined
below) or (B) relates to any violation or alleged violation
of any statute or rule or regulation promulgated by a
Governmental Entity that is generally applicable only to
participants in the health care industry by reason of their
participation in federal or state health care programs,
including Medicare and Medicaid, or their provision of health
care services to people in the United States, including 42
U.S.C.
§
1320a-7b,
42 U.S.C. § 1395nn or 31 U.S.C. § 3729-3733 or any
other federal or state statute related to false or fraudulent
claims, kickbacks to health care providers, inducements to
beneficiaries of health care programs or self-referrals;
provided
, that, for the avoidance of doubt, this
clause (2)(B)
shall prohibit consideration of the
existence of any such suit, action, proceeding or investigation
when determining whether a RCG Material Adverse Effect exists
but shall not prohibit consideration of actual events or
circumstances constituting a violation of any such statute or
rule or regulation or other Law (as defined below);
(3) general economic or political conditions, except to the
extent that RCG and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are
disproportionately affected in a material and adverse manner
relative to FMCAG and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(4) changes arising from the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by, or the announcement of the
execution of, the RCG Merger Agreement; (5) any
circumstance, change or effect that results from any action
required to be taken pursuant to the RCG Merger Agreement or
taken upon the written request of FMCAG; and (6) changes
caused by acts of terrorism or war (whether or not declared)
occurring after the date hereof, except to the extent that RCG
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are disproportionately
affected in a material and adverse manner relative to FMCAG and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; as used in this definition:
(I)
Subsidiary
of any person means another
person of which such first person, (i) directly or
indirectly owns an amount of the voting securities, other voting
ownership or voting partnership interests having voting power
under ordinary circumstances sufficient to elect at least fifty
percent (50%) of its board of directors or other governing body
or (ii) owns directly or indirectly fifty percent (50%) or
more of its equity interests or (iii) of which such first
person is a general partner; (II)
Transactions
means all transactions (other
than the RCG Acquisition) contemplated by the RCG Merger
Agreement; (III)
Governmental Entity
means
any national, federal, state, provincial, local or foreign
government or any court of competent jurisdiction,
administrative agency or commission or other governmental or
regulatory authority or instrumentality, domestic or foreign;
(IV)
Available RCG SEC Documents
means the
reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents filed
by RCG with the SEC or furnished by RCG to the SEC, and in
either case, publicly available prior to the date of the RCG
Merger Agreement; and (V)
Law
means any
federal, state, local, regional or foreign statute, law,
ordinance, rule, reporting or licensing requirement or
regulation applicable to RCG or any of its Subsidiaries or their
respective properties or assets.
RCG Merger Agreement
means the Agreement,
dated as of May 3, 2005, by and among FMCAG and FMCH and
Florence Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a
newly-formed wholly-owned subsidiary of FMCH, on the one hand,
and RCG, on the other hand as amended, modified, and
supplemented to the extent any material modifications are
approved by Bank of America and DBNY.
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RCG Sub Debt
means those 9% Senior
Subordinated Notes of National Nephrology Associates,
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, due 2011, in an aggregate
original principal amount of $160 million.
Register
has the meaning set forth in
Section 11.07(c)
.
Reorganization
means the reorganization and
transactions contemplated by the Reorganization Documents.
Reorganization Documents
means, collectively,
(i) the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization dated as of
February 4, 1996, by and between FMCH (then known as W.R.
Grace & Co.) and Fresenius AG, as amended, (ii) the
Distribution Agreement dated as of February 4, 1996, among
FMCH (then known as W.R. Grace & Co.), Fresenius AG and
WRG-Conn and (iii) the Contribution Agreement dated as of
February 4, 1996, among Fresenius AG, Steril Pharma GmbH
and WRG-Conn.
Reportable Event
means any of the events set
forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for
which the thirty-day notice period has been waived.
Request for Credit Extension
means
(a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation
of Revolving Loans, a Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an
L/ C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and
(c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan
Notice.
Required Lenders
means, as of any date of
determination, Lenders having more than fifty percent (50%) of
the Aggregate Commitments or, if the commitment of each Lender
to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make
L/ C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
, Lenders holding in the aggregate more
than fifty percent (50%) of the Loan Obligations (including, in
each case, the aggregate amount of each Lenders risk
participation and funded participation in L/ C Obligations and
Swing Line Loans);
provided
that the Commitment of, and
the portion of the Loan Obligations held or deemed held by, any
Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a
determination of Required Lenders.
Required Revolving Lenders
means, as of any
date of determination, Lenders having more than fifty percent
(50%) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or, if the
commitment of each Lender to make Revolving Loans and the
obligation of the L/ C Issuer to make L/ C Credit Extensions
have been terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
,
Lenders holding in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%)
of the Revolving Obligations (including, in each case, the
aggregate amount of each Lenders risk participation and
funded participation in L/ C Obligations and Swing Line Loans);
provided
that the Revolving Commitment of, and the
portion of the Revolving Obligations held or deemed held by, any
Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a
determination of Required Revolving Lenders.
Required Tranche A Term Lenders
means,
as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the Tranche A
Term Loan;
provided
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that the portion of the Tranche A Term Loan held or deemed
held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of
making a determination of Required Tranche A Term Lenders.
Required Tranche B Term Lenders
means,
as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the Tranche B
Term Loan;
provided
that the portion of the
Tranche B Term Loan held or deemed held by, any Defaulting
Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination
of Required Tranche B Term Lenders.
Required Tranche C Term Lenders
means,
as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the Tranche C
Term Loan;
provided
that the portion of the
Tranche C Term Loan held or deemed held by any Defaulting
Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination
of Required Tranche C Term Lenders.
Responsible Officer
means the chief executive
officer, president, chief financial officer, senior vice
president-finance, treasurer, assistant treasurer or managing
director of a Credit Party (or in the case of a Credit Party
that is a partnership, limited liability company or similarly
organized entity, including without limitation FMCAG and
FMC-USDLP, a Responsible Officer of its general partner, other
managing entity or other person authorized to act on its behalf,
and if such Person is also a partnership, limited liability
company or similarly organized entity, a Responsible Officer of
the entity that may be authorized to act on behalf of such
Person). Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a
Responsible Officer of a Credit Party shall be conclusively
presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership and/or other action on the part of such Credit Party
and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to
have acted on behalf of such Credit Party.
Restricted Payment
means (i) any
dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account
of any shares of any class of stock now or hereafter
outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in shares of that
class to the holders of that class, of FMCAG, (ii) any
redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment,
purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of
any shares of any class of stock of FMCAG now or hereafter
outstanding, and (iii) any payment made to retire, or to
obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or
other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock of FMCAG.
Revaluation Date
means each of the following:
(a) each date of a Credit Extension of a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan denominated in a Foreign Currency, (b) each date of an
L/ C Credit Extension with respect to Letters of Credit
denominated in a Foreign Currency, (c) each honor date of
any Letter of Credit denominated in a Foreign Currency,
(d) each date of a Credit Extension of a Foreign Swing Line
Loan and (e) any other date specified by the Administrative
Agent or the Required Lenders.
Revolving Commitment
means, with respect to
each Revolving Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make
Committed Revolving Loans (and to share in the Committed
Revolving Obligations) hereunder.
Revolving Commitment Percentage
means, for
each Revolving Lender, a fraction (expressed as a percentage
carried to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is
such
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Revolving Lenders Revolving Committed Amount and the
denominator of which is the Aggregate Revolving Committed
Amount. The initial Revolving Commitment Percentages are shown
on
Schedule 2.01
.
Revolving Committed Amount
means, with
respect to each Revolving Lender, the amount of such
Lenders Revolving Commitment. The initial Revolving
Committed Amounts are shown on
Schedule 2.01
.
Revolving Lender
means those Lenders with
Revolving Commitments.
Revolving Loan Joinder Agreements
means any
Revolving Loan Joinder Agreement entered into in connection with
the increase of the Revolving Commitments pursuant to
Section 2.01(g)
.
Revolving Loans
means Committed Revolving
Loans and Competitive Revolving Loans.
Revolving Note
means the promissory notes
given to each Revolving Lender to evidence the Revolving Loans
and Swing Line Loans, as amended, restated, modified,
supplemented, extended, renewed or replaced. A form of Revolving
Note is attached as
Exhibit 2.13
.
Revolving Obligations
means Revolving Loans,
L/ C Obligations and Swing Line Loans.
S&P
means Standard & Poors
Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
and any successor thereto.
Sale and Leaseback Transaction
means, with
respect to any Borrower or any Subsidiary, any arrangement,
directly or indirectly, with any person whereby such Borrower or
such Subsidiary shall sell or transfer any property, real or
personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property
or other property that it intends to use for substantially the
same purpose or purposes as the property being sold or
transferred.
Same Day Funds
means (a) with respect to
disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available
funds, and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments
in a Foreign Currency, same day or other funds as may be
determined by the Administrative Agent to be customary in the
place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of
international banking transactions in such Foreign Currency.
Schuldscheindarlehen
means the senior notes
issued by FMC Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-IV, a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG, in an aggregate principal amount of
200 million, and the guarantee by FMCAG of such
notes, pursuant to agreements dated as of July 27, 2005, as
amended or modified and as in effect from time to time.
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SEC
means the Securities and Exchange
Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of
its principal functions.
Securitization Subsidiary
has the meaning
provided in the definition of Securitization
Transaction.
Securitization Transaction
means any
financing or factoring or similar financing transaction (or
series of such transactions) entered by any member of the
Consolidated Group pursuant to which such member of the
Consolidated Group may sell, convey or otherwise transfer, or
grant a security interest in, accounts, payments, receivables,
rights to future lease payments or residuals or similar rights
to payment (the
Securitization Receivables
)
to a special purpose subsidiary or affiliate (a
Securitization Subsidiary
) or any other
Person;
provided
, that, for the purposes of
clarification, sales of accounts, payments, receivables and
similar rights of payment on a non-recourse basis by Foreign
Subsidiaries of FMCAG to Persons that are not members of the
Consolidated Group in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$150 million in any fiscal year that are treated as
Dispositions under
Section 8.05(h)
shall not
constitute Securitization Transactions.
Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans
has the
meaning provided in Section 2.01(d).
Spot Rate
means, for a currency, the rate
quoted by Bank of America (or the L/ C Issuer or, pursuant to
Section 1.07
, the Foreign Swing Line Lender or the
Competitive Bid Agent, as applicable) as the spot rate for the
purchase by Bank of America (or the L/ C Issuer or, pursuant to
Section 1.07
, the Foreign Swing Line Lender or the
Competitive Bid Agent, as applicable) of such currency with
another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading
office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business
Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange
computation is made;
provided
that the spot rate may be
obtained from another financial institution designated by, or
otherwise acceptable to, the Administrative Agent if the Person
acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of
determination a spot buying rate for any such currency, and
provided
further
that the L/ C Issuer may use the
spot rate quoted on the day on which the foreign exchange
computation is made in the case of drawing under a Letter of
Credit.
Subordinated Debt
means (a) the
Trust Preferred Subdebt, (b) the AG Debt, and
(c) any other Indebtedness of a member of the Consolidated
Group that by its terms is expressly subordinated in right of
payment to the prior payment of the Loan Obligations hereunder
and is in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and the Required Lenders.
Subsidiary
of a Person means a corporation,
partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other
business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities
or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election
of directors or other governing body (other than securities or
interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the
management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such
Person. Unless otherwise provided, all references herein to a
Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall
refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of FMCAG.
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Support Obligations
means, as to any Person,
(a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person
guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any
Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by
another Person (the primary obligor) in any manner,
whether directly or indirectly (other than endorsements in the
ordinary course of business of negotiable instruments for
deposit or collection), and including any obligation of such
Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or
advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such
Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease
property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the
obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of
the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other
obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity
capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity
or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to
enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other
obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of
assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such
Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance
thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect
thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any
assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other
obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness
or other obligation is assumed by such Person. The amount of any
Support Obligations (subject to any limitations set forth
therein) shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or
portion thereof, in respect of which such Support Obligation is
made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably
anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the
guaranteeing Person in good faith.
Swap Contract
means (a) any and all rate
swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions,
forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options,
forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or
options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or
forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index
transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange
transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar
transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate
swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any
other similar transactions or any combination of any of the
foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the
foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by
or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all
transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, that
are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any
form of master agreement published by the International Swaps
and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign
Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any
such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a
Master Agreement
), including any such
obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
Swap Termination Value
means, in respect of
any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the
effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to
such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date
such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination values
determined in accordance therewith, such termination values, and
(b) for any date prior to the date referenced in
clause
(a)
, the amounts determined as the mark-to-market values for
such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more
mid-market or other
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readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer
in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any
Affiliate of a Lender).
Swing Line Borrowing
means a Domestic Swing
Line Borrowing and a Foreign Swing Line Borrowing.
Swing Line Commitment
means the Domestic
Swing Line Commitment and the Foreign Swing Line Commitment.
Swing Line Committed Amount
means the
Domestic Swing Line Committed Amount and the Foreign Swing Line
Committed Amount.
Swing Line Lender
means the Domestic Swing
Line Lender or the Foreign Swing Line Lender, as appropriate.
Swing Line Loan Notice
means a Domestic Swing
Line Loan Notice or a Foreign Swing Line Loan Notice, as
appropriate.
Swing Line Loans
means Domestic Swing Line
Loans, Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans and Non-Shared Foreign
Swing Line Loans.
Synthetic Lease
means any synthetic lease,
tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar
off-balance sheet financing arrangement that is considered
borrowed money indebtedness for tax purposes but is classified
as an operating lease under GAAP.
Taxes
has the meaning provided in
Section 3.01(a)
.
TARGET Day
means any day on which the
Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer (TARGET) System (or, if such clearing system
ceases to be operative, such other clearing system, if any,
determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable
replacement) is operating.
Term Loan
means the Tranche A Term Loan,
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), the
Tranche B Term Loan (including any Incremental
Tranche B Term Loans) and the Tranche C Term Loan (and
any other term loan established under the Incremental Loan
Facilities), if any.
Term Loan Commitments
means the
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment, the Tranche B Term
Loan Commitment and the Tranche C Term Loan Commitment (and
the commitments of any other term loan established under the
Incremental Loan Facilities), if any.
Term Loan Credit Agreement
means the Term
Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, as amended,
modified, extended or renewed, among FMCAG, FMCH and the
subsidiaries and affiliates identified therein, as borrowers,
FMCAG, FMCH and the subsidiaries and affiliates identified
therein, as guarantors, the lenders identified therein and Bank
of America, N.A., as administrative agent, pursuant to which the
Tranche A Term Loan and
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Tranche B Term Loan are made and pursuant to which the
Tranche C Term Loan and certain other term loans may be
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities.
Term Notes
means the Tranche A Term
Notes, the Tranche B Term Notes and Tranche C Term
Notes and Notes evidencing any other term loan that may be
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities.
Termination Date
means March 31, 2011.
Tranche A Term Lenders
means, prior to
the funding of the initial Tranche A Term Loan on the
Closing Date or any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan, as
applicable, those Lenders with Tranche A Term Loan
Commitments, and after funding of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), those
Lenders holding a portion of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), together
with their successors and permitted assigns. The initial
Tranche A Term Lenders are identified on the signature
pages to the Term Loan Credit Agreement and are set forth on
Schedule 2.01 thereto.
Tranche A Term Loan
has the meaning
provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
means,
for each Tranche A Term Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to make a portion of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan) hereunder;
provided
that, at any time after funding of the
Tranche A Term Loan, determinations of Required
Lenders and Required Tranche A Term
Lenders shall be based on the outstanding principal amount
of the Tranche A Term Loan.
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
Percentage
means, for each Tranche A Term Lender,
a fraction (expressed as a percentage carried to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the principal amount
of such Lenders Tranche A Term Loan (including any
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), and the denominator of
which is the Outstanding Amount of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan). The
initial Tranche A Term Loan Commitment Percentages are set
forth on Schedule 2.01 to the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
Tranche A Term Loan Committed Amount
means, for each Tranche A Term Lender, the amount of such
Lenders Tranche A Term Loan Commitment. The initial
Tranche A Term Loan Committed Amounts are set forth on
Schedule 2.01 to the Term Loan Credit Agreement, and, with
respect to any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan, the
Tranche A Term Loan Committed Amount with respect thereto
will be set forth in the Incremental Tranche A Term Loan
Joinder Agreement.
Tranche A Term Note
means the promissory
notes, if any, given to evidence the Tranche A Term Loans,
as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed
or replaced.
Tranche B Term Lenders
means, prior to
the funding of the initial Tranche B Term Loan on the
Closing Date or any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan, as
applicable, those Lenders with Tranche B Term Loan
Commitments, and after funding of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan), those
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Lenders holding a portion of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan), together
with their successors and permitted assigns. The initial
Tranche B Term Lenders are identified on the signature
pages to the Term Loan Credit Agreement and are set forth on
Schedule 2.01 thereto.
Tranche B Term Loan
has the meaning
provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
Tranche B Term Loan Commitment
means,
for each Tranche B Term Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to make a portion of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan) hereunder;
provided
that, at any time after funding of the initial
Tranche B Term Loan, determinations of Required
Lenders and Required Tranche B Term
Lenders shall be based on the outstanding principal amount
of the Tranche B Term Loan.
Tranche B Term Loan Commitment
Percentage
means, for each Tranche B Term Lender,
a fraction (expressed as a percentage carried to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the principal amount
of such Lenders Tranche B Term Loan (including any
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan) and the denominator of
which is the Outstanding Amount of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan). The
initial Tranche B Term Loan Commitment Percentages are set
forth on Schedule 2.01 to the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
Tranche B Term Loan Committed Amount
means, for each Tranche B Term Lender, the amount of such
Lenders Tranche B Term Loan Commitment. The initial
Tranche B Term Loan Committed Amounts are set forth on
Schedule 2.01 to the Term Loan Credit Agreement, and, with
respect to any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan, the
Tranche B Term Loan Committed Amount with respect thereto
will be set forth in the Incremental Tranche B Term Loan
Joinder Agreement.
Tranche B Term Note
means the promissory
notes, if any, given to evidence the Tranche B Term Loans,
as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed
or replaced.
Tranche C Term Lenders
means, upon
establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan, those Lenders
holding a portion of the Tranche C Term Loan, together with
their successors and permitted assigns. The initial
Tranche C Term Lenders will be identified in the
Tranche C Term Loan Joinder Agreement.
Tranche C Term Loan
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(f)
.
Tranche C Term Loan Commitment
means
upon establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan, for each
Tranche C Term Lender, the commitment of such Lender to
make a portion of the Tranche C Term Loan hereunder;
provided
that, at any time after funding of the
Tranche C Term Loan, determinations of Required
Lenders and Required Tranche C Term
Lenders shall be based on the outstanding principal amount
of the Tranche C Term Loan.
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Tranche C Term Loan Commitment
Percentage
means, for each Tranche C Term Lender,
a fraction (expressed as a percentage carried to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the principal amount
of such Lenders Tranche C Term Loan, and the
denominator of which is the Outstanding Amount of the
Tranche C Term Loan. The initial Tranche C Term Loan
Commitment Percentages will be set forth in the Tranche C
Term Loan Joinder Agreement.
Tranche C Term Loan Committed Amount
means upon establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan under
Section 2.01(j)
, for each Tranche C Term
Lender, the amount of such Lenders Tranche C Term
Loan Commitment. The initial Tranche C Term Loan Committed
Amounts will be set forth in the Tranche C Term Loan
Joinder Agreement.
Tranche C Term Loan Joinder Agreement
has the meaning provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
Tranche C Term Note
means the promissory
notes, if any, given to evidence the Tranche C Term Loan,
if any, as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended,
renewed or replaced.
TRICARE
means the United States Department of
Defense health care program for service families (including
TRICARE Prime, TRICARE Extra and TRICARE Standard), and any
successor or predecessor (including CHAMPUS) thereof.
Trust Preferred Indentures
means the
indentures pursuant to which the Trust Preferred Subdebt
was issued, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
Trust Preferred Securities
means those
trust preferred securities of members of the Consolidated Group
comprising $450,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated trust preferred securities due 2008 issued by
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust II, DM 300,000,000
aggregate liquidation amount of
7
3
/
8
%
Deutsche mark-denominated trust preferred securities due 2008
issued by Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust III,
$225,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated trust preferred securities due 2011 issued by
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust IV and
300, 000,000
aggregate liquidation amount of
7
3
/
8
% Euro-denominated trust preferred securities due 2011
issued by Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust V and, to
the extent permitted hereunder, additional trust preferred
securities after the Closing Date issued by members of the
Consolidated Group.
Trust Preferred Subdebt
means (i)
$450,450,000 aggregate principal amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2008 issued by
FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg to Fresenius
Medical Care Capital Trust II, (ii) DM300,300,000
aggregate principal amount of
7
3
/
8
%
Deutsche mark-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2008
issued by FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg to
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust III and assumed by
FMCAG as of December 23, 2004, (iii) $225,225,000 aggregate
principal amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2011 issued by
FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III to Fresenius
Medical Care Capital Trust IV and (iv)
300,300,000
aggregate principal amount of
7
3
/
8
% Euro-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2011
issued by FMC
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Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III to Fresenius
Medical Care Capital Trust V and assumed by FMCAG as of
December 23, 2004, in each case in connection with a
related issuance of Trust Preferred Securities and, to the
extent permitted hereunder, and any additional Subordinated Debt
incurred in connection with a related issuance of additional
Trust Preferred Securities issued after the Closing Date by
members of the Consolidated Group.
Type
means (i) with respect to a
Committed Revolving Loan or a Term Loan, its character as a Base
Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, and (ii) with
respect to a Competitive Revolving Loan, its character as an
Absolute Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loan.
Unfunded Pension Liability
means the excess
of a Pension Plans benefit liabilities under
Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of
that Pension Plans assets, determined in accordance with
the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to
Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code for the applicable
plan year.
United States
and
U.S.
mean the United States of America.
Unreimbursed Amount
has the meaning set forth
in Section 2.08(c)(i).
Wholly Owned
means, with respect to any
direct or indirect Subsidiary of any Person, that one hundred
percent (100%) of the Capital Stock with ordinary voting power
issued by such Subsidiary (other than directors qualifying
shares and investments by foreign nationals mandated by
applicable law) is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly,
by such Person;
provided
that any preferred stock of FMCH
outstanding as of the Closing Date shall be disregarded for
purposes of such determination.
WRG-Conn
means W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn., a
Connecticut corporation.
SECTION 1.02
Interpretive Provisions
. With reference
to this Credit Agreement and each other Credit Document, unless
otherwise provided herein or in such other Credit Document:
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the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
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hereto, hereof and hereunder
and words of similar import when used in any Credit Document
shall refer to such Credit Document as a whole and not to any
particular provision thereof.
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Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the
Credit Document in which such reference appears.
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including
is by way of
example and not limitation.
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documents
includes any and
all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices,
reports, financial statements and other writings, however
evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
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date to a later specified date, the word from means
from and including; the words to and
until each mean to but excluding; and
the word through means to and including.
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(d) Section headings herein and in the other Credit
Documents are included for convenience of reference only and
shall not affect the interpretation of this Credit Agreement or
any other Credit Document.
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SECTION 1.03
Accounting Terms
.
(a) All accounting terms not specifically or completely
defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all
financial data (including financial ratios and other financial
calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Credit
Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on
a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a
manner consistent with that used in preparing the audited
financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2004, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary,
determinations of (i) the applicable pricing level under
the definition of Applicable Percentage and
(ii) compliance with the financial covenants shall be made
on a Pro Forma Basis.
(c) With each annual and quarterly Compliance Certificate
delivered in accordance with
Section 7.02(b)
, FMCAG
will provide a written summary of material changes in GAAP or in
the consistent application of GAAP to the extent that either
affects the numeric value of any financial ratio or requirement
herein or in any other Credit Document. If at any time any
change in GAAP or any change in the application thereof would
affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set
forth in any Credit Document, and (i) FMCAG shall object to
determining such compliance based on GAAP or the application
thereof then in effect, or (ii) the Administrative Agent or
the Required Lenders shall so object in writing within thirty
days after delivery of such financial statements, then such
calculations shall be made on a basis consistent with the most
recent financial statements delivered hereunder as to which no
such objection shall have been made.
SECTION 1.04
Rounding
. Any financial ratios required
to be maintained by the Borrowers pursuant to this Credit
Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate
component by the other component, carrying the result to one
place more than the number of places by which such ratio is
expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the
nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest
number).
SECTION 1.05
References to Agreements and Laws
.
Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references
to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Credit
Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to
include all subsequent
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amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other
modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such
amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other
modifications are not prohibited by any Credit Document; and
(b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and
regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing,
supplementing or interpreting such Law.
SECTION 1.06
Times of Day
. Unless otherwise
provided, all references herein to times of day shall be
references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
SECTION 1.07
Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents
.
(a) The Administrative Agent shall determine the Spot Rates
as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating Dollar
Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts
denominated in Foreign Currencies;
provided
that
(i) the Foreign Swing Line Lender may make such
determinations with respect to the Foreign Swing Line Loans,
(ii) if a Lender is acting as Competitive Bid Agent, such
Competitive Bid Agent may make such determinations with respect
to Competitive Bid Loans and (iii) in any event, the
Foreign Swing Line Lender and the Competitive Bid Agent (whether
a Lender or FMCH) may rely on the most recent Spot Rate
determined by the Administrative Agent. Such Spot Rates shall
become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the
Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the
applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur.
(b) Wherever in this Credit Agreement in connection with a
Borrowing, conversion, continuation or prepayment of a Loan or
the issuance of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a
required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars,
but such Borrowing, Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in a
Foreign Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Foreign
Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the
nearest 1,000 units of such Foreign Currency), as determined by
the Administrative Agent;
provided
that (i) the
Foreign Swing Line Lender may make such determinations with
respect to the Foreign Swing Line Loans and (ii) if a
Lender is acting as Competitive Bid Agent, such Competitive Bid
Agent may make such determinations with respect to Competitive
Bid Loans.
(c) Determinations by the Administrative Agent (and
determinations by the Foreign Swing Line Lender and
determinations by any Lender acting as Competitive Bid Agent, as
applicable) pursuant to this
Section 1.07
shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 1.08
Additional Foreign Currencies
. The
Borrowers may from time to time request that Credit Extensions
be made in a currency other than those specifically listed in
the definition of Available Foreign Currency;
provided
that such requested currency otherwise meets the
requirements set forth in such definition. Any such request
shall be made to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly
notify each applicable Lender thereof) not later than 12:00 noon
ten Business Days prior to the date of the desired Credit
Extension. Each such Lender shall notify the Administrative
Agent, not later than 12:00 noon seven Business Days after
receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole
discretion, to making Loans in such requested currency. Any
failure by a Lender to respond to such request within the time
period specified in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be
a refusal by such Lender to make
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Loans in such requested currency. If all the applicable Lenders
consent to making Loans in such requested currency, the
Administrative Agent shall so notify FMCH and such currency
shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Available
Foreign Currency hereunder. Upon any applicable Lenders
refusal to make Loans in the additional requested currency, the
Borrowers may replace such Lender in accordance with
Section 11.16
.
SECTION 1.09
Redenomination of Certain Foreign
Currencies
.
(a) Unless otherwise prohibited by Law, if more than one
currency unit are at the same time recognized by the central
bank of any country as the lawful currency of that country, then:
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(i) any reference in the Credit Documents to, and any
Obligations in, the currency of that country shall be translated
into, or paid in, the currency or currency unit of that country
designated by the Administrative Agent (after consultation with
FMCAG), and
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(ii) any translation from one currency or currency unit to
another shall be at the official rate of exchange recognized by
the central bank for the conversion of that currency or currency
unit into the other.
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(b) If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this
Credit Agreement will, to the extent the Administrative Agent
(acting reasonably and after consultation with FMCAG) specifies
to be necessary, be deemed amended to comply with any generally
accepted conventions and market practice (including the basis of
accrual of interest) in the relevant interbank market and
otherwise to reflect such change in currency.
SECTION 1.10
Letter of Credit Amounts
. Unless
otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at
any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the
stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time;
provided
that with respect to any Letter of Credit that,
by its terms or the terms of any Letter of Credit Applications
related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in
the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit
shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the maximum
stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to
all such increases, whether or not such maximum amount is in
effect at such time (giving effect to any permanent reductions
that may have been made).
ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
SECTION 2.01
Commitments
. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein:
(a)
Revolving Commitment
. During the Commitment
Period, each Revolving Lender severally agrees to make revolving
credit loans (the
Committed Revolving Loans
)
in Dollars and in Available Foreign Currencies on any Business
Day to the
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requesting Borrower or Borrowers;
provided
that
(i) with respect to each Borrower, the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Obligations owing by such Borrower shall not
exceed its Designated Borrowing Limit, (ii) with respect to
the Revolving Lenders collectively, (A) the aggregate
principal amount of Revolving Obligations shall not exceed ONE
BILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000,000) (as such amount may be
increased or decreased in accordance with the provisions hereof,
the
Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount
) and
(B) the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Obligations
in Foreign Currencies shall not exceed THREE HUNDRED MILLION
DOLLARS ($300,000,000) (as such amount may be decreased in
accordance with the provisions hereof, the
Aggregate
Foreign Revolving Committed Amount
), and
(iii) with respect to each Revolving Lender individually,
such Revolving Lenders Revolving Commitment Percentage of
Committed Revolving Obligations shall not exceed its respective
Revolving Committed Amount. Committed Revolving Loans may be
comprised of Base Rate Loans, Eurocurrency Rate Loans, or a
combination thereof, as the respective Borrower may request and
may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions
hereof.
(b)
L/ C Commitment
. During the Commitment Period:
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(i) the L/ C Issuer, in reliance upon the agreements from
the Revolving Lenders set forth herein, agrees (A) to issue
Letters of Credit in Dollars and in Available Foreign Currencies
on any Business Day for the account of any Borrower or
Borrowers, for such Borrowers own use or for the use of
its Subsidiaries, and to amend or renew Letters of Credit
previously issued hereunder, in accordance with the provisions
hereof, and (B) to honor drafts under Letters of Credit, and
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(ii) the Revolving Lenders severally agree to participate
in the Letters of Credit issued or existing hereunder;
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provided
that (i) the aggregate principal amount of
L/ C Obligations shall not exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION
DOLLARS ($250,000,000) (as such amount may be decreased in
accordance with the provisions hereof, the
L/ C
Committed Amount
), (ii) with respect to each
Borrower, the aggregate principal amount of Revolving
Obligations owing by such Borrower shall not exceed its
Designated Borrowing Limit, (iii) with respect to the
Revolving Lenders collectively, (A) the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Obligations shall not exceed the Aggregate
Revolving Committed Amount and (B) the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Obligations in Foreign Currencies shall not
exceed the Aggregate Foreign Revolving Committed Amount, and
(iv) with respect to each Revolving Lender individually,
such Revolving Lenders Revolving Commitment Percentage of
Committed Revolving Obligations shall not exceed its respective
Revolving Committed Amount. Subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, the Borrowers ability to obtain Letters of Credit
shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrowers may
obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have
expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed. Existing
Letters of Credit
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shall be deemed to have been issued hereunder and shall be
subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.
(c)
Domestic Swing Line Commitment
. During the
Commitment Period, each of the Domestic Swing Line Lenders
agrees to make revolving credit loans (the
Domestic
Swing Line Loans
) in Dollars on any Business Day to
any Borrower or Borrowers;
provided
that (i) the
aggregate principal amount of Domestic Swing Line Loans shall
not exceed ONE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($150,000,000) (as
such amount may be decreased in accordance with the provisions
hereof, the
Domestic Swing Line Committed
Amount
), (ii) with respect to each Borrower, the
aggregate principal amount of Revolving Obligations owing by
such Borrower shall not exceed its Designated Borrowing Limit,
and (iii) with respect to the Revolving Lenders
collectively, the aggregate principal amount of Revolving
Obligations shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Committed
Amount. Domestic Swing Line Loans shall be comprised solely of
Base Rate Loans, and may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance
with the provisions hereof. Immediately upon making a Domestic
Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from
the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender a risk participation
in such Domestic Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the
product of such Revolving Lenders Revolving Commitment
Percentage of such Domestic Swing Line Loan.
(d)
Foreign Swing Line Commitment
. During the
Commitment Period, the Foreign Swing Line Lender agrees to make
available to the Borrowers on any Business Day revolving credit
loans, letters of credit or bank guaranties or other financial
accommodations by mutual agreement (collectively, the
Foreign Swing Line Loans
), which may consist
of:
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(i) revolving loans and letters of credit in Available
Foreign Currencies and Designated Alternative Foreign Currencies
on a participated basis with the Revolving Lenders as provided
herein (collectively, the
Shared Foreign Swing Line
Loans
), and
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(ii) bank guaranties and other forms of financial
accommodation in Available Foreign Currencies, and revolving
loans, letters of credit, bank guaranties and other forms of
financial accommodation (in such form as may be agreed by the
applicable Borrower and the Foreign Swing Line Lender) in
Alternative Foreign Currencies, in each case in such form and in
such currencies as may be mutually agreed, for the sole account
of the Foreign Swing Line Lender on a non-participated basis
(collectively, the
Non-Shared Foreign Swing Line
Loans
);
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provided
that (i) the aggregate principal amount of
Foreign Swing Line Loans shall not exceed FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS
($50,000,000) (as such amount may be decreased in accordance
with the provisions hereof, the
Foreign Swing Line
Committed Amount
), (ii) the aggregate principal
amount of Foreign Swing Line Loans denominated in Canadian
dollars shall not exceed TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS (USD$20,000,000),
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(iii) the aggregate principal amount of Foreign Swing Line
Loans denominated in Mexican pesos shall not exceed FIFTEEN
MILLION DOLLARS ($15,000,000), (iv) the aggregate principal
amount of Non-Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans shall not exceed
TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ($20,000,000) (as such amount may be
decreased in accordance with the provisions hereof, the
Non-Shared Foreign Swing Line Maximum
Amount
), (v) with respect to each Primary
Borrower, the aggregate principal amount of Revolving
Obligations owing by such Primary Borrower shall not exceed its
Designated Borrowing Limit, and (vi) with respect to the
Revolving Lenders collectively, (A) the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Obligations shall not exceed the Aggregate
Revolving Committed Amount and (B) the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Obligations in Foreign Currencies shall not
exceed the Aggregate Foreign Revolving Committed Amount. Foreign
Swing Line Loans shall be comprised solely of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans, and may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the
provisions hereof. Immediately upon making a Shared Foreign
Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from
the Foreign Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such
Shared Foreign Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product
of such Revolving Lenders Revolving Commitment Percentage
of such Shared Foreign Swing Line Loan;
provided
that,
notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the
funding and payment of risk participation interests in Shared
Foreign Swing Line Loans that are denominated in Designated
Alternative Foreign Currencies may be made in Dollars based on
the Dollar Equivalent thereof. The Revolving Lenders shall have
no interest in nor any obligation with respect to the Non-Shared
Foreign Swing Line Loans which shall be issued by the Foreign
Swing Line Lender strictly for its own account.
(e)
Competitive Revolving Loans
. During the
Commitment Period, any Borrower or Borrowers may request the
Revolving Lenders to submit offers to make loans, issue letters
of credit or bank guaranties, or make other financial
accommodations (collectively, the
Competitive Revolving
Loans
) in Dollars, Available Foreign Currencies or
Alternative Foreign Currencies;
provided
that (i) the
aggregate principal amount of Competitive Revolving Loans shall
not exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($250,000,000) (as
such amount may be decreased in accordance with the provisions
hereof, the
Competitive Revolving Loan Maximum
Amount
), (ii) with respect to each Borrower, the
aggregate principal amount of Revolving Obligations owing by
such Borrower shall not exceed its Designated Borrowing Limit,
and (iii) with respect to the Revolving Lenders
collectively, (A) the aggregate principal amount of
Revolving Obligations shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving
Committed Amount and (B) the aggregate principal amount of
Revolving Obligations in Foreign Currencies shall not exceed the
Aggregate Foreign Revolving Committed Amount. Competitive
Revolving Loans may be comprised of Eurocurrency Margin Bid
Loans and Absolute Rate Loans, or a combination thereof, as the
applicable Borrower may request, and may be repaid and
reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof. There shall
not be more than twenty separate Competitive Revolving Loans
outstanding at any time.
(f)
Incremental Loan Facilities
. Any time after the
Closing Date, any Borrower or Borrowers may, upon written notice
to the Administrative Agent, establish
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additional credit facilities (collectively, the
Incremental Loan Facilities
) by increasing
the Aggregate Revolving Commitments hereunder as provided in
Section 2.01(g
) (the
Incremental Revolving
Loans
), increasing the Tranche A Term Loan as
provided in
Section 2.01(h
) (the
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan
),
increasing the Tranche B Term Loan as provided in
Section 2.01(i
) (the
Incremental Tranche B
Term Loan
) or establishment of a new term loan (the
Tranche C Term Loan
) or other
incremental term loan as provided in
Section 2.01(j)
, or
some combination thereof;
provided
that:
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(i) the aggregate principal amount of loans and commitments
for all the Incremental Loan Facilities established after the
Closing Date will not exceed $500 million or the Dollar
Equivalent thereof on the date on which the amount of each such
facility is fixed;
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(ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing or shall result after giving effect to any such
Incremental Loan Facility;
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(iii) the making of any Loans under the Incremental Loan
Facilities shall be subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions to the making of a Credit Extension under
Section 5.02
;
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(iv) the requesting Borrower or Borrowers will provide
(A) a compliance certificate from a Responsible Officer
confirming that no Default or Event of Default shall exist
immediately after giving effect to the establishment and funding
of the Incremental Loan Facilities and demonstrating compliance
with the financial covenants hereunder after giving effect to
the Incremental Loan Facilities (assuming that the Revolving
Loans and the Incremental Loan Facilities are fully drawn and
funded), (B) confirmation that the Incremental Loan
Facilities constitute Senior Indebtedness in respect
of the Trust Preferred Subdebt and (C) supporting
resolutions, legal opinions, promissory notes and other items as
may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders providing commitments for the Incremental Loan
Facilities; and
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(v) to the extent reasonably necessary in the judgment of
the Administrative Agent, amendments to each foreign Pledge
Agreement and the Parallel Debt Agreement and/or delivery of any
substantially similar agreement that creates an obligation of
the Credit Parties (as debt acknowledgment or
abstraktes
Schuldanerkenntnis
), in each case in a manner satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent;
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In connection with the establishment of any Incremental Loan
Facility, (A) none of the Lenders, including Bank of
America and DBSI, shall have any obligation to provide
commitments or loans for any Incremental Loan Facility without
their prior written approval and (B)
Schedule 2.01
hereto
and Schedule 2.01 to the Term Loan Credit Agreement will be
revised to reflect the Lenders, Loans, Commitments, committed
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amounts and Commitment Percentages after giving effect to the
establishment of any Incremental Loan Facility.
(g)
Establishment of Incremental Revolving Loans
.
Subject to
Section 2.01(f
), any Borrower or
Borrowers may establish Incremental Revolving Loans by
increasing the Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount,
provided
that:
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(i) any new lender providing commitments for the
Incremental Revolving Loans must be reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Incremental
Revolving Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.01(g
)
will provide a Revolving Loan Joinder Agreement or other
agreement reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; and
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(iii) if any Revolving Loans are outstanding at the time of
any such increase, the Borrower will make such payments and
adjustments on the Revolving Loans (including payment of any
break-funding amounts owing under
Section 3.05
) as
may be necessary to give effect to the revised commitment
amounts and percentages, it being agreed that the Administrative
Agent shall, in consultation with the Borrowers, manage the
allocation of the revised Commitment Percentages to the existing
Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such a manner as to minimize the
amounts so payable by the Borrowers.
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Any Incremental Revolving Loan established hereunder shall have
terms identical to the Revolving Loans existing on the Closing
Date, except for fees payable to Lenders providing commitments
for the Incremental Revolving Loan.
(h)
Establishment of Incremental Tranche A Term
Loan
. Subject to
Section 2.01(f
), the Borrowers
under the Tranche A Term Loan may, at any time prior to the
first amortization payment date on the Tranche A Term Loan,
increase the size of the Tranche A Term Loan by
establishing additional Tranche A Term Loan Commitments,
provided
that:
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(i) any new lender providing commitments for the
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan must be reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent under the Term Loan
Credit Agreement;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Incremental
Tranche A Term Loan pursuant to this
Section 2.01(h
)
will provide an Incremental Tranche A Term Loan Joinder
Agreement or other agreement reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent under the Term Loan Credit Agreement; and
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(iii) the Borrowers will make such payments and adjustments
on the Tranche A Term Loan (including payment of any
break-funding amounts owing under
Section 3.05
) as
may be necessary to give effect to the revised commitment
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amounts and percentages, it being agreed that the Administrative
Agent shall, in consultation with the Borrowers, manage the
allocation of the revised Commitment Percentages to the existing
Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such a manner as to minimize the
amounts so payable by the Borrowers.
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Any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan shall have terms
identical to the Tranche A Term Loan existing on the
Closing Date, except for fees payable to Lenders providing
commitments for the Incremental Tranche A Term Loan.
(i)
Establishment of the Incremental Tranche B Term
Loan
. Subject to
Section 2.01(f
), the Borrowers
under the Tranche B Term Loan may, at any time prior to the
first amortization payment date on the Tranche B Term Loan,
increase the size of the Tranche B Term Loan by
establishing additional Tranche B Term Loan Commitments,
provided
that:
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(i) any new lender providing commitments for the
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan must be reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent under the Term Loan
Credit Agreement;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Incremental
Tranche B Term Loan pursuant to this
Section 2.01(i
)
will provide an Incremental Tranche B Term Loan Joinder
Agreement or other agreement reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent under the Term Loan Credit Agreement;
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(iii) the Borrowers will make such payments and adjustments
on the Tranche B Term Loan (including payment of any
break-funding amounts owing under
Section 3.05
) as
may be necessary to give effect to the revised commitment
amounts and percentages, it being agreed that the Administrative
Agent shall, in consultation with the Borrowers, manage the
allocation of the revised Commitment Percentages to the existing
Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such a manner as to minimize the
amounts so payable by the Borrowers.
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Any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan shall have terms
identical to the Tranche B Term Loan existing on the
Closing Date, except for fees payable to Lenders providing
commitments for the Incremental Tranche B Term Loan.
(j)
Establishment of the Tranche C Term Loan
.
Subject to
Section 2.01(f
), the Borrowers may, at
any time after the Closing Date, establish a Tranche C Term
Loan or other term loan facility under the Term Loan Credit
Agreement,
provided
that:
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(i) lenders providing commitments for the Tranche C
Term Loan or such other term loan must be reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent under the Term Loan Credit Agreement;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Tranche C
Term Loan or such other term loan pursuant to this
Section 2.01(j
) will provide a Tranche C
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Term Loan Joinder Agreement or other agreement reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent under the Term Loan
Credit Agreement;
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(iii) the Tranche C Term Loan or such other term loan
will have a final maturity date that is co-terminous with or
later than the final maturity date for the Tranche B Term
Loan and an average-life-to-maturity from the date of issuance
of the Tranche C Term Loan or such other loan that is not
earlier than the average-life-to-maturity of the Tranche B
Term Loan from such date; and
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(iv) the Applicable Percentage for the Tranche C Term
Loan will be not more than * basis points (*%) more than the
Applicable Percentage for the Tranche B Term Loan.
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For purposes of this Section only, Applicable Percentage for the
Tranche C Term Loan shall be deemed to include all upfront
or similar fees or original issue discount (amortized over the
life of such term loan) payable to all the Lenders of such term
loans, but exclusive of any arrangement, structuring or other
fees payable in connection therewith that are not shared with
all the Lenders of such term loans.
SECTION 2.02
Borrowings, Conversions and
Continuations of Loans
.
(a) Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type
to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans
shall be made upon the applicable Borrowers irrevocable
notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by
telephone. Each such notice (except as otherwise set forth in
Section 2.10
with respect to Foreign Swing Line
Loans) must be received by the Administrative Agent not later
than 11:30 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the
requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars,
(ii) four Business Days prior to the requested date of any
Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans denominated in Available Foreign Currencies (other than
Japanese yen), (iii) five Business Days prior to the
requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Japanese
yen and (iv) on the Business Day prior to the requested
date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Each telephonic notice
by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Section 2.02
must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of
a written Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a
Responsible Officer or duly authorized signatory of the
applicable Borrower. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal
amount of $5 million or a whole multiple of $1 million
in excess thereof. Except as provided in
Sections 2.08(c)
,
2.09(b)
and
2.10(b)
,
each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a
principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in
excess thereof. Each Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written)
shall specify (A) whether such Borrower is requesting a
Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or
a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (B) the
requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as
the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (C) the
principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or
continued, (D) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which
existing Loans are to be converted, and (E) if applicable,
the requested duration of the Interest Period with respect
thereto. If such Borrower fails to specify a
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Confidential treatment has been requested as to the omitted
portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Type of Loan in a Loan Notice or if such Borrower fails to give
a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then
the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base
Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans
shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period
then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate
Loans. If such Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to,
or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Loan
Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be
deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.
(b) Following receipt of a Loan Notice, the Administrative
Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its
Commitment Percentage of the applicable Loans, and if no timely
notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the
Borrowers, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of
the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans
described in the preceding subsection. In the case of a
Borrowing, each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan
available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the
Administrative Agents Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on
the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice;
provided
that, in the case of Borrowings in Swiss francs
and Japanese yen, unless and until the Administrative Agent
shall otherwise direct, the Lender may provide funds in the then
applicable Dollar Equivalent (including an exchange fee and
other normal and customary fees for providing this service as
determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion)
thereof in lieu of Swiss francs and Japanese yen, so long as the
Lender has given reasonable notice to the Administrative Agent
of its desire and intent to so provide funds therefor promptly
after (but in any event within one hour of) its receipt of any
such notice for a Borrowing in Swiss francs or Japanese yen.
Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in
Section 5.02
(and, if such Borrowing is the initial
Credit Extension,
Section 5.01
), the Administrative
Agent shall make all funds so received available to the
applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the
Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of
such Borrower or Borrowers on the books of the Administrative
Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer
of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions
provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative
Agent by such Borrower or Borrowers;
provided
, however,
that if, on the date of such Borrowing, there are Swing Line
Loans or L/ C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such
Borrowing shall be applied,
first
, to the payment in full
of any such L/ C Borrowings,
second
, to the payment in
full of any such Swing Line Loan, and third, to such Borrower as
provided above;
provided
,
further
, in the case of
Borrowings in Swiss francs or Japanese yen for which any Lender
has provided funds in Dollars, the Administrative Agent shall
provide such funds to the applicable Borrower in Swiss francs or
Japanese yen, as applicable.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, without the
consent of the Required Lenders, (i) a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an
Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan and
(ii) any conversion into, or continuation as, a
Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be made only if the conditions to
Credit Extensions in
Section 5.02
have been
satisfied. During the existence of a Default or Event of
Default, (i) no Loan may be requested as, converted to or
continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and (ii) at the
request of the Required Lenders, any outstanding Eurocurrency
Rate Loan shall be converted immediately to a Base Rate Loan.
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(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
applicable Borrower or Borrowers (with a copy to FMCAG and FMCH)
and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest
Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such
interest rate. The determination of the Eurocurrency Rate by the
Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are
outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify FMCH and the
Lenders of any change in Bank of Americas prime rate used
in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public
announcement of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions
of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of
Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than twenty
Interest Periods in effect with respect to all Committed
Revolving Loans hereunder;
provided
in each case that,
for purposes hereof, Interest Periods with respect to Loans
(whether or not of the same Type) with separate or different
Interest Periods will be considered as separate Interest
Periods, even if such Interest Periods end on the same date.
SECTION 2.03
Interest
.
(a) Subject to the provisions of
subsection (b)
below, (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Committed Loan shall bear
interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each
Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the
Eurocurrency Rate
plus
the Applicable Percentage,
(ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the
outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable
borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Base
Rate
plus
the Applicable Percentage, (iii) each
Domestic Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a
per annum rate equal to the sum of the Base Rate
plus
the
Applicable Percentage, (iv) each Foreign Swing Line Loan
shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof
from the applicable borrowing date at a per annum rate equal to
the sum of the Eurocurrency Rate
plus
the Applicable
Percentage, and (v) each Competitive Revolving Loan shall
bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for
each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the
Eurocurrency Rate
plus
(or
minus
) the Eurocurrency
Bid Margin, or at the Absolute Rate, as the case may be.
(b) If any amount payable by the Borrowers under any Credit
Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable
grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a
fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the
Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Furthermore, upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any
Event of Default exists, the Borrowers shall pay interest on the
principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a
fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the
Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including
interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon
demand.
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at
such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder
shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof
before and after
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judgment, and before and after the commencement of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
SECTION 2.04
Fees
.
(a)
Commitment Fee
. The Borrowers shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving
Commitment Lender in accordance with its Revolving Commitment
Percentage, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable Percentage
of the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Revolving
Committed Amount exceeds the sum of (i) the Outstanding
Amount of Committed Revolving Loans and (ii) the
Outstanding Amount of L/ C Obligations. The commitment fee shall
accrue at all times during the Commitment Period, including at
any time during which one or more of the conditions in
Article V
is not met, and shall be due and payable
quarterly in arrears on each April 15, July 15,
October 15 and January 15 for the immediately preceding quarter
ending prior to each such date, commencing with the first such
date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Termination
Date. The commitment fee shall be calculated quarterly in
arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Percentage
during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed
and multiplied by the Applicable Percentage separately for each
period during such quarter that such Applicable Percentage was
in effect. For purposes hereof, (i) Swing Line Loans and
Competitive Bid Loans shall not be counted toward or be
considered as usage of the Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount
and (ii) L/ C Obligations shall be counted toward and
considered as usage of the Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount.
(b)
Letter of Credit Fees
. The Borrowers shall pay
to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender in
accordance with its Revolving Commitment Percentage a Letter of
Credit fee for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable
Percentage of the daily maximum amount available to be drawn
under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount
is then in effect under such Letter of Credit). Such fees shall
be due and payable quarterly in arrears on each April 15,
July 15, October 15 and January 15 for the immediately
preceding quarter ending prior to such date, commencing with the
first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of
Credit. Such fees shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and
if there is any change in the Applicable Percentage during any
quarter, the actual daily amount of each Letter of Credit shall
be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Percentage for
Letters of Credit separately for each period during such quarter
that such Applicable Percentage was in effect.
(c)
Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges
Payable to L/ C Issuer
. The Borrowers shall pay directly to
the L/ C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee with respect
to each Letter of Credit in the amounts and at the times
separately agreed upon in writing;
provided
, that the
fronting fee for each Letter of Credit shall be no more than
fifteen basis points (0.15%) of the face amount thereof. In
addition, the Borrowers shall pay directly to the L/ C Issuer
for its own account the customary issuance, presentation,
amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs
and charges, of the L/ C Issuer relating to letters of credit as
from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard
costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are
nonrefundable.
(d)
Other Fees
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(i) The Borrowers shall pay to the Arrangers, the
Co-Documentation Agents and the Administrative Agent, for their
own respective accounts, fees in the amounts and at the times
specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned
when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
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(ii) The Borrowers shall pay to the Competitive Bid Agent,
for its own account, such fees as shall have been separately
agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so
specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall
not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
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(iii) The Borrowers shall pay to the Lenders, for their own
respective accounts, such fees as shall have been separately
agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so
specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall
not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
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SECTION 2.05
Repayment of Loans
.
(a)
Revolving Loans
. The Borrowers shall repay to
the Lenders on the Termination Date the aggregate principal
amount of Revolving Loans outstanding on such date.
(b)
Swing Line Loans
. The Borrowers shall repay each
Swing Line Loan on the earliest to occur of (i) the date of
demand for repayment by the Swing Line Lender, (ii) the
date of any payment under
Section 2.02(b)
,
(iii) the date which is fourteen Business Days following
the advance of such Swing Line Loan and (iv) the
Termination Date.
(c)
Competitive Revolving Loans
. The Borrowers shall
repay each Competitive Revolving Loan on the earlier of
(i) the maturity date thereof or the last day of the
Interest Period therefor, and (ii) the Termination Date.
SECTION 2.06
Prepayments
.
(a)
Voluntary Prepayments
. The Loans may be repaid
in whole or in part without premium or penalty (except, in the
case of Loans other than Base Rate Loans, amounts payable
pursuant to
Section 3.05
);
provided
that:
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(i) in the case of Loans other than Swing Line Loans,
(A) notice thereof must be received by 12:00 noon by the
Administrative Agent at least (1) three Business Days prior
to the date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated
in Dollars, (2) four Business Days prior to the date of
prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Available
Foreign Currencies (other than Japanese yen), (3) five
Business Days prior to the date of prepayment of Eurocurrency
Rate Loans denominated in Japanese yen and (4) on the
Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans,
(B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal
amount of $5 million and integral multiples of
$1 million in excess thereof, in the case of Eurocurrency
Rate Loans, and a minimum principal amount of $500,000 and
integral multiples of $100,000
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in excess thereof, in the case of Base Rate Loans, or, in each
case, the entire principal amount thereof, if less;
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(ii) (A) in the case of Domestic Swing Line Loans,
(1) notice thereof must be received by 2:00 p.m. by the
applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender on the date of prepayment
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent) and (2) any such
prepayments shall be in the same minimum principal amount as for
advances thereof (or any lesser amount as may be acceptable to
the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender), and (B) in the
case of Foreign Swing Line Loans, notice thereof must be
received by 2:00 p.m. by the Foreign Swing Line Lender on the
Business Day prior to the date of prepayment (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) and (2) any such prepayments shall be
in the same minimum principal amount as for advances thereof (or
any lesser amount as may be acceptable to the Foreign Swing Line
Lender); and
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(iii) any voluntary prepayments on the Loans shall be
applied as set forth in
Section 2.06(c)(i)
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Each such notice of voluntary repayment hereunder shall be
irrevocable and shall specify the date and amount of prepayment
and the Loans and Types of Loans which are to be prepaid. The
Administrative Agent will give prompt notice to the applicable
Lenders of any prepayment on the Loans and the Lenders
interest therein. Prepayments of Eurocurrency Rate Loans
hereunder shall be accompanied by accrued interest thereon and
breakage amounts, if any, under
Section 3.05
.
(b)
Mandatory Prepayments
.
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(i)
Revolving Commitments
. If at any time
(A) the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Obligations
shall exceed the Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount,
(B) the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Obligations
owing by any Borrower shall exceed its respective Designated
Borrowing Limit, (C) the aggregate principal amount of
Revolving Obligations in Foreign Currencies shall exceed the
Aggregate Foreign Revolving Committed Amount, (D) the
aggregate principal amount of L/ C Obligations shall exceed the
L/ C Committed Amount, (E) the aggregate principal amount
of Domestic Swing Line Loans shall exceed the Domestic Swing
Line Committed Amount, (F) the aggregate principal amount
of Foreign Swing Line Loans shall exceed the Foreign Swing Line
Committed Amount, (G) the aggregate principal amount of
Non-Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans shall exceed the Non-Shared
Foreign Swing Line Maximum Amount, or (H) the aggregate
principal amount of Competitive Revolving Loans shall exceed the
Competitive Revolving Loan Maximum Amount, immediate prepayment
will be made on the Revolving Loans and/or to Cash Collateralize
the L/ C Obligations in an amount equal to such excess;
provided
, however, that except as relates to
clause
(D)
above, L/ C Obligations will not be Cash Collateralized
hereunder until the Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans have
been paid in full.
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(ii)
Dispositions
. Prepayment will be made on the
Loan Obligations on the Business Day following receipt of any
Net Cash Proceeds required to be prepaid pursuant
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to the terms of
clauses (A)
and
(B)
hereof in an
amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash
Proceeds received from any Disposition by any member of the
Consolidated Group (other than in connection with a Disposition
permitted by
Section 8.05(a)
or
(g)
, a
Securitization Transaction permitted by
Section 8.01(f)
, or Sale and Leaseback Transaction
permitted by
Section 8.05(d)
or any Disposition to
another member of the Consolidated Group permitted by
subsections (e)
or
(f)
of
Section 8.05
) to the extent (A) such proceeds
are not reinvested in the same or similar properties or assets
within twelve months of the date of such Disposition and
(B) the aggregate amount of such proceeds that are not
reinvested in accordance with
clause (A)
hereof exceeds
$10 million in any fiscal year.
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(iii)
Debt Transactions
. Until the occurrence of a
Mandatory Prepayment Modification Event, prepayment will be made
on the Loan Obligations in an amount equal to fifty percent
(50%) of the Net Cash Proceeds from any Debt Transactions on the
Business Day following receipt thereof (but excluding any
refinancings unless Net Cash Proceeds are generated therefrom)
occurring after the Closing Date.
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(iv)
Securitization Transactions
. Until the
occurrence of a Mandatory Prepayment Modification Event,
prepayment will be made on the Loan Obligations in an amount
equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash Proceeds
from any Securitization Transaction (other than the Excluded
Securitization Transactions or any replacements or refinancings
thereof) on the Business Day following receipt thereof.
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(v)
Equity Transactions
. Prepayment will be made on
the Loan Obligations in an amount equal to (A) seventy-five
percent (75%) of the Net Cash Proceeds from Equity Transactions
occurring after the Closing Date where the Consolidated Leverage
Ratio will be greater than 3.5:1.0 after giving effect thereto
on a Pro Forma Basis, and (B) fifty percent (50%) of Net
Cash Proceeds from Equity Transactions occurring after the
Closing Date where the Consolidated Leverage Ratio will be equal
to or less than 3.5:1.0 after giving effect thereto on a Pro
Forma Basis. Any prepayment in respect of an Equity Transaction
hereunder will be payable on the Business Day following receipt
thereof.
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(vi)
Excess Cash Flow
. Prepayment will be made on
the Loan Obligations in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%)
of Consolidated Excess Cash Flow for each fiscal year where
(i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of such
fiscal year will be greater than 3.5:1.0 after giving effect
thereto on a Pro Forma Basis and (ii) the Borrowers
Debt Rating as of the end of such fiscal year is lower than Ba3
from Moodys or lower than BB-from S&P or unrated. Any
prepayment in respect of Consolidated Excess Cash Flow hereunder
will be payable annually on April 15 of the immediately
following fiscal year (commencing on April 15, 2007 for fiscal
year 2006).
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(c)
Application
. Within each Loan, prepayments will
be applied first to Base Rate Loans, then to Eurocurrency Rate
Loans in direct order of Interest Period maturities. In addition:
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(i)
Voluntary Prepayments
. Voluntary prepayments
shall be applied to the Term Loans as specified by the
Borrowers;
provided
that any such prepayment on a Term
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Loan will be applied to such Term Loan
first
in forward
order of maturity to the principal amortization payments coming
due within the next twelve (12) months in direct order of
maturity and
second
pro rata to the remaining principal
amortization installments on such Term Loan, as the case may be.
Voluntary prepayments on the Loan Obligations will be paid by
the Administrative Agent to the Lenders ratably in accordance
with their respective interests therein.
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(ii)
Mandatory Prepayments
. Mandatory prepayments on
the Loan Obligations will be paid by the Administrative Agent to
the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective
interests therein;
provided
that:
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(A) Mandatory prepayments in respect of the Revolving
Commitments under
subsection (b)(i)
above shall be
applied to the respective Revolving Obligations as appropriate.
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(B) Mandatory prepayments in respect of Dispositions under
subsection (b)(ii)
above, Debt Transactions under
subsection (b)(iii)
, Securitization Transactions under
subsection (b)(iv)
, Equity Transactions under
subsection (b)(v)
and Consolidated Excess Cash Flow under
subsection (b)(vi)
above shall be applied (i) pro
rata to the Term Loans until paid in full, first in forward
order to the principal amortization payments coming due within
the next twelve (12) months and second pro rata to the
remaining principal amortization installments on the Term Loans,
until paid in full, then (ii) to the Revolving Loan
Obligations.
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SECTION 2.07
Termination or Reduction of
Commitments
.
(a)
Voluntary Reductions
. The Commitments hereunder
may be permanently reduced in whole or in part by notice from
FMCAG to the Administrative Agent;
provided
that
(i) any such notice thereof must be received by 12:00 noon
by the Administrative Agent at least three Business Days prior
to the date of reduction or termination and any such prepayment
shall be in a minimum principal amount of $5 million and
integral multiples of $1 million in excess thereof; and
(ii) the Commitments may not be reduced to an amount less
than the obligations then outstanding thereunder. The
Administrative Agent will give prompt notice to the applicable
Lenders of any such reduction in Commitments and the
Lenders portion thereof. Any such reduction in Commitments
will be accompanied by payment of fees which have accrued but
have not been paid in respect of the Commitments that are being
terminated.
(b)
Mandatory Reductions
. The Aggregate Revolving
Committed Amount will not be permanently reduced by amounts
prepaid on the Revolving Obligations in respect of Commitments
under
Section 2.06(b)(i)
, Dispositions under
Section 2.06(b)(ii)
, Debt Transactions under
Section 2.06(b)(iii)
and Securitization Transactions
under
Section 2.06(b)(iv)
, Equity Transactions under
Section 2.06(b)(v)
and Consolidated Excess Cash Flow
under
Section 2.06(b)(vi)
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SECTION 2.08
Additional Provisions with respect to
Letters of Credit
.
(a)
Obligation to Issue and Amend
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(i) The L/ C Issuer shall be under no obligation to issue
any Letter of Credit if:
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(A) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one
or more policies of the L/ C Issuer applicable to its customers
generally; or
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(B) such Letter of Credit is in an initial amount less than
$50,000 or is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars
or Available Foreign Currencies.
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(ii) The L/ C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit
if:
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(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental
Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or
restrain the L/ C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or
any Law applicable to the L/ C Issuer or any request or
directive (whether or not having the force of Law) from any
Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the L/ C Issuer
shall prohibit, or request that the L/ C Issuer refrain from,
the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of
Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/ C Issuer with
respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or
capital requirement (for which the L/ C Issuer is not otherwise
compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or
shall impose upon the L/ C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or
expense that was not applicable on the Closing Date and that the
L/ C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;
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(B) subject to
Section 2.08(b)(iii)
, the expiry
date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than
twelve months after the date of issuance or last renewal;
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(C) one or more applicable conditions contained in
Section 5.02
shall not then be satisfied and the L/ C
Issuer shall have received written notice thereof from the
Administrative Agent or any Revolving Lender or any Credit Party
at least one Business Day prior to the requested date of
issuance of such Letter of Credit; or
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(D) the Commitments have been terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
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(iii) The L/ C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend
any Letter of Credit if:
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(A) the L/ C Issuer would have no obligation at such time
to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the
terms hereof; or
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(B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not
accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
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(iv) The L/ C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit
if:
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(A) one or more applicable conditions contained in
Section 5.02
shall not then be satisfied and the L/ C
Issuer shall have received written notice thereof from any
Revolving Lender or any Credit Party at least one Business Day
prior to the requested date of amendment of such Letter of
Credit; or
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(B) the Commitments have been terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
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(b)
Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of
Credit; Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit
.
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(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as
the case may be, upon the request of the applicable Borrower
delivered to the L/ C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application,
appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer or
duly authorized signatory of such Borrower. Such Letter of
Credit Application must be received by the L/ C Issuer and the
Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon at least two
Business Days (or such later date and time as the L/ C Issuer
may agree in a particular instance in its sole discretion) prior
to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case
may be. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a
Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall
specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/ C Issuer:
(A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of
Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the currency
and amount thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof;
(D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof;
(E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in
case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any
certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any
drawing thereunder; and (G) such other matters as the L/ C
Issuer may require. In the case of a request for an amendment of
any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit
Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the
L/ C Issuer (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended;
(2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be
a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment;
and (4) such other matters as the L/ C Issuer may require.
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(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit
Application, the L/ C Issuer will confirm with the
Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the
Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of
Credit Application from such Borrower and, if not, the L/ C
Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy
thereof. Upon receipt by the L/ C Issuer of confirmation from
the Administrative Agent that the requested issuance or
amendment is permitted in accordance with the terms hereof,
then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/ C
Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit
for the account of such Borrower or enter into the applicable
amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with
the L/ C Issuers usual and customary business practices.
Immediately upon the issuance of each
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Letter of Credit, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from
the L/ C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in
an amount equal to the product of such Lenders Revolving
Commitment Percentage
multiplied by
the amount of such
Letter of Credit.
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(iii) If the Borrowers so request in any applicable Letter
of Credit Application, the L/ C Issuer may, in its sole and
absolute discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has
automatic renewal provisions (each, an
Auto-Renewal
Letter of Credit
);
provided
that any such
Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit must permit the L/ C Issuer to
prevent any such renewal at least once in each twelve-month
period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of
Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not
later than a day (the
Nonrenewal Notice Date
)
in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time
such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by
the L/ C Issuer, the Borrowers shall not be required to make a
specific request to the L/ C Issuer for any such renewal. Once
an Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit has been issued, the Revolving
Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require)
the L/ C Issuer to permit the renewal of such Letter of Credit
at any time prior to the Letter of Credit Expiration Date;
provided
, however, that the L/ C Issuer shall not permit
any such renewal if (A) the L/ C Issuer has determined that
it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of
Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of
the provisions of
Section 2.08(a)
or otherwise), or
(B)(1) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in
writing) on or before the day that is five Business Days before
the Nonrenewal Notice Date from the Administrative Agent that
the Required Revolving Lenders have elected not to permit such
renewal or (2) one or more of the applicable conditions
specified in
Section 5.02
is not then satisfied and
the L/ C Issuer shall have received notice thereof from the
Administrative Agent, any Revolving Lender or the Borrowers, in
each case directing the L/ C Issuer not to permit such renewal.
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(iv) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or
any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with
respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the L/ C Issuer
will also deliver to the applicable Borrower and the
Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of
Credit or amendment.
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(c)
Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of
Participations
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(i) Upon any drawing under any Letter of Credit, the L/ C
Issuer shall notify FMCH and the Administrative Agent thereof.
Not later than 12:00 noon on the date of any payment by the L/ C
Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an
Honor Date
), the Borrowers shall reimburse
the L/ C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount
equal to the amount of such drawing in the applicable currency,
in the case of Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or an
Available Currency. In the case of a Letter of Credit
denominated in an Alternative Currency, the Borrowers shall
reimburse the L/ C Issuer in such Alternative Currency, unless
(A) the L/ C Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in
such notice that it will require or permit reimbursement in
Dollars or the Alternative Currency is not available, or
(B) in the absence of any requirement for reimbursements in
Dollars, the Borrowers shall have notified the L/ C Issuer
promptly
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following receipt of the notice of drawing that they will
reimburse the L/ C Issuer in Dollars. In the case of any such
reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing of a Letter of Credit
denominated in an Alternative Currency, the L/ C Issuer shall
notify the Borrowers of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of
the drawing promptly following the determination thereof. If the
Borrowers fail to so reimburse the L/ C Issuer by such time, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Lender
of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing
expressed in Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent
thereof, in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in a
Foreign Currency, and, in the case of a Letter of Credit
denominated in an Available Foreign Currency, expressed in such
Foreign Currency (the
Unreimbursed Amount
),
and the amount of such Lenders Revolving Commitment
Percentage thereof. In the case of any Letter of Credit
denominated in a Foreign Currency, the Unreimbursed Amount shall
be redenominated into Dollars and equal the Dollar Equivalent
amount thereof, and the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Revolving Lenders thereof. In such event, the Borrowers shall be
deemed to have requested a Borrowing of Revolving Loans that are
Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount
equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum
and multiples specified in
Section 2.02
for the
principal amount of Base Rate Loans, the amount of the
unutilized portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or the
conditions set forth in
Section 5.02
. Any notice
given by the L/ C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to
this
Section 2.08(c)(i)
may be given by telephone if
immediately confirmed in writing;
provided
that the lack
of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the
conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
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(ii) Each Revolving Lender (including the Lender acting as
L/ C Issuer) shall upon any notice pursuant to
Section 2.08(c)(i)
make funds available to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/ C Issuer at the
Administrative Agents Office in an amount equal to its
Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not
later than 2:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such
notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the
provisions of
Section 2.08(c)(iii)
, each Revolving Lender
that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a
Revolving Loan that is a Base Rate Loan to the Borrowers in such
amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so
received to the L/ C Issuer in Dollars.
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(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not
fully refinanced by a Borrowing of Revolving Loans that are Base
Rate Loans for any reason, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have
incurred from the L/ C Issuer an L/ C Borrowing in the amount of
the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/ C
Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with
interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such
event, each Revolving Lenders payment to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/ C Issuer pursuant
to
Section 2.08(c)(ii)
shall be deemed payment in
respect of its participation in such L/ C Borrowing and shall
constitute an L/ C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of
its participation obligation under this
Section 2.08
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(iv) Until each Revolving Lender funds its Revolving Loan
or L/ C Advance pursuant to this
Section 2.08(c)
to
reimburse the L/ C Issuer for any amount drawn under
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any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lenders
Revolving Commitment Percentage of such amount shall be solely
for the account of the L/ C Issuer.
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(v) Each Revolving Lenders obligation to make
Revolving Loans or L/ C Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for
amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this
Section 2.08(c)
, shall be absolute and unconditional
and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including
(A) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other
right that such Lender may have against the L/ C Issuer, the
Borrowers or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or Event of
Default, (C) non-compliance with the conditions set forth
in
Section 5.02
, or (D) any other occurrence,
event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing. No such making of an L/ C Advance shall relieve or
otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse
the L/ C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the L/ C
Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as
provided herein.
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(vi) If any Revolving Lender fails to make available to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/ C Issuer any
amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this
Section 2.08(c)
by the
time specified in
Section 2.08(c)(ii)
, the L/ C Issuer
shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through
the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest
thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to
the date on which such payment is immediately available to the
L/ C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate
then in effect. A certificate of the L/ C Issuer submitted to
any Revolving Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with
respect to any amounts owing under this
clause (vi)
shall
be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(d)
Repayment of Participations
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(i) At any time after the L/ C Issuer has made a payment
under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving
Lender such Lenders L/ C Advance in respect of such
payment in accordance with
Section 2.08(c)
, if the
Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/ C Issuer
any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or
interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrowers or
otherwise, including proceeds of cash collateral applied thereto
by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will
distribute to such Lender its Revolving Commitment Percentage
thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest
payments, to reflect the period of time during which such
Lenders L/ C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as
those received by the Administrative Agent.
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(ii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent
for the account of the L/ C Issuer pursuant to
Section 2.08(c)(i)
is required to be returned under
any of the circumstances described in
Section 11.06
(including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/ C
Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Lender shall pay to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/ C Issuer its
Revolving Commitment Percentage thereof on demand of the
Administrative Agent,
plus
interest thereon from the
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date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such
Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight
Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the
Revolving Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in
full of the Obligations and termination of this Credit Agreement.
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(e)
Obligations Absolute
. The obligation of the
Borrowers to reimburse the L/ C Issuer for each drawing under
each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/ C Borrowing shall be
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid
strictly in accordance with the terms of this Credit Agreement
under all circumstances, including the following:
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(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter
of Credit, this Credit Agreement, or any other agreement or
instrument relating thereto;
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(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, set-off,
defense or other right that the Borrowers may have at any time
against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of
Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such
transferee may be acting), the L/ C Issuer or any other Person,
whether in connection with this Credit Agreement, the
transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or
any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated
transaction;
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(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document
presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged,
fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any
statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or
any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any
document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter
of Credit;
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(iv) any payment by the L/ C Issuer under such Letter of
Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does
not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or
any payment made by the L/ C Issuer under such Letter of Credit
to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy,
debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors,
liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to
any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit,
including any arising in connection with any proceeding under
any Debtor Relief Law;
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(v) any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in
the availability of the relevant Alternative Foreign Currency to
the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries or in the relevant currency
markets generally; or
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(vi) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever,
whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any
other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense
available to, or a discharge of, any Borrower.
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The Borrowers shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of
Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to them and,
in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the
Borrowers instructions or other irregularity, the
Borrowers will immediately notify the L/ C Issuer.
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(f)
Role of L/ C Issuer
. Each Revolving Lender and
each Borrower agrees that, in paying any drawing under a Letter
of Credit, the L/ C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to
obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates
and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to
ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such
document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering
any such document. None of the L/ C Issuer, any Agent-Related
Person nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or
assignees of the L/ C Issuer shall be liable to any Revolving
Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection
herewith at the request or with the approval of the Revolving
Lenders or the Required Revolving Lenders, as applicable;
(ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross
negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due
execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any
document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Letter
of Credit Application. Each Borrower hereby assumes all risks of
the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with
respect to its use of any Letter of Credit;
provided
,
however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not,
preclude any Borrowers pursuit of such rights and remedies
as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or
under any other agreement. None of the L/ C Issuer, any
Agent-Related Person, nor any of the respective correspondents,
participants or assignees of the L/ C Issuer, shall be liable or
responsible for any of the matters described in
clauses
(i)
through
(vi)
of
Section 2.08(e)
;
provided
, however, that anything in such clauses to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Borrowers may have a claim against
the L/ C Issuer, and the L/ C Issuer may be liable to the
Borrowers, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct,
as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by
any Borrower that such Borrower proves were caused by the L/ C
Issuers willful misconduct or gross negligence or the L/ C
Issuers willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit
after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft
and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and
conditions of a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in
limitation of the foregoing, the L/ C Issuer may accept
documents that appear on their face to be in order, without
responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any
notice or information to the contrary, and the L/ C Issuer shall
not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any
instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer
or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits
thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, that may
prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(g)
Cash Collateral
. (i) If the L/ C Issuer has
honored any drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such
drawing has resulted in an L/ C Borrowing, or (ii) if, as
of the Termination Date, any Letter of Credit may for any reason
remain outstanding and partially or wholly undrawn, the
Borrowers shall immediately Cash Collateralize the then
Outstanding Amount of all L/ C Obligations (in an amount equal
to such Outstanding Amount determined as of the date of such L/
C Borrowing or the Termination Date, as the case may be). Cash
collateral shall be maintained in blocked, interest-bearing
deposit accounts at Bank of America.
(h)
Applicability of ISP
. Unless otherwise expressly
agreed by the L/ C Issuer and the Borrowers when a Letter of
Credit is issued (including any such agreement applicable to an
Existing Letter of Credit), the rules of the ISP shall apply to
each Letter of Credit.
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(i)
Letter of Credit Fees
. The Borrowers shall pay
Letter of Credit fees as set forth in
Section 2.04(b)
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(j)
Conflict with Letter of Credit Application
. In
the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms
of any Letter of Credit Application, the terms hereof shall
control.
SECTION 2.09
Additional Provisions relating to
Domestic Swing Line Loans
.
(a)
Borrowing Procedures
. Each Borrowing of Domestic
Swing Line Loans shall be made upon the applicable
Borrowers or Borrowers irrevocable notice to the
applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender and the Administrative
Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be
received by the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender and the
Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. on the requested
borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the Borrower or
Borrowers therefor, (ii) the amount to be borrowed, which
shall be a minimum of $100,000, and (iii) the requested
borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day. Each such
telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the
applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender and the Administrative
Agent of a written Domestic Swing Line Loan Notice,
appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer or
duly authorized signatory of the applicable Borrower. Promptly
after receipt by the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender of
any telephonic Domestic Swing Line Loan Notice, the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative
Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent
has also received such Domestic Swing Line Loan Notice and, if
not, the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender will notify the
Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the
contents thereof. Unless the applicable Domestic Swing Line
Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the
Administrative Agent or any Revolving Lender prior to 3:00 p.m.
on the date of the proposed Borrowing of Domestic Swing Line
Loans (A) directing the applicable Domestic Swing Line
Lender not to make such Domestic Swing Line Loan as a result of
the limitations set forth in
Section 2.01(c)
, or
(B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified
in
Section 5.02
is not then satisfied, then, subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, the applicable Domestic
Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:30 p.m. on the
borrowing date specified in such Domestic Swing Line Loan
Notice, make the amount of its Domestic Swing Line Loan
available to such Borrower at its office by (i) crediting
the account of such Borrower on the books of the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender in Same Day Funds, or (ii) wire
transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with
reasonably acceptable instructions provided to the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender by such Borrower or Borrowers.
(b)
Refinancing of Domestic Swing Line Loans
.
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(i) Each Domestic Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole
and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the applicable
Borrower or Borrowers (and such Borrowers hereby irrevocably
authorize the Domestic Swing Line Lenders to so request on its
behalf), that each Revolving Lender make a Committed Revolving
Loan that is a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such
Lenders Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of
Domestic Swing Line Loans made by such Domestic Swing Line
Lender then outstanding. Such request shall be made by the
applicable Domestic Swing
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Line Lender in writing (which written request shall be deemed to
be a Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the
requirements of
Section 2.02
, without regard to the
minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount
of Base Rate Loans, the unutilized portion of the Aggregate
Revolving Commitments or the conditions set forth in
Section 5.02
. The applicable Domestic Swing Line
Lender shall furnish the applicable Borrower or Borrowers with a
copy of such Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice
to the Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Lender shall make an
amount equal to its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the
amount specified in such Loan Notice available to the
Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds for the account of the
applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender at the Administrative
Agents Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day
specified in such Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to
Section
2.09(b)(ii)
, each Revolving Lender that so makes funds
available shall be deemed to have made a Committed Revolving
Loan that is a Base Rate Loan to the applicable Borrower or
Borrowers in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit
the funds so received to the applicable Domestic Swing Line
Lender.
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(ii) If for any reason any Domestic Swing Line Loan cannot
be refinanced by such a Borrowing of Committed Revolving Loans
in accordance with
Section 2.09(b)(i)
, the request
for Committed Revolving Loans submitted by the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed
to be a request by the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender
that each of the Revolving Lenders fund its risk participation
in the relevant Domestic Swing Line Loan and each such
Lenders payment to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender pursuant to
Section 2.09(b)(i)
shall be deemed payment in
respect of such participation.
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(iii) If any Revolving Lender fails to make available to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by
such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section 2.09(b)
by the time specified in
Section 2.09(b)(i)
, the applicable Domestic Swing
Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender
(acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such
amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such
payment is required to the date on which such payment is
immediately available to the applicable Domestic Swing Line
Lender at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from
time to time in effect. A certificate of the applicable Domestic
Swing Line Lender submitted to any Revolving Lender (through the
Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under
this
clause (iii)
shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
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(iv) Each Revolving Lenders obligation to make
Committed Revolving Loans or to purchase and fund risk
participations in Domestic Swing Line Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.09(b)
shall be absolute and unconditional
and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including
(A) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other
right that such Lender may have against the applicable Domestic
Swing Line Lender, the Borrowers or any other Person for any
reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a
Default or Event of Default, (C) non-compliance with the
conditions set
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forth in
Section 5.02
, or (D) any other
occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of
the foregoing. No such purchase or funding of risk
participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation
of the Borrowers to repay Domestic Swing Line Loans, together
with interest as provided herein.
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(c)
Repayment of Participations
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(i) At any time after any Revolving Lender has purchased
and funded a risk participation in a Domestic Swing Line Loan,
if the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender receives any
payment on account of such Domestic Swing Line Loan, the
applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender will distribute to such
Lender its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such payment
(appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to
reflect the period of time during which such Lenders risk
participation was funded) in the same funds as those received by
the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender.
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(ii) If any payment received by the applicable Domestic
Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any
Domestic Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the
applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender under any of the
circumstances described in
Section 11.06
(including
pursuant to any settlement entered into by the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Revolving
Lender shall pay to the applicable Domestic Swing Line Lender
its Revolving Commitment Percentage thereof on demand of the
Administrative Agent,
plus
interest thereon from the date
of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate
per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The Administrative
Agent will make such demand upon the request of the applicable
Domestic Swing Line Lender.
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(d)
Interest for Account of Domestic Swing Line
Lender
. Each Domestic Swing Line Lender will be responsible
for invoicing the Borrowers for interest on the Domestic Swing
Line Loans made by such Domestic Swing Line Lender. Until each
Revolving Lender funds its Committed Revolving Loan or risk
participation pursuant to this
Section 2.09
to
refinance such Lenders Revolving Commitment Percentage of
such Domestic Swing Line Loans, interest in respect thereof
shall be solely for the account of such Domestic Swing Line
Lender.
(e)
Payments Directly to Domestic Swing Line Lender
.
The Borrowers shall make all payments of principal and interest
in respect of the Domestic Swing Line Loans made by any Domestic
Swing Line Lender directly to such Domestic Swing Line Lender.
SECTION 2.10
Additional Provisions relating to
Foreign Swing Line Loans
.
(a)
Borrowing Procedures
. Each Borrowing of Foreign
Swing Line Loans shall be made upon the applicable
Borrowers irrevocable notice to the Foreign Swing Line
Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by
telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Foreign
Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than,
in the case of Foreign Swing Line Loans made by Dresdner in
Available Foreign Currencies (except as otherwise agreed by
Dresdner), 2:00 p.m. (Central European Time) three Business Days
prior to
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the requested borrowing date for application of the Eurocurrency
Rate and one Business Day prior to the requested borrowing date
for application of the Absolute Rate (which rate shall be
determined by the Foreign Swing Line Lender), and, in all other
cases, by such times and number of days in advance of the
requested borrowing date as may be required by the respective
Foreign Swing Line Lender, and shall specify (i) the
Borrower therefor, (ii) the type, currency and amount of
financial accommodation requested, in such minimum amounts by
mutual agreement, and if a loan is requested, the applicable
Interest Period therefor, (iii) the requested borrowing
date, which shall be a Business Day and (iv) reasonably
acceptable wire instructions. Each such telephonic notice must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Foreign Swing Line
Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Foreign Swing
Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a
Responsible Officer or duly authorized signatory of the
applicable Borrower. Promptly after receipt by the Foreign Swing
Line Lender of any telephonic Foreign Swing Line Loan Notice,
the Foreign Swing Line Lender will confirm with the
Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the
Administrative Agent has also received such Foreign Swing Line
Loan Notice and, if not, the Foreign Swing Line Lender will
notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of
the contents thereof. Unless the Foreign Swing Line Lender has
received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the
Administrative Agent or any Revolving Lender within two hours
after receipt by it of any such notice of request for a Foreign
Swing Line Loan (A) directing the Foreign Swing Line Lender
not to make such Foreign Swing Line Loan as a result of the
limitations set forth in
Section 2.01(d)
, or
(B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified
in
Section 5.02
is not then satisfied, then, subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, the Foreign Swing Line
Lender will, not later than 3:30 p.m. (local time) on the
borrowing date specified in such Foreign Swing Line Loan Notice,
make the amount of its Foreign Swing Line Loan available to such
Borrower at its office by crediting the account of such Borrower
on the books of the Foreign Swing Line Lender in Same Day Funds,
or by wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance
with reasonably acceptable instructions provided to the Foreign
Swing Line Lender by such Borrower.
(b)
Refinancing of Foreign Swing Line Loans
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(i) The Foreign Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole
and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the Borrowers
(and the Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize the Foreign
Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each
Revolving Lender make a Committed Revolving Loan that is a
Eurocurrency Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lenders
Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of Foreign Swing
Line Loans then outstanding;
provided
that,
notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, any
such Committed Revolving Loans made in respect of Shared Foreign
Swing Line Loans that are denominated in Designated Alternative
Foreign Currencies may be made in Dollars in the Dollar
Equivalent thereof. Such request shall be made by the Foreign
Swing Line Lender in writing (which written request shall be
deemed to be a Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in
accordance with the requirements of
Section 2.02
, without
regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the
principal amount of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the unutilized
portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or the conditions
set forth in
Section 5.02
. The Foreign Swing Line
Lender shall furnish the Borrowers with a copy of the applicable
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Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the
Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Lender shall make an amount
equal to its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount
specified in such Loan Notice available to the Administrative
Agent in Same Day Funds for the account of the Foreign Swing
Line Lender at the Administrative Agents Office not later
than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Loan Notice,
whereupon, subject to
Section 2.10(b)(ii)
, each
Revolving Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed
to have made a Committed Revolving Loan that is a Base Rate Loan
to the Borrowers in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall
remit the funds so received to the Foreign Swing Line Lender.
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(ii) If for any reason any Shared Foreign Swing Line Loan
cannot be refinanced by such a Borrowing of Committed Revolving
Loans in accordance with
Section 2.10(b)(i)
, the
request for Committed Revolving Loans submitted by the Foreign
Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a
request by the Foreign Swing Line Lender that each of the
Revolving Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant
Shared Foreign Swing Line Loan and each such Lenders
payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Foreign Swing Line Lender pursuant to
Section 2.10(b)(i)
shall be deemed payment in
respect of such participation.
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(iii) If any Revolving Lender fails to make available to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the Foreign Swing
Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such Lender
pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section 2.10(b)
by the time specified in
Section 2.10(b)(i)
, the Foreign Swing Line Lender
shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through
the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest
thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to
the date on which such payment is immediately available to the
Foreign Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the
Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. A certificate of
the Foreign Swing Line Lender submitted to any Revolving Lender
(through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts
owing under this
clause (iii)
shall be conclusive
absent manifest error.
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(iv) Each Revolving Lenders obligation to make
Committed Revolving Loans or to purchase and fund risk
participations in Foreign Swing Line Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.10(b)
shall be absolute and unconditional
and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including
(A) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other
right that such Lender may have against the Foreign Swing Line
Lender, the Borrowers or any other Person for any reason
whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or
Event of Default, (C) non-compliance with the conditions set
forth in
Section 5.02
, or (D) any other
occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of
the foregoing. No such purchase or funding of risk
participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation
of the Borrowers to repay Foreign Swing Line Loans, together
with interest as provided herein.
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(c)
Repayment of Participations
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(i) At any time after any Revolving Lender has purchased
and funded a risk participation in a Foreign Swing Line Loan, if
the Foreign Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of
such Foreign Swing Line Loan, the Foreign Swing Line Lender will
distribute to such Lender its Revolving Commitment Percentage of
such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest
payments, to reflect the period of time during which such
Lenders risk participation was funded) in the same funds
as those received by the Foreign Swing Line Lender; provided
that, notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary,
in the case of Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans that are
denominated in Designated Alternative Foreign Currencies,
payment may be made in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent thereof.
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(ii) If any payment received by the Foreign Swing Line
Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Foreign Swing
Line Loan is required to be returned by the Foreign Swing Line
Lender under any of the circumstances described in
Section 11.06
(including pursuant to any settlement
entered into by the Foreign Swing Line Lender in its
discretion), each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Foreign
Swing Line Lender its Revolving Commitment Percentage thereof on
demand of the Administrative Agent,
plus
interest thereon
from the date of such demand to the date such amount is
returned, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate;
provided that, notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, in the case of Shared Foreign Swing Line Loans that
are denominated in Designated Alternative Foreign Currencies,
payment may be made in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent thereof.
The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request
of the Foreign Swing Line Lender.
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(d)
Interest for Account of Foreign Swing Line
Lender
. The Foreign Swing Line Lender shall be responsible
for invoicing the applicable Borrower for interest on the
Foreign Swing Line Loans. Until each Revolving Lender funds its
Committed Revolving Loan or risk participation pursuant to this
Section 2.10
to refinance such Lenders
Revolving Commitment Percentage of any Foreign Swing Line Loan,
interest in respect thereof shall be solely for the account of
the Foreign Swing Line Lender.
(e)
Payments Directly to Foreign Swing Line Lender
.
The Borrowers shall make all payments of principal and interest
in respect of the Foreign Swing Line Loans directly to the
Foreign Swing Line Lender.
(f)
Additional Documentation
. In connection with
Foreign Swing Line Loans, the Borrowers will provide such
additional documentation as necessary or appropriate, in the
discretion of the applicable Foreign Swing Line Lender taking
into account local custom and practice, and such additional
documentation shall constitute Credit Documents
hereunder. The terms of any such additional documentation may
differ from the terms herein and in the case of a conflict, the
terms of the additional documentation shall govern.
SECTION 2.11
Additional Provisions Relating to
Competitive Revolving Loans
.
(a)
Requesting Competitive Bids
. The Borrowers may
request the submission of Competitive Bids by delivering a Bid
Request to the Competitive Bid Agent and the
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Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon (i) three
Business Days prior to the requested date of any Bid Borrowing
that is to consist of Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin
Bid Loans denominated in Dollars, (ii) four Business Days
prior to the requested date of any Bid Borrowing that is to
consist of Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans
denominated in Available Foreign Currencies (other than Japanese
yen) and (iii) five Business Days prior to the requested
date of any Bid Borrowing that is to consist of Absolute Rate
Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated in Japanese
yen. Each Bid Request shall specify (A) the kind of
financial accommodation requested, (B) the Borrower or
Borrowers therefor, (C) the requested date of the Bid
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (D) the
aggregate principal amount of Competitive Revolving Loans
requested (which must be in the amount of ten million units of
the Applicable Currency and integral multiples of one million
units of the Applicable Currency in excess thereof),
(E) the Type of Competitive Revolving Loans requested,
(F) the currency of the requested Competitive Revolving
Loan, and (G) the duration of the Interest Period with
respect thereto, and shall be signed by a Responsible Officer or
duly authorized signatory of the applicable Borrower. No Bid
Request shall contain a request for (1) more than one Type
of Competitive Revolving Loan, (2) Competitive Revolving
Loans denominated in more than one currency or
(3) Competitive Revolving Loans having more than three
different Interest Periods. Bid Requests may be grouped and
submitted together, but not more frequently than twice in any
calendar week. Each such submission may contain up to five
separate Bid Requests. Unless the Competitive Bid Agent
otherwise agrees in its sole and absolute discretion, the
Borrowers may not submit a Bid Request if another Bid Request
has been submitted within the preceding five Business Days.
(b)
Submitting Competitive Bids
.
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(i) After confirming with the Administrative Agent that the
applicable Bid Request complies with the provisions of
Section 2.01(e)
, the Competitive Bid Agent shall notify
each Revolving Lender of each Bid Request received by it from
the Borrowers and the contents of such Bid Request not later
than 2:00 p.m. on the date it receives such Bid Request.
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(ii) Each Revolving Lender may (but shall have no
obligation to) submit a Competitive Bid containing an offer to
make one or more Competitive Revolving Loans in response to such
Bid Request. Such Competitive Bid must be delivered to the
Competitive Bid Agent not later than 10:00 a.m.
(A) two Business Days prior to the requested date of any
Bid Borrowing that is to consist of Absolute Rate Loans or
Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated in Dollars,
(B) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any
Bid Borrowing that is to consist of Absolute Rate Loans or
Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated in Available Foreign
Currencies (other than Japanese yen) and (C) four Business
Days prior to the requested date of any Bid Borrowing that is to
consist of Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans
denominated in Japanese yen;
provided
, however, that any
Competitive Bid submitted by the Competitive Bid Agent in its
capacity as a Revolving Lender in response to any Bid Request
must be submitted to the Competitive Bid Agent not later than
10:15 a.m. on the date on which Competitive Bids are
required to be delivered by the other Revolving Lenders in
response to such Bid Request. Each Competitive Bid shall specify
(1) the
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proposed date of the Bid Borrowing; (2) the principal
amount of each Competitive Revolving Loan for which such
Competitive Bid is being made, which principal amount
(I) may be equal to, greater than or less than the
Revolving Commitment of the bidding Lender, (II) must be in
the amount of five million units of the Applicable Currency and
integral multiples of one million units of the Applicable
Currency in excess thereof, and (III) may not exceed the
principal amount of Competitive Revolving Loans for which
Competitive Bids were requested; (3) if the proposed Bid
Borrowing is to consist of Absolute Rate Bid Loans, the Absolute
Rate offered for each such Competitive Revolving Loan and the
Interest Period applicable thereto; (4) if the proposed Bid
Borrowing is to consist of Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans, the
Eurocurrency Bid Margin with respect to each such Eurocurrency
Margin Bid Loan and the Interest Period applicable thereto; and
(5) the identity of the bidding Lender.
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(iii) Any Competitive Bid shall be disregarded if it
(A) is received after the applicable time specified in
clause (ii)
above, (B) is not substantially in the
form of a Competitive Bid as specified herein, (C) contains
qualifying, conditional or similar language, (D) proposes
terms other than or in addition to those set forth in the
applicable Bid Request, or (E) is otherwise not responsive
to such Bid Request. Any Revolving Lender may correct a
Competitive Bid containing a manifest error by submitting a
corrected Competitive Bid (identified as such) not later than
the applicable time required for submission of Competitive Bids.
Any such submission of a corrected Competitive Bid shall
constitute a revocation of the Competitive Bid that contained
the manifest error. The Competitive Bid Agent may, but shall not
be required to, notify any Revolving Lender of any manifest
error it detects in such Lenders Competitive Bid.
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(iv) Subject only to the provisions of
Sections 3.02
,
3.03
and
5.02
and
clause (iii)
above, each Competitive Bid shall be
irrevocable.
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(c)
Notice to Borrowers of Competitive Bids
. Not
later than 11:00 a.m. (i) two Business Days prior to
the requested date of any Bid Borrowing that is to consist of
Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated
in Dollars, (ii) three Business Days prior to the requested
date of any Bid Borrowing that is to consist of Absolute Rate
Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated in Available
Foreign Currencies (other than Japanese yen) and (iii) four
Business Days prior to the requested date of any Bid Borrowing
that is to consist of Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin
Bid Loans denominated in Japanese yen, the Competitive Bid Agent
shall notify the applicable Borrower or Borrowers of the
identity of each Revolving Lender that has submitted a
Competitive Bid that complies with the foregoing
subsection
(b)
and of the terms of the offers contained in each such
Competitive Bid.
(d)
Acceptance of Competitive Bids
. Not later than
11:30 a.m. (i) two Business Days prior to the
requested date of any Bid Borrowing that is to consist of
Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated
in Dollars, (ii) three Business Days prior to the requested
date of any Bid Borrowing that is to consist of Absolute Rate
Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated in Available
Foreign Currencies (other than Japanese yen) and (iii) four
Business Days prior to the requested date of any Bid Borrowing
that is to consist of
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Absolute Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Margin Bid Loans denominated
in Japanese yen, the Borrowers shall notify the Competitive Bid
Agent of its acceptance or rejection of the offers notified to
it pursuant to the foregoing
subsection (c)
. The
Borrowers shall be under no obligation to accept any Competitive
Bid and may choose to reject all Competitive Bids. In the case
of acceptance, such notice shall specify the aggregate principal
amount of Competitive Bids for each Interest Period that is
accepted. The Borrowers may accept any Competitive Bid in whole
or in part;
provided
that:
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(A) the aggregate principal amount of each Bid Borrowing
may not exceed the applicable amount set forth in the related
Bid Request;
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(B) the principal amount of each Competitive Revolving Loan
must be in the amount of five million units of the Applicable
Currency and integral multiples of one million units of the
Applicable Currency in excess thereof;
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(C) the acceptance of offers may be made only on the basis
of ascending Absolute Rates or Eurocurrency Bid Margins within
each Interest Period; and
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(D) the Borrowers may not accept any offer that is
described in the foregoing
subsection (b)(iii)
above or
that otherwise fails to comply with the requirements hereof.
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(e)
Procedure for Identical Bids
. If two or more
Revolving Lenders have submitted Competitive Bids at the same
Absolute Rate or Eurocurrency Bid Margin, as the case may be,
for the same Interest Period, and the result of accepting all of
such Competitive Bids in whole (together with any other
Competitive Bids at lower Absolute Rates or Eurocurrency Bid
Margins, as the case may be, accepted for such Interest Period
in conformity with the requirements of the foregoing
subsection (d)
above) would be to cause the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the applicable Bid Borrowing to
exceed the amount specified therefor in the related Bid Request,
then, unless otherwise agreed by the Borrowers, the Competitive
Bid Agent and such Lenders, such Competitive Bids shall be
accepted as nearly as possible in proportion to the amount
offered by each such Lender in respect of such Interest Period,
at such Absolute Rate or Eurocurrency Bid Margin, without regard
to the requirements of foregoing
subsection (d)
above.
(f)
Notice to Lenders of Acceptance or Rejection of
Bids
. The Competitive Bid Agent shall promptly notify each
Revolving Lender having submitted a Competitive Bid (with a copy
to the Administrative Agent) whether or not its offer has been
accepted and, if its offer has been accepted, of the amount of
the Competitive Revolving Loan or Competitive Revolving Loans to
be made by it on the date of the applicable Bid Borrowing. Any
Competitive Bid or portion thereof that is not accepted by the
Borrowers by the applicable time specified in foregoing
subsection (d)
above shall be deemed rejected.
(g)
Notice of Eurocurrency Rate
. If any Bid
Borrowing is to consist of Eurocurrency Margin Loans, the
Competitive Bid Agent shall determine the Eurocurrency Rate for
the relevant Interest Period, and promptly after making such
determination, shall notify the applicable
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Borrower and the Revolving Lenders that will be participating in
such Bid Borrowing of such Eurocurrency Rate.
(h)
Funding of Competitive Revolving Loans
. Each
Revolving Lender that has received notice pursuant to foregoing
subsection (f)
above that all or a portion of its
Competitive Bid has been accepted by the Borrowers shall make
the amount of its Competitive Revolving Loan(s) available to the
Competitive Bid Agent in Same Day Funds at the Competitive Bid
Agents Lending Office (or such other office as provided to
the Revolving Lenders by the Competitive Bid Agent) for the
Applicable Currency not later than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any
Competitive Revolving Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later
than the Applicable Time specified by the Competitive Bid Agent
in the case of any Competitive Revolving Loan in an Alternative
Foreign Currency, in each case on the date of the requested Bid
Borrowing. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set
forth in
Section 5.02
and after the Competitive Bid
Agent has received confirmation from the Administrative Agent
that such Competitive Bid complies with the provisions of
Section 2.01(e)
, the Competitive Bid Agent shall
make all funds so received available to the Borrowers in like
funds as received by the Competitive Bid Agent.
(i)
Notice of Range of Bids
. After each Competitive
Bid auction pursuant to this
Section 2.11
, the
Competitive Bid Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender that
submitted a Competitive Bid in such auction of the ranges of
bids submitted (without the bidders name) and accepted for
each Competitive Revolving Loan and the aggregate amount of each
Bid Borrowing.
SECTION 2.12
Computation of Interest and Fees
.
All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base
Rate is determined by Bank of Americas prime
rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or
366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All
other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the
basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results
in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if
computed on the basis of a 365-day year) or, in the case of
interest in respect of Loans denominated in Foreign Currencies
as to which market practice differs from the foregoing, in
accordance with such market practice. Interest shall accrue on
each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not
accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which
the Loan or such portion is paid,
provided
that any Loan
that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall,
subject to
Section 2.14(a)
, bear interest for one
day.
SECTION 2.13
Evidence of Debt
.
(a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be
evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such
Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of
business. The accounts or records maintained by the
Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent
manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by
the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments
thereon, and shall serve as the basis for determining amounts
due and payable in connection with enforcement of this Credit
Agreement and the Collateral Documents. Any failure to so record
or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise
affect the obligation of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any
amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of
any conflict between the accounts
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and records maintained by any Lender (including the schedules to
such Lenders Notes, if any) and the accounts and records
of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the
accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control
in the absence of manifest error. The Borrowers shall execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Revolving Note for
each Revolving Lender that so requests, which Notes, in addition
to such accounts or records, shall evidence such Lenders
Loans. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Notes and endorse
thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of
its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
(b) In addition to the accounts and records referred to in
subsection (a)
, each Lender and the Administrative Agent
shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or
records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of
participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans. In the
event of any conflict between the accounts and records
maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and
records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts
and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the
absence of manifest error.
SECTION 2.14
Payments Generally
.
(a) All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made
without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense,
recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect to
principal and interest on Loans denominated in Dollars shall be
made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the
respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the
applicable Administrative Agents Office in Dollars and in
Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified
herein, and all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect
to principal and interest on Loans denominated in Foreign
Currencies shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed,
at the applicable Administrative Agents Office in such
Foreign Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than the
Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent on the
date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly
distribute to each Lender (i) with respect to such payments
on the Revolving Obligations, its Revolving Commitment
Percentage thereof, and (ii) such other applicable share as
provided herein, in like funds as received by wire transfer to
such Lenders Lending Office. All payments received by the
Administrative Agent (A) with respect to payments in
Dollars, after 2:00 p.m. and (B) with respect to payments
in Foreign Currencies, after the Applicable Time specified by
the Administrative Agent, shall in each case be deemed received
on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest
or fee shall continue to accrue;
provided
that, in the
case of repayment of Borrowings in Swiss francs and Japanese
yen, the Administrative Agent will provide funds in the then
applicable Dollar Equivalent thereof (including an exchange fee
and other normal and customary fees for providing this service
as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole
discretion) to those Lenders that had funded the Borrowing with
the Dollar Equivalent as provided in
Section 2.02(b)
.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in the definition of
Interest Period, if any payment to be made by the
Borrowers shall come due on a day other than a Business Day,
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payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and
such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest
or fees, as the case may be.
(c) If at any time insufficient funds are received by or
are available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all
amounts of principal, L/ C Borrowings, interest and fees then
due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first,
toward costs and expenses (including Attorney Costs and amounts
payable under
Article III
) incurred by the
Administrative Agent and each Lender, (ii) second, toward
repayment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among
the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of
interest and fees then due to such parties, and
(iii) third, toward repayment of principal and L/ C
Borrowings then due hereunder, ratably among the parties
entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and
L/ C Borrowings then due to such parties.
(d) Unless the Borrowers or any Lender has notified the
Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required
to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the
Borrowers or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers
or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment
and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon,
make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled
thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact
made to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds, then:
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(i) if the Borrowers failed to make such payment, each
Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative
Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made
available to such Lender in Same Day Funds, together with
interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the
date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent
to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the applicable
Overnight Rate from time to time in effect; and
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(ii) (A) if any Lender failed to make such payment,
such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative
Agent the amount thereof in Same Day Funds, together with
interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was
made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers to
the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent
(the
Compensation Period
) at a rate per annum
equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in
effect; and
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(B) if such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative
Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lenders Loan
included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not
pay such amount upon the Administrative Agents demand
therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor
upon the Borrowers, and the Borrowers shall pay such amount to
the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the
Compensation Period at a rate per annum equal to the rate of
interest applicable to the applicable Borrowing.
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Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its
obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights
that the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers may have against
any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the
Borrowers with respect to any amount owing under this
subsection (d)
shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(e) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative
Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided
in the foregoing provisions of this
Article II
, and
such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the
Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable
Credit Extension set forth in
Article V
are not
satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the
Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as
received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(f) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder, including,
without limitation, to make Loans and to fund participations in
Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans are several and not
joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any
such participation or to satisfy any other obligation on any
date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of
its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no
Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender
to so make its Loan, purchase its participation or satisfy such
other obligation.
(g) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender
to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or
manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it
has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any
particular place or manner.
SECTION 2.15
Sharing of Payments
.
If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any
Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, or the
participations in L/ C Obligations or in Swing Line Loans held
by it (excluding any amounts applied by the Swing Line Lender to
outstanding Swing Line Loans), any payment (whether voluntary,
involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or
otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share
contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately
(a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and
(b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in
the Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations in the
participations in L/ C Obligations or Swing Line Loans held by
them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such
purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such
Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with
each of them;
provided
, however, that if all or any
portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the
purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in
Section 11.06
(including pursuant to any settlement
entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such
purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender
shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid
therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying
Lenders ratable share (according to the proportion of
(i) the amount of such paying Lenders required
repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the
purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or
payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount
so recovered, without
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further interest thereon. The Borrowers agree that any Lender so
purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of
payment (including the right of set-off, but subject to
Section 11.09
) with respect to such participation as
fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the
Borrowers in the amount of such participation. The
Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be
conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest error) of
participations purchased under this Section and will in each
case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or
repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant
to this Section shall from and after such purchase have the
right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and
other communications under this Credit Agreement with respect to
the portion of the loans and obligations hereunder and under the
Term Loan Credit Agreement purchased to the same extent as
though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the
loans and obligations hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit
Agreement purchased.
SECTION 2.16
Designated Borrowers
.
FMCAG may request that any of its Subsidiaries (each, an
Applicant Borrower
) be designated a
Designated Borrower by delivery of a written request to the
Administrative Agent, together with an executed copy of the
Borrower Joinder Agreement, including the Designated Borrowing
Limit requested for such Applicant Borrower and, if applicable,
requesting that the Applicant Borrower be a Primary Borrower
hereunder. The Designated Borrowing Limit for any Applicant
Borrower that becomes a Primary Borrower (including the
Co-Borrowers) shall be the same as the Designated Borrowing
Limit in effect for FMCH. The Administrative Agent will promptly
notify the Lenders of any such request and will provide the
Lenders with a copy of such Borrower Joinder Agreement.
Designation of any Applicant Borrower as a Designated Borrower
and approval of its Designated Borrowing Limit is subject to
(i) the prior consent of the Required Revolving Lenders in
their sole discretion;
provided
that (A) no consent
shall be required for any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG
organized in an Approved Jurisdiction to become a Primary
Borrower or a Co-Borrower and (B) a Borrower for Mexican
pesos may be established with the consent of the Administrative
Agent and the Foreign Swing Line Lender in respect thereof;
(ii) delivery of each executed promissory note as may be
requested by any Revolving Lender in connection therewith; and
(iii) delivery of supporting resolutions, articles of
incorporation and bylaws (or their equivalents), incumbency
certificates, opinions of counsel and such other items as the
Administrative Agent and the Required Revolving Lenders may
request. The designation of an Applicant Borrower as a
Designated Borrower shall be effective ten Business Days after
(1) where applicable, receipt by the Administrative Agent
of the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders and
(2) receipt by the Administrative Agent of each of the
items required pursuant to
clauses (ii)
and
(iii)
herein. Such Designated Borrower shall thereupon become a
Designated Borrower and a Credit Party hereunder and shall be
(1) entitled to all rights and benefits of a Designated
Borrower hereunder and under each of the Credit Documents and
(2) subject to all obligations of a Designated Borrower
hereunder and under the Credit Documents.
SECTION 2.17
Removal of Borrowers
. FMCAG may
request that any Borrower (other than FMCAG and FMCH) cease to
be a Borrower by delivering to the Administrative Agent (which
shall promptly deliver copies thereof to each Lender) a written
notice to such effect. If
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such Borrower is a Primary Borrower (including the
Co-Borrowers), it shall cease to be a Borrower on the date the
Administrative Agent receives such written notice. If such
Borrower is a Designated Borrower (unless it is a Co-Borrower),
it shall cease to be a Borrower on the later to occur of
(i) the date the Administrative Agent receives such written
notice, and (ii) the date such Designated Borrower has paid
all of its obligations (including payment of cash collateral in
respect of any L/ C Obligations outstanding for its benefit) and
all accrued and unpaid interest, fees and other obligations
hereunder or in connection herewith.
ARTICLE III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
SECTION 3.01
Taxes
.
(a) Except as provided below, any and all payments by the
Borrowers to or for the account of the Administrative Agent or
any Lender under any Credit Document shall be made free and
clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future
taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, fees,
withholdings or similar charges, and all liabilities with
respect thereto, excluding, in the case of the Administrative
Agent and each Lender and any of their respective Affiliates,
taxes imposed on or measured by overall net income, and any
franchise taxes, branch taxes, taxes on doing business or taxes
on overall capital or net worth imposed (in lieu of net income
taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
thereof) under the Laws of which the Administrative Agent, such
Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, as the case may
be, is organized or maintains a lending office or in which its
principal executive office is located (all such non-excluded
taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, fees,
withholdings or similar charges, and liabilities being
hereinafter referred to as
Taxes
). If the
Borrowers shall be required by any Laws to deduct any Taxes from
or in respect of any sum payable under any Credit Document to
the Administrative Agent or any Lender, except as otherwise
provided in
Section 11.15
hereof, (i) the sum
payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all
required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section), each of the
Administrative Agent and such Lender receives an amount equal to
the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made,
(ii) the Borrowers shall make such deductions,
(iii) the Borrowers shall pay the full amount deducted to
the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance
with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty days after the
date of such payment, the Borrowers shall furnish to the
Administrative Agent (which shall forward the same to such
Lender) the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing
payment thereof.
(b) In addition, the Borrowers agree to pay any and all
present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes and any
other excise or property taxes or charges or similar levies that
arise from any payment made under any Credit Document or from
the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or
registration of, or otherwise with respect to, any Credit
Document (hereinafter referred to as
Other
Taxes
).
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(c) If the Borrowers shall be required to deduct or pay any
Taxes or Other Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under
any Credit Document to the Administrative Agent or any Lender,
the Borrowers shall also pay to the Administrative Agent or to
such Lender, as the case may be, at the time interest is paid,
such additional amount that the Administrative Agent or such
Lender specifies is necessary to preserve the after-tax yield
(after factoring in all taxes, including taxes imposed on or
measured by net income) that the Administrative Agent or such
Lender would have received if such Taxes or Other Taxes had not
been imposed.
(d) The Borrowers agree to indemnify the Administrative
Agent and each Lender for (i) the full amount of Taxes and
Other Taxes (including any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or
asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this
Section) paid by the Administrative Agent and such Lender, and
(ii) any liability (including additions to tax, penalties,
interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, in each case whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes
were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant
Governmental Authority. Payment under this
subsection (d)
shall be made within thirty days
after the date the Lender or the Administrative Agent makes a
demand therefor.
SECTION 3.02
Illegality
. If any Lender
determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any
Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any
Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or
fund Eurocurrency Rate Loans (whether denominated in Dollars or
a Foreign Currency), or to determine or charge interest rates
based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, or any Governmental Authority
has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such
Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, any
Applicable Currency in the applicable interbank market, then, on
notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers through the
Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or
continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the Applicable Currency or
to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the
Applicable Currency shall be suspended until such Lender
notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers that the
circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.
Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers shall, upon demand
from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurocurrency Rate Loans of
such Lender to Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the
Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue
to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or
immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to
maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Upon any such prepayment
or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on
the amount so prepaid or converted. Each Lender agrees to
designate a different Lending Office if such designation will
avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith
judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous
to such Lender.
SECTION 3.03
Inability to Determine Rates
. If
the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Lenders)
determines that for any reason (i) deposits in the
Applicable Currency are not being offered to banks in the
applicable offshore interbank market for such currency for the
applicable amount and Interest Period thereof,
(ii) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for
determining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan or
(iii) the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan does not
adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of
funding such Loan, then the Administrative Agent will promptly
so notify FMCAG and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of
the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be
suspended until
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the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Lenders)
revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers
may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to
or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or, failing that,
will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for
a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
SECTION 3.04
Increased Cost and Reduced Return;
Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Loans
.
(a) If any Lender determines that as a result of the
introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any
Law in each case after the Closing Date, or such Lenders
compliance therewith, there shall be any increase in the cost to
such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or
maintaining Eurocurrency Rate Loans or (as the case may be)
issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or a reduction in
the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection
with any of the foregoing (excluding for purposes of this
subsection (a)
any such increased costs or reduction
in amount resulting from (i) Taxes or Other Taxes (as to
which
Section 3.01
shall govern), (ii) changes
in the basis of taxation of overall net income or overall gross
income by the United States or any foreign jurisdiction or any
political subdivision of either thereof under the Laws of which
such Lender is organized or has its Lending Office, and
(iii) reserve requirements contemplated by
Section 3.04(c)
below), then from time to time upon
demand of such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the
Administrative Agent), the Borrowers shall pay to such Lender
such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such
increased cost or reduction.
(b) If any Lender determines that the introduction of any
Law regarding capital adequacy or any change therein or in the
interpretation thereof in each case after the Closing Date, or
compliance by such Lender (or its Lending Office) therewith, has
the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such
Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a
consequence of such Lenders obligations hereunder (taking
into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy
and such Lenders desired return on capital), then from
time to time upon demand of such Lender (with a copy of such
demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrowers shall pay to
such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such
Lender for such reduction.
(c) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, as long as such
Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to
liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency
funds or deposits (currently known as Eurocurrency
liabilities), additional interest on the unpaid principal
amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs
of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender pursuant
to regulations issued from time to time by the FRB for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any
emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement)
or the Mandatory Cost Rate imposed by the Bank of England or the
Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom (as
determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination
shall be conclusive absent manifest error), which shall be due
and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such
Loan,
provided
the Borrower shall have received at least
fifteen days prior notice (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) of such additional interest from such
Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen days
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prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional
interest shall be due and payable fifteen days from receipt of
such notice.
(d) Each Lender and L/ C Issuer agrees that, as promptly as
practicable after the officer of such Lender or L/ C Issuer
responsible for administering the Loans or Letters of Credit of
such Lender or L/ C Issuer, as the case may be, becomes aware of
the occurrence of an event or the existence of a condition that
would entitle such Lender or L/ C Issuer to receive payments
under
Section 3.04(a)
,
(b)
or
(c)
, it
will, to the extent not inconsistent with the internal policies
of such Lender or L/ C Issuer and any applicable legal or
regulatory restrictions, use reasonable efforts (i) to
make, issue, fund or maintain the Commitments of such Lender or
the affected Loans or Letters of Credit of such Lender or L/ C
Issuer through another lending or letter of credit office of
such Lender or L/ C Issuer, or (ii) take such other
measures as such Lender or L/ C Issuer may deem reasonable, if
as a result thereof the additional amounts which would otherwise
be required to be paid to such Lender or L/ C Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.04(a)
,
(b)
or
(c)
would be
materially reduced and if, as determined by such Lender or L/ C
Issuer in its sole discretion, the making, issuing, funding or
maintaining of such Commitments or Loans or Letters of Credit
through such other lending or letter of credit office or in
accordance with such other measures, as the case may be, would
not otherwise materially adversely affect such Commitments or
Loans or Letters of Credit or would not be otherwise
disadvantageous to the interests of such Lender or L/ C Issuer,
provided
that such Lender or L/ C Issuer will not be
obligated to utilize such other lending or letter of credit
office pursuant to this
Section 3.04(d)
unless the
Borrowers agree to pay all incremental expenses incurred by such
Lender or L/ C Issuer as a result of utilizing such other
lending or letter of credit office as described in
clause
(i)
above. A certificate as to the amount of any such
expenses payable by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Section 3.04(d)
(setting forth in reasonable detail
the basis for requesting such amount) submitted by such Lender
or L/ C Issuer to the Borrowers (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 3.05
Funding Losses
.
Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly
compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from
any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
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(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of
any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the
last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether
voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or
otherwise);
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(b) any failure by the Borrowers (for a reason other than
the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow,
continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the
date or in the amount notified by the Borrowers; or
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(c) any assignment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan
on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor
as a result of a request by the Borrowers pursuant to
Section 11.16
; including any loss or expense arising
from the liquidation or reemployment of funds (excluding loss of
profit or margin) obtained by it to maintain
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such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from
which such funds were obtained.
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For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to
the Lenders under this
Section 3.05
, each Lender
shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made
by it at the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching
deposit or other borrowing in the applicable offshore interbank
market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a
comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan
was in fact so funded.
SECTION 3.06
Matters Applicable to all Requests for
Compensation
.
(a) If any Lender requests compensation under
Section 3.04
or any Borrower is required to pay any
additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority
for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 3.01
, or if any Lender gives notice pursuant
to
Section 3.02
, then such Lender shall use
reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for
funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights
and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or
affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation
or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable
pursuant to
Section 3.01
or
3.04
, as the case
may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice
pursuant to
Section 3.02
, as applicable, and
(ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender to any
unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be
disadvantageous to such Lender;
provided
, that the
booking or funding of the Loan through such Lending Office is
not disadvantageous to the Borrowers. The Borrowers hereby agree
to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender
in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) A certificate of the Administrative Agent or any Lender
claiming compensation under this Article III and setting
forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it
hereunder shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
In determining such amount, the Administrative Agent or such
Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.
(c) Upon any Lenders making a claim for compensation
under
Section 3.01
or
3.04
, the Borrowers may
replace such Lender in accordance with
Section 11.16
.
SECTION 3.07
Survival
.
All of the Borrowers obligations under this
Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate
Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
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ARTICLE IV
GUARANTY
SECTION 4.01
The Guaranty
.
(a) Each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally
guarantees to the Administrative Agent and each of the holders
of the Obligations as hereinafter provided, as primary obligor
and not as surety, the prompt payment of the Obligations in full
when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment,
by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or
otherwise) strictly in accordance with the terms thereof. The
Guarantors hereby further agree that if any of the Obligations
are not paid in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a
mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash
collateralization or otherwise), the Guarantors will, jointly
and severally, promptly pay the same, without any demand or
notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time
of payment or renewal of any of the Obligations, the same will
be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity,
as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash
collateralization or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of
such extension or renewal.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained
herein or in any other of the Credit Documents or other
agreements or documents relating to the Obligations, the
obligations of each Guarantor under this Credit Agreement and
the other Credit Documents shall be limited to an aggregate
amount equal to the largest amount that would not render such
obligations subject to avoidance under the Debtor Relief Laws or
any comparable provisions of any applicable state law.
(c) With respect to the liability of any entity existing
under the laws of Germany (including, without limitation, a
corporation (
AG
), a limited liability company
(
GmbH
) or limited partnership (such as a
KGaA or
GmbH & Co. KG
)) (a
German
Guarantor
) in respect of the guaranty set forth in
this
Article IV
(each a
German
Guaranty
), to the extent it secures the Indebtedness
of FMCAG or any of its Subsidiaries (other than such German
Guarantor and its Subsidiaries), the following shall apply:
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(i) Nothing herein shall lead to an obligation of such
German Guarantor to make a payment and the Collateral Agent and
the Administrative Agent agree not to enforce such German
Guaranty to the extent that a subsequent application of the
proceeds (the
Proceeds
) would have the effect
of (i) reducing such German Guarantors net assets
(
Nettovermögen
) (the
Net Assets
)
to an amount less than its stated share capital
(
Stammkapital
) or (ii) (if the Net Assets are
already an amount less than the stated share capital) causing
such amount to be further reduced, and thereby affects the
assets required for the obligatory preservation of its stated
share capital according to §§ 30, 31 of the German
GmbH-Act (
GmbH-Gesetz
).
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(ii) The value of the Net Assets shall be determined by
means of a balance sheet prepared in accordance with the
principles for ordinary bookkeeping and the preparation of
balance sheets as they were consistently applied by such German
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Guarantor in preparing its unconsolidated balance sheets
(
Jahresabschluss gem. § 42 GmbH-Act,
§§ 242, 264 HGB
) in the previous years, save
that:
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(A) any amounts due and payable under such German Guaranty,
which correspond to funds that have been borrowed under this
Credit Agreement or the Term Loan Credit Agreement and have been
on-lent to such German Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries,
shall be disregarded to the extent that any such amount is still
outstanding; and
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(B) any asset that is shown in the balance sheet with a
book value (
Buchwert
) that is significantly lower than
the market value of such asset, which is not essentially
necessary (
betriebsnotwendig
) for the German
Guarantors business and that can be realized (to the
extent legally possible) shall be taken into account with its
market value.
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(iii) The balance sheet shall be prepared by such German
Guarantor within thirty days after the date of a payment request
by the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent under such
German Guaranty. If (A) the balance sheet has not become
available within the given period of time or does not comply as
to form and content to generally accepted accounting principles
applying in Germany for companies of the size of such German
Guarantor, or (B) in case of cessation of payments by such
German Guarantor or (C) the filing of an application for
insolvency proceeding by such German Guarantor (in case of
(B) and (C) irrespective of whether or not thirty days
have lapsed), the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent
(I) shall be entitled to enforce such German Guaranty in
the full amount and (II) agrees to repay the Proceeds to
such German Guarantor to the extent that such German Guarantor
is able to demonstrate that the enforcement of the such German
Guaranty violated the rules on preservation of the stated share
capital under §§ 30, 31 GmbH-Act as set out in
paragraph (i)
above.
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(iv) The limitation set out in
clauses (i)
through
(iii)
above shall not apply while a loss and
profit pooling agreement (
Gewinnabführungsvertrag
)
exists between such German Guarantor and FMCAG (such as, with
respect to FMCD, the loss and profit pooling agreement dated 23
August 1996), and the compensation claim of such German
Guarantor against FMCAG arising under any such loss and profit
pooling agreement compensates for any loss incurred due to any
payment of such German Guarantor under such German Guaranty.
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(v) FMCAG undertakes neither to increase the stated share
capital (
Stammkapital
) of such German Guarantor by way of
a capital increase (
Kapitalerhöhung
) nor to grant
any shareholder loans to such German Guarantor (except as
otherwise permitted hereunder and except for those loans which
are funds under this Credit Agreement or the Term Loan Credit
Agreement lent-on to such German Guarantor) without the prior
written consent of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent. FMCAG undertakes to pay any such funds into the capital
reserves (
Kapitalrücklage, § 266
paragraph 3 A.II.HGB
) of such German Guarantor.
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(vi) To the extent that (A) any party that is liable
for a reimbursement to such German Guarantor is unable to
satisfy any recourse claim that such German Guarantor may have
against such party due to the enforcement of claims under any of
the Credit Documents or such German Guaranty and (B) this
may trigger the insolvency of such German Guarantor, neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent may enforce the
German Guaranty.
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(d) The liability of any entity incorporated under the laws
of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a
Luxembourg
Guarantor
) for obligations of any entity of which such
Luxembourg Guarantor is a Subsidiary and/or for obligations of
any of such Luxembourg Guarantors Affiliates (other than
its own Subsidiaries) in respect of the guaranty set forth in
this
Article IV
shall be limited at any time to an
aggregate amount not exceeding ninety-five percent (95%) of the
greater of such Luxembourg Guarantors own funds
(
capitaux propres
) as determined by Article 213 and
following of the Luxembourg Law of 10 August 1915 on Commercial
Companies, as amended, (i) as set forth in its most
recently approved financial statements or (ii) existing as
of the Closing Date.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth
herein, with respect to FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg and FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg-III, the guaranty set forth in this
Article IV
in respect of Obligations under Swap
Contracts shall be limited to the extent that such guaranty is
permitted under the Trust Preferred Indentures.
(f) The liability of any entity incorporated under the laws
of Spain in respect of the guaranty set forth in this
Article IV
shall be limited at any time to the
largest amount that would not render such Guarantor insolvent.
SECTION 4.02
Obligations Unconditional
.
The obligations of the Guarantors under
Section 4.01
are joint and several, absolute and unconditional, irrespective
of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or
enforceability of any of the Credit Documents or other documents
relating to the Obligations, or any other agreement or
instrument referred to therein, or any substitution, release,
impairment or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for
any of the Obligations, and, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, 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 4.02
that the obligations of
the Guarantors shall be absolute and unconditional under any and
all circumstances. Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor
shall have no right of subrogation, indemnity, reimbursement or
contribution against the Borrowers or any other Guarantor for
amounts paid under this
Article IV
until such time
as the Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full and the
Commitment have expired or terminated. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, the occurrence of any one or more of
the following shall not alter or impair the liability of any
Guarantor, which shall remain absolute and unconditional as
described above:
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(a) at any time or from time to time, without notice to any
Guarantor, the time for any performance of or compliance with
any of the 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
any of the Credit Documents, or other documents relating to the
Obligations, or any other agreement or instrument referred to in
the Credit Documents or such Swap Contracts shall be done or
omitted;
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(c) the maturity of any of the Obligations shall be
accelerated, or any of the Obligations shall be modified,
supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under any
of the Credit Documents, or other documents relating to the
Obligations, or any other agreement or instrument referred to in
the Credit Documents or such Swap Contracts shall be waived or
any other guarantee of any of the Obligations or any security
therefor shall be released, impaired or exchanged in whole or in
part or otherwise dealt with;
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(d) any Lien granted to, or in favor of, the Administrative
Agent or any Lender or Lenders as security for any of the
Obligations shall fail to attach or be perfected; or
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(e) any of the Obligations shall be determined to be void
or voidable (including, without limitation, for the benefit of
any creditor of any Guarantor) or shall be subordinated to the
claims of any Person (including, without limitation, any
creditor of any Guarantor).
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With respect to its Obligations, each Guarantor hereby expressly
waives 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 any Person under any of the Credit
Documents, or other documents relating to the Obligations, or
any other agreement or instrument referred to in the Credit
Documents or such Swap Contracts, or against any other Person
under any other guarantee of, or security for, any of the
Obligations.
SECTION 4.03
Reinstatement
.
The obligations of the Guarantors under this
Article IV
shall be automatically reinstated if and
to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of
any Person in respect of the Obligations is rescinded or must be
otherwise restored by any holder of any of the Obligations,
whether as a result of any proceedings pursuant to any Debtor
Relief Laws or otherwise, and each Guarantor agrees that it will
indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender on demand for
all reasonable costs and expenses (including fees and expenses
of counsel) incurred by the Administrative Agent or such Lender
in connection with such rescission 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 Debtor Relief Law.
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SECTION 4.04
Certain Waivers
.
Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor shall have no right of
recourse to security for the Obligations, except through the
exercise of rights of subrogation pursuant to
Section 4.02
and through the exercise of rights of
contribution pursuant to
Section 4.06
. Each
Guarantor further expressly waives any right to require that any
action be brought against the Borrowers or any other Credit
Party or to require recourse to security.
SECTION 4.05
Remedies
.
The Guarantors agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, the
Obligations may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as
provided in
Section 9.02
(and shall be deemed to
have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances
provided in said
Section 9.02
) for purposes of
Section 4.01
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or
other prohibition preventing such declaration (or preventing the
Obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as
against any other Person and that, in the event of such
declaration (or the Obligations being deemed to have become
automatically due and payable), the Obligations (whether or not
due and payable by any other Person) shall forthwith become due
and payable by the Guarantors for purposes of
Section 4.01
.
SECTION 4.06
Rights of Contribution
.
The Guarantors hereby agree as among themselves that, if any
Guarantor shall make an Excess Payment (as defined below), such
Guarantor shall have a right of contribution from each other
Guarantor in an amount equal to such other Guarantors
Contribution Share (as defined below) of such Excess Payment.
The payment obligations of any Guarantor under this
Section 4.06
shall be subordinate and subject in
right of payment to the Obligations until such time as the
Obligations have been paid in full and the Commitments have
expired or terminated, and none of the Guarantors shall exercise
any right or remedy under this
Section 4.06
against
any other Guarantor until such Obligations have been paid in
full and the Commitments have expired or terminated. For
purposes of this
Section 4.06
, (a) Excess
Payment shall mean the amount paid by any Guarantor in
excess of its Ratable Share of any Guaranteed Obligations; (b)
Ratable Share shall mean, for any Guarantor in
respect of any payment of Obligations, the ratio (expressed as a
percentage) as of the date of such payment of Guaranteed
Obligations of (i) the amount by which the aggregate
present fair salable value of all of its assets and properties
exceeds the amount of all debts and liabilities of such
Guarantor (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured, and
unliquidated liabilities, but excluding the obligations of such
Guarantor hereunder) to (ii) the amount by which the
aggregate present fair salable value of all assets and other
properties of all of the Credit Parties exceeds the amount of
all of the debts and liabilities (including contingent,
subordinated, unmatured, and unliquidated liabilities, but
excluding the obligations of the Credit Parties hereunder) of
the Credit Parties;
provided
, however, that, for purposes
of calculating the Ratable Shares of the Guarantors in respect
of any payment of Obligations, any Guarantor that became a
Guarantor subsequent to the date of any such payment shall be
deemed to have been a Guarantor on the date of such payment and
the
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financial information for such Guarantor as of the date such
Guarantor became a Guarantor shall be utilized for such
Guarantor in connection with such payment; (c)
Contribution Share shall mean, for any Guarantor in
respect of any Excess Payment made by any other Guarantor, the
ratio (expressed as a percentage) as of the date of such Excess
Payment of (i) the amount by which the aggregate present
fair salable value of all of its assets and properties exceeds
the amount of all debts and liabilities of such Guarantor
(including contingent, subordinated, unmatured, and unliquidated
liabilities, but excluding the obligations of such Guarantor
hereunder) to (ii) the amount by which the aggregate
present fair salable value of all assets and other properties of
the Credit Parties other than the maker of such Excess Payment
exceeds the amount of all of the debts and liabilities
(including contingent, subordinated, unmatured, and unliquidated
liabilities, but excluding the obligations of the Credit
Parties) of the Credit Parties other than the maker of such
Excess Payment;
provided
, however, that, for purposes of
calculating the Contribution Shares of the Guarantors in respect
of any Excess Payment, any Guarantor that became a Guarantor
subsequent to the date of any such Excess Payment shall be
deemed to have been a Guarantor on the date of such Excess
Payment and the financial information for such Guarantor as of
the date such Guarantor became a Guarantor shall be utilized for
such Guarantor in connection with such Excess Payment; and (d)
Guaranteed Obligations shall mean the Obligations
guaranteed by the Guarantors pursuant to this
Article IV
. This
Section 4.06
shall not
be deemed to affect any right of subrogation, indemnity,
reimbursement or contribution that any Guarantor may have under
Law against the Borrowers in respect of any payment of
Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all
rights of contribution against any Guarantor shall terminate
from and after such time, if ever, that such Guarantor is
relieved of its obligations in accordance with
Section 10.11
.
SECTION 4.07
Guaranty of Payment; Continuing
Guaranty
.
The guarantee in this
Article IV
is a guaranty of
payment and not of collection, is a continuing guarantee, and
shall apply to all Obligations whenever arising.
ARTICLE V
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
SECTION 5.01
Conditions of Initial Credit
Extensions
.
The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Credit
Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following
conditions precedent:
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(a)
Executed Credit Documents
. Receipt by the
Administrative Agent of (i) multiple counterparts of this
Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit Agreement,
(ii) executed Notes for those Lenders requesting them,
(iii) multiple counterparts of the Pledge Agreements, the
Parallel Debt Agreement and any other Collateral Documents, in
each case properly executed by a Responsible Officer or duly
authorized signatory.
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(b)
RCG Material Adverse Effect
. There shall not
have occurred a RCG Material Adverse Effect since the date of
the RCG Merger Agreement.
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(c)
Acquisition Approvals and Documents
. Receipt by
the Administrative Agent of the following:
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(i)
Acquisition Agreement and Related Confirmations
.
An officers certificate in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, with (A) a
certified copy of the RCG Merger Agreement with all amendments,
modifications, supplements and attachments,
(B) confirmation that there have been no material
modifications to the RCG Merger Agreement, except as approved by
the Arrangers, (C) confirmation that the RCG Acquisition
has been, or contemporaneously with the closing and initial
funding under this Credit Agreement, will be consummated in
accordance with the terms of the RCG Merger Agreement and in
compliance with applicable laws and regulatory approvals, and
(D) confirmation that there will be at least $200 million
of unused availability under the Revolving Commitments after
consummation of the RCG Acquisition and the transactions
relating thereto, the initial Credit Extensions hereunder and
payment in full of the fees and expenses relating to the RCG
Acquisition and the establishment of the credit facilities
hereunder.
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(ii)
Required Consents
. Evidence of receipt of all
governmental, shareholder and third party consents (including
Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance) and approvals necessary or, in the
reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable in
connection with the RCG Acquisition and the related financings
and other transactions contemplated in connection therewith and
expiration of all applicable waiting periods without any action
being taken by any authority that could restrain, prevent or
impose any material adverse conditions on the Borrowers or their
subsidiaries or such other transactions or that could seek or
threaten any of the foregoing, and no law or regulation shall be
applicable which in the reasonable judgment of the
Administrative Agent could have such effect.
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(iii)
Debt Rating
. Evidence of a Debt Rating for the
credit facilities established under this Credit Agreement from
each of S&P and Moodys after giving effect to the RCG
Acquisition, and confirmation that such Debt Ratings remain in
effect on the Closing Date.
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(iv)
RCG Sub Debt
. Either prior to (or substantially
simultaneously with) the initial Credit Extension, evidence that
the RCG Sub Debt shall have been (A) redeemed, defeased,
purchased, repurchased or otherwise acquired by RCG or the
Borrowers or their Subsidiaries or the obligations thereunder
shall otherwise have been discharged, (B) RCG or the
Borrowers or their Subsidiaries shall have offered to purchase
up to one hundred percent (100%) of the RCG Sub Debt and sought
consent from the holders of the RCG Sub Debt to effect certain
amendments to the related indenture, and consent to such
amendments shall have been obtained and the notes of any
tendering note holders shall have been purchased or
(C) Bank of America and DBNY shall have agreed to permit
some
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or all of the RCG Sub Debt to remain outstanding on terms
satisfactory to them (other than those described in the
foregoing
clause (B)
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(d)
Financial Information
. Receipt by the
Administrative Agent of the following:
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(i)
FMCAG
. For FMCAG and its subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, (A) unaudited company-prepared
financial statements, including a balance sheet, income
statement, and statement of cash flows (excluding notes) within
45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter (other than
the last fiscal quarter of the fiscal year) ending after
December 31, 2004 and before 45 days prior to the
Closing Date, and (B) audited financial statements,
including balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash
flows (excluding notes) within 70 days after the end of the
fiscal year ending after December 31, 2004 and before
70 days prior to the Closing Date.
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(ii)
RCG
. For RCG and its subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, (A) unaudited company-prepared
financial statements, including a balance sheet, income
statement, and statement of cash flows (excluding notes) within
45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter (other than
the last fiscal quarter of the fiscal year) ending after
December 31, 2004 and before 45 days prior to the
Closing Date, and (B) audited financial statements,
including balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash
flows (excluding notes) within 70 days after the end of the
fiscal year ending after December 31, 2004 and before
70 days prior to the Closing Date.
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It is hereby acknowledged that the financial statements required
to be delivered pursuant to
Section 5.01(d)(i)
, in
respect of the second fiscal quarter of any year, shall include
information pertaining to the first 6 months of the fiscal
year and, in respect of the third fiscal quarter of any year,
shall include information pertaining to the first 9 months
of the fiscal year.
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(e)
Collateral
. Receipt by the Collateral Agent of
the following:
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(i)
UCC Financing Statements
. UCC financing
statements for each jurisdiction as necessary or appropriate, in
the Collateral Agents discretion, to perfect the security
interest in the Collateral granted under the Pledge Agreements.
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(ii)
Certificated Interests
. Where required for
perfection under applicable Law, original certificates
evidencing the Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Collateral
Documents (to the extent such Capital Stock is certificated),
together with undated stock transfer powers executed in blank.
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(f)
Corporate Documents
. Receipt by the
Administrative Agent of a certificate of a Responsible Officer
or duly authorized signatory of each Credit Party
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attaching each of the following documents and certifying that
each is true and correct and complete and in full force and
effect as of the Closing Date:
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(i)
Charter Documents
. Copies of its certificate of
organization or equivalent, certified to be true and correct as
of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental Authority of
the state or other jurisdiction of its organization.
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(ii)
Bylaws
. Copies of its bylaws, operating
agreement or partnership agreement or the equivalent.
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(iii)
Resolutions.
Copies of its resolutions
approving and adopting the Credit Documents to which it is a
party, the transactions contemplated herein and therein, and
authorizing the execution and delivery thereof.
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(iv)
Incumbency
. Original incumbency certificates
identifying the officers thereof authorized to act on its behalf
in connection with the Credit Documents.
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(v)
Good Standing
. Certificates of good standing or
the equivalent (if available from the applicable jurisdiction),
certified as of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental
Authorities from the state or other jurisdiction of its
organization, and such other states or jurisdictions as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
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(g)
Legal Opinions
. Receipt by the Administrative
Agent of favorable legal opinions from counsel to FMCAG, FMCH
and other members of the Consolidated Group in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
regarding, among other things, existence and due authorization,
execution, delivery and enforceability of the Credit Documents,
no violations of Organizational Documents, certain material
agreements or applicable Law caused by the execution, delivery
and performance of the Credit Documents, and the attachment and
perfection of security interests in the Collateral pledged to
secure the loans and obligations hereunder (including local
counsel opinions).
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(h)
Replacement of the Existing Credit Agreement
.
Evidence of repayment of the loans and obligations owing by
(i) FMCAG, FMCH and the other Borrowers and Guarantors
under the Existing Credit Agreement, and (ii) by RCG and
its subsidiaries and affiliates under its existing senior bank
debt credit agreement, and, in each case, termination of the
commitments thereunder and release of the security interests
relating thereto.
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SECTION 5.02
Conditions to all Credit
Extensions
.
The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit
Extension (including requests for conversions or continuations)
is subject to the following conditions precedent:
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(a) The representations and warranties contained in
Article VI
or any other Credit Document, or that are
contained in any document furnished at any time under or in
connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in
all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit
Extension, except (i) to the extent that such
representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier
date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all
material respects as of such earlier date, (ii) in the case
of the initial Credit Extension hereunder, but only in such
case, the representation in
Section 6.06
shall not apply
and (iii) that for purposes of this
Section 5.02
,
the representations and warranties contained in
subsections
(a)
and
(b)
of
Section 6.05
shall be
deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant
to
subsections (a)
and
(b)
, respectively, of
Section 7.01
.
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(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would
result from such proposed Credit Extension.
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(c) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/ C
Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request
for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
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Each Borrowing pursuant to any Request for Credit Extension
(including requests for conversions or continuations) submitted
by the Borrowers shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty by such Borrowers that the conditions specified in
Section 5.02(a)
and
(b)
have been satisfied
on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.
ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Credit Parties represent and warrant to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01
Existence, Qualification and Power;
Compliance with Laws
. Each Credit Party (a) is a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other
entity duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good
standing (to the extent such concept exists in the applicable
jurisdiction and except to the extent that the failure to be in
good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect) under the Laws of the jurisdiction of
its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite
power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses,
authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own its
assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver
and perform its obligations under the Credit Documents to which
it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and in
good standing (to the extent such concept exists in the
applicable jurisdiction) under the Laws of each jurisdiction
where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the
conduct of its business requires such qualification or license,
(d) is in compliance with all Laws and (e) has, to the
extent applicable: (i) entered into and maintains in good
standing its Medicare Provider Agreements and Medicaid Provider
Agreements and (ii) ensured that all such required licenses
are in full force and effect
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on the date hereof and have not been revoked or suspended or
otherwise limited; except in the case of
clauses (b)(i)
,
(b)(ii)
,
(c)
,
(d)
and
(e)
, to the
extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.02
Authorization; No Contravention
. The
execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of each
Credit Document to which such Person is party, have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational
action, and do not (a) contravene the terms of any of such
Persons Organization Documents; (b) materially
conflict with or result in any material breach or contravention
of, or the creation of any Lien under, (i) any material
Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or
(ii) any material order, injunction, writ or decree of any
Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such
Person or its property is subject; (c) violate any Law; or
(d) except to the extent it would not have a Material
Adverse Effect, result in a limitation on any licenses, permits,
certificates or determinations of need or other approvals
applicable to the business, operations or properties of any
Credit Party or adversely affect the ability of any Credit Party
to participate in any Medical Reimbursement Programs.
SECTION 6.03
Governmental Authorization; Other
Consents
. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or
other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental
Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in
connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or
enforcement against, any Credit Party of this Credit Agreement
or any other Credit Document.
SECTION 6.04
Binding Effect
. This Credit Agreement
and each other Credit Document has been duly executed and
delivered by each Credit Party that is party thereto. This
Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents constitute
legal, valid and binding obligations of such Credit Party,
enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its
terms, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may
be limited by applicable Debtor Relief Laws affecting
creditors rights generally and by equitable principles of
law (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at
law).
SECTION 6.05
Financial Statements
. The audited
consolidated balance sheets of the Consolidated Group for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations,
shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal year,
including the notes thereto (A) were prepared in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered
thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein;
(B) fairly present the financial condition of the
Consolidated Group as of the date thereof and their results of
operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with
GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby,
except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and
(C) reflect all material indebtedness and other material
liabilities, direct or contingent, as of the date thereof,
including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and
Indebtedness of the Consolidated Group.
SECTION 6.06
No Material Adverse Effect
. Since
December 31, 2005, there has been no event or circumstance,
either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or would
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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SECTION 6.07
Litigation
. There are no actions,
suits, investigations, criminal prosecutions, civil
investigative demands, imposition of criminal or civil fines or
penalties, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the
knowledge of the Borrowers after due and diligent investigation,
threatened, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any
Governmental Authority, by or against any member of the
Consolidated Group or against any of their respective properties
or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this
Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, or any of the
transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) if determined
adversely, would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.08
No Default
. No member of the
Consolidated Group is in default under or with respect to any
Contractual Obligation that would reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Credit Agreement or any
other Credit Document.
SECTION 6.09
Ownership of Property; Liens
. Each
member of the Consolidated Group has good record and marketable
title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property
necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business,
except for such defects in title as would not, individually or
in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. The property of the Consolidated Group is
subject to no Liens, other than Liens permitted by
Section 8.02
.
SECTION 6.10
Environmental Compliance
. No member of
the Consolidated Group has any liability or responsibility under
any claim in respect of the violation of any Environmental Laws,
except for such claims that would not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.11
Insurance
. The properties of the
Consolidated Group are insured pursuant to self-insurance
arrangements or with financially sound and reputable insurance
companies that are not Affiliates of the Borrowers, in each case
in such kinds, types, amounts and with such deductibles and
self-insurance retentions as are in accordance with sound
business practice.
SECTION 6.12
Taxes
. Each member of the Consolidated
Group has filed all material federal, state and other tax
returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all
taxes shown thereon to be due and has paid all other material
taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied
or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets
otherwise due and payable, except those that are being contested
in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted
and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance
with GAAP. There is no proposed tax assessment against the
Borrowers or any Subsidiary that would, if made, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.13
ERISA Compliance
.
(a) Each Plan is in compliance in all material respects
with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Internal Revenue
Code and other federal or state Laws. Each Plan that is intended
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to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code has received a favorable determination letter from the IRS
or an application for such a letter is pending before the IRS
with respect thereto and, to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers, nothing has occurred that would prevent, or cause the
loss of, such qualification. The Borrowers and each ERISA
Affiliate have made all required contributions to each Plan
subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code, and no
application for a funding waiver or an extension of any
amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Internal
Revenue Code has been made with respect to any Plan.
(b) There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by
any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan that could
be reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
There has been no non-exempt prohibited transaction or violation
of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan
that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Except to the extent it would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (i) no ERISA
Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur;
(ii) no Pension Plan has any Unfunded Pension Liability;
(iii) neither the Borrowers nor any ERISA Affiliate has
incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any material liability
under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan
(other than premiums due and not delinquent under
Section 4007 of ERISA); (iv) neither the Borrowers nor
any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to
incur, any material liability (and no event has occurred that,
with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA,
would result in such liability) under Sections 4201 or 4243
of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; and
(v) neither the Borrowers nor any ERISA Affiliate has
engaged in a transaction that could reasonably be expected to be
subject to Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.
SECTION 6.14
Jurisdiction of Organization, Capital Stock
and Ownership of Credit Parties
.
(a) As of the Closing Date, set forth on
Schedule 6.14
, with respect to each Credit Party, is
the jurisdiction of organization, classes of Capital Stock
(including options, warrants, rights of subscription,
conversion, exchangeability and other similar rights), ownership
and ownership percentages thereof. The outstanding shares of
Capital Stock have been validly issued, fully paid and are
non-assessable and owned free of Liens other than Liens
permitted by
Section 8.02
. The outstanding shares of
Capital Stock shown are not the subject of buy-sell, voting
trust or other shareholder agreement except as identified on
Schedule 6.14
.
(b) Each of the Borrowers (other than FMCAG) is a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG.
(c) As of the Closing Date, NMC is a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of FMCH.
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SECTION 6.15
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act;
Public Utility Holding Company Act
.
(a) The Credit Parties are not engaged and will not engage,
principally or as one of their important activities, in the
business of purchasing or carrying margin stock
(within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or
extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying
margin stock. Following the application of the proceeds of each
Borrowing or drawing under each Letter of Credit, not more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the value of the assets subject to
the provisions of
Section 8.02
or
Section 8.05
or subject to any restriction contained
in any agreement or instrument between a Borrower and any Lender
or any Affiliate of any Lender relating to Indebtedness will be
margin stock.
(b) None of the Credit Parties, any Person Controlling a
Credit Party, or any Subsidiary (i) is a holding
company, or a subsidiary company of a
holding company, or an affiliate of a
holding company or of a subsidiary
company of a holding company, within the
meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, or
(ii) is or is required to be registered as an
investment company under the Investment Company Act
of 1940.
SECTION 6.16
Disclosure
. No report, financial
statement, certificate or other information (other than
information of a general economic nature) furnished (whether in
writing or orally) by or on behalf of any Credit Party to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this
Credit Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or
supplemented by other information so furnished) taken as a whole
contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any
material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading;
provided
that, with respect to projected
financial information, the Borrowers represent only that such
information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions
believed to be reasonable at the time, it being understood that
projections are subject to uncertainties and contingencies
beyond the control of the Credit Parties and that no assurance
can be given that such projections will be realized.
SECTION 6.17
Compliance with Laws
. Each member of
the Consolidated Group is in compliance in all material respects
with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs,
injunctions, settlements or other agreements with any
Governmental Authority and decrees applicable to it or to its
properties (including the CIA), except in such instances in
which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ,
injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the
failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.18
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.
Except to the extent it would not reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect, (a) the Consolidated Group owns,
or possesses the right to use, all of the trademarks, service
marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights,
franchises, licenses and other intellectual property rights
(collectively,
IP Rights
) that are
reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective
businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other
Person, (b) to the best knowledge of the Credit Parties, no
slogan or
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other advertising device, product, process, method, substance,
part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be
employed, by any member of the Consolidated Group infringes upon
any rights held by any other Person, and (c) no claim or
litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the
best knowledge of the Credit Parties, threatened.
SECTION 6.19
Pledge Agreements
. Each Pledge
Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Collateral
Agent, for the ratable benefit of the holders of the
Obligations, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in
the Collateral identified therein on the terms set forth
therein, except to the extent the enforceability thereof may be
limited by applicable Debtor Relief Laws affecting
creditors rights generally and by equitable principles of
law (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at
law) and, when such Collateral is delivered to the Collateral
Agent, each Pledge Agreement shall constitute a fully perfected
first priority Lien on, and security interest in, all right,
title and interest of the pledgors thereunder in such
Collateral, in each case prior and superior in right to any
other Lien.
SECTION 6.20
Reimbursement from Medical Reimbursement
Programs
. The accounts receivable of each of the Domestic
Credit Parties have been and will continue to be adjusted in all
material respects to reflect the reimbursement policies (both
those most recently published in writing as well as those not in
writing that have been verbally communicated) of any Medical
Reimbursement Program (including Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross/
Blue Shield, private insurance companies, health maintenance
organizations, preferred provider organizations, alternative
delivery systems, managed care systems, government contracting
agencies and other third party payors) applicable to such Credit
Party. In particular, such accounts receivable relating to any
Medical Reimbursement Program do not and shall not exceed
amounts any obligee is entitled to receive under any capitation
arrangement, fee schedule, discount formula, cost-based
reimbursement or other adjustment or limitation to its usual
charges, in each case to the extent it would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
ARTICLE VII
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Until the Loan Obligations hereunder shall have been paid in
full or otherwise satisfied, and the Commitments hereunder shall
have expired or been terminated, the Credit Parties will, and
will cause members of the Consolidated Group to:
SECTION 7.01
Financial Statements
. Deliver to the
Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and detail
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders:
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(a) as soon as available, and in any event within five days
after the date such information is required to be delivered to
the SEC (but not in any event more than ninety-five days after
the end of any fiscal year), consolidated balance sheets of
FMCAG and its Subsidiaries, as at the end of each fiscal year
(beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006),
and the related consolidated statements of income or operations,
and the related statements of shareholders equity and cash
flows for such fiscal year,
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setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for
the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared
in accordance with GAAP, audited and accompanied by a report and
opinion of an independent certified public accountant of
nationally recognized standing reasonably acceptable to the
Required Lenders, which report and opinion shall state that such
accountants conducted their audit of such financial statements
in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and
shall not be subject to any going concern or like
qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as
to the scope of such audit or other material qualification or
exception of any kind; and
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(b) as soon as available, and in any event within five days
after the date such information is required to be delivered to
the SEC (but not in any event more than fifty days after the end
of any fiscal quarter), consolidated balance sheets of FMCAG and
its Subsidiaries, as at the end of for each of the first three
fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations, and the related
statements of shareholders equity and cash flows for such
fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then
ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous
fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal
year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible
Officer thereof as fairly presenting the financial condition,
results of operations, shareholders equity and cash flows
in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit
adjustments and the absence of footnotes.
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As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant
to
Section 7.02(c)
, the Borrowers shall not be
separately required to furnish such information under
subsections (a)
or
(b)
above, but the foregoing
shall not be in derogation of the obligation of the Borrowers to
furnish the information and materials described in
subsections (a)
and
(b)
above at the times
specified therein.
SECTION 7.02
Certificates; Other Information
.
Deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and
detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders:
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(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements referred to in
Section 7.01(a)
, a
certificate of its independent certified public accountants
certifying such financial statements and stating that in making
the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of
any Default or Event of Default or, if any such Default or Event
of Default shall exist, stating the nature and status of such
event;
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(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements referred to in
Sections 7.01(a)
and
(b)
, a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a
Responsible Officer (i) setting forth computations in
reasonable detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
demonstrating compliance with the financial covenants, (ii)
demonstrating compliance with certain other covenants contained
herein (including certain Indebtedness permitted under
Section 8.01
, certain Investments permitted under
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Section 8.03
and certain Restricted Payments
permitted under
Section 8.06
), (iii) certifying that
no Default or Event of Default exists as of the date thereof (or
the nature and extent thereof and proposed actions with respect
thereto) and (iv) to the extent necessary pursuant to
Section 1.03
, including a summary of all material changes
in or the consistent application of GAAP affecting the numeric
value of the financial covenants, and a reconciliation between
calculation of the financial covenants (and determination of the
applicable pricing level under the definition of
Applicable Percentage) before and after giving
effect to such changes;
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(c) promptly after the same are available, copies of each
annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or
communication sent to the stockholders of FMCAG, and copies of
all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and
registration statements that FMCAG may file or be required to
file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and not otherwise required to
be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto; and
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(d) promptly, such additional information regarding the
business, financial or corporate affairs of members of the
Consolidated Group, or compliance with the terms of the Credit
Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from
time to time reasonably request.
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Documents required to be delivered pursuant to
Section 7.01(a)
or
(b)
or
Section 7.02(c)
(to the extent any such documents
are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be
delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to
have been delivered on the date (i) on which FMCAG posts
such documents at sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm, or provides a link
thereto on FMCAGs website on the internet at the website
address listed on
Schedule 11.02
; or (ii) on
which such documents are posted on FMCAGs behalf on
IntraLinks/ IntraAgency or another relevant website, if any, to
which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access
(whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored
by the Administrative Agent);
provided
that:
(i) FMCAG shall deliver paper copies of such documents to
the Administrative Agent or any Lender that requests FMCAG to
deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease
delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or
such Lender and (ii) FMCAG shall notify (which may be by
facsimile or electronic mail) the Administrative Agent and each
Lender of the posting of any such documents and provide to the
Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions
(
i.e.
, soft copies) of such documents. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein, in every instance FMCAG shall be
required to provide paper copies of the Compliance Certificates
required by
Section 7.02(b)
to the Administrative
Agent and each of the Lenders. Except for such Compliance
Certificates, the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation
to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the documents
referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility
to monitor compliance by FMCAG with any such request for
delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for
requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such
documents.
The Borrowers hereby acknowledge that (A) the
Administrative Agent and the Arrangers will make available to
the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on
behalf of the
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Borrowers hereunder (collectively, the
Borrower
Materials
) by posting the Borrower Materials on
IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the
Platform
) and (B) certain of the Lenders
may be public-side Lenders (
i.e.
, Lenders
that do not wish to receive material non-public information with
respect to the Borrowers or their securities) (each, a
Public Lender
). The Borrowers hereby further
agree that (1) all Borrower Materials that are to be made
available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously
marked PUBLIC which, at a minimum, shall mean that
the word PUBLIC shall appear prominently on the
first page thereof; (2) by marking Borrower Materials
PUBLIC, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have
authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the
Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any
material non-public information (although it may be sensitive
and proprietary) with respect to the Borrowers or their
securities for purposes of United States federal and state
securities laws (
provided
that to the extent such
Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated
as set forth in
Section 11.08
); (3) all
Borrower Materials marked PUBLIC are permitted to be
made available through a portion of the Platform designated as
Public Investor; and (4) the Administrative
Agent and the Arrangers shall be entitled to treat and shall
treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked
PUBLIC as being suitable only for posting on a
portion of the Platform not marked as Public
Investor.
SECTION 7.03
Notification
. Promptly notify the
Administrative Agent and each Lender party to this Credit
Agreement:
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(a) after any Credit Party knows or has reason to know of
the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
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(b) of any matter that has resulted or, if adversely
determined, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, including as a result of (i) breach or
non-performance of, or any default under, a Contractual
Obligation of the Borrowers or any Subsidiary; (ii) any dispute,
litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between the
Borrowers or any Subsidiary and any Governmental Authority; or
(iii) the commencement of, or any material development in, any
litigation or proceeding affecting the Borrowers or any
Subsidiary, including pursuant to any applicable Environmental
Laws;
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(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event;
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(d) of any material change in accounting policies or
financial reporting practices by members of the Consolidated
Group to the extent such change affects compliance with the
financial covenants hereunder;
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(e) of any notice of intent to exclude, any notice of
proposal to exclude issued by the OIG or any other Exclusion
Event that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect;
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(f) of (i) the institution of any investigation,
review or proceeding against any Credit Party to suspend, revoke
or terminate (or that may result in the termination of) any
Medicaid Provider Agreement or Medicare Provider Agreement, or
any such
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investigation or proceeding that may result in an Exclusion
Event, (ii) any notice of loss or threatened loss of
accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations or any other accrediting entity, loss
of participation under any Medical Reimbursement Program or loss
of applicable health care license, or (iii) payment of any
penalties or the imposition of any other remedies pursuant to
the CIA, in each case, that would reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(g) of any change in the Debt Rating; and
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(h) of the issuance of any material indictment or the
initiation of other material criminal proceedings against any
member of the Consolidated Group and provide a certificate,
signed by a Responsible Officer, setting forth a detailed
description of the nature of the proceedings and the relevant
facts in connection therewith together with an estimation of the
fines, penalties and damages sought in connection therewith.
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Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a
statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth details of the
occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the
Borrowers have taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
Each notice pursuant to
Section 7.03(a)
shall
describe with particularity any and all provisions of this
Credit Agreement and any other Credit Document that have been
breached.
SECTION 7.04
Payment of Obligations
. Pay and
discharge as the same shall become due and payable, all its
material obligations and liabilities, including (a) all
material tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges
or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same
are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with
GAAP are being maintained; (b) all lawful claims that, if
overdue and unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property
(other than Liens permitted hereunder); and (c) all
Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any
subordination provisions contained in any instrument or
agreement evidencing such Indebtedness.
SECTION 7.05
Preservation of Existence, Etc.
(a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect
its legal existence and good standing under the Laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction
permitted by
Section 8.04
or
8.05
or in a
liquidation, dissolution, winding-up or other termination of
existence not prohibited by
Section 8.04
;
(b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights,
privileges, permits, licenses and franchises necessary or
desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the
extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew
all of its registered patents, trademarks, trade names and
service marks, the non-preservation of which could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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SECTION 7.06
Maintenance of Properties
.
(a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material
properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its
business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and
tear excepted; (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and
renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do
so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect; and (c) use the standard of care typical in the
industry in the operation and maintenance of its facilities.
SECTION 7.07
Maintenance of Insurance
. Maintain in
full force and effect, self-insurance arrangements or insurance
with financially sound and reputable insurance companies that
are not Affiliates, with respect to its properties and business
against loss or damage of the kinds, of such types, in such
amounts and with such deductibles and self-insurance retentions
as are in accordance with sound business practice.
SECTION 7.08
Compliance with Laws
.
(a) Except to the extent the failure to do so would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, cause
each member of the Consolidated Group to (i) comply with
all the requirements of Law (including Titles XVIII and XIX of
the Social Security Act, Medicare Regulations, Medicaid
Regulations), and all restrictions and requirements imposed by
any Governmental Authority, applicable to it and its property
(including the CIA, Environmental Laws and ERISA),
(ii) obtain and maintain all licenses, permits,
certifications and approvals of all applicable Governmental
Authorities as are required for the conduct of its business as
currently conducted and herein contemplated (including
professional licenses, CIA certifications, certificates or
determinations of need, Medicare Provider Agreements and
Medicaid Provider Agreements), (iii) ensure that billing
policies, arrangements, protocols and instructions will comply
with reimbursement requirements under Medicare, Medicaid and
other Medical Reimbursement Programs and will be administered by
properly trained personnel and (iv) make commercially
reasonable efforts to implement policies that are consistent
with the regulations implementing the privacy requirements of
the Administrative Simplification subtitle of HIPAA set forth at
45 CFR Parts 160, 162 and 164.
(b) FMCH has in place and shall maintain a compliance
program for its Subsidiaries that is reasonably consistent with
publicly available OIG guidelines and is reasonably designed to
provide effective internal controls that promote adherence to,
prevent and detect material violations of, Laws applicable to
its Subsidiaries, including any Medicaid Regulations and
Medicare Regulations applicable to its Subsidiaries, and to
comply with all applicable requirements of the CIA, which
compliance program includes the implementation of internal
audits and monitoring on a regular basis to monitor compliance
therewith, with such regulations and the CIA.
SECTION 7.09
Books and Records
. Maintain proper
books of record and account, in which full, true and correct
entries in conformity with GAAP (or, with respect to any foreign
entity, the equivalent) shall be made of all financial
transactions and matters involving the assets and business of
the Borrowers or such Subsidiary, as the case may be; and
(b) maintain such
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books of record and account in material conformity with all
applicable requirements of any Governmental Authority having
regulatory jurisdiction over the Borrowers or such Subsidiary,
as the case may be.
SECTION 7.10
Inspection Rights
. Permit
representatives and independent contractors of the
Administrative Agent to visit and inspect any of its properties,
to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and
make copies thereof (other than materials protected by attorney
client privilege or that a Credit Party may not disclose without
violation of a confidentiality obligation binding on it) or
abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and
accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public
accountants, at such reasonable times during normal business
hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable
advance notice;
provided
, however, that when an Event of
Default exists the Administrative Agent (or any of its
representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the
foregoing at the expense of FMCAG at any time during normal
business hours and without advance notice.
SECTION 7.11
Use of Proceeds
. Use the proceeds of
the Credit Extensions to finance the RCG Acquisition (including
fees and expenses relating thereto), to refinance certain
existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes not in
contravention of any Law or of any Credit Document.
SECTION 7.12
Joinder of Additional Guarantors
. Give
prompt notice to the Administrative Agent of the formation,
acquisition (or other receipt of interests) or existence of
(a) any Material Subsidiary of FMCAG, (ii) any
Material Domestic Subsidiary of FMCH, or (c) any Subsidiary
of FMCAG that is not a Guarantor hereunder that issues or
becomes obligated with respect to Subordinated Debt pursuant to
Section 8.01(j
), and shall cause any such Subsidiary
to become a Guarantor hereunder by execution and delivery of a
Guarantor Joinder Agreement, or such other document as the
Administrative Agent may deem appropriate, within ninety
(90) days of the formation, acquisition or existence
thereof (except in the case of RCG and the Material Domestic
Subsidiaries of RCG, which guaranties shall be provided on the
Closing Date), together with such organizational documents,
resolutions, opinions of counsel and such other documents as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request in connection
therewith, all in form, content and scope reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
provided
that
notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, in
the case of a guaranty by a Material Foreign Subsidiary
otherwise required hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall, in
consultation with FMCAG, do an analysis of the relative benefits
associated with the prospective guaranty and where, in its
reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent shall make a
determination, taking into account local custom and practice,
that the costs, circumstances and requirements under local law
associated with the guaranty outweigh the relative benefits of
the guaranty, then in any such case the guaranty will not be
required. Without limiting the foregoing provisions regarding
the required joinder of Guarantors, FMCAG may, in its
discretion, join any other Subsidiary as a Guarantor hereunder.
SECTION 7.13
Pledge of Capital Stock
. Pledge or
cause to be pledged to the Collateral Agent to secure the
Obligations pursuant to the Collateral Documents:
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(a) in the case of Subsidiaries of FMCAG (other than
Subsidiaries of FMCH), one hundred percent (100%) of the issued
and outstanding Capital Stock with ordinary voting power issued
to FMCAG or any of its Subsidiaries of (i) FMCH,
(ii) FMCD, (iii) FMCF-V, (iv) National Medical
Care of Spain, S.A., (v) Fresenius Medical Care Japan,
K.K., and (vi) all Material Subsidiaries of FMCAG (other
than (A) FMC US Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, FMC US Zwei
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, FMC US Drei
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, and (B) Subsidiaries of
FMCH);
provided
that (1) in the case of the pledge
of Capital Stock in Foreign Subsidiaries on the Closing Date,
execution, notarization and recordation of local pledge
agreements, parallel debt agreements and such other acts
necessary or appropriate to give effect to the pledge under
local law, together with the delivery of local counsel opinions
in respect thereof, will be completed within ten (10) days
of the Closing Date and (2) in the case of a pledge of
Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary, the Administrative Agent
shall, in consultation with FMCAG, do an analysis of the
relative benefits associated with the prospective pledge and
where, in its reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent
shall make a determination, taking into account local custom and
practice, that the costs, circumstances and requirements under
local law associated with the pledge outweigh the relative
benefits of the pledge, then in any such case the pledge will
not be required;
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(b) in the case of Subsidiaries of FMCH (including, upon
consummation of the RCG Acquisition, RCG and its Material
Domestic Subsidiaries), (A) one hundred percent (100%) of
the issued and outstanding Capital Stock with ordinary voting
power issued to FMCH or any of its Subsidiaries of all Material
Domestic Subsidiaries, and (B) sixty-five percent (65%) of the
issued and outstanding Capital Stock with ordinary voting power
issued to FMCH or any of its Subsidiaries of all
First-Tier Foreign Subsidiaries that are Material Foreign
Subsidiaries;
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(c) within ninety (90) days after a Subsidiary shall
become a Material Subsidiary or after the formation, acquisition
or other receipt of Capital Stock in a Material Subsidiary
(except in the case of RCG and the Material Domestic
Subsidiaries of RCG on the Closing Date, in which case, within
five (5) days of the formation, acquisition or existence
thereof), in each case pursuant to a Pledge Agreement or pledge
joinder agreement, together with such filings and deliveries
necessary or appropriate to perfect the security interests
therein, and opinions of counsel relating thereto, all in form,
content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent;
provided
that (i) in each case any preferred
stock issued by FMCH outstanding as of the Closing Date shall
not be pledged pursuant hereto and (ii) in the case of a
pledge of Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary, the
Administrative Agent shall, in consultation with FMCAG, do an
analysis of the relative benefits associated with the
prospective pledge and where, in its reasonable discretion, the
Administrative Agent shall make a determination, taking into
account local custom and practice, that the costs, circumstances
and requirements under local law associated with the pledge
outweigh the relative benefits of the pledge, then in any such
case the pledge will not be required.
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SECTION 7.14
Ownership
. Except as otherwise
permitted under
Section 8.04
, at all times
(a) each of the Primary Borrowers (other than FMCAG) shall
be a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG and (b) NMC shall be
a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of FMCH.
SECTION 7.15
Interest Rate Protection
. Enter into,
within ninety (90) days of the Closing Date, and maintain
one or more Swap Contracts on such terms as shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the effect of which
shall be to fix or limit the interest cost for a period of three
(3) years from the Closing Date with respect to a notional
amount equal to at least thirty-five percent (35%) of the
aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans outstanding.
SECTION 7.16
Pledge of Additional Collateral
. If at
any time the Debt Rating is lower than Ba3 from Moodys (or
unrated) or lower than BB- from S&P (or unrated), then the
Credit Parties will promptly grant security interests in the
following:
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(a)
Domestic Personal Property
. Except as may be
agreed by the Administrative Agent and FMCAG, the Credit Parties
will grant a security interest in substantially all personal
property (including all accounts, contract rights, deposit
accounts, chattel paper, insurance proceeds, inventory,
investments and financial assets, general intangibles,
intellectual property, licenses, machinery and equipment)
located in the United States and which may be perfected by
filing financing statements under the Uniform Commercial Code or
by filing notices of security interests in respect of
intellectual property with the United States Copyright Office or
the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The scope of the
personal property covered by this subsection will not include
Excluded Personal Property. In connection with any grant of
security interest under this subsection, the Credit Parties will
deliver to the Administrative Agent within thirty (30) days
(with extensions as deemed necessary by the Administrative
Agent) (i) a security agreement in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in
multiple counterparts, (ii) notices of grant of security
interest in respect of intellectual property with the United
States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and
Trademark Office reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, executed in multiple counterparts, (iii) such
opinions of counsel as the Administrative Agent may deem
necessary or appropriate, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (iv) evidence of
casualty insurance (consistent with the requirements for
insurance hereunder) on personal property showing the Collateral
Agent as loss payee (if insurance is provided by a commercial
insurer), and (v) such other filings and deliveries as may
be necessary or appropriate as determined by the Administrative
Agent in its reasonable discretion.
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(b)
Domestic Real Property
. Except as may be agreed
by the Administrative Agent, the Credit Parties will mortgage,
pledge and grant a security interest in all fee-owned real
property located in the United States with a fair value in
excess of $5 million in any instance (or otherwise
determined to be material in the reasonable judgment of the
Administrative Agent). Further, the Administrative Agent, in
consultation with FMCAG, shall do an analysis of the relative
benefits associated with the prospective mortgage lien and
where, in its reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent
shall make a determination, taking into account local mortgage
recording tax issues, that the costs,
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circumstances and requirements under local law associated with
the mortgage lien outweigh the relative benefits of the mortgage
lien, then, in any such case, the mortgage will not be required.
In connection with the mortgage, pledge or grant of a security
interest under this subsection, the Credit Parties will deliver
to the Administrative Agent within one hundred twenty
(120) days (with extensions as deemed necessary by the
Administrative Agent) (i) a mortgage, deed of trust, deed
to secure debt or other similar instrument in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in
multiple counterparts, (ii) copies of recent ALTA surveys
prepared by registered engineers or land surveyors for each
mortgaged property, (iii) standard ALTA mortgagee policies
insuring the priority of the mortgage instruments and copies of
recorded documentation relating to any exceptions,
(iv) copies of environmental reports and other material,
non-privileged environmental documentation relating to the
mortgaged properties, in each case in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, (v) evidence
of casualty insurance (consistent with the requirements for
insurance hereunder) on the real property improvements showing
the Collateral Agent as loss payee (if insurance is provided by
a commercial issuer), and (vi) evidence of flood insurance
on improvements located in a flood hazard area for the mortgaged
properties identifying the Collateral Agent as sole loss payee.
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(c)
Foreign Personal Property
. Except as may be
agreed by the Administrative Agent, the Credit Parties (other
than Credit Parties that are Foreign Subsidiaries of FMCH) will
grant a security interest in all material personal property
(including all accounts, contract rights, deposit accounts,
chattel paper, insurance proceeds, inventory, investments and
financial assets, general intangibles, intellectual property,
licenses, machinery and equipment) located outside the United
States with a fair value in excess of $5 million in any
instance (or otherwise determined to be material in the
reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent). The scope of
the security interests will contain exceptions and
qualifications reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent, and will not include Excluded Personal Property. Further,
the Administrative Agent, in consultation with FMCAG, shall do
an analysis of the relative benefits associated with the
prospective pledge and where, in its reasonable discretion, the
Administrative Agent shall make a determination, taking into
account local custom and practice, that the costs, circumstances
and requirements under local law associated with the pledge
outweigh the relative benefits of the pledge, then, in any such
case, the pledge will not be required. In connection with the a
grant of security interests under this subsection, the Credit
Parties will deliver to the Administrative Agent within ninety
(90) days (with extensions as deemed necessary by the
Administrative Agent) (i) a security agreement in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
executed in multiple counterparts, (ii) filings and notices
of grant of security interest in respect of such personal
property as may be necessary or appropriate to perfect the
subject interests and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, (iii) such opinions of counsel as the
Administrative Agent may deem necessary or appropriate, in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, (iv) evidence of casualty insurance (consistent with
the requirements for insurance hereunder) on personal property
showing the Collateral Agent and loss payee (if insurance is
provided by a commercial insurer), and (v) such other
deliveries as may be
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customary, necessary or appropriate in the subject jurisdiction
as determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable
discretion.
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(d)
Foreign Real Property
. Except as may be agreed
by the Administrative Agent, the Credit Parties will mortgage,
pledge and grant a security interest in all fee-owned (or local
equivalent) real property located outside the United States with
a fair value in excess of $5 million in any instance (or
otherwise determined to be material in the reasonable judgment
of the Administrative Agent). Further, the Administrative Agent,
in consultation with FMCAG, shall do an analysis of the relative
benefits associated with the prospective mortgage and where, in
its reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent shall make a
determination, taking into account local custom and practice,
that the costs, circumstances and requirements under local law
associated with the mortgage outweigh the relative benefits of
the mortgage, then, in any such case, the mortgage will not be
required. In connection with such mortgage, pledge or grant of a
security interest under this subsection, the Credit Parties will
deliver to the Administrative Agent within one hundred eighty
(180) days (with extensions as deemed necessary by the
Administrative Agent) a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure
debt or other similar instrument in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in
multiple counterparts, together with such other deliveries as
may be customary, necessary or appropriate in the subject
jurisdiction as determined by the Administrative Agent in its
reasonable discretion.
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ARTICLE VIII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Until the Loan Obligations hereunder shall have been paid in
full or otherwise satisfied, and until the Commitments hereunder
shall have expired or been terminated, the Credit Parties will
not, and will not permit members of the Consolidated Group to:
SECTION 8.01
Indebtedness
. Create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
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(a) Indebtedness arising or existing under this Credit
Agreement, the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the other Credit
Documents;
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(b) Indebtedness identified on Schedule 8.01, and any
refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof,
provided
that the principal amount of such Indebtedness
is not increased at the time of any such refinancing, refunding,
renewal or extension (except that the terms of any such
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension shall be on terms
consistent with prevailing market standards, but not materially
less favorable to the member of the Consolidated Group than the
terms of the Indebtedness that is the subject of such
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension), but the amount of
any such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension may
include (i) the amount of
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unfunded commitments relating thereto and (ii) the costs
thereof, including reasonable fees and expenses in connection
therewith);
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(c) unsecured intercompany Indebtedness among members of
the Consolidated Group to the extent permitted by
Section 8.03
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(d) Indebtedness and obligations (contingent or otherwise)
owing under Swap Contracts,
provided
that such
obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the
ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly
mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments,
investments, assets or property held or reasonably anticipated
by such Person, or changes in the value of securities issued by
such Person, and not for the purposes of speculation or taking a
market view;
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(e) Indebtedness under capital leases, Synthetic Lease
obligations and purchase money obligations incurred to provide
all or a portion of the purchase price (or cost of construction
or acquisition), in each case, for capital assets and
refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof,
provided
that (i) such Indebtedness when incurred
shall not exceed the purchase price or cost of construction of
such asset, (ii) no such Indebtedness shall be refinanced
for a principal amount in excess of the principal balance
outstanding thereon at the time of such refinancing, and
(iii) for the Consolidated Group taken as a whole, the
total amount of all such Indebtedness incurred after the Closing
Date
plus
the Attributed Principal Amount of Sale and
Leaseback Transactions entered into after the Closing Date that
are not otherwise included in such Indebtedness shall not exceed
$250 million in the aggregate at any time;
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(f) Indebtedness and obligations under Permitted
Receivables Financings,
provided
that the Attributed
Principal Amount of all such Permitted Receivables Financings
shall not exceed $750 million in the aggregate at any time;
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(g) senior Funded Debt of FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in a
principal amount not to exceed an amount equal to the difference
of (i) $700 million (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof on
the date on which the amount is fixed, to the extent that any
such Indebtedness is denominated other than in Dollars)
minus
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of loans
and commitments established under the Incremental Loan
Facilities hereunder, in the aggregate at any time outstanding,
provided
that not more than $550 million of such
Funded Debt may be issued, assumed or guaranteed by the Credit
Parties generally;
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(h) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, senior Funded Debt of FMCH and
its Subsidiaries in a principal amount not to exceed
$50 million (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof on the date
on which the amount is fixed, to the extent that any such
Indebtedness is denominated other than in Dollars) in the
aggregate at any time outstanding;
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(i) customer deposits and advance payments received from
customers for goods purchased in the ordinary course of business;
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(j) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, Subordinated Debt and Support
Obligations relating thereto,
provided
that (i) the
maturity date for any such debt is not earlier than the final
maturity date of the Tranche B Term Loan, (ii) such
Subordinated Debt and any Support Obligations relating thereto
shall be subordinated to the Obligations hereunder on terms and
conditions materially no less favorable to the Lenders than
those in the Trust Preferred Subdebt issued and outstanding on
the Closing Date or on terms and conditions otherwise reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders
and (iii) any Person that gives a Support Obligation in
respect of any such Subordinated Debt shall also give a guaranty
of the Obligations hereunder and become a Guarantor hereunder,
provided
further, that on the date of issuance,
incurrence or assumption of any such additional Subordinated
Debt, (A) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist
and be continuing immediately before or after giving effect
thereto, (B) the Consolidated Group shall be in compliance
with the financial covenants hereunder after giving effect
thereto on a Pro Forma Basis and (C) a Responsible Officer
of FMCAG shall provide a compliance certificate, in form and
detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, affirming the
matters in this subsection;
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(k) Indebtedness of FMCAG and its Subsidiaries owing to
Fresenius AG and any of its Subsidiaries (other than FMCAG and
its Subsidiaries) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$400 million at any time outstanding (the
AG
Debt
);
provided
that such Indebtedness shall be
subordinated to the Obligations on terms and conditions
materially no less favorable to the Lenders than those in the
Trust Preferred Subdebt issued and outstanding on the
Closing Date or on terms and conditions otherwise reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders;
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(l) Indebtedness in respect of convertible bonds referred
to in
Section 8.03(g)
;
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(m) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, Indebtedness under the EIB Loan
in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
150,000,000 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals
and extensions thereof; and
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(n) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, Indebtedness under the
Schuldscheindarlehen in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed
200,000,000 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals
and extensions thereof.
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SECTION 8.02
Liens
. Create, incur, assume or
suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or
revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than
the following:
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(a) Liens to secure the loans and obligations owing under
this Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the
other Credit Documents;
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(b) Liens in favor of a Lender or any of its Affiliates
pursuant to a Swap Contract permitted hereunder, but only to the
extent that (i) the obligations under such Swap Contract
are permitted under
Section 8.01
, (ii) such Liens
are on the same collateral
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that secures the Obligations hereunder and (iii) the
obligations under such Swap Contract and the Obligations share
pari passu in the collateral subject to such Liens;
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(c) Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on
Schedule 8.02
and any renewals or extensions thereof,
provided
that the property covered thereby is not
broadened or increased and any renewal or extension of the
obligations secured or benefited thereby is permitted by
Section 8.01
;
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(d) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or
levies not yet due or payable or that are being contested in
good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted,
if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the
books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;
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(e) carriers, warehousemens, mechanics,
materialmens, repairmens, suppliers or other
like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are
not overdue for a period of more than thirty days or that are
being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings
diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto
are maintained on the books of the applicable Person;
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(f) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business
in connection with workers compensation, unemployment
insurance and other social security legislation, other than any
Lien imposed by ERISA, or to secure the performance of tenders,
statutory obligations, bids, leases, government contracts,
performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar
obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of
borrowed money);
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(g) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade
contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), statutory
obligations, surety bonds (other than bonds related to judgments
or litigation), performance bonds and other obligations of a
like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
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(h) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, minor defects
or irregularities in title and other similar encumbrances
affecting real property that, in the aggregate, are not
substantial in amount, and that do not in any case materially
detract from the value of the property subject thereto or
materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business
of the applicable Person;
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(i) Liens securing attachments or judgments for the payment
of money not constituting an Event of Default under
Section 9.01(h)
or securing appeal or other surety
bonds related to such judgments;
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(j) Liens securing, or in respect of, obligations under
capital leases or Synthetic Leases and purchase money
obligations for fixed or capital assets permitted hereunder,
provided
that (i) such Liens do not at any time
encumber any property other than the property financed by such
Indebtedness and (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby
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does not exceed the cost or fair market value, whichever is
lower, of the property being acquired on the date of acquisition;
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(k) Liens on the property or assets of any Credit Party
granted in connection with Sale and Leaseback Transactions
permitted hereunder;
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(l) Liens on the property or assets granted in connection
with Permitted Receivable Financings (including any related
filings of financing statements),
provided
that such
Liens shall extend only to those accounts receivable and related
property that are the subject of the Permitted Receivables
Financing;
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(m) leases and subleases of real property granted to others
not interfering in any material respect with the business of any
member of the Consolidated Group;
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(n) any interest of title of a lessor under, and Liens
arising under UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings,
registrations or agreements in foreign jurisdictions) relating
to, leases permitted by this Credit Agreement;
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(o) normal and customary rights of setoff on deposits of
cash in favor of banks and other depository institutions;
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(p) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities
required as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties
in connection with the importation of goods;
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(q) Liens created or deemed to exist by the establishment
of trusts for the purpose of satisfying (i) Governmental
Reimbursement Program Costs and (ii) other actions or
claims pertaining to the same or related matters or other
Medical Reimbursement Programs,
provided
in each case
that (A) adequate reserves for such claims or actions have
been established and (B) contributions to such trusts in
respect of such actions or claims shall not exceed
$60 million at any time;
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(r) Liens arising out of the refinancing, extension,
renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien
permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this
Section 8.02
,
provided
that (i) such
Indebtedness is not secured by any additional assets of the
Consolidated Group and (ii) the amount of such Indebtedness
secured by any such Lien is not increased; and
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(s) Liens other than those referred to herein above,
provided
that (i) the aggregate amount of all
Indebtedness secured thereby does not at any time exceed
$50 million and (ii) the Liens do not cover or extend
to any of the collateral pledged to secure the Obligations
hereunder.
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SECTION 8.03
Investments
. Make any Investments,
except:
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(a) cash (including cash held in non-time deposit accounts)
and Cash Equivalents;
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(b) accounts receivable created, acquired or made by a
member of the Consolidated Group in the ordinary course of
business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with
customary trade terms;
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(c) Investments consisting of stock, obligations,
securities or other property received by a member of the
Consolidated Group in settlement of accounts receivable (created
in the ordinary course of business) from bankrupt obligors;
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(d) Investments consisting of capital contributions and
equity Investments made by members of the Consolidated Group in
other members of the Consolidated Group prior to the Closing
Date;
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(e) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth
on
Schedule 8.03
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(f) Guaranty Obligations permitted by
Section 8.01
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(g) loans to employees, directors or officers in connection
with the award of convertible bonds under a stock incentive
plan, stock option plan or other equity-based compensation plan
or arrangement in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$20 million (net of Indebtedness owing by members of the
Consolidated Group to such employees, directors or officers
under convertible bonds) in the aggregate at any time
outstanding;
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(h) other advances or loans to directors, officers,
employees or agents not to exceed $10 million in the
aggregate at any one time outstanding,
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(i) advances or loans to customers or suppliers that do not
exceed $80 million in the aggregate at any one time
outstanding;
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(j) Investments by a member or an Affiliate of a member of
the Consolidated Group in connection with a Permitted
Receivables Financing;
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(k) Permitted Acquisitions;
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(l) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to any
Credit Party that is organized and existing under the laws of an
Approved Jurisdiction;
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(m) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to
(i) any Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary of FMCH, whether
or not a Credit Party and (ii) any Foreign Subsidiary of
FMCH that is a special purpose finance subsidiary;
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(n) Investments by members of the Consolidated Group (other
than FMCH and its Subsidiaries) that are not Credit Parties or
that are Credit Parties organized and existing under the laws of
a jurisdiction that is not an Approved Jurisdiction may make
Investments in and to other such members of the Consolidated
Group (other than FMCH
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and its Subsidiaries) that are not Credit Parties or that are
Credit Parties organized and existing under the laws of a
jurisdiction that is not an Approved Jurisdiction;
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(o) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to
members of the Consolidated Group that are not otherwise
permitted under the foregoing
subsections (l
), (
m
)
or
(n)
of this
Section 8.03
in an aggregate
principal amount outstanding at any time (excluding those
Investments permitted under
subsections (d)
,
(e)
or
(n)
of this
Section 8.03
) not to exceed
twelve percent (12%) of consolidated total assets of the
Consolidated Group;
provided
that where the Investment is
a loan or advance, there shall be no contractual restriction or
limitation on the repayment of any such indebtedness;
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(p) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to
joint ventures or other entities in which FMCAG, directly or
indirectly, owns less than a majority of the Capital Stock with
ordinary voting power of such venture or entity;
provided
that (i) the aggregate principal amount of all such
Investments under this
subsection (p)
, together with the
aggregate principal amount of loans and advances under
subsection (q)
, shall not exceed $300 million at any
time, and (ii) where the Investment is a loan or advance,
there shall be no contractual restriction or limitation on the
repayment of any such indebtedness;
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(q) loans and advances by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in
Fresenius AG in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$200 million;
provided
that (i) Fresenius AG no
longer Controls FMCAG in a manner that allows it to provide
consolidated financial statements with the Consolidated Group
under GAAP, then the aggregate principal amount of such loans
and advances shall not exceed $100 million, (ii) the
aggregate principal amount of all such loans and advances under
this
subsection (q)
, together with the aggregate
principal amount of Investments under
subsection (p)
,
shall not exceed $300 million at any time, and
(iii) there shall be no contractual restriction or
limitation on the repayment of any such indebtedness;
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(r) Investments by members of the Consolidated Group in
Fresenius AG or a common cash pool for
investment purposes maintained by Fresenius AG for the
investment of funds on an overnight basis; and
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(s) other loans, advances or investments of a nature not
contemplated in the foregoing subsections in an amount not to
exceed $50 million in the aggregate at any time outstanding.
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SECTION 8.04
Merger and Consolidation; Dissolution;
Restriction on Certain Foreign Subsidiaries
.
(a) Enter into a transaction of merger or consolidation;
provided
that so long as no Default or Event of Default
then exists or would result therefrom:
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(i) a Domestic Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with
another Domestic Subsidiary,
provided
that (A) FMCH
shall not merge or consolidate with another Person
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(other than NMC or a direct Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary of
FMCAG) unless FMCH shall be the surviving corporation or entity
and (B) if the merger or consolidation involves a Domestic
Credit Party then, in addition to the conditions contained in
clause (A), the surviving corporation or entity shall be either
the Domestic Credit Party or such surviving corporation or
entity shall become a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of
Section 7.12
immediately after the consummation of
such merger or consolidation;
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(ii) a Foreign Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any
other Foreign Subsidiary,
provided
that (A) FMCAG
shall not merge or consolidate with another Person unless FMCAG
shall be the surviving corporation or entity and (B) if
such merger or consolidation involves a Credit Party, the
surviving corporation or entity shall either be a Credit Party
or shall become a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of
Section 7.12
immediately after the consummation of
such merger or consolidation; and
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(iii) members of the Consolidated Group may merge or
consolidate with Persons that are not members of the
Consolidated Group,
provided
that (A) the
transaction shall constitute a Permitted Acquisition and shall
be permitted by
Section 8.03
, (B) the member of
the Consolidated Group shall be the surviving entity,
(C) if the member of the Consolidated Group that is a party
to the merger or consolidation is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of
FMCH, then the surviving entity shall be a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of FMCH, (D) if the member of the Consolidated
Group that is a party to the merger or consolidation is a
Guarantor hereunder, the surviving entity shall be a Guarantor
hereunder and (E) no Default or Event of Default shall then
exist and be continuing immediately before or immediately after
giving effect thereto.
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(b) Neither FMCAG nor FMCH will dissolve or otherwise
permit termination of its existence, except in a merger or
consolidation permitted under
Section 8.04(a)
.
SECTION 8.05
Dispositions
. Make any
Disposition, except:
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(a) the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of
business for fair consideration;
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(b) the sale or disposition of machinery and equipment no
longer used or useful in the conduct of such Persons
business;
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(c) a Permitted Receivables Financing as provided for in
Section 8.01(f)
;
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(d) in the case of Sale and Leaseback Transactions,
Dispositions of property (i) if the subject lease is a
capital lease under GAAP, the transaction shall be permitted
under
Section 8.01(e)
and (ii) if the subject
lease is an operating lease under GAAP, the sum of Indebtedness
under capital leases, Synthetic Leases and purchase money
obligations incurred to provide all or a portion of the purchase
price (or cost of construction or acquisition), in each case for
capital assets,
plus
the Attributed Principal Amount of
Sale and Leaseback Transactions not otherwise included in the
foregoing Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount referenced in
Section 8.01(e)
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(e) Dispositions from a Credit Party to any other Credit
Party, and Dispositions from a member of the Consolidated Group
that is not a Credit Party to any other member of the
Consolidated Group;
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(f) Dispositions from a Credit Party to any other member of
the Consolidated Group that is not a Credit Party if
(i) such Disposition consists of inventory that is sold in
the ordinary course of business or (ii) such Dispositions
are for fair consideration;
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(g) Dispositions in compliance with or consistent with any
order, request or approval by, or any agreement with, any
Governmental Authority in connection with, as a result of or as
a condition to the RCG Acquisition; and
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(h) Dispositions not otherwise permitted under this
Section,
provided
that (i) the aggregate book value
of property so sold or otherwise disposed of under this
subsection (h)
in any given fiscal year shall not exceed
an amount equal to (A) for fiscal year 2006, seven and
one-half percent (7.5%) of Consolidated Net Worth as of
December 31, 2005, and (B) for fiscal year 2007 and
each fiscal year thereafter, five percent (5%) of Consolidated
Net Worth as of the end of the fiscal year immediately preceding
the date of determination, (ii) no Default or Event of
Default shall then exist or would result therefrom after giving
effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis, (iii) at least seventy
percent (70%) of the consideration received in connection with
such Disposition shall be in the form of cash or cash
equivalents and (iv) the Net Cash Proceeds therefrom shall
be applied in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.06(c)(ii)
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SECTION 8.06
Restricted Payments
. FMCAG will
not make or permit any Restricted Payment, unless and to the
extent that (a) no Default or Event of Default shall exist
after giving effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis and
(b) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments in any
calendar year shall not in any event exceed the amount set out
in
Schedule 8.06
.
SECTION 8.07
Change in Nature of Business
.
Engage in any material line of business substantially different
from those lines of business conducted by the Consolidated Group
on the date hereof or any business substantially related or
incidental thereto.
SECTION 8.08
Transactions with Affiliates
.
Enter into any transaction with any Affiliate of the Borrowers,
whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than
(a) as described on
Schedule 8.08
,
(b) transactions between Credit Parties,
(c) transactions between a Credit Party and a member of the
Consolidated Group that is not a Credit Party to the extent it
would not be materially detrimental to the interests of FMCH,
(d) customary fees and expenses paid to directors and
(e) transactions that are on fair and reasonable terms
substantially as favorable to such member of the Consolidated
Group as would be obtainable by such member of the Consolidated
Group at the time in a comparable arms length transaction
with a Person other than an Affiliate.
SECTION 8.09
No Further Negative Pledges
.
Except in connection with the Term Loan Credit Agreement and
Indebtedness permitted under
subsections (b)
,
(e)
,
(f)
,
(g)
,
(h)
and
(j)
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Section 8.01
or restrictions in the Organization
Documents of any Subsidiary that is not Wholly Owned, no member
of the Consolidated Group will enter into, assume or become
subject to any agreement prohibiting or otherwise restricting
the creation or assumption of any Lien upon its properties or
assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired;
provided
that (i) in the case of Indebtedness under subsections
(e)
and
(f)
of
Section 8.01
, such
prohibition or limitations shall relate to the specific property
(and related property) to which such Indebtedness relates,
(ii) in the case of Indebtedness under subsection
(b) of
Section 8.01
, such prohibitions or
limitations shall not be more restrictive on the members of the
Consolidated Group than those in effect on the Closing Date and
(iii) if the scope of such prohibitions or restrictions in
the documents relating to any assumed Subordinated Debt is
materially more restrictive on FMCAG and its Subsidiaries than
the corresponding prohibitions and restrictions under the
Trust Preferred Subdebt outstanding on the Closing Date,
such Subordinated Debt shall be prepaid, redeemed, defeased or
otherwise acquired for value, or refinanced or otherwise amended
on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and
the Required Lenders, within six months of the related
Acquisition.
SECTION 8.10
Fiscal Year
. Change its fiscal
year without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders.
SECTION 8.11
Financial Covenants
.
(a)
Consolidated Leverage Ratio
. As of the end of
each fiscal quarter, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio will not
exceed:
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Consolidated
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Fiscal Quarters Ending
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Leverage Ratio
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4.85:1.00
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4.50:1.00
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4.00:1.00
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December 31, 2008 through December 30, 2009
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3.50:1.00
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December 31, 2009 and thereafter
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3.00:1.00
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(b)
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
. As of
the end of each fiscal quarter, the Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio will not be less than 1.20:1.00.
(c)
Consolidated Capital Expenditures
. Consolidated
Capital Expenditures in any fiscal year will not exceed:
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Fiscal Year
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2006
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$
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600 million
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2007
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$
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600 million
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2008
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$
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650 million
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2009
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$
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700 million
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2010
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$
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700 million
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2011
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$
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700 million
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Unused amounts may be carried-over for one year in an amount of
up to $50 million.
ARTICLE IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 9.01
Events of Default
. Any of the
following shall constitute an Event of Default:
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(a)
Non-Payment
. The Borrowers or any other Credit
Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid
herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or any L/ C
Obligation, or (ii) within five Business Days after the
same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/
C Obligation, or any commitment or other fee due hereunder,
or (iii) within five Business Days after the same becomes
due, any other amount payable hereunder or under any other
Credit Document; or
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(b)
Specific Covenants
. The Borrowers fails to
perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in
any of
Section 7.02
or
7.03
, or
Article VIII
; or
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(c)
Other Defaults
. Any Credit Party fails to
perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not
specified in
subsection (a)
or
(b)
above)
contained in any Credit Document on its part to be performed or
observed (subject to applicable grace or cure periods, if any)
and such failure continues unremedied for a period of at least
thirty days after the earlier of a responsible officer of a
Credit Party becoming aware of such default or notice thereof by
the Administrative Agent; or
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(d)
Representations and Warranties
. Any
representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact
made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrowers or any
other Credit Party herein, in any other Credit Document, or in
any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall
prove to be false or misleading in any material respect when
made or deemed made; or
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(e)
Cross-Default
. (i) Any member of the
Consolidated Group (A) fails to make any payment when due
(whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment,
acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any
Indebtedness or Support Obligations (other than Indebtedness
hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an
aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or
available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors
under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more
than $50 million, or (B) fails to observe or perform
any other agreement or condition relating to any such
Indebtedness or Support Obligations or contained in any
instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating
thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default
or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders
of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such
Support Obligations (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such
holder or holders or beneficiary or
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beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required,
such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be
repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or
otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem
such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity, or
such Support Obligations to become payable or cash collateral in
respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs under
any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such
Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default
under such Swap Contract as to which the Borrowers or any
Subsidiary is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap
Contract) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined)
under such Swap Contract as to which the Borrowers or any
Subsidiary is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either
event, the Swap Termination Value owed by the Borrowers or such
Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than $50 million;
or
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(f)
Insolvency Proceedings, Etc.
Any member of the
Consolidated Group (other than any Immaterial Foreign
Subsidiary) institutes or consents to the institution of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment
for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the
appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator,
liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all
or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee,
custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar
officer is appointed without the application or consent of such
Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed
for sixty calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor
Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material
part of its property is instituted without the consent of such
Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for sixty calendar
days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding;
or
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(g)
Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment
. (i) Any
member of the Consolidated Group (other than any Immaterial
Foreign Subsidiary) becomes unable or admits in writing its
inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become
due, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution
or similar process is issued or levied against all or any
material part of the property of any such Person and is not
released, vacated or fully bonded within thirty days after its
issue or levy; or
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(h)
Judgments
. There is entered against member of
the Consolidated Group (i) a final judgment or order for
the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding
$50 million (to the extent not covered by independent
third-party insurance as to which the insurer does not dispute
coverage) or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final
judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and,
in either case, (A) such judgment or order is not paid,
bonded or otherwise discharged within thirty days of entry
thereof and enforcement proceedings are commenced by any
creditor upon such judgment or order, or (B) there is a
period of thirty consecutive days during which a stay of
enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or
otherwise, is not in effect (it being understood and agreed for
the purposes of clarification that any judgment or order entered
into in connection with the W.R. Grace bankruptcy that relates
to the settlement
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of the fraudulent transfer and related claims against members of
the Consolidated Group is not included within the scope of this
provision); or
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(i)
ERISA
. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with
respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan that has
resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability
of the Borrowers under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension
Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in
excess of $50 million, or (ii) the Borrowers or any
ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of
any applicable grace period, any installment payment with
respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of
ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in
excess of $50 million; or
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(j)
Invalidity of Credit Documents
. Any Credit
Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for
any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or
satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in
full force and effect; or any Credit Party or any other Person
contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any
Credit Document; or any Credit Party denies that it has any or
further liability or obligation under any Credit Document, or
purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any Credit Document;
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(k)
Exclusion Event
. There occurs any Exclusion
Event that has, or could reasonably be expected to have, a
Material Adverse Effect; or
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(l)
Change of Control
. There occurs any Change of
Control.
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SECTION 9.02
Remedies Upon Event of Default
. If any
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative
Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the
Required Lenders, take any or all of the following actions:
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(a) declare the commitments of the Lenders to make Loans
hereunder and the obligation of the L/ C Issuer to make L/ C
Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments
and obligation shall be terminated;
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(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding
Loans hereunder, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and
all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other
Credit Document to be immediately due and payable, without
presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of
which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers;
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(c) require that the Borrowers Cash Collateralize the L/ C
Obligations (in an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the
Outstanding Amount thereof); and
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(d) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights
and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Credit
Documents or applicable law;
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provided
, however, that upon the occurrence of an event
under
Section 9.01(f)
, the obligation of each Lender
to make Loans and any obligation of the L/ C Issuer to make L/ C
Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid
principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and
other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and
payable, and the obligation of the Borrowers to Cash
Collateralize the L/ C Obligations as aforesaid shall
automatically become effective, in each case without further act
of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
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SECTION 9.03
Application of Funds
. After the
exercise of remedies provided for in
Section 9.02
(or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due
and payable and the L/ C Obligations have automatically been
required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso
to
Section 9.02
), any amounts received on account of
the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent
(or, as applicable, the Collateral Agent) in the following order:
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First
, pro rata to the payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement
constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts
(including Attorney Costs and amounts payable under
Article III
) payable to the Collateral Agent in its
capacity as such, including all amounts incurred in the
execution of its duties as collateral agent and the exercise of
rights and remedies in respect of the collateral;
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Second
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement
constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts
(including Attorney Costs and amounts payable under
Article III
) payable to the Administrative Agent in
its capacity as such;
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Third
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement
constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than
principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including
Attorney Costs and amounts payable under
Article III
), ratably among them in proportion to
the amounts described in this clause payable to them;
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Fourth
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement
constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and L/ C
Borrowings and fees, premiums and scheduled periodic payments,
and any interest accrued thereon, due under any Swap Contract
between any Credit Party and any Lender, or any Affiliate of a
Lender, to the extent such Swap Contract is permitted by
Section 8.01(d)
, ratably among the Lenders (and, in
the case of such Swap Contracts, Affiliates of Lenders) in
proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause
Fourth
held by them;
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Fifth
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement
constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and L/ C Borrowings
and breakage, termination or other payments, and any interest
accrued thereon, due under any Swap Contract between any Credit
Party and any Lender, or any Affiliate of a Lender, to the
extent such Swap Contract is permitted by
Section 8.01(d)
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and to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/ C Obligations
comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit,
ratably among the Lenders (and, in the case of such Swap
Contracts, Affiliates of Lenders) in proportion to the
respective amounts described in this clause
Fifth
held by
them; and
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Last
, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations
hereunder and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement have been
indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrowers or as otherwise
required by Law.
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Subject to
Section 2.08(c)
, amounts used to Cash
Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit
pursuant to clause
Fifth
above shall be applied to satisfy
drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any
amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters
of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such
remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if
any, in the order set forth above.
ARTICLE X
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
SECTION 10.01
Appointment and Authorization of
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
.
(a) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and
authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action
(including taking action to raise a Spanish notarial deed
(
documento publico
) in connection with any Credit
Document and any Assignment and Assumption Agreement) on its
behalf under the provisions of this Credit Agreement and each
other Credit Document and to exercise such powers and perform
such duties as are expressly delegated to it by the terms of
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, together
with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained
elsewhere herein or in any other Credit Document, the
Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or
responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor
shall the Administrative Agent have or be deemed to have any
fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no
implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties,
obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document or otherwise exist
against the Administrative Agent. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term
agent herein and in the other Credit Documents with
reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote
any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising
under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead, such term
is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to
create or reflect only an administrative relationship between
independent contracting parties.
(b) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and
authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such action (including
taking action to raise a Spanish notarial deed (
documento
publico
) in connection with any Credit Document and any
Assignment and Assumption Agreement) on its behalf under the
provisions of this Credit Agreement and each other Credit
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Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as
are expressly delegated to it by the terms of this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document, together with such
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Collateral
Agent shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any
Collateral and the Collateral Documents, and the Collateral
Agent shall have all of the benefits and immunities
(i) provided to the Administrative Agent in this
Article X
with respect to any acts taken or
omissions suffered by the Collateral Agent in connection with
the Collateral or the Collateral Documents as fully as if the
term Administrative Agent as used in this
Article X
and in the definition of
Agent-Related Person included the Collateral Agent
with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as
additionally provided herein and in the other Credit Documents
with respect to the Collateral Agent.
(c) The L/ C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with
respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents
associated therewith, and the L/ C Issuer shall have all of the
benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Administrative
Agent in this
Article X
with respect to any acts
taken or omissions suffered by the L/ C Issuer in connection
with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by
it and the applications and agreements for letters of credit
pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term
Administrative Agent as used in this Article X
and in the definition of Agent-Related Person
included the L/ C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions,
and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to
the L/ C Issuer.
(d) For so long as loans and obligations shall remain
outstanding under this Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit
Agreement and until the commitments hereunder and thereunder
shall have expired or been terminated, the Administrative Agent
under this Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent under the
Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Collateral Agent shall be the
same institution and if Bank of America shall resign or be
replaced as Administrative Agent under either this Credit
Agreement or the Term Loan Credit Agreement or as Collateral
Agent, then it shall be replaced with its successor institution
in all such capacities.
(e) Each of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent
and the L/ C Issuer shall be released from the restrictions of
Section 181 of the German Civil Code (
BGB,
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
) and shall be authorized to
delegate its power of attorney granted hereunder including the
release from the restrictions of Section 181 of the German
Civil Code.
SECTION 10.02
Delegation of Duties
. The
Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this
Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document by or through
agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to
advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning
all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent
shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any
agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 10.03
Liability of Administrative Agent
. No
Agent-Related Person shall (a) be liable for any action
taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in
connection with this Credit Agreement or any other Credit
Document or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its
own gross negligence or willful misconduct in connection with
its duties expressly set forth herein), or (b) be
responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for any
recital,
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statement, representation or warranty made by any Credit Party
or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Credit
Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other
document referred to or provided for in, or received by the
Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document, or the validity,
effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, or for any
failure of any Credit Party or any other party to any Credit
Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No
Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender
or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance
or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or
conditions of, this Credit Agreement or any other Credit
Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any
Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof.
SECTION 10.04
Reliance by Administrative Agent
. The
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be
fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication,
signature, resolution, representation, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or
telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other
document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper
Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal
counsel (including counsel to any Credit Party), independent
accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in
failing or refusing to take any action under any Credit Document
unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the
Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be
expressly required hereunder in any particular instance) as it
deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be
indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and
all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason
of taking or continuing to take any such action. The
Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in
acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document in accordance with a
request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater
number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any
instance) and such request and any action taken or failure to
act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.
SECTION 10.05
Notice of Default
. The Administrative
Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, except with
respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and
fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lenders, unless the Administrative Agent shall
have received written notice from a Lender or the Borrowers
referring to this Credit Agreement, describing such Default or
Event of Default and stating that such notice is a notice
of default. The Administrative Agent will notify the
Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. The Administrative
Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or
Event of Default as may be directed by the requisite Lenders in
accordance herewith;
provided
, however, that unless and
until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction,
the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to)
take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with
respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem
advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders.
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SECTION 10.06
Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information
by Administrative Agent
. Each Lender acknowledges that no
Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to
it, and that no act by the Administrative Agent hereafter taken,
including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or
review of the affairs of any Credit Party or any Affiliate
thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or
warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any
matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed
material information in their possession. Each Lender represents
to the Administrative Agent that it has, independently and
without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its
own appraisal of and investigation into the business, prospects,
operations, property, financial and other condition and
creditworthiness of the Credit Parties and their respective
Subsidiaries, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws
relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its
own decision to enter into this Credit Agreement and to extend
credit to the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties hereunder.
Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and
without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and
decisions in taking or not taking action under this Credit
Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and to make such
investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the
business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other
condition and creditworthiness of the Borrowers and the other
Credit Parties. Except for notices, reports and other documents
expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the
Administrative Agent herein, the Administrative Agent shall not
have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any
credit or other information concerning the business, prospects,
operations, property, financial and other condition or
creditworthiness of any of the Credit Parties or any of their
respective Affiliates that may come into the possession of any
Agent-Related Person.
SECTION 10.07
Indemnification of Administrative
Agent
. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby
are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand each
Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on
behalf of any Credit Party and without limiting the obligation
of any Credit Party to do so), pro rata, and hold harmless each
Agent-Related Person from and against any and all Indemnified
Liabilities incurred by it;
provided
, however, that no
Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related
Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities to the
extent determined in a final, nonappealable judgment by a court
of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such
Agent-Related Persons own gross negligence or willful
misconduct;
provided
, however, that no action taken in
accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders (or such
greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereunder
in any particular instance) shall be deemed to constitute gross
negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section.
Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse
the Administrative Agent upon demand for its ratable share of
any costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including Attorney Costs)
incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the
preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification,
amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal
proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of
rights or responsibilities under, this Credit Agreement, any
other Credit Document, or any document contemplated by or
referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent
is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of the
Borrowers. The undertaking in this Section shall survive
termination of the Aggregate
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Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the
resignation of the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 10.08
Administrative Agent in its
Individual Capacity
. Bank of America and its Affiliates may
make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of,
accept deposits from, acquire equity interests in and generally
engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory,
underwriting or other business with each of the Credit Parties
and their respective Affiliates as though Bank of America were
not the Administrative Agent or the L/ C Issuer hereunder and
without notice to or consent of the Lenders. The Lenders
acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, Bank of America
or its Affiliates may receive information regarding any Credit
Party or its Affiliates (including information that may be
subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Credit
Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative
Agent shall be under no obligation to provide such information
to them. With respect to its Loans, Bank of America shall have
the same rights and powers under this Credit Agreement as any
other Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though
it were not the Administrative Agent or the L/ C Issuer, and the
terms Lender and Lenders include Bank of
America in its individual capacity.
SECTION 10.09
Successor Administrative Agent
.
Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.01(d)
, the
Administrative Agent may voluntarily resign as Administrative
Agent upon thirty days notice to the Lenders, and shall,
upon thirty days notice to the Administrative Agent,
resign at the request, with or without cause, of the Required
Lenders (provided at all times other than during the existence
of an Event of Default, such request for resignation by the
Required Lenders shall require the written consent of the
Borrowers, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) within thirty days of its receipt of such request for
resignation;
provided
that any such resignation by Bank
of America shall also constitute its resignation as Collateral
Agent, L/ C Issuer and Swing Line Lender. If the Administrative
Agent resigns under this Credit Agreement, the Required Lenders
shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor administrative
agent for the Lenders, which successor administrative agent
shall be consented to by the Borrowers at all times other than
during the existence of an Event of Default (which consent of
the Borrowers shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). If
no successor administrative agent is appointed prior to the
effective date of the resignation of the Administrative Agent,
the Administrative Agent may appoint, after consulting with the
Lenders and the Borrowers, a successor administrative agent from
among the Lenders. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as
successor administrative agent hereunder, the Person acting as
such successor administrative agent shall succeed to all the
rights, powers and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent,
Collateral Agent, L/ C Issuer and Swing Line Lender and such
respective terms shall mean such successor administrative agent,
collateral agent, Letter of Credit issuer and swing line lender,
and the retiring Administrative Agents appointment, powers
and duties in such capacities shall be terminated without any
other or further act or deed on its behalf. After any retiring
Administrative Agents resignation hereunder as
Administrative Agent, the provisions of this
Article X
and
Sections 11.04
and
11.05
shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken
or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent
under this Credit Agreement. If no successor administrative
agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the
date thirty days following a retiring Administrative
Agents notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative
Agents resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become
effective
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and the Lenders shall perform all of the duties of the
Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the
Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above.
SECTION 10.10
Administrative Agent May File Proofs
of Claim
. In case of the pendency of any receivership,
insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to any Credit Party, the Administrative
Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/ C
Obligation 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
Borrowers) shall be entitled and empowered to, and upon the
request of the Required Lenders shall, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise:
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(a) file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans,
L/ C Obligations and all other Obligations (other than
obligations under Swap Contracts to which the Administrative
Agent is not a party) that are owing and unpaid and to file such
other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative
Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other
amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under
Sections 2.04
and
11.04
) allowed in such
judicial proceeding; and
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(b) collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the
same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make
such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that
the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative
Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its
agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative
Agent under
Sections 2.04
and
11.04
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Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the
Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or
adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations
or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative
Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 10.11
Collateral and Guaranty Matters
.
The Lenders irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at
its option and in its discretion, to release any Guarantor from
its obligations under the Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a
Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder and
to release any Collateral if such release is appropriate as a
result of a transaction permitted hereunder.
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Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the
Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative
Agents authority to release any Guarantor from its
obligations hereunder pursuant to this
Section 10.11
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SECTION 10.12
Other Agents; Arrangers and
Managers
. None of the Lenders or other Persons identified on
the facing page or signature pages of this Credit Agreement as a
co-syndication agent, co-documentation
agent, joint lead arranger or book
manager shall have any right, power, obligation,
liability, responsibility or duty under this Credit Agreement
other than, in the case of such Lenders, those applicable to all
Lenders as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the
Lenders or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed
to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender. Each Lender
acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any
of the Lenders or other Persons so identified in deciding to
enter into this Credit Agreement or in taking or not taking
action hereunder.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.01
Amendments, Etc.
No amendment or
waiver of, or any consent to deviation from, any provision of
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document shall be
effective unless in writing and signed by the Borrowers or the
applicable Credit Parties, as the case may be, and the Required
Lenders and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each
such amendment, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it is
given;
provided
, however, that:
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(a) unless also signed by each Lender directly affected
thereby, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or
reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to
Section
9.02
), it being understood that the waiver of an Event of
Default or a mandatory reduction or a mandatory prepayment in
Commitments shall not be considered an increase in Commitments,
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(ii) waive non-payment or postpone any date fixed by this
Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document for any payment of
principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to any Lender
hereunder or under any other Credit Document,
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(iii) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest
specified herein on, any Loan or L/ C Borrowing, or any fees or
other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Credit
Document;
provided
, however, that only the consent of the
Required Lenders shall be necessary (A) to amend the
definition of Default Rate or to waive any
obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest at the Default Rate
or (B) to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or any
defined term used
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therein) even if the effect of such amendment would be to reduce
the rate of interest on any Loan or L/C Borrowing or to
reduce any fee payable hereunder,
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(iv) change any provision of this Credit Agreement
regarding pro rata sharing or pro rata funding with respect to
(A) the making of advances (including participations),
(B) the manner of application of payments or prepayments of
principal, interest, or fees, (C) the manner of application
of reimbursement obligations from drawings under Letters of
Credit, or (D) the manner of reduction of commitments and
committed amounts,
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(v) change any provision of this
Section 11.01(a)
or the definition of Required
Lenders or any other provision hereof specifying the
number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or
otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination
or grant any consent hereunder,
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(vi) release all or substantially all of the Guarantors
from their obligations hereunder (other than as provided herein
or as appropriate in connection with transactions permitted
hereunder), or
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(vii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral
(other than as provided herein or as appropriate in connection
with transactions permitted hereunder);
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(b) unless also signed by the Required Revolving Lenders,
no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) waive any Default or Event of Default for purposes of
Section 5.02
,
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(ii) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Revolving Obligations under
Section 2.06(b)
or the
manner of application thereof to the Revolving Obligations under
Section 2.06(c)
,
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(iii) amend or waive the provisions of
Section 5.02
(Conditions to all Credit Extensions),
Section 7.12
(Joinder of Additional Guarantors),
Article VIII
(Negative Covenants),
Article IX
(Events of Default and Remedies), this
Section 11.01(b)
or the definition of Required
Revolving Lenders;
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(c) unless also signed by the Required Tranche A Term
Lenders, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Tranche A Term Loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or
the manner of application thereof to the Tranche A Term
Loan under
Section 2.06(c)
, or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section
11.01(c)
or the definition of Required Tranche A
Term Lenders;
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(d) unless also signed by the Required Tranche B Term
Lenders, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Tranche B Term Loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or
the manner of application thereof to the Tranche B Term
Loan under
Section 2.06(c)
, or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section
11.01(d)
or the definition of Required Tranche B
Term Lenders;
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(e) unless also signed by the Required Tranche C Term
Lenders, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Tranche C Term Loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or
the manner of application thereof to the Tranche C Term
Loan under
Section 2.06(c)
, or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section
11.01(e)
or the definition of Required Tranche C
Term Lenders;
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(f) unless also signed by Lenders holding in the aggregate
more than fifty percent (50%) of each other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities (excluding for
the purposes of such determination the amounts held by any
Defaulting Lender), no amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on such term
loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or the manner of
application thereof to any such term loan under
Section 2.06(c)
; or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section
11.01(f)
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(g) unless also signed by the L/C Issuer, no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties
of the L/C Issuer under this Credit Agreement or any Letter
of Credit Application relating to any Letter of Credit issued or
to be issued by it;
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(h) unless also signed by the Swing Line Lender, no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties
of the Swing Line Lender under this Credit Agreement;
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(i) unless also signed by the Administrative Agent, no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties
of the Administrative Agent under this Credit Agreement or any
other Credit Document and unless also signed by the Collateral
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Agent, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the
rights or duties of the Collateral Agent under this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document.
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Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein,
(i) no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or
disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except
that the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or
extended without the consent of such Lender, (ii) each
Lender is entitled to vote as such Lender sees fit on any
bankruptcy or insolvency reorganization plan that affects the
Loans, (iii) each Lender acknowledges that the provisions
of Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code supersedes the
unanimous consent provisions set forth herein, (iv) the
Required Lenders may consent to allow a Credit Party to use cash
collateral in the context of a bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, (v) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or
privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the
parties thereto and (vi) the Borrowers may increase the
Applicable Percentage for the Tranche B Term Loan on notice
to the Administrative Agent without the consent of the Required
Lenders or the Tranche B Lenders in connection with the
establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan (or other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities under
Section 2.01(j)
).
SECTION 11.02
Notices and Other Communications;
Facsimile Copies
.
(a)
General
. Unless otherwise expressly provided
herein, all notices and other communications provided for
hereunder shall be in writing (including by facsimile
transmission). All such written notices shall be mailed (unless
such notice is to FMCAG or any Foreign Subsidiary of FMCAG),
faxed or delivered, and all notices and other communications
expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be
made, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address
or telephone number specified for the applicable party on
Schedule 11.02
or to such other address, facsimile
number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be
designated by such party in a notice to the other parties;
provided
that all notices given to FMCAG hereunder shall
simultaneously be given to FMCH. All such notices and other
communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the
earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant
party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by
courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party
hereto; (B) with respect to any Domestic Credit Party, if
delivered by mail, four Business Days after deposit in the
mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid;
(C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has
been confirmed by telephone; and (D) if delivered by
electronic mail (which form of delivery is subject to the
provisions of
subsection (c)
below), when delivered;
provided
, however, that notices and other communications
to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing
Line Lender pursuant to
Article II
shall not be
effective until actually received by such Person. In no event
shall a voicemail message be effective as a notice,
communication or confirmation hereunder.
(b)
Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and
Signatures
. Credit Documents may be transmitted and/or
signed by facsimile. The effectiveness of any such documents and
signatures shall, subject to applicable Law, have the same force
and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on
all Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
The Administrative Agent may also require that any such
documents and signatures be confirmed by a manually-signed
original thereof;
provided
, however, that the failure to
request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of
any facsimile document or signature.
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(c)
Limited Use of Electronic Mail
. With respect to
any notices or deliveries required hereunder, electronic mail
and internet and intranet websites may be used only to
distribute routine communications, such as financial statements
and other information as provided in
Section 7.02
,
and to distribute Credit Documents for execution by the parties
thereto, and may not be used for any other purpose.
(d)
The Platform
. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED AS
IS AND AS AVAILABLE. THE AGENT PARTIES (AS
DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF
THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE
BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY
AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE
PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent, Arrangers
or any of its Agent-Related Persons (collectively, the
Agent Parties
) have any liability to any
Borrower, any Lender, the L/ C Issuer or any other Person for
losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind
(whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any
Borrowers or the Administrative Agents transmission
of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent
that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party;
provided
,
however
, that in no event shall any
Agent Party have any liability to any Borrower, any Lender, the
L/ C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special,
incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to
direct or actual damages).
(e)
Reliance by Administrative Agent and Lenders
.
The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to
rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Loan Notices
and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf
of the Borrowers even if (i) such notices were not made in
a manner provided herein, were incomplete or were not preceded
or followed by any other form of notice provided herein, or
(ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient,
varied from any confirmation thereof. The Borrowers shall
indemnify each Agent-Related Person and each Lender from all
losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the
reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or
on behalf of the Borrowers. All telephonic notices to and other
communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by
the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby
consents to such recording.
SECTION 11.03
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
. No
failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise,
and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right,
remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver
thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right,
remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right,
remedy, power or privilege. The rights,
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remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative
and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges
provided by law.
SECTION 11.04
Attorney Costs and Expenses
. The
Borrowers agree (a) to pay directly to the provider thereof
or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all reasonable costs
and expenses incurred in connection with the development,
preparation, negotiation and execution of this Credit Agreement
and the other Credit Documents, or preservation of any rights or
remedies under this Credit Agreement or the other Credit
Documents, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other
modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or
not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby are
consummated), and the consummation and administration of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including all
Attorney Costs, and (b) if an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent
and each Lender for all costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the enforcement, attempted enforcement, or
preservation of any rights or remedies under this Credit
Agreement or the other Credit Documents (including all such
costs and expenses incurred during any workout or
restructuring in respect of the Obligations and during any legal
proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief
Law), including all Attorney Costs. The foregoing costs and
expenses shall include all search, filing, recording, title
insurance and appraisal charges and fees and taxes related
thereto, and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent and the cost of independent public
accountants and other outside experts retained by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender. All amounts due under this
Section 11.04
shall be payable within thirty days
after demand therefor. The agreements in this Section shall
survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and
repayment of all other Obligations.
SECTION 11.05
Indemnification by the Borrowers
.
Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are
consummated, the Borrowers shall indemnify and hold harmless
each Agent-Related Person, each Lender and their respective
Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, counsel, agents,
trustees, advisors and attorneys-in-fact (collectively the
Indemnitees
) from and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims,
demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and
disbursements (including Attorney Costs) of any kind or nature
whatsoever (subject to the provisions of
Section 3.01
with respect to Taxes and Other Taxes)
that may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising
out of or in connection with (a) the execution, delivery,
enforcement, performance or administration of any Credit
Document or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered
in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby,
(b) any Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or
proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by
the L/ C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand
do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit)
or (c) any actual or threatened claim, litigation,
investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing,
whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including
any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending
or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding)
and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto (all
the foregoing, collectively, the
Indemnified
Liabilities
);
provided
that such indemnity
shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that
such liabilities,
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obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. No
Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use
by others of any information or other materials obtained through
IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in
connection with this Credit Agreement, and no Indemnitee shall
have any liability for any indirect or consequential damages
relating to this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document
or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or
therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date). All
amounts due under this
Section 11.05
shall be
payable within thirty days after demand therefor. The agreements
in this Section shall survive the resignation of the
Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the
termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment,
satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.
SECTION 11.06
Payments Set Aside
. To the extent that
any payment by or on behalf of the Borrowers is made to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent
or any Lender exercises its right of set-off, and such payment
or the proceeds of such set-off 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 or such
Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or
any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any
Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of
such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally
intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full
force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such
set-off had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its
applicable share 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 Rate from time to time in
effect.
SECTION 11.07
Successors and Assigns
.
(a) The provisions of this Credit Agreement shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and
their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except
that the Borrowers may not assign or otherwise transfer any of
their rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written
consent of each Lender (other than as provided in
Sections 2.16
and
2.17
) and no Lender may
assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations
hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance
with the provisions of
subsection (b)
of this
Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with
the provisions of
subsection (d)
of this Section, or
(iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest
subject to the restrictions of
subsection (f)
or
(g)
of this Section (and any other attempted assignment
or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void);
provided
that no such assignment, participation or
transfer shall, without the consent of FMCAG, require FMCAG to
file a registration statement with the SEC or apply to qualify
such assignment, participation or other transfer under the
securities laws of any state. Nothing in this Credit 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
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subsection (d)
of this Section and, to the extent
expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this
Credit Agreement.
(b) Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more
Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement (including all or a
portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes
of this
subsection (b)
, participations in L/ C
Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it);
provided
that (i) except in the case of an
assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning
Lenders Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it
or in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Lender, the
aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose
includes Loans outstanding thereunder) subject to each such
assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and
Assumption Agreement with respect to such assignment is
delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if Trade
Date is specified in the Assignment and Assumption
Agreement, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than
$5 million, in the case of Revolving Loans, and
$1 million, in the case of Term Loans, unless each of the
Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, FMCAG otherwise consents (each such
consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed),
provided
that concurrent assignments to members of an
Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an
Assignee Group to a single assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee
and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single
assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum
amount has been met; (ii) any assignment of a Commitment
must be approved by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of
any assignment of a Revolving Commitment, the L/ C Issuers and
the Swing Line Lenders (each such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed) unless the Person that is the
proposed assignee is itself a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender
(whether or not the proposed assignee would otherwise qualify as
an Eligible Assignee); and (iii) the parties to each
assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent
an Assignment and Assumption Agreement, together with a
processing and recordation fee as set forth on the attached
Schedule 11.07
payable by the assigning Lender or
the Eligible Assignee, and the Eligible Assignee, if it shall
not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an
Administrative Questionnaire. Subject to acceptance and
recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
subsection (c)
of this Section, from and after the
effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption
Agreement, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to
this Credit Agreement and, to the extent of the interest
assigned by such Assignment and Assumption Agreement, have the
rights and obligations of a Lender under this Credit Agreement,
and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the
interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption Agreement,
be released from its obligations under this Credit Agreement
(and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement
covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement, such Lender shall cease
to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the
benefits of
Sections 3.01
,
3.04
,
3.05
,
11.04
and
11.05
with respect to facts and
circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such
assignment). Upon request of the assignee Lender, the Borrowers
shall execute and deliver a Note to such Lender. Any assignment
or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this
Credit Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall
be treated for purposes of this Credit Agreement as a sale by
such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in
accordance with
subsection (d)
of this Section.
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(c) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this
purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at the
Administrative Agents Office a copy of each Assignment and
Assumption Agreement delivered to it and a register for the
recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the
Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Loans and L/ C
Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof
from time to time (the
Register
). The entries
in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose
name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as
a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Credit Agreement,
notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be
available for inspection by the Borrowers and any Lender, at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice.
(d) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or
notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell
participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the
Borrowers or any of the Borrowers Affiliates or
Subsidiaries) (each, a
Participant
) in all or
a portion of such Lenders rights and/or obligations under
this Credit Agreement (including all or a portion of its
Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lenders
participations in L/ C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans)
owing to it);
provided
that (i) such Lenders
obligations under this Credit 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 Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the other
Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such
Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement. Any agreement or
instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation
shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to
enforce this Credit Agreement and to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Credit
Agreement;
provided
that such agreement or instrument may
provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the
Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other
modification that extends the time for, reduces the amount or
alters the application of proceeds with respect to such
obligations and payments required thereon that directly affects
such Participant. Subject to
subsection (e)
of this
Section, the Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be
entitled to the benefits of and subject to the obligations of a
Lender set forth in
Sections 3.01
,
3.04
and
3.05
and shall be subject to replacement in accordance
with
Section 11.16
to the same extent as if it were
a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to
subsection (b)
of this Section. To the extent permitted
by Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits
of and subject to the obligations of a Lender set forth in
Section 11.09
as though it were a Lender,
provided
such Participant agrees to be subject to
Section 2.15
as though it were a Lender.
(e) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any
greater payment under
Section 3.01
or
3.04
than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive
with respect to the participation sold to such Participant. A
Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender
shall not be entitled to the benefits of
Section 3.01
unless the Borrowers are notified of
the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant
agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply and complies
with
Section 11.15
as though it were a Lender.
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(f) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security
interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Credit
Agreement (including under its Note, if any) 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.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, any Lender that is a Fund may (without notice to or the
consent of the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers) create a
security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it
(and its Note, if any) to the trustee for holders of obligations
owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such
obligations or securities,
provided
that unless and until
such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the
other provisions of this
Section 11.07
, (i) no
such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its
obligations under the Credit Documents and (ii) such
trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a
Lender under the Credit Documents even though such trustee may
have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged
interest through foreclosure or otherwise.
(h) The words execution, signed,
signature, and words of like import in any
Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic
signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of
which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or
enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a
paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the
extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the
Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce
Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act,
or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, (i) if any Domestic Swing Line Lender at any time
assigns all of its Commitment and Loans pursuant to
subsection (b)
above, such Swing Line Lender may, upon
thirty days notice to the Borrowers, resign as a Domestic
Swing Line Lender, (ii) if at any time any Foreign Swing
Line Lender assigns all of its Commitment and Loans pursuant to
subsection (b)
above, it may, upon thirty days
notice to the Borrowers, resign as Foreign Swing Line Lender and
(iii) if any L/ C Issuer at any time assigns all of its
Commitment and Loans pursuant to
subsection (b)
above,
such L/ C Issuer may, upon thirty days notice to the
Borrowers and the Lenders, resign as an L/ C Issuer. If any L/ C
Issuer resigns as an L/ C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights
and obligations of an L/ C Issuer hereunder with respect to all
Letters of Credit issued by it outstanding as of the effective
date of its resignation as an L/ C Issuer and all L/ C
Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require
the Lenders to make Revolving Loans or fund risk participations
in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to
Section 2.08(c)
). If any Domestic Swing Line Lender
resigns as a Domestic Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the
rights of a Domestic Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder
with respect to Domestic Swing Line Loans made by it and
outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation,
including the right to require the Lenders to make Revolving
Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Domestic Swing
Line Loans made by it pursuant to
Section 2.09(b)
.
In the event of any such resignation as Domestic Swing Line
Lender, the Borrowers shall be entitled to appoint from among
the Lenders a successor Domestic
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Swing Line Lender hereunder;
provided
, however, that no
Lender shall have any obligation to accept such appointment as
successor Domestic Swing Line Lender, and no failure by the
Borrowers to appoint any such successor shall affect the
resignation of such Domestic Swing Line Lender. If any Foreign
Swing Line Lender resigns as Foreign Swing Line Lender, it shall
retain all the rights of the Foreign Swing Line Lender provided
for hereunder with respect to Foreign Swing Line Loans made by
it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation,
including the right to require the Lenders to make Revolving
Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Foreign Swing
Line Loans pursuant to
Section 2.10(b)
. In the event
of any such resignation as Foreign Swing Line Lender, the
Borrowers shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders a
successor Foreign Swing Line Lender hereunder;
provided
,
however, that no Lender shall have any obligation to accept such
appointment as successor Foreign Swing Line Lender, and no
failure by the Borrowers to appoint any such successor shall
affect the resignation of such Foreign Swing Line Lender.
SECTION 11.08
Confidentiality
. Each of the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the
confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may
be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates directors,
officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal
counsel and other advisors, in connection with matters relating
to the credit relationship with members of the Consolidated
Group and/or the administration of the Credit Documents (it
being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is
made will be informed of the confidential nature of such
Information and instructed to keep such Information
confidential); (b) to the extent requested by any
regulatory authority; (c) to the extent required by
applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar
legal process; (d) to any other party to this Credit
Agreement; (e) in connection with the exercise of any
remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to
this Credit Agreement or the enforcement of rights hereunder;
(f) subject to an agreement containing provisions
substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any
Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective
Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or
obligations under this Credit Agreement or (ii) any direct
or indirect contractual counterparty or prospective counterparty
(or such contractual counterpartys or prospective
counterpartys professional advisor) to any credit
derivative transaction relating to obligations of the Credit
Parties; (g) with the consent of the Borrowers; (h) to
the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available
other than as a result of a breach of this Section or
(ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent or any
Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the
Borrowers; (i) to the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners or any other similar organization; or (j) to
any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to
a Lenders or an Affiliates investment portfolio in
connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender or
Affiliate. In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
may disclose the existence of this Credit Agreement and
non-confidential information about this Credit Agreement to
market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending
industry, and service providers to the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders in connection with the administration and management
of this Credit Agreement, the other Credit Documents, the
Commitments, and the Credit Extensions. Any Person required to
maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this
Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation
to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to
maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person
would accord to its own confidential information. Each of the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/ C Issuer
acknowledges
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that (a) the Information may include material non-public
information concerning the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries, as
the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures
regarding the use of material non-public information and
(c) it will handle such material non-public information in
accordance with applicable Law, including federal and state
securities Laws.
SECTION 11.09
Set-off
. In addition to any rights and
remedies of the Lenders provided by law, upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender and
to the fullest extent permitted by law, each of its Affiliates
are authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior
notice to the Borrowers or any other Credit Party, any such
notice being waived by the Borrowers (on its own behalf and on
behalf of each Credit Party) 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
by, and other indebtedness at any time owing by, such Lender or
Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the respective
Credit Parties against any and all Obligations owing to such
Lender hereunder or under any other Credit Document, now or
hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not the
Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have made demand under
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document and although
such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated
in a currency different from that of the applicable deposit or
indebtedness. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify FMCAG and
the Administrative Agent after any such set-off and application
made by such Lender;
provided
, however, that the failure
to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such
set-off and application.
SECTION 11.10
Interest Rate Limitation
.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Credit
Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the
Credit Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of
non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the
Maximum Rate
). If the Administrative Agent or
any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the
Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the
principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal,
refunded to the Borrowers. In determining whether the interest
contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent
or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the
extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any
payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium
rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and
the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate,
and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of
interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations
hereunder.
SECTION 11.11
Counterparts
. This Credit Agreement
may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall
be deemed an original, but all of which together shall
constitute one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.12
Integration; Effectiveness
. This
Credit Agreement, together with the other Credit Documents,
comprises the complete and integrated agreement of the parties
on the subject matter hereof and of the other Credit Documents
(including, for purposes hereof, the Term Loan Credit Agreement)
and supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, on such
subject matter (including the Existing Credit Agreement). In the
event of any conflict between the provisions of this Credit
Agreement and those of any other Credit Document, the provisions
of this Credit Agreement shall control;
provided
that the
inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor
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of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in any other Credit
Document shall not be deemed a conflict with this Credit
Agreement. Each Credit Document was drafted with the joint
participation of the respective parties thereto and shall be
construed neither against nor in favor of any party, but rather
in accordance with the fair meaning thereof. Except as provided
in
Section 5.01
, this Credit Agreement shall become
effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative
Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received
counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the
signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an
executed counterpart of a signature page of this Credit
Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart of this Credit Agreement.
SECTION 11.13
Survival of Representations and
Warranties
. All representations and warranties made
hereunder and in any other Credit Document or other document
delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith
or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and
thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will
be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender,
regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent
or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the
Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or
knowledge of any Default or Event of Default at the time of any
Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as
long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain
unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain
outstanding.
SECTION 11.14
Severability
. If any provision of this
Credit Agreement or the other Credit Documents is held to be
illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality,
validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this
Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents shall not be
affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall
endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal,
invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the
economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of
the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity
of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.15
Tax Forms
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(a) (i) Each Lender that is not a United States
person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of
the Internal Revenue Code (a
Foreign Lender
)
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, prior to receipt of
any payment under this Credit Agreement or any Note (or upon
accepting an assignment of an interest herein), (A) two
duly signed completed copies of either IRS Form W-8BEN or
any successor thereto (relating to such Foreign Lender and
entitling it to a complete exemption from any United States
withholding tax on any payments to be made to such Foreign
Lender by the Borrowers pursuant to this Credit Agreement) or
IRS Form W-8ECI or any successor thereto (relating to all
payments to be made to such Foreign Lender by the Borrowers
pursuant to this Credit Agreement being subject to full United
States income tax) or such other evidence satisfactory to the
Borrowers and the Administrative Agent that such Foreign Lender
is entitled to a complete exemption from United States
withholding tax, including any exemption pursuant to
Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and
(B) two duly signed completed copies of IRS Form W-8,
or applicable successor form, certifying that
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it is entitled to an exemption from United States backup
withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, in the case of an
exemption under Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue
Code, such other satisfactory evidence shall include a statement
under penalties of perjury that such Lender (1) is not a
bank under Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal
Revenue Code, is not subject to regulatory or other legal
requirements as a bank in any jurisdiction and has not been
treated as a bank for purposes of any tax, securities law or
other filing or submission made to nay Governmental Authority,
any application made to a rating agency or qualification for any
exemption from any tax, securities law or other legal
requirements, (2) is not a ten percent (10%) shareholder of
any of the Borrowers within the meaning of
Section 811(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code and
(3) is not a controlled foreign corporation receiving
interest from a related person within the meaning of
Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Thereafter and from time to time, each such Foreign Lender shall
(A) promptly submit to the Administrative Agent such
additional duly completed and signed copies of one of such forms
(or such successor forms as shall be adopted from time to time
by the relevant United States taxing authorities) as may then be
available under then current United States laws and regulations
to avoid, or such evidence as is satisfactory to the Borrowers
and the Administrative Agent of any available exemption from
United States withholding taxes in respect of all payments to be
made to such Foreign Lender by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Credit Agreement, (B) promptly notify the Administrative
Agent of any change in circumstances that would modify or render
invalid any claimed exemption or reduction, and (C) take
such steps as shall not be materially disadvantageous to it, in
the reasonable judgment of such Lender, and as may be reasonably
necessary (including the re-designation of its Lending Office)
to avoid any requirement of applicable Laws that the Borrowers
make any deduction or withholding for taxes from amounts payable
to such Foreign Lender.
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(ii) Each Foreign Lender, to the extent it does not act or
ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of
any sums paid or payable to such Lender under any of the Credit
Documents (for example, in the case of a typical participation
by such Lender), shall deliver to the Administrative Agent on
the date when such Foreign Lender ceases to act for its own
account with respect to any portion of any such sums paid or
payable, and at such other times as may be necessary in the
determination of the Administrative Agent (in the reasonable
exercise of its discretion), (A) two duly signed completed
copies of the forms or statements required to be provided by
such Lender as set forth above, to establish the portion of any
such sums paid or payable with respect to which such Lender acts
for its own account that is not subject to U.S. withholding tax,
and (B) two duly signed completed copies of IRS
Form W-8IMY (or any successor thereto), together with any
information such Lender chooses to transmit with such form, and
any other certificate or statement of exemption required under
the Internal Revenue Code, to establish that such Lender is not
acting for its own account with respect to the remaining portion
of any such sums payable to such Lender.
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(iii) The Borrowers shall not be required to pay any
additional amount to any Foreign Lender under
Section 3.01
(A) with respect to any Taxes
required to be deducted or withheld on the basis of the
information, certificates or statements of exemption such
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Lender transmits with an IRS Form W-8IMY pursuant to this
Section 11.15(a)
or (B) if such Lender shall have
failed to satisfy the foregoing provisions of this
Section 11.15(a)
;
provided
that if such
Lender shall have satisfied the requirement of this
Section 11.15(a)
on the date such Lender became a
Lender or ceased to act for its own account with respect to any
payment under any of the Credit Documents, nothing in this
Section 11.15(a)
shall relieve the Borrowers of its
obligation to pay any amounts pursuant to
Section 3.01
in the event that, as a result of any
change in any applicable law, treaty or governmental rule,
regulation or order, or any change in the interpretation,
administration or application thereof, such Lender is no longer
properly entitled to deliver forms, certificates or other
evidence at a subsequent date establishing the fact that such
Lender or other Person for the account of which such Lender
receives any sums payable under any of the Credit Documents is
not subject to withholding or is subject to withholding at a
reduced rate.
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(iv) The Administrative Agent may, without reduction,
withhold any Taxes required to be deducted and withheld from any
payment under any of the Credit Documents with respect to which
the Borrowers are not required to pay additional amounts under
this
Section 11.15(a)
.
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(b) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent, each
Lender that is a United States person within the
meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent two duly signed
completed copies of IRS Form W-9. If such Lender fails to
deliver such forms, then the Administrative Agent may withhold
from any interest payment to such Lender an amount equivalent to
the applicable back-up withholding tax imposed by the Internal
Revenue Code, without reduction.
(c) If any Governmental Authority asserts that the
Administrative Agent did not properly withhold or backup
withhold, as the case may be, any tax or other amount from
payments made to or for the account of any Lender, such Lender
shall indemnify the Administrative Agent therefor, including all
penalties and interest, any taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on
the amounts payable to the Administrative Agent under this
Section, and costs and expenses (including Attorney Costs) of
the Administrative Agent. The obligation of the Lenders under
this Section shall survive the termination of the Aggregate
Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder and
the resignation of the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 11.16
Replacement of Lenders
. If
(i) any Lender requests compensation under
Section 3.04
, (ii) the Borrower is required to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 3.01
, (iii) a Lender (a
Non-Consenting Lender
) does not consent to a
proposed amendment, consent, change, waiver, discharge or
termination with respect to any Credit Document that has been
approved by the Required Lenders, the Required Revolving
Lenders, the Required Tranche A Term Lenders, the Required
Tranche B Term Lenders or the Required Tranche C Term
Lenders (or the required lenders for any other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities), as
appropriate, (including, without limitation by a failure to
respond in writing to a proposed amendment by the date and time
specified by the Administrative Agent) as provided in
Section 11.01
but requires unanimous consent of all
Lenders or all Lenders of a particular class
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of loans, or (iv) any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, then
the Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice
to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender
to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and
subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required
by,
Section 11.07
), all of its interests, rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement and the related Credit
Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations
(which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such
assignment),
provided
that:
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(a) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Administrative
Agent the assignment fee specified in
Section 11.07(b)
;
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(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount
equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/ C
Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other
amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Credit
Documents (including any amounts under
Section 3.05
)
from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal
and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of
all other amounts);
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(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a
claim for compensation under
Section 3.04
or
payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 3.01
, such assignment will result in a
reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter; and
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(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws;
and
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(e) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a
Non-Consenting Lenders failure to consent to a proposed
amendment, consent change, waiver, discharge or termination with
respect to any Credit Document, the applicable replacement bank
or financial institution consents to the proposed change,
waiver, discharge or termination; provided that the failure by
such Non-Consenting Lender to execute and deliver an Assignment
and Assumption shall not impair the validity of the removal of
such Non-Consenting Lender and the mandatory assignment of such
Non-Consenting Lenders Commitments and outstanding Loans
and participations in L/ C Obligations pursuant to this
Section 11.16
shall nevertheless be effective
without the execution by such Non-Consenting Lender of an
Assignment and Assumption.
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A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or
delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such
Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers
to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
SECTION 11.17
Source of Funds
. Each of the Lenders
party to this Credit Agreement hereby represents and warrants to
the Borrowers that at least one of the following statements is
an accurate representation as to the source of funds to be used
by such Lender in connection with the financing hereunder:
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(a) no part of such funds constitutes assets allocated to
any separate account maintained by such Lender in which any
employee benefit plan (or its related trust) has any interest;
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(b) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes
assets allocated to any separate account maintained by such
Lender, such Lender has disclosed to the Borrowers the name of
each employee benefit plan whose assets in such account exceed
ten percent (10%) of the total assets of such account as of the
date of such purchase (and, for purposes of this
subsection
(b)
, all employee benefit plans maintained by the same
employer or employee organization are deemed to be a single
plan);
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(c) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes
assets of an insurance companys general account, such
insurance company has complied with all of the requirements of
the regulations issued under Section 401(c)(1)(A) of ERISA;
or
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(d) such funds constitute assets of one or more specific
benefit plans that such Lender has identified in writing to the
Borrowers.
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As used in this Section, the terms employee benefit
plan and separate account shall have the
respective meanings provided in Section 3 of ERISA.
SECTION 11.18
Nature of Obligations of the Borrowers
.
(a) The obligations of each of the Primary Borrowers, as
borrowers hereunder, shall be joint and several in nature for
all Loan Obligations and other obligations owing hereunder or
under the other Credit Documents;
provided
that:
(i) the obligations of any Primary Borrower as a joint and
several obligor hereunder in respect of such obligations shall
not in any event exceed an aggregate amount equal to the largest
amount that would not render such obligations subject to
avoidance under the Debtor Relief Laws or any comparable
provisions of any applicable state law, (ii) none of the
Primary Borrowers shall exercise any right of subrogation,
indemnity, reimbursement or contribution against any other
Borrower or Guarantor until such time as the Loan Obligations
and the other obligations owing hereunder and under the other
Credit Documents have been irrevocably paid in full and the
commitments relating thereto have expired or been terminated,
and (iii) each Primary Borrower expressly waives any
requirement that the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or any
of their officers, agents or representatives, exhaust any right,
power or remedy or first proceed under any of the Credit
Documents or against any other Borrower, Guarantor, other Person
or collateral.
(b) The obligations of each of the Designated Borrowers
that are not Primary Borrowers, as borrowers hereunder, shall be
several (and not joint) in nature and shall be limited in each
case to the obligations borrowed by such Designated Borrower
hereunder.
SECTION 11.19
Judgment Currency
. If, for the
purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to
convert a sum due hereunder or any other Credit Document from one
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currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall
be that at which, in accordance with normal banking procedures,
the Administrative Agent could purchase such currency with such
other currency on the Business Day preceding the day on which
final judgment is given. The obligation of the Borrowers in
respect of any such sum due to the Administrative Agent or the
Lenders hereunder or under the other Credit Documents shall,
notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the
Judgment Currency
) other than that in which
such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Credit Agreement (the
Agreement
Currency
), 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 the Judgment Currency, the
Administrative Agent may in accordance with normal banking
procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment
Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased
is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent
from the Borrowers in the Agreement Currency, the Borrowers
agree, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such
judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to
whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount
of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum
originally due to the Administrative Agent in such currency, the
Administrative Agent agrees to return the amount of any excess
to the Borrowers (or to any other Person who may be entitled
thereto under applicable law).
SECTION 11.20
Power of Attorney
.
(a) Without limiting any other authority granted to the
Collateral Agent herein or in any other Credit Document, each
Lender party to this Credit Agreement hereby specifically
authorizes the Collateral Agent to enter into, as agent on
behalf of the Lenders party to this Credit Agreement (with the
effect that each Lender shall become a party thereunder), and/or
amend, as agent on behalf of the Lenders, (i) any Pledge
Agreements governed by German Law and (ii) the Parallel
Debt Agreement or any substantially similar agreement that
creates an obligation of the Credit Parties (as debt
acknowledgement or
abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis
) in
favor of the Collateral Agent under German Law. The
authorization granted herein comprises any action or declaration
the Collateral Agent may deem necessary in connection with such
Pledge Agreements (including any action or declaration that the
Collateral Agent deems to be necessary in order to create and
continue a valid Pledge Agreement governed by German Law), the
Parallel Debt Agreement or any substantially similar agreement
that creates an obligation of the Credit Parties (as debt
acknowledgement or
abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis
) in
favor of the Collateral Agent under German Law (including any
action or declaration that the Collateral Agent deems to be
necessary in order to create and continue valid obligations
under such agreements governed by German Law). The Collateral
Agent is explicitly exempt from any restriction of
Section 181 of the German Civil Code. The Collateral Agent
has the power to sub-delegate its powers as agent of each of the
Lenders granted by this
Section 11.20(a)
to third
parties, including the release from the restrictions of
Section 181 of the German Civil Code.
(b) The Credit Parties hereby specifically authorize and
instruct FMCAG to enter into, as agent on behalf of the Credit
Parties (with the effect that each Credit Party shall become a
party thereunder), and/or amend, as agent of behalf of the
Credit Parties, the Parallel Debt Agreement or any substantially
similar agreement that creates an obligation of the Credit
Parties (as debt acknowledgement or
abstraktes
Schuldanerkenntnis
) in favor of the Collateral Agent
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under German Law. The authorization granted herein comprises any
action or declaration FMCAG may deem necessary in connection
with such agreements (including any action or declaration that
FMCAG deems to be necessary in order to create and continue
valid obligations under such agreements governed by German Law).
FMCAG has the power to sub-delegate its powers as agent of each
of the Credit Parties granted by this
Section 11.20(b)
to third parties.
SECTION 11.21
GOVERNING LAW
.
(a) THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY
WITHIN SUCH STATE.
(b) ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS
CREDIT AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN
THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR
THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY
OF THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT, THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
AND EACH LENDER CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS
PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. THE
BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF
VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, THAT IT
MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR
PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF ANY CREDIT
DOCUMENT OR OTHER DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO. THE BORROWER, THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF
ANY SUMMONS, COMPLAINT OR OTHER PROCESS, THAT MAY BE MADE BY ANY
OTHER MEANS PERMITTED BY THE LAW OF SUCH STATE.
SECTION 11.22
WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY
. EACH
PARTY TO THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION
ARISING UNDER ANY CREDIT DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH
OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO
OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY CREDIT DOCUMENT, OR THE
TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING
OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR
OTHERWISE; AND EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY
SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED
BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS CREDIT
AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS
SECTION WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT
OF THE SIGNATORIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL
BY JURY.
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SECTION 11.23
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
. THIS CREDIT
AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL
AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY
EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL
AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL
AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.
SECTION 11.24
Conflict
. To the extent there is any
conflict or inconsistency between the provisions hereof and the
provisions of any Credit Document, this Credit Agreement shall
control.
SECTION 11.25
USA PATRIOT Act Notice
. Each Lender
that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the
Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any
Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L.
107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the
Act
), it is required to obtain, verify and
record information that identifies the Borrowers, which
information includes the name and address of each Borrower and
other information that will allow such Lender or the
Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Borrower
in accordance with the Act.
SECTION 11.26
German Money Laundering Act
. Each
Borrower incorporated in Germany hereby confirms that it is the
beneficiary within the meaning of Section 8 of the German
Money Laundering Act of each part of the Loan that is made
available to it.
SECTION 11.27
Additional Provisions In Respect of
Trust Preferred Subdebt.
(a)
Senior Bank Credit Agreement
. This Credit
Agreement replaces the Existing Credit Agreement and refinances
and replaces the revolving loan commitments and outstanding
revolving loans and letters of credit indebtedness thereunder.
The Existing Credit Agreement replaced that certain Credit
Agreement dated as of September 27, 1996 among NMC and
certain subsidiaries and affiliates of NMC, as borrowers,
certain subsidiaries and affiliates of NMC, as guarantors, the
lenders identified therein and NationsBank, N.A. (now known as
Bank of America, N.A.), as Paying Agent, and which refinanced
the indebtedness thereunder. This Credit Agreement constitutes
the Bank Credit Agreement under the
Trust Preferred Subdebt Indentures and the loans and
interest owing hereunder constitute Senior
Indebtedness under the Trust Preferred Indentures.
(b)
Payment Blockage Notices
. The Lenders under this
Credit Agreement, as holders of the Specified Senior
Indebtedness referenced the Trust Preferred Subdebt
shall have the exclusive right to send Blockage
Notices in respect of the Trust Preferred Subdebt;
provided
that the Lenders under this Credit Agreement
agree not to send any such Blockage Notice without
the consent of or direction by the Required Lenders.
(c)
Third Party Beneficiary Rights
. The Lenders
under the Term Loan Credit Agreement shall be deemed to have
acted in reliance on the provisions contained in this
Section 11.27
. The provisions of this
Section 11.27
shall constitute a continuing offer to
and agreement with all Persons who, in reliance on these
provisions, become Lenders
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under the Term Loan Credit Agreement or continue to be such
Lenders, and such provisions are made for the benefit of such
Lenders which shall be third party beneficiaries and obligees
under this
Section 11.27
.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused a
counterpart of this Credit Agreement to be duly executed and
delivered as of the date first above written.
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BORROWERS AND GUARANTORS:
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA,
a German
partnership limited by shares, represented by
FRESENIUS
MEDICAL CARE MANAGEMENT AG,
a German corporation, its
general partner
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By:
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/s/ Lawrence A. Rosen
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Title:
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CFO and Member of the Management Board
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Name: Dr. Rainer Runte
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Title: Member of the Management Board
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FMC FINANCE S.à r.l. LUXEMBOURG V,
a
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private limited company (société à
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responsabilité limitée) organized under the
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laws of Luxembourg
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By:
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/s/ Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Name: Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Title: Sole Manager
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.,
a New York
corporation
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Name: Mark Fawcett
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Title: Assistant Treasurer
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CO-BORROWERS AND GUARANTORS:
NATIONAL MEDICAL CARE, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ALABAMA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF FLORIDA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GEORGIA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ILLINOIS, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF INDIANA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF KENTUCKY, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF LOUISIANA, LLC,
a Delaware
limited liability company
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MICHIGAN, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MINNESOTA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MISSISSIPPI, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, INC.,
a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW JERSEY, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW MEXICO, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC.,
a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF OHIO, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA, INC.,
a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INC.,
a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF TENNESSEE, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF TEXAS, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC.,
a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF VIRGINIA, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE CARDIOVASCULAR RESOURCES, INC.,
a
Pennsylvania corporation
FRESENIUS USA MANUFACTURING, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
FRESENIUS USA MARKETING, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
FRESENIUS USA, INC.,
a Massachusetts corporation
SAN DIEGO DIALYSIS SERVICES, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
SPECTRA LABORATORIES, INC.,
a Nevada corporation
WSKC DIALYSIS SERVICES, INC.,
an Illinois corporation
EVEREST HEALTHCARE INDIANA, INC.,
an Indiana corporation
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By: /s/ Mark Fawcett
Name: Mark
Fawcett
Title: Treasurer for each of the foregoing
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GUARANTORS:
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MARYLAND, INC.,
a Delaware
corporation
FRESENIUS SECURITIES, INC.,
a California corporation
SRC HOLDING COMPANY, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
By: /s/ Mark Fawcett
Name: Mark
Fawcett
Title: Treasurer for each of the foregoing
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GUARANTOR:
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA HOLDINGS LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP,
a Delaware limited partnership
By: Fresenius Medical Care US Vermögensverwaltungs
GmbH and Co. KG, a German partnership
Its General Partner
By: Fresenius Medical Care Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH,
a German limited liability company
Its General Partner
By: /s/ Lawrence A. Rosen
Name: Lawrence
A. Rosen
Title: Managing Director
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GUARANTORS:
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GmbH,
a German limited
liability company
By: /s/ Norbert Weber
Name: Norbert
Weber
Title: Managing Director
By: /s/ Rolf Groos
Name: Rolf
Groos
Title: Managing Director
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE
BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mbH,
a German limited
liability company
By: /s/ Dr. Emanuele Gatti
Name: Dr. Emanuele
Gatti
Title: Managing Director
By: /s/ Dr. Rainer Runte
Name: Dr. Rainer
Runte
Title: Managing Director
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE US BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mbH,
a German limited liability company
By: /s/ Lawrence A. Rosen
Name: Lawrence
A. Rosen
Title: Managing Director
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GUARANTORS:
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE US ZWEI BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
MBH
,
a German limited liability company
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By: /s/ Lawrence A. Rosen
Name: Lawrence
A. Rosen
Title: Managing Director
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE US DREI BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
MBH
,
a German limited liability company
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By: /s/ Lawrence A. Rosen
Name: Lawrence
A. Rosen
Title: Managing Director
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FMC TRUST FINANCE S.à r.l.
LUXEMBOURG
, a private limited company (société
à responsabilité limitée) organized under the
laws of Luxembourg
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By: /s/ Dr. Andrea Stopper
Name: Dr. Andrea
Stopper
Title: Sole Manager
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FMC FINANCE II S.à r.l.
, a private limited company
(société à responsabilité limitée)
organized under the laws of Luxembourg
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By: /s/ Dr. Andrea Stopper
Name: Dr. Andrea
Stopper
Title: Manager
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By: /s/ Gabriele Dux
Name: Gabriele
Dux
Title: Manager
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GUARANTORS:
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FMC TRUST FINANCE S.à r.l. LUXEMBOURG-III
, a private
limited company (société à responsabilité
limitée) organized under the laws of Luxembourg
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By: /s/ Gabriele Dux
Name: Gabriele
Dux
Title: Sole Manager
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FMC FINANCE S.à r.l. LUXEMBOURG-IV
, a private
limited company (société à responsabilité
limitée) organized under the laws of Luxembourg
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By: /s/ Dr. Andrea Stopper
Name: Dr. Andrea
Stopper
Title: Sole Manager
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NATIONAL MEDICAL CARE OF SPAIN, S.A.
, a corporation
(sociedad anónima) organized under the laws of Spain
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By: /s/ Dr. Emanuele Gatti
Name: Dr. Emanuele
Gatti
Title: Director
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By: /s/ Dr. Andrea Stopper
Name: Dr. Andrea
Stopper
Title: Director
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GUARANTORS:
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
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NMC A, LLC
, a Delaware limited liability company
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ARIZONA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MAINE, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
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EVEREST HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS, INC
, a Delaware corporation
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FRESENIUS MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC
, a Delaware corporation
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FMS NEW YORK, INC.
, a Delaware corporation
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By: /s/ Mark Fawcett
Name: Mark
Fawcett
Title: Treasurer for each of the foregoing
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
, as Administrative Agent and
Collateral Agent
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By: /s/ Angela S. Lau
Name: Angela
S. Lau
Title: Assistant Vice President
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LENDERS:
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
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By: /s/ Amie L. Edwards
Name: Amie
L. Edwards
Title: Vice President
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DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH
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By: /s/ Diane F. Rolfe
Name: Diane
F. Rolfe
Title: Vice President
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By: /s/ Anca Trifan
Name: Anca
Trifan
Title: Director
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THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
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By: /s/ C. A. Calloway
Name: C.
A. Calloway
Title: Managing Director
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CREDIT SUISSE, Cayman Islands Branch
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By: /s/ Judith Smith
Name: Judith
Smith
Title: Director
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By: /s/ Doreen Barr
Name: Doreen
Barr
Title: Associate
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DRESDNER BANK AG, NIEDERLASSUNG LUXEMBURG
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By: /s/ Christiane Zahnert-Jost
Name: Christiane
Zahnert-Jost
Title: Transaction Management
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By: /s/ Barbara Stein
Name: Barbara
Stein
Title: Transaction Management
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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By: /s/ James W. Peterson
Name: James
W. Peterson
Title: Vice President
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ABN AMRO BANK N.V., Niederlassung Deutschland
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By: /s/ Michaela Steidl
Name: Michaela
Steidl
Title: Corporate Director
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By: /s/ Markus Meiser
Name: Markus
Meiser
Title: Assistant Vice President
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BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA S.A.
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By: /s/ Christopher Metherell
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Name: Christopher Metherell
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Title: Global Relationship
Manager
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By: /s/ M.I. Carrera Ortiz de Eribe
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Name: M.I. Carrera Ortiz de Eribe
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Title: Global Relationship
Manager
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BANK OF NEW YORK
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By: /s/ Thomas J. McCormack
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Name: Thomas J. McCormack
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Title: Vice President
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BARCLAYS BANK PLC
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By: /s/ Mark Pope
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Name: Mark Pope
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Title: Manager
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BAYERISCHE LANDESBANK
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By: /s/ Hans Fischer
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/s/ Josef Diepold
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Name: Hans Fischer
Title: First Vice President
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Josef Diepold
Assistant Vice President
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BNP PARIBAS
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By: /s/ Cecile Scherer
Name: Cecile
Scherer
Title: Director, Merchant Banking Group
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By: /s/ PJ de Filippis
Name: PJ
de Filippis
Title: Managing Director
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CALYON DEUTSCHLAND
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By: /s/ Jean-Louis Manera
Name: Jean-Louis
Manera
Title: Acting Senior Country Officer for Germany and
Austria
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By: /s/ Birgit Nabben
Name: Birgit
Nabben
Title: Senior Relationship Manager
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COMMERZBANK AG, Frankfurt am Main
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By: /s/ Michael Peter Froeschke
Name: Michael
Peter Froeschke
Title: Head of Chemicals/ Pharmaceuticals, Senior
Relationship Management
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By: /s/ Hans-Friedrich Jenetzky
Name: Hans-Friedrich
Jenetzky
Title: Senior Vice President Relationship Management
Großkundencenter Frankfurt/ Main
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DZ BANK AG
Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank Frankfurt am Main
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By: /s/ Gottfried Finken
Name: Gottfried
Finken
Title: Director
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By: /s/ Eric Stöver
Name: Eric
Stöver
Title: Vice President
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KfW
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By: /s/ Sven Wabbels
Name: Sven
Wabbels
Title: Vice President
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By: /s/ Marion Jöstingmeier
Name: Marion
Jöstingmeier
Title: Senior Project Manager
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LANDESBANK BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG,
New York Branch and/or Cayman Islands Branch
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By: /s/ Karen Richard
Name: Karen
Richard
Title: Vice President
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By: /s/ Carolyn Gutbrod
Name: Carolyn
Gutbrod
Title: Vice President
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LANDESBANK HESSEN THüRINGEN GIROZENTRALE
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By: /s/ Claus Hemsteg
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Name: Claus Hemsteg
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Title: Vice President
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By: /s/ Schu-Minn Kim
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Name: Schu-Minn Kim
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Title: Associate
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MIZUHO CORPORATE BANK (GERMANY) AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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By: /s/ Gunnar Graf
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/s/ Andreas Tretzmueller
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Name: Gunnar Graf
Title: General Manager
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Andreas Tretzmueller
Director
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NORDEA BANK AB (publ)
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By: /s/ Birgitta Höög
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Name: Birgitta Höög
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Title: Legal Counsel
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By: /s/ Eva Österström Rietz
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Name: Eva Österström Rietz
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Title: Legal Counsel
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THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC,
Niederlassung Frankfurt
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By: /s/ Kai Gloystein
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/s/ Kristijan Krstic
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Name: Kai Gloystein
Title: Director
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Kristijan Krstic
Senior Director
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SOCIETE GENERALE
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By: /s/ Anne-Marie Dumortier
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Name: Anne-Marie Dumortier
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Title: Director
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SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
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By: /s/ Dr. Harald Wimmer
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/s/ Jörg Legens
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Name: Dr. Harald Wimmer
Title: Manager
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Jörg Legens
Assistant Manager
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SUNTRUST BANK
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WESTLB AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
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Title: Executive Director
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UNITED OVERSEAS BANK
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Name: Wong Kwong Yew
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Title: First Vice President
& General Manager
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Name: Philip Cheong
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President & Deputy General Manager
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ALLIED IRISH BANKS P.L.C.
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/s/ Grace Gilligan
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Title: Senior Manager
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Senior Manager
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BAYERISCHE HYPO-UND VEREINSBANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
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By: /s/ Hetal Selarka
Name: Hetal
Selarka
Title: Associate Director
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Name: Mario
Caicedo
Title: Senior Associate
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BHF-BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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/s/ Torsten Lange
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Name: Josef Brähler
Title: Vice President
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Torsten Lange
Assistant Vice President
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HSBC BANK PLC
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By: /s/ Roger Booth
Name: Roger
Booth
Title: Managing Director, Healthcare-Europe
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LANDSBANKI ISLANDS HF.
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By: /s/ Lárus Welding
Name: Lárus
Welding
Title: Head of London Branch
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SANPAOLO IMI S.P.A. NEW YORK BRANCH
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/s/ M. Ruecker
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Name: R. Pedicini
Title: Deputy Chief Manager
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M. Ruecker
Senior Relationship Manager
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LANDESBANK RHEINLAND PFALZ
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/s/ Robert Wagner
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Name: Richard Kuhn
Title: Senior Vice President
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Robert Wagner
Vice President
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RAIFFEISEN ZENTRALBANK ÖSTERREICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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By: /s/ Mag. Josef Hörl
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/s/ Mag. Marianne Szigeti
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Name: Mag. Josef
Hörl
Title: Head of
Credit Office I
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Mag. Marianne Szigeti
Account Manager
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BANK OF AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT AG
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By: /s/ I. Bleier
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/s/ C. Dietrich
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Name: I. Bleier
Title: Dep. Managing Director
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C. Dietrich
Senior Manager
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BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ TRUST COMPANY
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By: /s/ Karen A. Brinkman
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Name: Karen A. Brinkman
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Title: Vice President
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DEUTSCHE APOTHEKER-UND ARZTEBANK EG
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By: /s/ Gebauer
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/s/ Dörr
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Name: Gebauer
Title:
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Dörr
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FORTIS CAPITAL CORP
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By: /s/ John Crawford
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Name: John Crawford
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Title: Managing Director
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By: /s/ Douglas Riahi
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Name: Douglas Riahi
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Title: Managing Director
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LANDESBANK SACHSEN GIROZENTRALE
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By: /s/ Tino Petzold
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/s/ Jana Spangler
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Name: Tino Petzold
Title: Head of Syndication
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Jana Spangler
Associate
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NATEXIS BANQUES POPULAIRES
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By: /s/ Nicolas Regent
Name: Nicolas
Regent
Title: VP Multinational
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By: /s/ P.J. Van Tuller
Name: P.J.
Van Tuller
Title: Group Head
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NATIONAL CITY BANK OF KENTUCKY
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By: /s/ Erica E. Dowd
Name: Erica
E. Dowd
Title: Assistant Vice President
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THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE
BANK OF IRELAND
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By: /s/ Mark McGoldrick
Name: Mark
McGoldrick
Title: Managing Director
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By: /s/ Brian Williams
Name: Brian
Williams
Title: Vice President
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LBBW BANK IRELAND PLC
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By: /s/ Eoin Redmond
Name: Eoin
Redmond
Title: Senior Manager
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By: /s/ Owen Butler
Name: Owen
Butler
Title: Senior Manager
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BANK OF TAIWAN, LONDON BRANCH
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By: /s/ Fu-San Chiang
Name: Fu-San
Chiang
Title: General Manager of Bank of Taiwan, London
Branch
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BANK OF TAIWAN, NEW YORK AGENCY
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By: /s/ Eunice S. J. Yeh
Name: Eunice
S. J. Yeh
Title: Senior Vice President & General
Manager
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CREDIT INDUSTRIEL ET COMMERCIAL
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By: /s/ Mathew Gillard
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/s/ Patrick Kitching
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Name: Mathew Gillard
Title: Manager
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Patrick Kitching
Manager
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CREDIT MUTUEL BANQUE DE LECONOMIE DU COMMERCE ET DE LA
MONETIQUE S.A. NIEDERLASSUNG DEUTSCHLAND
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By: /s/ Daniel Lorang
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/s/ Jean-Michel Guillocheau
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Name: Daniel Lorang
Title: Vice Director
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Jean-Michel Guillocheau
Authorized Signatory
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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By: /s/ J. T. Taylor
Name: J.
T. Taylor
Title: Senior Vice President
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STATE BANK OF INDIA
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By: /s/ Rakesh Chandra
Name: Rakesh
Chandra
Title: Vice President & Head (Credit)
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RZB FINANCE LLC
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By: /s/ Christoph Hoedl
Name: Christoph
Hoedl
Title: Group Vice President
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By: /s/ Juan M. Csillagi
Name: Juan
M. Csillagi
Title: Group Vice President
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Exhibit 4.2
EXECUTION VERSION
Published CUSIP Number: 35803GAA7
TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of March 31, 2006
among
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA,
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.
and the other Borrowers and Guarantors identified herein,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent,
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Sole Syndication Agent,
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Co-Documentation Agents,
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
and
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Book Running Managers
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
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1
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SECTION 1.01 Defined Terms
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1
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SECTION 1.02 Interpretive Provisions
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38
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SECTION 1.03 Accounting Terms
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39
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SECTION 1.04 Rounding
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39
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SECTION 1.05 References to Agreements and Laws
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39
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SECTION 1.06 Times of Day
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39
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ARTICLE II THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
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40
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SECTION 2.01 Commitments
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40
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SECTION 2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of
Loans
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44
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SECTION 2.03 Interest
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45
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SECTION 2.04 Fees
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46
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SECTION 2.05 Repayment of Loans
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46
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SECTION 2.06 Prepayments
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47
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SECTION 2.08 Evidence of Debt
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50
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SECTION 2.09 Payments Generally
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50
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SECTION 2.10 Sharing of Payments
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52
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SECTION 2.11 Designated Borrowers
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53
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SECTION 2.12 Removal of Borrowers
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53
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ARTICLE III TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
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54
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SECTION 3.01 Taxes
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54
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SECTION 3.02 Illegality
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55
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SECTION 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates
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55
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SECTION 3.04 Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital
Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Loans
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55
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SECTION 3.05 Funding Losses
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57
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SECTION 3.06 Matters Applicable to all Requests for
Compensation
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57
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SECTION 3.07 Survival
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58
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ARTICLE IV GUARANTY
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58
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SECTION 4.01 The Guaranty
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58
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SECTION 4.02 Obligations Unconditional
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61
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SECTION 4.03 Reinstatement
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62
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SECTION 4.04 Certain Waivers
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62
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SECTION 4.05 Remedies
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62
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SECTION 4.06 Rights of Contribution
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63
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SECTION 4.07 Guaranty of Payment; Continuing Guaranty
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64
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ARTICLE V CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
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64
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SECTION 5.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extensions
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64
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SECTION 5.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions
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67
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ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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68
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SECTION 6.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance
with Laws
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68
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SECTION 6.02 Authorization; No Contravention
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68
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SECTION 6.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents
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68
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SECTION 6.04 Binding Effect
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69
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SECTION 6.05 Financial Statements
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69
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SECTION 6.06 No Material Adverse Effect
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69
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SECTION 6.07 Litigation
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69
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SECTION 6.08 No Default
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69
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SECTION 6.09 Ownership of Property; Liens
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69
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SECTION 6.10 Environmental Compliance
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70
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SECTION 6.11 Insurance
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70
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SECTION 6.12 Taxes
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70
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SECTION 6.13 ERISA Compliance
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70
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SECTION 6.14 Jurisdiction of Organization, Capital Stock
and Ownership of Credit Parties
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71
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SECTION 6.15 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act;
Public Utility Holding Company Act
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71
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SECTION 6.16 Disclosure
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71
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SECTION 6.17 Compliance with Laws
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72
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SECTION 6.18 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.
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72
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SECTION 6.19 Pledge Agreements
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72
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SECTION 6.20 Reimbursement from Medical Reimbursement
Programs
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72
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ARTICLE VII AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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73
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SECTION 7.01 Financial Statements
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73
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SECTION 7.02 Certificates; Other Information
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74
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SECTION 7.03 Notification
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75
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SECTION 7.04 Payment of Obligations
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76
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SECTION 7.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc.
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77
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SECTION 7.06 Maintenance of Properties
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77
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SECTION 7.07 Maintenance of Insurance
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77
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SECTION 7.08 Compliance with Laws
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77
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SECTION 7.09 Books and Records
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78
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SECTION 7.10 Inspection Rights
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78
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SECTION 7.11 Use of Proceeds
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78
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SECTION 7.12 Joinder of Additional Guarantors
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78
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SECTION 7.13 Pledge of Capital Stock
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SECTION 7.14 Ownership
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80
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SECTION 7.15 Interest Rate Protection
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80
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SECTION 7.16 Pledge of Additional Collateral
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80
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ARTICLE VIII NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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82
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SECTION 8.01 Indebtedness
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82
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SECTION 8.02 Liens
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85
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SECTION 8.03 Investments
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SECTION 8.04 Merger and Consolidation; Dissolution;
Restriction on Certain Foreign Subsidiaries
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89
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SECTION 8.05 Dispositions
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89
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SECTION 8.06 Restricted Payments
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90
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SECTION 8.07 Change in Nature of Business
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90
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SECTION 8.08 Transactions with Affiliates
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91
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SECTION 8.09 No Further Negative Pledges
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SECTION 8.10 Fiscal Year
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SECTION 8.11 Financial Covenants
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91
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ARTICLE IX EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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92
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SECTION 9.01 Events of Default
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92
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SECTION 9.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default
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SECTION 9.03 Application of Funds
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95
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ARTICLE X ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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96
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SECTION 10.01 Appointment and Authorization of
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
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SECTION 10.02 Delegation of Duties
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SECTION 10.03 Liability of Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.05 Notice of Default
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98
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SECTION 10.06 Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by
Administrative Agent
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SECTION 10.07 Indemnification of Administrative Agent
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99
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SECTION 10.08 Administrative Agent in its Individual
Capacity
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100
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SECTION 10.09 Successor Administrative Agent
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100
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SECTION 10.10 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim
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SECTION 10.11 Collateral and Guaranty Matters
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101
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SECTION 10.12 Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers
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ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS
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102
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SECTION 11.01 Amendments, Etc.
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102
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SECTION 11.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile
Copies
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105
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SECTION 11.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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106
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SECTION 11.04 Attorney Costs and Expenses
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107
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SECTION 11.05 Indemnification by the Borrowers
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107
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SECTION 11.06 Payments Set Aside
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SECTION 11.07 Successors and Assigns
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108
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SECTION 11.08 Confidentiality
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111
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SECTION 11.09 Set-off
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112
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SECTION 11.10 Interest Rate Limitation
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112
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SECTION 11.11 Counterparts
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113
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SECTION 11.12 Integration; Effectiveness
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113
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SECTION 11.13 Survival of Representations and Warranties
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SECTION 11.14 Severability
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113
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SECTION 11.15 Tax Forms
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SECTION 11.16 Replacement of Lenders
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116
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SECTION 11.17 Source of Funds
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117
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SECTION 11.18 Nature of Obligations of the Borrowers
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117
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SECTION 11.19 Judgment Currency
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118
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SECTION 11.20 Power of Attorney
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118
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SECTION 11.21 GOVERNING LAW
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119
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SECTION 11.22 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY
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119
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SECTION 11.23 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
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120
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SECTION 11.24 Conflict
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SECTION 11.25 USA PATRIOT Act Notice
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120
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SECTION 11.26 German Money Laundering Act
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120
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SECTION 11.27 Additional Provisions In Respect of
Trust Preferred Subdebt
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120
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SCHEDULES
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1.01
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Material Domestic Subsidiaries
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2.01
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Commitments and Commitment Percentages
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2.11
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Designated Borrowers
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3.04
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Mandatory Cost Rate
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6.14
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Credit Party Information
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11.02
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Notice Addresses
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11.07
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Processing and Recordation Fees
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EXHIBITS
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2.01(e)
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Form of Incremental Tranche A Term Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.01(f)
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Form of Incremental Tranche B Term Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.01(g)
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Form of Tranche C Term Loan Joinder Agreement
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2.02
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Form of Loan Notice
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2.08-1
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Form of Tranche A Term Note
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2.08-2
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Form of Tranche B Term Note
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Form of Tranche C Term Note
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2.11
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Form of Borrower Joinder Agreement
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7.02
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Form of Compliance Certificate
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7.12
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Form of Guarantor Joinder Agreement
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11.07
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Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT (
Credit
Agreement
) is entered into as of March 31, 2006,
among FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA, a German
partnership limited by shares, and FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE
HOLDINGS, INC., a New York corporation, and the other
Borrowers identified herein, the Guarantors identified herein,
the Lenders party hereto and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as
Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, a $1.2 billion credit facility has been
established in favor of FMCAG, FMCH and certain subsidiaries and
affiliates pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement, consisting
of a $750 million revolving credit facility and a
$450 million Tranche A-1 Term Loan;
WHEREAS, a $4.6 billion credit facility will be established
in favor of FMCAG, FMCH and certain subsidiaries and affiliates
pursuant to this Credit Agreement and the Bank Credit Agreement,
consisting of a $1.0 billion revolving credit facility
under the Bank Credit Agreement and a $1.85 billion
Tranche A Term Loan and a $1.75 billion Tranche B
Term Loan under this Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the loans and extensions of credit under this Credit
Agreement and the Bank Credit Agreement will refinance the
indebtedness owing under the Existing Credit Agreement and this
Credit Agreement and the Bank Credit Agreement will replace the
commitments thereunder;
WHEREAS, the Lenders hereunder and under the Bank Credit
Agreement have agreed to make the requested facilities available
on the terms and conditions set forth herein and therein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of these premises and the
mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION 1.01
Defined Terms
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Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall
have the meaning provided in the Bank Credit Agreement. As used
in this Credit Agreement, the following terms shall have the
meanings set forth below:
Acquisition
means the purchase or acquisition
by any Person of (a) more than fifty percent (50%) of the
Capital Stock of another Person (other than in respect of a
Person that is already a member of the Consolidated Group) with
ordinary voting power, (b) all or any substantial portion
of the property (other than Capital Stock) of another such
Person, whether or
not involving a merger or consolidation with such other Person
or (c) assets of another Person that constitute a business
unit.
Administrative Agent
means Bank of America in
its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Credit
Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
Administrative Agents Office
means the
Administrative Agents address and, as appropriate, account
as set forth on
Schedule 11.02
, or such other
address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to
time notify FMCAG, FMCH and the Lenders.
Administrative Questionnaire
means an
Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the
Administrative Agent.
Affiliate
means, with respect to any Person,
another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with such other Person.
AG Debt
has the meaning provided in
Section 8.01(k)
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Agent-Related Persons
means the
Administrative Agent, together with its Affiliates (including,
in the case of Bank of America in its capacity as the
Administrative Agent, BAS), and the officers, directors,
employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons and
Affiliates.
Aggregate Commitments
means the Commitments
of all the Lenders.
Aggregate Revolving Commitments
means the
Revolving Commitments of all the Lenders.
Alternative Foreign Currency
means any
foreign currency that is not Dollars or Available Foreign
Currency.
Applicable Currency
means Dollars or the
applicable Foreign Currency.
Applicable Percentage
means the following
percentages per annum:
APPLICABLE PERCENTAGES FOR TRANCHE A TERM LOAN
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(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan) will be
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portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 7.02(b)
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Any increase or decrease in such Applicable Percentage resulting
from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become
effective on the first Business Day immediately following the
date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to
Section 7.02(b)
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provided
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Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance
therewith, then Pricing Level * shall apply as of the first
Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate
was required to have been delivered until the first Business Day
immediately following delivery thereof. The Applicable
Percentage in effect from the Closing Date through the date for
delivery of the first Compliance Certificate after the Closing
Date shall be Pricing Level *;
provided
that until
the earlier of (x) the tenth day after the Closing Date or
(y) the date of the closing of the Dispositions required by
the Federal Trade Commission in connection with the RCG
Acquisition, the Applicable Percentage shall be
(i) * percent (*%), in the case of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans and (ii) * percent (*%), in the case of Base
Rate Loans.
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The Applicable Percentage for the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan) will be
* percent (*%), in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, and
* percent (*%) in the case of Base Rate Loans;
provided
that, in each case, until the earlier of
(x) the tenth day after the Closing Date or (y) the
date of the closing of the Dispositions required by the Federal
Trade Commission in connection with the RCG Acquisition, the
Applicable Percentage shall be (i) * percent (*%), in
the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) * percent
(*%), in the case of Base Rate Loans.
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any, will be as provided in the Tranche C Term Loan Joinder
Agreement.
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Applicable Time
means, with respect to
borrowings and payments in Foreign Currencies, the local times
in the place of settlement for such Foreign Currencies as may be
determined by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, the
Competitive Bid Agent, to be necessary for timely settlement on
the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures
in the place of payment as previously notified in writing to
FMCAG and FMCH.
Approved Bank
means (a) any Lender,
(b) any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing
having capital and surplus in excess of $500 million or
(c) any bank whose short-term commercial paper rating from
S&P is at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof or from
Moodys is at least P-1 or the equivalent thereof.
Approved Fund
means any Fund that is
administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an
Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of
an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
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portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
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Approved Jurisdiction
means Australia,
Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, Bermuda, any other Participating Member State as of the
Closing Date, any jurisdiction of organization of a Domestic
Subsidiary and any other jurisdiction approved by the Required
Lenders.
Arrangers
means BAS and DBSI, each in its
capacity as a joint lead arranger and book running manager.
Assignee Group
means two or more Eligible
Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more
Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
Assignment and Assumption Agreement
means an
Assignment and Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 11.07
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Attorney Costs
means and includes all
reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or
other external counsel.
Attributable Principal Amount
means
(a) in the case of capital leases, the amount of capital
lease obligations determined in accordance with GAAP,
(b) in the case of Synthetic Leases, an amount determined
by capitalization of the remaining lease payments thereunder as
if it were a capital lease determined in accordance with GAAP,
(c) in the case of Securitization Transactions, the
outstanding principal amount of such financing, after taking
into account reserve amounts and making appropriate adjustments,
determined by the Administrative Agent after consultation with
the Lenders and (d) in the case of Sale and Leaseback
Transactions, the present value (discounted in accordance with
GAAP at the debt rate implied in the applicable lease) of the
obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the term of
such lease).
Bank of America
means Bank of America, N.A.,
together with its successors.
Bank Credit Agreement
means the Bank Credit
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, as amended, modified,
extended or renewed, among FMCAG, FMCH and the other
subsidiaries and affiliates identified therein, as borrowers,
FMCAG, FMCH and the subsidiaries and affiliates identified
therein, as guarantors, the lenders identified therein and Bank
of America, N.A., as administrative agent, pursuant to which the
Revolving Loans and certain other extensions of credit are made.
BAS
means Banc of America Securities LLC,
together with its successors.
Base Rate
means for any day a fluctuating
rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) the Federal Funds
Rate
plus
one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) and
(b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly
announced from time to time by Bank of America as its
prime rate. The prime rate is a rate set
by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of
Americas costs and desired return, general economic
conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point
for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below
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announced rate. Any change in the prime rate announced by Bank
of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the
day specified in the public announcement of such change.
Base Rate Loan
means a Loan that bears
interest based on the Base Rate. All Base Rate Loans shall be
denominated in Dollars.
Borrower Joinder Agreement
means a Borrower
Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.11
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Borrowers
means (a) in the case of the
Tranche A Term Loan, FMCH and FMC-USDLP and the
Co-Borrowers, jointly and severally, (b) in the case of the
Tranche B Term Loan, FMCAG, FMCH and the Co-Borrowers,
jointly and severally, and (c) in the case of the
Tranche C Term Loan, FMCAG, FMCH and/or Subsidiaries or
Affiliates identified in the Tranche C Term Loan Joinder
Agreement.
Borrowing
means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Committed Loans of the same Type, in the same
currency and having the same Interest Period.
Business Day
means any day other than a
Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are
authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in,
the state where the Administrative Agents Lending Office
with respect to Obligations denominated in Dollars is located or
New York and (a) if such day relates to any Eurocurrency
Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Euro,
Business Day means any such day on which dealings in
deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between
banks in the London, England or other applicable offshore
interbank market for such currency, (b) if such day relates
to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro,
Business Day means a TARGET Day or (c) if such
day relates to any Foreign Swing Line Loan, Business
Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other
day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the
Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the jurisdiction where the
Foreign Swing Line Lenders Lending Office with respect to
Foreign Swing Line Loans is located.
Capital Stock
means (a) in the case of a
corporation, capital stock, (b) in the case of an
association or business entity, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated)
of capital stock, (c) in the case of a partnership
(including, without limitation, a KGaA (
Kommanditgesellschaft
auf Aktien
)), partnership interests (whether general or
limited) or other equivalents (however designated) of capital
stock, (d) in the case of a limited liability company,
membership interests and (e) any other interest or
participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a
share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets
of, the issuing Person.
Cash Equivalents
means (a) securities
issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by
(i) the United States or any agency or instrumentality
thereof (
provided
that the full faith and credit of the
United States is pledged in support thereof) or (ii) the
governments of Germany or the United Kingdom, in each case
having maturities of not more than twelve months from the date
of acquisition, (b) Dollar or Available Foreign Currency
denominated time deposits and certificates of deposit of any
Approved Bank, in each case with maturities of not more than 270
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days from the date of acquisition, (c) commercial paper and
variable or fixed rate notes issued by any Approved Bank (or by
the parent company thereof) or any variable rate notes issued
by, or guaranteed by, any domestic corporation rated A-1 (or the
equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or
P-1
(or the equivalent
thereof) or better by Moodys and maturing within six
months of the date of acquisition, (d) repurchase
agreements entered into by any Person with a bank or trust
company (including any of the Lenders) or recognized securities
dealer having capital and surplus in excess of $500 million
for direct obligations issued by or fully guaranteed by the
United States in which such Person shall have a perfected first
priority security interest (subject to no other Liens) and
having, on the date of purchase thereof, a fair market value of
at least one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of the
repurchase obligations and (e) Investments (classified in
accordance with GAAP as current assets) in money market
investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended, that are administered by reputable
financial institutions having capital of at least
$500 million and the portfolios of which are limited to
Investments of the character described in the foregoing
subclauses hereof.
CHAMPUS
means the United States Department of
Defense Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed
Services or any successor thereto, including TRICARE.
Change of Control
means if the general
partner of the KGaA charged with management of FMCAG shall at
any time fail to be a Subsidiary of Fresenius AG, or if
Fresenius AG shall fail at any time to own and control more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the Capital Stock with ordinary
voting power in FMCAG.
CIA
means the Corporate Integrity Agreement
dated as of January 18, 2000 between the OIG and FMCH, as
in effect from time to time.
Closing Date
means the date hereof.
CMS
means the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, any successor thereof and any predecessor
thereof, including the United States Health Care Financing
Administration.
Co-Borrowers
means the Subsidiaries of FMCH
that are identified on
Schedule 2.11
and each
Designated Borrower that has been designated as a
Co-Borrower in a Borrower Joinder Agreement executed
pursuant to
Section 2.11
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Co-Documentation Agents
means (i) The
Bank of Nova Scotia, (ii) Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands
Branch, (iii) Dresdner Bank AG, Niederlassung Luxemburg and
(iv) JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, each in
their capacity as a co-documentation agent hereunder, and their
successors in such capacity.
Collateral
means a collective reference to
the collateral that is identified in, and at any time will be
covered by, the Collateral Documents.
Collateral Agent
means Bank of America in its
capacity as collateral agent for the Lenders under the
Collateral Documents, together with its successors and assigns
in such capacity.
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Collateral Documents
means a collective
reference to the Pledge Agreements and any pledge agreement,
security agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement
or document granting a lien on or security interest in
Collateral provided by any Credit Party in connection with
Section 7.16
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Commitment
means the Revolving Commitment,
the L/ C Commitment, the Swing Line Commitment and the Term Loan
Commitment.
Commitment Percentages
means the Revolving
Commitment Percentage, the Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
Percentage, the Tranche B Term Loan Commitment Percentage
and/or the Tranche C Term Loan Commitment Percentage, as
context requires.
Committed Loans
means Committed Revolving
Loans and the Term Loans.
Compliance Certificate
means a certificate
substantially in the form of
Exhibit 7.02
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Consolidated Capital Expenditures
means, for
any period for the Consolidated Group, without duplication, all
cash expenditures during such period that, in accordance with
GAAP, are or should be included in additions to property, plant
and equipment or similar items reflected in the consolidated
statement of cash flows for such period;
provided
, that
Consolidated Capital Expenditures shall not include, for
purposes hereof, (i) expenditures of proceeds of insurance
settlements, condemnation awards and other settlements in
respect of lost, destroyed, damaged or condemned assets,
equipment or other property to the extent such expenditures are
made to replace or repair such lost, destroyed, damaged or
condemned assets, equipment or other property or otherwise to
acquire assets or properties useful in the business of the
members of the Consolidated Group, (ii) expenditures made
on reinvestment of proceeds from Dispositions within the
reinvestment period under
Section 2.06(b)(i)
(regardless of whether the proceeds of the Disposition are
subject to mandatory prepayment if not reinvested) or
(ii) expenditures made in connection with a Permitted
Acquisition.
Consolidated EBITDA
means, for any period for
the Consolidated Group, the sum of (i) Consolidated Net
Income,
plus
(ii) to the extent deducted in
determining net income, (A) Consolidated Interest Expense,
(B) tax expense based on income and (C) depreciation,
amortization and other non-cash charges (but not including, for
purposes hereof, restructuring charges which do not initially
involve a cash payment but as for which there will be a
subsequent cash payment) and up to $50 million in
restructuring charges that will be paid in cash taken from the
Closing Date through June 30, 2007, in each case on a
consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP. Except as
otherwise expressly provided, the applicable period shall be the
four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated EBITDAR
means, for any period
for the Consolidated Group, the sum of (i) Consolidated
EBITDA,
plus
(ii) rent expense under operating
leases, in each case on a consolidated basis determined in
accordance with GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided,
the applicable period shall be the four consecutive fiscal
quarters ending as of the date of determination.
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Consolidated Excess Cash Flow
means, for any
period for the Consolidated Group, (a) reported cash flows
from operating activities,
minus
(b) the sum of
(i) scheduled principal payments made on Consolidated
Funded Debt (including for purposes hereof, mandatory commitment
reductions, sinking fund payments, payments in respect of the
principal components under capital leases and the like relating
thereto), (ii) Consolidated Capital Expenditures,
(iii) Permitted Acquisitions, (iv) optional
prepayments of Funded Debt (other than Revolving Loans owing
under the Bank Credit Agreement), (v) dividend or
distribution payments by FMCAG to the extent permitted under
Section 8.06
hereof, (vi) any amounts paid
during such period as a result of the audit of the German tax
liability of FMCAG in respect of deductions taken in respect of
the writing down of FMCAGs investment in certain
subsidiaries for German tax purposes only as of
December 31, 1997, to the extent accrued as of or before
December 31, 2002, adjusted for currency fluctuations and
interest thereon and (vii) payments under the First Amended
Settlement Agreement and Release of Claims, dated as of
February 6, 2003, among FMCH, NMC and the Official
Committee of Asbestos Personal Injury Claimants and the Official
Committee of Asbestos Property Defense Claimants,
W.R. Grace suing on behalf of the Chapter 11
Bankruptcy Estate of W.R. Grace et al, as modified and in
effect from time to time. Except as otherwise expressly
provided, the applicable period shall be for the four
(4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
means, as of the end of each fiscal quarter for the period of
four consecutive fiscal quarters then ending, the ratio of
(i) Consolidated EBITDAR to (ii) Consolidated Fixed
Charges.
Consolidated Fixed Charges
means, for any
period for the Consolidated Group, the sum of
(i) Consolidated Interest Expense,
plus
(ii) rent expense under operating leases,
plus
(iii) scheduled maturities of Consolidated
Funded Debt (excluding, for purposes hereof, scheduled
maturities and amortization of the AG Debt and the final bullet
payments relating to each of the Schuldscheindarlehen (and any
replacement or refinancing thereof), the Revolving Loans, the
Term Loans, the EIB Loan and the Trust Preferred Securities
maturing in 2008) paid during the applicable period
(
provided
that refinancings and extensions shall not be
considered payments or repayments for purposes hereof),
plus
(iv) without duplication, Restricted Payments
made by FMCAG and payments by members of the Consolidated Group
on any Subordinated Debt (other than the AG Debt) and
Trust Preferred Securities,
plus
(v) cash tax
payments based on income during the applicable period; but
excluding (A) repurchases of Trust Preferred
Securities in an aggregate amount during the term of this Credit
Agreement not to exceed $50 million by members of the
Consolidated Group,
provided
that the Consolidated Senior
Leverage Ratio shall be less than 2.0:1.0 at the time of
repurchase, (B) any amounts paid during such period as a
result of the audit of the German tax liability of FMCAG in
respect of deductions taken in respect of the writing down of
FMCAGs investment in certain subsidiaries for German tax
purposes only as of December 31, 1997, to the extent
accrued as of or before December 31, 2002, adjusted for
currency fluctuations, and interest thereon, and (C) any
payments made in connection with non-recurring charges taken
during the year ending December 31, 2001 by members of the
Consolidated Group in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$258 million with respect to (1) any claims of FMCAG
or any of its Subsidiaries against WRG-Conn or its Affiliates,
successors or assigns relating to the Reorganization or arising
from the Reorganization
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Documents, (2) any other costs relating directly or
indirectly, or arising from, the Reorganization or the conduct
of the business of FMCH or to its Subsidiaries before the
consummation of the Reorganization, in each case, together with
related costs and expenses, or (3) any amounts payable with
respect to the litigation and other disputes with insurance
companies relating to the business of FMCH and its Subsidiaries
in the period before the consummation of the Reorganization,
which relate to the practices that were the subject of
investigations by the OIG and other Governmental Authorities,
and any related costs or expenses and any accounting charges
taken by any member of the Consolidated Group as a result
thereof or relating thereto or to the settlement of such
disputes, in each case on a consolidated basis determined in
accordance with GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided,
the applicable period shall be the four consecutive fiscal
quarters ending as of the date of determination.
Consolidated Funded Debt
means, for the
Consolidated Group, Funded Debt determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding for purposes hereof
Indebtedness in respect of convertible bonds referred to in
Section 8.03(g)
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Consolidated Group
means FMCAG and its
Subsidiaries.
Consolidated Interest Expense
means, for any
period for the Consolidated Group, all interest expense,
including the amortization of debt discount and premium, the
interest component under capital leases and the implied interest
component under Securitization Transactions, in each case on a
consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP. Except as
expressly provided otherwise, the applicable period shall be the
four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated Leverage Ratio
means, as of the
last day of each fiscal quarter, the ratio of (i) the sum
of Consolidated Funded Debt on such day
minus
an amount
up to $30 million equal to cash and cash equivalents held
by members of the Consolidated Group with Lenders on such day,
to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such day.
Consolidated Net Income
means, for any period
for the Consolidated Group, net income (or loss) determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding for
purposes of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, extraordinary gains
and losses and gains and losses from discontinued operations,
and, in each such case, related tax effects thereon. Except as
otherwise expressly provided, the applicable period shall be the
four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of
determination.
Consolidated Net Worth
means, as of any day
for the Consolidated Group, net worth determined in accordance
with GAAP, but excluding, for purposes hereof, (i) foreign
currency translation adjustments of up to $100 million at
any time and (ii) the fair value of Swap Contracts.
Consolidated Senior Funded Debt
means the
difference of Consolidated Funded Debt
minus
Consolidated
Subordinated Debt.
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Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio
means, as
of the last day of each fiscal quarter, the ratio of
(i) the sum of Consolidated Senior Funded Debt
minus
cash and Cash Equivalents held by members of the Consolidated
Group in accounts maintained with a Lender in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $30 million, in each case on such day,
to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four fiscal
quarters ending on such day.
Consolidated Subordinated Debt
means
Subordinated Debt for the Consolidated Group determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
Contractual Obligation
means, as to any
Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or
of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such
Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
Control
means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability
to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Person shall be
deemed to be Controlled by another Person if such other Person
possesses, directly or indirectly, power to vote ten percent
(10%) or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for
the election of directors, managing general partners or the
equivalent.
Credit Agreement
means this Credit Agreement.
Credit Documents
means this Credit Agreement,
the Notes hereunder, the Joinder Agreements (other than the
Revolving Loan Joinder Agreements), the Collateral Documents,
the Fee Letter, the Borrower Joinder Agreements, the Guarantor
Joinder Agreements, the Parallel Debt Agreement and all other
documents, instruments or agreements from time to time executed
by any Responsible Officer or duly authorized signatory of a
member of the Consolidated Group and delivered in connection
with this Credit Agreement.
Credit Extension
means each of the following:
(a) a Borrowing and (b) the conversion or continuation
of a Borrowing.
Credit Parties
means, collectively, the
Borrowers and the Guarantors.
DBNY
means Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch.
DBSI
means Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Debt Rating
means long term secured senior,
non-credit enhanced debt ratings for FMCAG provided by the
Rating Services.
Debt Transactions
means, with respect to any
member of the Consolidated Group, any sale, issuance or
placement of Funded Debt under
Section 8.01(j)
(but
specifically excluding any refinancing of any such Funded Debt,
unless Net Cash Proceeds are generated therefrom).
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Debtor Relief Laws
means the Bankruptcy Code
of the United States, and all other liquidation,
conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of
creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency,
reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United
States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in
effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Default
means any event, act or condition
that, with notice, the passage of time, or both, would
constitute an Event of Default.
Default Rate
means an interest rate equal to
(a) the Base Rate
plus
(b) the Applicable
Percentage, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans
plus
(c) two percent (2%) per annum;
provided
, however,
that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate
shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including
any Applicable Percentage) otherwise applicable to such Loan
plus
two percent (2%) per annum, in each case to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Defaulting Lender
means any Lender that
(a) has failed to fund any portion of the Revolving Loans,
participations in L/ C Obligations or participations in Swing
Line Loans required to be funded by it under the Bank Credit
Agreement within one Business Day of the date required to be
funded by it hereunder and has not cured such failure prior to
the date of determination, (b) has otherwise failed to pay
over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other
amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one Business
Day of the date when due and has not cured such failure prior to
the date of determination, unless the subject of a good faith
dispute, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the
subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
Designated Borrower
means the Borrowers
identified on
Schedule 2.11
and any Applicant
Borrower that becomes a Borrower hereunder in accordance with
the provisions of
Section 2.11
.
Disposition
or
Dispose
means the sale, transfer or other disposition (including any
Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of any property by any Person,
including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with
or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any
rights and claims associated therewith;
provided
, that
for purposes of the definition of Pro Forma Basis,
Disposition
shall mean any Disposition to a
Person that is not a member of the Consolidated Group of
(i) more than 50% of the Capital Stock of any member of the
Consolidated Group, (ii) all or any substantial portion of
the property of any member of the Consolidated Group or
(iii) any business unit.
Dollar
or
$
means the
lawful currency of the United States.
Domestic Credit Party
means any Credit Party
that is organized under the laws of any State of the United
States or the District of Columbia.
Domestic Subsidiary
means any Subsidiary that
is organized under the laws of any State of the United States or
the District of Columbia.
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Dresdner
means Dresdner Bank AG,
Niederlassung Luxemburg.
EIB Loan
means the loan facilities provided
by The European Investment Bank to FMCAG pursuant to loan
documentation dated as of July 13, 2005, as amended or
modified and as in effect from time to time, and any additional
or supplemental loans provided by the European Investment Bank
on terms materially no less favorable to the Lenders.
Eligible Assignee
means (a) a Lender;
(b) an Affiliate of a Lender; (c) an Approved Fund;
and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person)
approved by (i) the Administrative Agent (and, to the
extent required by
Section 11.07(b)
with respect to
any assignment of Revolving Commitments, the L/ C Issuers and
Swing Line Lenders), and (ii) unless an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, FMCAG (each such approval not to
be unreasonably withheld or delayed);
provided
that
notwithstanding the foregoing, Eligible Assignee
shall not include the Borrowers or any of the Borrowers
Affiliates or Subsidiaries.
EMU
means the economic and monetary union in
accordance with the Treaty of Rome 1957, as amended by the
Single European Act 1986, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 and the
Amsterdam Treaty of 1998, as amended from time to time.
EMU Legislation
means the legislative
measures of the European Council for the introduction of,
changeover to or operation of the Euro and any related
legislative measures of any Participating Member State.
Environmental Laws
means any and all federal,
state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations,
ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits,
concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or
governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the
protection of the environment or the release of any materials
into the environment, including those related to hazardous
substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or
public systems.
Equity Transaction
means, with respect to any
member of the Consolidated Group, any issuance or sale of shares
of its Capital Stock, other than an issuance (a) to a
member of the Consolidated Group, (b) in connection with a
conversion of debt securities to equity, (c) in connection
with the exercise by a present or former employee, officer or
director under a stock incentive plan, stock option plan or
other equity-based compensation plan or arrangement, and
(d) in connection with any Permitted Acquisition hereunder.
ERISA
means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974.
ERISA Affiliate
means any trade or business
(whether or not incorporated) under common control with any
Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or
(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (and Sections 414(m)
and (o) of the Internal Revenue Code for purposes of
provisions relating to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code).
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ERISA Event
means (a) a Reportable Event
with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by FMCH or
any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to
Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a
substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a
withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a
complete or partial withdrawal by FMCH or any ERISA Affiliate
from a Multiemployer Plan or notification to FMCH or any ERISA
Affiliate that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization;
(d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the
treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under
Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of
proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition that could
reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under
Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the
appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; or (f) the imposition of any material
liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC
premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of
ERISA, upon FMCH or any ERISA Affiliate.
Euro
or
means the lawful currency of the Participating Member States
adopted in accordance with the EMU Legislation.
Eurocurrency Rate
means, for any Interest
Period with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan:
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(a) if in relation to an advance denominated in Euros, the
interest rate appearing on the relevant Reuters screen (as of
the Closing Date, Reuters page EURIBOR 01) or if such page
is not available, Telerate screen page 248 (or any
successor thereto) as an annual interest rate, determined by the
Banking Federation of the European Union, for deposits in Euro,
as of 11:00 a.m. (Brussels time) two Business Days prior to
the first day of such Interest Period, or if in relation to an
advance denominated in any other applicable currency, the rate
per annum equal to the rate determined by the Administrative
Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the page of the
Telerate screen (or any successor thereto) that displays an
average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for
deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first
day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such
Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period, or
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(b) if the rate referenced in the preceding clause
(a) does not appear on such page or service or such page or
service shall not be available, the rate per annum equal to the
rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered
rate on such other page or other service that displays an
average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for
deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first
day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such
Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period, or
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(c) if the rates referenced in the preceding
clauses (a)
and
(b)
are not available, the
rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent as the
rate of
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interest at which deposits in the applicable currency for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in Same Day
Funds in the approximate amount of the Eurocurrency Rate Loan
being made, continued or converted by Bank of America and with a
term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank
of Americas London Branch to major banks in the London
interbank eurocurrency market at their request at approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first
day of such Interest Period;
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provided
in each case that, if the Borrowers request and
the Administrative Agent approves any Eurocurrency Rate Loan
having an Interest Period with a duration other than one, two,
three or six months (but not longer than six months), the
applicable interest rate for such period shall be the rate
determined by the Administrative Agent by means of straight-line
interpolation of (i) the rate that would be applicable for the
next closest Interest Period otherwise available with a duration
shorter than the requested period and (ii) the rate that would
be applicable for the next closest Interest Period otherwise
available with a duration longer than the requested period;
provided
that if the requested period extends over any
year-end, the higher of the two rates will apply.
Eurocurrency Rate Committed Loan
means a Term
Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Eurocurrency
Rate.
Eurocurrency Rate Loan
means a Eurocurrency
Rate Committed Loan. Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be denominated
in Dollars or in Available Foreign Currencies. All Loans
denominated in Foreign Currencies must be Eurocurrency Rate
Loans.
Event of Default
has the meaning provided in
Section 9.01
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Excluded Personal Property
means (a) in
the case of personal property located in the United States, any
personal property in respect of which perfection of a lien is
not governed by the Uniform Commercial Code (such as motor
vehicles) or may be effected by the filing of a notice of lien
in respect of intellectual property with the United States
Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, (b) any property that is the subject of
Securitization Transaction permitted hereunder or any related
property that is subject to the agreements relating thereto,
(c) any property that is the subject of a Lien permitted
under
Section 8.02(j
) (and any related property), if
and to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein as
contemplated by this Credit Agreement is prohibited or would
result in the right to terminate, accelerate the indebtedness
secured thereby, but only to the extent that any such provisions
are not rendered ineffective under the Uniform Commercial Code
or other applicable Law, and (d) any permit, lease,
license, contract or instrument, if and to the extent that a
grant of a security interest therein as contemplated by this
Credit Agreement or under applicable Law, is prohibited or would
result in the termination thereof or give the other parties
thereto the right to terminate, accelerate or otherwise
materially alter the Credit Partys rights, titles and
interests thereunder (whether upon the giving of notice, the
lapse of time or both), but only to the extent that any such
provisions are not rendered ineffective under the Uniform
Commercial Code or other applicable Law.
Excluded Securitization Transactions
means
(a) the accounts receivable financing facility of NMC
contemplated by the Third Amended and Restated Transfer and
Administration
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Agreement dated as of October 23, 2003, among NMC Funding
Corporation, as transferor, NMC, as collection agent, Paradigm
Funding, LLC, Giro Multi-Funding Corporation, Asset One
Securitization, LLC and Liberty Street Funding Corp., each as
conduit investors, the financial institutions party thereto, as
investors, and Bayerische Landesbank, New York Branch,
Société General, The Bank of Nova Scotia and WestLB
AG, New York Branch, each as an administrative agent for
the investors, as amended and supplemented from time to time,
and any Permitted Receivables Financing entered into in
replacement thereof, and (b) any other Permitted
Receivables Financing, but only to the extent that the aggregate
Attributed Principal Amount of the foregoing Securitization
Transactions described in
clauses (a)
and
(b)
hereof shall not exceed $750 million (any greater amount
being subject to the mandatory prepayment provisions of
Section 2.06(b)(iii)
hereof).
Exclusion Event
means an event or events
where (a) one or more members of the Consolidated Group
other than any member of the Consolidated Group that either
ceased operations or discontinued a material portion of its
business or operations before September 30, 1999 are
excluded from participation in any state or federal Medical
Reimbursement Program and (b) in the prior fiscal year
revenues from such excluded programs generated by the members of
the Consolidated Group excluded from such programs represented
more than five percent (5%) of consolidated revenues for the
Consolidated Group.
Existing Credit Agreement
means that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of February 21, 2003 among FMCAG,
FMCH and certain subsidiaries and affiliates, as borrowers,
certain subsidiaries and affiliates of FMCAG, as guarantors, the
lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as agent, as
the same has been amended or modified from time to time, as in
effect on the Closing Date immediately prior to the
effectiveness of this Credit Agreement.
Federal Funds Rate
means, for any day, the
rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on
overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers on such day, as
published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the
Business Day next succeeding such day;
provided
that
(a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds
Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the
immediately preceding Business Day as so published on the next
succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so
published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal
Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded
upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100%) charged to
Bank of America on such day on such transactions as determined
by the Administrative Agent.
Fee Letter
means that certain letter
agreement, dated as of April 29, 2005, among FMCAG, Bank of
America, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and the
Arrangers, as amended or supplemented and as in effect from time
to time.
First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary
means any
Foreign Subsidiary that is owned directly by FMCH or a Domestic
Subsidiary of FMCH.
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FMCAG
means Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA, a German partnership limited by shares
(
Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
), transformed under
German law from Fresenius Medical Care AG, a German corporation,
on February 10, 2006.
FMCD
means Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland
GmbH, a German corporation.
FMCF-V
means FMC Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg V, a private limited company (société
à responsabilité limitée) organized under the
laws of Luxembourg.
FMCH
means Fresenius Medical Care Holdings,
Inc., a New York corporation.
FMC-USDLP
means Fresenius Medical Care North
America Holdings Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited
partnership.
Foreign Currencies
means lawful currencies
other than Dollars (including Available Foreign Currencies and
Alternative Foreign Currencies).
Foreign Currency Equivalent
means, at any
time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the
equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Foreign Currency as
determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis
of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent
Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Foreign Currency with
Dollars.
Foreign Lender
has the meaning provided in
Section 11.15(a)
.
Foreign Subsidiary
means any Subsidiary that
is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
FRB
means the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System of the United States.
Fresenius AG
means Fresenius AG, a German
corporation.
Fund
means any Person (other than a natural
person) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise
investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit
in the ordinary course of its business.
Funded Debt
means, as to any Person at a
particular time, without duplication, all of the following,
whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in
accordance with GAAP:
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(a) all obligations for borrowed money, whether current or
long-term (including the Obligations hereunder), and all
obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan
agreements or other similar instruments;
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(b) all purchase money indebtedness (including indebtedness
and obligations in respect of conditional sales and title
retention arrangements, except for customary conditional sales
and title retention arrangements with suppliers that are entered
into in
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the ordinary course of business) and all indebtedness and
obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than trade accounts payable incurred
the ordinary course of business and payable on customary trade
terms);
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(c) all obligations under financial letters of credit
issued to support tax obligations of FMCH and its subsidiaries
for the payment of such obligations in connection with the
settlement of claims related to the W.R. Grace bankruptcy;
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(d) the Attributable Principal Amount of capital leases and
Synthetic Leases;
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(e) the Attributable Principal Amount of Securitization
Transactions;
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(f) all preferred stock and comparable equity interests
providing for mandatory redemption, sinking fund or other like
payments issued to a Person that is not a member of the
Consolidated Group;
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(g) Support Obligations in respect of Funded Debt of
another Person; and
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(h) Funded Debt of any partnership or joint venture or
other similar entity in which such Person is a general partner
or joint venturer, and, as such, has personal liability for such
obligations, but only to the extent there is recourse to such
Person for payment thereof.
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For purposes hereof, the amount of Funded Debt shall be
determined based on the outstanding principal amount in the case
of borrowed money indebtedness under
clause (a)
and
purchase money indebtedness and the deferred purchase
obligations under
clause (b)
, based on the maximum
amount available to be drawn in the case of letter of credit
obligations and the other obligations under
clause (c)
, and based on the amount of Funded Debt
that is the subject of the Support Obligations in the case of
Support Obligations under
clause (g)
.
GAAP
means generally accepted accounting
principles in effect in the United States applied on a
consistent basis, subject to the provisions of
Section 1.03
.
Governmental Authority
means any nation or
government, any state or other political subdivision thereof,
and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body,
court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory
or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to
government (including any supra-national bodies such as the
European Union or the European Central Bank).
Governmental Reimbursement Program Costs
means with respect to and payable by members of the Consolidated
Group the sum of:
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(a) all amounts (including punitive and other similar
amounts) agreed to be paid in settlement or payable as a result
of a final, non-appealable judgment, award or similar order
relating to Medical Reimbursement Programs;
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(b) all final, non-appealable fines, penalties, forfeitures
or other amounts rendered pursuant to criminal indictments or
other criminal proceedings relating to Medical Reimbursement
Programs; and
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(c) the amount of final, non-appealable recovery, damages,
awards, penalties, forfeitures or similar amounts rendered in
any litigation, suit, arbitration, investigation or other legal
or administrative proceeding of any kind relating to Medical
Reimbursement Programs;
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provided
, however, that Governmental Reimbursement
Program Costs for purposes of this Credit Agreement shall not
include any judgments, awards, fines, penalties or similar
amounts that total less than $5 million in the aggregate.
Guarantor Joinder Agreement
means a Guarantor
Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 7.12.
Guarantors
means (a) FMCAG,
(b) FMCH, (c) FMCF-V, (d) NMC, (e) FMCD,
(f) Fresenius Medical Care Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH,
(g) FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg,
(h) FMC Finance II S.à r.l., (i) FMC
Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III, (j) FMC
Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-IV, (k) National Medical
Care of Spain, S.A., (l) those other Subsidiaries of FMCAG
identified on the signature pages hereto as
Guarantors and (m) any other Person that
becomes a Guarantor after the Closing Date, in each case
together with their successors and permitted assigns and subject
to the provisions of
Sections 8.04
and
8.05
.
HIPAA
means the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996, as the same may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, and any and all
rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder,
including 45 CFR Parts 160, 162 and 164.
Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary
means a Foreign
Subsidiary of FMCAG that is not a Credit Party and owns assets
with a fair market value of less than $5 million.
Incremental Loan Facilities
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Incremental Revolving Loans
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan
has the
meaning provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan Joinder
Agreement
means a joinder agreement substantially in
the form of
Exhibit 2.01(e)
executed and delivered
in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.01(e)
.
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan
has the
meaning provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan Joinder
Agreement
means a joinder agreement substantially in
the form of
Exhibit 2.01(f)
executed and delivered
in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.01(f)
.
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Indebtedness
means, as to any Person at a
particular time, without duplication, all of the following,
whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in
accordance with GAAP:
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(b) all contingent obligations under letters of credit
(including standby and commercial), bankers acceptances
and similar instruments (including bank guaranties, surety
bonds, comfort letters, keep-well agreements and capital
maintenance agreements to the extent such instruments or
agreements support financial, rather than performance,
obligations);
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(c) net obligations under any Swap Contract;
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(d) Support Obligations in respect of Indebtedness of
another Person; and
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(e) Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture or
other similar entity in which such Person is a general partner
or joint venturer, and, as such, has personal liability for such
obligations, but only to the extent there is recourse to such
Person for payment thereof.
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For purposes hereof, the amount of Indebtedness shall be
determined based on Swap Termination Value in the case of net
obligations under Swap Contracts under
clause (c)
and based on the outstanding principal amount of the
Indebtedness that is the subject of the Support Obligations in
the case of Support Obligations under
clause (d)
.
Indemnified Liabilities
has the meaning set
forth in
Section 11.05
.
Indemnitees
has the meaning set forth in
Section 11.05
.
Information
means all information received
from any Credit Party relating to any Credit Party or its
business, other than any such information that is available to
the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential
basis prior to disclosure by any Credit Party;
provided
that, in the case of information received from a Credit Party
after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified in
writing at the time of delivery as confidential.
Interest Payment Date
means (a) as to
any Base Rate Loan (other than a Swing Line Loan), the last
Business Day of each March, June, September and December, the
Termination Date and the dates of the final principal
amortization installment on the Term Loans, (b) as to any
Swing Line Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June,
September and December and the Termination Date, or such other
days as may be mutually agreed upon by the Borrowers and the
Swing Line Lender, and (c) as to any Eurocurrency Loan, the
last Business Day of each Interest Period for such Loan, the
date of repayment of principal of such Loan, the Termination
Date and the dates of the final principal amortization
installment on the Term Loans, as applicable, and in addition,
where the applicable Interest Period exceeds three months, the
date every three months after the beginning of such Interest
Period. If an Interest Payment Date falls
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on a date that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date
shall be deemed to be the next succeeding Business Day.
Interest Period
means as to each Eurocurrency
Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Loan is
disbursed or converted to or continued as such and ending on
(a) the date one, two, three or six months and, in the case
of Revolving Loans and the Tranche A Term Loan, with the
prior written consent of all applicable Lenders, nine and twelve
months thereafter, as selected by the applicable Borrower in its
Loan Notice, or (b) such other date not more than six
months from the commencement thereof as requested by the
Borrower in its Loan Notice and approved by the Administrative
Agent;
provided
that:
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(A) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day
that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurocurrency
Rate Loan, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in
which case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately
preceding Business Day;
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(B) any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month
(or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day
in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall
end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of
such Interest Period; and
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(C) with respect to the Term Loans, no Interest Period
shall extend beyond the date of the final principal amortization
payment for such Term Loan.
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Internal Revenue Code
means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as in effect from time to time.
Investment
means, as to any Person, any
direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person,
whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition
of Capital Stock or other securities of another Person,
(b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, guaranty or
assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any
other debt or equity participation or interest in (including by
way of repurchase arrangements), another Person, including any
partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person, or
(c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction
or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that
constitute a business unit. For purposes of covenant compliance,
the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually
invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or
decreases in the value of such Investment.
IP Rights
has the meaning set forth in
Section 6.18
.
IRS
means the United States Internal Revenue
Service.
Joinder Agreements
means any Revolving Loan
Joinder Agreement, the Incremental Tranche A Term Loan
Joinder Agreement, the Incremental Tranche B Term Loan
Joinder Agreement and the Tranche C Term Loan Joinder
Agreement.
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Laws
means, collectively, all international,
foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules,
guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or
judicial precedents or authorities, including the 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.
L/C Commitment
has the meaning provided in
the Bank Credit Agreement.
Lender
means each of the persons identified
as a Lender on the signature pages hereto, on the
signature pages to the Bank Credit Agreement and in any Joinder
Agreement (and, as appropriate, includes the L/C Issuer and
the Swing Line Lender), together with their respective
successors and assigns.
Lending Office
means, as to any Lender, the
office or offices of such Lender set forth on
Schedule 11.02
, or such other office or offices as a
Lender may from time to time notify FMCAG and the Administrative
Agent.
Lien
means any mortgage, pledge,
hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance,
lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or
other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind
or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement, and any financing lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
Loan
means any Term Loan, and the Base Rate
Loans and Eurocurrency Rate Loans comprising any such Term Loan.
Loan Notice
means a notice of a Borrowing
pursuant to
Section 2.02(a)
, which, if in writing,
shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.02
.
Loan Obligations
means the Revolving
Obligations and the Term Loans.
Mandatory Cost Rate
means, with respect to
any period, a rate per annum determined in accordance with
Schedule 3.04
.
Mandatory Cost Reference Lender
means the
London branch of each of Bank of America and Dresdner.
Mandatory Prepayment Modification Event
shall
occur if FMCAG shall either:
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(a) obtain a rating for its unsecured non-credit enhanced
long-term senior debt of at least BBB- or higher from S&P
and Baa3 or higher from Moodys; or
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(b) achieve the following financial ratios as of the end of
any fiscal quarter:
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(i) a Consolidated Leverage Ratio of less than or equal to
2.0:1.0; and
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(ii) a ratio of Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated
Interest Expense of greater than or equal to 4.0:1.0.
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Material Adverse Effect
means (a) a
material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon,
the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or
contingent), condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of
any of the Borrowers or the Consolidated Group taken as a whole;
(b) a material impairment of the ability of any Credit
Party to perform its obligations under any Credit Document to
which it is a party; or (c) a material adverse effect upon
the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against
any Credit Party of any Credit Document to which it is a party;
provided
that, notwithstanding anything contained herein
to the contrary, for purposes of the initial Credit Extension
hereunder on the Closing Date, but only in such instance,
Material Adverse Effect shall mean an RCG Material
Adverse Effect.
Material Domestic Subsidiary
means
(i) FMCH, (ii) NMC, (iii) those Domestic
Subsidiaries shown on
Schedule 1.01
, and
(iv) any Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary that, on an
unconsolidated basis, has at least $150 million in assets
or generates at least $30 million of Consolidated EBITDA
for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently
ended;
provided
, however, that for purposes hereof
(a) neither Lifechem, Inc. nor any Securitization
Subsidiary shall be considered a Material Domestic
Subsidiary and (b) for purposes of determining
whether any special purpose Subsidiary of FMCAG that issues or
assumes Trust Preferred Securities is a Material Domestic
Subsidiary hereunder, the proceeds of such Trust Preferred
Securities shall not be considered for the purpose of
determining assets of such Subsidiary to the extent such
proceeds have been lent as Trust Preferred Subdebt or
contributed to another member of the Consolidated Group, and any
interest in respect of any such loan shall not be considered for
the purpose of determining Consolidated EBITDA of such
Subsidiary.
Material Foreign Subsidiary
means
(i) FMCD, (ii) Fresenius Medical Care
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, (iii) FMCF-V, (iv) FMC
Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg, (v) FMC Trust
Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III, (vi) FMC Finance
S.à r.l. Luxembourg-IV, (vii) FMC Finance II S.à
r.l., (ix) National Medical Care of Spain, S.A. and
(x) any Wholly Owned Foreign Subsidiary that, on an
unconsolidated basis, has at least $150 million in assets
or generates at least $30 million of Consolidated EBITDA
for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently
ended;
provided
, however, that for purposes hereof no
Securitization Subsidiary shall be considered a Material
Foreign Subsidiary.
Material Subsidiary
means a Material Domestic
Subsidiary or a Material Foreign Subsidiary.
Medicaid
means that means-tested entitlement
program under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, which
provides federal grants to states for medical assistance based
on specific eligibility criteria, as set forth at
Section 1396, et seq. of Title 42 of the United States
Code, as amended, and any successor statute thereto.
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Medicaid Provider Agreement
means an
agreement entered into between a state agency or other such
entity administering the Medicaid program and a health care
provider or supplier, under which the health care provider or
supplier agrees to provide services for Medicaid patients in
accordance with the terms of the agreement and Medicaid
Regulations.
Medicaid Regulations
means, collectively,
(a) all federal statutes (whether set forth in
Title XIX of the Social Security Act or elsewhere)
affecting the medical assistance program established by
Title XIX of the Social Security Act and any successor
statutes thereto; (b) all applicable provisions of all
federal rules, regulations, manuals and orders of all
Governmental Authorities promulgated pursuant to or in
connection with the statutes described in
clause (a)
above and all federal administrative, reimbursement and other
guidelines of all Governmental Authorities having the force of
law promulgated pursuant to or in connection with the statutes
described in
clause (a)
above; (c) all state
statutes and plans for medical assistance enacted in connection
with the statutes and provisions described in
clauses (a)
and
(b)
above; and (d) all applicable provisions of
all rules, regulations, manuals and orders of all Governmental
Authorities promulgated pursuant to or in connection with the
statutes described in
clause (c)
above and all state
administrative, reimbursement and other guidelines of all
Governmental Authorities having the force of law promulgated
pursuant to or in connection with the statutes described in
clause (b)
above, in each case as may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Medical Reimbursement Programs
means a
collective reference to the Medicare, Medicaid, CHAMPUS and
TRICARE programs and any other health care program operated by
or financed in whole or in part by any foreign or domestic
federal, state or local government and any other non-government
funded third party payor programs.
Medicare
means that government-sponsored
entitlement program under Title XVIII of the Social
Security Act, which provides for a health insurance system for
eligible elderly and disabled individuals, as set forth at
Section 1395, et seq. of Title 42 of the United States
Code, as amended, and any successor statute thereto.
Medicare Provider Agreement
means an
agreement entered into between CMS (or other such entity
administering the Medicare program on behalf of the CMS) and a
health care provider or supplier, under which the health care
provider or supplier agrees to provide services for Medicare
patients in accordance with the terms of the agreement and
Medicare Regulations.
Medicare Regulations
means, collectively, all
federal statutes (whether set forth in Title XVIII of the
Social Security Act or elsewhere) affecting the health insurance
program for the aged and disabled established by
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act and any successor
statutes thereto; together with all applicable provisions of all
rules, regulations, manuals and orders and administrative,
reimbursement and other guidelines having the force of law of
all Governmental Authorities (including CMS, the OIG, the United
States Department of Health and Human Services, or any person
succeeding to the functions of any of the foregoing) promulgated
pursuant to or in connection with any of the foregoing having
the force of law, as each may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
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Moodys
means Moodys Investors
Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Multiemployer Plan
means any employee benefit
plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA,
to which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is
obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five
plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
Net Cash Proceeds
means the aggregate
proceeds paid in cash or Cash Equivalents received by any member
of the Consolidated Group in connection with any Disposition,
Debt Transaction or Securitization Transaction, net of
(a) direct costs (including legal, accounting and
investment banking fees, sales commissions, and underwriting
discounts) and (b) estimated taxes paid or payable as a
result thereof. For purposes hereof, Net Cash
Proceeds shall include any cash or Cash Equivalents
received upon the disposition of any non-cash consideration
received by any member of the Consolidated Group in any
Disposition, Equity Transaction or Debt Transaction.
NMC
means National Medical Care, Inc., a
Delaware corporation.
Non-Consenting Lender
has the meaning
provided in
Section 11.16
.
Note
means each of the Revolving Notes and
the Term Notes.
Obligations
means, without duplication,
(a) all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations,
covenants and duties of, any Credit Party arising under any
Credit Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, whether
direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption),
absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or
hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue
after the commencement by or against any Credit Party or any
Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws
naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless
of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such
proceeding, and (b) all obligations under any Swap Contract
of any Credit Party to which a Lender or any Affiliate of a
Lender is a party.
OIG
means the Office of Inspector General of
the United States Department of Health and Human Services or any
other regulatory body which succeeds to the functions thereof.
Organization Documents
means, (a) with
respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of
incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable
constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S.
jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability
company, the certificate or articles of formation or
organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect
to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of
business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other
applicable agreement of formation or organization and any
agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto
filed in connection with its formation or organization with the
applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its
formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or
articles of formation or organization of such entity.
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Other Taxes
has the meaning provided in
Section 3.01(b)
.
Outstanding Amount
means (a) with
respect to the Tranche A Term Loan on any date, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving
effect to any prepayments or repayments of the Tranche A
Term Loan on such date; (b) with respect to the
Tranche B Term Loan on any date, the aggregate outstanding
principal amount therof after giving effect to any prepayment or
repayments of the Tranche B Term Loan on such date; and
(c) with respect to the Tranche C Term Loan on any
date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after
giving effect to any prepayments or repayments of the
Tranche C Term Loan on such date.
Overnight Rate
means, for any day,
(a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the
Federal Funds Rate and (b) with respect to any amount
denominated in a Foreign Currency, the rate of interest per
annum at which overnight deposits in the applicable Foreign
Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with
respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered
for such day by a branch or Affiliate of Bank of America located
in the applicable interbank market for such currency to major
banks in such interbank market.
Parallel Debt Agreement
means that certain
Parallel Debt Agreement dated as of the Closing Date between the
Collateral Agent (and, pursuant to the powers of attorney
granted by the Lenders pursuant to
Section 11.20
hereof, each of the Lenders) and FMCAG (and, pursuant to the
power of attorney granted to FMCAG by the other Credit Parties
pursuant to
Section 11.20
hereof, each other Credit
Party), or any substantially similar agreement that creates an
obligation of the Credit Parties (as debt acknowledgement or
abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis
) in favor of the Collateral
Agent under this Credit Agreement under the Law of Germany, in
each case as amended or modified from time to time.
Participant
has the meaning provided in
Section 11.07(d)
.
Participating Member State
means any member
state of the European Union that has adopted (or that adopts)
the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with the EMU
Legislation.
PBGC
means the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
Pension Plan
means any employee pension
benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(2)
of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to
Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute,
or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in
Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any
time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
Permitted Acquisition
means (a) the RCG
Acquisition and (b) any Acquisition that satisfies the
following conditions:
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(i) the aggregate cost of any individual Acquisition shall
not exceed an amount equal to the sum of (A) $300 million,
plus
(B) the fair value of Capital Stock
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given as part of the purchase price
plus
(C) any
portion of Net Cash Proceeds retained by members of the
Consolidated Group from any Equity Transaction after making the
mandatory prepayment in respect thereof under
Section 2.06(b)(iv)
and used therefor occurring no
more than three months prior to or three months after the
respective individual Acquisition
plus
(D) any
portion of Net Cash Proceeds of any Dispositions that are
permitted to be reinvested or retained pursuant to
Section 2.06(b)(i)
;
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(ii) the aggregate cost of all such Acquisitions in any
calendar year shall not exceed an amount equal to the sum of (A)
$750 million
plus
(B) the fair value of Capital
Stock given as part of the purchase price
plus
(C) any portion of Net Cash Proceeds retained by the
members of the Consolidated Group from any Equity Transaction
after making the mandatory prepayment in respect thereof under
Section 2.06(b)(iv)
and used therefor occurring no
more than three months prior to or three months after the
respective Acquisition
plus
(D) any portion of Net
Cash Proceeds of any Dispositions that are permitted to be
reinvested or retained pursuant to
Section 2.06(b)(i)
;
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(iii) in the case of an Acquisition of the Capital Stock,
the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of
such other Person shall have approved the Acquisition; and
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(iv) (A) no Default or Event of Default shall then
exist and be continuing immediately before or immediately after
giving effect thereto, (B) the Consolidated Group shall be
in compliance with the financial covenants hereunder after
giving effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis, and (C) with
respect to any Acquisition (or series of related Acquisitions)
for which cash consideration together with the principal amount
of Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith exceeds
$100 million in the aggregate, a Responsible Officer of
FMCAG shall provide a compliance certificate, in form and detail
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, affirming the matters
under the foregoing subclauses.
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Permitted Receivables Financings
means
(a) the Securitization Transactions described in
clause
(a)
of the definition of Excluded Securitization
Transactions and (b) other Securitization
Transactions, in each case as amended and in effect from time to
time;
provided
that (i) with respect to all such
Securitization Transactions described in
clause (b)
that are entered into after the Closing Date, (A) each such
Securitization Transaction relating to accounts receivable
originating in or payable in the United States or any state
thereof, and (B) each such Securitization Transaction
exceeding $50 million in any instance or $150 million
in the aggregate, the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders shall be reasonably satisfied with the structure and
documentation thereof and shall be reasonably satisfied that the
terms thereof, including the discount applicable to the subject
accounts receivable and the termination events, are (in the good
faith understanding of the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders) consistent with those prevailing in the market at the
time of commitment thereto for similar transactions involving a
receivables originator/servicer of similar credit quality and a
receivables pool of similar characteristics; and (ii) with
respect to all such Permitted Receivables Financings, the
documentation therefor shall not be amended or modified in a way
that is materially
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detrimental to the Lenders without the prior written approval of
the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders.
Person
means any natural person, corporation,
limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association,
company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Plan
means any employee benefit
plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA) established by any Borrower or, with respect to any such
plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.
Platform
has the meaning provided in
Section 7.02
.
Pledge Agreement
means those pledge
agreement(s) dated as of the Closing Date given by the members
of the Consolidated Group identified therein, as pledgors, to
the Collateral Agent, to secure the Obligations hereunder and
the Obligations under the Bank Credit Agreement, and any other
pledge agreements that may be given by any Person pursuant to
the terms hereof, as such pledge agreements may be amended and
modified from time to time.
Primary Borrower
means (a) FMCAG,
(b) FMCH, (c) FMC-USDLP, (e) any Co-Borrower and
(f) any Designated Borrower approved as a Primary Borrower
pursuant to
Section 2.11
, in each case together with
their successors and permitted assigns, subject to the
provisions of
Sections 2.11
and
2.12
.
Pro Forma Basis
means, for purposes of
determining (a) the applicable pricing level under the
definition of Applicable Percentage,
(b) compliance with the financial covenants hereunder
(other than the covenant limiting Consolidated Capital
Expenditures under
Section 8.11(c)
),
(c) Permitted Acquisitions hereunder, and (d) making
Restricted Payments hereunder, that the event or transaction
relevant to the applicable calculation shall be deemed to have
occurred as of the first day of the period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters ending as of the end of the most recent fiscal
quarter for which annual or quarterly financial statements shall
have been delivered in accordance with the provisions hereof.
Further, for purposes of making calculations on a Pro
Forma Basis hereunder, (i) in the case of any
Disposition, (A) income statement items (whether positive
or negative) attributable to the property, entities or business
units that are the subject of such Disposition shall be excluded
to the extent relating to any period prior to the date of such
Disposition, and (B) Indebtedness paid or retired in
connection with such Disposition shall be deemed to have been
paid and retired as of the first day of the applicable period;
and (ii) in the case of any Acquisition, (A) income
statement items (whether positive or negative, but excluding
transaction expenses and any one-time expenses incurred in
connection with the Acquisition) attributable to the property,
entities or business units that are the subject of such
acquisition shall be included to the extent relating to any
period prior to the date of such acquisition, and
(B) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the subject
transaction shall be deemed to have been incurred as of the
first day of the applicable period (and interest expense shall
be imputed for the applicable period assuming prevailing
interest rates hereunder).
Rating Services
means S&P and
Moodys.
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RCG
means Renal Care Group, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
RCG Acquisition
means the acquisition by a
subsidiary of FMCAG of RCG and its Subsidiaries pursuant to the
terms of the RCG Merger Agreement.
RCG Material Adverse Effect
means (A) a
material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities,
results of operations or financial condition of RCG and its
Subsidiaries (as defined below) taken as a whole, (B) a
material adverse effect on the ability of RCG to perform its
obligations under the RCG Merger Agreement or (C) a
material adverse effect on the ability of RCG to consummate the
RCG Acquisition and the other Transactions (as defined below);
provided
, that none of the following, either alone or in
combination, shall be considered in determining whether there
has been a RCG Material Adverse Effect: (1) events,
circumstances, changes or effects that generally affect
providers of dialysis services in the United States, except to
the extent that RCG and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are
disproportionately affected in a material and adverse manner
relative to FMCAG and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(2) any circumstance, change or effect that results
principally from any suit, action, proceeding or investigation
undertaken by or on behalf of any Governmental Entity (as
defined below) in connection with any subpoenas served upon or
claims made against RCG or any of its Subsidiaries or any
investigation conducted by the Office of Inspector General of
the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the
United States Department of Justice or any State Governmental
Entity that (A) has been publicly disclosed by RCG in the
Available RCG SEC Documents (as defined below) or
(B) relates to any violation or alleged violation of any
statute or rule or regulation promulgated by a Governmental
Entity that is generally applicable only to participants in the
health care industry by reason of their participation in federal
or state health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid,
or their provision of health care services to people in the
United States, including 42 U.S.C.
§
1320a-7b,
42 U.S.C. § 1395nn or 31 U.S.C.
§
3729-3733
or any other federal or state statute related to false or
fraudulent claims, kickbacks to health care providers,
inducements to beneficiaries of health care programs or
self-referrals;
provided
, that, for the avoidance of
doubt, this
clause (2)(B)
shall prohibit
consideration of the existence of any such suit, action,
proceeding or investigation when determining whether a RCG
Material Adverse Effect exists but shall not prohibit
consideration of actual events or circumstances constituting a
violation of any such statute or rule or regulation or other Law
(as defined below); (3) general economic or political
conditions, except to the extent that RCG and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, are disproportionately affected in a material
and adverse manner relative to FMCAG and its subsidiaries, taken
as a whole; (4) changes arising from the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by, or the announcement of the
execution of, the RCG Merger Agreement; (5) any
circumstance, change or effect that results from any action
required to be taken pursuant to the RCG Merger Agreement or
taken upon the written request of FMCAG; and (6) changes
caused by acts of terrorism or war (whether or not declared)
occurring after the date hereof, except to the extent that RCG
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are disproportionately
affected in a material and adverse manner relative to FMCAG and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; as used in this definition:
(I)
Subsidiary
of any person means another
person of which such first person, (i) directly or
indirectly owns an amount of the voting securities, other voting
ownership or voting partnership interests having voting power
under ordinary circumstances sufficient to elect at least fifty
percent (50%) of its board of directors or other governing body
or (ii) owns directly or indirectly
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fifty percent (50%) or more of its equity interests or
(iii) of which such first person is a general partner;
(II)
Transactions
means all transactions
(other than the RCG Acquisition) contemplated by the RCG Merger
Agreement; (III)
Governmental Entity
means
any national, federal, state, provincial, local or foreign
government or any court of competent jurisdiction,
administrative agency or commission or other governmental or
regulatory authority or instrumentality, domestic or foreign;
(IV)
Available RCG SEC Documents
means the
reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents filed
by RCG with the SEC or furnished by RCG to the SEC, and in
either case, publicly available prior to the date of the RCG
Merger Agreement; and (V)
Law
means any
federal, state, local, regional or foreign statute, law,
ordinance, rule, reporting or licensing requirement or
regulation applicable to RCG or any of its Subsidiaries or their
respective properties or assets.
RCG Merger Agreement
means the Agreement,
dated as of May 3, 2005, by and among FMCAG and FMCH and
Florence Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a
newly-formed wholly-owned subsidiary of FMCH, on the one hand,
and RCG, on the other hand as amended, modified, and
supplemented to the extent any material modifications are
approved by Bank of America and DBNY.
RCG Sub Debt
means those 9% Senior
Subordinated Notes of National Nephrology Associates,
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, due 2011, in an aggregate
original principal amount of $160 million.
Register
has the meaning set forth in
Section 11.07(c)
.
Reorganization
means the reorganization and
transactions contemplated by the Reorganization Documents.
Reorganization Documents
means, collectively,
(i) the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization dated as of
February 4, 1996, by and between FMCH (then known as W.R.
Grace & Co.) and Fresenius AG, as amended, (ii) the
Distribution Agreement dated as of February 4, 1996, among
FMCH (then known as W.R. Grace & Co.), Fresenius AG and
WRG-Conn and (iii) the Contribution Agreement dated as of
February 4, 1996, among Fresenius AG, Steril Pharma GmbH
and WRG-Conn.
Reportable Event
means any of the events set
forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for
which the thirty-day notice period has been waived.
Repricing Transaction
means the establishment
of a new or additional term loan under this Credit Agreement
that is syndicated or marketed to institutional investors
similar to those under the Tranche B Term Loan (as opposed
to, and as distinguished from, commercial banks and financial
institutions similar to those that are Lenders under the
Tranche A Term Loan), (i) having an effective interest
rate margin or weighted average yield (to be determined by the
Administrative Agent consistent with generally accepted
financial practice, after giving effect to, among other factors,
margins, upfront or similar fees or original issue discount
shared with all lenders or holders thereof, but excluding the
effect of any arrangement, structuring, syndication or other
fees payable in connection therewith that are not shared with
all lenders or holders
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thereof) that is less than the Applicable Percentage for, or
weighted average yield (to be determined by the Administrative
Agent on the same basis) of, the Tranche B Term Loan, and
(ii) the proceeds of which are used to repay, in whole or
in part, principal of the outstanding Tranche B Term Loan.
Request for Credit Extension
means with
respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Loans, a
Loan Notice.
Required Lenders
means, as of any date of
determination, Lenders having more than fifty percent (50%) of
the Aggregate Commitments or, if the commitment of each Lender
to make Loans and the obligation of the L/ C Issuer to make L/ C
Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
, Lenders holding in the aggregate more
than fifty percent (50%) of the Loan Obligations (including, in
each case, the aggregate amount of each Lenders risk
participation and funded participation in L/ C Obligations and
Swing Line Loans);
provided
that the Commitment of, and
the portion of the Loan Obligations held or deemed held by, any
Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a
determination of Required Lenders.
Required Revolving Lenders
means, as of any
date of determination, Lenders having more than fifty percent
(50%) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or, if the
commitment of each Lender to make Revolving Loans and the
obligation of the L/ C Issuer to make L/ C Credit Extensions
have been terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
,
Lenders holding in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%)
of the Revolving Obligations (including, in each case, the
aggregate amount of each Lenders risk participation and
funded participation in L/ C Obligations and Swing Line Loans);
provided
that the Revolving Commitment of, and the
portion of the Revolving Obligations held or deemed held by, any
Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a
determination of Required Revolving Lenders.
Required Tranche A Term Lenders
means,
as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the Tranche A
Term Loan;
provided
that the portion of the
Tranche A Term Loan held or deemed held by, any Defaulting
Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination
of Required Tranche A Term Lenders.
Required Tranche B Term Lenders
means,
as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the Tranche B
Term Loan;
provided
that the portion of the
Tranche B Term Loan held or deemed held by, any Defaulting
Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination
of Required Tranche B Term Lenders.
Required Tranche C Term Lenders
means,
as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the Tranche C
Term Loan;
provided
that the portion of the
Tranche C Term Loan held or deemed held by any Defaulting
Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination
of Required Tranche C Term Lenders.
Responsible Officer
means the chief executive
officer, president, chief financial officer, senior vice
president-finance, treasurer, assistant treasurer or managing
director of a Credit Party (or in the case of a Credit Party
that is a partnership, limited liability company or
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similarly organized entity, including without limitation FMCAG
and FMC-USDLP, a Responsible Officer of its general partner,
other managing entity or other person authorized to act on its
behalf, and if such Person is also a partnership, limited
liability company or similarly organized entity, a Responsible
Officer of the entity that may be authorized to act on behalf of
such Person). Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by
a Responsible Officer of a Credit Party shall be conclusively
presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership and/or other action on the part of such Credit Party
and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to
have acted on behalf of such Credit Party.
Restricted Payment
means (i) any
dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account
of any shares of any class of stock now or hereafter
outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in shares of that
class to the holders of that class, of FMCAG, (ii) any
redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment,
purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of
any shares of any class of stock of FMCAG now or hereafter
outstanding, and (iii) any payment made to retire, or to
obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or
other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock of FMCAG.
Revaluation Date
means each of the following:
(a) each date of a Credit Extension of a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan denominated in a Foreign Currency, (b) each date of an
L/ C Credit Extension with respect to Letters of Credit
denominated in a Foreign Currency, (c) each honor date of
any Letter of Credit denominated in a Foreign Currency,
(d) each date of a Credit Extension of a Foreign Swing Line
Loan and (e) any other date specified by the Administrative
Agent or the Required Lenders.
Revolving Commitment
means, with respect to
each Revolving Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make
Committed Revolving Loans (and to share in the Committed
Revolving Obligations) under the Bank Credit Agreement.
Revolving Commitment Percentage
means, for
each Revolving Lender, a fraction (expressed as a percentage
carried to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is
such Revolving Lenders Revolving Committed Amount and the
denominator of which is the Aggregate Revolving Committed
Amount. The initial Revolving Commitment Percentages are shown
on
Schedule 2.01
of the Bank Credit Agreement.
Revolving Committed Amount
means, with
respect to each Revolving Lender, the amount of such
Lenders Revolving Commitment. The initial Revolving
Committed Amounts are shown on
Schedule 2.01
of the
Bank Credit Agreement.
Revolving Lender
means those Lenders with
Revolving Commitments.
Revolving Loan Joinder Agreements
means any
Revolving Loan Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.01(g)
of the Bank Credit Agreement,
including any that are entered into in connection with the
increase of the Revolving Commitments pursuant to
Section 2.01(g)
of the Bank Credit Agreement.
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Revolving Loans
means Committed Revolving
Loans and Competitive Revolving Loans.
Revolving Note
has the meaning provided in
the Bank Credit Agreement.
Revolving Obligations
has the meaning
provided in the Bank Credit Agreement.
S&P
means Standard & Poors
Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
and any successor thereto.
Sale and Leaseback Transaction
means, with
respect to any Borrower or any Subsidiary, any arrangement,
directly or indirectly, with any person whereby such Borrower or
such Subsidiary shall sell or transfer any property, real or
personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property
or other property that it intends to use for substantially the
same purpose or purposes as the property being sold or
transferred.
Same Day Funds
means (a) with respect to
disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available
funds, and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments
in a Foreign Currency, same day or other funds as may be
determined by the Administrative Agent to be customary in the
place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of
international banking transactions in such Foreign Currency.
Schuldscheindarlehen
means the senior notes
issued by FMC Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-IV, a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG, in an aggregate principal amount of
200 million, and the guarantee by FMCAG of such
notes, pursuant to agreements dated as of July 27, 2005, as
amended or modified and as in effect from time to time.
SEC
means the Securities and Exchange
Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of
its principal functions.
Securitization Subsidiary
has the meaning
provided in the definition of Securitization
Transaction.
Securitization Transaction
means any
financing or factoring or similar financing transaction (or
series of such transactions) entered by any member of the
Consolidated Group pursuant to which such member of the
Consolidated Group may sell, convey or otherwise transfer, or
grant a security interest in, accounts, payments, receivables,
rights to future lease payments or residuals or similar rights
to payment (the
Securitization Receivables
)
to a special purpose subsidiary or affiliate (a
Securitization Subsidiary
) or any other
Person;
provided
, that, for the purposes of
clarification, sales of accounts, payments, receivables and
similar rights of payment on a non-recourse basis by Foreign
Subsidiaries of FMCAG to Persons that are not members of the
Consolidated Group in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$150 million in any fiscal year that are treated as
Dispositions under
Section 8.05(h)
shall not
constitute Securitization Transactions.
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Subordinated Debt
means (a) the
Trust Preferred Subdebt, (b) the AG Debt, and
(c) any other Indebtedness of a member of the Consolidated
Group that by its terms is expressly subordinated in right of
payment to the prior payment of the Loan Obligations hereunder
and is in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and the Required Lenders.
Subsidiary
of a Person means a corporation,
partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other
business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities
or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election
of directors or other governing body (other than securities or
interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the
management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such
Person. Unless otherwise provided, all references herein to a
Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall
refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of FMCAG.
Support Obligations
means, as to any Person,
(a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person
guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any
Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by
another Person (the primary obligor) in any manner,
whether directly or indirectly (other than endorsements in the
ordinary course of business of negotiable instruments for
deposit or collection), and including any obligation of such
Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or
advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such
Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease
property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the
obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of
the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other
obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity
capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity
or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to
enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other
obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of
assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such
Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance
thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect
thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any
assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other
obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness
or other obligation is assumed by such Person. The amount of any
Support Obligations (subject to any limitations set forth
therein) shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or
portion thereof, in respect of which such Support Obligation is
made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably
anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the
guaranteeing Person in good faith.
Swap Contract
means (a) any and all rate
swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions,
forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options,
forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or
options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or
forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index
transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange
transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar
transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate
swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any
other similar transactions or any combination of any of the
foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the
foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by
or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all
transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, that
are subject to the
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terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master
agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives
Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master
Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master
agreement, together with any related schedules, a
Master Agreement
), including any such
obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
Swap Termination Value
means, in respect of
any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the
effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to
such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date
such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination values
determined in accordance therewith, such termination values, and
(b) for any date prior to the date referenced in
clause
(a)
, the amounts determined as the mark-to-market values for
such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more
mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any
recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a
Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
Swing Line Commitment
has the meaning
provided in the Bank Credit Agreement.
Synthetic Lease
means any synthetic lease,
tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar
off-balance sheet financing arrangement that is considered
borrowed money indebtedness for tax purposes but is classified
as an operating lease under GAAP.
Taxes
has the meaning provided in
Section 3.01(a).
TARGET Day
means any day on which the
Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer (TARGET) System (or, if such clearing system
ceases to be operative, such other clearing system, if any,
determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable
replacement) is operating.
Term Loan
means the Tranche A Term Loan,
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), the
Tranche B Term Loan (including any Incremental
Tranche B Term Loans) and the Tranche C Term Loan (and
any other term loan established under the Incremental Loan
Facilities), if any.
Term Loan Commitments
means the
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment, the Tranche B Term
Loan Commitment and the Tranche C Term Loan Commitment (and
the commitments of any other term loan established under the
Incremental Loan Facilities), if any.
Term Loan Termination Date
means,
(i) with respect to the Tranche A Term Loan,
March 31, 2011, (ii) with respect to the
Tranche B Term Loan, March 31, 2013 and
(iii) with respect to the Tranche C Term Loan, the
final maturity date therefor.
Term Notes
means the Tranche A Term
Notes, the Tranche B Term Notes and Tranche C Term
Notes.
Termination Date
means March 31, 2011.
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Tranche A Term Lenders
means, prior to
the funding of the initial Tranche A Term Loan on the
Closing Date or any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan, as
applicable, those Lenders with Tranche A Term Loan
Commitments, and after funding of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), those
Lenders holding a portion of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), together
with their successors and permitted assigns. The initial
Tranche A Term Lenders are identified on the signature
pages hereto and are set forth on
Schedule 2.01
.
Tranche A Term Loan
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(a)
.
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
means,
for each Tranche A Term Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to make a portion of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan) hereunder;
provided
that, at any time after funding of the
Tranche A Term Loan, determinations of Required
Lenders and Required Tranche A Term
Lenders shall be based on the outstanding principal amount
of the Tranche A Term Loan.
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
Percentage
means, for each Tranche A Term Lender,
a fraction (expressed as a percentage carried to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the principal amount
of such Lenders Tranche A Term Loan (including any
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan), and the denominator of
which is the Outstanding Amount of the Tranche A Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan). The
initial Tranche A Term Loan Commitment Percentages are set
forth on
Schedule 2.01
.
Tranche A Term Loan Committed Amount
means, for each Tranche A Term Lender, the amount of such
Lenders Tranche A Term Loan Commitment. The initial
Tranche A Term Loan Committed Amounts are set forth on
Schedule 2.01
, and, with respect to any Incremental
Tranche A Term Loan, the Tranche A Term Loan Committed
Amount with respect thereto will be set forth in the Incremental
Tranche A Term Loan Joinder Agreement.
Tranche A Term Note
means the promissory
notes substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.08-1
,
if any, given to evidence the Tranche A Term Loans, as
amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or
replaced.
Tranche B Term Lenders
means, prior to
the funding of the initial Tranche B Term Loan on the
Closing Date or any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan, as
applicable, those Lenders with Tranche B Term Loan
Commitments, and after funding of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan), those
Lenders holding a portion of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan), together
with their successors and permitted assigns. The initial
Tranche B Term Lenders are identified on the signature
pages hereto and are set forth on
Schedule 2.01
.
Tranche B Term Loan
means an extension
of credit by a Tranche B Term Lender to the Borrower
pursuant to
Section 2.01(b)
in the form of a term
loan and shall include any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan.
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Tranche B Term Loan Commitment
means,
for each Tranche B Term Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to make a portion of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan) hereunder;
provided
that, at any time after funding of the initial
Tranche B Term Loan, determinations of Required
Lenders and Required Tranche B Term
Lenders shall be based on the outstanding principal amount
of the Tranche B Term Loan.
Tranche B Term Loan Commitment
Percentage
means, for each Tranche B Term Lender,
a fraction (expressed as a percentage carried to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the principal amount
of such Lenders Tranche B Term Loan (including any
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan) and the denominator of
which is the Outstanding Amount of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan). The
initial Tranche B Term Loan Commitment Percentages are set
forth on
Schedule 2.01
.
Tranche B Term Loan Committed Amount
means, for each Tranche B Term Lender, the amount of such
Lenders Tranche B Term Loan Commitment. The initial
Tranche B Term Loan Committed Amounts are set forth on
Schedule 2.01
, and, with respect to any Incremental
Tranche B Term Loan, the Tranche B Term Loan Committed
Amount with respect thereto will be set forth in the Incremental
Tranche B Term Loan Joinder Agreement.
Tranche B Term Note
means the promissory
notes substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.08-2
,
if any, given to evidence the Tranche B Term Loans, as
amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or
replaced.
Tranche C Term Lenders
means, upon
establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan under
Section 2.01(g)
, those Lenders holding a portion of
the Tranche C Term Loan, together with their successors and
permitted assigns. The initial Tranche C Term Lenders will
be identified in the Tranche C Term Loan Joinder Agreement.
Tranche C Term Loan
has the meaning
provided in
Section 2.01(c)
.
Tranche C Term Loan Commitment
means
upon establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan under
Section 2.01(g)
, for each Tranche C Term
Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make a portion of the
Tranche C Term Loan hereunder;
provided
that, at any
time after funding of the Tranche C Term Loan,
determinations of Required Lenders and
Required Tranche C Term Lenders shall be based
on the outstanding principal amount of the Tranche C Term
Loan.
Tranche C Term Loan Commitment
Percentage
means, for each Tranche C Term Lender,
a fraction (expressed as a percentage carried to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the principal amount
of such Lenders Tranche C Term Loan, and the
denominator of which is the Outstanding Amount of the
Tranche C Term Loan. The initial Tranche C Term Loan
Commitment Percentages will be set forth in the Tranche C
Term Loan Joinder Agreement.
Tranche C Term Loan Committed Amount
means upon establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan under
Section 2.01(g)
, for each Tranche C Term
Lender, the amount of such Lenders Tranche C Term
Loan Commitment. The initial Tranche C Term Loan Committed
Amounts will be set forth in the Tranche C Term Loan
Joinder Agreement.
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Tranche C Term Loan Joinder Agreement
means a joinder agreement, substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.01(g)
, executed and delivered in
accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.01(g)(ii)
.
Tranche C Term Note
means the promissory
notes substantially in the form of
Exhibit 2.08-3
,
if any, given to evidence the Tranche C Term Loan, if any,
as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed
or replaced.
TRICARE
means the United States Department of
Defense health care program for service families (including
TRICARE Prime, TRICARE Extra and TRICARE Standard), and any
successor or predecessor (including CHAMPUS) thereof.
Trust Preferred Indentures
means the
indentures pursuant to which the Trust Preferred Subdebt
was issued, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
Trust Preferred Securities
means those
trust preferred securities of members of the Consolidated Group
comprising $450,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated trust preferred securities due 2008 issued by
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust II,
DM 300,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of
7
3
/
8
%
Deutsche mark-denominated trust preferred securities due 2008
issued by Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust III,
$225,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated trust preferred securities due 2011 issued by
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust IV and
300, 000,000
aggregate liquidation amount of
7
3
/
8
% Euro-denominated trust preferred securities due
2011 issued by Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust V and,
to the extent permitted hereunder, additional trust preferred
securities after the Closing Date issued by members of the
Consolidated Group.
Trust Preferred Subdebt
means (i)
$450,450,000 aggregate principal amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2008 issued by
FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg to Fresenius
Medical Care Capital Trust II, (ii) DM300,300,000
aggregate principal amount of
7
3
/
8
%
Deutsche mark-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2008
issued by FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg to
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust III and assumed by
FMCAG as of December 23, 2004, (iii) $225,225,000 aggregate
principal amount of
7
7
/
8
%
Dollar-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2011 issued by
FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l. Luxembourg-III to Fresenius
Medical Care Capital Trust IV and (iv)
300,300,000
aggregate principal amount of
7
3
/
8
%
Euro-denominated senior subordinated notes due 2011 issued by
FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg-III
to
Fresenius Medical Care Capital Trust V and assumed by FMCAG
as of December 23, 2004, in each case in connection with a
related issuance of Trust Preferred Securities and, to the
extent permitted hereunder, and any additional Subordinated Debt
incurred in connection with a related issuance of additional
Trust Preferred Securities issued after the Closing Date by
members of the Consolidated Group.
Type
means with respect to a Committed
Revolving Loan or a Term Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan
or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.
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Unfunded Pension Liability
means the excess
of a Pension Plans benefit liabilities under
Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of
that Pension Plans assets, determined in accordance with
the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to
Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code for the applicable
plan year.
United States
and
U.S.
mean the United States of America.
Wholly Owned
means, with respect to any
direct or indirect Subsidiary of any Person, that one hundred
percent (100%) of the Capital Stock with ordinary voting power
issued by such Subsidiary (other than directors qualifying
shares and investments by foreign nationals mandated by
applicable law) is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly,
by such Person;
provided
that any preferred stock of FMCH
outstanding as of the Closing Date shall be disregarded for
purposes of such determination.
WRG-Conn
means W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn., a
Connecticut corporation.
SECTION 1.02
Interpretive Provisions
. With
reference to this Credit Agreement and each other Credit
Document, unless otherwise provided herein or in such other
Credit Document:
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the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
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hereto, hereof and hereunder
and words of similar import when used in any Credit Document
shall refer to such Credit Document as a whole and not to any
particular provision thereof.
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Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the
Credit Document in which such reference appears.
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including
is by way of
example and not limitation.
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documents
includes any and
all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices,
reports, financial statements and other writings, however
evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
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date to a later specified date, the word from means
from and including; the words to and
until each mean to but excluding; and
the word through means to and including.
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Documents are included for convenience of reference only and
shall not affect the interpretation of this Credit Agreement or
any other Credit Document.
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SECTION 1.03
Accounting Terms
.
(a) All accounting terms not specifically or completely
defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all
financial data (including financial ratios and other financial
calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Credit
Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on
a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a
manner consistent with that used in preparing the audited
financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2004, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary,
determinations of (i) the applicable pricing level under
the definition of Applicable Percentage and
(ii) compliance with the financial covenants shall be made
on a Pro Forma Basis.
(c) With each annual and quarterly Compliance Certificate
delivered in accordance with
Section 7.02(b)
, FMCAG
will provide a written summary of material changes in GAAP or in
the consistent application of GAAP to the extent that either
affects the numeric value of any financial ratio or requirement
herein or in any other Credit Document. If at any time any
change in GAAP or any change in the application thereof would
affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set
forth in any Credit Document, and (i) FMCAG shall object to
determining such compliance based on GAAP or the application
thereof then in effect, or (ii) the Administrative Agent or
the Required Lenders shall so object in writing within thirty
days after delivery of such financial statements, then such
calculations shall be made on a basis consistent with the most
recent financial statements delivered hereunder as to which no
such objection shall have been made.
SECTION 1.04
Rounding
. Any financial ratios
required to be maintained by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Credit Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate
component by the other component, carrying the result to one
place more than the number of places by which such ratio is
expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the
nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest
number).
SECTION 1.05
References to Agreements and Laws
.
Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references
to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Credit
Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to
include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions,
supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the
extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions,
supplements and other modifications are not prohibited by any
Credit Document; and (b) references to any Law shall
include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating,
amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
SECTION 1.06
Times of Day
. Unless otherwise
provided, all references herein to times of day shall be
references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
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ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
SECTION 2.01
Commitments
. Subject to the terms
and conditions set forth herein:
(a)
Tranche A Term Loan Commitment
. On the
Closing Date, each of the Tranche A Term Lenders severally
agrees to make its portion of a term loan (in the amount of its
respective Tranche A Term Loan Committed Amount) in a
single advance in Dollars, in an aggregate principal amount of
ONE BILLION EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($1,850,000,000)
(the
Tranche A Term Loan
), to FMC-USDLP,
FMCH and the Co-Borrowers, jointly and severally as borrowers
therefor. The Tranche A Term Loan may consist of Base Rate
Loans, Eurocurrency Rate Loans or a combination thereof, as such
Borrower may request. The aggregate principal amount of the
Tranche A Term Loan may be increased as provided in
Section 2.01(e)
. Amounts repaid on the
Tranche A Term Loan may not be reborrowed.
(b)
Tranche B Term Loan Commitment
. On the
Closing Date, each of the Tranche B Term Lenders severally
agrees to make its portion of a term loan (in the amount of its
respective Tranche B Term Loan Committed Amount) in Dollars
in an aggregate principal amount of ONE BILLION SEVEN HUNDRED
FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($1,750,000,000) (the
Tranche B Term Loan
), which shall be
comprised of (i) a loan advance in an aggregate principal
amount of ONE BILLION FIVE HUNDRED FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
($1,505,000,000) to FMCH and the Co-Borrowers, jointly and
severally as borrowers therefor, and (ii) a loan advance in
an aggregate principal amount of TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE MILLION
DOLLARS ($245,000,000) to FMCAG, as borrower therefor. The
Tranche B Term Loan may consist of Base Rate Loans,
Eurocurrency Rate Loans or a combination thereof, as such
Borrower may request. The aggregate principal amount of the
Tranche B Term Loan may be increased as provided in
Section 2.01(f)
. Amounts repaid on the
Tranche B Term Loan may not be reborrowed.
(c)
Incremental Loan Facilities
. Any time after the
Closing Date, any Borrower or Borrowers may, upon written notice
to the Administrative Agent, establish additional credit
facilities (collectively, the
Incremental Loan
Facilities
) by increasing the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments as provided in
Section 2.01(d
) (the
Incremental Revolving Loans
), increasing the
Tranche A Term Loan hereunder as provided in
Section 2.01(e
) (the
Incremental
Tranche A Term Loan
), increasing the
Tranche B Term Loan hereunder as provided in
Section 2.01(f
) (the
Incremental
Tranche B Term Loan
) or establishment of a new
term loan hereunder (the
Tranche C Term
Loan
) or other incremental term loan as provided in
Section 2.01(g)
, or some combination thereof;
provided
that:
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(i) the aggregate principal amount of loans and commitments
for all the Incremental Loan Facilities established after the
Closing Date will not exceed
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$500 million or the Dollar Equivalent thereof on the date
on which the amount of each such facility is fixed;
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(ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing or shall result after giving effect to any such
Incremental Loan Facility;
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(iii) the making of any Loans under the Incremental Loan
Facilities shall be subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions to the making of a Credit Extension under
Section 5.02
;
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(iv) the requesting Borrower or Borrowers will provide
(A) a compliance certificate from a Responsible Officer
confirming that no Default or Event of Default shall exist
immediately after giving effect to the establishment and funding
of the Incremental Loan Facilities and demonstrating compliance
with the financial covenants hereunder after giving effect to
the Incremental Loan Facilities (assuming that the Revolving
Loans and the Incremental Loan Facilities are fully drawn and
funded), (B) confirmation that the Incremental Loan
Facilities constitute Senior Indebtedness in respect
of the Trust Preferred Subdebt and (C) supporting
resolutions, legal opinions, promissory notes and other items as
may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders providing commitments for the Incremental Loan
Facilities; and
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(v) to the extent reasonably necessary in the judgment of
the Administrative Agent, amendments to each foreign Pledge
Agreement and the Parallel Debt Agreement and/or delivery of any
substantially similar agreement that creates an obligation of
the Credit Parties (as debt acknowledgment or
abstraktes
Schuldanerkenntnis
), in each case in a manner satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent;
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In connection with the establishment of any Incremental Loan
Facility, (A) none of the Lenders, including Bank of
America and DBSI, shall have any obligation to provide
commitments or loans for any Incremental Loan Facility without
their prior written approval and (B)
Schedule 2.01
will
be revised to reflect the Lenders, Loans, Commitments, committed
amounts and Commitment Percentages after giving effect to the
establishment of any Incremental Loan Facility.
(d)
Establishment of Incremental Revolving Loans
.
Subject to
Section 2.01(c
), any Borrower or
Borrowers may establish Incremental Revolving Loans by
increasing the Aggregate Revolving Committed Amount under the
Bank Credit Agreement,
provided
that:
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(i) any new lender providing commitments for the
Incremental Revolving Loans must be reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent under the Bank Credit Agreement;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Incremental
Revolving Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.01(d
)
will provide a Revolving Loan Joinder Agreement or other
agreement reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent
under the Bank Credit Agreement; and
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(iii) if any Revolving Loans are outstanding at the time of
any such increase, the Borrower will make such payments and
adjustments on the Revolving Loans (including payment of any
break-funding amounts owing under
Section 3.05
) as
may be necessary to give effect to the revised commitment
amounts and percentages, it being agreed that the Administrative
Agent under the Bank Credit Agreement shall, in consultation
with the Borrowers, manage the allocation of the revised
Commitment Percentages to the existing Eurocurrency Rate Loans
in such a manner as to minimize the amounts so payable by the
Borrowers.
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Any Incremental Revolving Loan so established shall have terms
identical to the Revolving Loans existing on the Closing Date,
except for fees payable to Lenders providing commitments for the
Incremental Revolving Loan.
(e)
Establishment of Incremental Tranche A Term
Loan
. Subject to
Section 2.01(c
), the Borrowers
under the Tranche A Term Loan may, at any time prior to the
first amortization payment date on the Tranche A Term Loan,
increase the size of the Tranche A Term Loan by
establishing additional Tranche A Term Loan Commitments,
provided
that:
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(i) any new lender providing commitments for the
Incremental Tranche A Term Loan must be reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Incremental
Tranche A Term Loan pursuant to this
Section 2.01(e
)
will provide an Incremental Tranche A Term Loan Joinder
Agreement or other agreement reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent; and
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(iii) the Borrowers will make such payments and adjustments
on the Tranche A Term Loan (including payment of any
break-funding amounts owing under
Section 3.05
) as
may be necessary to give effect to the revised commitment
amounts and percentages, it being agreed that the Administrative
Agent shall, in consultation with the Borrowers, manage the
allocation of the revised Commitment Percentages to the existing
Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such a manner as to minimize the
amounts so payable by the Borrowers.
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Any Incremental Tranche A Term Loan shall have terms
identical to the Tranche A Term Loan existing on the
Closing Date, except for fees payable to Lenders providing
commitments for the Incremental Tranche A Term Loan.
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(f)
Establishment of the Incremental Tranche B Term
Loan
. Subject to
Section 2.01(c
), the Borrowers
under the Tranche B Term Loan may, at any time prior to the
first amortization payment date on the Tranche B Term Loan,
increase the size of the Tranche B Term Loan by
establishing additional Tranche B Term Loan Commitments,
provided
that:
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(i) any new lender providing commitments for the
Incremental Tranche B Term Loan must be reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Incremental
Tranche B Term Loan pursuant to this
Section 2.01(f
)
will provide an Incremental Tranche B Term Loan Joinder
Agreement or other agreement reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent;
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(iii) the Borrowers will make such payments and adjustments
on the Tranche B Term Loan (including payment of any
break-funding amounts owing under
Section 3.05
) as
may be necessary to give effect to the revised commitment
amounts and percentages, it being agreed that the Administrative
Agent shall, in consultation with the Borrowers, manage the
allocation of the revised Commitment Percentages to the existing
Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such a manner as to minimize the
amounts so payable by the Borrowers.
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Any Incremental Tranche B Term Loan shall have terms
identical to the Tranche B Term Loan existing on the
Closing Date, except for fees payable to Lenders providing
commitments for the Incremental Tranche B Term Loan.
(g)
Establishment of the Tranche C Term Loan
.
Subject to
Section 2.01(c
), the Borrowers may, at
any time after the Closing Date, establish a Tranche C Term
Loan or other term loan facility hereunder,
provided
that:
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(i) lenders providing commitments for the Tranche C
Term Loan or other term loan facility must be reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
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(ii) lenders providing commitments for the Tranche C
Term Loan or other term loan facility pursuant to this
Section 2.01(g
) will provide a Tranche C Term
Loan Joinder Agreement or other agreement reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent;
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(iii) the Tranche C Term Loan will have a final
maturity date that is co-terminous with or later than the final
maturity date for the Tranche B Term Loan and an
average-life-to-maturity from the date of issuance of the
Tranche C Term Loan that is not earlier than the
average-life-to-maturity of the Tranche B Term Loan from
such date; and
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(iv) the Applicable Percentage for the Tranche C Term
Loan will be not more than * basis points (*%) more than
the Applicable Percentage for the Tranche B Term Loan.
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For purposes of this Section only, Applicable Percentage for the
Tranche C Term Loan or such other term loan shall be deemed
to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue
discount (amortized over the life of the Tranche C Term
Loan or such term loan) payable to all the Lenders of such term
loan, but exclusive of any arrangement, structuring or other
fees payable in connection therewith that are not shared with
all the Lenders of such term loan.
SECTION 2.02
Borrowings, Conversions and
Continuations of Loans
.
(a) Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type
to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans
shall be made upon the applicable Borrowers irrevocable
notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by
telephone. Each such notice must be received by the
Administrative Agent not later than 11:30 a.m.
(i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any
Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans denominated in Dollars, (ii) four Business Days prior
to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Available
Foreign Currencies (other than Japanese yen), (iii) five
Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of,
conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans
denominated in Japanese yen and (iv) on the Business Day
prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans.
Each telephonic notice by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Section 2.02
must be confirmed promptly by delivery
to the Administrative Agent of a written Loan Notice,
appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer or
duly authorized signatory of the applicable Borrower. Each
Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5 million or a
whole multiple of $1 million in excess thereof. Except as
provided in
Sections 2.08(c)
,
2.09(b)
and
2.10(b)
of the Bank Credit Agreement, each Borrowing of
or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount
of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof.
Each Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify
(A) whether such Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a
conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a
continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (B) the requested
date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case
may be (which shall be a Business Day), (C) the principal
amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued,
(D) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing
Loans are to be converted, and (E) if applicable, the
requested duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto.
If such Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Loan
Notice or if such Borrower fails to give a timely notice
requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable
Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any
such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective
as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with
respect to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate Loans. If such
Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation
of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Loan Notice, but fails to
specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified
an Interest Period of one month.
(b) Following receipt of a Loan Notice, the Administrative
Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its
Commitment Percentage of the applicable Loans, and if
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Confidential treatment has been requested as to the omitted
portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by
the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender
of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans
described in the preceding subsection. In the case of a
Borrowing, each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan
available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the
Administrative Agents Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on
the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice. Upon
satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in
Section 5.02
(and, if such Borrowing is the initial
Credit Extension,
Section 5.01
), the Administrative
Agent shall make all funds so received available to the
applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the
Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of
such Borrower or Borrowers on the books of the Administrative
Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer
of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions
provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative
Agent by such Borrower or Borrowers.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, without the
consent of the Required Lenders, (i) a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an
Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan and
(ii) any conversion into, or continuation as, a
Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be made only if the conditions to
Credit Extensions in
Section 5.02
have been
satisfied. During the existence of a Default or Event of
Default, (i) no Loan may be requested as, converted to or
continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and (ii) at the
request of the Required Lenders, any outstanding Eurocurrency
Rate Loan shall be converted immediately to a Base Rate Loan.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
applicable Borrower or Borrowers (with a copy to FMCAG and FMCH)
and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest
Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such
interest rate. The determination of the Eurocurrency Rate by the
Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are
outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify FMCH and the
Lenders of any change in Bank of Americas prime rate used
in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public
announcement of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions
of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of
Loans as the same Type, (i) there shall not be more than
twenty Interest Periods in effect with respect to the
Tranche A Term Loan, (ii) there shall not be more than
five Interest Periods in effect with respect to the
Tranche B Term Loan, and (iii) there shall not be more
than five Interest Periods in effect with respect to the
Tranche C Term Loan;
provided
in each case that, for
purposes hereof, Interest Periods with respect to Loans (whether
or not of the same Type) with separate or different Interest
Periods will be considered as separate Interest Periods, even if
such Interest Periods end on the same date.
SECTION 2.03
Interest
.
(a) Subject to the provisions of
subsection (b)
below, (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Committed Loan shall bear
interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each
Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the
Eurocurrency Rate
plus
the Applicable Percentage, and
(ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the
outstanding principal amount
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thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum
equal to the sum of the Base Rate
plus
the Applicable
Percentage.
(b) If any amount payable by the Borrowers under any Credit
Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable
grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a
fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the
Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Furthermore, upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any
Event of Default exists, the Borrowers shall pay interest on the
principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a
fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the
Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including
interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon
demand.
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at
such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder
shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof
before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement
of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
SECTION 2.04
Fees
.
(a) The Borrowers shall pay to the Arrangers, the
Co-Documentation Agents and the Administrative Agent, for their
own respective accounts, fees in the amounts and at the times
specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned
when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(b) The Borrowers shall pay to the Lenders, for their own
respective accounts, such fees as shall have been separately
agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so
specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall
not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(c) If a voluntary prepayment is made on the Tranche B
Term Loan within one (1) year after the Closing Date in
connection with any Repricing Transaction, a prepayment premium
shall be payable to the Administrative Agent for the ratable
benefit of the Tranche B Term Lenders in an amount equal to
one percent (1.00%) of the principal amount prepaid.
SECTION 2.05
Repayment of Loans
.
(a)
Tranche A Term Loan
. The principal amount
of the Tranche A Term Loan shall be payable in twenty
(20) consecutive quarterly installments which, except for
the final installment, shall be due on the last day of each
March, June, September and December, beginning with the payment
due June 30, 2006. Subject to adjustment in connection with
prepayments made pursuant to
Section 2.
06, the first
nineteen (19) quarterly installments shall each be in the
principal amount equal to $30 million, except upon
establishment of Incremental Tranche A Term Loans, in which
case each quarterly installment shall be in an amount equal to
one and one-half percent (1.5%) of the original principal amount
of the Tranche A Term Loan
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(including all Incremental Tranche A Term Loans), and the
twentieth and final installment due March 31, 2011 shall be
in the amount of the remaining principal balance of the
Tranche A Term Loan (including all incremental,
Tranche A Term Loans).
(b)
Tranche B Term Loan
. The principal amount
of the Tranche B Term Loan shall be payable in twenty-eight
(28) consecutive quarterly installments which, except for
the final installment, shall be due on the last day of each
March, June, September and December, beginning with the payment
due June 30, 2006. Subject to adjustment in connection with
prepayments made pursuant to
Section 2.06
, the first
twenty-four (24) quarterly installments shall each be in
the principal amount equal to one quarter of one percent (0.25%)
of the original principal amount of the Tranche B Term Loan
(including all Incremental Tranche B Term Loans),
installments twenty-five (25) through twenty-seven
(27) shall each be in the principal amount equal to
twenty-three and one-half percent (23.5%) of the original
principal amount of the Tranche B Term Loan (including all
Incremental Tranche B Term Loans) and the twenty-eighth and
final installment, due March 31, 2013, shall be in the
amount of the remaining principal balance of the Tranche B
Term Loan (including all Incremental Tranche B Term Loans).
(c)
Tranche C Term Loan
. The principal amount
of the Tranche C Term Loan or any other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities shall be
payable as provided in the Tranche C Term Loan Joinder
Agreement or other joinder agreement pursuant to which such term
loan is established.
SECTION 2.06
Prepayments
.
(a)
Voluntary Prepayments
. The Loans may be repaid
in whole or in part without premium or penalty (except, in the
case of Loans other than Base Rate Loans, amounts payable
pursuant to
Section 3.05
);
provided
that:
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(i) (A) notice thereof must be received by 12:00 noon
by the Administrative Agent at least (1) three Business
Days prior to the date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans
denominated in Dollars, (2) four Business Days prior to the
date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in
Available Foreign Currencies (other than Japanese yen),
(3) five Business Days prior to the date of prepayment of
Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Japanese yen and
(4) on the Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of
Base Rate Loans, (B) any such prepayment shall be in a
minimum principal amount of $5 million and integral
multiples of $1 million in excess thereof, in the case of
Eurocurrency Rate Loans, and a minimum principal amount of
$500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof,
in the case of Base Rate Loans, or, in each case, the entire
principal amount thereof, if less; and
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(ii) any voluntary prepayments on the Loans shall be
applied as set forth in
Section 2.06(c)(i)
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Each such notice of voluntary repayment hereunder shall be
irrevocable and shall specify the date and amount of prepayment
and the Loans and Types of Loans which are to be prepaid.
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The Administrative Agent will give prompt notice to the
applicable Lenders of any prepayment on the Loans and the
Lenders interest therein. Prepayments of Eurocurrency Rate
Loans hereunder shall be accompanied by accrued interest thereon
and breakage amounts, if any, under
Section 3.05
.
(b)
Mandatory Prepayments
.
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(i)
Dispositions
. Prepayment will be made on the
Loan Obligations on the Business Day following receipt of any
Net Cash Proceeds required to be prepaid pursuant to the terms
of
clauses (A)
and
(B)
hereof in an amount equal
to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash Proceeds received
from any Disposition by any member of the Consolidated Group
(other than in connection with a Disposition permitted by
Section 8.05(a)
or
(g)
, a Securitization
Transaction permitted by
Section 8.01(f)
, or Sale
and Leaseback Transaction permitted by
Section 8.05(d)
or any Disposition to another member
of the Consolidated Group permitted by
subsections (e)
or
(f)
of
Section 8.05
) to the extent
(A) such proceeds are not reinvested in the same or similar
properties or assets within twelve months of the date of such
Disposition and (B) the aggregate amount of such proceeds
that are not reinvested in accordance with
clause (A)
hereof exceeds $10 million in any fiscal year.
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(ii)
Debt Transactions
. Until the occurrence of a
Mandatory Prepayment Modification Event, prepayment will be made
on the Loan Obligations in an amount equal to fifty percent
(50%) of the Net Cash Proceeds from any Debt Transactions on the
Business Day following receipt thereof (but excluding any
refinancings unless Net Cash Proceeds are generated therefrom)
occurring after the Closing Date.
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(iii)
Securitization Transactions
. Until the
occurrence of a Mandatory Prepayment Modification Event,
prepayment will be made on the Loan Obligations in an amount
equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash Proceeds
from any Securitization Transaction (other than the Excluded
Securitization Transactions or any replacements or refinancings
thereof) on the Business Day following receipt thereof.
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(iv)
Equity Transactions
. Prepayment will be made on
the Loan Obligations in an amount equal to (A) seventy-five
percent (75%) of the Net Cash Proceeds from Equity Transactions
occurring after the Closing Date where the Consolidated Leverage
Ratio will be greater than 3.5:1.0 after giving effect thereto
on a Pro Forma Basis, and (B) fifty percent (50%) of Net
Cash Proceeds from Equity Transactions occurring after the
Closing Date where the Consolidated Leverage Ratio will be equal
to or less than 3.5:1.0 after giving effect thereto on a Pro
Forma Basis. Any prepayment in respect of an Equity Transaction
hereunder will be payable on the Business Day following receipt
thereof.
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(v)
Excess Cash Flow
. Prepayment will be made on the
Loan Obligations in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of
Consolidated Excess Cash Flow for each fiscal year where
(i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of such
fiscal year will be greater than 3.5:1.0 after giving effect
thereto on a Pro Forma Basis and (ii) the Borrowers
Debt Rating as of the end of such fiscal year is lower than Ba3
from Moodys
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or lower than BB- from S&P or unrated. Any prepayment in
respect of Consolidated Excess Cash Flow hereunder will be
payable annually on April 15 of the immediately following
fiscal year (commencing on April 15, 2007 for fiscal year
2006).
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(vi)
Maturity of Trust Preferred Securities
.
The Tranche B Term Loan will be prepaid in full on
March 1, 2011 if the Trust Preferred Securities
maturing in 2011 have not then been repaid (with the consent of
the Required Lenders hereunder), or refinanced or the maturity
date thereof extended, in either case, to a date at least eight
years after the Closing Date.
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(c)
Application
. Within each Loan, prepayments will
be applied first to Base Rate Loans, then to Eurocurrency Rate
Loans in direct order of Interest Period maturities. In addition:
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(i)
Voluntary Prepayments
. Voluntary prepayments
shall be applied pro rata to the Term Loans;
provided
that any such prepayment on a Term Loan will be applied to such
Term Loan
first
in forward order of maturity to the
principal amortization payments coming due within the next
twelve (12) months in direct order of maturity and
second
pro rata to the remaining principal amortization
installments on such Term Loan, as the case may be. Voluntary
prepayments on the Loan Obligations will be paid by the
Administrative Agent to the Lenders ratably in accordance with
their respective interests therein.
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(ii)
Mandatory Prepayments
. Mandatory prepayments on
the Loan Obligations will be paid by the Administrative Agent to
the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective
interests therein;
provided
that:
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(A) Mandatory prepayments in respect of Dispositions under
subsection (b)(i)
above, Debt Transactions under
subsection (b)(ii)
, Securitization Transactions
under
subsection (b)(iii)
, Equity Transactions under
subsection (b)(iv)
and Consolidated Excess Cash Flow
under
subsection (b)(v)
above shall be applied
(i) pro rata to the Term Loans until paid in full, first in
forward order to the principal amortization payments coming due
within the next twelve (12) months and second pro rata to
the remaining principal amortization installments on the Term
Loans, until paid in full, then (ii) to the Revolving Loan
Obligations.
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(B) Mandatory prepayments in respect of the maturity of the
Trust Preferred Securities under
subsection (b)(vi
)
above shall be applied pro rata to the Tranche B Term Loan
and any term loan other than an Incremental Tranche A Term
Loan established under the Incremental Loan Facilities that has
a similar prepayment event, if any.
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SECTION 2.07
Computation of Interest and Fees
.
All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base
Rate is determined by Bank of Americas prime
rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or
366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All
other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the
basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results
in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if
computed on the
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basis of a 365-day year) or, in the case of interest in respect
of Loans denominated in Foreign Currencies as to which market
practice differs from the foregoing, in accordance with such
market practice. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day
on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or
any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such
portion is paid,
provided
that any Loan that is repaid on
the same day on which it is made shall, subject to
Section 2.09(a)
, bear interest for one day.
SECTION 2.08
Evidence of Debt
. The Credit
Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more
accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the
Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The
accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and
each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the
amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the
Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon, and shall serve
as the basis for determining amounts due and payable in
connection with enforcement of this Credit Agreement and the
Collateral Documents. Any failure to so record or any error in
doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the
obligation of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing
with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict
between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender
(including the schedules to such Lenders Notes, if any)
and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in
respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the
Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest
error. The Borrowers shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent (i) a Tranche A Term Note for
each Tranche A Term Lender that so requests, (ii) a
Tranche B Term Note for each Tranche B Term Lender
that so requests, and (iii) a Tranche C Term Note for
each Tranche C Term Lender that so requests, which Notes,
in addition to such accounts or records, shall evidence such
Lenders Loans. Each Lender may attach schedules to its
Notes and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount
and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
SECTION 2.09
Payments Generally
.
(a) All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made
without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense,
recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect to
principal and interest on Loans denominated in Dollars shall be
made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the
respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the
applicable Administrative Agents Office in Dollars and in
Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified
herein, and all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect
to principal and interest on Loans denominated in Foreign
Currencies shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed,
at the applicable Administrative Agents Office in such
Foreign Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than the
Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent on the
date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly
distribute to each Lender (i) with respect to such payments
on the Tranche A Term Loan, its Tranche A Term Loan
Commitment Percentage thereof, (ii) with respect to such
payments on the Tranche B Term Loan, its Tranche B
Term Loan Commitment Percentage thereof, (iii) with respect
to such payments on the Tranche C Term Loan, its
Tranche C Term Loan Commitment Percentage thereof, and
(iv) such other applicable share as provided herein, in
like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lenders
Lending Office. All payments received
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by the Administrative Agent (A) with respect to payments in
Dollars, after 2:00 p.m. and (B) with respect to payments
in Foreign Currencies, after the Applicable Time specified by
the Administrative Agent, shall in each case be deemed received
on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest
or fee shall continue to accrue.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in the definition of
Interest Period, if any payment to be made by the
Borrowers shall come due on a day other than a Business Day,
payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and
such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest
or fees, as the case may be.
(c) Unless the Borrowers or any Lender has notified the
Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required
to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the
Borrowers or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers
or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment
and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon,
make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled
thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact
made to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds, then:
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(i) if the Borrowers failed to make such payment, each
Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative
Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made
available to such Lender in Same Day Funds, together with
interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the
date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent
to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the applicable
Overnight Rate from time to time in effect; and
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(ii) (A) if any Lender failed to make such payment,
such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative
Agent the amount thereof in Same Day Funds, together with
interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was
made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers to
the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent
(the
Compensation Period
) at a rate per annum
equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in
effect; and
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(B) if such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative
Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lenders Loan
included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not
pay such amount upon the Administrative Agents demand
therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor
upon the Borrowers, and the Borrowers shall pay such amount to
the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the
Compensation Period at a rate per annum equal to the rate of
interest applicable to the applicable Borrowing.
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Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its
obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights
that the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers may have against
any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
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A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the
Borrowers with respect to any amount owing under this
subsection (c)
shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(d) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative
Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided
in the foregoing provisions of this
Article II
, and
such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the
Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable
Credit Extension set forth in
Article V
are not
satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the
Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as
received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(e) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder, including,
without limitation, to make Loans, are several and not joint.
The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to satisfy any
other obligation on any date required hereunder shall not
relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do
so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the
failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or satisfy such
other obligation.
(f) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender
to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or
manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it
has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any
particular place or manner.
SECTION 2.10
Sharing of Payments
.
If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any
Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, any
payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of
any right of set-off, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable
share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such
Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative
Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase from the other Lenders
such participations in the Loans made by them as shall be
necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess
payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the
case may be, pro rata with each of them;
provided
,
however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is
thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the
circumstances described in
Section 11.06
(including
pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender
in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be
rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing
Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount
equal to such paying Lenders ratable share (according to
the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying
Lenders required repayment to (ii) the total amount
so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or
other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect
of the total amount so recovered, without further interest
thereon. The Borrowers agree that any Lender so purchasing a
participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including
the right of set-off, but subject to
Section 11.09
)
with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender
were the direct creditor of the Borrowers in the amount of such
participation. The Administrative Agent will keep records (which
shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest
error) of participations purchased under this Section and will
in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or
repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant
to this Section shall from and after such purchase have the
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right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and
other communications under this Credit Agreement with respect to
the portion of the loans and obligations hereunder and under the
Bank Credit Agreement purchased to the same extent as though the
purchasing Lender were the original owner of the loans and
obligations hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement
purchased.
SECTION 2.11
Designated Borrowers
. FMCAG may
request that any of its Subsidiaries (each, an
Applicant Borrower
) be designated a
Designated Borrower by delivery of a written request to the
Administrative Agent, together with an executed copy of the
Borrower Joinder Agreement, requesting that the Applicant
Borrower be a Primary Borrower and, if applicable, a Co-Borrower
hereunder and specifying the applicable Term Loan or portion
thereof. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the
Lenders of any such request and will provide the Lenders with a
copy of such Borrower Joinder Agreement. Designation of any
Applicant Borrower as a Designated Borrower is subject to
(i) the prior consent of the Required Tranche A Term
Lenders, Required Tranche B Term Lenders or Required
Tranche C Term Lenders, as applicable, in their sole
discretion;
provided
that no consent shall be required
for any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG organized in an
Approved Jurisdiction to become a Primary Borrower or a
Co-Borrower, (ii) delivery of an executed promissory note
as may be requested by any applicable Lender in connection
therewith, and (iii) delivery of supporting resolutions,
articles of incorporation and bylaws (or their equivalents),
incumbency certificates, opinions of counsel and such other
items as the Administrative Agent and the Required
Tranche A Term Lenders, Required Tranche B Term
Lenders or Required Tranche C Term Lenders, as appropriate,
may request. The designation of an Applicant Borrower as a
Designated Borrower shall be effective ten Business Days after
(A) where applicable, receipt by the Administrative Agent
of the consent of the requisite Lenders hereunder and
(B) receipt by the Administrative Agent of each of the
items required pursuant to
clauses (ii)
and
(iii)
herein. Such Designated Borrower shall thereupon
become a Designated Borrower and a Credit Party hereunder and
shall be (1) entitled to all rights and benefits of a
Designated Borrower hereunder and under each of the Credit
Documents and (2) subject to all obligations of a
Designated Borrower hereunder and under the Credit Documents.
SECTION 2.12
Removal of Borrowers
. FMCAG may
request that any Borrower (other than FMCAG and FMCH) cease to
be a Borrower by delivering to the Administrative Agent (which
shall promptly deliver copies thereof to each Lender) a written
notice to such effect. If such Borrower is a Primary Borrower
(including the
Co-Borrowers),
it shall
cease to be a Borrower on the date the Administrative Agent
receives such written notice. If such Borrower is a Designated
Borrower (unless it is a Co-Borrower), it shall cease to be a
Borrower on the later to occur of (i) the date the
Administrative Agent receives such written notice, and
(ii) the date such Designated Borrower has paid all of its
obligations and all accrued and unpaid interest, fees and other
obligations hereunder or in connection herewith.
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ARTICLE III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
SECTION 3.01
Taxes
.
(a) Except as provided below, any and all payments by the
Borrowers to or for the account of the Administrative Agent or
any Lender under any Credit Document shall be made free and
clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future
taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, fees,
withholdings or similar charges, and all liabilities with
respect thereto, excluding, in the case of the Administrative
Agent and each Lender and any of their respective Affiliates,
taxes imposed on or measured by overall net income, and any
franchise taxes, branch taxes, taxes on doing business or taxes
on overall capital or net worth imposed (in lieu of net income
taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
thereof) under the Laws of which the Administrative Agent, such
Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, as the case may
be, is organized or maintains a lending office or in which its
principal executive office is located (all such non-excluded
taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, fees,
withholdings or similar charges, and liabilities being
hereinafter referred to as
Taxes
). If the
Borrowers shall be required by any Laws to deduct any Taxes from
or in respect of any sum payable under any Credit Document to
the Administrative Agent or any Lender, except as otherwise
provided in
Section 11.15
hereof, (i) the sum
payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all
required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section), each of the
Administrative Agent and such Lender receives an amount equal to
the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made,
(ii) the Borrowers shall make such deductions,
(iii) the Borrowers shall pay the full amount deducted to
the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance
with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty days after the
date of such payment, the Borrowers shall furnish to the
Administrative Agent (which shall forward the same to such
Lender) the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing
payment thereof.
(b) In addition, the Borrowers agree to pay any and all
present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes and any
other excise or property taxes or charges or similar levies that
arise from any payment made under any Credit Document or from
the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or
registration of, or otherwise with respect to, any Credit
Document (hereinafter referred to as
Other
Taxes
).
(c) If the Borrowers shall be required to deduct or pay any
Taxes or Other Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under
any Credit Document to the Administrative Agent or any Lender,
the Borrowers shall also pay to the Administrative Agent or to
such Lender, as the case may be, at the time interest is paid,
such additional amount that the Administrative Agent or such
Lender specifies is necessary to preserve the after-tax yield
(after factoring in all taxes, including taxes imposed on or
measured by net income) that the Administrative Agent or such
Lender would have received if such Taxes or Other Taxes had not
been imposed.
(d) The Borrowers agree to indemnify the Administrative
Agent and each Lender for (i) the full amount of Taxes and
Other Taxes (including any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or
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asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this
Section) paid by the Administrative Agent and such Lender, and
(ii) any liability (including additions to tax, penalties,
interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, in each case whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes
were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant
Governmental Authority. Payment under this
subsection
(d)
shall be made within thirty days after the date the
Lender or the Administrative Agent makes a demand therefor.
SECTION 3.02
Illegality
. If any Lender
determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any
Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any
Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or
fund Eurocurrency Rate Loans (whether denominated in Dollars or
a Foreign Currency), or to determine or charge interest rates
based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, or any Governmental Authority
has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such
Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, any
Applicable Currency in the applicable interbank market, then, on
notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers through the
Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or
continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the Applicable Currency or
to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the
Applicable Currency shall be suspended until such Lender
notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers that the
circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.
Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers shall, upon demand
from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurocurrency Rate Loans of
such Lender to Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the
Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue
to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or
immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to
maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Upon any such prepayment
or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on
the amount so prepaid or converted. Each Lender agrees to
designate a different Lending Office if such designation will
avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith
judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous
to such Lender.
SECTION 3.03
Inability to Determine Rates
. If
the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Lenders)
determines that for any reason (i) deposits in the
Applicable Currency are not being offered to banks in the
applicable offshore interbank market for such currency for the
applicable amount and Interest Period thereof,
(ii) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for
determining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan or
(iii) the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan does not
adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of
funding such Loan, then the Administrative Agent will promptly
so notify FMCAG and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of
the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent (in consultation with
the Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice,
the Borrowers may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of,
conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or,
failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into
a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount
specified therein.
SECTION 3.04
Increased Cost and Reduced Return;
Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Loans
.
(a) If any Lender determines that as a result of the
introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any
Law in each case after the Closing Date, or such Lenders
compliance
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therewith, there shall be any increase in the cost to such
Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining
Eurocurrency Rate Loans or (as the case may be) issuing or
participating in Letters of Credit, or a reduction in the amount
received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of
the foregoing (excluding for purposes of this
subsection
(a)
any such increased costs or reduction in amount
resulting from (i) Taxes or Other Taxes (as to which
Section 3.01
shall govern), (ii) changes in the
basis of taxation of overall net income or overall gross income
by the United States or any foreign jurisdiction or any
political subdivision of either thereof under the Laws of which
such Lender is organized or has its Lending Office, and
(iii) reserve requirements contemplated by
Section 3.04(c)
below), then from time to time upon
demand of such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the
Administrative Agent), the Borrowers shall pay to such Lender
such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such
increased cost or reduction.
(b) If any Lender determines that the introduction of any
Law regarding capital adequacy or any change therein or in the
interpretation thereof in each case after the Closing Date, or
compliance by such Lender (or its Lending Office) therewith, has
the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such
Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a
consequence of such Lenders obligations hereunder (taking
into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy
and such Lenders desired return on capital), then from
time to time upon demand of such Lender (with a copy of such
demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrowers shall pay to
such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such
Lender for such reduction.
(c) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, as long as such
Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to
liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency
funds or deposits (currently known as Eurocurrency
liabilities), additional interest on the unpaid principal
amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs
of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender pursuant
to regulations issued from time to time by the FRB for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any
emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement)
or the Mandatory Cost Rate imposed by the Bank of England or the
Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom (as
determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination
shall be conclusive absent manifest error), which shall be due
and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such
Loan,
provided
the Borrower shall have received at least
fifteen days prior notice (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) of such additional interest from such
Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen days prior to
the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest
shall be due and payable fifteen days from receipt of such
notice.
(d) Each Lender agrees that, as promptly as practicable
after the officer of such Lender responsible for administering
the Loans of such Lender, as the case may be, becomes aware of
the occurrence of an event or the existence of a condition that
would entitle such Lender to receive payments under
Section 3.04(a)
,
(b)
or
(c)
, it will,
to the extent not inconsistent with the internal policies of
such Lender and any applicable legal or regulatory restrictions,
use reasonable efforts (i) to make, issue, fund or maintain
the Commitments of such Lender or the affected Loans of such
Lender through another lending of such Lender, or (ii) take
such other measures as such Lender may deem reasonable, if as a
result thereof the additional amounts
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which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender
pursuant to
Section 3.04(a)
,
(b)
or
(c)
would be materially reduced and if, as determined by
such Lender in its sole discretion, the making, issuing, funding
or maintaining of such Commitments or Loans through such other
lending office or in accordance with such other measures, as the
case may be, would not otherwise materially adversely affect
such Commitments or Loans or would not be otherwise
disadvantageous to the interests of such Lender,
provided
that such Lender will not be obligated to utilize such other
lending office pursuant to this
Section 3.04(d)
unless the Borrowers agree to pay all incremental expenses
incurred by such Lender as a result of utilizing such other
lending office as described in
clause (i)
above. A
certificate as to the amount of any such expenses payable by the
Borrowers pursuant to this
Section 3.04(d)
(setting
forth in reasonable detail the basis for requesting such amount)
submitted by such Lender to the Borrowers (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 3.05
Funding Losses
.
Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly
compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from
any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
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(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of
any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the
last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether
voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or
otherwise);
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(b) any failure by the Borrowers (for a reason other than
the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow,
continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the
date or in the amount notified by the Borrowers; or
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(c) any assignment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan
on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor
as a result of a request by the Borrowers pursuant to
Section 11.16
; including any loss or expense arising
from the liquidation or reemployment of funds (excluding loss of
profit or margin) obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from
fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds
were obtained.
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For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to
the Lenders under this
Section 3.05
, each Lender
shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made
by it at the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching
deposit or other borrowing in the applicable offshore interbank
market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a
comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan
was in fact so funded.
SECTION 3.06
Matters Applicable to all Requests for
Compensation
.
(a) If any Lender requests compensation under
Section 3.04
or any Borrower is required to pay any
additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority
for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 3.01
, or if any Lender gives notice pursuant
to
Section 3.02
, then such Lender shall use
reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending
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Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign
its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices,
branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such
designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce
amounts payable pursuant to
Section 3.01
or
3.04
, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the
need for the notice pursuant to
Section 3.02
, as
applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such
Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not
otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender;
provided
,
that the booking or funding of the Loan through such Lending
Office is not disadvantageous to the Borrowers. The Borrowers
hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred
by any Lender in connection with any such designation or
assignment.
(b) A certificate of the Administrative Agent or any Lender
claiming compensation under this
Article III
and
setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it
hereunder shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
In determining such amount, the Administrative Agent or such
Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.
(c) Upon any Lenders making a claim for compensation
under
Section 3.01
or
3.04
, the Borrowers may
replace such Lender in accordance with
Section 11.16
.
SECTION 3.07
Survival
.
All of the Borrowers obligations under this
Article III
shall survive termination of the
Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations
hereunder.
ARTICLE IV
GUARANTY
SECTION 4.01
The Guaranty
.
(a) Each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally
guarantees to the Administrative Agent and each of the holders
of the Obligations as hereinafter provided, as primary obligor
and not as surety, the prompt payment of the Obligations in full
when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment,
by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or
otherwise) strictly in accordance with the terms thereof. The
Guarantors hereby further agree that if any of the Obligations
are not paid in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a
mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash
collateralization or otherwise), the Guarantors will, jointly
and severally, promptly pay the same, without any demand or
notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time
of payment or renewal of any of the Obligations, the same will
be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity,
as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash
collateralization or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of
such extension or renewal.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained
herein or in any other of the Credit Documents or other
agreements or documents relating to the Obligations, the
obligations of each Guarantor under this Credit Agreement and
the other Credit Documents shall
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be limited to an aggregate amount equal to the largest amount
that would not render such obligations subject to avoidance
under the Debtor Relief Laws or any comparable provisions of any
applicable state law.
(c) With respect to the liability of any entity existing
under the laws of Germany (including, without limitation, a
corporation (
AG
), a limited liability company
(
GmbH
) or limited partnership (such as a
KGaA or
GmbH & Co. KG
)) (a
German
Guarantor
) in respect of the guaranty set forth in
this
Article IV
(each a
German
Guaranty
), to the extent it secures the Indebtedness
of FMCAG or any of its Subsidiaries (other than such German
Guarantor and its Subsidiaries), the following shall apply:
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(i) Nothing herein shall lead to an obligation of such
German Guarantor to make a payment and the Collateral Agent and
the Administrative Agent agree not to enforce such German
Guaranty to the extent that a subsequent application of the
proceeds (the
Proceeds
) would have the effect
of (i) reducing such German Guarantors net assets
(
Nettovermögen
) (the
Net Assets
)
to an amount less than its stated share capital
(
Stammkapital
) or (ii) (if the Net Assets are
already an amount less than the stated share capital) causing
such amount to be further reduced, and thereby affects the
assets required for the obligatory preservation of its stated
share capital according to §§ 30, 31 of the
German GmbH-Act (
GmbH-Gesetz
).
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(ii) The value of the Net Assets shall be determined by
means of a balance sheet prepared in accordance with the
principles for ordinary bookkeeping and the preparation of
balance sheets as they were consistently applied by such German
Guarantor in preparing its unconsolidated balance sheets
(
Jahresabschluss gem. § 42 GmbH-Act,
§§ 242, 264 HGB
) in the previous years,
save that:
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(A) any amounts due and payable under such German Guaranty,
which correspond to funds that have been borrowed under this
Credit Agreement or the Bank Credit Agreement and have been
on-lent to such German Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries,
shall be disregarded to the extent that any such amount is still
outstanding; and
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(B) any asset that is shown in the balance sheet with a
book value (
Buchwert
) that is significantly lower than
the market value of such asset, which is not essentially
necessary (
betriebsnotwendig
) for the German
Guarantors business and that can be realized (to the
extent legally possible) shall be taken into account with its
market value.
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(iii) The balance sheet shall be prepared by such German
Guarantor within thirty days after the date of a payment request
by the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent under such
German Guaranty. If (A) the balance sheet has not become
available within the given period of time or does not comply as
to form and content to generally accepted accounting principles
applying in Germany for companies of the size of such German
Guarantor, or (B) in case of cessation of payments by such
German Guarantor or (C) the filing of an application for
insolvency proceeding by such
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German Guarantor (in case of (B) and (C) irrespective of
whether or not thirty days have lapsed), the Collateral Agent or
the Administrative Agent (I) shall be entitled to enforce
such German Guaranty in the full amount and (II) agrees to
repay the Proceeds to such German Guarantor to the extent that
such German Guarantor is able to demonstrate that the
enforcement of the such German Guaranty violated the rules on
preservation of the stated share capital under
§§ 30, 31 GmbH-Act as set out in
paragraph (i)
above.
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(iv) The limitation set out in
clauses (i)
through
(iii)
above shall not apply while a loss and
profit pooling agreement (
Gewinnabführungsvertrag
)
exists between such German Guarantor and FMCAG (such as, with
respect to FMCD, the loss and profit pooling agreement dated
23 August 1996), and the compensation claim of such German
Guarantor against FMCAG arising under any such loss and profit
pooling agreement compensates for any loss incurred due to any
payment of such German Guarantor under such German Guaranty.
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(v) FMCAG undertakes neither to increase the stated share
capital (
Stammkapital
) of such German Guarantor by way of
a capital increase (
Kapitalerhöhung
) nor to grant
any shareholder loans to such German Guarantor (except as
otherwise permitted hereunder and except for those loans which
are funds under this Credit Agreement or the Term Loan Credit
Agreement lent-on to such German Guarantor) without the prior
written consent of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent. FMCAG undertakes to pay any such funds into the capital
reserves (
Kapitalrücklage, § 266
paragraph 3 A.II.HGB
) of such German Guarantor.
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(vi) To the extent that (A) any party that is liable
for a reimbursement to such German Guarantor is unable to
satisfy any recourse claim that such German Guarantor may have
against such party due to the enforcement of claims under any of
the Credit Documents or such German Guaranty and (B) this
may trigger the insolvency of such German Guarantor, neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent may enforce the
German Guaranty.
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(d) The liability of any entity incorporated under the laws
of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a
Luxembourg
Guarantor
) for obligations of any entity of which such
Luxembourg Guarantor is a Subsidiary and/or for obligations of
any of such Luxembourg Guarantors Affiliates (other than
its own Subsidiaries) in respect of the guaranty set forth in
this
Article IV
shall be limited at any time to an
aggregate amount not exceeding ninety-five percent (95%) of the
greater of such Luxembourg Guarantors own funds
(
capitaux propres
) as determined by Article 213 and
following of the Luxembourg Law of 10 August 1915 on
Commercial Companies, as amended, (i) as set forth in its
most recently approved financial statements or
(ii) existing as of the Closing Date.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth
herein, with respect to FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg and FMC Trust Finance S.à r.l.
Luxembourg-III, the guaranty set forth in this
Article IV
in respect of Obligations shall be
limited to the extent that such guaranty is permitted under the
Trust Preferred Indentures.
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(f) The liability of any entity incorporated under the laws
of Spain in respect of the guaranty set forth in this
Article IV
shall be limited at any time to the
largest amount that would not render such Guarantor insolvent.
SECTION 4.02
Obligations Unconditional
.
The obligations of the Guarantors under
Section 4.01
are joint and several, absolute and unconditional, irrespective
of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or
enforceability of any of the Credit Documents or other documents
relating to the Obligations, or any other agreement or
instrument referred to therein, or any substitution, release,
impairment or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for
any of the Obligations, and, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, 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 4.02
that the obligations of
the Guarantors shall be absolute and unconditional under any and
all circumstances. Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor
shall have no right of subrogation, indemnity, reimbursement or
contribution against the Borrowers or any other Guarantor for
amounts paid under this
Article IV
until such time
as the Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full and the
Commitment have expired or terminated. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, the occurrence of any one or more of
the following shall not alter or impair the liability of any
Guarantor, which shall remain absolute and unconditional as
described above:
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(a) at any time or from time to time, without notice to any
Guarantor, the time for any performance of or compliance with
any of the 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
any of the Credit Documents, or other documents relating to the
Obligations, or any other agreement or instrument referred to in
the Credit Documents or such Swap Contracts shall be done or
omitted;
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(c) the maturity of any of the Obligations shall be
accelerated, or any of the Obligations shall be modified,
supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under any
of the Credit Documents, or other documents relating to the
Obligations, or any other agreement or instrument referred to in
the Credit Documents or such Swap Contracts shall be waived or
any other guarantee of any of the Obligations or any security
therefor shall be released, impaired or exchanged in whole or in
part or otherwise dealt with;
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(d) any Lien granted to, or in favor of, the Administrative
Agent or any Lender or Lenders as security for any of the
Obligations shall fail to attach or be perfected; or
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(e) any of the Obligations shall be determined to be void
or voidable (including, without limitation, for the benefit of
any creditor of any Guarantor) or shall be
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subordinated to the claims of any Person (including, without
limitation, any creditor of any Guarantor).
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With respect to its Obligations, each Guarantor hereby expressly
waives 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 any Person under any of the Credit
Documents, or other documents relating to the Obligations, or
any other agreement or instrument referred to in the Credit
Documents or such Swap Contracts, or against any other Person
under any other guarantee of, or security for, any of the
Obligations.
SECTION 4.03
Reinstatement
.
The obligations of the Guarantors under this
Article IV
shall be automatically reinstated if and
to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of
any Person in respect of the Obligations is rescinded or must be
otherwise restored by any holder of any of the Obligations,
whether as a result of any proceedings pursuant to any Debtor
Relief Laws or otherwise, and each Guarantor agrees that it will
indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender on demand for
all reasonable costs and expenses (including fees and expenses
of counsel) incurred by the Administrative Agent or such Lender
in connection with such rescission 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 Debtor Relief Law.
SECTION 4.04
Certain Waivers
.
Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor shall have no right of
recourse to security for the Obligations, except through the
exercise of rights of subrogation pursuant to
Section 4.02
and through the exercise of rights of
contribution pursuant to
Section 4.06
. Each
Guarantor further expressly waives any right to require that any
action be brought against the Borrowers or any other Credit
Party or to require recourse to security.
SECTION 4.05
Remedies
.
The Guarantors agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, the
Obligations may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as
provided in
Section 9.02
(and shall be deemed to
have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances
provided in said
Section 9.02
) for purposes of
Section 4.01
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or
other prohibition preventing such declaration (or preventing the
Obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as
against any other Person and that, in the event of such
declaration (or the Obligations being deemed to have become
automatically due and payable), the Obligations (whether or not
due and payable by any other Person) shall forthwith become due
and payable by the Guarantors for purposes of
Section 4.01
.
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SECTION 4.06
Rights of Contribution
.
The Guarantors hereby agree as among themselves that, if any
Guarantor shall make an Excess Payment (as defined below), such
Guarantor shall have a right of contribution from each other
Guarantor in an amount equal to such other Guarantors
Contribution Share (as defined below) of such Excess Payment.
The payment obligations of any Guarantor under this
Section 4.06
shall be subordinate and subject in
right of payment to the Obligations until such time as the
Obligations have been paid in full and the Commitments have
expired or terminated, and none of the Guarantors shall exercise
any right or remedy under this
Section 4.06
against
any other Guarantor until such Obligations have been paid in
full and the Commitments have expired or terminated. For
purposes of this
Section 4.06
,
(a)
Excess Payment
shall mean the amount
paid by any Guarantor in excess of its Ratable Share of any
Guaranteed Obligations; (b) Ratable Share shall
mean, for any Guarantor in respect of any payment of
Obligations, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) as of the
date of such payment of Guaranteed Obligations of (i) the
amount by which the aggregate present fair salable value of all
of its assets and properties exceeds the amount of all debts and
liabilities of such Guarantor (including contingent,
subordinated, unmatured, and unliquidated liabilities, but
excluding the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder) to
(ii) the amount by which the aggregate present fair salable
value of all assets and other properties of all of the Credit
Parties exceeds the amount of all of the debts and liabilities
(including contingent, subordinated, unmatured, and unliquidated
liabilities, but excluding the obligations of the Credit Parties
hereunder) of the Credit Parties;
provided
, however,
that, for purposes of calculating the Ratable Shares of the
Guarantors in respect of any payment of Obligations, any
Guarantor that became a Guarantor subsequent to the date of any
such payment shall be deemed to have been a Guarantor on the
date of such payment and the financial information for such
Guarantor as of the date such Guarantor became a Guarantor shall
be utilized for such Guarantor in connection with such payment;
(c)
Contribution Share
shall mean, for
any Guarantor in respect of any Excess Payment made by any other
Guarantor, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) as of the date
of such Excess Payment of (i) the amount by which the
aggregate present fair salable value of all of its assets and
properties exceeds the amount of all debts and liabilities of
such Guarantor (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured,
and unliquidated liabilities, but excluding the obligations of
such Guarantor hereunder) to (ii) the amount by which the
aggregate present fair salable value of all assets and other
properties of the Credit Parties other than the maker of such
Excess Payment exceeds the amount of all of the debts and
liabilities (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured, and
unliquidated liabilities, but excluding the obligations of the
Credit Parties) of the Credit Parties other than the maker of
such Excess Payment;
provided
, however, that, for
purposes of calculating the Contribution Shares of the
Guarantors in respect of any Excess Payment, any Guarantor that
became a Guarantor subsequent to the date of any such Excess
Payment shall be deemed to have been a Guarantor on the date of
such Excess Payment and the financial information for such
Guarantor as of the date such Guarantor became a Guarantor shall
be utilized for such Guarantor in connection with such Excess
Payment; and (d) Guaranteed Obligations shall
mean the Obligations guaranteed by the Guarantors pursuant to
this
Article IV
. This
Section 4.06
shall
not be deemed to affect any right of subrogation, indemnity,
reimbursement or contribution that any Guarantor may have under
Law against the Borrowers in respect of any payment of
Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all
rights of
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contribution against any Guarantor shall terminate from and
after such time, if ever, that such Guarantor is relieved of its
obligations in accordance with
Section 10.11
.
SECTION 4.07
Guaranty of Payment; Continuing
Guaranty
.
The guarantee in this
Article IV
is a guaranty of
payment and not of collection, is a continuing guarantee, and
shall apply to all Obligations whenever arising.
ARTICLE V
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
SECTION 5.01
Conditions of Initial Credit Extensions
.
The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Credit
Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following
conditions precedent:
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(a)
Executed Credit Documents
. Receipt by the
Administrative Agent of (i) multiple counterparts of this
Credit Agreement and the Bank Credit Agreement,
(ii) executed Notes for those Lenders requesting them,
(iii) multiple counterparts of the Pledge Agreements, the
Parallel Debt Agreement and any other Collateral Documents, in
each case properly executed by a Responsible Officer or duly
authorized signatory.
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(b)
RCG Material Adverse Effect
. There shall not
have occurred a RCG Material Adverse Effect since the date of
the RCG Merger Agreement.
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(c)
Acquisition Approvals and Documents
. Receipt by
the Administrative Agent of the following:
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(i)
Acquisition Agreement and Related Confirmations
.
An officers certificate in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, with (A) a
certified copy of the RCG Merger Agreement with all amendments,
modifications, supplements and attachments,
(B) confirmation that there have been no material
modifications to the RCG Merger Agreement, except as approved by
the Arrangers, (C) confirmation that the RCG Acquisition
has been, or contemporaneously with the closing and initial
funding under this Credit Agreement, will be consummated in
accordance with the terms of the RCG Merger Agreement and in
compliance with applicable laws and regulatory approvals, and
(D) confirmation that there will be at least
$200 million of unused availability under the Revolving
Commitments after consummation of the RCG Acquisition and the
transactions relating thereto, the initial Credit Extensions
hereunder and payment in full of the fees and expenses relating
to the RCG Acquisition and the establishment of the credit
facilities hereunder.
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(ii)
Required Consents
. Evidence of receipt of all
governmental, shareholder and third party consents (including
Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance) and
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approvals necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the
Administrative Agent, desirable in connection with the RCG
Acquisition and the related financings and other transactions
contemplated in connection therewith and expiration of all
applicable waiting periods without any action being taken by any
authority that could restrain, prevent or impose any material
adverse conditions on the Borrowers or their subsidiaries or
such other transactions or that could seek or threaten any of
the foregoing, and no law or regulation shall be applicable
which in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent
could have such effect.
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(iii)
Debt Rating
. Evidence of a Debt Rating for the
credit facilities established under this Credit Agreement from
each of S&P and Moodys after giving effect to the RCG
Acquisition, and confirmation that such Debt Ratings remain in
effect on the Closing Date.
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(iv)
RCG Sub Debt
. Either prior to (or substantially
simultaneously with) the initial Credit Extension, evidence that
the RCG Sub Debt shall have been (A) redeemed, defeased,
purchased, repurchased or otherwise acquired by RCG or the
Borrowers or their Subsidiaries or the obligations thereunder
shall otherwise have been discharged, (B) RCG or the
Borrowers or their Subsidiaries shall have offered to purchase
up to one hundred percent (100%) of the RCG Sub Debt and sought
consent from the holders of the RCG Sub Debt to effect certain
amendments to the related indenture, and consent to such
amendments shall have been obtained and the notes of any
tendering note holders shall have been purchased or (C) the
Administrative Agent and DBNY shall have agreed to permit some
or all of the RCG Sub Debt to remain outstanding on terms
satisfactory to them (other than those described in the
foregoing
clause (B)
).
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(d)
Financial Information
. Receipt by the
Administrative Agent of the following:
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(i)
FMCAG
. For FMCAG and its subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, (A) unaudited company-prepared
financial statements, including a balance sheet, income
statement, and statement of cash flows (excluding notes) within
45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter (other than
the last fiscal quarter of the fiscal year) ending after
December 31, 2004 and before 45 days prior to the
Closing Date, and (B) audited financial statements,
including balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash
flows (excluding notes) within 70 days after the end of the
fiscal year ending after December 31, 2004 and before
70 days prior to the Closing Date.
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(ii)
RCG
. For RCG and its subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, (A) unaudited company-prepared
financial statements, including a balance sheet, income
statement, and statement of cash flows (excluding notes) within
45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter (other than
the last fiscal quarter of the fiscal year) ending after
December 31, 2004 and before 45 days prior to the
Closing Date, and (B) audited financial statements,
including balance sheet, income
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statement and statement of cash flows (excluding notes) within
70 days after the end of the fiscal year ending after
December 31, 2004 and before 70 days prior to the
Closing Date.
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It is hereby acknowledged that the financial statements required
to be delivered pursuant to
Section 5.01(d)(i)
, in
respect of the second fiscal quarter of any year, shall include
information pertaining to the first 6 months of the fiscal
year and, in respect of the third fiscal quarter of any year,
shall include information pertaining to the first 9 months
of the fiscal year.
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(e)
Collateral
. Receipt by the Collateral Agent of
the following:
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(i)
UCC Financing Statements
. UCC financing
statements for each jurisdiction as necessary or appropriate, in
the Collateral Agents discretion, to perfect the security
interest in the Collateral granted under the Pledge Agreements.
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(ii)
Certificated Interests
. Where required for
perfection under applicable Law, original certificates
evidencing the Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Collateral
Documents (to the extent such Capital Stock is certificated),
together with undated stock transfer powers executed in blank.
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(f)
Corporate Documents
. Receipt by the
Administrative Agent of a certificate of a Responsible Officer
or duly authorized signatory of each Credit Party attaching each
of the following documents and certifying that each is true and
correct and complete and in full force and effect as of the
Closing Date:
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(i)
Charter Documents
. Copies of its certificate of
organization or equivalent, certified to be true and correct as
of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental Authority of
the state or other jurisdiction of its organization.
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(ii)
Bylaws
. Copies of its bylaws, operating
agreement or partnership agreement or the equivalent.
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(iii)
Resolutions
. Copies of its resolutions
approving and adopting the Credit Documents to which it is a
party, the transactions contemplated herein and therein, and
authorizing the execution and delivery thereof.
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(iv)
Incumbency
. Original incumbency certificates
identifying the officers thereof authorized to act on its behalf
in connection with the Credit Documents.
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(v)
Good Standing
. Certificates of good standing or
the equivalent (if available from the applicable jurisdiction),
certified as of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental
Authorities from the state or other jurisdiction of its
organization, and such other states or jurisdictions as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
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(g)
Legal Opinions
. Receipt by the Administrative
Agent of favorable legal opinions from counsel to FMCAG, FMCH
and other members of the Consolidated Group in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
regarding, among other things, existence and due authorization,
execution, delivery and enforceability of the Credit Documents,
no violations of Organizational Documents, certain material
agreements or applicable Law caused by the execution, delivery
and performance of the Credit Documents, and the attachment and
perfection of security interests in the Collateral pledged to
secure the loans and obligations hereunder (including local
counsel opinions).
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(h)
Replacement of the Existing Credit Agreement
.
Evidence of repayment of the loans and obligations owing by
(i) FMCAG, FMCH and the other Borrowers and Guarantors
under the Existing Credit Agreement, and (ii) by RCG and
its subsidiaries and affiliates under its existing senior bank
debt credit agreement, and, in each case, termination of the
commitments thereunder and release of the security interests
relating thereto.
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SECTION 5.02
Conditions to all Credit Extensions
.
The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit
Extension (including requests for conversions or continuations)
is subject to the following conditions precedent:
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(a) The representations and warranties contained in
Article VI
or any other Credit Document, or that are
contained in any document furnished at any time under or in
connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in
all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit
Extension, except (i) to the extent that such
representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier
date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all
material respects as of such earlier date, (ii) in the case
of the initial Credit Extension hereunder, but only in such
case, the representation in
Section 6.06
shall not
apply and (iii) that for purposes of this
Section 5.02
, the representations and warranties
contained in
subsections (a)
and
(b)
of
Section 6.05
shall be deemed to refer to the most
recent statements furnished pursuant to
subsections (a)
and
(b)
, respectively, of
Section 7.01
.
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(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would
result from such proposed Credit Extension.
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(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Request
for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
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Each Borrowing pursuant to any Request for Credit Extension
(including requests for conversions or continuations) submitted
by the Borrowers shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty by such Borrowers that the conditions specified in
Section 5.02(a)
and
(b)
have been satisfied
on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.
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ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Credit Parties represent and warrant to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01
Existence, Qualification and Power;
Compliance with Laws
. Each Credit Party (a) is a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other
entity duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good
standing (to the extent such concept exists in the applicable
jurisdiction and except to the extent that the failure to be in
good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect) under the Laws of the jurisdiction of
its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite
power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses,
authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own its
assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver
and perform its obligations under the Credit Documents to which
it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and in
good standing (to the extent such concept exists in the
applicable jurisdiction) under the Laws of each jurisdiction
where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the
conduct of its business requires such qualification or license,
(d) is in compliance with all Laws and (e) has, to the
extent applicable: (i) entered into and maintains in good
standing its Medicare Provider Agreements and Medicaid Provider
Agreements and (ii) ensured that all such required licenses
are in full force and effect on the date hereof and have not
been revoked or suspended or otherwise limited; except in the
case of
clauses (b)(i)
,
(b)(ii)
,
(c)
,
(d)
and
(e)
, to the extent that failure to do so
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
SECTION 6.02
Authorization; No Contravention
.
The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of
each Credit Document to which such Person is party, have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other
organizational action, and do not (a) contravene the terms
of any of such Persons Organization Documents;
(b) materially conflict with or result in any material
breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under,
(i) any material Contractual Obligation to which such
Person is a party or (ii) any material order, injunction,
writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral
award to which such Person or its property is subject;
(c) violate any Law; or (d) except to the extent it
would not have a Material Adverse Effect, result in a limitation
on any licenses, permits, certificates or determinations of need
or other approvals applicable to the business, operations or
properties of any Credit Party or adversely affect the ability
of any Credit Party to participate in any Medical Reimbursement
Programs.
SECTION 6.03
Governmental Authorization; Other
Consents
. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or
other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental
Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in
connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or
enforcement against, any Credit Party of this Credit Agreement
or any other Credit Document.
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SECTION 6.04
Binding Effect
. This Credit
Agreement and each other Credit Document has been duly executed
and delivered by each Credit Party that is party thereto. This
Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents constitute
legal, valid and binding obligations of such Credit Party,
enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its
terms, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may
be limited by applicable Debtor Relief Laws affecting
creditors rights generally and by equitable principles of
law (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at
law).
SECTION 6.05
Financial Statements
. The audited
consolidated balance sheets of the Consolidated Group for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations,
shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal year,
including the notes thereto (A) were prepared in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered
thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein;
(B) fairly present the financial condition of the
Consolidated Group as of the date thereof and their results of
operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with
GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby,
except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and
(C) reflect all material indebtedness and other material
liabilities, direct or contingent, as of the date thereof,
including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and
Indebtedness of the Consolidated Group.
SECTION 6.06
No Material Adverse Effect
. Since
December 31, 2005, there has been no event or circumstance,
either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or would
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.07
Litigation
. There are no actions,
suits, investigations, criminal prosecutions, civil
investigative demands, imposition of criminal or civil fines or
penalties, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the
knowledge of the Borrowers after due and diligent investigation,
threatened, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any
Governmental Authority, by or against any member of the
Consolidated Group or against any of their respective properties
or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this
Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, or any of the
transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) if determined
adversely, would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.08
No Default
. No member of the
Consolidated Group is in default under or with respect to any
Contractual Obligation that would reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Credit Agreement or any
other Credit Document.
SECTION 6.09
Ownership of Property; Liens
. Each
member of the Consolidated Group has good record and marketable
title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property
necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business,
except for such defects in title as would not, individually or
in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. The property of the Consolidated Group is
subject to no Liens, other than Liens permitted by
Section 8.02
.
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SECTION 6.10
Environmental Compliance
. No
member of the Consolidated Group has any liability or
responsibility under any claim in respect of the violation of
any Environmental Laws, except for such claims that would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.11
Insurance
. The properties of the
Consolidated Group are insured pursuant to self-insurance
arrangements or with financially sound and reputable insurance
companies that are not Affiliates of the Borrowers, in each case
in such kinds, types, amounts and with such deductibles and
self-insurance retentions as are in accordance with sound
business practice.
SECTION 6.12
Taxes
. Each member of the
Consolidated Group has filed all material federal, state and
other tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have
paid all taxes shown thereon to be due and has paid all other
material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges
levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or
assets otherwise due and payable, except those that are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently
conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in
accordance with GAAP. There is no proposed tax assessment
against the Borrowers or any Subsidiary that would, if made,
have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.13
ERISA Compliance
.
(a) Each Plan is in compliance in all material respects
with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Internal Revenue
Code and other federal or state Laws. Each Plan that is intended
to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code has received a favorable determination letter from the IRS
or an application for such a letter is pending before the IRS
with respect thereto and, to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers, nothing has occurred that would prevent, or cause the
loss of, such qualification. The Borrowers and each ERISA
Affiliate have made all required contributions to each Plan
subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code, and no
application for a funding waiver or an extension of any
amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Internal
Revenue Code has been made with respect to any Plan.
(b) There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by
any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan that could
be reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
There has been no non-exempt prohibited transaction or violation
of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan
that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Except to the extent it would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (i) no ERISA
Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur;
(ii) no Pension Plan has any Unfunded Pension Liability;
(iii) neither the Borrowers nor any ERISA Affiliate has
incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any material liability
under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan
(other than premiums due and not delinquent under
Section 4007 of ERISA); (iv) neither the Borrowers nor
any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to
incur, any material liability (and no event has occurred that,
with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA,
would result in such liability) under Sections 4201 or 4243
of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; and
(v) neither the
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Borrowers nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction
that could reasonably be expected to be subject to
Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.
SECTION 6.14
Jurisdiction of Organization, Capital
Stock and Ownership of Credit Parties
.
(a) As of the Closing Date, set forth on
Schedule 6.14
, with respect to each Credit Party, is
the jurisdiction of organization, classes of Capital Stock
(including options, warrants, rights of subscription,
conversion, exchangeability and other similar rights), ownership
and ownership percentages thereof. The outstanding shares of
Capital Stock have been validly issued, fully paid and are
non-assessable and owned free of Liens other than Liens
permitted by
Section 8.02
. The outstanding shares of
Capital Stock shown are not the subject of buy-sell, voting
trust or other shareholder agreement except as identified on
Schedule 6.14
.
(b) Each of the Borrowers (other than FMCAG) is a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG.
(c) As of the Closing Date, NMC is a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of FMCH.
SECTION 6.15
Margin Regulations; Investment Company
Act; Public Utility Holding Company Act
.
(a) The Credit Parties are not engaged and will not engage,
principally or as one of their important activities, in the
business of purchasing or carrying margin stock
(within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or
extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying
margin stock. Following the application of the proceeds of each
Borrowing or drawing under each Letter of Credit, not more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the value of the assets subject to
the provisions of
Section 8.02
or
Section 8.05
or subject to any restriction contained
in any agreement or instrument between a Borrower and any Lender
or any Affiliate of any Lender relating to Indebtedness will be
margin stock.
(b) None of the Credit Parties, any Person Controlling a
Credit Party, or any Subsidiary (i) is a holding
company, or a subsidiary company of a
holding company, or an affiliate of a
holding company or of a subsidiary
company of a holding company, within the
meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, or
(ii) is or is required to be registered as an
investment company under the Investment Company Act
of 1940.
SECTION 6.16
Disclosure
. No report, financial
statement, certificate or other information (other than
information of a general economic nature) furnished (whether in
writing or orally) by or on behalf of any Credit Party to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this
Credit Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or
supplemented by other information so furnished) taken as a whole
contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any
material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading;
provided
that, with respect to projected
financial information, the Borrowers represent only that such
information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions
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believed to be reasonable at the time, it being understood that
projections are subject to uncertainties and contingencies
beyond the control of the Credit Parties and that no assurance
can be given that such projections will be realized.
SECTION 6.17
Compliance with Laws
. Each member
of the Consolidated Group is in compliance in all material
respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders,
writs, injunctions, settlements or other agreements with any
Governmental Authority and decrees applicable to it or to its
properties (including the CIA), except in such instances in
which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ,
injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the
failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.18
Intellectual Property; Licenses,
Etc.
Except to the extent it would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) the
Consolidated Group owns, or possesses the right to use, all of
the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents,
patent rights, franchises, licenses and other intellectual
property rights (collectively,
IP Rights
)
that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their
respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any
other Person, (b) to the best knowledge of the Credit
Parties, no slogan or other advertising device, product,
process, method, substance, part or other material now employed,
or now contemplated to be employed, by any member of the
Consolidated Group infringes upon any rights held by any other
Person, and (c) no claim or litigation regarding any of the
foregoing is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Credit
Parties, threatened.
SECTION 6.19
Pledge Agreements
. Each Pledge
Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Collateral
Agent, for the ratable benefit of the holders of the
Obligations, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in
the Collateral identified therein on the terms set forth
therein, except to the extent the enforceability thereof may be
limited by applicable Debtor Relief Laws affecting
creditors rights generally and by equitable principles of
law (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at
law) and, when such Collateral is delivered to the Collateral
Agent, each Pledge Agreement shall constitute a fully perfected
first priority Lien on, and security interest in, all right,
title and interest of the pledgors thereunder in such
Collateral, in each case prior and superior in right to any
other Lien.
SECTION 6.20
Reimbursement from Medical
Reimbursement Programs
. The accounts receivable of each of
the Domestic Credit Parties have been and will continue to be
adjusted in all material respects to reflect the reimbursement
policies (both those most recently published in writing as well
as those not in writing that have been verbally communicated) of
any Medical Reimbursement Program (including Medicare, Medicaid,
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, private insurance companies, health
maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations,
alternative delivery systems, managed care systems, government
contracting agencies and other third party payors) applicable to
such Credit Party. In particular, such accounts receivable
relating to any Medical Reimbursement Program do not and shall
not exceed amounts any obligee is entitled to receive under any
capitation arrangement, fee schedule, discount formula,
cost-based reimbursement or other adjustment or limitation to
its usual charges, in each case to the extent it would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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ARTICLE VII
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Until the Loan Obligations hereunder shall have been paid in
full or otherwise satisfied, and the Commitments hereunder shall
have expired or been terminated, the Credit Parties will, and
will cause members of the Consolidated Group to:
SECTION 7.01
Financial Statements
. Deliver to the
Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and detail
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders:
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(a) as soon as available, and in any event within five days
after the date such information is required to be delivered to
the SEC (but not in any event more than ninety-five days after
the end of any fiscal year), consolidated balance sheets of
FMCAG and its Subsidiaries, as at the end of each fiscal year
(beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006),
and the related consolidated statements of income or operations,
and the related statements of shareholders equity and cash
flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in
comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all
in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP,
audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an
independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized
standing reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders, which
report and opinion shall state that such accountants conducted
their audit of such financial statements in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject
to any going concern or like qualification or
exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of
such audit or other material qualification or exception of any
kind; and
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(b) as soon as available, and in any event within five days
after the date such information is required to be delivered to
the SEC (but not in any event more than fifty days after the end
of any fiscal quarter), consolidated balance sheets of FMCAG and
its Subsidiaries, as at the end of for each of the first three
fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations, and the related
statements of shareholders equity and cash flows for such
fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then
ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous
fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal
year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible
Officer thereof as fairly presenting the financial condition,
results of operations, shareholders equity and cash flows
in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit
adjustments and the absence of footnotes.
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As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant
to
Section 7.02(c)
, the Borrowers shall not be
separately required to furnish such information under
subsections (a)
or
(b)
above, but the foregoing
shall not be in derogation of the obligation of the Borrowers to
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furnish the information and materials described in
subsections (a)
and
(b)
above at the times
specified therein.
SECTION 7.02
Certificates; Other Information
.
Deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and
detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders:
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(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements referred to in
Section 7.01(a)
, a
certificate of its independent certified public accountants
certifying such financial statements and stating that in making
the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of
any Default or Event of Default or, if any such Default or Event
of Default shall exist, stating the nature and status of such
event;
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(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements referred to in
Sections 7.01(a)
and
(b)
, a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a
Responsible Officer (i) setting forth computations in
reasonable detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
demonstrating compliance with the financial covenants,
(ii) demonstrating compliance with certain other covenants
contained herein (including certain Indebtedness permitted under
Section 8.01
, certain Investments permitted under
Section 8.03
and certain Restricted Payments
permitted under
Section 8.06
), (iii) certifying
that no Default or Event of Default exists as of the date
thereof (or the nature and extent thereof and proposed actions
with respect thereto) and (iv) to the extent necessary
pursuant to
Section 1.03
, including a summary of all
material changes in or the consistent application of GAAP
affecting the numeric value of the financial covenants, and a
reconciliation between calculation of the financial covenants
(and determination of the applicable pricing level under the
definition of
Applicable Percentage
) before
and after giving effect to such changes;
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(c) promptly after the same are available, copies of each
annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or
communication sent to the stockholders of FMCAG, and copies of
all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and
registration statements that FMCAG may file or be required to
file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and not otherwise required to
be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto; and
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(d) promptly, such additional information regarding the
business, financial or corporate affairs of members of the
Consolidated Group, or compliance with the terms of the Credit
Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from
time to time reasonably request.
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Documents required to be delivered pursuant to
Section 7.01(a)
or
(b)
or
Section 7.02(c)
(to the extent any such documents
are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be
delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to
have been delivered on the date (i) on which FMCAG posts
such documents at sec.gov/edaux/ searches.htm, or provides a
link thereto on FMCAGs website on the internet at the
website address listed on
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Schedule 11.02
; or (ii) on which such documents
are posted on FMCAGs behalf on IntraLinks/ IntraAgency or
another relevant website, if any, to which each Lender and the
Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial,
third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative
Agent);
provided
that: (i) FMCAG shall deliver paper
copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent or any
Lender that requests FMCAG to deliver such paper copies until a
written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the
Administrative Agent or such Lender and (ii) FMCAG shall
notify (which may be by facsimile or electronic mail) the
Administrative Agent and each Lender of the posting of any such
documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic
mail electronic versions (
i.e.
, soft copies) of such
documents. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every
instance FMCAG shall be required to provide paper copies of the
Compliance Certificates required by
Section 7.02(b)
to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders. Except for
such Compliance Certificates, the Administrative Agent shall
have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies
of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have
no responsibility to monitor compliance by FMCAG with any such
request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely
responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its
copies of such documents.
The Borrowers hereby acknowledge that (A) the
Administrative Agent and the Arrangers will make available to
the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on
behalf of the Borrowers hereunder (collectively, the
Borrower Materials
) by posting the Borrower
Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system
(the
Platform
) and (B) certain of the
Lenders may be public-side Lenders (
i.e.,
Lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public
information with respect to the Borrowers or their securities)
(each, a
Public Lender
). The Borrowers hereby
further agree that (1) all Borrower Materials that are to
be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and
conspicuously marked PUBLIC which, at a minimum,
shall mean that the word PUBLIC shall appear
prominently on the first page thereof; (2) by marking
Borrower Materials PUBLIC, the Borrowers shall be
deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the
Arrangers and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as
not containing any material non-public information (although it
may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to the Borrowers
or their securities for purposes of United States federal and
state securities laws (
provided
that to the extent such
Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated
as set forth in
Section 11.08
); (3) all
Borrower Materials marked PUBLIC are permitted to be
made available through a portion of the Platform designated as
Public Investor; and (4) the Administrative
Agent and the Arrangers shall be entitled to treat and shall
treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked
PUBLIC as being suitable only for posting on a
portion of the Platform not marked as Public
Investor.
SECTION 7.03
Notification
. Promptly notify the
Administrative Agent and each Lender party to this Credit
Agreement:
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(a) after any Credit Party knows or has reason to know of
the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
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(b) of any matter that has resulted or, if adversely
determined, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, including as a result of
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(i) breach or non-performance of, or any default under, a
Contractual Obligation of the Borrowers or any Subsidiary;
(ii) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or
suspension between the Borrowers or any Subsidiary and any
Governmental Authority; or (iii) the commencement of, or
any material development in, any litigation or proceeding
affecting the Borrowers or any Subsidiary, including pursuant to
any applicable Environmental Laws;
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(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event;
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(d) of any material change in accounting policies or
financial reporting practices by members of the Consolidated
Group to the extent such change affects compliance with the
financial covenants hereunder;
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(e) of any notice of intent to exclude, any notice of
proposal to exclude issued by the OIG or any other Exclusion
Event that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect;
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(f) of (i) the institution of any investigation,
review or proceeding against any Credit Party to suspend, revoke
or terminate (or that may result in the termination of) any
Medicaid Provider Agreement or Medicare Provider Agreement, or
any such investigation or proceeding that may result in an
Exclusion Event, (ii) any notice of loss or threatened loss
of accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations or any other accrediting entity, loss
of participation under any Medical Reimbursement Program or loss
of applicable health care license, or (iii) payment of any
penalties or the imposition of any other remedies pursuant to
the CIA, in each case, that would reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(g) of any change in the Debt Rating; and
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(h) of the issuance of any material indictment or the
initiation of other material criminal proceedings against any
member of the Consolidated Group and provide a certificate,
signed by a Responsible Officer, setting forth a detailed
description of the nature of the proceedings and the relevant
facts in connection therewith together with an estimation of the
fines, penalties and damages sought in connection therewith.
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Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a
statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth details of the
occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the
Borrowers have taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
Each notice pursuant to
Section 7.03(a)
shall
describe with particularity any and all provisions of this
Credit Agreement and any other Credit Document that have been
breached.
SECTION 7.04
Payment of Obligations
. Pay and
discharge as the same shall become due and payable, all its
material obligations and liabilities, including (a) all
material tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges
or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same
are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with
GAAP are being maintained; (b) all lawful claims that, if
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overdue and unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property
(other than Liens permitted hereunder); and (c) all
Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any
subordination provisions contained in any instrument or
agreement evidencing such Indebtedness.
SECTION 7.05
Preservation of Existence, Etc.
(a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect
its legal existence and good standing under the Laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction
permitted by
Section 8.04
or
8.05
or in a
liquidation, dissolution, winding-up or other termination of
existence not prohibited by
Section 8.04
;
(b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights,
privileges, permits, licenses and franchises necessary or
desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the
extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew
all of its registered patents, trademarks, trade names and
service marks, the non-preservation of which could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 7.06
Maintenance of Properties
.
(a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material
properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its
business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and
tear excepted; (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and
renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do
so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect; and (c) use the standard of care typical in the
industry in the operation and maintenance of its facilities.
SECTION 7.07
Maintenance of Insurance
. Maintain
in full force and effect, self-insurance arrangements or
insurance with financially sound and reputable insurance
companies that are not Affiliates, with respect to its
properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds, of
such types, in such amounts and with such deductibles and
self-insurance retentions as are in accordance with sound
business practice.
SECTION 7.08
Compliance with Laws
.
(a) Except to the extent the failure to do so would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, cause
each member of the Consolidated Group to (i) comply with
all the requirements of Law (including Titles XVIII and XIX
of the Social Security Act, Medicare Regulations, Medicaid
Regulations), and all restrictions and requirements imposed by
any Governmental Authority, applicable to it and its property
(including the CIA, Environmental Laws and ERISA),
(ii) obtain and maintain all licenses, permits,
certifications and approvals of all applicable Governmental
Authorities as are required for the conduct of its business as
currently conducted and herein contemplated (including
professional licenses, CIA certifications, certificates or
determinations of need, Medicare Provider Agreements and
Medicaid Provider Agreements), (iii) ensure that billing
policies, arrangements, protocols and instructions will comply
with reimbursement requirements under Medicare, Medicaid and
other Medical Reimbursement Programs and will be administered by
properly trained personnel and (iv) make
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commercially reasonable efforts to implement policies that are
consistent with the regulations implementing the privacy
requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of
HIPAA set forth at 45 CFR Parts 160, 162 and 164.
(b) FMCH has in place and shall maintain a compliance
program for its Subsidiaries that is reasonably consistent with
publicly available OIG guidelines and is reasonably designed to
provide effective internal controls that promote adherence to,
prevent and detect material violations of, Laws applicable to
its Subsidiaries, including any Medicaid Regulations and
Medicare Regulations applicable to its Subsidiaries, and to
comply with all applicable requirements of the CIA, which
compliance program includes the implementation of internal
audits and monitoring on a regular basis to monitor compliance
therewith, with such regulations and the CIA.
SECTION 7.09
Books and Records
. Maintain proper
books of record and account, in which full, true and correct
entries in conformity with GAAP (or, with respect to any foreign
entity, the equivalent) shall be made of all financial
transactions and matters involving the assets and business of
the Borrowers or such Subsidiary, as the case may be; and
(b) maintain such books of record and account in material
conformity with all applicable requirements of any Governmental
Authority having regulatory jurisdiction over the Borrowers or
such Subsidiary, as the case may be.
SECTION 7.10
Inspection Rights
. Permit
representatives and independent contractors of the
Administrative Agent to visit and inspect any of its properties,
to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and
make copies thereof (other than materials protected by attorney
client privilege or that a Credit Party may not disclose without
violation of a confidentiality obligation binding on it) or
abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and
accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public
accountants, at such reasonable times during normal business
hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable
advance notice;
provided
, however, that when an Event of
Default exists the Administrative Agent (or any of its
representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the
foregoing at the expense of FMCAG at any time during normal
business hours and without advance notice.
SECTION 7.11
Use of Proceeds
. Use the proceeds
of the Credit Extensions to finance the RCG Acquisition
(including fees and expenses relating thereto), to refinance
certain existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes
not in contravention of any Law or of any Credit Document.
SECTION 7.12
Joinder of Additional Guarantors
.
Give prompt notice to the Administrative Agent of the formation,
acquisition (or other receipt of interests) or existence of
(a) any Material Subsidiary of FMCAG, (ii) any
Material Domestic Subsidiary of FMCH, or (c) any Subsidiary
of FMCAG that is not a Guarantor hereunder that issues or
becomes obligated with respect to Subordinated Debt pursuant to
Section 8.01(j
), and shall cause any such Subsidiary
to become a Guarantor hereunder by execution and delivery of a
Guarantor Joinder Agreement, or such other document as the
Administrative Agent may deem appropriate, within ninety
(90) days of the formation, acquisition or existence
thereof (except in the case of RCG and the Material Domestic
Subsidiaries of RCG, which guaranties shall be provided on the
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Closing Date), together with such organizational documents,
resolutions, opinions of counsel and such other documents as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request in connection
therewith, all in form, content and scope reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
provided
that
notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, in
the case of a guaranty by a Material Foreign Subsidiary
otherwise required hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall, in
consultation with FMCAG, do an analysis of the relative benefits
associated with the prospective guaranty and where, in its
reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent shall make a
determination, taking into account local custom and practice,
that the costs, circumstances and requirements under local law
associated with the guaranty outweigh the relative benefits of
the guaranty, then in any such case the guaranty will not be
required. Without limiting the foregoing provisions regarding
the required joinder of Guarantors, FMCAG may, in its
discretion, join any other Subsidiary as a Guarantor hereunder.
SECTION 7.13
Pledge of Capital Stock
. Pledge or
cause to be pledged to the Collateral Agent to secure the
Obligations pursuant to the Collateral Documents:
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(a) in the case of Subsidiaries of FMCAG (other than
Subsidiaries of FMCH), one hundred percent (100%) of the issued
and outstanding Capital Stock with ordinary voting power issued
to FMCAG or any of its Subsidiaries of (i) FMCH,
(ii) FMCD, (iii) FMCF-V, (iv) National Medical
Care of Spain, S.A., (v) Fresenius Medical Care Japan,
K.K., and (vi) all Material Subsidiaries of FMCAG (other
than (A) FMC US Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, FMC US Zwei
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, FMC US Drei
Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, and (B) Subsidiaries of
FMCH);
provided
that (1) in the case of the pledge
of Capital Stock in Foreign Subsidiaries on the Closing Date,
execution, notarization and recordation of local pledge
agreements, parallel debt agreements and such other acts
necessary or appropriate to give effect to the pledge under
local law, together with the delivery of local counsel opinions
in respect thereof, will be completed within ten (10) days
of the Closing Date and (2) in the case of a pledge of
Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary, the Administrative Agent
shall, in consultation with FMCAG, do an analysis of the
relative benefits associated with the prospective pledge and
where, in its reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent
shall make a determination, taking into account local custom and
practice, that the costs, circumstances and requirements under
local law associated with the pledge outweigh the relative
benefits of the pledge, then in any such case the pledge will
not be required;
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(b) in the case of Subsidiaries of FMCH (including, upon
consummation of the RCG Acquisition, RCG and its Material
Domestic Subsidiaries), (A) one hundred percent (100%) of
the issued and outstanding Capital Stock with ordinary voting
power issued to FMCH or any of its Subsidiaries of all Material
Domestic Subsidiaries, and (B) sixty-five percent (65%) of
the issued and outstanding Capital Stock with ordinary voting
power issued to FMCH or any of its Subsidiaries of all
First-Tier Foreign Subsidiaries that are Material Foreign
Subsidiaries;
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(c) within ninety (90) days after a Subsidiary shall
become a Material Subsidiary or after the formation, acquisition
or other receipt of Capital Stock in a Material Subsidiary
(except in the case of RCG and the Material Domestic Subsidiaries
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of RCG on the Closing Date, in which case, within five
(5) days of the formation, acquisition or existence
thereof), in each case pursuant to a Pledge Agreement or pledge
joinder agreement, together with such filings and deliveries
necessary or appropriate to perfect the security interests
therein, and opinions of counsel relating thereto, all in form,
content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent;
provided
that (i) in each case any preferred
stock issued by FMCH outstanding as of the Closing Date shall
not be pledged pursuant hereto and (ii) in the case of a
pledge of Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary, the
Administrative Agent shall, in consultation with FMCAG, do an
analysis of the relative benefits associated with the
prospective pledge and where, in its reasonable discretion, the
Administrative Agent shall make a determination, taking into
account local custom and practice, that the costs, circumstances
and requirements under local law associated with the pledge
outweigh the relative benefits of the pledge, then in any such
case the pledge will not be required.
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SECTION 7.14
Ownership
. Except as otherwise
permitted under
Section 8.04
, at all times
(a) each of the Primary Borrowers (other than FMCAG) shall
be a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of FMCAG and (b) NMC shall be
a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of FMCH.
SECTION 7.15
Interest Rate Protection
. Enter
into, within ninety (90) days of the Closing Date, and
maintain one or more Swap Contracts on such terms as shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the effect
of which shall be to fix or limit the interest cost for a period
of three (3) years from the Closing Date with respect to a
notional amount equal to at least thirty-five percent (35%) of
the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans outstanding.
SECTION 7.16
Pledge of Additional Collateral
.
If at any time the Debt Rating is lower than Ba3 from
Moodys (or unrated) or lower than BB-from S&P (or
unrated), then the Credit Parties will promptly grant security
interests in the following:
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(a)
Domestic Personal Property
. Except as may be
agreed by the Administrative Agent and FMCAG, the Credit Parties
will grant a security interest in substantially all personal
property (including all accounts, contract rights, deposit
accounts, chattel paper, insurance proceeds, inventory,
investments and financial assets, general intangibles,
intellectual property, licenses, machinery and equipment)
located in the United States and which may be perfected by
filing financing statements under the Uniform Commercial Code or
by filing notices of security interests in respect of
intellectual property with the United States Copyright Office or
the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The scope of the
personal property covered by this subsection will not include
Excluded Personal Property. In connection with any grant of
security interest under this subsection, the Credit Parties will
deliver to the Administrative Agent within thirty (30) days
(with extensions as deemed necessary by the Administrative
Agent) (i) a security agreement in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in
multiple counterparts, (ii) notices of grant of security
interest in respect of intellectual property with the United
States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and
Trademark Office reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, executed in multiple counterparts, (iii) such
opinions of counsel as the Administrative Agent may deem
necessary or appropriate, in form and substance
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reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
(iv) evidence of casualty insurance (consistent with the
requirements for insurance hereunder) on personal property
showing the Collateral Agent as loss payee (if insurance is
provided by a commercial insurer), and (v) such other
filings and deliveries as may be necessary or appropriate as
determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable
discretion.
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(b)
Domestic Real Property
. Except as may be agreed
by the Administrative Agent, the Credit Parties will mortgage,
pledge and grant a security interest in all fee-owned real
property located in the United States with a fair value in
excess of $5 million in any instance (or otherwise
determined to be material in the reasonable judgment of the
Administrative Agent). Further, the Administrative Agent, in
consultation with FMCAG, shall do an analysis of the relative
benefits associated with the prospective mortgage lien and
where, in its reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent
shall make a determination, taking into account local mortgage
recording tax issues, that the costs, circumstances and
requirements under local law associated with the mortgage lien
outweigh the relative benefits of the mortgage lien, then, in
any such case, the mortgage will not be required. In connection
with the mortgage, pledge or grant of a security interest under
this subsection, the Credit Parties will deliver to the
Administrative Agent within one hundred twenty (120) days
(with extensions as deemed necessary by the Administrative
Agent) (i) a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt
or other similar instrument in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in multiple
counterparts, (ii) copies of recent ALTA surveys prepared
by registered engineers or land surveyors for each mortgaged
property, (iii) standard ALTA mortgagee policies insuring
the priority of the mortgage instruments and copies of recorded
documentation relating to any exceptions, (iv) copies of
environmental reports and other material, non-privileged
environmental documentation relating to the mortgaged
properties, in each case in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to the Collateral Agent, (v) evidence of
casualty insurance (consistent with the requirements for
insurance hereunder) on the real property improvements showing
the Collateral Agent as loss payee (if insurance is provided by
a commercial issuer), and (vi) evidence of flood insurance
on improvements located in a flood hazard area for the mortgaged
properties identifying the Collateral Agent as sole loss payee.
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(c)
Foreign Personal Property
. Except as may be
agreed by the Administrative Agent, the Credit Parties (other
than Credit Parties that are Foreign Subsidiaries of FMCH) will
grant a security interest in all material personal property
(including all accounts, contract rights, deposit accounts,
chattel paper, insurance proceeds, inventory, investments and
financial assets, general intangibles, intellectual property,
licenses, machinery and equipment) located outside the United
States with a fair value in excess of $5 million in any
instance (or otherwise determined to be material in the
reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent). The scope of
the security interests will contain exceptions and
qualifications reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent, and will not include Excluded Personal Property. Further,
the Administrative Agent, in consultation with FMCAG, shall do
an analysis of the relative benefits associated with the
prospective pledge and where, in its reasonable discretion, the
Administrative Agent shall make a determination, taking into
account local custom
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and practice, that the costs, circumstances and requirements
under local law associated with the pledge outweigh the relative
benefits of the pledge, then, in any such case, the pledge will
not be required. In connection with the a grant of security
interests under this subsection, the Credit Parties will deliver
to the Administrative Agent within ninety (90) days (with
extensions as deemed necessary by the Administrative Agent)
(i) a security agreement in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in multiple
counterparts, (ii) filings and notices of grant of security
interest in respect of such personal property as may be
necessary or appropriate to perfect the subject interests and
otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
(iii) such opinions of counsel as the Administrative Agent
may deem necessary or appropriate, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
(iv) evidence of casualty insurance (consistent with the
requirements for insurance hereunder) on personal property
showing the Collateral Agent and loss payee (if insurance is
provided by a commercial insurer), and (v) such other
deliveries as may be customary, necessary or appropriate in the
subject jurisdiction as determined by the Administrative Agent
in its reasonable discretion.
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(d)
Foreign Real Property
. Except as may be agreed
by the Administrative Agent, the Credit Parties will mortgage,
pledge and grant a security interest in all fee-owned (or local
equivalent) real property located outside the United States with
a fair value in excess of $5 million in any instance (or
otherwise determined to be material in the reasonable judgment
of the Administrative Agent). Further, the Administrative Agent,
in consultation with FMCAG, shall do an analysis of the relative
benefits associated with the prospective mortgage and where, in
its reasonable discretion, the Administrative Agent shall make a
determination, taking into account local custom and practice,
that the costs, circumstances and requirements under local law
associated with the mortgage outweigh the relative benefits of
the mortgage, then, in any such case, the mortgage will not be
required. In connection with such mortgage, pledge or grant of a
security interest under this subsection, the Credit Parties will
deliver to the Administrative Agent within one hundred eighty
(180) days (with extensions as deemed necessary by the
Administrative Agent) a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure
debt or other similar instrument in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed in
multiple counterparts, together with such other deliveries as
may be customary, necessary or appropriate in the subject
jurisdiction as determined by the Administrative Agent in its
reasonable discretion.
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ARTICLE VIII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Until the Loan Obligations hereunder shall have been paid in
full or otherwise satisfied, and until the Commitments hereunder
shall have expired or been terminated, the Credit Parties will
not, and will not permit members of the Consolidated Group to:
SECTION 8.01
Indebtedness
. Create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
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(a) Indebtedness arising or existing under this Credit
Agreement, the Bank Credit Agreement and the other Credit
Documents;
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(b) Indebtedness identified on
Schedule 8.01
,
and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions
thereof,
provided
that the principal amount of such
Indebtedness is not increased at the time of any such
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension (except that the
terms of any such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension
shall be on terms consistent with prevailing market standards,
but not materially less favorable to the member of the
Consolidated Group than the terms of the Indebtedness that is
the subject of such refinancing, refunding, renewal or
extension), but the amount of any such refinancing, refunding,
renewal or extension may include (i) the amount of unfunded
commitments relating thereto and (ii) the costs thereof,
including reasonable fees and expenses in connection therewith);
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(c) unsecured intercompany Indebtedness among members of
the Consolidated Group to the extent permitted by
Section 8.03
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(d) Indebtedness and obligations (contingent or otherwise)
owing under Swap Contracts,
provided
that such
obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the
ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly
mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments,
investments, assets or property held or reasonably anticipated
by such Person, or changes in the value of securities issued by
such Person, and not for the purposes of speculation or taking a
market view;
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(e) Indebtedness under capital leases, Synthetic Lease
obligations and purchase money obligations incurred to provide
all or a portion of the purchase price (or cost of construction
or acquisition), in each case, for capital assets and
refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof,
provided
that (i) such Indebtedness when incurred
shall not exceed the purchase price or cost of construction of
such asset, (ii) no such Indebtedness shall be refinanced
for a principal amount in excess of the principal balance
outstanding thereon at the time of such refinancing, and
(iii) for the Consolidated Group taken as a whole, the
total amount of all such Indebtedness incurred after the Closing
Date
plus
the Attributed Principal Amount of Sale and
Leaseback Transactions entered into after the Closing Date that
are not otherwise included in such Indebtedness shall not exceed
$250 million in the aggregate at any time;
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(f) Indebtedness and obligations under Permitted
Receivables Financings,
provided
that the Attributed
Principal Amount of all such Permitted Receivables Financings
shall not exceed $750 million in the aggregate at any time;
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(g) senior Funded Debt of FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in a
principal amount not to exceed an amount equal to the difference
of (i) $700 million (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof
on the date on which the amount is fixed, to the extent that any
such Indebtedness is denominated other than in Dollars)
minus
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of loans
and commitments established under the Incremental Loan Facilities
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hereunder, in the aggregate at any time outstanding,
provided
that not more than $550 million of such
Funded Debt may be issued, assumed or guaranteed by the Credit
Parties generally;
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(h) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, senior Funded Debt of FMCH and
its Subsidiaries in a principal amount not to exceed
$50 million (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof on the date
on which the amount is fixed, to the extent that any such
Indebtedness is denominated other than in Dollars) in the
aggregate at any time outstanding;
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(i) customer deposits and advance payments received from
customers for goods purchased in the ordinary course of business;
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(j) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, Subordinated Debt and Support
Obligations relating thereto,
provided
that (i) the
maturity date for any such debt is not earlier than the final
maturity date of the Tranche B Term Loan, (ii) such
Subordinated Debt and any Support Obligations relating thereto
shall be subordinated to the Obligations hereunder on terms and
conditions materially no less favorable to the Lenders than
those in the Trust Preferred Subdebt issued and outstanding on
the Closing Date or on terms and conditions otherwise reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders
and (iii) any Person that gives a Support Obligation in
respect of any such Subordinated Debt shall also give a guaranty
of the Obligations hereunder and become a Guarantor hereunder,
provided
further, that on the date of issuance,
incurrence or assumption of any such additional Subordinated
Debt, (A) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist
and be continuing immediately before or after giving effect
thereto, (B) the Consolidated Group shall be in compliance
with the financial covenants hereunder after giving effect
thereto on a Pro Forma Basis and (C) a Responsible Officer
of FMCAG shall provide a compliance certificate, in form and
detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, affirming the
matters in this subsection;
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(k) Indebtedness of FMCAG and its Subsidiaries owing to
Fresenius AG and any of its Subsidiaries (other than FMCAG and
its Subsidiaries) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$400 million at any time outstanding (the
AG
Debt
);
provided
that such Indebtedness shall be
subordinated to the Obligations on terms and conditions
materially no less favorable to the Lenders than those in the
Trust Preferred Subdebt issued and outstanding on the
Closing Date or on terms and conditions otherwise reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders;
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(l) Indebtedness in respect of convertible bonds referred
to in
Section 8.03(g)
;
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(m) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, Indebtedness under the EIB Loan
in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
150,000,000 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals
and extensions thereof; and
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(n) in addition to Indebtedness otherwise permitted under
this
Section 8.01
, Indebtedness under the
Schuldscheindarlehen in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed
200,000,000 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals
and extensions thereof.
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SECTION 8.02
Liens
. Create, incur, assume or
suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or
revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than
the following:
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(a) Liens to secure the loans and obligations owing under
this Credit Agreement, the Bank Credit Agreement and the other
Credit Documents;
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(b) Liens in favor of a Lender or any of its Affiliates
pursuant to a Swap Contract permitted hereunder, but only to the
extent that (i) the obligations under such Swap Contract
are permitted under
Section 8.01
, (ii) such
Liens are on the same collateral that secures the Obligations
hereunder and (iii) the obligations under such Swap
Contract and the Obligations share pari passu in the collateral
subject to such Liens;
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(c) Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on
Schedule 8.02
and any renewals or extensions
thereof,
provided
that the property covered thereby is
not broadened or increased and any renewal or extension of the
obligations secured or benefited thereby is permitted by
Section 8.01
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(d) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or
levies not yet due or payable or that are being contested in
good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted,
if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the
books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;
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(e) carriers, warehousemens, mechanics,
materialmens, repairmens, suppliers or other
like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are
not overdue for a period of more than thirty days or that are
being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings
diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto
are maintained on the books of the applicable Person;
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(f) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business
in connection with workers compensation, unemployment
insurance and other social security legislation, other than any
Lien imposed by ERISA, or to secure the performance of tenders,
statutory obligations, bids, leases, government contracts,
performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar
obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of
borrowed money);
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(g) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade
contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), statutory
obligations, surety bonds (other than bonds related to judgments
or litigation), performance bonds and other obligations of a
like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
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(h) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, minor defects
or irregularities in title and other similar encumbrances
affecting real property that, in the aggregate, are not
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substantial in amount, and that do not in any case materially
detract from the value of the property subject thereto or
materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business
of the applicable Person;
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(i) Liens securing attachments or judgments for the payment
of money not constituting an Event of Default under
Section 9.01(h)
or securing appeal or other surety
bonds related to such judgments;
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(j) Liens securing, or in respect of, obligations under
capital leases or Synthetic Leases and purchase money
obligations for fixed or capital assets permitted hereunder,
provided
that (i) such Liens do not at any time
encumber any property other than the property financed by such
Indebtedness and (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does
not exceed the cost or fair market value, whichever is lower, of
the property being acquired on the date of acquisition;
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(k) Liens on the property or assets of any Credit Party
granted in connection with Sale and Leaseback Transactions
permitted hereunder;
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(l) Liens on the property or assets granted in connection
with Permitted Receivable Financings (including any related
filings of financing statements),
provided
that such
Liens shall extend only to those accounts receivable and related
property that are the subject of the Permitted Receivables
Financing;
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(m) leases and subleases of real property granted to others
not interfering in any material respect with the business of any
member of the Consolidated Group;
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(n) any interest of title of a lessor under, and Liens
arising under UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings,
registrations or agreements in foreign jurisdictions) relating
to, leases permitted by this Credit Agreement;
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(o) normal and customary rights of setoff on deposits of
cash in favor of banks and other depository institutions;
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(p) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities
required as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties
in connection with the importation of goods;
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(q) Liens created or deemed to exist by the establishment
of trusts for the purpose of satisfying (i) Governmental
Reimbursement Program Costs and (ii) other actions or
claims pertaining to the same or related matters or other
Medical Reimbursement Programs,
provided
in each case
that (A) adequate reserves for such claims or actions have
been established and (B) contributions to such trusts in
respect of such actions or claims shall not exceed
$60 million at any time;
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(r) Liens arising out of the refinancing, extension,
renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien
permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this
Section 8.02
,
provided
that (i) such
Indebtedness is not secured by any additional assets
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of the Consolidated Group and (ii) the amount of such
Indebtedness secured by any such Lien is not increased; and
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(s) Liens other than those referred to herein above,
provided
that (i) the aggregate amount of all
Indebtedness secured thereby does not at any time exceed
$50 million and (ii) the Liens do not cover or extend
to any of the collateral pledged to secure the Obligations
hereunder.
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SECTION 8.03
Investments
. Make any Investments,
except:
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(a) cash (including cash held in non-time deposit accounts)
and Cash Equivalents;
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(b) accounts receivable created, acquired or made by a
member of the Consolidated Group in the ordinary course of
business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with
customary trade terms;
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(c) Investments consisting of stock, obligations,
securities or other property received by a member of the
Consolidated Group in settlement of accounts receivable (created
in the ordinary course of business) from bankrupt obligors;
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(d) Investments consisting of capital contributions and
equity Investments made by members of the Consolidated Group in
other members of the Consolidated Group prior to the Closing
Date;
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(e) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth
on
Schedule 8.03
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(f) Guaranty Obligations permitted by
Section 8.01
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(g) loans to employees, directors or officers in connection
with the award of convertible bonds under a stock incentive
plan, stock option plan or other equity-based compensation plan
or arrangement in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$20 million (net of Indebtedness owing by members of the
Consolidated Group to such employees, directors or officers
under convertible bonds) in the aggregate at any time
outstanding;
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(h) other advances or loans to directors, officers,
employees or agents not to exceed $10 million in the
aggregate at any one time outstanding,
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(i) advances or loans to customers or suppliers that do not
exceed $80 million in the aggregate at any one time
outstanding;
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(j) Investments by a member or an Affiliate of a member of
the Consolidated Group in connection with a Permitted
Receivables Financing;
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(k) Permitted Acquisitions;
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(l) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to any
Credit Party that is organized and existing under the laws of an
Approved Jurisdiction;
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(m) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to
(i) any Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary of FMCH, whether
or not a Credit Party and (ii) any Foreign Subsidiary of
FMCH that is a special purpose finance subsidiary;
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(n) Investments by members of the Consolidated Group (other
than FMCH and its Subsidiaries) that are not Credit Parties or
that are Credit Parties organized and existing under the laws of
a jurisdiction that is not an Approved Jurisdiction may make
Investments in and to other such members of the Consolidated
Group (other than FMCH and its Subsidiaries) that are not Credit
Parties or that are Credit Parties organized and existing under
the laws of a jurisdiction that is not an Approved Jurisdiction;
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(o) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to
members of the Consolidated Group that are not otherwise
permitted under the foregoing
subsections (l)
,
(m)
or
(n)
of this
Section 8.03
in an aggregate
principal amount outstanding at any time (excluding those
Investments permitted under
subsections (d)
,
(e)
or
(n)
of this
Section 8.03
) not
to exceed twelve percent (12%) of consolidated total assets of
the Consolidated Group;
provided
that where the
Investment is a loan or advance, there shall be no contractual
restriction or limitation on the repayment of any such
indebtedness;
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(p) Investments by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in and to
joint ventures or other entities in which FMCAG, directly or
indirectly, owns less than a majority of the Capital Stock with
ordinary voting power of such venture or entity;
provided
that (i) the aggregate principal amount of all such
Investments under this
subsection (p)
, together with
the aggregate principal amount of loans and advances under
subsection (q)
, shall not exceed $300 million at any
time, and (ii) where the Investment is a loan or advance,
there shall be no contractual restriction or limitation on the
repayment of any such indebtedness;
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(q) loans and advances by FMCAG and its Subsidiaries in
Fresenius AG in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$200 million;
provided
that (i) Fresenius AG no
longer Controls FMCAG in a manner that allows it to provide
consolidated financial statements with the Consolidated Group
under GAAP, then the aggregate principal amount of such loans
and advances shall not exceed $100 million, (ii) the
aggregate principal amount of all such loans and advances under
this
subsection (q)
, together with the aggregate
principal amount of Investments under
subsection (p)
,
shall not exceed $300 million at any time, and
(iii) there shall be no contractual restriction or
limitation on the repayment of any such indebtedness;
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(r) Investments by members of the Consolidated Group in
Fresenius AG or a common cash pool for investment
purposes maintained by Fresenius AG for the investment of funds
on an overnight basis; and
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(s) other loans, advances or investments of a nature not
contemplated in the foregoing subsections in an amount not to
exceed $50 million in the aggregate at any time outstanding.
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SECTION 8.04
Merger and Consolidation; Dissolution;
Restriction on Certain Foreign Subsidiaries
.
(a) Enter into a transaction of merger or consolidation;
provided
that so long as no Default or Event of Default
then exists or would result therefrom:
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(i) a Domestic Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with
another Domestic Subsidiary,
provided
that (A) FMCH
shall not merge or consolidate with another Person (other than
NMC or a direct Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary of FMCAG)
unless FMCH shall be the surviving corporation or entity and
(B) if the merger or consolidation involves a Domestic
Credit Party then, in addition to the conditions contained in
clause (A), the surviving corporation or entity shall be
either the Domestic Credit Party or such surviving corporation
or entity shall become a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of
Section 7.12
immediately after the consummation of
such merger or consolidation;
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(ii) a Foreign Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any
other Foreign Subsidiary,
provided
that (A) FMCAG
shall not merge or consolidate with another Person unless FMCAG
shall be the surviving corporation or entity and (B) if
such merger or consolidation involves a Credit Party, the
surviving corporation or entity shall either be a Credit Party
or shall become a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of
Section 7.12
immediately after the consummation of
such merger or consolidation; and
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(iii) members of the Consolidated Group may merge or
consolidate with Persons that are not members of the
Consolidated Group,
provided
that (A) the
transaction shall constitute a Permitted Acquisition and shall
be permitted by
Section 8.03
, (B) the member of
the Consolidated Group shall be the surviving entity,
(C) if the member of the Consolidated Group that is a party
to the merger or consolidation is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of
FMCH, then the surviving entity shall be a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of FMCH, (D) if the member of the Consolidated
Group that is a party to the merger or consolidation is a
Guarantor hereunder, the surviving entity shall be a Guarantor
hereunder and (E) no Default or Event of Default shall then
exist and be continuing immediately before or immediately after
giving effect thereto.
(b) Neither FMCAG nor FMCH will dissolve or otherwise
permit termination of its existence, except in a merger or
consolidation permitted under
Section 8.04(a)
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SECTION 8.05
Dispositions
. Make any
Disposition, except:
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(a) the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of
business for fair consideration;
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(b) the sale or disposition of machinery and equipment no
longer used or useful in the conduct of such Persons
business;
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(c) a Permitted Receivables Financing as provided for in
Section 8.01(f)
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(d) in the case of Sale and Leaseback Transactions,
Dispositions of property (i) if the subject lease is a
capital lease under GAAP, the transaction shall be permitted
under
Section 8.01(e)
and (ii) if the subject
lease is an operating lease under GAAP, the sum of Indebtedness
under capital leases, Synthetic Leases and purchase money
obligations incurred to provide all or a portion of the purchase
price (or cost of construction or acquisition), in each case for
capital assets,
plus
the Attributed Principal Amount of
Sale and Leaseback Transactions not otherwise included in the
foregoing Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount referenced in
Section 8.01(e)
;
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(e) Dispositions from a Credit Party to any other Credit
Party, and Dispositions from a member of the Consolidated Group
that is not a Credit Party to any other member of the
Consolidated Group;
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(f) Dispositions from a Credit Party to any other member of
the Consolidated Group that is not a Credit Party if
(i) such Disposition consists of inventory that is sold in
the ordinary course of business or (ii) such Dispositions
are for fair consideration;
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(g) Dispositions in compliance with or consistent with any
order, request or approval by, or any agreement with, any
Governmental Authority in connection with, as a result of or as
a condition to the RCG Acquisition; and
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(h) Dispositions not otherwise permitted under this
Section,
provided
that (i) the aggregate book value
of property so sold or otherwise disposed of under this
subsection (h)
in any given fiscal year shall not exceed
an amount equal to (A) for fiscal year 2006, seven and
one-half percent (7.5%) of Consolidated Net Worth as of
December 31, 2005, and (B) for fiscal year 2007 and
each fiscal year thereafter, five percent (5%) of Consolidated
Net Worth as of the end of the fiscal year immediately preceding
the date of determination, (ii) no Default or Event of
Default shall then exist or would result therefrom after giving
effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis, (iii) at least seventy
percent (70%) of the consideration received in connection with
such Disposition shall be in the form of cash or cash
equivalents and (iv) the Net Cash Proceeds therefrom shall
be applied in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.06(c)(ii)
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SECTION 8.06
Restricted Payments
. FMCAG will
not make or permit any Restricted Payment, unless and to the
extent that (a) no Default or Event of Default shall exist
after giving effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis and
(b) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments in any
calendar year shall not in any event exceed the amount set out
in
Schedule 8.06
.
SECTION 8.07
Change in Nature of Business
.
Engage in any material line of business substantially different
from those lines of business conducted by the Consolidated Group
on the date hereof or any business substantially related or
incidental thereto.
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SECTION 8.08
Transactions with Affiliates
.
Enter into any transaction with any Affiliate of the Borrowers,
whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than
(a) as described on
Schedule 8.08
,
(b) transactions between Credit Parties,
(c) transactions between a Credit Party and a member of the
Consolidated Group that is not a Credit Party to the extent it
would not be materially detrimental to the interests of FMCH,
(d) customary fees and expenses paid to directors and
(e) transactions that are on fair and reasonable terms
substantially as favorable to such member of the Consolidated
Group as would be obtainable by such member of the Consolidated
Group at the time in a comparable arms length transaction
with a Person other than an Affiliate.
SECTION 8.09
No Further Negative Pledges
.
Except in connection with the Bank Credit Agreement and
Indebtedness permitted under
subsections (b)
,
(e)
,
(f)
,
(g)
,
(h)
and
(j)
of
Section 8.01
or restrictions in the Organization
Documents of any Subsidiary that is not Wholly Owned, no member
of the Consolidated Group will enter into, assume or become
subject to any agreement prohibiting or otherwise restricting
the creation or assumption of any Lien upon its properties or
assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired;
provided
that (i) in the case of Indebtedness under subsections
(e)
and
(f)
of
Section 8.01
, such
prohibition or limitations shall relate to the specific property
(and related property) to which such Indebtedness relates,
(ii) in the case of Indebtedness under subsection
(b) of
Section 8.01
, such prohibitions or
limitations shall not be more restrictive on the members of the
Consolidated Group than those in effect on the Closing Date and
(iii) if the scope of such prohibitions or restrictions in
the documents relating to any assumed Subordinated Debt is
materially more restrictive on FMCAG and its Subsidiaries than
the corresponding prohibitions and restrictions under the
Trust Preferred Subdebt outstanding on the Closing Date,
such Subordinated Debt shall be prepaid, redeemed, defeased or
otherwise acquired for value, or refinanced or otherwise amended
on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and
the Required Lenders, within six months of the related
Acquisition.
SECTION 8.10
Fiscal Year
. Change its fiscal
year without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders.
SECTION 8.11
Financial Covenants
.
(a)
Consolidated Leverage Ratio
. As of the end of
each fiscal quarter, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio will not
exceed:
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4.85:1.00
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4.50:1.00
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December 31, 2007 through December 30, 2008
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4.00:1.00
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3.50:1.00
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(b)
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
. As of
the end of each fiscal quarter, the Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio will not be less than 1.20:1.00.
(c)
Consolidated Capital Expenditures
. Consolidated
Capital Expenditures in any fiscal year will not exceed:
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2006
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2007
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$
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600 million
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2008
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$
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650 million
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2009
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$
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700 million
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2010
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$
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700 million
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2011
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Unused amounts may be carried-over for one year in an amount of
up to $50 million.
ARTICLE IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 9.01
Events of Default
. Any of the
following shall constitute an Event of Default:
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(a)
Non-Payment
. The Borrowers or any other Credit
Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid
herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or any L/C
Obligation, or (ii) within five Business Days after the
same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C
Obligation, or any commitment or other fee due hereunder, or
(iii) within five Business Days after the same becomes due,
any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Credit
Document; or
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(b)
Specific Covenants
. The Borrowers fails to
perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in
any of
Section 7.02
or
7.03
, or
Article VIII
; or
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(c)
Other Defaults
. Any Credit Party fails to
perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not
specified in
subsection (a)
or
(b)
above)
contained in any Credit Document on its part to be performed or
observed (subject to applicable grace or cure periods, if any)
and such failure continues unremedied for a period of at least
thirty days after the earlier of a responsible officer of a
Credit Party becoming aware of such default or notice thereof by
the Administrative Agent; or
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(d)
Representations and Warranties
. Any
representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact
made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrowers or any
other Credit Party herein, in any other Credit Document, or in
any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall
prove to be false or misleading in any material respect when
made or deemed made; or
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(e)
Cross-Default
. (i) Any member of the
Consolidated Group (A) fails to make any payment when due
(whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment,
acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any
Indebtedness or Support Obligations (other than Indebtedness
hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an
aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or
available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors
under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more
than $50 million, or (B) fails to observe or perform
any other agreement or condition relating to any such
Indebtedness or Support Obligations or contained in any
instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating
thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default
or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders
of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such
Support Obligations (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such
holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause,
with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be
demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid,
defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer
to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be
made, prior to its stated maturity, or such Support Obligations
to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be
demanded; or (ii) there occurs under any Swap Contract an
Early Termination Date (as defined in such Swap Contract)
resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap
Contract as to which the Borrowers or any Subsidiary is the
Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or
(B) any Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap
Contract as to which the Borrowers or any Subsidiary is an
Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the Swap
Termination Value owed by the Borrowers or such Subsidiary as a
result thereof is greater than $50 million; or
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(f)
Insolvency Proceedings, Etc.
Any member of the
Consolidated Group (other than any Immaterial Foreign
Subsidiary) institutes or consents to the institution of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment
for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the
appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator,
liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all
or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee,
custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar
officer is appointed without the application or consent of such
Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed
for sixty calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor
Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material
part of its property is instituted without the consent of such
Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for sixty calendar
days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding;
or
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(g)
Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment
. (i) Any
member of the Consolidated Group (other than any Immaterial
Foreign Subsidiary) becomes unable or admits in writing its
inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become
due, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution
or similar process is issued or levied against all or any
material part of the property of any such Person and is not
released, vacated or fully bonded within thirty days after its
issue or levy; or
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(h)
Judgments
. There is entered against member of
the Consolidated Group (i) a final judgment or order for
the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding
$50 million (to the extent not covered by independent
third-party insurance as to which the insurer does not dispute
coverage) or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final
judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and,
in either case, (A) such judgment or order is not paid,
bonded or otherwise discharged within thirty days of entry
thereof and enforcement proceedings are commenced by any
creditor upon such judgment or order, or (B) there is a
period of thirty consecutive days during which a stay of
enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or
otherwise, is not in effect (it being understood and agreed for
the purposes of clarification that any judgment or order entered
into in connection with the W.R. Grace bankruptcy that relates
to the settlement of the fraudulent transfer and related claims
against members of the Consolidated Group is not included within
the scope of this provision); or
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(i)
ERISA
. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with
respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan that has
resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability
of the Borrowers under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension
Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in
excess of $50 million, or (ii) the Borrowers or any
ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of
any applicable grace period, any installment payment with
respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of
ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in
excess of $50 million; or
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(j)
Invalidity of Credit Documents
. Any Credit
Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for
any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or
satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in
full force and effect; or any Credit Party or any other Person
contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any
Credit Document; or any Credit Party denies that it has any or
further liability or obligation under any Credit Document, or
purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any Credit Document;
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(k)
Exclusion Event
. There occurs any Exclusion
Event that has, or could reasonably be expected to have, a
Material Adverse Effect; or
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(l)
Change of Control
. There occurs any Change of
Control.
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SECTION 9.02
Remedies Upon Event of Default
. If
any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the
Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the
consent of, the Required Lenders, take any or all of the
following actions:
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(a) declare the commitments of the Lenders to make Loans
hereunder and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make
L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such
commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
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(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding
Loans hereunder, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and
all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other
Credit Document to be immediately due and payable, without
presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of
which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers;
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(c) require that the Borrowers Cash Collateralize the L/C
Obligations (in an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the
Outstanding Amount thereof); and
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(d) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights
and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Credit
Documents or applicable law;
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provided
, however, that upon the occurrence of an event
under
Section 9.01(f)
, the obligation of each Lender
to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C
Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid
principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and
other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and
payable, and the obligation of the Borrowers to Cash
Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall
automatically become effective, in each case without further act
of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
SECTION 9.03
Application of Funds
. After the
exercise of remedies provided for in
Section 9.02
(or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due
and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been
required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso
to
Section 9.02
), any amounts received on account of
the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent
(or, as applicable, the Collateral Agent) in the following order:
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First
, pro rata to the payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement
constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts
(including Attorney Costs and amounts payable under
Article III
) payable to the Collateral Agent in its
capacity as such, including all amounts incurred in the
execution of its duties as collateral agent and the exercise of
rights and remedies in respect of the collateral;
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Second
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement
constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts
(including Attorney Costs and amounts payable under
Article III
) payable to the Administrative Agent in
its capacity as such;
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Third
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement
constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than
principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including
Attorney Costs and amounts payable under
Article III
), ratably among them in proportion to
the amounts described in this clause payable to them;
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Fourth
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement
constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and
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L/C Borrowings and fees, premiums and scheduled periodic
payments, and any interest accrued thereon, due under any Swap
Contract between any Credit Party and any Lender, or any
Affiliate of a Lender, to the extent such Swap Contract is
permitted by
Section 8.01(d)
, ratably among the
Lenders (and, in the case of such Swap Contracts, Affiliates of
Lenders) in proportion to the respective amounts described in
this clause
Fourth
held by them;
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Fifth
, pro rata to payment of that portion of the
Obligations hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement
constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and L/C Borrowings
and breakage, termination or other payments, and any interest
accrued thereon, due under any Swap Contract between any Credit
Party and any Lender, or any Affiliate of a Lender, to the
extent such Swap Contract is permitted by
Section 8.01(d)
, and to Cash Collateralize that
portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn
amount of Letters of Credit, ratably among the Lenders (and, in
the case of such Swap Contracts, Affiliates of Lenders) in
proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause
Fifth
held by them; and
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Last
, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations
hereunder and under the Bank Credit Agreement have been
indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrowers or as otherwise
required by Law.
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Subject to
Section 2.08(c)
of the Bank Credit
Agreement, amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate
undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause
Fifth
above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under
such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any amount remains on
deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have
either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall
be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set
forth above.
ARTICLE X
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
SECTION 10.01
Appointment and Authorization of
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
.
(a) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and
authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action
(including taking action to raise a Spanish notarial deed
(
documento publico
) in connection with any Credit
Document and any Assignment and Assumption Agreement) on its
behalf under the provisions of this Credit Agreement and each
other Credit Document and to exercise such powers and perform
such duties as are expressly delegated to it by the terms of
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, together
with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained
elsewhere herein or in any other Credit Document, the
Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or
responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor
shall the Administrative Agent have or be deemed to have any
fiduciary relationship with any Lender or
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participant, and no implied covenants, functions,
responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be
read into this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document or
otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of
the term agent herein and in the other Credit
Documents with reference to the Administrative Agent is not
intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express)
obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law.
Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom,
and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative
relationship between independent contracting parties.
(b) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and
authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such action (including
taking action to raise a Spanish notarial deed (
documento
publico
) in connection with any Credit Document and any
Assignment and Assumption Agreement) on its behalf under the
provisions of this Credit Agreement and each other Credit
Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as
are expressly delegated to it by the terms of this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document, together with such
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Collateral
Agent shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any
Collateral and the Collateral Documents, and the Collateral
Agent shall have all of the benefits and immunities
(i) provided to the Administrative Agent in this
Article X
with respect to any acts taken or
omissions suffered by the Collateral Agent in connection with
the Collateral or the Collateral Documents as fully as if the
term Administrative Agent as used in this
Article X
and in the definition of
Agent-Related Person included the Collateral Agent
with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as
additionally provided herein and in the other Credit Documents
with respect to the Collateral Agent.
(c) For so long as loans and obligations shall remain
outstanding under this Credit Agreement and the Bank Credit
Agreement and until the commitments hereunder and thereunder
shall have expired or been terminated, the Administrative Agent
under this Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent under the
Bank Credit Agreement and the Collateral Agent shall be the same
institution and if Bank of America shall resign or be replaced
as Administrative Agent under either this Credit Agreement or
the Bank Credit Agreement or as Collateral Agent, then it shall
be replaced with its successor institution in all such
capacities.
(d) Each of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent shall be released from the restrictions of
Section 181 of the German Civil Code (
BGB,
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
) and shall be authorized to
delegate its power of attorney granted hereunder including the
release from the restrictions of Section 181 of the German
Civil Code.
SECTION 10.02
Delegation of Duties
. The
Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this
Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document by or through
agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to
advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning
all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent
shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any
agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 10.03
Liability of Administrative Agent
. No
Agent-Related Person shall (a) be liable for any action
taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in
connection with this
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Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document or the
transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct in connection with its duties
expressly set forth herein), or (b) be responsible in any
manner to any Lender or participant for any recital, statement,
representation or warranty made by any Credit Party or any
officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Credit
Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other
document referred to or provided for in, or received by the
Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document, or the validity,
effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, or for any
failure of any Credit Party or any other party to any Credit
Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No
Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender
or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance
or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or
conditions of, this Credit Agreement or any other Credit
Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any
Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof.
SECTION 10.04
Reliance by Administrative Agent
. The
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be
fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication,
signature, resolution, representation, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or
telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other
document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper
Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal
counsel (including counsel to any Credit Party), independent
accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in
failing or refusing to take any action under any Credit Document
unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the
Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be
expressly required hereunder in any particular instance) as it
deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be
indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and
all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason
of taking or continuing to take any such action. The
Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in
acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document in accordance with a
request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater
number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any
instance) and such request and any action taken or failure to
act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.
SECTION 10.05
Notice of Default
. The Administrative
Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, except with
respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and
fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lenders, unless the Administrative Agent shall
have received written notice from a Lender or the Borrowers
referring to this Credit Agreement, describing such Default or
Event of Default and stating that such notice is a notice
of default. The Administrative Agent will notify the
Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. The Administrative
Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or
Event of Default as may be directed by the requisite Lenders in
accordance herewith;
provided
, however, that unless and
until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction,
the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to)
take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with
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respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem
advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders.
SECTION 10.06
Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information
by Administrative Agent
. Each Lender acknowledges that no
Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to
it, and that no act by the Administrative Agent hereafter taken,
including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or
review of the affairs of any Credit Party or any Affiliate
thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or
warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any
matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed
material information in their possession. Each Lender represents
to the Administrative Agent that it has, independently and
without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its
own appraisal of and investigation into the business, prospects,
operations, property, financial and other condition and
creditworthiness of the Credit Parties and their respective
Subsidiaries, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws
relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its
own decision to enter into this Credit Agreement and to extend
credit to the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties hereunder.
Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and
without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and
decisions in taking or not taking action under this Credit
Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and to make such
investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the
business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other
condition and creditworthiness of the Borrowers and the other
Credit Parties. Except for notices, reports and other documents
expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the
Administrative Agent herein, the Administrative Agent shall not
have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any
credit or other information concerning the business, prospects,
operations, property, financial and other condition or
creditworthiness of any of the Credit Parties or any of their
respective Affiliates that may come into the possession of any
Agent-Related Person.
SECTION 10.07
Indemnification of Administrative
Agent
. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby
are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand each
Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on
behalf of any Credit Party and without limiting the obligation
of any Credit Party to do so), pro rata, and hold harmless each
Agent-Related Person from and against any and all Indemnified
Liabilities incurred by it;
provided
, however, that no
Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related
Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities to the
extent determined in a final, nonappealable judgment by a court
of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such
Agent-Related Persons own gross negligence or willful
misconduct;
provided
, however, that no action taken in
accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders (or such
greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereunder
in any particular instance) shall be deemed to constitute gross
negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section.
Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse
the Administrative Agent upon demand for its ratable share of
any costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including Attorney Costs)
incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the
preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification,
amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal
proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of
rights or responsibilities under, this Credit Agreement,
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any other Credit Document, or any document contemplated by or
referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent
is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of the
Borrowers. The undertaking in this Section shall survive
termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment of all
other Obligations and the resignation of the Administrative
Agent.
SECTION 10.08
Administrative Agent in its Individual
Capacity
. Bank of America and its Affiliates may make loans
to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits
from, acquire equity interests in and generally engage in any
kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or
other business with each of the Credit Parties and their
respective Affiliates as though Bank of America were not the
Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer hereunder and without
notice to or consent of the Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge
that, pursuant to such activities, Bank of America or its
Affiliates may receive information regarding any Credit Party or
its Affiliates (including information that may be subject to
confidentiality obligations in favor of such Credit Party or
such Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative Agent
shall be under no obligation to provide such information to
them. With respect to its Loans, Bank of America shall have the
same rights and powers under this Credit Agreement as any other
Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though it were
not the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, and the terms
Lender and Lenders include Bank of
America in its individual capacity.
SECTION 10.09
Successor Administrative Agent
.
Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.01(c)
, the
Administrative Agent may voluntarily resign as Administrative
Agent upon thirty days notice to the Lenders, and shall,
upon thirty days notice to the Administrative Agent,
resign at the request, with or without cause, of the Required
Lenders (provided at all times other than during the existence
of an Event of Default, such request for resignation by the
Required Lenders shall require the written consent of the
Borrowers, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) within thirty days of its receipt of such request for
resignation;
provided
that any such resignation by Bank
of America shall also constitute its resignation as Collateral
Agent, L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender. If the Administrative
Agent resigns under this Credit Agreement, the Required Lenders
shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor administrative
agent for the Lenders, which successor administrative agent
shall be consented to by the Borrowers at all times other than
during the existence of an Event of Default (which consent of
the Borrowers shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). If
no successor administrative agent is appointed prior to the
effective date of the resignation of the Administrative Agent,
the Administrative Agent may appoint, after consulting with the
Lenders and the Borrowers, a successor administrative agent from
among the Lenders. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as
successor administrative agent hereunder, the Person acting as
such successor administrative agent shall succeed to all the
rights, powers and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent,
Collateral Agent, L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender and such
respective terms shall mean such successor administrative agent,
collateral agent, Letter of Credit issuer and swing line lender,
and the retiring Administrative Agents appointment, powers
and duties in such capacities shall be terminated without any
other or further act or deed on its behalf. After any retiring
Administrative Agents resignation hereunder as
Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article X and
Sections 11.04
and
11.05
shall inure to its
benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it
while it was Administrative Agent under this Credit
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Agreement. If no successor administrative agent has accepted
appointment as Administrative Agent by the date thirty days
following a retiring Administrative Agents notice of
resignation, the retiring Administrative Agents
resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and
the Lenders shall perform all of the duties of the
Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the
Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above.
SECTION 10.10
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of
Claim
. In case of the pendency of any receivership,
insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to any Credit Party, the Administrative
Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C
Obligation 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
Borrowers) shall be entitled and empowered to, and upon the
request of the Required Lenders shall, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise:
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(a) file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans,
L/C Obligations and all other Obligations (other than
obligations under Swap Contracts to which the Administrative
Agent is not a party) that are owing and unpaid and to file such
other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative
Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other
amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under
Sections 2.04
and
11.04
) allowed in such
judicial proceeding; and
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(b) collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the
same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make
such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that
the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative
Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its
agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative
Agent under
Sections 2.04
and
11.04
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Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the
Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or
adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations
or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative
Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 10.11
Collateral and Guaranty Matters
. The
Lenders irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its
option and in its discretion, to release any Guarantor from its
obligations under the Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a
Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder and
to release any Collateral if such release is appropriate as a
result of a transaction permitted hereunder.
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Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the
Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative
Agents authority to release any Guarantor from its
obligations hereunder pursuant to this
Section 10.11
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SECTION 10.12
Other Agents; Arrangers and
Managers
. None of the Lenders or other Persons identified on
the facing page or signature pages of this Credit Agreement as a
co-syndication agent, co-documentation
agent, joint lead arranger or book
manager shall have any right, power, obligation,
liability, responsibility or duty under this Credit Agreement
other than, in the case of such Lenders, those applicable to all
Lenders as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the
Lenders or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed
to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender. Each Lender
acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any
of the Lenders or other Persons so identified in deciding to
enter into this Credit Agreement or in taking or not taking
action hereunder.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.01
Amendments, Etc.
No amendment or
waiver of, or any consent to deviation from, any provision of
this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document shall be
effective unless in writing and signed by the Borrowers or the
applicable Credit Parties, as the case may be, and the Required
Lenders and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each
such amendment, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it is
given;
provided
, however, that:
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(a) unless also signed by each Lender directly affected
thereby, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or
reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to
Section 9.02
), it being understood that the waiver
of an Event of Default or a mandatory reduction or a mandatory
prepayment in Commitments shall not be considered an increase in
Commitments,
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(ii) waive non-payment or postpone any date fixed by this
Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document for any payment of
principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to any Lender
hereunder or under any other Credit Document,
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(iii) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest
specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or any fees or
other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Credit
Document;
provided
, however, that only the consent of the
Required Lenders shall be necessary (A) to amend the
definition of Default Rate or to waive any
obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest at the Default
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Rate or (B) to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or
any defined term used therein) even if the effect of such
amendment would be to reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or
L/C Borrowing or to reduce any fee payable hereunder,
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(iv) change any provision of this Credit Agreement
regarding pro rata sharing or pro rata funding with respect to
(A) the making of advances (including participations),
(B) the manner of application of payments or prepayments of
principal, interest, or fees, (C) the manner of application
of reimbursement obligations from drawings under Letters of
Credit, or (D) the manner of reduction of commitments and
committed amounts,
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(v) change any provision of this
Section 11.01(a)
or the definition of Required
Lenders or any other provision hereof specifying the
number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or
otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination
or grant any consent hereunder,
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(vi) release all or substantially all of the Guarantors
from their obligations hereunder (other than as provided herein
or as appropriate in connection with transactions permitted
hereunder), or
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(vii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral
(other than as provided herein or as appropriate in connection
with transactions permitted hereunder);
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(b) unless also signed by the Required Revolving Lenders,
no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) waive any Default or Event of Default for purposes of
Section 5.02
,
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(ii) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Revolving Obligations under
Section 2.06(b)
or the
manner of application thereof to the Revolving Obligations under
Section 2.06(c)
,
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(iii) amend or waive the provisions of
Section 5.02
(Conditions to all Credit Extensions),
Section 7.12
(Joinder of Additional Guarantors),
Article VIII
(Negative Covenants),
Article IX
(Events of Default and Remedies), this
Section 11.01(b)
or the definition of Required
Revolving Lenders;
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(c) unless also signed by the Required Tranche A Term
Lenders, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Tranche A Term Loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or
the manner of application thereof to the Tranche A Term
Loan under
Section 2.06(c)
, or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section 11.01(c)
or the definition of Required
Tranche A Term Lenders;
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(d) unless also signed by the Required Tranche B Term
Lenders, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Tranche B Term Loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or
the manner of application thereof to the Tranche B Term
Loan under
Section 2.06(c)
, or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section 11.01(d)
or the definition of Required
Tranche B Term Lenders;
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(e) unless also signed by the Required Tranche C Term
Lenders, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on the
Tranche C Term Loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or
the manner of application thereof to the Tranche C Term
Loan under
Section 2.06(c)
, or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section 11.01(e)
or the definition of Required
Tranche C Term Lenders;
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(f) unless also signed by Lenders holding in the aggregate
more than fifty percent (50%) of each other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities (excluding for
the purposes of such determination the amounts held by any
Defaulting Lender), no amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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(i) amend or waive any mandatory prepayment on such term
loan under
Section 2.06(b)
or the manner of
application thereof to any such term loan under
Section 2.06(c)
; or
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(ii) amend or waive the provisions of this
Section 11.01(f)
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(g) unless also signed by the L/C Issuer, no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties
of the L/C Issuer under this Credit Agreement or any Letter of
Credit Application relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to
be issued by it;
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(h) unless also signed by the Swing Line Lender, no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties
of the Swing Line Lender under this Credit Agreement;
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(i) unless also signed by the Administrative Agent, no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties
of the Administrative Agent under this Credit Agreement or any
other Credit Document and unless also signed by the Collateral
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Agent, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the
rights or duties of the Collateral Agent under this Credit
Agreement or any other Credit Document.
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Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein,
(i) no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or
disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except
that the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or
extended without the consent of such Lender, (ii) each
Lender is entitled to vote as such Lender sees fit on any
bankruptcy or insolvency reorganization plan that affects the
Loans, (iii) each Lender acknowledges that the provisions
of Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code supersedes the
unanimous consent provisions set forth herein, (iv) the
Required Lenders may consent to allow a Credit Party to use cash
collateral in the context of a bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, (v) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or
privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the
parties thereto and (vi) the Borrowers may increase the
Applicable Percentage for the Tranche B Term Loan on notice
to the Administrative Agent without the consent of the Required
Lenders or the Tranche B Lenders in connection with the
establishment of a Tranche C Term Loan (or other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities under
Section 2.01(c)
).
SECTION 11.02
Notices and Other Communications;
Facsimile Copies
.
(a)
General
. Unless otherwise expressly provided
herein, all notices and other communications provided for
hereunder shall be in writing (including by facsimile
transmission). All such written notices shall be mailed (unless
such notice is to FMCAG or any Foreign Subsidiary of FMCAG),
faxed or delivered, and all notices and other communications
expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be
made, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address
or telephone number specified for the applicable party on
Schedule 11.02
or to such other address, facsimile
number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be
designated by such party in a notice to the other parties;
provided
that all notices given to FMCAG hereunder shall
simultaneously be given to FMCH. All such notices and other
communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the
earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant
party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by
courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party
hereto; (B) with respect to any Domestic Credit Party, if
delivered by mail, four Business Days after deposit in the
mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid;
(C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has
been confirmed by telephone; and (D) if delivered by
electronic mail (which form of delivery is subject to the
provisions of
subsection (c)
below), when delivered. In
no event shall a voicemail message be effective as a notice,
communication or confirmation hereunder.
(b)
Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and
Signatures
. Credit Documents may be transmitted and/or
signed by facsimile. The effectiveness of any such documents and
signatures shall, subject to applicable Law, have the same force
and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on
all Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
The Administrative Agent may also require that any such
documents and signatures be confirmed by a manually-signed
original thereof;
provided
, however, that the failure to
request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of
any facsimile document or signature.
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(c)
Limited Use of Electronic Mail
. With respect to
any notices or deliveries required hereunder, electronic mail
and internet and intranet websites may be used only to
distribute routine communications, such as financial statements
and other information as provided in
Section 7.02
,
and to distribute Credit Documents for execution by the parties
thereto, and may not be used for any other purpose.
(d)
The Platform
. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED AS
IS AND AS AVAILABLE. THE AGENT PARTIES (AS
DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF
THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE
BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY
AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE
PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent, Arrangers
or any of its Agent-Related Persons (collectively, the
Agent Parties
) have any liability to any
Borrower, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for
losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind
(whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any
Borrowers or the Administrative Agents transmission
of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent
that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party;
provided
,
however
, that in no event shall any
Agent Party have any liability to any Borrower, any Lender, the
L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special,
incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to
direct or actual damages).
(e)
Reliance by Administrative Agent and Lenders
.
The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to
rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Loan Notices
and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf
of the Borrowers even if (i) such notices were not made in
a manner provided herein, were incomplete or were not preceded
or followed by any other form of notice provided herein, or
(ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient,
varied from any confirmation thereof. The Borrowers shall
indemnify each Agent-Related Person and each Lender from all
losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the
reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or
on behalf of the Borrowers. All telephonic notices to and other
communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by
the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby
consents to such recording.
SECTION 11.03
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
.
No failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to
exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any
right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a
waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other
or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right,
remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and
privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of
any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
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SECTION 11.04
Attorney Costs and Expenses
. The
Borrowers agree (a) to pay directly to the provider thereof
or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all reasonable costs
and expenses incurred in connection with the development,
preparation, negotiation and execution of this Credit Agreement
and the other Credit Documents, or preservation of any rights or
remedies under this Credit Agreement or the other Credit
Documents, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other
modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or
not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby are
consummated), and the consummation and administration of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including all
Attorney Costs, and (b) if an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent
and each Lender for all costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the enforcement, attempted enforcement, or
preservation of any rights or remedies under this Credit
Agreement or the other Credit Documents (including all such
costs and expenses incurred during any workout or
restructuring in respect of the Obligations and during any legal
proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief
Law), including all Attorney Costs. The foregoing costs and
expenses shall include all search, filing, recording, title
insurance and appraisal charges and fees and taxes related
thereto, and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent and the cost of independent public
accountants and other outside experts retained by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender. All amounts due under this
Section 11.04
shall be payable within thirty days
after demand therefor. The agreements in this Section shall
survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and
repayment of all other Obligations.
SECTION 11.05
Indemnification by the Borrowers
.
Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are
consummated, the Borrowers shall indemnify and hold harmless
each Agent-Related Person, each Lender and their respective
Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, counsel, agents,
trustees, advisors and attorneys-in-fact (collectively the
Indemnitees
) from and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims,
demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and
disbursements (including Attorney Costs) of any kind or nature
whatsoever (subject to the provisions of
Section 3.01
with respect to Taxes and Other Taxes)
that may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising
out of or in connection with (a) the execution, delivery,
enforcement, performance or administration of any Credit
Document or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered
in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby,
(b) any Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or
proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by
the L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand
do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit)
or (c) any actual or threatened claim, litigation,
investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing,
whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including
any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending
or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding)
and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto (all
the foregoing, collectively, the
Indemnified
Liabilities
);
provided
that such indemnity
shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that
such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements are determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction by final and
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nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. No
Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use
by others of any information or other materials obtained through
IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in
connection with this Credit Agreement, and no Indemnitee shall
have any liability for any indirect or consequential damages
relating to this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document
or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or
therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date). All
amounts due under this
Section 11.05
shall be
payable within thirty days after demand therefor. The agreements
in this Section shall survive the resignation of the
Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the
termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment,
satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.
SECTION 11.06
Payments Set Aside
. To the extent
that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrowers is made to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent
or any Lender exercises its right of set-off, and such payment
or the proceeds of such set-off 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 or such
Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or
any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any
Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of
such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally
intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full
force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such
set-off had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its
applicable share 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 Rate from time to time in
effect.
SECTION 11.07
Successors and Assigns
.
(a) The provisions of this Credit Agreement shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and
their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except
that the Borrowers may not assign or otherwise transfer any of
their rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written
consent of each Lender (other than as provided in
Sections 2.11
and
2.12
) and no Lender may
assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations
hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance
with the provisions of
subsection (b)
of this Section,
(ii) by way of participation in accordance with the
provisions of
subsection (d)
of this Section, or
(iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest
subject to the restrictions of
subsection (f)
or
(g)
of this Section (and any other attempted assignment
or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void);
provided
that no such assignment, participation or
transfer shall, without the consent of FMCAG, require FMCAG to
file a registration statement with the SEC or apply to qualify
such assignment, participation or other transfer under the
securities laws of any state. Nothing in this Credit Agreement,
expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any
Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective
successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the
extent provided in
subsection (d)
of this Section and, to
the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of
this Credit Agreement.
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(b) Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more
Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement (including all or a
portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes
of this
subsection (b)
, participations in L/C
Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it);
provided
that (i) except in the case of an
assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning
Lenders Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it
or in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Lender, the
aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose
includes Loans outstanding thereunder) subject to each such
assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and
Assumption Agreement with respect to such assignment is
delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if Trade
Date is specified in the Assignment and Assumption
Agreement, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than
$5 million, in the case of Revolving Loans, and
$1 million, in the case of Term Loans, unless each of the
Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, FMCAG otherwise consents (each such
consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed),
provided
that concurrent assignments to members of an
Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an
Assignee Group to a single assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee
and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single
assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum
amount has been met; (ii) any assignment of a Commitment
must be approved by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of
any assignment of a Revolving Commitment, the L/C Issuers and
the Swing Line Lenders (each such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed) unless the Person that is the
proposed assignee is itself a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender
(whether or not the proposed assignee would otherwise qualify as
an Eligible Assignee); and (iii) the parties to each
assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent
an Assignment and Assumption Agreement, together with a
processing and recordation fee as set forth on the attached
Schedule 11.07
payable by the assigning Lender or
the Eligible Assignee, and the Eligible Assignee, if it shall
not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an
Administrative Questionnaire. Subject to acceptance and
recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
subsection (c)
of this Section, from and after the
effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption
Agreement, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to
this Credit Agreement and, to the extent of the interest
assigned by such Assignment and Assumption Agreement, have the
rights and obligations of a Lender under this Credit Agreement,
and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the
interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption Agreement,
be released from its obligations under this Credit Agreement
(and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement
covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement, such Lender shall cease
to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the
benefits of
Sections 3.01
,
3.04
,
3.05
,
11.04
and
11.05
with respect to facts and
circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such
assignment). Upon request of the assignee Lender, the Borrowers
shall execute and deliver a Note to such Lender. Any assignment
or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this
Credit Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall
be treated for purposes of this Credit Agreement as a sale by
such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in
accordance with
subsection (d)
of this Section.
(c) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this
purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at the
Administrative Agents Office a copy of each Assignment and
Assumption Agreement delivered to it and a register for the
recordation of the names and
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addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal
amounts of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender
pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the
Register
). The entries in the Register shall
be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the
Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for
all purposes of this Credit Agreement, notwithstanding notice to
the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by
the Borrowers and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from
time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or
notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell
participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the
Borrowers or any of the Borrowers Affiliates or
Subsidiaries) (each, a
Participant
) in all or
a portion of such Lenders rights and/or obligations under
this Credit Agreement (including all or a portion of its
Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lenders
participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing
to it);
provided
that (i) such Lenders
obligations under this Credit 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 Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the other
Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such
Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement. Any agreement or
instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation
shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to
enforce this Credit Agreement and to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Credit
Agreement;
provided
that such agreement or instrument may
provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the
Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other
modification that extends the time for, reduces the amount or
alters the application of proceeds with respect to such
obligations and payments required thereon that directly affects
such Participant. Subject to
subsection (e)
of this
Section, the Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be
entitled to the benefits of and subject to the obligations of a
Lender set forth in
Sections 3.01
,
3.04
and
3.05
and shall be subject to replacement in accordance
with
Section 11.16
to the same extent as if it were
a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to
subsection (b)
of this Section. To the extent
permitted by Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the
benefits of and subject to the obligations of a Lender set forth
in
Section 11.09
as though it were a Lender,
provided
such Participant agrees to be subject to
Section 2.10
as though it were a Lender.
(e) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any
greater payment under
Section 3.01
or
3.04
than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive
with respect to the participation sold to such Participant. A
Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender
shall not be entitled to the benefits of
Section 3.01
unless the Borrowers are notified of
the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant
agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply and complies
with
Section 11.15
as though it were a Lender.
(f) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security
interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Credit
Agreement (including under its Note, if any) 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
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its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or
assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, any Lender that is a Fund may (without notice to or the
consent of the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers) create a
security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it
(and its Note, if any) to the trustee for holders of obligations
owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such
obligations or securities,
provided
that unless and until
such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the
other provisions of this
Section 11.07
, (i) no
such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its
obligations under the Credit Documents and (ii) such
trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a
Lender under the Credit Documents even though such trustee may
have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged
interest through foreclosure or otherwise.
(h) The words execution, signed,
signature, and words of like import in any
Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic
signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of
which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or
enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a
paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the
extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the
Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce
Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act,
or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act.
SECTION 11.08
Confidentiality
. Each of the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the
confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may
be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates directors,
officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal
counsel and other advisors, in connection with matters relating
to the credit relationship with members of the Consolidated
Group and/or the administration of the Credit Documents (it
being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is
made will be informed of the confidential nature of such
Information and instructed to keep such Information
confidential); (b) to the extent requested by any
regulatory authority; (c) to the extent required by
applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar
legal process; (d) to any other party to this Credit
Agreement; (e) in connection with the exercise of any
remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to
this Credit Agreement or the enforcement of rights hereunder;
(f) subject to an agreement containing provisions
substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any
Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective
Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or
obligations under this Credit Agreement or (ii) any direct
or indirect contractual counterparty or prospective counterparty
(or such contractual counterpartys or prospective
counterpartys professional advisor) to any credit
derivative transaction relating to obligations of the Credit
Parties; (g) with the consent of the Borrowers; (h) to
the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available
other than as a result of a breach of this Section or
(ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent or any
Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the
Borrowers; (i) to the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners or any other similar organization; or (j) to
any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to
a Lenders or an Affiliates investment portfolio in
connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender or
Affiliate. In addition, the Administrative
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Agent and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Credit
Agreement and non-confidential information about this Credit
Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers
to the lending industry, and service providers to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with the
administration and management of this Credit Agreement, the
other Credit Documents, the Commitments, and the Credit
Extensions. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality
of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered
to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has
exercised the same degree of care to maintain the
confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord
to its own confidential information. Each of the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that
(a) the Information may include material non-public
information concerning the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries, as
the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures
regarding the use of material non-public information and
(c) it will handle such material non-public information in
accordance with applicable Law, including federal and state
securities Laws.
SECTION 11.09
Set-off
. In addition to any
rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default,
each Lender and to the fullest extent permitted by law, each of
its Affiliates are authorized at any time and from time to time,
without prior notice to the Borrowers or any other Credit Party,
any such notice being waived by the Borrowers (on its own behalf
and on behalf of each Credit Party) 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 by, and other indebtedness at any time owing by,
such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of
the respective Credit Parties against any and all Obligations
owing to such Lender hereunder or under any other Credit
Document, now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or
not the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have made
demand under this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document
and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or
denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable
deposit or indebtedness. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify
FMCAG and the Administrative Agent after any such set-off and
application made by such Lender;
provided
, however, that
the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of
such set-off and application.
SECTION 11.10
Interest Rate Limitation
.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Credit
Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the
Credit Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of
non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the
Maximum Rate
). If the Administrative Agent or
any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the
Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the
principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal,
refunded to the Borrowers. In determining whether the interest
contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent
or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the
extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any
payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium
rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and
the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate,
and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of
interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations
hereunder.
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SECTION 11.11
Counterparts
. This Credit
Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together
shall constitute one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.12
Integration; Effectiveness
. This
Credit Agreement, together with the other Credit Documents,
comprises the complete and integrated agreement of the parties
on the subject matter hereof and of the other Credit Documents
(including, for purposes hereof, the Bank Credit Agreement) and
supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, on such
subject matter (including the Existing Credit Agreement). In the
event of any conflict between the provisions of this Credit
Agreement and those of any other Credit Document, the provisions
of this Credit Agreement shall control;
provided
that the
inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders in any other Credit Document
shall not be deemed a conflict with the Bank Credit Agreement.
Each Credit Document was drafted with the joint participation of
the respective parties thereto and shall be construed neither
against nor in favor of any party, but rather in accordance with
the fair meaning thereof. Except as provided in
Section 5.01
, this Credit Agreement shall become
effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative
Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received
counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the
signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an
executed counterpart of a signature page of this Credit
Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart of this Credit Agreement.
SECTION 11.13
Survival of Representations and
Warranties
. All representations and warranties made
hereunder and in any other Credit Document or other document
delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith
or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and
thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will
be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender,
regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent
or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the
Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or
knowledge of any Default or Event of Default at the time of any
Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as
long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain
unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain
outstanding.
SECTION 11.14
Severability
. If any provision of
this Credit Agreement or the other Credit Documents is held to
be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality,
validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this
Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents shall not be
affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall
endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal,
invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the
economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of
the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity
of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.15
Tax Forms
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(a) (i) Each Lender that is not a United States
person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of
the Internal Revenue Code (a
Foreign Lender
)
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, prior to receipt of
any payment under this Credit Agreement or
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any Note (or upon accepting an assignment of an interest
herein), (A) two duly signed completed copies of either IRS
Form W-8BEN or any successor thereto (relating to such
Foreign Lender and entitling it to a complete exemption from any
United States withholding tax on any payments to be made to such
Foreign Lender by the Borrowers pursuant to this Credit
Agreement) or IRS Form W-8ECI or any successor thereto
(relating to all payments to be made to such Foreign Lender by
the Borrowers pursuant to this Credit Agreement being subject to
full United States income tax) or such other evidence
satisfactory to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent that
such Foreign Lender is entitled to a complete exemption from
United States withholding tax, including any exemption pursuant
to Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and
(B) two duly signed completed copies of IRS Form W-8,
or applicable successor form, certifying that it is entitled to
an exemption from United States backup withholding tax. For the
avoidance of doubt, in the case of an exemption under
Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, such other
satisfactory evidence shall include a statement under penalties
of perjury that such Lender (1) is not a bank
under Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code, is
not subject to regulatory or other legal requirements as a bank
in any jurisdiction and has not been treated as a bank for
purposes of any tax, securities law or other filing or
submission made to nay Governmental Authority, any application
made to a rating agency or qualification for any exemption from
any tax, securities law or other legal requirements, (2) is
not a ten percent (10%) shareholder of any of the Borrowers
within the meaning of Section 811(c)(3)(B) of the Internal
Revenue Code and (3) is not a controlled foreign
corporation receiving interest from a related person within the
meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue
Code. Thereafter and from time to time, each such Foreign Lender
shall (A) promptly submit to the Administrative Agent such
additional duly completed and signed copies of one of such forms
(or such successor forms as shall be adopted from time to time
by the relevant United States taxing authorities) as may then be
available under then current United States laws and regulations
to avoid, or such evidence as is satisfactory to the Borrowers
and the Administrative Agent of any available exemption from
United States withholding taxes in respect of all payments to be
made to such Foreign Lender by the Borrowers pursuant to this
Credit Agreement, (B) promptly notify the Administrative
Agent of any change in circumstances that would modify or render
invalid any claimed exemption or reduction, and (C) take
such steps as shall not be materially disadvantageous to it, in
the reasonable judgment of such Lender, and as may be reasonably
necessary (including the re-designation of its Lending Office)
to avoid any requirement of applicable Laws that the Borrowers
make any deduction or withholding for taxes from amounts payable
to such Foreign Lender.
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(ii) Each Foreign Lender, to the extent it does not act or
ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of
any sums paid or payable to such Lender under any of the Credit
Documents (for example, in the case of a typical participation
by such Lender), shall deliver to the Administrative Agent on
the date when such Foreign Lender ceases to act for its own
account with respect to any portion of any such sums paid or
payable, and at such other times as may be necessary in the
determination of the Administrative Agent (in the reasonable
exercise of its discretion), (A) two duly signed completed
copies of the forms or statements required to be provided by
such Lender as
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set forth above, to establish the portion of any such sums paid
or payable with respect to which such Lender acts for its own
account that is not subject to U.S. withholding tax, and
(B) two duly signed completed copies of IRS
Form W-8IMY (or any successor thereto), together with any
information such Lender chooses to transmit with such form, and
any other certificate or statement of exemption required under
the Internal Revenue Code, to establish that such Lender is not
acting for its own account with respect to the remaining portion
of any such sums payable to such Lender.
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(iii) The Borrowers shall not be required to pay any
additional amount to any Foreign Lender under
Section 3.01
(A) with respect to any Taxes
required to be deducted or withheld on the basis of the
information, certificates or statements of exemption such Lender
transmits with an IRS Form W-8IMY pursuant to this
Section 11.15(a)
or (B) if such Lender shall
have failed to satisfy the foregoing provisions of this
Section 11.15(a)
;
provided
that if such
Lender shall have satisfied the requirement of this
Section 11.15(a)
on the date such Lender became a
Lender or ceased to act for its own account with respect to any
payment under any of the Credit Documents, nothing in this
Section 11.15(a)
shall relieve the Borrowers of its
obligation to pay any amounts pursuant to
Section 3.01
in the event that, as a result of any
change in any applicable law, treaty or governmental rule,
regulation or order, or any change in the interpretation,
administration or application thereof, such Lender is no longer
properly entitled to deliver forms, certificates or other
evidence at a subsequent date establishing the fact that such
Lender or other Person for the account of which such Lender
receives any sums payable under any of the Credit Documents is
not subject to withholding or is subject to withholding at a
reduced rate.
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(iv) The Administrative Agent may, without reduction,
withhold any Taxes required to be deducted and withheld from any
payment under any of the Credit Documents with respect to which
the Borrowers are not required to pay additional amounts under
this
Section 11.15(a)
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(b) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent, each
Lender that is a United States person within the
meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent two duly signed
completed copies of IRS Form W-9. If such Lender fails to
deliver such forms, then the Administrative Agent may withhold
from any interest payment to such Lender an amount equivalent to
the applicable back-up withholding tax imposed by the Internal
Revenue Code, without reduction.
(c) If any Governmental Authority asserts that the
Administrative Agent did not properly withhold or backup
withhold, as the case may be, any tax or other amount from
payments made to or for the account of any Lender, such Lender
shall indemnify the Administrative Agent therefor, including all
penalties and interest, any taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on
the amounts payable to the Administrative Agent under this
Section, and costs and expenses (including Attorney Costs) of
the Administrative Agent. The obligation of the Lenders under
this Section shall survive the termination of the Aggregate
Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder and
the resignation of the Administrative Agent.
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SECTION 11.16
Replacement of Lenders
. If
(i) any Lender requests compensation under
Section 3.04
, (ii) the Borrower is required to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 3.01
, (iii) a Lender (a
Non-Consenting Lender
) does not consent to a
proposed amendment, consent, change, waiver, discharge or
termination with respect to any Credit Document that has been
approved by the Required Lenders, the Required Revolving
Lenders, the Required Tranche A Term Lenders, the Required
Tranche B Term Lenders or the Required Tranche C Term
Lenders (or the required lenders for any other term loan
established under the Incremental Loan Facilities), as
appropriate, (including, without limitation by a failure to
respond in writing to a proposed amendment by the date and time
specified by the Administrative Agent) as provided in
Section 11.01
but requires unanimous consent of all
Lenders or all Lenders of a particular class of loans, or
(iv) any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrowers
may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such
Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to
assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and
subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required
by,
Section 11.07
), all of its interests, rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement and the related Credit
Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations
(which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such
assignment),
provided
that:
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(a) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Administrative
Agent the assignment fee specified in
Section 11.07(b)
;
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(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount
equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/C
Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other
amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Credit
Documents (including any amounts under
Section 3.05
)
from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal
and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of
all other amounts);
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(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a
claim for compensation under
Section 3.04
or
payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 3.01
, such assignment will result in a
reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter; and
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(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws;
and
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(e) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a
Non-Consenting Lenders failure to consent to a proposed
amendment, consent change, waiver, discharge or termination with
respect to any Credit Document, the applicable replacement bank
or financial institution consents to the proposed change,
waiver, discharge or termination; provided that the failure by
such Non-Consenting Lender to execute and deliver an Assignment
and Assumption shall not impair the validity of the removal of
such Non-Consenting Lender and the mandatory assignment of such
Non-Consenting Lenders Commitments and outstanding Loans
and participations in L/C Obligations pursuant to this
Section 11.16
shall nevertheless be effective
without the execution by such Non-Consenting Lender of an
Assignment and Assumption.
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A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or
delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such
Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers
to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
SECTION 11.17
Source of Funds
. Each of the Lenders
party to this Credit Agreement hereby represents and warrants to
the Borrowers that at least one of the following statements is
an accurate representation as to the source of funds to be used
by such Lender in connection with the financing hereunder:
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(a) no part of such funds constitutes assets allocated to
any separate account maintained by such Lender in which any
employee benefit plan (or its related trust) has any interest;
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(b) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes
assets allocated to any separate account maintained by such
Lender, such Lender has disclosed to the Borrowers the name of
each employee benefit plan whose assets in such account exceed
ten percent (10%) of the total assets of such account as of the
date of such purchase (and, for purposes of this
subsection
(b)
, all employee benefit plans maintained by the same
employer or employee organization are deemed to be a single
plan);
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(c) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes
assets of an insurance companys general account, such
insurance company has complied with all of the requirements of
the regulations issued under Section 401(c)(1)(A) of ERISA;
or
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(d) such funds constitute assets of one or more specific
benefit plans that such Lender has identified in writing to the
Borrowers.
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As used in this Section, the terms employee benefit
plan and separate account shall have the
respective meanings provided in Section 3 of ERISA.
SECTION 11.18
Nature of Obligations of the Borrowers
.
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(a) The obligations of each of the Primary Borrowers, as
borrowers hereunder, shall be joint and several in nature for
all Loan Obligations and other obligations owing hereunder or
under the other Credit Documents;
provided
that:
(i) the obligations of any Primary Borrower as a joint and
several obligor hereunder in respect of such obligations shall
not in any event exceed an aggregate amount equal to the largest
amount that would not render such obligations subject to
avoidance under the Debtor Relief Laws or any comparable
provisions of any applicable state law, (ii) none of the
Primary Borrowers shall exercise any right of subrogation,
indemnity, reimbursement or contribution against any other
Borrower or Guarantor until such time as the Loan Obligations
and the other obligations owing hereunder and under the other
Credit Documents have been irrevocably paid in full and the
commitments relating thereto have expired or been terminated,
and (iii) each Primary Borrower expressly waives any
requirement that the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or any
of their officers, agents
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or representatives, exhaust any right, power or remedy or first
proceed under any of the Credit Documents or against any other
Borrower, Guarantor, other Person or collateral.
(b) The obligations of each of the Designated Borrowers
that are not Primary Borrowers, as borrowers hereunder, shall be
several (and not joint) in nature and shall be limited in each
case to the obligations borrowed by such Designated Borrower
hereunder.
SECTION 11.19
Judgment Currency
. If, for the
purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to
convert a sum due hereunder or any other Credit Document from
one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used
shall be that at which, in accordance with normal banking
procedures, the Administrative Agent could purchase such
currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding
the day on which final judgment is given. The obligation of the
Borrowers in respect of any such sum due to the Administrative
Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the other Credit
Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the
Judgment Currency
) other than that in which
such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Credit Agreement (the
Agreement
Currency
), 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 the Judgment Currency, the
Administrative Agent may in accordance with normal banking
procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment
Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased
is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent
from the Borrowers in the Agreement Currency, the Borrowers
agree, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such
judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to
whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount
of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum
originally due to the Administrative Agent in such currency, the
Administrative Agent agrees to return the amount of any excess
to the Borrowers (or to any other Person who may be entitled
thereto under applicable law).
SECTION 11.20
Power of Attorney
.
(a) Without limiting any other authority granted to the
Collateral Agent herein or in any other Credit Document, each
Lender party to this Credit Agreement hereby specifically
authorizes the Collateral Agent to enter into, as agent on
behalf of the Lenders party to this Credit Agreement (with the
effect that each Lender shall become a party thereunder), and/or
amend, as agent on behalf of the Lenders, (i) any Pledge
Agreements governed by German Law and (ii) the Parallel
Debt Agreement or any substantially similar agreement that
creates an obligation of the Credit Parties (as debt
acknowledgement or
abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis
) in
favor of the Collateral Agent under German Law. The
authorization granted herein comprises any action or declaration
the Collateral Agent may deem necessary in connection with such
Pledge Agreements (including any action or declaration that the
Collateral Agent deems to be necessary in order to create and
continue a valid Pledge Agreement governed by German Law), the
Parallel Debt Agreement or any substantially similar agreement
that creates an obligation of the Credit Parties (as debt
acknowledgement or
abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis
) in
favor of the Collateral Agent under German Law (including any
action or declaration that the Collateral Agent deems to be
necessary in order to create and continue valid obligations
under such agreements governed by German Law). The Collateral
Agent is explicitly exempt from any
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restriction of Section 181 of the German Civil Code. The
Collateral Agent has the power to sub-delegate its powers as
agent of each of the Lenders granted by this
Section 11.20(a)
to third parties, including the
release from the restrictions of Section 181 of the German
Civil Code.
(b) The Credit Parties hereby specifically authorize and
instruct FMCAG to enter into, as agent on behalf of the Credit
Parties (with the effect that each Credit Party shall become a
party thereunder), and/or amend, as agent of behalf of the
Credit Parties, the Parallel Debt Agreement or any substantially
similar agreement that creates an obligation of the Credit
Parties (as debt acknowledgement or
abstraktes
Schuldanerkenntnis
) in favor of the Collateral Agent under
German Law. The authorization granted herein comprises any
action or declaration FMCAG may deem necessary in connection
with such agreements (including any action or declaration that
FMCAG deems to be necessary in order to create and continue
valid obligations under such agreements governed by German Law).
FMCAG has the power to sub-delegate its powers as agent of each
of the Credit Parties granted by this
Section 11.20(b)
to third parties.
SECTION 11.21
GOVERNING LAW
.
(a) THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY
WITHIN SUCH STATE.
(b) ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS
CREDIT AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN
THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR
THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY
OF THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT, THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
AND EACH LENDER CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS
PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. THE
BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF
VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, THAT IT
MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR
PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF ANY CREDIT
DOCUMENT OR OTHER DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO. THE BORROWER, THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF
ANY SUMMONS, COMPLAINT OR OTHER PROCESS, THAT MAY BE MADE BY ANY
OTHER MEANS PERMITTED BY THE LAW OF SUCH STATE.
SECTION 11.22
WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY
. EACH
PARTY TO THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION
ARISING UNDER ANY CREDIT DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH
OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO
OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY CREDIT DOCUMENT, OR THE
TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING
OR HEREAFTER ARISING,
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AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE; AND EACH
PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND,
ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL
WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT MAY
FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION WITH
ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE SIGNATORIES
HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.
SECTION 11.23
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
. THIS CREDIT
AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL
AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY
EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL
AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL
AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.
SECTION 11.24
Conflict
. To the extent there is any
conflict or inconsistency between the provisions hereof and the
provisions of any Credit Document, this Credit Agreement shall
control.
SECTION 11.25
USA PATRIOT Act Notice
. Each Lender
that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the
Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any
Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L.
107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the
Act
), it is required to obtain, verify and
record information that identifies the Borrowers, which
information includes the name and address of each Borrower and
other information that will allow such Lender or the
Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Borrower
in accordance with the Act.
SECTION 11.26
German Money Laundering Act
. Each
Borrower incorporated in Germany hereby confirms that it is the
beneficiary within the meaning of Section 8 of the German
Money Laundering Act of each part of the Loan that is made
available to it.
SECTION 11.27
Additional Provisions In Respect of
Trust Preferred Subdebt
.
(a)
Bank Credit Agreement
. The Bank Credit Agreement
constitutes the Bank Credit Agreement under the
Trust Preferred Subdebt and the loans and interest owing
thereunder constitute Senior Indebtedness under the
Trust Preferred Subdebt. The Loans made under this Credit
Agreement refinance certain of the outstanding loans under the
Existing Credit Agreement, which refinanced and replaced that
certain Credit Agreement, dated as of September 27, 1996,
by and among National Medical Care, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates,
W.R. Grace & Co., a New York corporation, the lenders named
therein and NationsBank, N.A. (now known as Bank of America,
N.A.). The Loans under this Credit Agreement constitute
Senior Indebtedness incurred in accordance with the
terms of the Trust Preferred Indentures.
(b)
Payment Blockage Notices
. The Lenders under the
Bank Credit Agreement, as holders of the Specified Senior
Indebtedness referenced the Trust Preferred Subdebt
shall have the exclusive right to send Blockage
Notices in respect of the Trust Preferred Subdebt;
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provided that the Lenders under the Bank Credit Agreement agree
not to send any such Blockage Notice without the
consent of or direction by the Required Lenders.
(c)
Third Party Beneficiary Rights
. The Lenders
under the Bank Credit Agreement shall be deemed to have acted in
reliance on the provisions contained in this
Section 11.27
. The provisions of this
Section 11.27
shall constitute a continuing offer to
and agreement with all Persons who, in reliance on these
provisions, become Lenders under the Bank Credit Agreement, or
continue to be such Lenders, and such provisions are made for
the benefit of such Lenders which shall be third party
beneficiaries and obligees under this
Section 11.27
.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused a
counterpart of this Credit Agreement to be duly executed and
delivered as of the date first above written.
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BORROWERS AND GUARANTORS:
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA,
a German
partnership limited by shares,
represented by
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE MANAGEMENT AG
, a
German corporation, its general partner
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Title:
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CFO and Member of the Management Board
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Name: Dr. Rainer Runte
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Title: Member of the Management Board
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FMC FINANCE S.à r.l. LUXEMBOURG V
, a private limited
company (société à responsabilité
limitée)
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organized under the laws of Luxembourg
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By:
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/s/Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Name: Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Title: Sole Manager
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA HOLDINGS LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP
, a Delaware limited partnership
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By:
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Fresenius Medical Care US Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH and Co.
KG, a German partnership
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By:
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Fresenius Medical Care
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Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, a German limited liability
company
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Its General Partner
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Name: Lawrence A. Rosen
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Title: Managing Director
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.
, a New York
corporation
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Name: Mark Fawcett
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Title: Assistant Treasurer
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CO-BORROWERS AND GUARANTORS:
NATIONAL MEDICAL CARE, INC.
, a Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ALABAMA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF FLORIDA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GEORGIA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ILLINOIS, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF INDIANA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF KENTUCKY, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF LOUISIANA, LLC
, a Delaware
limited liability company
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MICHIGAN, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MINNESOTA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MISSISSIPPI, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW JERSEY, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW MEXICO, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF OHIO, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF TENNESSEE, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF TEXAS, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF VIRGINIA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE CARDIOVASCULAR RESOURCES, INC.
, a
Pennsylvania corporation
FRESENIUS USA MANUFACTURING, INC.
, a Delaware corporation
FRESENIUS USA MARKETING, INC.
, a Delaware corporation
FRESENIUS USA, INC.
, a Massachusetts corporation
SAN DIEGO DIALYSIS SERVICES, INC.
, a Delaware corporation
SPECTRA LABORATORIES, INC.
, a Nevada corporation
WSKC DIALYSIS SERVICES, INC.
, an Illinois corporation
EVEREST HEALTHCARE INDIANA, INC.
, an Indiana corporation
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Name: Mark Fawcett
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Title: Treasurer for
each of the foregoing
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GUARANTORS:
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
, a German limited
liability company
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Name: Norbert Weber
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Title: Managing Director
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Name: Rolf Groos
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Title: Managing Director
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mbH
, a
German limited liability company
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By:
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/s/Dr. Emanuele Gatti
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Name: Dr. Emanuele Gatti
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Title: Managing Director
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Name: Dr. Rainer Runte
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Title: Managing Director
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE US
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BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mbH
, a German limited liability
company
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Name: Lawrence A. Rosen
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Title: Managing Director
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE US ZWEI BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
mbH,
a German limited liability company
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Name: Lawrence A. Rosen
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Title: Managing Director
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE US DREI BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
mbH,
a German limited liability company
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Name: Lawrence A. Rosen
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Title: Managing Director
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FMC TRUST FINANCE S.à r.l.
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LUXEMBOURG
, a private limited company (société
à responsabilité limitée) organized under the
laws of Luxembourg
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By:
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/s/Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Name: Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Title: Sole Manager
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FMC FINANCE II S.à r.l.
, a private limited company
(société à responsabilité limitée)
organized under the laws of Luxembourg
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By:
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/s/Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Name: Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Title: Manager
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Name: Gabriele Dux
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Title: Manager
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FMC TRUST FINANCE S.à r.l.
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LUXEMBOURG-III
,
a private limited company (société à
responsabilité limitée) organized under the laws of
Luxembourg
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Name: Gabriele Dux
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Title: Sole Manager
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FMC FINANCE S.à r.l. LUXEMBOURG-IV
, a private
limited company (société à responsabilité
limitée) organized under the laws of Luxembourg
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By:
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/s/Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Name: Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Title: Sole Manager
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NATIONAL MEDICAL CARE OF SPAIN, S.A.
, a corporation
(sociedad anónima) organized under the laws of Spain
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By:
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/s/Dr. Emanuele Gatti
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Name: Dr. Emanuele Gatti
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Title: Director
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By:
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/s/Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Name: Dr. Andrea Stopper
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Title: Director
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.
, a
Delaware corporation
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NMC A, LLC
, a Delaware limited liability company
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ARIZONA, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
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BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MAINE, INC.
, a Delaware
corporation
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EVEREST HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS, INC
, a Delaware corporation
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FRESENIUS MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC
, a Delaware corporation
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FMS NEW YORK, INC.
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Name: Mark Fawcett
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Title: Treasurer for each of the foregoing
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
, as Administrative Agent and
Collateral Agent
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Name: Angela S. Lau
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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LENDERS:
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
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Name: Amie L. Edwards
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Title: Vice President
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DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH
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Name: Diane F. Rolfe
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Title: Vice President
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Name: Anca Trifan
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Title: Director
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THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
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Name: C. A. Calloway
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Title: Managing Director
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CREDIT SUISSE, Cayman Islands Branch
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Name: Judith Smith
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Title: Director
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Name: Doreen Barr
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Title: Associate
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DRESDNER BANK AG, NEW YORK AND GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES
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Name: Daniel Conlon
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Title: Director
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Name: John Fitzgerald
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Title: Vice President
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DRESDNER BANK AG, NIEDERLASSUNG
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LUXEMBURG
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By:
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/s/Christiane Zahnert-Jost
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Name: Christiane Zahnert-Jost
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Title: Transaction Management
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Name: Barbara Stein
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Title: Transaction Management
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
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ASSOCIATION
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Name: James W. Peterson
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Title: Vice President
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ABN AMRO BANK N.V., Niederlassung Deutschland
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Name: Michaela Steidl
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Title: Corporate Director
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Name: Markus Meiser
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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ABN AMRO BANK N.V.
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Name: Elizabeth Goleb
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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Name: Milena Sopcic
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Title: Vice President
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BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA S.A.
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By:
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/s/Christopher Metherell
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Name: Christopher Metherell
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Title: Global Relationship Manager
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By:
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/s/M.I. Carrera Ortiz de Eribe
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Name: M.I. Carrera Ortiz de Eribe
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Title: Global Relationship Manager
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BANK OF NEW YORK
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By: /s/ Thomas J. McCormack
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Name: Thomas
J. McCormack
Title: Vice President
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BARCLAYS BANK PLC
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By: /s/ Mark Pope
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Name: Mark
Pope
Title: Manager
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BAYERISCHE LANDESBANK
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By: /s/ Hans Fischer
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/s/ Josef Diepold
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Name: Hans Fischer
Title: First Vice President
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Josef Diepold
Assistant Vice President
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BNP PARIBAS
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By: /s/ Cecile Scherer
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Name: Cecile
Scherer
Title: Director, Merchant Banking Group
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By: /s/ PJ de Filippis
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Name: PJ
de Filippis
Title: Managing Director
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Title:
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Acting Senior Country Officer for Germany and Austria
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Name: Birgit Nabben
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Title: Senior Relationship Manager
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COMMERZBANK AG, Frankfurt am Main
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By:
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/s/Michael Peter Froeschke
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Name: Michael Peter Froeschke
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Title:
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Head of Chemicals/ Pharmaceuticals, Senior Relationship
Management
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By:
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/s/Hans-Friedrich Jenetzky
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Name: Hans-Friedrich Jenetzky
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Title:
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Senior Vice President Relationship Management
Großkundencenter Frankfurt/Main
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DZ BANK AG
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Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank Frankfurt am Main
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Name: Gottfried Finken
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Title: Director
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Name: Eric Stöver
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Title: Vice President
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Name: Sven Wabbels
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Title: Vice President
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By:
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/s/Marion Jöstingmeier
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Name: Marion Jöstingmeier
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Title: Senior Project Manager
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LANDESBANK BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, New York Branch and/or
Cayman Islands Branch
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Name: Karen Richard
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Title: Vice President
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Name: Carolyn Gutbrod
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Title: Vice President
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LANDESBANK HESSEN THÜRINGEN
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GIROZENTRALE
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Name: Claus Hemsteg
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Title: Vice President
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Name: Schu-Minn Kim
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Title: Associate
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MIZUHO CORPORATE BANK (GERMANY) AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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By: /s/ Gunnar Graf
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/s/ Andreas Tretzmueller
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Name: Gunnar Graf
Title: General Manager
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Andreas Tretzmueller
Director
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NORDEA BANK AB (publ)
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By: /s/ Birgitta Höög
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Name: Birgitta
Höög
Title: Legal Counsel
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By: /s/ Eva Österström Rietz
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Name: Eva
Österström Rietz
Title: Legal Counsel
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THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC,
Niederlassung Frankfurt
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By: /s/ Kai Gloystein
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/s/ Kristijan Krstic
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Name: Kai Gloystein
Title: Director
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Kristijan Krstic
Senior Director
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SOCIETE GENERALE
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By: /s/ Anne-Marie Dumortier
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Name: Anne-Marie
Dumortier
Title: Director
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SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
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By: /s/ Dr. Harald Wimmer
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/s/ Jörg Legens
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Name: Dr. Harald Wimmer
Title: Manager
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Jörg Legens
Assistant Manager
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SUNTRUST BANK
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By: /s/ William D. Priester
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Name: William
D. Priester
Title: Director
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WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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By: /s/ Laura McInnes
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Name: Laura
McInnes
Title: Director
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WESTLB AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
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By: /s/ Walter T. Duffy III
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Name: Walter
T. Duffy III
Title: Director
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By: /s/ Angelika Seifert
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Name: Angelika
Seifert
Title: Executive Director
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Name: Wong Kwong Yew
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Title: First Vice President & General Manager
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Name: Philip Cheong
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Title: Vice President & Deputy General Manager
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ALLIED IRISH BANKS P.L.C.
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By: /s/ Ingrid Lacey
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/s/ Grace Gilligan
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Name:Ingrid
Lacey
Title: Senior Manager
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Grace Gilligan
Senior Manager
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BAYERISCHE HYPO-UND VEREINSBANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
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Name: Hetal Selarka
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Title: Associate Director
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Name: Mario Caicedo
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Title: Senior Associate
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BHF-BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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By: /s/ Josef Brähler
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/s/ Torsten Lange
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Name: Josef
Brähler
Title: Vice
President
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Torsten Lange
Assistant Vice President
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HSBC BANK PLC
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By: /s/ Roger Booth
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Name: Roger
Booth
Title: Managing Director, Healthcare
Europe
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LANDSBANKI ISLANDS HF.
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By: /s/ Lárus Welding
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Name: Lárus
Welding
Title: Head of London Branch
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SANPAOLO IMI S.P.A.
NEW YORK BRANCH
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By: /s/ R. Pedicini
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/s/ M. Ruecker
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Name: R.
Pedicini
Title: Deputy
Chief Manager
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M. Ruecker
Senior Relationship Manager
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LANDESBANK RHEINLAND PFALZ
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By: /s/ Richard Kuhn
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/s/ Robert Wagner
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Name: Richard
Kuhn
Title: Senior Vice
President
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Robert Wagner
Vice President
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RAIFFEISEN ZENTRALBANK ÖSTERREICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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By: /s/ Mag. Josef Hörl
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/s/ Mag. Marianne Szigeti
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Name: Mag. Josef Hörl
Title: Head of Credit Office I
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Mag. Marianne Szigeti
Account Manager
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BANK OF AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT AG
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By: /s/ I. Bleier
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/s/ C. Dietrich
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Name: I. Bleier
Title: Dep. Managing Director
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C. Dietrich
Senior Manager
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BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ TRUST COMPANY
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By: /s/ Karen A. Brinkman
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Name: Karen
A. Brinkman
Title: Vice President
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DEUTSCHE APOTHEKER-UND ARZTEBANK EG
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By: /s/ Gebauer
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/s/ Dörr
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Name: Gebauer
Title:
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Dörr
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FORTIS CAPITAL CORP
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By: /s/ John Crawford
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Name: John
Crawford
Title: Managing Director
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By: /s/ Douglas Riahi
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Name: Douglas
Riahi
Title: Managing Director
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LANDESBANK SACHSEN GIROZENTRALE
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By: /s/ Tino Petzold
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/s/ Jana Spangler
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Name: Tino Petzold
Title: Head of Syndication
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Jana Spangler
Associate
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NATEXIS BANQUES POPULAIRES
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By: /s/ Nicolas Regent
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Name: Nicolas
Regent
Title: VP Multinational
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By: /s/ P.J. Van Tuller
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Name: P.J.
Van Tuller
Title: Group Head
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NATIONAL CITY BANK OF KENTUCKY
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Name: Erica E. Dowd
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF
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THE BANK OF IRELAND
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Name: Mark McGoldrick
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Title: Managing Director
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Name: Brian Williams
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Title: Vice President
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LBBW BANK IRELAND PLC
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Name: Eoin Redmond
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Title: Senior Manager
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Name: Owen Butler
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Title: Senior Manager
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BANK OF TAIWAN, LONDON BRANCH
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By: /s/ Fu-San Chiang
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Name: Fu-San
Chiang
Title: General Manager of Bank of Taiwan, London
Branch
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BANK OF TAIWAN, NEW YORK AGENCY
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By: /s/ Eunice S. J. Yeh
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Name: Eunice
S. J. Yeh
Title: Senior Vice President & General Manager
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CREDIT INDUSTRIEL ET COMMERCIAL
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By: /s/ Mathew Gillard
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/s/ Patrick Kitching
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Name: Mathew Gillard
Title: Manager
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Patrick Kitching
Manager
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CREDIT MUTUEL BANQUE DE LECONOMIE DU COMMERCE ET DE LA
MONETIQUE S.A. NIEDERLASSUNG DEUTSCHLAND
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By: /s/ Daniel Lorang
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/s/ Jean-Michel Guillocheau
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Name: Daniel Lorang
Title: Vice Director
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Jean-Michel Guillocheau
Authorized Signatory
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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By: /s/ J. T. Taylor
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Name: J.
T. Taylor
Title: Senior Vice President
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Name: Rakesh Chandra
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Title: Vice President & Head (Credit)
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RZB FINANCE LLC
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Name: Christoph Hoedl
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Title: Group Vice President
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Name: Juan M. Csillagi
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Title: Group Vice President
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EXHIBIT 4.3
AMENDED AND RESTATED SUBORDINATED LOAN NOTE
$400,000,000
AS OF MARCH 31, 2006
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, National Medical Care, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Alabama, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Connecticut,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of
Fayetteville, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical
Applications of Florida, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
Bio-Medical Applications of Georgia, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Indiana, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Jersey City,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of
Kentucky, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications
of Louisiana, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical
Applications of Maryland, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
Bio-Medical Applications of Massachusetts, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Mississippi, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Missouri,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of New
Jersey, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications
of North Carolina, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical
Applications of Ohio, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical
Applications of Oklahoma, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of South Carolina, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Tennessee,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications of Texas,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Bio-Medical Applications of
Virginia, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Bio-Medical Applications
of Wisconsin, Inc., a Delaware corporation, (collectively, the
Borrowers
) jointly and severally promise to
pay to the order of Fresenius AG, a German corporation, or its
specified subsidiary, (the
Lender
) the lesser
of (i) the principal amount of $400,000,000 (Four Hundred
Million Dollars), or (ii) the unpaid principal amount of
all Advances (as defined in Section 2) made by the Lender
to the Borrowers hereunder, together with interest accrued
thereon at the rate set forth below, on the date specified for
repayment of such Advance pursuant to Clause 3 hereof or
such earlier date as such amounts may become payable pursuant to
the terms hereof.
1. This Note amends and restates the Subordinated Loan Note
dated as of May 18, 1999, issued to the Lender by the
borrowers party thereto, as amended and in effect on the date
hereof (the
Existing Note
). All
Advances as defined in and outstanding under the
Existing Note on the date hereof shall continue as Advances
hereunder.
2. The following terms used in this Note shall have the
following meanings:
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FMC Credit Agreements means (i) the Bank Credit
Agreement among FMC and FMCH, as borrowers and guarantors, the
other borrowers and guarantors party thereto, the lenders party
thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent,
Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Sole Syndication Agent, the
Bank of Nova Scotia, Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch,
Dresdner Bank AG, Niederlassung Luxembourg and JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association, as Co-Documentation Agents, Banc of
America Securities LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Book Running Managers, as amended,
restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified, or renewed,
refunded, replaced, or refinanced from time to time, and
(ii) the Term Loan Credit Agreement among FMC and
FMCH, as borrowers and guarantors, the other borrowers and
guarantors party thereto, the lenders party thereto, Bank of
America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New
York Branch, as Sole Syndication Agent, the Bank of Nova Scotia,
Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, Dresdner Bank AG,
Niederlassung Luxembourg and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association, as Co-Documentation Agents, Banc of America
Securities LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as Joint Lead
Arrangers and Book Running Managers, as amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified, or renewed, refunded,
replaced, or refinanced from time to time.
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FMC means Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co.
KGaA, a German partnership limited by shares, and its successors
and permitted assigns.
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FMCH means Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., a
New York corporation, and its successors and permitted assigns.
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1998
7
7
/
8
%
NOTES means the
7
7
/
8
% USD Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 of FMC issued
pursuant to that certain Senior Subordinated Indenture dated as
of February 19, 1998 by and among FMC Trust Finance
S.a.r.l. Luxembourg, as issuer, State Street Bank and Trust
Company), as trustee, and the Guarantors named therein, as
guarantors, as it may be further amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified, or renewed, refunded,
replaced, or refinanced from time to time.
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1998
7
3
/
8
%
NOTES means the
7
7
/
8
% DM Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 of FMC issued
pursuant to that certain Senior Subordinated Indenture dated as
of February 19, 1998 by and among FMC Trust Finance
S.a.r.l. Luxembourg, as issuer, State Street Bank and Trust
Company), as trustee, and the Guarantors named therein, as
guarantors, as it may be further amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified, or renewed, refunded,
replaced, or refinanced from time to time.
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2001
7
7
/
8
%
NOTES means the
7
7
/
8
% USD Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011 of FMC issued
pursuant to that certain Senior Subordinated Indenture dated as
of June 6, 2001 by and among FMC Trust Finance
S.a.r.l. Luxembourg, as issuer, State Street Bank and Trust
Company), as trustee, and the Guarantors named therein, as
guarantors, as it may be further amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified, or renewed, refunded,
replaced, or refinanced from time to time.
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2001
7
3
/
8
%
NOTES means the
7
3
/
8
% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011 of FMC issued
pursuant to that certain Senior Subordinated Indenture dated as
of June 15, 2001 by and among FMC Trust Finance
S.a.r.l. Luxembourg, as issuer, State Street Bank and Trust
Company), as trustee, and the Guarantors named therein, as
guarantors, as it may be further amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified, or renewed, refunded,
replaced, or refinanced from time to time.
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All other capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
herein shall bear the meanings assigned thereto in the FMC
Credit Agreements.
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3. The Lender may lend (but shall not have any commitment
to lend) one or more advances (each an
Advance
) to the Borrowers jointly and
severally from time to time upon request during the period from
the date hereof to but excluding March 31, 2011 in an
aggregate amount which shall not exceed $400,000,000. Amounts
borrowed hereunder may be repaid and reborrowed. The Lender
shall have no obligation to make any Advance requested hereunder.
4. Each Advance shall be repaid in full on the date that is
one, two or three months after the date on which it is made, as
agreed by the Borrowers and the Lender on the date such Advance
is made, or any other period agreed between the Borrowers and
the Lender; provided, that if no maturity date is so agreed,
such Advance shall have a term of one month.
5. The unpaid principal amount of each Advance made
hereunder shall bear interest at a fluctuating rate per annum
equal to the Eurocurrency Rate (as defined in and calculated
pursuant to the FMC Credit Agreements) for an Interest Period
equivalent to the term of such Advance plus a margin, determined
pursuant to the pricing matrix set forth below, that is based on
the Consolidated Leverage Ratio (as defined in and calculated
pursuant to the FMC Credit Agreements), and shall change as and
when the Applicable Percentage (as defined in and calculated
pursuant to the FMC Credit Agreements) changes:
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Interest shall be payable in arrears upon maturity, on any
prepayment and on any acceleration of the principal amount
hereof and shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day
year for the
actual number of days elapsed (including the first day and
excluding the last day).
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Confidential treatment has been requested as to the omitted
portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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6. Whenever any payment on this Note shall be stated to be
due on a day which is not a Business Day or is a day on which
commercial banks are authorized or required by law to close in
the Federal Republic of Germany, such payment shall be made on
the next succeeding Business Day on which commercial banks are
not authorized or required by law to close in the Federal
Republic of Germany, and such extension of time shall be
included in the computation of the payment of interest on this
Note.
7. All payments of principal and interest in respect of
this Note shall be made in lawful money of the United States in
same day funds to the Lenders Dollar account no: * with
Dresdner Bank Bad Homburg v.d.H., bank code: 50080000, SWIFT
code: DRESDEFF.
8.
THE BORROWERS HEREBY COVENANT AND AGREE, AND THE
LENDER, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, HEREBY COVENANTS AND AGREES,
THAT, TO THE EXTENT AND IN THE MANNER HEREINAFTER SET FORTH THE
PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE INDEBTEDNESS EVIDENCED HEREBY
AND ANY INTEREST PAYABLE IN RESPECT THEREOF ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY
MADE SUBORDINATE AND SUBJECT IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE PRIOR
PAYMENT IN FULL OF ALL AMOUNTS THEN DUE AND PAYABLE IN RESPECT
OF (I) ALL OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWERS UNDER THE FMC
CREDIT AGREEMENTS, (II) IF ANY BORROWER SHALL GUARANTY THE
1998
7
7
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%
NOTES, THE 1998
7
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NOTES, the 2001
7
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NOTES and the 2001
7
3
/
8
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NOTES ALL SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS OF SUCH BORROWER
(AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURES PURSUANT TO WHICH
SUCH NOTES ARE ISSUED), AND (III) ALL SENIOR
INDEBTEDNESS OF ANY BORROWER AS DEFINED IN ANY OTHER TRUST
PREFERRED DEBT (AS DEFINED IN THE FMC CREDIT AGREEMENTS) THAT IS
GUARANTEED BY SUCH BORROWER OR ANY OTHER DEBT THAT IS PARI PASSU
THERETO THAT IS GUARANTEED BY SUCH BORROWER (COLLECTIVELY, THE
PREFERRED INDEBTEDNESS).
8. It is hereby further specifically provided that the
indebtedness evidenced hereby shall rank pari passu with the
1998
7
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% Notes,
the 1998
7
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8
% Notes,
the 2001
7
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8
% Notes,
the 2001
7
3
/
8
% Notes or any other debt that is pari passu thereto
in right of payment and the obligations (if any) of the
Borrowers in respect thereof, in each case to the extent and
only to the extent required by the terms of such debt; provided,
however, that this provision shall not affect the relative
rights (if any) of the holders of the Notes against the
Borrowers other than their rights in relation to the Lender
hereunder.
9. If a payment or distribution is made to the Lender in
respect of this Note that, in accordance with Clause 7
above, should not have been made, the Lender agrees that it
shall hold such payment or distribution in trust for the holders
of the Preferred Indebtedness and pay such payment or
distribution over to such holders of Preferred Indebtedness as
their interests may appear.
10. If any Bankruptcy Event shall occur with respect to the
Borrowers, all amounts of principal and accrued interest
outstanding under this Note shall become immediately due and
payable.
11. The Lender agrees, by its acceptance hereof, that
before disposing of this Note or any part hereof it will make a
notation hereon of all Advances, the maturity date of each such
Advance and principal payments previously made hereunder and of
the date to which interest hereon has been paid; provided,
however, that the failure to make a notation of any Advance or
any payment made on this Note shall not limit or otherwise
affect the obligation of the Borrowers hereunder with respect to
payments of principal or interest on this Note.
12. Any Borrower may cease to be a Borrower hereunder by
delivering a written notice to the Lender, effective on the
later to occur of (i) the date the Lender receives such
written notice and (ii) the date such Borrower has paid all
of its obligations and all accrued and unpaid interest, fees and
other obligations hereunder or in connection herewith.
13. Upon the formation, acquisition (other receipt of
interests) or existence of any Material Domestic Subsidiary of
FMCH that is not a Borrower hereunder, such Material Domestic
Subsidiary may become a Borrower hereunder by executing an
amendment to this Note.
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portions of this document in accordance with the applicable
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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14. THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWERS
ARISING HEREUNDER AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS HEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED
TO BE MADE UNDER, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED
AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF NEW YORK WITHOUT
REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.
15. The obligations of the Borrowers arising under this
Note may be prepaid in whole or in part, together with all
accrued interest thereon, without penalty or premium with the
Net Proceeds of any Equity Transaction, or with the prior
consent of the Lender.
16. The terms of this Note are subject to amendment only by
a writing signed by the Borrowers and the Lender.
17. In no event shall any interest be payable under this
Note to the extent that the payment thereof would be prohibited
by applicable law.
18. The Borrowers hereby waives diligence, presentment,
protest, demand and notice of every kind and, to the full extent
permitted by law, the right to plead any statute of limitations
as a defense to any demand hereunder.
19. No delay on the part of the Lender in the exercise of
any right or remedy shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no
single or partial exercise by the Lender, of any right or remedy
shall preclude any other or further exercise of any other right
or remedy.
20. In case any provision in or obligation under this Note
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction,
the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in
any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Note has been executed as of the day
and year and at the place first written above.
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CONNECTICUT, INC.
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FLORIDA, INC.
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INDIANA, INC.
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JERSEY CITY, INC.
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KENTUCKY, INC.
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ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED:
FRESENIUS AG
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/s/ Karl Dieter Schwab
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Name: ppa. Dr. Karl-Dieter Schwab
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/s/ Dietmar Blumenhagen
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Name: ppa. Dr. Dietmar Blumenhagen
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EXHIBIT 10.1
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
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In the Matter of
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File No. 051-0154
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FRESENIUS AG,
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a corporation.
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AGREEMENT CONTAINING CONSENT ORDERS
The Federal Trade Commission (Commission) having
initiated an investigation of the proposed acquisition of Renal
Care Group, Inc. by Fresenius AG and entities controlled by
Fresenius AG, including (1) Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by shares organized under the
laws of the Federal Republic of Germany the general partner of
which is majority owned by Fresenius AG, (2) Fresenius
Medical Care Holdings, Inc., a New York corporation majority
owned by Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership
limited by shares organized under the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany, and (3) Florence Acquisition, Inc., a
Delaware corporation wholly owned by Fresenius Medical Care
Holdings, Inc., and Fresenius AG (hereafter referred to as
Proposed Respondent), and it now appearing that
Proposed Respondent is willing to enter into this Agreement
Containing Consent Orders (Consent Agreement) to
divest certain assets and providing for other relief:
IT IS HEREBY AGREED
by and between Proposed Respondent,
by its duly authorized officers and attorneys, and counsel for
the Commission that:
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Fresenius AG is a corporation organized, existing and doing
business under and by virtue of the laws of Federal Republic of
Germany, with its office and principal place of business located
at Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352 Bad Homburg,
Germany. Fresenius AG is the ultimate parent of
(1) Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a
partnership limited by shares organized under the laws of the
Federal Republic of Germany, the general partner of which is
majority owned by Fresenius AG, with its office and principal
place of business located at
Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany,
(2) Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., a New York
corporation majority owned by Fresenius Medical Care
AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by shares
organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany,
with its office and principal place of business located at
95 Hayden Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420, and
(3) Florence Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation
wholly owned by Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc, with its
office and principal place of business located at 95 Hayden
Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420.
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Proposed Respondent admits all the jurisdictional facts set
forth in the draft of Complaint here attached.
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Proposed Respondent waives:
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any further procedural steps;
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the requirement that the Commissions Decision and Order
and Order to Maintain Assets, both of which are attached hereto
and made a part hereof, contain a statement of findings of fact
and conclusions of law;
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all rights to seek judicial review or otherwise challenge or
contest the validity of the Decision and Order or the Order to
Maintain Assets entered pursuant to this Consent Agreement; and
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any claim under the Equal Access to Justice Act.
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Because there may be interim competitive harm, the Commission
may issue its Complaint and the Order to Maintain Assets in this
matter at any time after it accepts the Consent Agreement for
public comment.
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The Proposed Respondent shall submit an initial report, pursuant
to Section 2.33 of the Commissions Rules, 16 C.F.R.
§ 2.33, within fifteen (15) days of the date on
which it executes this Consent Agreement and every thirty
(30) days thereafter until the Decision and Order becomes
final or the divestitures required pursuant to
Paragraph II.A. of the Decision and Order are accomplished,
whichever is earlier. Each such report shall be signed by the
Proposed Respondent and shall set forth in detail the manner in
which the Proposed Respondent has to date complied or has
prepared to comply, is complying, and will comply with the Order
to Maintain Assets and the Decision and Order. Such reports will
not become part of the public record unless and until the
Consent Agreement and Decision and Order are accepted by the
Commission for public comment.
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This Consent Agreement shall not become part of the public
record of the proceeding unless and until it is accepted by the
Commission. If this Consent Agreement is accepted by the
Commission, it, together with the draft of Complaint
contemplated thereby, will be placed on the public record for a
period of thirty (30) days and information in respect
thereto publicly released. The Commission thereafter may either
withdraw its acceptance of this Consent Agreement and so notify
Proposed Respondent, in which event it will take such action as
it may consider appropriate, or issue or amend its Complaint (in
such form as the circumstances may require) and issue its
Decision and Order, in disposition of the proceeding.
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This Consent Agreement is for settlement purposes only and does
not constitute an admission by Proposed Respondent that the law
has been violated as alleged in the draft of Complaint here
attached, or that the facts as alleged in the draft of
Complaint, other than jurisdictional facts, are true.
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This Consent Agreement contemplates that, if it is accepted by
the Commission, the Commission may (a) issue and serve its
Complaint corresponding in form and substance with the draft of
Complaint here attached, (b) issue and serve its Order to
Maintain Assets, and (c) make information public with
respect thereto. If such acceptance is not subsequently
withdrawn by the Commission pursuant to the provisions of
Commission Rule 2.34, 16 C.F.R. § 2.34, the
Commission may, without further notice to the Proposed
Respondent, issue the attached Decision and Order
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containing an order to divest and providing for other relief in
disposition of the proceeding.
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When final, the Decision and Order and the Order to Maintain
Assets shall have the same force and effect and may be altered,
modified or set aside in the same manner and within the same
time provided by statute for other orders. The Decision and
Order and the Order to Maintain Assets shall become final upon
service. Delivery of the Complaint, the Decision and Order, and
the Order to Maintain Assets to Proposed Respondent by any means
provided in Commission Rule 4.4(a), 16 C.F.R.
§ 4.4(a), shall constitute service. Proposed
Respondent waives any right it may have to any other manner of
service. Proposed Respondent also waives any right it may
otherwise have to service of any Appendices incorporated by
reference into the Decision and Order, and agrees that it is
bound to comply with and will comply with the Decision and Order
and the Order to Maintain Assets to the same extent as if it had
been served with copies of the Appendices, where Proposed
Respondent is already in possession of copies of such Appendices.
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The Complaint may be used in construing the terms of the
Decision and Order and the Order to Maintain Assets, and no
agreement, understanding, representation, or interpretation not
contained in the Decision and Order, the Order to Maintain
Assets, or the Consent Agreement may be used to vary or
contradict the terms of the Decision and Order or the Order to
Maintain Assets.
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By signing this Consent Agreement, Proposed Respondent
represents and warrants that it can accomplish the full relief
contemplated by the attached Decision and Order (including
effectuating all required divestitures, assignments, and
transfers) and that all parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and
successors necessary to effectuate the full relief contemplated
by this Consent Agreement are parties to this Consent Agreement.
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By signing this Consent Agreement, Proposed Respondent
represents and warrants that it has obtained all third-party
approvals necessary for Proposed Respondent to comply with the
Decision and Order, including, but not limited to:
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all governmental approvals required by Paragraph II.C.1 of
the Decision and Order;
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all third-party approvals required by Paragraph II.C.2 of
the Decision and Order for the assignment of leases;
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all third-party approvals required by II.C.3 of the Decision and
Order for the assignment of contracts with physicians; and
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all joint venture partner approvals required by
Paragraph II.C.4 of the Decision and Order.
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By signing this Consent Agreement, Proposed Respondent
represents and warrants that the Divestiture Agreements, as
defined in the Decision and Order, require Proposed Respondent
to divest all assets required to be divested pursuant to the
Decision and Order and require Proposed Respondent to comply
with Paragraph II of the Decision and Order and
Paragraph II of the Order to Maintain Assets.
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Proposed Respondent has read the draft of the Complaint, the
Decision and Order, and the Order to Maintain Assets
contemplated hereby. Proposed Respondent understands that once
the Decision and Order and the Order to Maintain Assets have
been issued, it will be required to file one or more compliance
reports showing that it has fully complied with the Decision and
Order and the Order to Maintain Assets. Proposed Respondent
agrees to comply with the terms of the proposed Decision and
Order and the Order to Maintain Assets from the date it signs
this Consent Agreement. Proposed Respondent further understands
that it may be liable for civil penalties in the amount provided
by law for each violation of the Decision and Order and of the
Order to Maintain Assets after they become final.
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FRESENIUS AG
By:
Dr.
Ulf M. Schneider
President and C.E.O.
Fresenius AG
Stephan
Sturm
Chief Financial Officer
Fresenius AG
Robert
E. Bloch
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
Counsel for Fresenius AG
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Gary
H. Schorr
Robert S. Canterman
Linda Blumenreich
Martha H. Oppenheim
Attorneys
Bureau of Competition
APPROVED:
David
R. Pender
Acting Assistant Director
Bureau of Competition
Jeffrey
Schmidt
Director
Bureau of Competition
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EXHIBIT 10.2
051 0154
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
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COMMISSIONERS:
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Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman
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Pamela Jones Harbour
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Jon Leibowitz
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William E. Kovacic
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J. Thomas Rosch
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In the Matter of
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Docket No. C-
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FRESENIUS AG,
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a corporation
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COMPLAINT
Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 41
et seq.
, and by
virtue of the authority vested in it by said Act, the Federal
Trade Commission (Commission), having reason to
believe that Fresenius AG (Fresenius AG), a
corporation, and entities controlled by Fresenius AG, including
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FME
KGaA), a partnership; Fresenius Medical Care
Holdings, Inc. (FME), a corporation; and
Florence Acquisition, Inc. (FAI), a
corporation, (collectively Fresenius), all subject
to the jurisdiction of the Commission, have agreed to acquire
Renal Care Group, Inc. (RCG), a corporation
subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, in violation of
Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
§ 18, and Section 5 of the Federal Trade
Commission Act (FTC Act), as amended,
15 U.S.C. § 45, and it appearing to the
Commission that a proceeding in respect thereof would be in the
public interest, hereby issues this Complaint stating its
charges as follows:
I. NATURE OF THE CASE
1. This matter concerns an agreement whereby Fresenius
would acquire RCG; if consummated, this acquisition would
substantially lessen competition for services relating to
administering outpatient chronic kidney dialysis treatment
(outpatient dialysis services) to end stage renal
disease (ESRD) patients in 66 local geographic
markets across the United States. ESRD is a disease
characterized by a near total loss of function of the kidneys.
Outpatient chronic dialysis treatments are a life-sustaining
therapy that replaces the function of the kidneys by removing
toxins and excess fluid from the blood (dialysis).
Fresenius and RCG are two of the three largest operators of
clinics providing outpatient dialysis services throughout the
United
States. The post-acquisition firm would be able to exercise
unilateral market power in the relevant geographic markets,
which would result in higher prices and reduced incentives to
improve service or quality for outpatient dialysis services.
II. RESPONDENTS
2. Respondent Fresenius AG is a corporation organized,
existing, and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of
the Federal Republic of Germany, with its office and principal
place of business located at
Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany.
Fresenius AG is the ultimate parent of Respondents (1) FME
KGaA, a partnership limited by shares, organized, existing, and
doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany, the general partner of which is majority
owned by Fresenius AG, with its office and principal place of
business located at Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352
Bad Homburg, Germany; (2) FME, a corporation organized,
existing, and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of
the State of New York, majority owned by FME KGaA, with its
office and principal place of business located at 95 Hayden
Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420; and (3) FAI, a corporation
organized, existing, and doing business under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Delaware, wholly owned by FME, with its
office and principal place of business located at 95 Hayden
Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420.
3. After acquiring RCG, Respondent Fresenius will be the
largest provider of outpatient dialysis services in the United
States. In 2005, Fresenius had approximately $4.1 billion
in revenues from the provision of outpatient dialysis services
to approximately 89,000 ESRD patients at approximately 1,155
outpatient dialysis clinics nationwide.
4. Respondents are, and at all times herein have been,
engaged in commerce, as commerce is defined in
Section 1 of the Clayton Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C.
§ 12, and are corporations or a partnership whose
businesses are in or affect commerce, as commerce is
defined in Section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 44.
III. THE ACQUIRED COMPANY
5. RCG is a corporation organized, existing, and doing
business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of
Delaware, with its office and principal place of business
located at 2100 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville,
Tennessee 37203.
6. RCG is the third largest provider of outpatient dialysis
services in the United States, with approximately 450 outpatient
dialysis clinics nationwide, at which approximately 32,000 ESRD
patients receive treatment. In 2005, RCG had approximately
$1.5 billion in revenues from the provision of outpatient
dialysis services.
7. RCG is, and at all times herein has been, engaged in
commerce, as commerce is defined in Section 1
of the Clayton Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 12,
and is a corporation whose
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business is in or affects commerce, as commerce is
defined in Section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 44.
IV. THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION
8. Fresenius entered into an agreement with RCG dated
May 3, 2005 (the Agreement), to acquire RCG in
a transaction valued at approximately $3.5 billion (the
Acquisition).
V. THE RELEVANT MARKET
9. For the purposes of this Complaint, the relevant line of
commerce in which to analyze the effects of the Acquisition is
the provision of outpatient dialysis services. The only
alternative to outpatient dialysis treatments for ESRD patients
is a kidney transplant. However, the wait-time for donor
kidneys during which ESRD patients must receive
dialysis treatments can exceed five years.
Additionally, many ESRD patients are not viable transplant
candidates. As a result, many ESRD patients have no alternative
to outpatient dialysis treatments.
10. For the purposes of this Complaint, the relevant
geographic market for the provision of outpatient dialysis
services is defined by the distance ESRD patients are willing
and/or able to travel to receive dialysis treatments, and is
thus local in nature. Most ESRD patients receive dialysis
treatments in an outpatient dialysis clinic three times per
week, in sessions lasting between three and five hours. Because
ESRD patients often suffer from multiple health problems and may
require assistance traveling to and from the dialysis clinic,
these patients are unwilling and/or unable to travel long
distances to receive dialysis treatment. The time and distance a
patient will travel in a particular location are significantly
affected by traffic patterns; whether an area is urban,
suburban, or rural; local geography; and a patients
proximity to the nearest dialysis clinic. The size of relevant
geographic markets is also influenced by a variety of other
factors including population density, roads, geographic
features, and political boundaries.
11. For the purposes of this Complaint, the 66 geographic
markets within which to assess the competitive effects of the
proposed merger are the following 39 metropolitan statistical
areas (MSAs), other areas, or, particular geographic
areas contained therein: (1) Birmingham-Hoover, Alabama
MSA; (2) Osceola and Blytheville, Arkansas;
(3) Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Arizona MSA;
(4) Prescott, Arizona MSA; (5) Naples-Marco Island,
Florida MSA; (6) Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, Florida MSA;
(7) Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida MSA;
(8) Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia MSA;
(9) Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Illinois MSA; (10) Lake
County-Kenosha County, Illinois-Wisconsin MSA; (11) Auburn,
Indiana; (12) Fort Wayne, Indiana MSA;
(13) Huntington, Indiana; (14) Indianapolis, Indiana
MSA; (15) Logansport, Indiana; (16) Seymour and
Scottsburg, Indiana; (17) Louisville, Kentucky-Indiana MSA;
(18) Baton Rouge, Louisiana MSA; (19) Houma-Bayou
Cane-Thibodaux, Louisiana MSA; (20) Essex County,
Massachusetts MSA; (21) Jackson, Mississippi MSA;
(22) Carthage
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and Philadelphia, Mississippi; (23) Lexington and
Kosciusko, Mississippi; (24) Kansas City, MO-KS MSA;
(25) Las Cruces, New Mexico MSA; (26) Las
Vegas-Paradise, Nevada MSA; (27) Akron, Ohio MSA;
(28) Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Oregon-Washington MSA;
(29) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MSA;
(30) Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, Rhode
Island-Massachusetts MSA; (31) Greenville, South Carolina
MSA; (32) Memphis, Tennessee-Mississippi-Arkansas MSA;
(33) Alice, Texas; (34) Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas
MSA; (35) Corpus Christi, Texas MSA;
(36) McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas MSA;
(37) El Paso, Texas MSA; (38) Terrell and Sulphur
Springs, Texas; and (39) Spokane, Washington MSA.
VI. THE STRUCTURE OF THE MARKET
12. The market for the provision of outpatient dialysis
services in each of the relevant geographic markets identified
in Paragraph 11 is highly concentrated, as measured by the
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). The Acquisition
would increase concentration significantly in each relevant
market, leaving Fresenius as the dominant provider of outpatient
dialysis services.
13. Fresenius and RCG are actual and substantial
competitors in each of the relevant markets.
VII. ENTRY CONDITIONS
14. The most significant barrier to entry into the relevant
markets is locating a nephrologist with an established referral
base who is willing and able to enter into a contract with a
dialysis clinic to serve as the clinics medical director.
Federal law requires each dialysis clinic to have a physician
medical director. Having a nephrologist serve as medical
director is essential to the competitiveness of the clinic,
because he or she is the clinics primary source of
referrals. A medical directors contract with a clinic
typically prevents the medical director (and often his or her
partners) from serving as a medical director for a competing
clinic while serving as the clinics medical director. The
lack of available nephrologists with an established referral
stream is a significant barrier to entry into each of the
relevant geographic markets identified in Paragraph 11.
15. Additionally, certain attributes are necessary to
attract new entry into particular relevant markets, including a
rapidly growing ESRD population, a favorable regulatory
environment (including no state certificate of need requirements
regulating the development of new clinics), average or lower
nursing and labor costs, and a relatively low penetration of
managed care. The absence of any of these attributes constitutes
an additional barrier to entry into particular relevant markets.
16. New entry into the relevant markets sufficient to deter
or counteract the anticompetitive effects described in
Paragraph 17 is unlikely to occur, and would not occur in a
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timely manner because it would take over two years to enter and
achieve significant market impact.
VIII. EFFECTS OF THE ACQUISITION
17. The effects of the Acquisition, if consummated, may be
substantially to lessen competition and tend to create a
monopoly in the relevant markets in violation of Section 7
of the Clayton Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 18,
and Section 5 of the FTC Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C.
§ 45, in the following ways, among others:
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a. eliminating actual, direct, and substantial competition
between Fresenius and RCG;
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b. increasing the ability of the merged entity unilaterally
to raise prices; and
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c. reducing incentives to improve service or quality.
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IX. VIOLATIONS CHARGED
18. The Agreement described in Paragraph 8 constitutes
a violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act, as amended,
15 U.S.C. § 45.
19. The Acquisition described in Paragraph 8, if
consummated, would constitute a violation of Section 7 of
the Clayton Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 18, and
Section 5 of the FTC Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C.
§ 45.
WHEREFORE, THE PREMISES CONSIDERED, the Federal Trade Commission
on this
day of
,
2006, issues its Complaint against said Respondents.
By the Commission.
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Donald S. Clark
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Secretary
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EXHIBIT 10.3
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
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COMMISSIONERS:
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Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman
Pamela Jones Harbour
Jon Leibowitz
William E. Kovacic
J. Thomas Rosch
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In the Matter of
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Docket No. C-
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FRESENIUS AG,
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a corporation.
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DECISION AND ORDER
The Federal Trade Commission (Commission), having
initiated an investigation of the proposed acquisition of Renal
Care Group, Inc. by Fresenius AG and entities
controlled by Fresenius AG, including (1) Fresenius
Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership
limited by shares organized under the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany, the general partner of which is majority
owned by Fresenius AG, (2) Fresenius Medical Care
Holdings, Inc., a New York corporation majority owned by
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a
partnership limited by shares organized under the laws of the
Federal Republic of Germany, and (3) Florence
Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation that is wholly
owned by Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., and
Fresenius AG (hereafter referred to as
Respondent) having been furnished thereafter with a
copy of a draft of Complaint that the Bureau of Competition
proposed to present to the Commission for its consideration and
which, if issued by the Commission, would charge Respondent with
violations of Section 7 of the Clayton Act, as amended,
15 U.S.C. § 18, and Section 5 of the
Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended,
15 U.S.C. § 45; and
Respondent, its attorneys, and counsel for the Commission having
thereafter executed an Agreement Containing Consent Orders
(Consent Agreement), containing an admission by
Respondent of all the jurisdictional facts set forth in the
aforesaid draft of Complaint, a statement that the signing of
said Consent Agreement is for settlement purposes only and does
not constitute an admission by Respondent that the law has been
violated as alleged in such Complaint, or that the facts as
alleged in such Complaint, other than jurisdictional facts, are
true, and waivers and other provisions as required by the
Commissions Rules; and
The Commission, having thereafter considered the matter and
having determined that it had reason to believe that Respondent
has violated the said Acts, and that a Complaint should issue
stating its charges in that respect, and having accepted the
executed Consent Agreement
and placed such Consent Agreement on the public record for a
period of thirty (30) days for the receipt and
consideration of public comments, now in further conformity with
the procedure described in Commission Rule 2.34,
16 C.F.R. § 2.34, the Commission hereby
makes the following jurisdictional findings and issues the
following Decision and Order (Order):
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Respondent Fresenius AG is a corporation organized,
existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of
the Federal Republic of Germany, with its office and principal
place of business located at
Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352 Bad Homburg,
Germany. Fresenius AG is the ultimate parent of
(1) Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by shares organized under
the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, the general partner
of which is majority owned by Fresenius AG, with its office
and principal place of business located at
Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352 Bad Homburg,
Germany, (2) Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., a
New York corporation majority owned by Fresenius Medical
Care AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by
shares organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of
Germany, with its office and principal place of business located
at 95 Hayden Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420, and
(3) Florence Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation
that is wholly owned by Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc,
with its office and principal place of business located at 95
Hayden Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420.
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The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction of the subject
matter of this proceeding and of Respondent, and the proceeding
is in the public interest.
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ORDER
I.
IT IS ORDERED that, as used in this Order, the following
definitions shall apply:
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A.
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Fresenius means Fresenius AG, its directors,
officers, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and
assigns; and its joint ventures, subsidiaries (including, but
not limited to Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by shares organized under
the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, Fresenius Medical
Care Holdings, Inc., and Florence Acquisition, Inc.),
divisions, groups, and affiliates controlled by
Fresenius AG (including, after the Effective Date, Renal
Care Group, Inc.), and the respective directors, officers,
employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns of
each.
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B.
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RCG means Renal Care Group, Inc., its
directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives,
successors, and assigns; and its joint ventures, subsidiaries,
divisions, groups and affiliates controlled by Renal Care
Group, Inc.(including, but not limited to Renal
Dimensions, LLC, and Summit Renal Care, LLC), and the
respective directors, officers, employees, agents,
representatives, successors, and assigns of each.
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C.
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Commission means the Federal Trade Commission.
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D.
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Acquirer and Acquirers means NRI,
and each Person that receives the prior approval of the
Commission to acquire any of the Appendix A Clinic Assets
pursuant to Paragraphs II or V of this Order.
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E.
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Appendix A Clinics means the Clinics listed in
Appendix A to this Order.
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F.
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Appendix A Clinic Assets means the
Appendix A Clinics, and all Assets Associated with each of
those Clinics;
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G.
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Assets Associated means the following assets
Relating To the Operation Of A Clinic:
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all rights under the Clinics Physician Contracts;
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leases for the Real Property Of The Clinic;
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consumable or disposable inventory, including, but not limited
to, janitorial, office, and medical supplies, and at least
ten (10) normal treatment day requirements of dialysis
supplies and pharmaceuticals, including, but not limited to,
erythropoietin;
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all rights, title, and interest of Fresenius in any tangible
property (except for consumable or disposable inventory) that
has been on the premises of the Clinic at any time since
October 1, 2005, including, but not limited to, all
equipment, furnishings, fixtures, improvements, and
appurtenances;
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any interest (other than leases) held by Fresenius in the Real
Property Of The Clinic;
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books, records, files, correspondence, manuals, computer
printouts, databases, and other documents Relating To the
Operation Of The Clinic located on the premises of the Clinic or
in the possession of the Regional Manager responsible for such
Clinic (or copies thereof where Fresenius has a legal obligation
to maintain the original document), including, but not limited
to:
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documents containing information Relating To patients (to the
extent transferable under applicable law), including, but not
limited to, medical records,
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financial records,
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personnel files,
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d.
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Physician lists and other records of the Clinics dealings
with Physicians,
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maintenance records,
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f.
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documents Relating To policies and procedures,
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g.
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documents Relating To quality control,
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h.
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documents Relating To Payors,
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documents Relating To Suppliers,
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documents Relating To the Clinic To Be Divested that are also
related to the Operation Of A Clinic that is not a Clinic To Be
Divested,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
if such documents are
located other than on the premises of the Clinic To Be Divested,
Fresenius may submit a copy of the document with the portions
not Relating To the Clinic To Be Divested redacted, and
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k.
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copies of contracts with Payors and Suppliers, unless such
contracts cannot, according to their terms, be disclosed to
third parties even with the permission of Fresenius to make such
disclosure;
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Freseniuss Medicare and Medicaid provider numbers, to the
extent transferable;
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8.
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all permits and licenses, to the extent transferable;
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9.
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Intangible Property (other than Software, Licensed Intangible
Property, and Unrelated Intangible Property) relating
exclusively to the Operation Of The Clinic;
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10.
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any contract Fresenius or RCG has to provide in-hospital
dialysis services Relating To the Clinic To Be Divested; and
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assets that are used in, or necessary for, the Operation Of The
Clinic.
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that Assets Associated
does not include Excluded Assets.
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H.
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Assets To Be Divested means the Appendix A
Clinic Assets.
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I.
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Clinic means a facility that provides hemodialysis
or peritoneal dialysis services to patients suffering from
kidney disease.
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J.
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Clinics Physician Contracts means all
agreements to provide the services of a Physician to a Clinic,
regardless of whether any of the agreements are with a Physician
or with a medical group, including, but not limited to,
agreements for the services of a medical
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director for the Clinic and joiner agreements with
Physicians in the same medical practice as a medical director of
the Clinic.
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K.
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Clinic To Be Divested and Clinics To Be
Divested means the Appendix A Clinics.
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Contract Services means services performed pursuant
to any Clinics Physician Contract..
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M.
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Divestiture Agreement and Divestiture
Agreements mean any agreement pursuant to which Fresenius
divests any Appendix A Clinic Assets and the Joint Venture
Equity Interests pursuant to this Order and with the prior
approval of the Commission.
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Effective Date means the date on which Fresenius
acquires RCG.
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O.
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Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested and
Employee Of The Clinic To Be Divested mean any
individual (including, but not limited to, a clinic director,
manager, nurse, technician, clerk, or social worker) who is not
a Regional Manager, who is employed by Fresenius, by an
Acquirer, or by another manager or owner of such Clinic To Be
Divested, and who has worked part-time or
full-time
on the
premises of such Clinic To Be Divested at any time since
October 1, 2005, regardless of whether the individual has
also worked on the premises of any other Clinic.
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Excluded Assets means:
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all cash, cash equivalents, and short term investments of cash;
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accounts receivable;
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income tax refunds and tax deposits due Fresenius;
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unbilled costs and fees, and Medicare bad debt recovery claims,
arising before a Clinic is divested to an Acquirer;
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Freseniuss Medical Protocols (except if requested by an
Acquirer pursuant to Paragraph II.B.17.b. of this Order);
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rights to the names Fresenius, and Renal Care
Group and any variation of those names, and any names,
phrases, marks, trade names, and trademarks to the extent they
include the following, fresenius medical care,
fresenius medical services, biomedical
applications, everest healthcare,
spectra, national medical care,
ultraCare;or national nephrology
associates, neomedica, and
qualicenters, and any variation of those names.
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insurance policies and all claims thereunder, except as set
forth in the NRI Divestiture Agreements;
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prepaid items or rebates;
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minute books (other than governing body minute books of the
Clinic To Be Divested), tax returns, and other corporate books
and records;
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any
inter-company
balances due to or from Fresenius or its affiliates;
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all benefits plans;
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all writings and other items that are protected by the
attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or
any other cognizable privilege or protection, except to the
extent such information is necessary to the Operation Of A
Clinic that is divested;
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telecommunication systems equipment and applications, and
information systems equipment including, but not limited to
computer hardware, not physically located at a Clinic To Be
Divested but shared with the Clinic To Be Divested through local
and/or wide area networking systems;
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e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of Freseniuss
employees;
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Software;
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computer hardware used in the Operation Of The Clinic that is
(a) not located at the Clinic, and (b) not otherwise
to be divested pursuant to a Divestiture Agreement;
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all Supplier or provider numbers issued to Fresenius or RCG by a
Supplier or Payor with respect to any Clinic To Be Divested,
except for Freseniuss Medicare and Medicaid provider
numbers for each Clinic To Be Divested, to the extent
transferable;
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rights under agreements with Payors and Suppliers that are not
assignable even if Fresenius and RCG approve such assignment or,
that, according to their terms, cannot be disclosed to third
parties even with the permission of Fresenius or RCG to
make such disclosures;
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office equipment and furniture that (a) is not, in the
Ordinary Course Of Business, physically located at the Clinic To
Be Divested, (b) is shared with Clinics other than the
Clinic To Be Divested, and (c) is not necessary to the
Operation Of The Clinic To Be Divested;
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Licensed Intangible Property (subject to the requirements of
Paragraph II.B.15);
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Unrelated Intangible Property;
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Intangible Property not relating exclusively to the Operation Of
The Clinic (subject to the requirements of
Paragraph II.B.18); and
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strategic planning documents that
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Relate To the Operation Of The Clinic other than the Clinic To
Be Divested, and
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are not located on the premises of the Clinic To Be Divested.
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Fresenius Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested and
Fresenius Employee Of The Clinic To Be Divested
means an Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested who is employed by
Fresenius.
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Freseniuss Medical Protocols means medical
protocols promulgated by either Fresenius or RCG, whether in
hard copy or embedded in software, that have been in effect at
any time since October 1, 2005.
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
Freseniuss Medical Protocols does not mean
medical protocols adopted or promulgated, at any time, by any
Physician or by any Acquirer, even if such medical protocols are
identical, in whole or in part, to medical protocols promulgated
by either Fresenius or RCG
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Governmental Approvals means any permissions or
sanctions issued by any government or governmental organization,
including, but not limited to, licenses, permits,
accreditations, authorizations, registrations, certifications,
certificates of occupancy, and certificates of need.
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T.
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Government Approvals For Continued Operation means
any Governmental Approvals, other than Government Approvals For
Divestiture, that an Acquirer must have to continue to operate a
Clinic To Be Divested.
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U.
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Governmental Approvals For Divestiture means any
Governmental Approvals that an Acquirer must have to own, and to
initially operate, a Clinic To Be Divested, including, but not
limited to,
state-issued
licenses
and
state-issued
certificates of need.
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Illinois Clinic Assets means the Clinics listed in
Appendix C, and all Assets Associated with those Clinics.
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Illinois Governmental Approvals For Divestiture
means any Governmental Approvals For Divestiture issued by the
State of Illinois.
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Illinois Joint Venture Equity Interest means the
joint venture equity interest owned by RCG in each of the
following joint ventures located in the State of Illinois:
(1) Renal Care Group Buffalo Grove, LLC, and (2) Renal
Care Group Schaumburg, LLC.
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Intangible Property means intangible property
Relating To the Operation Of A Clinic To Be Divested including,
but not limited to, intellectual property, software, computer
programs, patents, know-how, goodwill, technology, trade
secrets, technical information, marketing information,
protocols, quality control information, trademarks, trade names,
service marks, logos, and the modifications or improvements to
such intangible property.
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Joint Venture Equity Interest means the joint
venture equity interest owned by RCG in each of the following
joint ventures: (1) RCG Brandon LLC
(Brandon, MS), (2) Renal Care Group
Schaumburg, LLC, (3) Brownsville Kidney Center, Ltd.,
(4) El Paso Kidney Center East, Ltd.,
(5) Renal Care Group Buffalo Grove, LLC,
(6) Renal Care Group South Tampa, LLC, (7) Renal
Care Group Canton, LLC (Georgia), (8) Renal Care Group
Galleria, LLC., and (9) Summit Renal Care, LLC.
The joint ventures are more fully described in Appendix D.
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Licensed Intangible Property means intangible
property licensed to Fresenius from a third party Relating To
the Operation Of A Clinic To Be Divested including, but not
limited to, intellectual property, software, computer programs,
patents, know-how, goodwill, technology, trade secrets,
technical information, marketing information, protocols, quality
control information, trademarks, trade names, service marks,
logos, and the modifications or improvements to such intangible
property that are licensed to Fresenius. Licensed
Intangible Property does not mean modifications and
improvements to intangible property that are not licensed to
Fresenius, or Unrelated Intangible Property.
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Material Confidential Information means
competitively sensitive, proprietary, and all other information
that is not in the public domain owned by or pertaining to a
Person or a Persons business, and includes, but is not
limited to, all customer lists, price lists, contracts, cost
information, marketing methods, patents, technologies,
processes, or other trade secrets.
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CC.
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Monitor Agreement means the Monitor Agreement dated
March 7, 2006, between Fresenius, and Richard A.
Shermer, of R. Shermer & Co. The Monitor
Agreement is attached as Appendix E to this Order.
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DD.
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NRI means National Renal Institutes, Inc., located
at 511 Union Street, Suite 1800, Nashville,
TN 37219, and which is a wholly owned subsidiary of
DSI Holding Company, Inc.
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EE.
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NRI Divestiture Agreements means the Amended
and Restated Asset Purchase Agreement dated March 9, 2006,
but effective as of February 14, 2006, by and among
National Renal Institutes, Inc., Renal Care
Group, Inc. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.,
including
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all Exhibits (including, but not limited to, the Assignment and
Assumption Agreement, Bill of Sale, License Agreement,
Transition Services Agreement, Escrow Agreement, Lab Services
Agreement, Supply Agreement, Transfer Documents for Real
Property, and Partial Waiver Agreement) and Schedules.
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Operation Of A Clinic and Operation Of The
Clinic mean all activities Relating To the business of a
Clinic, including, but not limited to:
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attracting patients to the Clinic for dialysis services,
providing dialysis services to patients of the Clinic, and
dealing with their Physicians, including, but not limited to,
services Relating To hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis;
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providing medical products to patients of the Clinic;
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maintaining the equipment on the premises of the Clinic,
including, but not limited to, the equipment used in providing
dialysis services to patients;
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purchasing supplies and equipment for the Clinic;
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5.
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negotiating leases for the premises of the Clinic;
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6.
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providing counseling and support services to patients receiving
products or services from the Clinic;
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7.
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contracting for the services of medical directors for the Clinic;
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8.
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dealing with Payors that pay for products or services offered by
the Clinic, including but not limited to, negotiating contracts
with such Payors and submitting claims to such Payors; and
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9.
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dealing with Governmental Approvals Relating To the Clinic or
that otherwise regulate the Clinic.
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Ordinary Course Of Business means actions taken by
any Person in the ordinary course of the normal day-to-day
Operation Of The Clinic that are consistent with past practices
of
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such Person in the Operation Of The Clinic, including, but not
limited to past practice with respect to amount, timing, and
frequency.
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HH.
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Other Contracts Of Each Clinic To Be Divested means
all contracts Relating To the Operation Of A Clinic, where such
Clinic is a Clinic To Be Divested including, but not
limited to, contracts for goods and services provided to the
Clinic and contracts with Payors but does not mean
the Clinics Physician Contracts and the leases for the
Real Property Of The Clinic.
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Payor means any Person that purchases, reimburses
for, or otherwise pays for medical goods or services for
themselves or for any other person, including, but not limited
to: health insurance companies; preferred provider
organizations; point of service organizations; prepaid hospital,
medical, or other health service plans; health maintenance
organizations; government health benefits programs; employers or
other persons providing or administering self-insured health
benefits programs; and patients who purchase medical goods or
services for themselves.
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Person means any natural person, partnership,
corporation, association, trust, joint venture, government,
government agency, or other business or legal entity.
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KK.
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Physician means a doctor of allopathic
medicine (M.D.) or a doctor of osteopathic
medicine (D.O.).
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LL.
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Real Property Of The Clinic means real property on
which, or in which, the Clinic is located, including real
property used for parking and for other functions Relating To
the Operation Of The Clinic.
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MM.
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Relating To means pertaining in any way to, and is
not limited to that which pertains exclusively to or primarily
to.
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Regional Manager means any individual who has been
employed by Fresenius or RCG with supervisory
responsibility for three or more Clinics.
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OO.
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Regional Manager Of A Clinic To Be Divested and
Regional Manager Of The Clinic To Be Divested mean a
Regional Manager who has had direct supervisory responsibility
for a Clinic To Be Divested at any time since October 1,
2005.
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PP.
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Software means executable computer code and the
documentation for such computer code, but does not mean data
processed by such computer code.
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Supplier means any Person that has sold to Fresenius
or RCG any goods or services, other than Physician
services, for use in a Clinic To Be Divested.
PROVIDED,
HOWEVER,
Supplier does not mean an employee of
Fresenius or RCG.
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RR.
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Time Of Divestiture means with respect to an
Appendix A Clinic or a Joint Venture Equity Interest, the
date upon which a Clinic or a Joint Venture Equity Interest is
divested to an Acquirer pursuant to this Order.
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Unrelated Intangible Property means Intangible
Property that is Relating To:
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Renal products produced and sold by Fresenius including, but not
limited to, dialyzers, bloodlines, hemodialysis machines,
peritoneal dialysis cyclers, catheters and tubing, concentrates,
water treatment systems and dialysis fluids;
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Clinical laboratory testing services provided by Fresenius-owned
laboratories;
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Perfusion services provided by Fresenius, including without
limitation, operation of heart and lung machines during surgery;
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4.
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Auto transfusion services and products provided by Fresenius,
including without limitation, blood processing devices allowing
reinfusion of blood lost during surgery;
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Ambulatory surgery services performed by Fresenius;
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Disease and case management administrative and coordination
services provided by Fresenius;
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7.
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Pharmaceuticals produced and sold by Fresenius, including
without limitation, peritoneal dialysis solutions,
Vitamin D analogues and phosphate binders;
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Biologicals produced and sold by Fresenius, including without
limitation, therapies and products for the treatment of cancer
and immunosuppression in organ and bone marrow transplantation;
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Hospital and pharmaceutical industry facility development,
engineering and management services provided by Fresenius;
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Infusion therapy and products provided by Fresenius, including
without limitation, anesthesia, electrolyte and glucose infusion
solutions and nutritional infusion solutions;
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Nutrition therapies and products provided by Fresenius,
including without limitation, feeding tubes, feeding pumps,
artificial feeding products and services;
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Cell separation therapy and products provided by Fresenius,
including without limitation, removal of diseased cells from
blood in leukemia and auto-immune disease applications;
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Adsorption therapies and products provided by Fresenius,
including without limitation, products and therapies for the
removal of undesirable substances from the blood (e.g.,
cholesterol) and products and therapies for the treatment of
arthritis;
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Blood bank products and services provided by Fresenius,
including without limitation, blood collection and storage
services and products and blood transfusion services and
products;
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Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) substitutes produced and sold by
Fresenius, which are maize-based solutions that can compensate
for deficient blood volume and improve blood viscosity; and/or
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Genetic engineering, antibody and cell therapy products for the
treatment of cancer currently under development by Fresenius.
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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that:
A. Fresenius shall:
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within ten (10) days after the Effective Date, divest
to NRI, absolutely, and in good faith, pursuant to and in
accordance with the NRI Divestiture Agreements:
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all the Appendix A Clinic Assets, except for the Illinois
Clinic Assets, as
on-going
businesses; and
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b.
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all of its Joint Venture Equity Interests, except for the
Illinois Joint Venture Equity Interests;
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER, if, at the time the Commission makes this
Order final, the Commission determines that NRI is not an
acceptable acquirer or that the NRI Divestiture Agreements
are not an acceptable manner of divestiture, and so notifies
Fresenius, then Fresenius shall within six (6) months of
the date Fresenius receives notice of such determination from
the Commission, divest the Appendix A Clinic Assets, except
for the Illinois Clinic Assets, absolutely and in good faith, at
no minimum price, as
on-going
businesses and
the Joint Venture Equity Interests, except for the Illinois
Joint Venture Equity Interests, absolutely and in good faith, at
no minimum price, to an Acquirer or Acquirers that receive the
prior approval of the Commission and only in a manner that
receives the prior approval of the Commission;
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within ninety (90) days after the Effective Date, divest
to NRI, absolutely, and in good faith, pursuant to and in
accordance with the NRI Divestiture Agreements, the
Illinois Clinic Assets, as
on-going
businesses,
and the Illinois Joint Venture Equity Interests;
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER, if, at the time the Commission makes this
Order final, the Commission determines that NRI is not an
acceptable acquirer or that the NRI Divestiture Agreements
are not an acceptable manner of divestiture, and so notifies
Fresenius, then Fresenius shall within eight (8) months of
the date Fresenius receives notice of such determination from
the Commission, divest the Illinois Clinic Assets absolutely and
in good faith, at no minimum price, as on-going businesses, and
the Illinois Joint Venture Equity Interests absolutely and in
good faith, at no minimum price, to an Acquirer or Acquirers
that receive the prior approval of the Commission and only in a
manner that receives the prior approval of the Commission.
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The NRI Divestiture Agreements are incorporated by
reference into this Order and made a part hereof as
Non-Public
Appendix F. Any failure by Fresenius to comply with the
NRI Divestiture Agreements shall constitute a failure to
comply with the Order. The NRI Divestiture Agreements shall
not vary or contradict, or be construed to vary or contradict,
the terms of this Order. Nothing in this Order shall reduce, or
be construed to
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reduce, any rights or benefits of NRI, or any obligations
of Fresenius, under the NRI Divestiture Agreements.
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If Fresenius has divested the Appendix A Clinic Assets and
the Joint Venture Equity Interests to NRI prior to the date
this Order becomes final, and if, at the time the Commission
makes this Order final, the Commission determines that
NRI is not an acceptable acquirer or that the
NRI Divestiture Agreements are not an acceptable manner of
divestiture, and so notifies Fresenius, then Fresenius shall
within three (3) business days of receiving such
notification, rescind the transaction with NRI and shall
divest the Appendix A Clinic Assets and the Joint Venture
Equity Interests in accordance with the provisos to
Paragraphs II.A.1 and II.A.2 of this Order.
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If Fresenius has divested to NRI the following Clinics in
Rhode Island: North Providence (1635 Mineral Spring Avenue,
Providence, RI 02904) and Providence (45 Hemingway
Drive, Providence, RI 02915) and the Assets Associated with
such Clinics (collectively, the Rhode Island Clinic
Assets), and:
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if, after such divestiture, the Rhode Island Department of
Health determines that NRI is not an acceptable acquirer or
that the NRI Divestiture Agreements relating to the Rhode Island
Clinic Assets are not an acceptable manner of divestiture, and
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b.
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the Rhode Island Department of Health so notifies Fresenius that
it must reacquire the Rhode Island Clinic Assets,
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then Fresenius shall, within six (6) months of the date
Fresenius receives notice of such determination from the Rhode
Island Department of Health, divest the Rhode Island Clinic
Assets absolutely and in good faith, at no minimum price, as
on-going businesses, to an Acquirer or Acquirers that receive
the prior approval of the Commission and only in a manner that
receives the prior approval of the Commission.
PROVIDED,
HOWEVER,
unless otherwise prohibited by the Rhode Island
Department of Health, NRI shall continue to manage such
Clinics pending divestiture.
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B.
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Fresenius shall divest the Assets To Be Divested on the terms
set forth in this Paragraph II.B, in addition to other
terms that may be required by this Order and by the Divestiture
Agreements; and Fresenius shall agree with the Acquirers, as
part of the Divestiture Agreements, to comply with the terms set
forth in this Paragraph II.B.
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Fresenius shall place no restrictions on the use by any Acquirer
of any of the Assets To Be Divested or any of the Clinics To Be
Divested.
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2.
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Fresenius shall cooperate with the Acquirer and assist the
Acquirer, at no cost to the Acquirer, at the Time Of Divestiture
of each Clinic To Be Divested, in obtaining all Government
Approvals For Divestiture, and all Government Approvals For
Continued Operation, for each Clinic To Be Divested.
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3.
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Fresenius shall, at the Time Of Divestiture of each Clinic To Be
Divested and each Joint Venture Equity Interest:
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assign to the Acquirer all rights, title, and interest to leases
for the Real Property Of The Clinic, and shall obtain all
approvals necessary for such assignments;
PROVIDED,
HOWEVER,
that (1) if the Acquirer obtains all rights,
title, and interest to a lease for Real Property Of A Clinic To
Be Divested before the Assets To Be Divested are divested
pursuant to Paragraph II.A. of this Order, and (2) the
Acquirer certifies its receipt of such lease and attaches it as
part of the Divestiture Agreement, then Fresenius shall not be
required to make the assignments for such Clinic To Be Divested
as required by this Paragraph II.B.3.a; and
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b.
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assign to the Acquirer all of the Clinics Physician
Contracts, and shall obtain all approvals necessary for such
assignment;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that (1) if the
Acquirer enters into a Clinics Physician Contract for a
Clinic To Be Divested before the Assets To Be Divested are
divested pursuant to Paragraph II.A. of this Order, and
(2) the Acquirer certifies its receipt of such contract and
attaches it as part of the Divestiture Agreement, then Fresenius
shall not be required to make the assignment for such Clinic To
Be Divested as required by this Paragraph II.B.3.b; and
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shall obtain all approvals by joint venture partners necessary
for the Acquirer to acquire the Clinics To Be Divested that are
owned by a joint venture, and shall assign all such approvals to
the Acquirer; and
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shall obtain all approvals by joint venture partners necessary
for the Acquirer of Joint Venture Equity Interests to jointly
own and operate the Clinics owned by the joint venture, and
shall assign all such approvals to the Acquirer.
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4.
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With respect to all Other Contracts Of Each Clinic To Be
Divested, Fresenius shall, at the Acquirers option and at
the Time Of Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested:
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a.
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if such contract can be assigned without third party approval,
assign its rights under the contract to the Acquirer; and
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b.
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if such contract can be assigned to the Acquirer only with third
party approval, assist and cooperate with the Acquirer in
obtaining:
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(1)
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such third party approval and in assigning the contract to the
Acquirer; or
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(2)
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a new contract.
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a.
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at the Time Of Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested,
provide to the Acquirer of such Clinic contact information about
Payors and Suppliers for the Clinic; and
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b.
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not object to the sharing of Payor and Supplier contract terms
Relating To the Clinics To Be Divested (i) if the Payor or
Supplier consents in writing to such disclosure upon a request
by the Acquirer, and (ii) if the Acquirer enters into a
confidentiality agreement with Fresenius not to disclose the
information to any third party.
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6.
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Until sixty (60) days after the Time Of Divestiture of each
Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall:
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a.
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facilitate interviews between each Fresenius Employee Of A
Clinic To Be Divested and the Acquirer of the Clinic, and shall
not discourage such employee from participating in such
interviews; and
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b.
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not interfere in employment negotiations between each Fresenius
Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested and the Acquirer of the
Clinic.
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7.
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With respect to each Fresenius Employee Of A Clinic To Be
Divested who receives, within sixty (60) days of the Time
Of Divestiture of any Clinic at which he or she is employed, an
offer of employment from the Acquirer of that Clinic:
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a.
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Fresenius shall not prevent, prohibit or restrict or threaten to
prevent, prohibit or restrict the Fresenius Employee Of The
Clinic To Be Divested from being employed by the Acquirer of the
Clinic, and shall not offer any incentive to the Fresenius
Employee Of The Clinic To Be Divested to decline employment with
the Acquirer of the Clinic;
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b.
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if the Fresenius Employee Of The Clinic To Be Divested accepts
such offer of employment from the Acquirer, Fresenius shall
cooperate with the Acquirer of the Clinic in effecting transfer
of the Fresenius Employee Of The Clinic To Be Divested to the
employ of the Acquirer of the Clinic;
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c.
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Fresenius shall eliminate any contractual provisions or other
restrictions that would otherwise prevent the Fresenius Employee
Of The Clinic To Be Divested from being employed by the Acquirer
of the Clinic;
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d.
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Fresenius shall eliminate any confidentiality restrictions that
would prevent the Fresenius Employee Of The Clinic To Be
Divested who accepts employment with the Acquirer of the Clinic
from using or transferring to the Acquirer any information
Relating To the Operation Of The Clinic; and
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e.
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Fresenius shall pay, for the benefit of any Fresenius Employee
Of The Clinic To Be Divested who accepts employment with the
Acquirer of the Clinic, all accrued bonuses, vested pensions,
and other accrued benefits, except extended sick leave, as to
which NRI shall be solely responsible for its payment
in full.
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8.
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For a period of two (2) years following the Time Of
Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not,
directly or indirectly, solicit, induce, or attempt to solicit
or induce any Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested who is
employed by the Acquirer to terminate his or her employment
relationship with the Acquirer, unless that employment
relationship has already been terminated by the Acquirer;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may make general
advertisements for employees including, but not limited to, in
newspapers, trade publications, websites, or other media not
targeted specifically at Acquirers employees;
PROVIDED,
FURTHER, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may hire employees who apply for
employment with Fresenius, as long as such employees were not
solicited by Fresenius in violation of this
Paragraph II.B.8;
PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may offer employment to an Employee Of A Clinic To
Be Divested who is employed by the Acquirer in only a part-time
capacity, if the employment offered by Fresenius would not, in
any way, interfere with the employees ability to fulfill
his or her employment responsibilities to the Acquirer.
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For a period of not less than
forty-five
(45) days, which period may begin prior to the signing of
the Consent Agreement and which shall end no earlier than ten
(10) days after the Time Of Divestiture of each Clinic To
Be Divested (Forty-Five Day Hiring Period),
Fresenius shall:
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a.
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facilitate interviews between each Regional Manager Of A Clinic
To Be Divested and the Acquirer of the Clinic, and shall not
discourage such Regional Manager from participating in such
interviews; and
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b.
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not interfere in employment negotiations between each Regional
Manager Of A Clinic To Be Divested and the Acquirer of the
Clinic.
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER, the terms of this Paragraph II.B.9 shall
not apply after Acquirers have hired ten (10) Regional
Managers who were each previously employed by Fresenius or RCG
at any time since October 1, 2005.
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10.
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With respect to each Regional Manager Of A Clinic To Be Divested
who receives, within the
Forty-Five
Day Hiring
Period required by Paragraph II.B.9. of this Order an offer
of employment from the Acquirer of that Clinic:
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a.
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Fresenius shall not prevent, prohibit or restrict or threaten to
prevent, prohibit or restrict the Regional Manager Of The Clinic
To Be Divested from being employed by the Acquirer of the
Clinic, and shall not offer any incentive to the Regional
Manager Of The Clinic To Be Divested to decline employment with
the Acquirer of the Clinic;
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b.
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if the Regional Manager Of The Clinic To Be Divested accepts
such offer of employment from the Acquirer, Fresenius shall
cooperate with the Acquirer of the Clinic in effecting transfer
of the Regional Manager Of The Clinic To Be Divested to the
employ of the Acquirer of the Clinic;
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c.
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Fresenius shall eliminate any contractual provisions or other
restrictions that would otherwise prevent the Regional Manager
Of The Clinic To Be Divested from being employed by the Acquirer
of the Clinic;
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d.
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Fresenius shall eliminate any confidentiality restrictions that
would prevent the Regional Manager Of The Clinic To Be Divested
who accepts employment with the
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Acquirer of the Clinic from using or transferring to the
Acquirer any information Relating To the Operation Of The Clinic;
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Fresenius shall pay, for the benefit of any Regional Manager Of
The Clinic To Be Divested who accepts employment with the
Acquirer of the Clinic, all accrued bonuses, vested pensions and
other accrued benefits, except extended sick leave, as to which
NRI shall be solely responsible for its payment in full; and
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f.
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for a period of two (2) years following the Time Of
Divestiture of the Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not,
directly or indirectly, solicit, induce, or attempt to solicit
or induce any Regional Manager of the Acquirer who was
previously a Regional Manager of A Clinic To Be Divested to
terminate his or her employment relationship with the Acquirer
unless the individual has been terminated by the Acquirer;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may make general
advertisements for Regional Managers including, but not limited
to, in newspapers, trade publications, websites, or other media
not targeted specifically at Acquirers Regional Managers;
PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may hire Regional
Managers who apply for employment with Fresenius, as long as
such Regional Managers were not solicited by Fresenius in
violation of this Paragraph II.B.10.f.
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER, after the Acquirer has hired ten
(10) Regional Managers who were each previously employed by
Fresenius or RCG at any time since October 1, 2005,
the terms of this Paragraph II.B.10 shall apply only to
those ten (10) Regional Managers hired by the Acquirer.
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With respect to each Physician who has provided services to a
Clinic To Be Divested pursuant to any of the Clinics
Physician Contracts in effect at any time during the four
(4) months preceding the Time Of Divestiture of the Clinic
(Contract Physician):
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a.
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Fresenius shall not offer any incentive to the Contract
Physician, the Contract Physicians practice group, or
other members of the Contract Physicians practice group to
decline to provide services to the Clinic To Be Divested, and
shall eliminate any confidentiality restrictions that would
prevent the Contract Physician, the Contract Physicians
practice group, or other members of the Contract
Physicians practice group from using or transferring to
the Acquirer of the Clinic To Be Divested any information
Relating To the Operation Of The Clinic; and
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b.
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For a period of three (3) years following the Time Of
Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not
contract for the services of the Contract Physician,
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the Contract Physicians practice group, or other members
of the Contract Physicians practice group for the
provision of Contract Services to be performed in any of the
areas listed in Appendix B of this Order that correspond to
such Clinic.
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
if the Contract
Physician, or the Contract Physicians practice group, or
other members of the Contract Physicians practice group
were providing services to one or more Clinics, other than or in
addition to a Clinic To Be Divested, pursuant to a contract with
Fresenius or RCG in effect as of October 1, 2005, then
Fresenius may continue to contract with such Contract
Physicians, or the Contract Physicians practice group, or
other members of the Contract Physicians practice group
for services to be provided to such other or additional Clinics;
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12.
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With respect to Material Confidential Information relating
exclusively to any of the Clinics To Be Divested, Fresenius
shall:
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a.
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not disclose such information to any Person other than the
Acquirer of such Clinic;
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b.
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after the Time Of Divestiture of such Clinic:
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(1)
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not use such information for any purpose other than complying
with the terms of this Order or with any law; and
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(2)
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destroy all records of such information, except to the extent
that: (1) Fresenius is required by law to retain such
information, and (2) Freseniuss inside or outside
attorneys may keep one copy solely for archival purposes, but
may not disclose such copy to the rest of Fresenius.
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13.
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At the Time Of Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested,
Fresenius shall provide the Acquirer of the Clinic with manuals,
instructions, and specifications sufficient for the Acquirer to
access and use any information
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a.
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divested to the Acquirer pursuant to this Order, or
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b.
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in the possession of the Acquirer, and previously used by
Fresenius or RCG in the Operation Of The Clinic.
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14.
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For two (2) years following the Time Of Divestiture of each
Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not solicit the business
of any patients that received any goods or services
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from such Clinic between October 1, 2005, and the date of
such divestiture, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, Fresenius may (i) make
general advertisements for the business of such patients
including, but not limited to, in newspapers, trade
publications, websites, or other media not targeted specifically
at such patients, and (ii) provide advertising and
promotions directly to any patient that initiates discussions
with, or makes a request to, any Fresenius employee.
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15.
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Fresenius shall convey to each Acquirer of a Clinic To Be
Divested the right to use any Licensed Intangible Property (to
the extent permitted by the
third-party
licensor),
if such right is needed for the Operation Of The Clinic by the
Acquirer and if the Acquirer is unable, using commercially
reasonable efforts, to obtain equivalent rights from other third
parties on commercially reasonable terms and conditions.
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16.
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Fresenius shall do nothing to prevent or discourage Suppliers
that, prior to the Time Of Divestiture of any Clinic To Be
Divested, supplied goods and services for use in any Clinic To
Be Divested from continuing to supply goods and services for use
in such Clinic.
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17.
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With respect to Freseniuss Medical Protocols:
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a.
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Fresenius shall retain a copy of Freseniuss Medical
Protocols until six (6) months after all of the Assets To
Be Divested have been divested pursuant to this Order;
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b.
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If any Acquirer of a Clinic To Be Divested requests in writing
to Fresenius, within six (6) months of the Time Of
Divestiture of that Clinic to that Acquirer, that Fresenius
license a copy of Freseniuss Medical Protocols to that
Acquirer, Fresenius shall within five (5) business days of
such request, grant to that Acquirer a
royalty-free,
perpetual, worldwide license for the use, without any
limitation, of Freseniuss Medical Protocols (including the
right to transfer or sublicense such protocols, exclusively or
nonexclusively, to others by any means); and
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c.
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Fresenius shall create no disincentive for any Acquirer of a
Clinic To Be Divested to make such a request for a license for
Freseniuss Medical Protocols, and shall not enter into any
agreement or understanding with any Acquirer that the Acquirer
not make such a request.
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Fresenius shall grant a royalty-free perpetual worldwide license
for the use, without any limitation, of all Intangible Property
(other than Software, Licensed Intangible Property, and
Unrelated Intangible Property) not relating exclusively to the
Operation Of The
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Clinic (including the right to transfer or sublicense such
license rights in such Intangible Property, exclusively or
nonexclusively, to others by any means).
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C.
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Fresenius shall not acquire RCG until it has obtained for
all Clinics To Be Divested and all Joint Venture Equity
Interests:
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1.
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all Governmental Approvals For Divestiture necessary for the
Acquirers of such Clinics to be able to own, and immediately
operate, the Clinics;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
Fresenius shall
not be required to obtain Illinois Governmental Approvals For
Divestiture prior to acquiring RCG;
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2.
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all approvals for assignment of the leases for the Real Property
Of The Clinics, as required by Paragraph II.B.3.a of this
Order;
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3.
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all approvals for the assignment of the Clinics Physician
Contracts, as required by Paragraph II.B.3.b of this Order;
and
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4.
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all approvals by joint venture partners necessary for
(a) the Acquirer of such Clinics to be able to acquire the
Clinics from the joint venture, and (b) the Acquirer of
such Joint Venture Equity Interests to jointly own and operate
the Clinics with the joint venture partners, as required by
Paragraphs II.B.3.c and II.B.3.d of this Order.
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Copies of all such approvals shall be incorporated into the
Divestiture Agreements as appendices.
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D.
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The purpose of Paragraph II of this Order is to ensure the
continuation of the Clinics To Be Divested as, or as part of,
ongoing viable enterprises engaged in the same business in which
such assets were engaged at the time of the announcement of the
acquisition by Fresenius of RCG, to ensure that the Clinics
To Be Divested are operated independently of, and in competition
with, Fresenius, and to remedy the lessening of competition
alleged in the Commissions Complaint.
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III.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that, for a period of five
(5) years from the date this Order is issued, Fresenius
shall not, without providing advance written notification to the
Commission in the manner described in this paragraph, directly
or indirectly:
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A.
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acquire any assets of or financial interest in any Clinic
located in any of the areas listed in Appendix B of this
Order; or
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B.
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enter into any contract to participate in the management or
Operation Of A Clinic located in any of the areas listed in
Appendix B of this Order, except to the extent that the
contract relates exclusively to:
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off-site
lab services
or social worker support materials; or
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2.
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billing services, collection services, bookkeeping services,
accounting services, supply purchasing and logistics services,
or the preparation of financial reports and accounts receivable
reports (collectively Such Services), where
appropriate firewalls and confidentiality agreements are
implemented to prevent Material Confidential Information of the
Clinic from being disclosed to anyone participating in any way
in the operation or management of any Clinic owned by Fresenius
or any Clinic other than the Clinic to which Such Services are
being provided.
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Said advance written notification shall contain (i) either
a detailed term sheet for the proposed acquisition or the
proposed agreement with all attachments, and (ii) documents
that would be responsive to Item 4(c) of the Premerger
Notification and Report Form under the Hart-Scott-Rodino
Premerger Notification Act, Section 7A of the Clayton Act,
15 U.S.C. § 18a, and Rules, 16 C.F.R.
§ 801-803, relating to the proposed transaction
(hereinafter referred to as the Notification),
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
(i) no filing fee will be
required for the Notification, (ii) an original and one
copy of the Notification shall be filed only with the Secretary
of the Commission and need not be submitted to the United States
Department of Justice, and (iii) the Notification is
required from Fresenius and not from any other party to the
transaction. Fresenius shall provide the Notification to the
Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to consummating
the transaction (hereinafter referred to as the first
waiting period). If, within the first waiting period,
representatives of the Commission make a written request for
additional information or documentary material (within the
meaning of 16 C.F.R. § 803.20), Fresenius shall
not consummate the transaction until thirty (30) days after
submitting such additional information or documentary material.
Early termination of the waiting periods in this paragraph may
be requested and, where appropriate, granted by letter from the
Bureau of Competition.
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that prior notification shall
not be required by this paragraph for a transaction for which
Notification is required to be made, and has been made, pursuant
to Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
§ 18a.
IV.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that:
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A.
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Richard Shermer, of R. Shermer & Co., shall
be appointed Monitor to assure that Fresenius expeditiously
complies with all of its obligations and performs all of its
responsibilities as required by this Order.
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B.
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No later than one (1) day after this Order is made final,
Fresenius shall, pursuant to the Monitor Agreement and to this
Order, transfer to the Monitor all the rights, powers, and
authorities necessary to permit the Monitor to perform his
duties and responsibilities in a manner consistent with the
purposes of this Order.
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C.
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In the event a substitute Monitor is required, the Commission
shall select the Monitor, subject to the consent of Fresenius,
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. If Fresenius
has not opposed, in writing, including the reasons for opposing,
the selection of a proposed Monitor within ten (10) days
after notice by the staff of the Commission to Fresenius of the
identity of any proposed Monitor, Fresenius shall be deemed to
have consented to the selection of the proposed Monitor. Not
later than ten (10) days after appointment of a substitute
Monitor, Fresenius shall execute an agreement that, subject to
the prior approval of the Commission, confers on the Monitor all
the rights and powers necessary to permit the Monitor to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with the terms of this Order, the
Order to Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements in a
manner consistent with the purposes of this Order.
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D.
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Fresenius shall consent to the following terms and conditions
regarding the powers, duties, authorities, and responsibilities
of the Monitor:
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The Monitor shall have the power and authority to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with the terms of this Order, the
Order to Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements, and
shall exercise such power and authority and carry out the duties
and responsibilities of the Monitor in a manner consistent with
the purposes of this Order and in consultation with the
Commission, including, but not limited to:
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a.
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Assuring that Fresenius expeditiously complies with all of its
obligations and performs all of its responsibilities as required
by this Order, the Order to Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture
Agreements;
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b.
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Monitoring any transition services agreements;
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c.
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Assuring that Material Confidential Information is not received
or used by Fresenius or the Acquirers, except as allowed in this
Order and in the Order to Maintain Assets, in this matter.
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2.
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The Monitor shall act in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of
the Commission.
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3.
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The Monitor shall serve for such time as is necessary to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with the provisions of this Order,
the Order to Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements.
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4.
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Subject to any demonstrated legally recognized privilege, the
Monitor shall have full and complete access to Freseniuss
personnel, books, documents, records kept in the Ordinary Course
Of Business, facilities and technical information, and such
other relevant information as the Monitors may reasonably
request, related to Freseniuss compliance with its
obligations under this Order, the Order to Maintain Assets, and
the Divestiture Agreements. Fresenius shall cooperate with any
reasonable request of the Monitors and shall take no action to
interfere with or impede the Monitors ability to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with this Order, the Order to
Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements.
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5.
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The Monitor shall serve, without bond or other security, at the
expense of Fresenius on such reasonable and customary terms and
conditions as the Commission may set. The Monitor shall have
authority to employ, at the expense of Fresenius, such
consultants, accountants, attorneys and other representatives
and assistants as are reasonably necessary to carry out the
Monitors duties and responsibilities. The Monitor shall
account for all expenses incurred, including fees for services
rendered, subject to the approval of the Commission.
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6.
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Fresenius shall indemnify the Monitor and hold the Monitor
harmless against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or
expenses arising out of, or in connection with, the performance
of the Monitors duties, including all reasonable fees of
counsel and other reasonable expenses incurred in connection
with the preparations for, or defense of, any claim, whether or
not resulting in any liability, except to the extent that such
losses,
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claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses result from
misfeasance, gross negligence, willful or wanton acts, or bad
faith by the Monitor.
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7.
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Fresenius shall report to the Monitor in accordance with the
requirements of this Order and/or as otherwise provided in any
agreement approved by the Commission. The Monitor shall evaluate
the reports submitted to the Monitor by Fresenius, and any
reports submitted by the Acquirer with respect to the
performance of Freseniuss obligations under this Order,
the Order to Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements.
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8.
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Within one (1) month from the date the Monitor is appointed
pursuant to this paragraph, every sixty (60) days
thereafter, and otherwise as requested by the Commission, the
Monitor shall report in writing to the Commission concerning
performance by Fresenius of its obligations under this Order,
the Order to Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements.
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9.
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Fresenius may require the Monitor and each of the Monitors
consultants, accountants, attorneys, and other representatives
and assistants to sign a customary confidentiality agreement;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
such agreement shall not restrict the
Monitor from providing any information to the Commission.
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E.
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The Commission may, among other things, require the Monitor and
each of the Monitors consultants, accountants, attorneys,
and other representatives and assistants to sign an appropriate
confidentiality agreement Relating To Commission materials and
information received in connection with the performance of the
Monitors duties.
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F.
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If the Commission determines that the Monitor has ceased to act
or failed to act diligently, the Commission may appoint a
substitute Monitor in the same manner as provided in this
Paragraph IV.
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G.
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The Commission may on its own initiative, or at the request of
the Monitor, issue such additional orders or directions as may
be necessary or appropriate to assure compliance with the
requirements of this Order, the Order to Maintain Assets, and
the Divestiture Agreements.
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H.
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A Monitor appointed pursuant to this Order may be the same
Person appointed as a trustee pursuant to Paragraph V of
this Order and may be the same Person or Persons appointed as
Monitor under the Order to Maintain Assets.
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V.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that:
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A.
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If Fresenius has not divested, absolutely and in good faith and
with the Commissions prior approval, all of the Assets To
Be Divested pursuant to Paragraph II of this Order, the
Commission may appoint a trustee to divest any of the Assets To
Be Divested that have not been divested pursuant to
Paragraph II of this Order in a manner that satisfies the
requirements of Paragraph II of this Order. In the event
that the Commission or the Attorney General brings an action
pursuant to Section 5(
l
) of the Federal Trade
Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(
l
), or any
other statute enforced by the Commission, Fresenius shall
consent to the appointment of a trustee in such action to divest
the relevant assets in accordance with the terms of this Order.
Neither the appointment of a trustee nor a decision not to
appoint a trustee under this Paragraph shall preclude the
Commission or the Attorney General from seeking civil penalties
or any other relief available to it, including a court-appointed
trustee, pursuant to § 5(
l
) of the Federal
Trade Commission Act, or any other statute enforced by the
Commission, for any failure by Fresenius to comply with this
Order.
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B.
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The Commission shall select the trustee, subject to the consent
of Fresenius, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
The trustee shall be a Person with experience and expertise in
acquisitions and divestitures. If Fresenius has not opposed, in
writing, including the reasons for opposing, the selection of
any proposed trustee within ten (10) days after receipt of
notice by the staff of the Commission to Fresenius of the
identity of any proposed trustee, Fresenius shall be deemed to
have consented to the selection of the proposed trustee.
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C.
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Within ten (10) days after appointment of a trustee,
Fresenius shall execute a trust agreement that, subject to the
prior approval of the Commission, transfers to the trustee all
rights and powers necessary to permit the trustee to effect the
divestitures required by this Order.
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D.
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If a trustee is appointed by the Commission or a court pursuant
to this Order, Fresenius shall consent to the following terms
and conditions regarding the trustees powers, duties,
authority, and responsibilities:
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1.
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Subject to the prior approval of the Commission, the trustee
shall have the exclusive power and authority to divest any of
the Assets To Be Divested that have not been divested pursuant
to Paragraph II of this Order.
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2.
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The trustee shall have twelve (12) months from the date the
Commission approves the trust agreement described herein to
accomplish the divestiture, which shall be subject to
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the prior approval of the Commission. If, however, at the end of
the twelve (12) month period, the trustee has submitted a
divestiture plan or believes that the divestiture can be
achieved within a reasonable time, the divestiture period may be
extended by the Commission;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
the
Commission may extend the divestiture period only two
(2) times.
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3.
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Subject to any demonstrated legally recognized privilege, the
trustee shall have full and complete access to the personnel,
books, records, and facilities related to the relevant assets
that are required to be divested by this Order, and to any other
relevant information, as the trustee may request. Fresenius
shall develop such financial or other information as the trustee
may request and shall cooperate with the trustee. Fresenius
shall take no action to interfere with or impede the
trustees accomplishment of the divestiture. Any delays in
divestiture caused by Fresenius shall extend the time for
divestiture under this Paragraph V in an amount equal to
the delay, as determined by the Commission or, for a
court-appointed
trustee, by the court.
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4.
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The trustee shall use commercially reasonable best efforts to
negotiate the most favorable price and terms available in each
contract that is submitted to the Commission, subject to
Freseniuss absolute and unconditional obligation to divest
expeditiously and at no minimum price. The divestiture shall be
made in the manner and to an Acquirer or Acquirers as required
by this Order;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
if the trustee receives
bona fide offers for particular assets from more than one
acquiring entity, and if the Commission determines to approve
more than one such acquiring entity for such assets, the trustee
shall divest the assets to the acquiring entity selected by
Fresenius from among those approved by the Commission;
PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER,
that Fresenius shall select
such entity within five (5) days of receiving notification
of the Commissions approval.
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5.
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The trustee shall serve, without bond or other security, at the
cost and expense of Fresenius, on such reasonable and customary
terms and conditions as the Commission or a court may set. The
trustee shall have the authority to employ, at the cost and
expense of Fresenius, such consultants, accountants, attorneys,
investment bankers, business brokers, appraisers, and other
representatives and assistants as are necessary to carry out the
trustees duties and responsibilities. The trustee shall
account for all monies derived from the divestiture and all
expenses incurred. After approval by the Commission and, in the
case of a court-appointed trustee, by the court, of the account
of the trustee, including fees for the trustees services,
all remaining monies shall be paid at the direction of
Fresenius, and the trustees power shall be terminated. The
compensation of the trustee shall be based at least in
significant part on a commission arrangement contingent on the
divestiture of all of the relevant assets that are required to
be divested by this Order.
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6.
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Fresenius shall indemnify the trustee and hold the trustee
harmless against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or
expenses arising out of, or in connection with, the performance
of the trustees duties, including all reasonable fees of
counsel and other expenses incurred in connection with the
preparation for, or defense of, any claim, whether or not
resulting in any liability, except to the extent that such
losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses result from
misfeasance, gross negligence, willful or wanton acts, or bad
faith by the trustee.
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7.
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The trustee shall have no obligation or authority to operate or
maintain the relevant assets required to be divested by this
Order.
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8.
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The trustee shall report in writing to Fresenius and to the
Commission every sixty (60) days concerning the
trustees efforts to accomplish the divestiture.
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9.
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Fresenius may require the trustee and each of the trustees
consultants, accountants, attorneys, and other representatives
and assistants to sign a customary confidentiality agreement;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
such agreement shall not restrict the
trustee from providing any information to the Commission.
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E.
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If the Commission determines that a trustee has ceased to act or
failed to act diligently, the Commission may appoint a
substitute trustee in the same manner as provided in this
Paragraph V.
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F.
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The Commission or, in the case of a court-appointed trustee, the
court, may on its own initiative or at the request of the
trustee issue such additional orders or directions as may be
necessary or appropriate to accomplish the divestiture required
by this Order.
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G.
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The trustee appointed pursuant to this Paragraph may be the same
Person appointed as the Monitor pursuant to the relevant
provisions of this Order or the Order to Maintain Assets.
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VI.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that:
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A.
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Beginning thirty (30) days after the date this Order
becomes final, and every thirty (30) days thereafter until
Fresenius has fully complied with Paragraphs II.A., II.B.3,
II.B.5.a, II.B.6, II.B.9, II.B.13, and II.B.17 of this
Order, Fresenius shall submit to the Commission a verified
written report setting forth in detail the manner and form in
which it intends to comply, is complying, and has complied with
the terms of this Order, the Order to Maintain Assets, and the
Divestiture Agreements. Fresenius shall submit at the same time
a copy of these reports to the Monitor, if any Monitor has been
appointed.
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B.
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Beginning twelve (12) months after the date this Order
becomes final, and annually thereafter on the anniversary of the
date this Order becomes final, for the next four (4) years,
Fresenius shall submit to the Commission verified written
reports setting forth in detail the manner and form in which it
is complying and has complied with this Order, the Order to
Maintain Assets, and the Divestiture Agreements. Fresenius shall
submit at the same time a copy of these reports to the Monitor,
if any Monitor has been appointed.
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VII.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that Fresenius shall notify the
Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to:
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A.
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Any proposed dissolution of Fresenius,
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B.
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Any proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of Fresenius,
or
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C.
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Any other change in Fresenius that may affect compliance
obligations arising out of this Order, including but, not
limited to, assignment, the creation or dissolution of
subsidiaries, or any other change in Fresenius.
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VIII.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that, for the purpose of
determining or securing compliance with this Order, and subject
to any legally recognized privilege, and upon written request
with reasonable notice to Fresenius, Fresenius shall permit any
duly authorized representative of the Commission:
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A.
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Access, during office hours of Fresenius and in the presence of
counsel, to all facilities and access to inspect and copy all
books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda, and all
other records and documents in the possession or under the
control of Fresenius related to compliance with this Order; and
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B.
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Upon five (5) days notice to Fresenius and without
restraint or interference from Fresenius, to interview officers,
directors, or employees of Fresenius, who may have counsel
present, regarding such matters.
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IX.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that this Order shall terminate ten
(10) years from the date the Order is issued.
Secretary
SEAL
ISSUED:
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APPENDIX A
APPENDIX A CLINICS
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Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
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Clinic Address
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1
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FMC-Norwood Clinic Dialysis Unit (012516)
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1424 North Carraway Blvd.
Birmingham, AL 35234
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2
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FMC-Chilton Peach (012587)
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107 Medical Center Dr.
Clanton, AL 35045
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3
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FMC-Walker County Dialysis (012533)
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589 Highway 78W
Jasper, AL 35501
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4
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RCG-Marion (042573)
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2921 Highway 77, Suite 8
Marion, AR 72364
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5
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RCG-Osceola Dialysis Center (231656)
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1420 West Keiser Avenue
Osceola, AR 72370
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6
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RCG-Avondale (032608)
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13055 West McDowell Road
Avondale, AZ 85323
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7
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RCG-Mesa (032551)
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1337 South Gilbert Road
Mesa, AZ 85204
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8
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RCG-Southwest Mesa (032526)
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1457 West Southern Avenue
Mesa, AZ 85202
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9
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RCG-Northeast Phoenix (032596)
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3305 East Greenway Road
Phoenix, AZ 85032
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10
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RCG-Phoenix North (032555)
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8046 North 19th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85021
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11
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RCG-South Phoenix (032583)
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4621 South Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85040
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12
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FMC-Tempe (032586)
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8820 South Kyrene Road
Tempe, AZ 85284
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13
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RCG-Cottonwood (032562)
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203 South Candy Lane
Cottonwood, AZ 86326
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14
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RCG-Prescott (R032523)
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980 Willow Creek Road
Prescott, AZ 86301
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APPENDIX A
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Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
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Clinic Address
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15
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RCG-Naples (102809)
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6625 Hillway Circle
Naples, FL 34112
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16
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FMC-Lakewood (102733)
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8131 Cooper Creek Boulevard
University Park, FL 34201
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17
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RCG-Tampa Central (102761)
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4705 North Armenia Avenue
Tampa, FL 33603
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18
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RCG-Cartersville (112691)
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203 South Tennessee Street
Cartersville, GA 30120
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19
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RCG-Covington (112708)
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4179 Baker Street
Covington, GA 30014
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20
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RCG-Cobb County (112675)
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506 Roswell Street
Marietta, GA 30060
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FMC-Neomedica Evanston (142511)
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1715 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201
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RCG-Arlington Heights (142628)
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17 West Gulf Road
Arlington, IL 60006
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RCG-Scottsdale (142518)
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7929 South Cicero
Chicago, IL 60652
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RCG-Markham (142575)
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3053-3055 West 159th Street
Markham, IL 60426
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RCG-Hazelcrest (142622)
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3470 West 183rd Street
Hazelcrest, IL 60429
|
|
26
|
|
RCG-South Holland (142544)
|
|
16136 South Park Avenue
South Holland, IL 60473
|
|
27
|
|
RCG-Loop (142505)
|
|
55 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602
|
|
28
|
|
RCG-Waukegan (142577)
|
|
1616 Grand Avenue
Waukegan, IL 60085
|
|
29
|
|
RCG Waukegan Home (142567)
|
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1616 Grand Avenue
Waukegan, IL 60085
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APPENDIX A
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Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
|
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Clinic Address
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|
|
|
|
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30
|
|
FMC-Quad Counties Dialysis (152539)
|
|
528 North Grandstaff
Auburn, IN 46706
|
|
31
|
|
FMC-Central Fort Wayne (152580)
|
|
1940 Blufton Road
Fort Wayne, IN 46809
|
|
32
|
|
FMC-Lake Avenue Dialysis (152508)
|
|
3525 Lake Avenue
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
|
|
33
|
|
FMC-Lake Avenue Home (152563)
|
|
2414 Lake Avenue
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
|
|
34
|
|
FMC-South Anthony (152533)
|
|
7017 South Anthony Boulevard
Fort Wayne, IN 46816
|
|
35
|
|
FMC-Huntington (152575)
|
|
3040 West Park Drive
Huntington, IN 46750
|
|
36
|
|
FMC-Noblesville (152555)
|
|
865 Westfield Road
Noblesville, IN 46060
|
|
37
|
|
FMC-Blue River Valley Dialysis (152545)
|
|
2309 South Miller Street
Shelbyville, IN 46176
|
|
38
|
|
FMC-Marion County (152512)
|
|
3834 South Emerson Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46203
|
|
39
|
|
FMC-Greenwood (152572)
|
|
125 Airport Parkway
Greenwood, IN 46143
|
|
40
|
|
FMC-Northwest Indianapolis (152524)
|
|
6488 Corporate Way
Indianapolis, IN 46278
|
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41
|
|
FMC Logansport (152570)
|
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1025 Michigan
Logansport, IN 46947
|
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42
|
|
FMC Scottsburg (152529)
|
|
1451 North Gardner
Scottsburg, IN 47170
|
|
43
|
|
RCG-Louisville (182537)
|
|
635 South 3rd Street
Louisville, KY 40202
|
|
44
|
|
RCG-Baton Rouge (192616)
|
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1333 Oneal Lane
Baton Rouge, LA 70816
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APPENDIX A
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Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
|
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Clinic Address
|
|
|
|
|
|
45
|
|
RCG-Houma (192509)
|
|
108 Picone Road
Houma, LA 70363
|
|
46
|
|
RCG-Thibodaux (192535)
|
|
406 North Acadia Road
Thibodaux, LA 70301
|
|
47
|
|
RCG-Amesbury (222532)
|
|
24 Morrill Place
Amesbury, MA 01913
|
|
48
|
|
RCG-North Andover (222545)
|
|
201 Sutton Street
North Andover, MA 01845
|
|
49
|
|
RCG-Canton (252521)
|
|
620 East Peace Street
Canton, MS 39046
|
|
50
|
|
RCG-Hazlehurst (252551)
|
|
201 North Haley Street
Hazlehurst, MS 39083
|
|
51
|
|
RCG-Jackson North (252501)
|
|
571 East Beasely Road
Jackson, MS 39206
|
|
52
|
|
RCG-Jackson South (252535)
|
|
2460 Terry Road
Jackson, MS 39204
|
|
53
|
|
RCG-Jackson Southwest (252533)
|
|
1828 Raymond Road
Jackson, MS 39204
|
|
54
|
|
FMC-Carthage (252562)
|
|
312 Ellis Street
Carthage, MS 39051
|
|
55
|
|
RCG-Lexington (252539)
|
|
22579 Dept Street
Lexington, MS 39095
|
|
56
|
|
RCG-Lees Summit (no CMS number)
|
|
100 N.E. Missouri Road
Lees Summit, MO 64086
|
|
57
|
|
RCG-Kansas City (262564)
|
|
4333 Madison
Kansas City, MO 64111
|
|
58
|
|
FMC Las Cruces (322527)
|
|
3961 East Lohman
Las Cruces, NM 88011
|
|
59
|
|
FMC-Preferred Dialysis of Green Valley (292517)
|
|
1489 West Warm Springs
Henderson, NV 89014
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APPENDIX A
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
|
|
Clinic Address
|
|
|
|
|
|
60
|
|
FMC-Preferred Owned (292507)
|
|
2333 Renaissance Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89119
|
|
61
|
|
FMC-Northeast Portland (382540)
|
|
703 NE Hancock Street
Portland, OR 97212
|
|
62
|
|
FMC-Oregon Kidney Center (382500)
|
|
5318 NE Irving
Portland, OR 97213
|
|
63
|
|
FMC-Sunnyside/SE Portland/Lake Rd (382534)
|
|
6902 SE Lake Road
Milwaukie, OR 97267
|
|
64
|
|
FMC-Willamette Valley (382520)
|
|
1510 Division Street
Oregon City, OR 97045
|
|
65
|
|
FMC-Sellersville (392617)
|
|
700 Lawn Avenue
Sellersville, PA 18960
|
|
66
|
|
RCG-Philadelphia (392601)
|
|
3310-24 Memphis Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134
|
|
67
|
|
FMC-Northern Philadelphia (392509)
|
|
5933 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19141
|
|
68
|
|
FMC-North Providence (412506)
|
|
1635 Mineral Spring Avenue
North Providence, RI 02904
|
|
69
|
|
FMC-Providence (412500)
|
|
40 Hemingway Drive
East Providence, RI 02915
|
|
70
|
|
FMC-Easley D.C. (152541)
|
|
125 Whitmire Road
Easley, SC 29640
|
|
71
|
|
FMC-Greenville (422503)
|
|
3 Butternut Drive
Greenville, SC 29605
|
|
72
|
|
FMC-Simpsonville (422579)
|
|
209 North Maple Street
Simpsonville, SC 29681
|
|
73
|
|
RCG-Memphis North (442640)
|
|
4913 Raleigh Common Drive
Memphis, TN 38128
|
|
74
|
|
RCG-Memphis Central (442637)
|
|
1331 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
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APPENDIX A
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
|
|
Clinic Address
|
|
|
|
|
|
75
|
|
RCG-Memphis Whitehaven (442655)
|
|
3420 Elvis Presley Boulevard
Memphis, TN 38116
|
|
76
|
|
RCG-Memphis Midtown (442646)
|
|
1166 Monroe Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
|
|
77
|
|
RCG-Memphis Graceland (442650)
|
|
4180 Auburn Road
Memphis, TN 38116
|
|
78
|
|
RCG-Memphis South (442605)
|
|
3960 Knight Arnold Road
Memphis, TN 38118
|
|
79
|
|
FMC-Alice (452537)
|
|
2345 Alice Regional Boulevard
Alice, TX 78332
|
|
80
|
|
FMC-Corpus Christi (452514)
|
|
2733 Swantner Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78404
|
|
81
|
|
FMC-D.S. of Riverside (452751)
|
|
13434 Up River Road
Corpus Christi, TX 78410
|
|
82
|
|
FMC-D.S. of South Texas (452715)
|
|
4300 South Padre Island
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
|
|
83
|
|
FMC-D.S. of South Texas-Central (452800)
|
|
2222 South Morgan
Corpus Christi, TX 78405
|
|
84
|
|
FMC-North East Texas (452694)
|
|
4805 Wesley Street
Greenville, TX 75401
|
|
85
|
|
RCG-El Paso West (452809)
|
|
3100 North Stanton Street
El Paso, TX 79902
|
|
86
|
|
RCG-Weslaco (452672)
|
|
910 South Utah Street
Weslaco, TX 78596
|
|
87
|
|
RCG-McAllen (452654)
|
|
411 Lindberg Avenue
McAllen, TX 78501
|
|
88
|
|
FMC-Edinburg Kidney Center (452764)
|
|
4302 South Sugar Road
Edinburg, TX 78539
|
|
89
|
|
FMC-Downtown Spokane (502547)
|
|
601 West 5th Avenue
Spokane, WA 99204
|
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APPENDIX A
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinic Name (Medicare Provider Number)
|
|
Clinic Address
|
|
|
|
|
|
90
|
|
FMC-North Spokane (502538)
|
|
7407 North Division Street
Spokane, WA 99208
|
|
91
|
|
FMC-Spokane Valley (502537)
|
|
12610 East Mirabeau
Spokane, WA99208
|
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APPENDIX B
AREA DEFINITIONS
|
|
|
Five digit numbers refer to zip codes.
|
|
|
Geographic areas bounded by roads include all properties
abutting the referenced road (
i.e.
, properties on both
sides of the road).
|
|
|
Zip codes or other areas fully surrounded by areas included in
the area definition shall be considered part of the area
definition.
|
|
|
Area definitions are based on maps submitted to the Commission
staff by Fresenius.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
|
|
Corresponding Area Definition
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
FMC-Norwood Clinic Dialysis Unit (012516)
|
|
The area in and/or near Birmingham, Alabama, consisting of:
35060, 35064, 35068, 35204, 35205, 35206, 35207, 35208, 35209,
35210, 35211, 35212, 35213, 35214, 35215, 35217, 35218, 35221,
35222, 35223, 35224, 35228, 35233, 35234, 35235.
|
|
2
|
|
FMC-Chilton Peach (012587)
|
|
The area in and/or near Clanton, Alabama, consisting of: Chilton
County (Alabama).
|
|
3
|
|
FMC-Walker County Dialysis (012533)
|
|
The area in and/or near Jasper, Alabama, consisting of: Walker
County (Alabama), and 35062, 35575, 35553, 35565.
|
|
4
|
|
RCG-Osceola Dialysis Center (231656)
|
|
The area in and/or near Osceola, Arkansas, consisting of
Mississippi County (Arkansas).
|
|
5
|
|
RCG-Avondale (032608)
|
|
The area in and/or near Avondale, Arizona, consisting of: 85035,
85037, 85043, 85307, 85323, 85329, 85338, 85340, 85353.
|
|
6
|
|
RCG-Mesa (032551), Southwest Mesa (032526)
|
|
The area in and/or near Mesa, Arizona, consisting of: 85201,
85202, 85203, 85204, 85205, 85206, 85208, 85210, 85213, 85224,
85225, 85233, 85234, 85236, 85281, 85282, 85283, 85296.
|
|
7
|
|
RCG-Northeast Phoenix (032596)
|
|
The area in and/or near Phoenix, Arizona, consisting of: 85020,
85022, 85023, 85024, 85027, 85028, 85032, 85050, 85254.
|
|
8
|
|
RCG-Phoenix North (032555)
|
|
The area in and/or near Phoenix, Arizona, consisting of: 85012,
85013, 85014, 85015, 85016, 85017, 85019, 85020, 85021, 85022,
85023, 85028, 85029, 85051; the portions of 85003, 85004, 85007,
85009 that lie to the north of I-10.
|
APPENDIX B
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
|
|
Corresponding Area Definition
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
|
RCG-South Phoenix (032583)
|
|
The area in and/or near Phoenix, Arizona, consisting of: 85040,
85041, 85042, 85339; the portion of 85009 that lies to the south
of West Buckeye Road; the portions of 85007, 85003, 85004, and
85034 that lie to the south of I-17.
|
|
10
|
|
FMC-Tempe (032586)
|
|
The area in and/or near Tempe, Arizona, consisting of: 85202,
85040, 85044, 85048, 85224, 85225, 85226, 85248, 85281, 85282,
85283, 85284.
|
|
11
|
|
RCG-Cottonwood (032562), Prescott (R032523)
|
|
The area in and/or near Prescott, Arizona, consisting of Yavapai
County (Arizona), and 86336.
|
|
12
|
|
RCG-Naples (102809)
|
|
The area in and/or near Naples, Florida, consisting of: 34102,
34103, 34104, 34105, 34108, 34109, 34110, 34112, 34113, 34114,
34116, 34117, 34119, 34120.
|
|
13
|
|
FMC-Lakewood (102733)
|
|
The area in and/or near Sarasota, Florida, consisting of: 34201,
34203, 34207, 34231, 34232, 34233, 34234, 34235, 34236, 34237,
34238, 34239, 34240, 34243; the portion of 34202 that lies to
the south of State Road 64; the portion of 34208 that lies to
the east of 57th Street East, the portion of 34241 that lies to
the north of Clark Road/ State Road 72.
|
|
14
|
|
RCG-Brandon (no CMS number)
|
|
The area in and/or near Brandon, Florida, consisting of: 33510,
33511, 33527, 33569, 33584, 33594, 33610, 33619.
|
|
15
|
|
RCG-Tampa Central (102761)
|
|
The area in and/or near Tampa, Florida, consisting of: 33602,
33603, 33604, 33605, 33606, 33607, 33609, 33610, 33611, 33614,
33615, 33616, 33619, 33629, 33634.
|
|
16
|
|
RCG-Canton (no CMS number)
|
|
The area in and/or near Canton, Georgia, consisting of: Cherokee
County, Pickens County (Georgia), and 30102, 30139, 30171, and
30184.
|
|
17
|
|
RCG-Cartersville (112691)
|
|
The area in and/or near Cartersville, Georgia, consisting of:
Bartow County (Georgia), and 30101, 30102, 30103, 30132, 30139,
30145, 30171, 30184.
|
|
18
|
|
RCG-Covington (112708)
|
|
The area in and/or near Covington, Georgia, consisting of:
Newton County, Rockdale County (Georgia), and 30014, 30025,
30038, 30052, 30054, 30055, 30056, 30058, 30252, 30663; the
portions of 30233 and 31064 that lie to the north of
Route 16.
|
|
19
|
|
RCG-Cobb County (112675)
|
|
The area in and/or near Marietta, Georgia, consisting of: Cobb
County (Georgia), and 30101, 30127, 30132, 30141, 30157.
|
ii
APPENDIX B
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
|
|
Corresponding Area Definition
|
|
|
|
|
|
20
|
|
FMC-Neomedica Evanston (142511)
|
|
The area in and/or near Chicago, Illinois, consisting of: 0022,
60025, 60029, 60043, 60053, 60062, 60076, 60077, 60091, 60093,
60201, 60202, 60203, 60625, 60626, 60640, 60645, 60646, 60659,
60660, 60712, 60714.
|
|
21
|
|
RCG-Buffalo Grove (142650), Schaumburg (142654), Schaumburg Home
(141626), Arlington Heights (142628)
|
|
The area in and/or near Chicago, Illinois, consisting of: 60004,
60005, 60007, 60008, 60015, 60016, 60018, 60025, 60047, 60056,
60061, 60062, 60067, 60069, 60070, 60074, 60089, 60090, 60101,
60103, 60106, 60107, 60108, 60010, 60133, 60139, 60143, 60157,
60172, 60173, 60188, 60191, 60193, 60194, 60195.
|
|
22
|
|
RCG-Scottsdale (142518)
|
|
The area in and/or near Chicago, Illinois, consisting of: 60402,
60406, 60415, 60419, 60453, 60455, 60456, 60457, 60458, 60459,
60465, 60482, 60501, 60608, 60609, 60615, 60616, 60617, 60619,
60620, 60621, 60623, 60628, 60629, 60632, 60633, 60636, 60637,
60638, 60643, 60652, 60653, 60655, 60803, 60804, 60805, 60827.
|
|
23
|
|
RCG-Markham (142575), Hazelcrest (142622), South Holland (142544)
|
|
The area in and/or near Chicago, Illinois, consisting of: 60406,
60409, 60411, 60419, 60422, 60425, 60426, 60429, 60430, 60438,
60443, 60445, 60452, 60461, 60466, 60469, 60471, 60472, 60473,
60475, 60476, 60477, 60478, 60617, 60619, 60620, 60628, 60633,
60643, 60655, 60803, 60805, 60827, 46320, 46321, 46324.
|
|
24
|
|
RCG-Loop (142505)
|
|
The area in and/or near Chicago, Illinois, consisting of: 60406,
60601, 60602, 60603, 60604, 60605, 60606, 60607, 60608, 60609,
60610, 60611, 60612, 60614, 60615, 60616, 60617, 60619, 60620,
60621, 60622, 60623, 60624, 60628, 60629, 60632, 60633, 60636,
60637, 60642, 60643, 60647, 60649, 60652, 60653, 60654, 60655,
60657, 60661, 60827.
|
|
25
|
|
RCG-Waukegan (142577), Waukegan Home (142567)
|
|
The area in and/or near Waukegan, Illinois, consisting of: Lake
County (Illinois).
|
|
26
|
|
FMC-Quad Counties Dialysis (152539)
|
|
The area in and/or near Auburn, Indiana, consisting of: DeKalb
County (Indiana).
|
|
27
|
|
FMC-Central Fort Wayne (152580), Lake Avenue Dialysis
(152508), Lake Avenue Home (152563), South Anthony (152533)
|
|
The area in and/or near Fort Wayne, Indiana, consisting of:
Allen, Wells, and Whitley Counties (Indiana).
|
|
28
|
|
FMC-Huntington (152575)
|
|
The area in and/or near Huntington, Indiana, consisting of:
Huntington County (Indiana).
|
|
29
|
|
FMC-Noblesville (F152555)
|
|
The area in and/or near Indianapolis, Indiana, consisting of:
Hamilton County (Indiana).
|
iii
APPENDIX B
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
|
|
Corresponding Area Definition
|
|
|
|
|
|
30
|
|
FMC-Blue River Valley Dialysis (152545)
|
|
The area in and/or near Indianapolis, Indiana, consisting of:
Shelby County (Indiana).
|
|
31
|
|
FMC-Marion County (152512)
|
|
The area in and/or near Indianapolis, Indiana, consisting of:
46107, 46142, 46201, 46203, 46217, 46219, 46221, 46225, 46226,
46227, 46229, 46237, 46239; the portion of 46218 that lies to
the south of E. Massachusetts Avenue.
|
|
32
|
|
FMC-Greenwood (152572)
|
|
The area in and/or near Indianapolis, Indiana, consisting of:
46113, 46131, 46142, 46143, 46184, 46217, 46221, 46227, 46237,
46259.
|
|
33
|
|
FMC-Northwest Indianapolis (152524)
|
|
The area in and/or near Indianapolis, Indiana, consisting of:
46214, 46222, 46224, 46228, 46234, 46241, 46254, 46260, 46268,
46278.
|
|
34
|
|
FMC Logansport (152570)
|
|
The area in and/or near Logansport, Indiana, consisting of: Cass
County (Indiana), and 46917, 46916, 46939, 46947, 46951, 46970,
46975, 46985, 46996.
|
|
35
|
|
FMC Scottsburg (152529)
|
|
The area in and/or near Scottsburg, Indiana, consisting of:
47102, 47170, 47220, 47270, 47229, 47274.
|
|
36
|
|
RCG-Lousiville (182537)
|
|
The area in and/or near Louisville, Kentucky, consisting of:
Jefferson County (Kentucky).
|
|
37
|
|
RCG-Baton Rouge (192616)
|
|
The area in and/or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, consisting of:
East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish (Louisiana), and
70776, 70769.
|
|
38
|
|
RCG-Houma (192509)
|
|
The area in and/or near Houma, Lousiana, consisting of:
Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish (Louisiana).
|
|
39
|
|
Thibodaux (192535)
|
|
The area in and/or near Thibodaux, Lousiana, consisting of:
Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish (Louisiana).
|
|
40
|
|
RCG-Amesbury (222532)
|
|
The area in and/or near Amesbury, Massachusetts, consisting of:
01830, 01832, 01833, 01834, 01835, 01860, 01913, 01938, 01950,
01951, 01952, 01969, 01985, 03827, 03848, 03858, 03865, 03874.
|
|
41
|
|
RCG-North Andover (222545)
|
|
The area in and/or near North Andover, Massachusetts, consisting
of: 01810, 01826, 01830, 01832, 01835, 01840, 01841, 01843,
01844, 01845, 01864, 01876, 01887, 01921, 01949, 03079, 03811,
03858, 03865.
|
|
42
|
|
FMC-Carthage (252562)
|
|
The area in and/or near Carthage, Mississippi, consisting of:
Leake County and Neshoba County (Mississippi).
|
iv
APPENDIX B
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Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
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Corresponding Area Definition
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43
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RCG-Brandon (252549), Canton (252521), Hazlehurst (252551),
Jackson North (252501), Jackson South (252535), Jackson
Southwest (252533)
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The area in and/or near Jackson, Mississippi, consisting of:
Madison County, Hinds County, Rankin County, Copiah County, and
Simpson County (Mississippi).
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44
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RCG-Lexington (252539)
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The area in and/or near Lexington, Mississippi, consisting of:
Attala County and Holmes County (Mississippi).
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45
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RCG-Kansas City (262564), Lees Summit (no CMS number)
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The area in and/or near Kansas City, Missouri, consisting of:
Jackson County (Missouri), and 64012, 64034, 64080, 64082,
64083, 64116, 64117, 66102, 66103, 66106, 66118, 66205, 66206,
66207, 66208.
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46
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FMC Las Cruces (322527)
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|
The area in and/or near Las Cruces, New Mexico, consisting of:
Dona Ana County (New Mexico).
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47
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FMC-Preferred Dialysis of Green Valley (292517), Preferred Owned
(292507)
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The area in and/or near Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of: 89005,
89011, 89012, 89014, 89015, 89030, 89052, 89101, 89102, 89103,
89104, 89106, 89107, 89109, 89110, 89118, 89119, 89120, 89121,
89122, 89123, 89139, 89141, 89142, 89156.
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48
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|
RCG-Munroe Falls (362651), Summit (362613), White Ponds (362623)
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The area in and/or near Akron, OH, consisting of: Portage County
and Summit County (Ohio).
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49
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FMC-Northeast Portland (382540), Oregon Kidney Center (382500)
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The area in and/or near Portland, Oregon, consisting of: 97202,
97203, 97206, 97211, 97212, 97213, 97214, 97215, 97216, 97217,
97218, 97220, 97222, 97230, 97232, 97233, 97236, 97266.
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50
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FMC-Sunnyside/ SE Portland/ Lake Rd (382534), Willamette Valley
(382520)
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The area in and/or near Portland, Oregon, consisting of: 97015,
97027, 97034, 97045, 97062, 97068, 97070, 97202, 97206, 97222,
97233, 97236, 97266, 97267.
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51
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FMC-Sellersville (392617)
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The area in and/or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consisting
of: 18054, 18073, 18914, 18915, 18917, 18927, 18932, 18936,
18944, 18951, 18955, 18960, 18962, 18964, 18969, 18970, 19438,
19440, 19446.
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52
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RCG-Philadelphia (392601)
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|
The area in and/or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consisting
of: 19111, 19120, 19121, 19122, 19123, 19124, 19125, 19129,
19130, 19132, 19133, 19134, 19137, 19140, 19141, 19144, 19149.
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53
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|
FMC-Northern Philadelphia (392509)
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The area in and/or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consisting
of: 19012, 19095, 19111, 19027, 19038, 19118, 19119, 19120,
19124, 19126, 19128, 19129, 19132, 19138, 19140, 19141, 19144,
19150.
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APPENDIX B
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Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
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Corresponding Area Definition
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54
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FMC-North Providence (412506), Providence (412500)
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The area in and/or near Providence, Rhode Island, consisting of:
02703, 02760, 02763, 02769, 02771, 02777, 02806, 02809, 02814,
02826, 02828, 02838, 02857, 02860, 02861, 02863, 02864, 02865,
02876, 02885, 02888, 02895, 02896, 02901, 02903, 02904, 02905,
02906, 02907, 02908, 02909, 02910, 02911, 02914, 02915, 02916,
02917, 02919, 02920, 02921, 02940; the portion of 02830 that
lies south of Route 102.
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55
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FMC-Easley D.C. (152541), Greenville (422503), Simpsonville
(422579)
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The area in and/or near Greenville, South Carolina, consisting
of the following South Carolina Counties: Greenville County,
Pickens County, Anderson County, Laurens County (South Carolina).
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56
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|
RCG-Galleria (442660), Memphis Central (442637), Memphis South
(442605), Whitehaven (442655), Memphis Midtown (442646),
Graceland (442650), Memphis North (442640)
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|
The area in and/or near Memphis, Tennessee, consisting of Shelby
County (Tennessee), and 38002, 38004, 38011, 38017, 38023,
38028, 38036, 38053, 38058.
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57
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RCG-Marion (042573)
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The area in and/or near Marion, Arkansas, consisting of
Crittenden County (Arkansas).
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58
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|
FMC-Alice (452537)
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|
The area in and/or near Alice, Texas, consisting of: Jim Wells
County (Texas), and 78349, 78357, 38384.
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59
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RCG-Brownsville (452737)
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The area in and/or near Brownsville, Texas, consisting of:
78520, 78521, 78526, 78566, 78575, 78578, 78583, 78586.
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60
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FMC-Corpus Christi (452514), D.S. of Riverside (452751), D.S. of
South Texas (452715), D.S. of South Texas-Central (452800)
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The area in and/or near Corpus Christi, Texas, consisting of:
Nueces County, San Patricio County, and Aransas County (Texas).
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61
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FMC-North East Texas (452694)
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|
The area in and/or near Terrell, Texas, consisting of: Hunt
County, Delta County, Rains County, Hopkins County, Rockwell
County Texas); 75164, 75189, 75424, 75442; and the portion of
Fannin County (Texas) south of I-82/Route 18.
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62
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RCG-El Paso East and El Paso Home (452749), El Paso West (452809)
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|
The area in and/or near El Paso, Texas, consisting of: El Paso
County (Texas).
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63
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RCG-Weslaco (452672)
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The area in and/or near Weslaco, Texas, consisting of: 78516,
78537, 78538, 78539, 78543, 78558, 78559, 78562, 78570, 78579,
78589, 78592, 78593, 78596, 78594; the portion of 78569 that
lies to the west of US-77.
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APPENDIX B
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Divested Clinics (Medicare Provider Numbers)
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Corresponding Area Definition
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64
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RCG-McAllen (452654)
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The area in and/or near McAllen, Texas, consisting of: 78501,
78503, 78504, 78516, 78537, 78538, 78539, 78543, 78557, 78558,
78562, 78570, 78577, 78579, 78589, 78596; the portion of 78569
that lies within Hidalgo County (Texas).
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65
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FMC-Edinburg Kidney Center (452764)
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|
The area in and/or near Edinburg, Texas, consisting of: 78501,
78503, 78504, 78516, 78537, 78538, 78539, 78543, 78557, 78558,
78562, 78570, 78577, 78579, 78589, 78596; the portion of 78572
that lies to the east of Doffing Road until Doffing Roads
northeast terminus; the portion of 78569 that lies within
Hidalgo County (Texas).
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66
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|
FMC Downtown Spokane (502547), North Spokane (502538), Spokane
Valley (502537)
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The area in and/or near Spokane, Washington, consisting of:
Spokane County (Washington).
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APPENDIX C
ILLINOIS CLINICS
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Clinic Name (Medicare provider number)
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Clinic Address
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1
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FMC-Neomedica Evanston (142511)
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1715 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201
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2
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RCG- Arlington Heights (142628)
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17 West Gulf Road
Arlington, IL 60006
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3
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RCG-Scottsdale (142518)
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7929 South Cicero
Chicago, IL 60652
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4
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RCG-Markham (142575)
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3053-3055 West
159
th
Street
Markham, IL 60426
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5
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RCG- Hazelcrest (142622)
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3470 West
183
rd
Street
Hazelcrest, IL 60429
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6
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RCG-South Holland (142628)
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16136 South Park Avenue
South Holland, IL 60473
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7
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RCG-Loop (142505)
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55 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602
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8
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RCG-Waukegan (142577)
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1616 Grand Avenue
Waukegan, IL 60085
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9
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RCG Waukegan Home (142567)
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1616 Grand Avenue
Waukegan, IL 60085
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APPENDIX D
JOINT VENTURES FROM WHICH FRESENIUS WILL DIVEST ITS
JOINT VENTURE EQUITY INTERESTS AND CLINICS OWNED BY JOINT
VENTURES
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Clinic Name
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Joint Venture Name
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(Medicare provider number)
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Clinic Address
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1
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Renal Care Group Canton, LLC
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RCG-Canton (no CMS number)
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260 Hospital Road Canton, GA 30114
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2
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Brownsville Kidney Center, Ltd.
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RCG-Brownsville (452737)
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2945 Central Boulevard Brownsville, TX 78520
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3
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Renal Care Group Buffalo Grove, LLC
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RCG-Buffalo Grove (142650)
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1291 West Dundee Road Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
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4
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Renal Care Group Schaumburg, LLC
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RCG-Schaumburg (142654)
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1156 South Roselle Road Schaumburg, IL 60193
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5
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Renal Care Group Schaumburg, LLC
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RCG-Schaumburg Home (142654)
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17 West Golf Road Arlington Heights, IL 60006
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6
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El Paso Kidney Center East, Ltd.
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RCG-El Paso East (452749)
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10737 Gateway Boulevard West El Paso, TX 79935
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7
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RCG Brandon, LLC
|
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RCG-Brandon (252549)
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101 Christian Drive Brandon, MS 39042
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8
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Renal Care Group Galleria, LLC
|
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RCG-Galleria (422660)
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|
8592 Ricky Bell Cove Memphis, TN 38133
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9
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RCG Brandon LLC
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RCG-Brandon (no CMS number)
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731 West Lumsden Road Brandon, FL 33511
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10
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Summit Renal Care, LLC
|
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RCG-Munroe Falls (362651)
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265 North Main Street Munroe Falls, OH 44262
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11
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Summit Renal Care, LLC
|
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RCG-Summit (362613)
|
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73 Massillon Road Akron, OH 44312
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12
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Summit Renal Care, LLC
|
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RCG-White Ponds (362623)
|
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534 White Pond Drive Akron, OH 44320
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APPENDIX E
MONITOR AGREEMENT
[Confidential Exhibit A and Confidential
Appendix B
to the Monitor Agreement Have Been Redacted from
this Public Version of the Decision and Order.]
Non-Public
Appendix
Non-Public Appendix
F
NRI Divestiture
Agreements
EXHIBIT 10.4
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
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COMMISSIONERS:
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Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman
Pamela Jones Harbour
Jon Leibowitz
William E. Kovacic
J. Thomas Rosch
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In the Matter of
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Docket No. C-
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FRESENIUS AG,
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a corporation.
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ORDER TO MAINTAIN ASSETS
The Federal Trade Commission (Commission), having
initiated an investigation of the proposed acquisition of Renal
Care Group, Inc. by Fresenius AG and entities controlled by
Fresenius AG, including (1) Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by shares organized under the
laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, the general partner of
which is majority owned by Fresenius AG, (2) Fresenius
Medical Care Holdings, Inc., a New York corporation majority
owned by Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership
limited by shares organized under the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany, and (3) Florence Acquisition, Inc., a
Delaware corporation that is wholly owned by Fresenius Medical
Care Holdings, Inc., and Fresenius AG (hereafter referred to as
Respondent) having been furnished thereafter with a
copy of a draft of Complaint that the Bureau of Competition
proposed to present to the Commission for its consideration and
which, if issued by the Commission, would charge Respondent with
violations of Section 7 of the Clayton Act, as amended,
15 U.S.C. § 18, and Section 5 of the Federal
Trade Commission Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 45;
and
Respondent, its attorneys, and counsel for the Commission having
thereafter executed an Agreement Containing Consent Orders
(Consent Agreement), containing an admission by
Respondent of all the jurisdictional facts set forth in the
aforesaid draft of Complaint, a statement that the signing of
said Consent Agreement is for settlement purposes only and does
not constitute an admission by Respondent that the law has been
violated as alleged in such Complaint, or that the facts as
alleged in such Complaint, other than jurisdictional facts, are
true, and waivers and other provisions as required by the
Commissions Rules; and
The Commission, having thereafter considered the matter and
having determined that it had reason to believe that Respondent
has violated the said Acts, and that a Complaint should issue
stating its charges in that respect, and having accepted the
executed Consent Agreement
and placed such Consent Agreement on the public record for a
period of thirty (30) days for the receipt and
consideration of public comments, now in further conformity with
the procedure described in Commission Rule 2.34,
16 C.F.R. § 2.34, the Commission hereby issues
its Complaint, makes the following jurisdictional findings, and
issues the following Order to Maintain Assets:
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1.
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Respondent Fresenius AG is a corporation organized, existing and
doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany, with its office and principal place of
business located at Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352
Bad Homburg, Germany. Fresenius AG is the ultimate parent of
(1) Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership
limited by shares organized under the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany, the general partner of which is majority
owned by Fresenius AG, with its office and principal place of
business located at Else-Kröner-Straße 1, 61352
Bad Homburg, Germany, (2) Fresenius Medical Care Holdings,
Inc., a New York corporation majority owned by Fresenius Medical
Care AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by shares
organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany,
with its office and principal place of business located at
95 Hayden Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420, and
(3) Florence Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation that
is wholly owned by Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc, with
its office and principal place of business located at
95 Hayden Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420.
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2.
|
The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction of the subject
matter of this proceeding and of Respondent, and the proceeding
is in the public interest.
|
ORDER
I.
IT IS ORDERED
that, all capitalized terms used in this
Order to Maintain Assets, but not defined herein, shall have the
meanings attributed to such terms in the Decision and Order
contained in the Consent Agreement.
II.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that:
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A.
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From the date Respondent signs the Consent Agreement until the
Time of Divestiture of each Joint Venture Equity Interest and
each Clinic To Be Divested and until all Assets Associated with
each Clinic To Be Divested are divested pursuant to the Consent
Agreement, Respondent shall:
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1.
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maintain (a) each Clinic To Be Divested and all Assets
Associated with it, and (b) each Clinic and all Assets
Associated with it owned by a joint venture in which the Joint
Venture Equity Interest is being divested (JV Clinic
Assets) in substantially the same condition (except for
normal wear and tear) existing at the time Fresenius signs the
Consent Agreement;
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2.
|
take such actions that are consistent with the past practices of
Fresenius or RCG, respectively, in connection with the JV Clinic
Assets and such Clinic To Be Divested and the Assets Associated
with it and that are taken in the Ordinary Course Of Business
and in the normal day-to-day operations of Fresenius or RCG;
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3.
|
keep available the services of the current officers, employees,
and agents of Fresenius; and maintain the relations and good
will with Suppliers, Payors, Physicians, landlords, patients,
employees, agents, and others having business relations with the
JV Clinic Assets and the Clinic To Be Divested and the Assets
Associated with it in the Ordinary Course Of Business; and
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4.
|
preserve the JV Clinic Assets and the Clinic To Be Divested and
all Assets Associated with it as an ongoing business and not
take any affirmative action, or fail to take any action within
Freseniuss control, as a result of which the viability,
competitiveness, and marketability of the JV Clinic Assets and
the Clinic To Be Divested or all Assets Associated with it would
be diminished.
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|
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B.
|
From the date Fresenius signs the Consent Agreement until the
date this Order to Maintain Assets terminates pursuant to
Paragraph VII, Fresenius shall do the following:
|
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1.
|
Until sixty (60) days after the Time Of Divestiture of each
Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not interfere in
employment negotiations between each Fresenius Employee Of A
Clinic To Be Divested and the Acquirer of the Clinic.
|
|
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2.
|
With respect to each Fresenius Employee Of A Clinic To Be
Divested who receives, within sixty (60) days of the Time
Of Divestiture of any Clinic at which he or she is employed, an
offer of employment from the Acquirer of that Clinic, Fresenius
shall not prevent, prohibit or restrict or threaten to prevent,
prohibit or restrict the Fresenius Employee Of The Clinic To Be
Divested from being employed by the Acquirer of the Clinic, and
shall not offer any incentive to the Fresenius Employee Of The
Clinic To Be Divested to decline employment with the Acquirer of
the Clinic.
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3.
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For a period of two (2) years following the Time Of
Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not,
directly or indirectly, solicit, induce, or attempt to solicit
or induce any Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested who is
employed by the Acquirer to terminate his or her employment
relationship with the Acquirer, unless that employment
relationship has already been terminated by the Acquirer;
PROVIDED,
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|
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HOWEVER,
Fresenius may make general advertisements for
employees including, but not limited to, in newspapers, trade
publications, websites, or other media not targeted specifically
at the Acquirers employees;
PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may hire employees who apply for employment with
Fresenius, as long as such employees were not solicited by
Fresenius in violation of this Paragraph II.C.3.;
PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may offer
employment to an Employee Of A Clinic To Be Divested who is
employed by the Acquirer in only a part-time capacity, if the
employment offered by Fresenius would not, in any way, interfere
with the employees ability to fulfill his or her
employment responsibilities to the Acquirer.
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4.
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For a period of not less than forty-five (45) days, which
period may begin prior to the signing of the Consent Agreement
and which shall end no earlier than ten (10) days after the
Time Of Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested
(Forty-Five Day Hiring Period), Fresenius shall not
interfere in employment negotiations between each Regional
Manager Of A Clinic To Be Divested and the Acquirer of the
Clinic;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
the terms of this
Paragraph II.C.4. shall not apply after Acquirers have
hired ten (10) Regional Managers who were each previously
employed by Fresenius or RCG at any time since October 1,
2005.
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5.
|
With respect to each Regional Manager Of A Clinic To Be Divested
who receives, within the Forty-Five Day Hiring Period required
by Paragraph II.C.4. of this Order to Maintain Assets an offer
of employment from the Acquirer of that Clinic, for a period of
two (2) years following the Time Of Divestiture of the
Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not, directly or
indirectly, solicit, induce, or attempt to solicit or induce any
Regional Manager of the Acquirer who was previously a Regional
Manager of A Clinic To Be Divested to terminate his or her
employment relationship with the Acquirer unless the individual
has been terminated by the Acquirer;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may make general advertisements for Regional Managers
including, but not limited to, in newspapers, trade
publications, websites, or other media not targeted specifically
at Acquirers Regional Managers;
PROVIDED, FURTHER,
HOWEVER,
Fresenius may hire Regional Managers who apply for
employment with Fresenius, as long as such Regional Managers
were not solicited by Fresenius in violation of this
Paragraph II.C.5.;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
after
Acquirers have hired ten (10) Regional Managers who were
each previously employed by Fresenius or RCG at any time since
October 1, 2005, the terms of this Paragraph II.C.5.
shall apply only to those ten (10) Regional Managers hired
by the Acquirers.
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6.
|
With respect to each Physician who has provided services to a
Clinic To Be Divested pursuant to any of the Clinics
Physician Contracts in effect at any time during the four
(4) months preceding the Time Of Divestiture of the Clinic
(Contract Physician):
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a.
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Fresenius shall not offer any incentive to the Contract
Physician, the Contract Physicians practice group, or
other members of the Contract Physicians practice
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group to decline to provide services to the Clinic To Be
Divested, and shall eliminate any confidentiality restrictions
that would prevent the Contract Physician, the Contract
Physicians practice group, or other members of the
Contract Physicians practice group from using or
transferring to the Acquirer of the Clinic To Be Divested any
information Relating To the Operation Of The Clinic; and
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b.
|
For a period of three (3) years following the Time Of
Divestiture of each Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not
contract for the services of the Contract Physician, the
Contract Physicians practice group, or other members of
the Contract Physicians practice group for the provision
of Contract Services to be performed in any of the areas listed
in Appendix B of this Order that correspond to such Clinic.
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
if the Contract Physician, or the
Contract Physicians practice group, or other members of
the Contract Physicians practice group were providing
services to one or more Clinics, other than or in addition to a
Clinic To Be Divested, pursuant to a contract with Fresenius or
RCG in effect as of October 1, 2005, then Fresenius may
continue to contract with such Contract Physicians, or the
Contract Physicians practice group, or other members of
the Contract Physicians practice group for services to be
provided to such other or additional Clinics.
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7.
|
With respect to Material Confidential Information relating
exclusively to any of the Clinics To Be Divested, Fresenius
shall:
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a.
|
not disclose such information to any Person other than the
Acquirer of such Clinic;
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b.
|
after the Time Of Divestiture of such Clinic:
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(1)
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not use such information for any purpose other than complying
with the terms of the Consent Agreement or with any law; and
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(2)
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destroy all records of such information, except to the extent
that: (1) Fresenius is required by law to retain such
information, and (2) Freseniuss inside or outside
attorneys may keep one copy solely for archival purposes, but
may not disclose such copy to the rest of Fresenius.
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8.
|
For two (2) years following the Time Of Divestiture of each
Clinic To Be Divested, Fresenius shall not solicit the business
of any patients that received any goods or services from such
Clinic between October 1, 2005, and the date of such
divestiture,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
Fresenius may
(i) make general advertisements for the business of such
patients including, but not limited to, in newspapers, trade
publications, websites, or other media not targeted specifically
at such patients, and (ii) provide advertising and
promotions directly to any patient that initiates discussions
with, or makes a request to, any Fresenius employee.
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Fresenius shall do nothing to prevent or discourage Suppliers
that, prior to the Time Of Divestiture of any Clinic To Be
Divested, supplied goods and services for use in any Clinic To
Be Divested from continuing to supply goods and services for use
in such Clinic.
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C.
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The purpose of Paragraph II of this Order to Maintain
Assets is:
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to preserve the Clinics To Be Divested and the Assets To Be
Divested as viable, competitive, and ongoing businesses, to
prevent their destruction, removal, wasting, deterioration, or
impairment, and to prevent interim harm to competition, pending
the relevant divestitures and other relief;
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2.
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to preserve the good will of the employees and Regional Managers
of the Clinics To Be Divested and of the Physicians, Suppliers,
and patients that do business with those Clinics; and
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3.
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to prevent Material Confidential Information relating
exclusively to the Clinics To Be Divested from being exchanged
with Freseniuss retained dialysis businesses.
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III.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that:
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A.
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Richard Shermer, of R. Shermer & Co., shall be appointed
Monitor to assure that Fresenius expeditiously complies with all
of its obligations and performs all of its responsibilities as
required by the Consent Agreement and this Order to Maintain
Assets.
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No later than one (1) day after this Order to Maintain
Assets is made final, Fresenius shall, pursuant to the Monitor
Agreement and to this Order to Maintain Assets, transfer to the
Monitor all the rights, powers, and authorities necessary to
permit the Monitor to perform his duties and responsibilities in
a manner consistent with the purposes of the Consent Agreement
and this Order to Maintain Assets.
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In the event a substitute Monitor is required, the Commission
shall select the Monitor, subject to the consent of Fresenius,
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. If Fresenius
has not opposed, in writing, including the reasons for opposing,
the selection of a proposed Monitor within ten (10) days
after notice by the staff of the Commission to Fresenius of the
identity of any proposed Monitor, Fresenius shall be deemed to
have consented to the selection of the proposed Monitor. Not
later than ten (10) days after appointment of a substitute
Monitor, Fresenius shall execute an agreement that, subject to
the prior approval of the Commission, confers on the Monitor all
the rights, powers, and authorities necessary to permit the
Monitor to monitor Freseniuss compliance with the
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terms of the Consent Agreement and this Order to Maintain
Assets, in a manner consistent with the purposes of this Order
to Maintain Assets.
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D.
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Fresenius shall consent to the following terms and conditions
regarding the powers, duties, authorities, and responsibilities
of the Monitor:
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The Monitor shall have the power and authority to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with the terms of the Consent
Agreement and this Order to Maintain Assets, and shall exercise
such power and authority and carry out the duties and
responsibilities of the Monitor in a manner consistent with the
purposes of the Consent Agreement and this Order to Maintain
Assets and in consultation with the Commission, including, but
not limited to:
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a.
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Assuring that Fresenius expeditiously complies with all of its
obligations and perform all of its responsibilities as required
by the Consent Agreement and this Order to Maintain Assets;
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b.
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Monitoring any transition services agreements; and
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c.
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Assuring that Material Confidential Information is not received
or used by Fresenius or the Acquirers, except as allowed in the
Consent Agreement and this Order to Maintain Assets.
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2.
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The Monitor shall act in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of
the Commission.
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3.
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The Monitor shall serve for such time as is necessary to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with the provisions of the Consent
Agreement and the Order to Maintain Assets.
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4.
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Subject to any demonstrated legally recognized privilege, the
Monitor shall have full and complete access to Freseniuss
personnel, books, documents, records kept in the Ordinary Course
Of Business, facilities and technical information, and such
other relevant information as the Monitors may reasonably
request, related to Freseniuss compliance with its
obligations under the Consent Agreement and this Order to
Maintain Assets. Fresenius shall cooperate with any reasonable
request of the Monitors and shall take no action to interfere
with or impede the Monitors ability to monitor
Freseniuss compliance with the Consent Agreement and this
Order to Maintain Assets.
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The Monitor shall serve, without bond or other security, at the
expense of Fresenius on such reasonable and customary terms and
conditions as the Commission may set. The Monitor shall have
authority to employ, at the expense of Fresenius, such
consultants, accountants, attorneys and other representatives
and assistants as are reasonably necessary to carry out the
Monitors duties and responsibilities. The Monitor shall
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account for all expenses incurred, including fees for services
rendered, subject to the approval of the Commission.
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Fresenius shall indemnify the Monitor and hold the Monitor
harmless against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or
expenses arising out of, or in connection with, the performance
of the Monitors duties, including all reasonable fees of
counsel and other reasonable expenses incurred in connection
with the preparations for, or defense of, any claim, whether or
not resulting in any liability, except to the extent that such
losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses result from
misfeasance, gross negligence, willful or wanton acts, or bad
faith by the Monitor.
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Fresenius shall report to the Monitor in accordance with the
requirements of this Order and/or as otherwise provided in any
agreement approved by the Commission. The Monitor shall evaluate
the reports submitted to the Monitor by Fresenius, and any
reports submitted by the Acquirer with respect to the
performance of Freseniuss obligations under the Consent
Agreement and this Order to Maintain Assets.
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Within one (1) month from the date the Monitor is appointed
pursuant to this paragraph, every sixty (60) days
thereafter, and otherwise as requested by the Commission, the
Monitor shall report in writing to the Commission concerning
performance by Fresenius of its obligations under the Consent
Agreement and this Order to Maintain Assets.
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9.
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Fresenius may require the Monitor and each of the Monitors
consultants, accountants, attorneys, and other representatives
and assistants to sign a customary confidentiality agreement;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
such agreement shall not restrict the
Monitor from providing any information to the Commission.
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E.
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The Commission may, among other things, require the Monitor and
each of the Monitors consultants, accountants, attorneys,
and other representatives and assistants to sign an appropriate
confidentiality agreement Relating To Commission materials and
information received in connection with the performance of the
Monitors duties.
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F.
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If the Commission determines that the Monitor has ceased to act
or failed to act diligently, the Commission may appoint a
substitute Monitor in the same manner as provided in this
Paragraph III.
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G.
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The Commission may on its own initiative, or at the request of
the Monitor, issue such additional orders or directions as may
be necessary or appropriate to assure compliance with the
requirements of the Consent Agreement and this Order to Maintain
Assets.
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IV.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that, beginning fifteen
(15) days after the date on which Fresenius signs the
Consent Agreement and every thirty (30) days thereafter
until this Order to Maintain Assets terminates pursuant to
Paragraph VII, Fresenius shall submit to the Commission a
verified written report setting forth in detail the manner and
form in which it intends to comply, is complying, and has
complied with the terms of this Order to Maintain Assets.
Fresenius shall submit at the same time a copy of these reports
to the Monitor.
V.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that Fresenius shall notify the
Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to:
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Any proposed dissolution of Fresenius,
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B.
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Any proposed acquisition, merger or consolidation of Fresenius,
or
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C.
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Any other change in Fresenius that may affect compliance
obligations arising out of this Order to Maintain Assets,
including but not limited to assignment, the creation or
dissolution of subsidiaries, or any other change in Fresenius.
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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that, for the purpose of
determining or securing compliance with this Order to Maintain
Assets, and subject to any legally recognized privilege, and
upon written request with reasonable notice to Fresenius,
Fresenius shall permit any duly authorized representative of the
Commission:
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Access, during office hours of Fresenius and in the presence of
counsel, to all facilities and access to inspect and copy all
books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda, and all
other records and documents in the possession or under the
control of Fresenius related to compliance with this Order to
Maintain Assets; and
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B.
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Upon five (5) days notice to Fresenius and without
restraint or interference from Fresenius, to interview officers,
directors, or employees of Fresenius, who may have counsel
present, regarding such matters.
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VII.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
that this Order to Maintain Assets
shall terminate at the earlier of:
A. three (3) business days after the Commission
withdraws its acceptance of the Consent Agreement pursuant to
the provisions of Commission Rule 2.34, 16 C.F.R. §
2.34; or
B. such time as (1) all Assets To Be Divested
have been divested pursuant to the terms of the Consent
Agreement, and (2) the Decision and Order has been made
final.
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Donald S. Clark
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Secretary
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SEAL
ISSUED:
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EXHIBIT 31.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302
OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Ben J. Lipps, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this report on
Form
6-K
of
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (the
Report).
2. Based on my knowledge, this Report does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the
circumstances under which such statements were made, not
misleading with respect to the period covered by this Report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and
other financial information included in this Report, fairly
present in all material respects the financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of,
and for, the periods presented in this Report;
4. The registrants other certifying officer and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls
and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules
13a-15(e)
and
15d-15(e))
and
internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
Exchange Act
Rules
13a-15(f)
and
15d-15(f)
for the
registrant and we have:
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a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or
caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed
under our supervision, to ensure that material information
relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which this Report is
being prepared;
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b) designed such internal control over financial reporting,
or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be
designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
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c) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants
disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this Report
our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by
this Report based on such evaluation; and
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d) disclosed in this Report any change in the
registrants internal control over financial reporting that
occurred during the registrants most recent fiscal quarter
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the registrants internal control over
financial reporting; and
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5. The registrants other certifying officer and I
have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
control over financial reporting, to the registrants
auditors and the audit committee of registrants board of
directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
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a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in
the design or operation of internal control over financial
reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
registrants ability to record, process, summarize and
report financial information; and
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b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves
management or other employees who have a significant role in the
registrants internal control over financial reporting.
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Date: May 17, 2006
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/s/ Dr. Ben J. Lipps
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Dr. Ben J. Lipps
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Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the
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Management Board of the General Partner
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EXHIBIT 31.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302
OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Lawrence Rosen, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this report on
Form
6-K
of
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (the
Report);
2. Based on my knowledge, this Report does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the
circumstances under which such statements were made, not
misleading with respect to the period covered by this Report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and
other financial information included in this Report, fairly
present in all material respects the financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of,
and for, the periods presented in this Report;
4. The registrants other certifying officer and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls
and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules
13a-15(e)
and
15d-15(e))
and
internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
Exchange Act
Rules
13a-15(f)
and
15d-15(f)
for the
registrant and we have:
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a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or
caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed
under our supervision, to ensure that material information
relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which this Report is
being prepared;
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b) designed such internal control over financial reporting,
or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be
designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
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c) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants
disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this Report
our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by
this Report based on such evaluation; and
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d) disclosed in this Report any change in the
registrants internal control over financial reporting that
occurred during the registrants most recent fiscal quarter
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the registrants internal control over
financial reporting; and
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5. The registrants other certifying officer and I
have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
control over financial reporting, to the registrants
auditors and the audit committee of registrants board of
directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
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a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in
the design or operation of internal control over financial
reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
registrants ability to record, process, summarize and
report financial information; and
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b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves
management or other employees who have a significant role in the
registrants internal control over financial reporting.
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Date: May 17, 2006
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/s/ Lawrence Rosen
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Lawrence Rosen
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Chief Financial Officer of the General Partner
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EXHIBIT 32.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the report of Fresenius Medical Care AG &
Co. KGaA (the Company) on
Form
6-K
filed for
the month of May 2006 containing its unaudited financial
statements as of and for the three-month periods ending
March 31, 2006 & 2005, as submitted to the
Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the
Report), the undersigned, Dr. Ben Lipps, Chief
Executive Officer and Lawrence Rosen, Chief Financial Officer of
the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
§ 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:
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(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of
section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934; and
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(2) The information contained in the Report fairly
presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and
result of operations of the Company.
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/s/ Dr. Ben Lipps
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Dr. Ben Lipps
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Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the
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Management Board of the General Partner
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May 17, 2006
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/s/ Lawrence Rosen
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Lawrence Rosen
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Chief Financial Officer of the General Partner
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May 17, 2006
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