UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 6-K

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 REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of September, 2018

Commission File Number 001-36487

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Atlantica Yield plc

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

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Not Applicable

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

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Great West House, GW1, 17th floor

Great West Road

Brentford, TW8 9DF

United Kingdom

Tel.: +44 20 7098 4384

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:

☒  Form 20-F          ☐  Form 40-F

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):  ☐

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):  ☐

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

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CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

Dated as of May 10, 2018

among

ATLANTICA YIELD PLC,

as the Borrower,

The Guarantors from Time to Time Party Hereto,

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,

as Administrative Agent

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA

CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, LONDON BRANCH,

as L/C Issuers,

The Lenders Party Hereto,

and

BANCO SANTANDER, S.A.

BARCLAYS BANK PLC

CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, LONDON BRANCH

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INCORPORATED

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA

MUFG BANK, LTD.

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

This CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is entered into as of May 10, 2018 by and among ATLANTICA YIELD PLC, a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 08818211 (the "Borrower"), the Guarantors from time to time party hereto, each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the "Lenders" and individually, a "Lender"), ROYAL BANK OF CANADA and CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, LONDON BRANCH, as L/C Issuers, and ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent").

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:

The Lenders, at the request of the Borrower, have agreed to extend a revolving credit facility to the Borrower, the proceeds of which may be used by the Borrower for general corporate purposes of the Borrower, including, among others, the financing of acquisitions and the refinancing of existing indebtedness.

In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

1.01         Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

"Account Control Agreements" means each account control agreement entered into by each applicable Loan Party, the Collateral Agent, and the applicable depositary bank party thereto.

"Administrative Agent's Office" means the Administrative Agent's 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 the Borrower and the Lenders.

"Administrative Questionnaire" means an Administrative Questionnaire in the form approved by the Administrative Agent.

"Affiliate" means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, the Person specified.

"Agents" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.

"Aggregate Commitments" means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

"Applicable Percentage" means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Facility represented by such Lender's Commitment at such time.  If the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of each L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, or if the Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of the Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Lender in respect of the Facility most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments.  The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of the Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.

 

"Applicable Rate" means, for each Base Rate Loans, Eurodollar Rate Loans and Letters of Credit, as applicable, the applicable rate per annum set forth in the table below determined by reference to the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended in respect of which the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable; provided, however, that (i) until the date on which the Administrative Agent receives financial statements for the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ending on June 30, 2018, Pricing Level 2 set forth below shall apply; and (ii) in the event the Borrower fails to deliver to the Administrative Agent financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, Pricing Level 4 set forth below shall apply until the date such financial statements have been delivered:

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date on which financial statements are delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable.

"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.

"Assignment and Assumption" means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit B or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by use of an electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.

"Attributable Indebtedness" means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease Obligations of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with IFRS, and (b) in respect of any sale and leaseback transaction of such Person, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease or similar payments under the relevant lease or other applicable agreement or instrument that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with IFRS if such lease or other agreement or instrument were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease Obligation.

 

"Audited Financial Statements" means, with respect to any fiscal year of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.

"Availability Period" means the period from and including the date of this Agreement to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) the date of termination of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.05, and (c) the date of termination of the Commitment of each Lender to make Loans and of the obligation of each L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.

"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

"Bail-In Legislation" means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

"Bank Levy" means any amount payable by any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates on the basis of or in relation to its balance sheet or capital base or any part of it or its liabilities or minimum regulatory capital or any combination thereof, including the U.K. bank levy as implemented by section 73 of and schedule 19 to the Finance Act 2011, and, in relation to any Lender, any Tax in any jurisdiction levied on a similar basis or for a similar purpose (and imposed by reference to assets and/or liabilities).

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

"Base Rate" means, for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus ½ of 1%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its "prime rate," (c) the Eurodollar Rate for Eurodollar Loans with an Interest Period of one month, plus 1.0%.  The "prime rate" is a rate set by the Administrative Agent based upon various factors including the Administrative Agent's costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such prime rate announced by the Administrative Agent shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public.

"Base Rate Loan" means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

"Basel III" means (a) the agreements on capital requirements, leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in "Basel III:  A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems," "Basel III:  International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring," and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated, (b) the rules for global systemically important banks contained in "Global systemically important banks:  assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement – Rules text" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated and (c) any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to "Basel III."

 

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

"Borrowing" means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01.

"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, London, England; New York City, United States; Madrid, Spain or the jurisdiction where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day.

"CAFD" means, for any Measurement Period and without duplication, Distributed Cash received by the Borrower from its Subsidiaries minus cash expenses of the Borrower (other than Debt Service Obligations and transaction costs), in each case during such Measurement Period.

"Capital Stock" means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however denominated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants or options to purchase any of the foregoing, but excluding any Convertible Debt Securities.

"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means, with respect to any Person, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with IFRS; provided that any obligations of the Borrower or any other Loan Party either existing on the Closing Date or created prior to any recharacterization (a) that were not included on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower as capital lease obligations and (b) that are subsequently recharacterized as capital lease obligations due to a change in accounting treatment or otherwise, shall for all purposes under the Loan Documents (including the calculation of CAFD) not be treated as capital lease obligations, Capitalized Lease Obligations or Indebtedness.  Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with IFRS.

"Cash Collateral Certificate" shall have the meaning assigned to that term under Section 2.03(l)(i).

 

"Cash Collateralize" means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of one or more of the L/C Issuers or the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations or obligations of the Lenders to fund participations in respect of L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances or, if the Administrative Agent and the applicable L/C Issuer shall agree in their sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the applicable L/C Issuer. "Cash Collateral" shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.

"Cash Equivalents" means:

(a)          direct obligations (or certificates representing an interest in such obligations) issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the government of a member state of the European Union, the United States, Switzerland or Canada (including, in each case, any agency or instrumentality thereof), as the case may be, the payment of which is backed by the full faith and credit of the relevant member state of the European Union or the United States, Switzerland or Canada, as the case may be, and which are not callable or redeemable at the Borrower's option;

(c)           repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (a) and (b) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (b) above;

(d)           commercial paper having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from Moody's or S&P and, in each case, maturing within one year after the date of acquisition; and

(e)           money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clause (a) through (d) of this definition.

"Change in Law" means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following:  (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a "Change in Law," regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

 

"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following, in each case, without the consent of all Lenders:

(a)           any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan), other than Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. and its Affiliates acquiring or controlling after the date of this Agreement:

(i)         more than 50% of the Voting Rights; or

(ii)        the right to appoint and/or remove all or the majority of the members of the Borrower's board of directors or other governing body, in each case whether obtained directly or indirectly, and whether obtained by ownership of share capital, the possession of Voting Rights, contract or otherwise; or

(b)           the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation) in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan).

"Closing Date" means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 and 4.02 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 11.01.

"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

"Collateral" means all of the property that is under the terms of the Collateral Documents subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

"Collateral Agent" means Royal Bank of Canada in its capacity as collateral agent under the Intercreditor Agreement, or any successor collateral agent.

"Collateral Documents" means, collectively, each Pledge Agreement, each supplemental pledge agreement, Guarantor Accession Agreement, Account Control Agreements, Securities Account Control Agreements, or other similar agreement executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 6.12, the Intercreditor Agreement, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents entered into by a Loan Party that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

 

"Commitment" means, as to each Lender, its obligation to (a) make Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 and (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender's name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption "Commitment" or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.

"Committed Loan Notice" means a notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), in each case substantially in the form of Exhibit C or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.

"Commodity Exchange Act" means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

"Compliance Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

"Connection Income Taxes" means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

"Consolidated Total Assets" means, as of any date of determination, the total consolidated assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS, as shown on the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b).

"Contractual Obligation" means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

"Control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.  "Controlling" and "Controlled" have meanings correlative thereto.

"Controlled Account" means each deposit account or securities account that is subject to an Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer.

"Convertible Debt Securities" means any debt securities or similar instruments convertible into Capital Stock.

 

"Credit Extension" means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.

"CTA" means the United Kingdom Corporation Tax Act 2009.

"Debt Rating" means, as of any date of determination, the rating as determined by any Rating Agency (collectively, the "Debt Ratings") of the Borrower's non-credit-enhanced, senior unsecured long-term debt.

"Debt Service Coverage Ratio" means as of any date of determination, the ratio of:  (a) the aggregate amount of the CAFD for the most recent Measurement Period for which financial statements are available; to (b) the aggregate amount of Debt Service Obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Non-Recourse Subsidiaries), without duplication, for the most recent Measurement Period for which financial statements are available.  For purposes of this definition, (i) interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a Eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be deemed to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Borrower may designate, (ii) in the event that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries incurs, redeems, repays, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced) subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Debt Service Coverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of the Debt Service Coverage Ratio is made (the "DSCR Calculation Date"), then the Debt Service Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving Pro Forma Effect to such incurrence, redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness; provided that for purposes of making the computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions, Dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with IFRS) that have been made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the Measurement Period or subsequent to such Measurement Period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the DSCR Calculation Date shall be calculated giving Pro Forma Effect to all such Investments, acquisitions, Dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and discontinued operations (and the change in any associated fixed charge obligations and the change in CAFD resulting therefrom); provided further that if since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Subsidiary of the Borrower or was merged with or into the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment, acquisition, Disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or discontinued operation that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Debt Service Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving Pro Forma Effect thereto for such period, (iii) whenever Pro Forma Effect is to be given to an Investment, acquisition, Disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or discontinued operation, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Borrower and shall comply with the requirements of Rule 11-02 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, except that such pro forma calculations may include operating expense reductions for such period resulting from the acquisition which is being given Pro Forma Effect that have been realized or for which the steps necessary for realization have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken within six (6) months following any such acquisition, including the execution or termination of any contracts, the termination of any personnel or the closing (or approval by the board of directors of the Borrower on any closing) of any facility, as applicable, provided that, in either case, such adjustments are set forth in an Officer's Certificate signed by the Borrower's chief financial officer and another Responsible Officer which states (A) the amount of such adjustment or adjustments, (B) that such adjustment or adjustments are based on the reasonable good faith beliefs of the officers executing such Officer's Certificate at the time of such execution and (C) that any related incurrence of Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to this Agreement, and (iv) if any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given Pro Forma Effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the DSCR Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Swap Contract applicable to such Indebtedness).

 

"Debt Service Obligations" means, for any Measurement Period, the sum of all amounts payable by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Non-Recourse Subsidiaries), without duplication, in respect of principal and Interest Expense on Indebtedness for Borrowed Money during such Measurement Period.

"Debtor Relief Laws" means the Bankruptcy Code, the Insolvency Act of 1986 of the United Kingdom, the Insolvency Rules of 1986 of the United Kingdom, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, administration, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States, the United Kingdom or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

"Default" means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

"Default Rate" means (i) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) applicable to a Eurodollar Rate Loan plus 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Base Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (c) 2% per annum, and (ii) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Rate plus 2% per annum.

"Defaulting Lender" means, subject to Section 2.13(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender's determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender's obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender's determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender.  Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.13(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, each L/C Issuer and each Lender promptly following such determination.

 

"Designated Jurisdiction" means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory itself is, or whose government is, the subject or target of any Sanctions, including, as of the date hereof, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.

"Disposition" or "Dispose" means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any property by any Person (or the granting of any option or other right to do any of the foregoing), 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.

"Distributed Cash" means cash and Cash Equivalents distributed by the Non-Recourse Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to the Borrower in respect of the Equity Interests of the Non-Recourse Subsidiaries owned, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower (other than (x) dividends or other distributions that are funded, directly or indirectly, with substantially concurrent cash Investments, or cash Investments that were not intended to be used by a Non-Recourse Subsidiary for capital expenditures or for operational purposes, by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in a Non-Recourse Subsidiary and (y) withholding Taxes and amounts subject to, or reasonably expected to be subject to repatriation requirements) consisting of:  (a) dividends; (b) capital redemptions; (c) subordinated Indebtedness interest or principal repayments; and (d) the proceeds of any loan to the Borrower from a Subsidiary of the Borrower; provided that, (i) to the extent permitted by Non-Recourse Indebtedness arrangements to which such Subsidiary is a party, the payment obligation of the Borrower under such loan is subordinated to the prior payment in full of the Obligations and (ii) any repayment of such loan prior to the Maturity Date is immediately succeeded by (A) entering into a substantially similar arrangement for an equal or greater amount; (B) payment of a dividend in an equal or greater amount than such loan by the lender to the Borrower or a Guarantor; or (C) redemption of capital stock of the lender and remittance of the proceeds of such redemption in an equal or greater amount as such loan.

 

"Dollar" and "U.S.$" mean the lawful money of the United States.

"EEA Financial Institution" means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

"EEA Member Country" means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

"EEA Resolution Authority" means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

"Eligible Assignee" means any Lender, Affiliate of a Lender, Approved Fund or any other financial institution that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.06(b)(iii) and 11.06(b)(v) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.06(b)(iii)).

"Environment" means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, soil, surface and subsurface strata, and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.

"Environmental Laws" means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution or the protection of the Environment or human health (to the extent related to exposure to Hazardous Materials), including those relating to the manufacture, generation, handling, transport, storage, treatment, Release threat or Release of Hazardous Materials.

"Environmental Liability" means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

"Environmental Permit" means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.

 

"Equity Interests" means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.  For the purposes of this definition, "capital stock" shall include all common stock, preferred stock and other equity-like interests (including trust and usufruct rights) howsoever described.

"Equity Pledgor" means the Borrower and any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Non-Recourse Subsidiary) holding Equity Interests, either directly or indirectly, in any Guarantor from time to time; provided that in no event shall an individual holding nominal shares (without special or additional rights to those granted to other holders of Equity Interests or preferential rights in such Guarantor) be an Equity Pledgor.

"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

"ERISA Affiliate" means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) (a) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code) or (b) that is under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(14) of ERISA.

"ERISA Event" means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) the withdrawal of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity 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 the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA; (e) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Pension Plan; (f) any event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; or (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.

"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

 

"Eurodollar Rate" means:

 

(b)           for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to ICE LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time, determined two Business Days prior to such date for U.S. Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day.

"Eurodollar Rate Loan" means a Loan that bears interest based on the Eurodollar Rate.

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

"Excluded Swap Obligation" means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor's failure for any reason to constitute an "eligible contract participant" as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to Section 10.11 and any other "keepwell, support or other agreement" for the benefit of such Guarantor and any and all guarantees of such Guarantor's Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor, or a grant by such Guarantor of a security interest, becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation.  If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.

"Excluded Taxes" means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (A) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment or (B) such Lender changes its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient's failure to comply with Section 3.01(e), (d) any Taxes imposed under FATCA, (e) any Bank Levy and (f) any Tax imposed by the United Kingdom on payments of interest where any of the exclusions provided in Section 3.04(f) apply.

 

"Existing Credit Facility" means the credit agreement dated as of June 26, 2015 between, inter alios, the Borrower and the lenders party thereto, as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

"Facility" means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Lenders' Commitments at such time, which shall not exceed U.S.$215,000,000.

"FATCA" means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code (or any amended or successor version that is substantially comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with); any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof; any applicable intergovernmental agreements between a non-U.S. jurisdiction and the United States with respect thereto; any law, regulation, or other official guidance enacted in a non-U.S. jurisdiction relating to an intergovernmental agreement related thereto; and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code.

"Federal Funds Rate" means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to RBC on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

"Fee Letters" means (a) the letter agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, among the Borrower and the Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners and (b) the letter agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

"FSMA" means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of the United Kingdom.

"Foreign Lender" means a Lender that is resident or organized under laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes.

"FRB" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

"Fronting Exposure" means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, with respect to the L/C Issuers, such Defaulting Lender's Applicable Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender's participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

"Fund" means any Person (other than a natural Person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.

"Governmental Authority" means the government of the United States, the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether provincial, state or local, and any agency, authority, department, instrumentality, ministry, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity lawfully exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

"Guarantee" means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation or undertaking, 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, 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 or (ii) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof in whole or in part, or to maintain working or equity capital of the primary obligee or otherwise maintain the net worth or solvency of such obligee, 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 (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided, however, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.  The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith.  The term "Guarantee" as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

"Guarantor Accession Agreement" means a guarantee accession agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit E, delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.

"Guarantors" means, collectively, (a) ABY Concessions Infrastructures, S.L.U., ABY Concessions Peru S.A., ACT Holding, S.A. de C.V., ASHUSA Inc., ASUSHI Inc., and subject to Section 11.22, ABY South Africa (Pty) LTD, and, (b) each other direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower that executes and delivers a guaranty or Guarantor Accession Agreement pursuant to Section 6.12.

"Guaranty" means, collectively, the Guaranty made by the Guarantors under Article X in favor of the Secured Parties, together with each other guaranty and Guarantor Accession Agreement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.

 

"Hazardous Materials" means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants including petroleum or petroleum distillates, natural gas, natural gas liquids, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, toxic mold, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances, wastes, chemicals, pollutants, contaminants or compounds of any nature in any form regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

"HMRC" means Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs of the United Kingdom.

"IFRS" means international financial reporting standards and interpretations of such standards adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB") (which include standards and interpretations approved by the IASB and International Accounting Standards issued under previous constitutions), together with its pronouncements thereon from time to time, and applied on a consistent basis.

"Immaterial Subsidiary" means, as of any date, any Subsidiary (other than a Loan Party) at any time designated by the Borrower as an "Immaterial Subsidiary"; provided that if, on any date of determination, the aggregate CAFD attributable to any Subsidiary designated by the Borrower as an "Immaterial Subsidiary" for the previous four fiscal quarters (or, if shorter, the period commencing on the date such Subsidiary is acquired by a Subsidiary of the Borrower and ending on the date of determination) (i) exceeds 2.5% of the CAFD in the aggregate for such period; or (ii) when taken together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries as of such date, exceeds 10% of the CAFD in the aggregate for such period, then such Subsidiary shall immediately cease to be an "Immaterial Subsidiary".

"Impacted Loans" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.03.

"incur" means, with respect to any Indebtedness, to incur, create, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise, contingently or otherwise, become liable, directly or indirectly, for or with respect to, or to extend the maturity of, or become responsible for, the payment of such Indebtedness; provided, however, that neither (a) the accrual of interest, (b) the accretion of original issue discount nor (c) an increase in the outstanding amount of Indebtedness caused solely by fluctuations in the exchange rates of currencies shall be considered an incurrence of Indebtedness.  The terms "incurrence" and "incurring" have corresponding meanings.

"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 IFRS:

(a)           Indebtedness for Borrowed Money;

(b)           all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts that are (i) payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) not overdue by more than 120 days);

(c)           net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

(d)           all Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations and sale and leaseback transactions of such Person; and

(e)           all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing;

 

provided that in no event shall obligations under any Swap Contract be deemed "Indebtedness" for any purpose under Section 7.11 unless such obligations relate to a derivatives transaction which has been terminated (or to the extent amounts under such Swap Contract are otherwise due and owing).

 

"Indebtedness for Borrowed Money" means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all indebtedness accounted for as indebtedness for borrowed money in accordance with IFRS, including

(a)           all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments; and

(b)           the principal component of obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers' acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments, but excluding contingent obligations and other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness.

"Indemnified Taxes" means (a) Taxes other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

"Intercreditor Agreement" means the amended and restated Intercreditor Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties and other Persons from time to time party thereto.

"Interest Expense" means, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Non-Recourse Subsidiaries) for any period, without duplication, the sum of:  (a) consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Non-Recourse Subsidiaries) for such period (including (i) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (ii) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, bank guarantees or bankers acceptances, (iii) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations and in respect of sale and leaseback transactions, (iv) net payments, if any made (less net payments, if any, received), pursuant to interest rate Swap Contracts, and (v) any tax gross-up, Eurodollar reserves and other additional amounts and excluding (1) annual agency fees paid to the administrative agents and collateral agents under any credit facilities, (2) costs associated with obtaining Swap Contracts and breakage costs in respect of Swap Contracts, (3) penalties and interest relating to Taxes, (4) any "additional interest" or "liquidated damages" with respect to other securities for failure to timely comply with registration rights obligations, (5) amortization or expensing of deferred financing fees, amendment and consent fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and discounted liabilities, (6) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other financing fees and any other fees related to any acquisitions after the date of this Agreement, (7) commissions, discounts, yield and other fees and charges (including any interest expense) related to any securitization facility and (8) any accretion of accrued interest on discounted liabilities and any prepayment premium or penalty); plus (b) consolidated capitalized interest of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Non-Recourse Subsidiaries) for such period, whether paid or accrued.  For purposes of this definition, interest in respect of sale and leaseback transactions shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such sale and leaseback transaction in accordance with IFRS.

 

"Interest Payment Date" means, (a) as to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of such Loan; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of such Loan.

"Interest Period" means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date one, three or six months thereafter, or such other period (not to exceed six months) as may be agreed to by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lender of such Eurodollar Rate Loan (in each case, subject to availability), as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:

(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 Eurodollar Rate Loan, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;

(b)           any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar 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

(c)           no Interest Period for any Loan shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of such Loan.

"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 Equity Interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or interest in, another 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 or all or a substantial part of the business of such Person.  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.

"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, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

 

"Issuer Documents" means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower (or any Affiliate) or in favor of the applicable L/C Issuer and relating to such Letter of Credit.

"ITA" means the United Kingdom Income Tax Act 2007.

"Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners" means each of Banco Santander, S.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, London Branch, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated (or any other registered broker-dealer wholly-owned by Bank of America Corporation to which all or substantially all of Bank of America Corporation's or any of its subsidiaries' investment banking, commercial lending services or related businesses may be transferred following the date of this Agreement), Royal Bank of Canada and MUFG Bank, Ltd.

"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 Lender's funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.

"L/C Borrowing" means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Borrowing.

"L/C Credit Extension" means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof, or the reinstatement of any amount of any stated amount thereof after any draw thereunder.

"L/C Issuer" means, each of Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, London Branch, in their capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.

"L/C Obligations" means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all 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 1.07.  For all purposes of this 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.

 

"Legal Reservations" means:

 

(a)           the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court and the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganisation and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors;

(b)           the time barring of claims under the Limitation Acts, the possibility that an undertaking to assume liability for or indemnify a person against non-payment of United Kingdom stamp duty may be void and defences of setoff or counterclaim;

(c)           similar principles, rights and defences under the laws of any relevant jurisdiction; and

(d)           any other matters which are set out as qualifications or reservations as to matters of law of general application in any legal opinion delivered to the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement.

"Lending Office" means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender's Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Lender or any domestic or foreign branch of such Lender or such Affiliate.  Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Lender shall include its applicable Lending Office.

"Letter of Credit" means any standby letter of credit issued hereunder providing for the payment of cash upon the honoring of a presentation thereunder.

"Letter of Credit Application" means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the applicable L/C Issuer.

"Letter of Credit Expiration Date" means the day that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).

"Letter of Credit Sublimit" means an amount equal to U.S.$70,000,000.  The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

 

"Leverage Ratio" means, as of any date of determination, without duplication, the ratio of (a) Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Non‑Recourse Subsidiaries), as of such date to (b) CAFD for the most recently completed Measurement Period.  For purposes of this definition, (i) in the event that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries incurs, assumes, guarantees, redeems, repays, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced) subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Leverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of the Leverage Ratio is made (the "Leverage Ratio Calculation Date"), then the Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period; provided that for purposes of making the computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions, Dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with IFRS) that have been made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the Measurement Period or subsequent to such Measurement Period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the Leverage Ratio Calculation Date shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, Dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and discontinued operations (and the change in any associated fixed charge obligations and the change in CAFD resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the Measurement Period; provided further that if since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Subsidiary of the Borrower or was merged with or into the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment, acquisition, Disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or discontinued operation that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition, Disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or discontinued operation had occurred at the beginning of the applicable Measurement Period, (ii) whenever pro forma effect is to be given to an Investment, acquisition, Disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or discontinued operation, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Borrower and shall comply with the requirements of Rule 11-02 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission, except that such pro forma calculations may include operating expense reductions for such period resulting from the acquisition which is being given pro forma effect that have been realized or for which the steps necessary for realization have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken within six (6) months following any such acquisition, including the execution or termination of any contracts, the termination of any personnel or the closing (or approval by the board of directors of the Borrower on any closing) of any facility, as applicable, provided that, in either case, such adjustments are set forth in an Officer's Certificate signed by the Borrower's chief financial officer and another Responsible Officer which states (A) the amount of such adjustment or adjustments, (B) that such adjustment or adjustments are based on the reasonable good faith beliefs of the officers executing such Officer's Certificate at the time of such execution and (C) that any related incurrence of Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to this Agreement, and (iii) if any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the Leverage Ratio Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Swap Contract applicable to such Indebtedness); provided that for purposes of making the computation referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period except as set forth in the first paragraph of this definition.

"Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, easement, right-of-way or other encumbrance on title to real property, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

 

"Limitation Acts" means the Limitation Act 1980 of the United Kingdom and the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 of the United Kingdom and any analogous limitation statutes of any other applicable jurisdiction.

"Loan Documents" means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes (if any), (c) the Collateral Documents, (d) the Intercreditor Agreement, (e) the Fee Letters and (f) the Resignation, Assignment and Assumption Agreement.

"Loan Parties" means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor. Notwithstanding anything in the Loan Documents to the contrary, no Non-Recourse Subsidiary shall be a Loan Party.

"London Banking Day" means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.

"Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon or with respect to:  (a) the operations, business, properties or financial condition of the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (b) the ability of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their payment Obligations; (c) the rights, remedies and benefits available to, or conferred upon, the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other Secured Party under any Loan Document; (d) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (e) the validity or priority of the security interests purported to be granted to any of the Secured Parties under the Collateral Documents.

"Material Contract" means, with respect to any Person, each contract to which such Person is a party involving aggregate consideration payable to or by such Person of U.S.$50,000,000 or more in any year or in the aggregate, or otherwise material to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of such Person; provided that any instrument or agreement evidencing or creating a Lien to secure Non‑Recourse Indebtedness shall not constitute a Material Contract.

"Material Non-Recourse Subsidiary" means any Non-Recourse Subsidiary (with respect to Sections 8.01(e), 8.01(f) and 8.01(g), individually or together with any other Non-Recourse Subsidiary in respect of which an Event of Default of the type set forth in such Sections has occurred and is continuing) that made Restricted Payments, directly or indirectly through a Guarantor or otherwise, to the Borrower in an amount equal to or greater than 25% of the Distributed Cash during the most recently completed Measurement Period.

"Maturity Date" means December 31, 2021.

"Measurement Period" means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of the Borrower or, if fewer than four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower have been completed as of such date of determination, the fiscal quarters of the Borrower that have been completed by such date.

"Mexican Guarantor" means each Guarantor organized under Mexican law.

 

"Minimum Collateral Amount" means, at any time, (i) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided to reduce or eliminate Fronting Exposure when any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, an amount equal to 100% of the Fronting Exposure at such time (provided that if such amount is insufficient to cover any other amounts due in respect of Letters of Credit hereunder, an additional amount equal to such deficiency), (ii) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.03(l)(i)(A) or (B), an amount equal to 100% of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations and, with respect to Cash Collateral provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.03(l)(i)(C), the amount required pursuant to Section 8.02(c) (provided that if such amount is insufficient to cover any other amounts due in respect of Letters of Credit hereunder, an additional amount equal to such deficiency) and (iii) otherwise, an amount determined by the Administrative Agent and the applicable L/C Issuer in their reasonable judgment exercised in good faith.

"Moody's" means Moody's 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 the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

"Multiple Employer Plan" means a Plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4064 of ERISA.

"Net Cash Proceeds" means:

(a)           with respect to any Disposition by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the type expressly permitted by Section 7.05(i), an amount equal to (i) cash and Cash Equivalents payments (including any cash and Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) received by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary from such Disposition, minus (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by the asset subject to such Disposition and required to be repaid with the proceeds of (or in an amount equal to the proceeds of) such Disposition (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including attorneys' fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees paid to non-affiliated third parties) incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition, (C) to the extent not included in (B) above, taxes required to be paid in connection therewith (including taxes imposed on the distribution or repatriation of any such Net Cash Proceeds) and (D) in the case of any Disposition by a non-wholly owned Subsidiary of such Loan Party, all distributions and other payments required to be made to the minority interest holders in such Subsidiary (other than the Loan Parties) as a result of such Disposition (the "Net Disposition Proceeds").

 

(b)           with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the type expressly permitted by Section 7.02(xx), an amount equal to (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such Indebtedness, minus (ii) the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including attorneys' fees and any taxes required to be paid in connection therewith (including taxes imposed on the distribution or repatriation of any such Net Cash Proceeds)) actually incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such Indebtedness incurrence (the "Net Debt Incurrence Proceeds").

"New Commitment" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.14.

"New Lender" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.14.

"New Loan" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.14.

"Non-Consenting Lender" means any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (a) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 11.01 and (b) has been approved by the Required Lenders.

"Non-Defaulting Lender" means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.

"Non-Recourse Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of a Non-Recourse Subsidiary owed to an unrelated Person with respect to which the creditor has no recourse (including by virtue of a Lien, guarantee or otherwise) to the Borrower or any other Loan Party other than recourse (a) in respect of any acquisition or contribution agreement with respect to any Investment permitted hereunder entered into by Borrower or any other Loan Party, (b) by virtue of rights of such Non-Recourse Subsidiary under a Project Obligation collaterally assigned to such creditor, which rights may be exercised pursuant to such Project Obligation against the Borrower or any other Loan Party that is party to such Project Obligation, (c) pursuant to Permitted Project Undertakings or Permitted Equity Commitments or (d) pursuant to a Non-Recourse Indebtedness Pledge Agreement.

"Non-Recourse Indebtedness Pledge Agreement" means any share, debt or cash collateral pledge agreement (or other types of agreements or instruments with similar effect) entered into by a Loan Party for the sole purpose of pledging the Equity Interests of, or debt issued by, a Non-Recourse Subsidiary as collateral security in support of Non-Recourse Indebtedness, or pledging cash as collateral security to secure Non-Recourse Indebtedness.

 

"Non-Recourse Subsidiary" means (a) any Subsidiary of Borrower that (i) (A) is the owner, lessor and/or operator of (or is formed to own, lease or operate) one or more Projects or conducts activities reasonably related or ancillary thereto, (B) is the lessee or borrower (or is formed to be the lessee or borrower) in respect of Non-Recourse Indebtedness financing one or more Projects, and/or (C) develops or constructs (or is formed to develop or construct) one or more Projects, (ii) has no Subsidiaries and owns no material assets other than those assets or Subsidiaries necessary for the ownership, leasing, development, construction or operation of such Projects or any activities reasonably related or ancillary thereto and (iii) has no Indebtedness other than intercompany Indebtedness (to the extent expressly permitted under Section 7.02) and Non-Recourse Indebtedness and (b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) that directly or indirectly owns all or a portion of the Equity Interests in one or more Persons, each of which meets the qualifications set forth in clause (a) above, (ii) that has no Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries which meet the qualifications set forth in clause (a) or clause (b)(i) above, (iii) that owns no material assets other than those assets necessary for the ownership, leasing, development, construction or operation of Projects or any activities reasonably related or ancillary thereto, and (iv) that has no Indebtedness other than intercompany Indebtedness (to the extent expressly permitted under Section 7.02 and Non-Recourse Indebtedness).

 

"Note" means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender evidencing Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

"Obligations" means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, in each case whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding, provided that, in respect of a Spanish Guarantor, the term "Obligations" shall not include any obligation or liability to the extent that securing those obligations or liabilities would cause a breach of the financial assistance limitations provided in articles 143.2 and 150 of the Spanish Capital Companies Act ("Ley de Sociedades de Capital").

"OFAC" means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.

"Officer's Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of such Person.

"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 Connection Taxes" means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax, including as a result of such Recipient being managed or controlled, or having its seat of management, being engaged in a trade or business, or having a permanent establishment, office, fixed base or branch or similar connections in such jurisdiction (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Documents).

 

"Other Taxes" means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.06(b)).

"Outstanding Amount" means, on any date (in each case determined without duplication), (a) with respect to Loans and New Loans, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans or New Loans, as applicable, after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Loans or New Loans, as applicable, occurring on such date and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations, 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.

"Pari Passu Indebtedness" means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Loan Party that ranks equally in right of payment with the Loans, in an aggregate principal amount in excess of U.S.$10,000,000.

"Patriot Act" means the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107‑56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)).

"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

"Pension Funding Rules" means the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Pension Plans and set forth in Sections 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.

"Pension Plan" means any employee pension benefit plan (including a Multiple Employer Plan or a Multiemployer Plan) that is maintained or is contributed to by the Borrower and any ERISA Affiliate and is either covered by Title IV of ERISA or is subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code.

"Permitted Deferred Acquisition Obligation" means an obligation of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to pay the purchase price for the acquisition of a Person or assets over time or upon the satisfaction of certain conditions; provided that, with respect to each such acquisition, at the time the Borrower or such Subsidiary undertakes such obligations and immediately after giving effect to it, the Borrower shall be in pro forma compliance with each of the covenants set forth in Section 7.11 (such compliance to be determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered to Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.01).

 

"Permitted Equity Commitments" means obligations of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in any Non-Recourse Subsidiary (and any guarantee by the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries of such obligations) as long as each such payment in respect of such Equity Interest constitutes an Investment permitted by Section 7.03.

"Permitted Project Undertakings" means guaranties by or obligations of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries in respect of Project Obligations or Permitted Deferred Acquisition Obligations.

"Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, consortium, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

"Plan" means any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA (including a Pension Plan), maintained for employees of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or any such Plan to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is required to contribute on behalf of any of its employees.

"Pledge Agreements" means the Initial Pledge Agreements and each pledge agreement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.

"Pledged Collateral" means the Pledged Equity Interests.

"Pledged Equity Interests" means the Equity Interests subject to, and with respect to which a Lien is purported to be created under, each Pledge Agreement.

"Process Agent" means any Person appointed as agent by the Borrower, or any other Person to receive on behalf of itself and its property services of copies of summons and complaint or any other process which may be served in connection with any action or proceeding before any court arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents that is governed by the laws of the State of New York, to which it is a party, including CT Corporation.

"Pro Forma Effect" means with respect to any event or circumstance (including any:  (a) Disposition, (b) adverse litigation, (c) incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness, or (d) Investment, acquisition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation and discontinued operation), the effect of such event or circumstance as if such had occurred on the first day of the Measurement Period in which such event or circumstance occurred.

"Prohibited Person" means any Person (a) listed on, or owned 50% or more or controlled by a Person listed on, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, the Sectoral Sanctions Identification List and the List of Foreign Sanctions Evaders maintained by OFAC, the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and the Investment Ban List maintained by Her Majesty's Treasury, or any similar list maintained by, or public announcement of a Sanctions designation made by, a Sanctions Authority, or a Person acting on behalf of such a Person, (b) located or resident in or organized under the Laws of a Designated Jurisdiction, or owned 50% or more or controlled by, or acting on behalf of a Person located in or organized under the Laws of, a Designated Jurisdiction, or (c) who otherwise is, or is owned or controlled by a person who is, currently a subject or target of any Sanctions.

 

"Project" means property or other assets consisting of renewable energy, conventional power, electric transmission and water installation projects, in each case regardless of whether commercial or residential in nature.

"Project Obligations" means, as to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, any Contractual Obligation of such Person under power purchase agreements; agreements for the purchase and sale of energy and renewable energy credits, climate change levy exemption certificates, embedded benefits and other environmental attributes; decommissioning agreements; Tax indemnities; operation and maintenance agreements; leases; development contracts; construction contracts; management services contracts; share retention agreements; warranties; bylaws, operating agreements, joint development agreements and other organizational documents; and other similar ordinary course contracts entered into in connection with owning, operating, developing or constructing Projects.

"Qualified ECP Guarantor" means, at any time, each Loan Party with total assets exceeding U.S.$10,000,000 or that qualifies at such time as an "eligible contract participant" under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another person to qualify as an "eligible contract participant" at such time under § 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

"Qualifying Lender" means:

(a)           a Lender which is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Loan Document and is

(i)         a Lender:  (A) which is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) making an advance under a Loan Document and is within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance or would be within such charge as respects such payments apart from section 18A of the CTA; or (B) in respect of an advance made under a Loan Document by a person that was a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) at the time that that advance was made and within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance; or

(ii)        a Lender which is:  (A) a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax purposes; or (B) a partnership each member of which is (x) a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or (y) a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of section 17 of the CTA; or (C) a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) of that company; or

 

(iii)       a Treaty Lender; or

(b)           a Lender which is a building society (as defined for the purposes of section 880 of the ITA) making an advance under a Loan Document.

"Rating Agency" means any of S&P, Moody's or Fitch, any of their respective successors or, if any of the foregoing is not in existence, another internationally recognized rating agency which is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

"RBC" means Royal Bank of Canada.

"Recipient" means the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder.

"Refinance" means, in respect of any Indebtedness, to refinance, refund, replace, renew, repay, modify, restate, defer, substitute, supplement, reissue, resell or extend (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism); provided that the amount of such Indebtedness is not increased at the time of such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension except by an amount equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder and the direct or any contingent obligor with respect thereto is not changed, as a result of or in connection with such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension; provided, further, that the terms relating to principal amount, amortization, maturity, collateral (if any) and subordination (if any), and other material terms taken as a whole, of any such refinancing, refunding, renewing or extending Indebtedness, and of any agreement entered into and of any instrument issued in connection therewith, are no less favorable in any material respect to the Loan Parties or the Lenders than the terms of any agreement or instrument governing the Indebtedness being refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended and the interest rate applicable to any such refinancing, refunding, renewing or extending Indebtedness does not exceed the then applicable market interest rate; and provided, still further, that the terms "Refinances," "Refinanced" and "Refinancing" as used for any purpose in this Agreement shall have a correlative meaning.

"Refinancing Amendment" means an amendment to this Agreement executed by each of (a) the Borrower, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each additional Refinancing Lender and (d) each Lender that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Commitments or Refinancing Loans incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.15.

"Refinancing Commitments" means one or more classes of commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

"Refinancing Loans" means one or more classes of loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

 

"Regulation T" means Regulation T of the Board of Governors as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

"Regulation U" means Regulation U of the Board of Governors as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

"Regulation X" means Regulation X of the Board of Governors as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

"Related Parties" means, with respect to any Person, such Person's Affiliates and the administrators, managers, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and of such Person's Affiliates.

"Release" means any release, spill, emission, discharge, deposit, disposal, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, emptying, injection or leaching into the Environment, or into, from or through any building, structure or facility.

"Reportable Event" means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.

"Request for Credit Extension" means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, a Committed Loan Notice, and (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application.

"Required Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings and (b) aggregate unused Commitments; provided that the unused Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders; provided, further, that the amount of any participation in any Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the L/C Issuer in making such determination.

"Resignation, Assignment and Assumption Agreement" means the resignation, assignment and assumption agreement entered on or prior to the date hereof between the Borrower, HSBC Corporate Trustee Company (UK) Limited, as Resigning Collateral Agent, and the Collateral Agent.

"Responsible Officer" means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of a Loan Party and, solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01, in the case of a Loan Party incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, a director and, in the case of any other Loan Party, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party.  Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be prima facie presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be prima facie presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

 

"Restricted Payment" means (a) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to any Person's stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent of any thereof), or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such dividend or other distribution or payment or (b) any payment made to service intercompany Indebtedness incurred by an Affiliate of the Borrower that is not a Loan Party.

"Sanctions" means any trade, economic or financial sanctions Laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by any of the Sanctions Authorities.

"Sanctions Authorities" means:

(a)           the United States government;

(b)           the United Nations;

(c)           the European Union;

(d)           the United Kingdom; or

(e)           the respective Governmental Authorities of any of the foregoing, including OFAC, the United Nations Security Council, the United States Department of State and Her Majesty's Treasury.

"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw‑Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

"Secured Obligations" means the Obligations, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided that the Secured Obligations shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations.

"Secured Parties" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, and the other Persons the Secured Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.

 

"Securities Account Control Agreements" means each securities account control agreement entered into by a Loan Party, the Collateral Agent, and the applicable securities intermediary party thereto.

"Senior Notes" means the 7.000% senior notes due 2019 issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2014, among the Borrower, as issuer, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, outstanding as of the date hereof in the amount of U.S.$255,000,000.

"Solvent" and "Solvency" mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person's ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person's property would constitute an unreasonably small capital, (e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary course of business and (f) in the case of a Person which is a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, that Person is not deemed unable to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 of the United Kingdom (as amended from time to time).  The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

"Spanish Guarantor" means each Guarantor that is organized under Spanish law.

"Specified Loan Party" means any Loan Party that is not an "eligible contract participant" under the Commodity Exchange Act (determined prior to giving effect to Section 10.11).

"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 specified, all references herein to a "Subsidiary" or to "Subsidiaries" shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

"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, which 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 Obligation" means with respect to any Guarantor any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a "swap" within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

"Tax Confirmation" means, with respect to the Borrower, a confirmation by a Lender that the person beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Loan Document is either (i) a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax purposes; or (ii) a partnership each member of which is (A) a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or (B) a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of section 17 of the CTA; or (iii) a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) of that company.

"Tax Deduction" means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Loan Document.

"Taxes" means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

"Threshold Amount" means U.S.$100,000,000.

"Total Credit Exposure" means, as to any Lender at any time, the unused Commitments and aggregate principal amount of outstanding Loans of such Lender at such time.

"Total Outstandings" means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.

"Treaty Lender" means, with respect to the Borrower, a Lender that:  (a) is treated as a resident of a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement with the United Kingdom that makes provision for full exemption from tax on payments of interest imposed by the United Kingdom (a "Treaty"), (b) does not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment with which that Lender's participation in the Loan is effectively connected and (c) meets all other conditions in the relevant Treaty for full exemption from Taxes imposed by the United Kingdom on interest, provided that for these purposes it shall be assumed that all procedural formalities have been completed.

 

"Type" means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, "UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

"UCP" means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

"UK Insolvency Proceeding" means any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step taken in relation to (i) the suspension of payments, any moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administering or reorganization (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise); (ii) a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement; (iii) the appointment of any administrator, receiver, administrative receiver, compulsory manager, liquidator or other similar officer; or (iv) the enforcement of any security over any assets provided that the making of any winding up petition which is frivolous and vexatious and is discharged, stayed or dismissed within 14 days of commencement shall not constitute a UK Insolvency Proceeding.

"United Kingdom" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

"United States" and "U.S." mean the United States of America.

"U.S. Tax Obligor" means a Loan Party some or all of whose payments under the Loan Documents are from sources within the U.S. for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

"VAT" means (a) any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and (b) any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in clause (a) above, or imposed elsewhere.

"Voting Rights" means the right generally to vote at a general meeting of shareholders of the Borrower (irrespective of whether or not, at the time, stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency).

"Write-Down and Conversion Powers" means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

1.02         Other Interpretive Provisions.  With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

 

(a)           The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.  Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.  The words "include," "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation."  The word "will" shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word "shall."  Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or ratified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements, modifications or ratifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person's successors and assigns, (iii) the words "hereto," "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder," and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words "asset" and "property" shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

(b)           In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word "from" means "from and including," the words "to" and "until" each mean "to but excluding," and the word "through" means "to and including."

(c)           Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

1.03         Accounting Terms.

(a)           Generally.  All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, IFRS 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, 2016, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof.

 

(b)           Changes in IFRS.  If at any time any change in IFRS would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in IFRS (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (A) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with IFRS prior to such change therein and (B) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in IFRS.

1.04         Rounding.  Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower pursuant to this 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).

1.05         Times of Day; Rates.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern Time.  The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of "Eurodollar Rate" or with respect to any comparable or successor rate thereto.

1.06         Currency Equivalents Generally.  Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II and IX) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount thereof in the applicable currency to be determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (as defined below) for the purchase of such currency with Dollars.  For purposes of this Section 1.06, the "Spot Rate" for a currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date that is two (2) Business Days prior to the date of such determination; provided that the Administrative Agent may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by 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.

 

1.07         Letter of Credit Amounts.  Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document 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 maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.

 

ARTICLE II

THE COMMITMENTS AND BORROWINGS

2.01         The Loans.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a "Loan") to the Borrower from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender's Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Borrowing, the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Facility.  Within the limits of each Lender's Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01, prepay under Section 2.04, and reborrow under this Section 2.01.  Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.  Each Borrowing shall be made on a pro rata basis as among the Lenders.

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 Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower's irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by a Committed Loan Notice.  Each such Committed Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m.  (A) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans, and (B) two (2) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans.  Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans thereunder shall be in a principal amount of U.S.$5,000,000 or a whole multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof.  Each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans thereunder shall be in a principal amount of U.S.$500,000 or a whole multiple of U.S.$100,000 in excess thereof.  Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (I) whether the Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (II) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (III) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (IV) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted, and (V) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto.  If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the 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 Eurodollar Rate Loans.  If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed 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 Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage under the Facility of the Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Eurodollar Rate Loans described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of a Borrowing, each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent's Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice.  Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Borrowing, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall promptly make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of 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 the Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given by the Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made available to the Borrower as provided above.

 

(c)            Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan.  During the existence of a Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders.

(d)           The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in the Administrative Agent's prime rate used in determining the Base Rate no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date after the public announcement of such change.

(e)           After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than ten (10) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Facility.

2.03         Letters of Credit.

 

(a)           The Letter of Credit Commitment.

(i)            Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower or its Affiliates, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with subsection (b) below, and (2) to honor drawings under such Letters of Credit made in accordance with the terms thereof; and (B) the Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower or its Affiliates and any drawings thereunder in accordance with the terms thereof; provided that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (x) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments and (y) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit.  Each request by the Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Borrower that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower's ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and fully reimbursed.

 

(ii)           No L/C Issuer shall issue any Letter of Credit if the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Required Lenders have approved such expiry date.

(iii)          No L/C Issuer shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:

(A)      any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer from issuing the Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or the Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to the Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the date hereof, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the date hereof and which such L/C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;

(B)       except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and such L/C Issuer, the Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $100,000;

(C)       the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of such L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally;

(D)      such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars; or

(E)       a default of any Lender's obligations to fund under Section 2.03(c) exists or any Lender is at such time a Defaulting Lender hereunder.

(iv)          No L/C Issuer shall amend any Letter of Credit if  (A) such L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue the Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.

Each 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 each L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term "Administrative Agent" as used in Article IX included such L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuers.

 

(b)           Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of Credit.

(i)            Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Borrower delivered to the applicable 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 of the Borrower.  Such Letter of Credit Application may be sent by facsimile, by e-mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided by the applicable L/C Issuer, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer.  Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least three (3) Business Days 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 applicable L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof (including a final expiration date in case of an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit); (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; (G) the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) to the extent the relevant Letter of Credit shall be issued in respect of an Affiliate of the Borrower that is not a Guarantor or a Material Non-Recourse Subsidiary, all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable "know your customer" and anti‑money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, in respect of such Affiliate, which documentation shall be satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer in its sole discretion.  In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify (A) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (D) such other matters as the applicable L/C Issuer may require.

(ii)           Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the applicable 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 the Borrower and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.  Unless the applicable L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one (1) Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the applicable L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrower (or the applicable Affiliate) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with such L/C Issuer's usual and customary business practices.  Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the applicable L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Lender's Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.

 

(iii)          If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an "Auto-Extension Letter of Credit"); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the applicable L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve (12) 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 "Non-Extension Notice Date") in each such twelve (12) month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued.  Unless otherwise directed by the applicable L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to such L/C Issuer for any such extension.  Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the applicable L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that the applicable L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) such L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven (7) Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing such L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.

(iv)          If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that permits the automatic reinstatement of all or a portion of the stated amount thereof after any drawing thereunder (each, an "Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit").  Unless otherwise directed by the applicable L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the applicable L/C Issuer to permit such reinstatement.  Once an Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit has been issued, except as provided in the following sentence, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the applicable L/C Issuer to reinstate all or a portion of the stated amount thereof in accordance with the provisions of such Letter of Credit.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if such Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit permits the applicable L/C Issuer to decline to reinstate all or any portion of the stated amount thereof after a drawing thereunder by giving notice of such non-reinstatement within a specified number of days after such drawing (the "Non-Reinstatement Deadline"), the applicable L/C Issuer shall not permit such reinstatement if it has received a notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven (7) Business Days before the Non-Reinstatement Deadline (A) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Lenders have elected not to permit such reinstatement or (B) from the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied (treating such reinstatement as an L/C Credit Extension for purposes of this clause) and, in each case, directing the applicable L/C Issuer not to permit such reinstatement.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no amount drawn under any Letter of Credit may be reinstated if after giving effect to such reinstatement: (x) the Total Outstanding will exceed the Aggregate Commitments or (y) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations exceeds the Letters of Credit Sublimit.

 

(v)           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 applicable L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.

(c)           Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.

(i)            Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof.  Not later than 11:00 a.m. on the date which is three (3) Business Days following the date of any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an "Honor Date"), the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing.  Interest shall be payable on any such amounts from the date on which the relevant drawing is made until reimbursement in full at a rate equal to (i) until the third succeeding Business Day following the date of the relevant notice, the Applicable Rate then in effect and (ii) thereafter, the Default Rate.  If the Borrower fails to so reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the "Unreimbursed Amount"), and the amount of such Lender's Applicable Percentage thereof.  In such event, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Borrowing of 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, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice).  Any notice given by the applicable L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(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.

(ii)           Each Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer at the Administrative Agent's Office in an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the applicable L/C Issuer.

 

(iii)          With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the applicable 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 Lender's payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(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 2.03.

(iv)          Until each Lender funds its Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender's Applicable Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer.

(v)           Each Lender's obligation to make Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse any L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against any L/C Issuer, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default; or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Lender's obligation to make Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice).  No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.

(vi)          If any Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, the applicable 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 such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by such L/C Issuer in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing.  If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender's Loan included in the relevant Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be.  A certificate of the applicable L/C Issuer submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

(d)           Repayment of Participations.

(i)            At any time after any L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Lender such Lender's L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

(ii)           If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of any L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 11.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the applicable L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer its Applicable Percentage thereof on written demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect.  The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(e)           Obligations Absolute.  The obligation of the Borrower to reimburse any 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 Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:

(i)            any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other Loan Document;

(ii)           the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries 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), any L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;

(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;

 

(iv)          waiver by the applicable L/C Issuer of any requirement that exists for such L/C Issuer's protection and not the protection of the Borrower or any waiver by such L/C Issuer which does not in fact materially prejudice the Borrower;

(v)           honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such Letter of Credit requires that demand be in the form of a draft;

(vi)          any payment made by the applicable L/C Issuer in respect of an otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by which documents must be received under, such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the UCC, ISP or the UCP, as applicable;

(vii)         any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by such 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; or

(viii)        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, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

The Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Borrower's instructions or other irregularity, the Borrower will immediately notify the applicable L/C Issuer.  The Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the applicable L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.

(f)            Role of L/C Issuer.  Each Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, no L/C Issuer shall 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 Issuers, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties or any correspondent, participant or assignee of any L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required 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 Issuer Document.  The 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 the Borrower's pursuing 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 Issuers, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties or any correspondent, participant or assignee of any L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (viii) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower may have a claim against a L/C Issuer, and such L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which the Borrower proves were caused by such L/C Issuer's willful misconduct or gross negligence.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, any 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 no L/C Issuer shall 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, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.  Any L/C Issuer may send a Letter of Credit or conduct any communication to or from the beneficiary via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ("SWIFT") message or overnight courier, or any other commercially reasonable means of communicating with a beneficiary.

 

Any L/C Issuer may resign at any time by giving thirty (30) days' prior notice to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower.  After the resignation of an L/C Issuer hereunder, the retiring L/C Issuer shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an L/C Issuer under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such resignation, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit or to extend, renew or increase any existing Letter of Credit.

(g)           Applicability of ISP; Limitation of Liability.  Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit and, as to all matters not governed thereby, the laws of the State of New York.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no L/C Issuer shall be responsible to the Borrower for, and no L/C Issuer's rights and remedies against the Borrower shall be impaired by, any action or inaction of such L/C Issuer required or permitted under any law, order or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where such L/C Issuer or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP, or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade - International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such law or practice.

(h)           Letter of Credit Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a Letter of Credit fee (the "Letter of Credit Fee") for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate then in effect per annum times the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit.  For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.07.  Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and (ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.

 

(i)             Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer.  The Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee equal to 0.25% per annum calculated on the basis of the undrawn portion of the amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit outstanding for the period during which such Letter of Credit is outstanding.  Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the tenth (10th) Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in respect of the most recently ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand.  For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.07.  In addition, the Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other reasonable and documented processing fees, and other reasonable and documented standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect.  Such reasonable and documented customary fees and standard costs and charges shall be due and payable no later than ten (10) Business Days after demand therefor and are nonrefundable.

(j)             Conflict with Issuer Documents.  In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.

(k)            Letters of Credit Issued for Affiliates.  Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, an Affiliate, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit.  Each of the Borrower and the Guarantors hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Affiliates of the Borrower inures to the benefit of the Borrower and the Guarantors, and that each of the Borrower's and the Guarantors' business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Affiliates.

(l)             Cash Collateral.

(i)            Certain Credit Support Events.  If (A) any L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing, (B) as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, (C) the Borrower shall be required to provide Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 8.02(c), or (D) any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender, the Borrower shall immediately (in the case of clause (C) above) or within one (1) Business Day (in all other cases) following any written request by the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer, provide Cash Collateral in an amount not less than the applicable Minimum Collateral Amount (determined, in the case of Cash Collateral provided pursuant to clause (D) above, after giving effect to Section 2.13(a)(iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender); provided that, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (x) the Borrower shall only be required to provide Cash Collateral if such action will not result in a breach of any of its Contractual Obligations existing as of the date hereof and identified in Schedule 5.24 that remain in effect and (y) if providing Cash Collateral will result in a breach of any of the Borrower's Contractual Obligations existing as of the date hereof and identified in Schedule 5.24 that remain in effect, then the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent promptly, and in any event no later than three (3) Business Days from the date the event described above has occurred, an Officer's Certificate certifying the foregoing and providing reasonable detail of the Contractual Obligations of the Borrower that would be breached if it were to provide such Cash Collateral (such certificate, the "Cash Collateral Certificate").  Additionally, if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower at any time that the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit then in effect, then, within two (2) Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall provide Cash Collateral for the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations in an amount not less than the amount by which the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit, to the extent only the Borrower is not otherwise prevented from providing such Cash Collateral pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

(ii)           Grant of Security Interest.  The Borrower, and to the extent provided by any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, hereby grants to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders, and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.03(l)(iii).  If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or any L/C Issuer as herein provided or the depositary or intermediary institution in respect of such Cash Collateral and the relevant Controlled Accounts, or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the Minimum Collateral Amount, the Borrower will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency.  All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in one or more Controlled Accounts at RBC.  The Borrower shall pay promptly upon written demand therefor from time to time all customary account opening, activity and other reasonable and documented administrative fees and charges in connection with the maintenance and disbursement of Cash Collateral.

(iii)          Application.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, Cash Collateral provided under this Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, 2.13 or 8.02 in respect of Letters of Credit shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may otherwise be provided for herein.

 

(iv)          Release.  Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or to secure other obligations shall be released promptly (i) following the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 11.06(b)(vi))) or (ii) if there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided, however, the Borrower and the applicable L/C Issuer may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.

2.04         Prepayments.

 

(a)            Optional.  Subject to the last sentence of this Section 2.04(a), the Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent by the delivery of a Prepayment Notice substantially in the form of Exhibit J, at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay  Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (i) such notice must be in a form acceptable to the Administrative Agent and be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 9:30 a.m. (A) three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (B) two (2) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (ii) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of U.S.$5,000,000 or a whole multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (iii) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of U.S.$500,000 or a whole multiple of U.S.$100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding.  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurodollar Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender's ratable portion of such prepayment (based on such Lender's Applicable Percentage).  If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.  Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05.  Each prepayment of the outstanding Loans shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of the Facility.

(b)           Mandatory.

(i)      In case of receipt by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Non-Recourse Subsidiary or Immaterial Subsidiary) of any Net Disposition Proceeds, within thirty (30) days after receipt of such Net Disposition Proceeds, such Loan Party shall deliver a written notice to the Administrative Agent confirming whether it will, or will cause such Subsidiary to:

(A)      apply such Net Disposition Proceeds within a twelve (12) month period after the receipt of such Net Disposition Proceeds to prepay the Loans, or repurchase, repay, redeem or prepay Indebtedness of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, in which case, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary shall (and the Loan Parties shall cause such Subsidiaries to) apply such Net Disposition Proceeds in accordance with the foregoing within the period referred to herein; or

 

(B)       invest such Net Disposition Proceeds within a twelve (12)-month period after the receipt of such Net Disposition Proceeds (which period may be extended for up to six (6) months thereafter if such Loan Party or such Subsidiary has entered into binding commitments with respect thereto with an unaffiliated third party) in assets of the general type used by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in their line of business, in which case, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary shall (and the Loan Parties shall cause such Subsidiaries to) apply such Net Disposition Proceeds in accordance with the foregoing within the period referred to herein,

provided that in the event the relevant Loan Party fails to deliver such notice in the relevant period set forth in clause (b)(i) above, such Loan Party shall apply, or cause the relevant Subsidiary to apply, such Net Disposition Proceeds to prepay the Loans, or repurchase, repay, redeem or prepay Indebtedness of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof within the twelve (12) months after receipt of such Net Disposition Proceeds.

(ii)     In case of receipt by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Non-Recourse Subsidiary or Immaterial Subsidiary) of any Net Debt Incurrence Proceeds, such Loan Party shall, or shall cause such Subsidiary to, prepay the Loans, or repurchase, repay, redeem or prepay Indebtedness of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (and, to the extent provided herein, Cash Collateralize L/C Obligations), at the election of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, on the fifth (5th) Business Day succeeding the day of receipt of such Net Debt Incurrence Proceeds by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, in an amount equal to such Net Debt Incurrence Proceeds. Prepayments of the Loans made pursuant to this clause (ii) shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.04(b)(iv).

(iii)    If for any reason the Total Outstandings at any time exceed the Facility at such time, the Borrower shall immediately prepay Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (other than the L/C Borrowings) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.

(iv)    Prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.04(b) shall be applied, first, to the New Loans held by all New Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (allocated to principal repayment installments thereof as set forth in the applicable Joinder Agreement) (other than in the case of a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.04(b)(iii), in which case such prepayment will be applied first to the following clause second (and shall not be applied to clause first)), second, to the L/C Borrowings, third, ratably to the outstanding Loans and New Loans held by all Lenders and New Lenders, respectively, in accordance with their Applicable Percentages, and, fourth, to Cash Collateralize the remaining L/C Obligations.  Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit that has been Cash Collateralized, the funds held as Cash Collateral shall be applied (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer or the Lenders, as applicable.  Amounts to be applied pursuant to this Section 2.04(b) to the mandatory prepayment of New Loans, Refinancing Loans and Loans shall be applied, as applicable, first to reduce outstanding Base Rate Loans and any amounts remaining after such application shall be applied to prepay Eurodollar Rate Loans.

 

2.05         Termination or Reduction of Commitments.

 

(a)            Optional.  The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the Facility, or from time to time permanently reduce the Facility; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 9:30 a.m. five (5) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of U.S.$10,000,000 or any whole multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof, and (iii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce (A) the Facility if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Outstandings would exceed the Facility or (B) the Letter of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit.

(b)           Mandatory.  The Commitments of each of the Facilities shall be automatically, permanently and ratably reduced on each date on which a prepayment of the Loans is actually made pursuant to Section 2.04(b)(i) by an amount equal to the sum of the principal of the Loans outstanding so prepaid.  If after giving effect to any reduction or termination of the Commitments under this Section 2.05(b), the Letter of Credit Sublimit exceeds the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized pursuant to Section 2.03(l), the Letter of Credit Sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.

(c)           Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of the Commitments under this Section 2.05.  Upon any reduction of the Commitments, the Commitment of each Lender shall be reduced by such Lender's Applicable Percentage of such reduction amount.  All fees in respect of the Facility accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Facility shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.

2.06         Repayment of Loans.  The Borrower shall repay to the Lenders on the Maturity Date the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding on such date.

2.07         Interest.

 

(a)           Subject to the provisions of Section 2.07(b), (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan under the Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; and (ii) each Base Rate Loan under the Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.

 

(ii)            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.

(d)           If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Borrower or for any other reason, the Borrower or the Lenders determine that (i) the Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Borrower as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the Borrower shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or the L/C Issuers, as the case may be, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period.  This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under Section 2.03(c)(vi), 2.03(i) or 2.07(b) or under Article VIII.  The Borrower's obligations under this paragraph shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.

2.08         Fees.

 

(a)            Commitment Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender in accordance with its Applicable Percentage, a commitment fee equal to the rate per annum set forth in the table below under the caption "Commitment Fee Rate" opposite the Leverage Ratio for the Measurement Period most recently ended prior to the relevant Commitment Fee Payment Date, times the actual daily amount by which the Facility exceeds the Total Outstandings, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.13.  The commitment fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the date of this Agreement, and on the last day of the Availability Period (each such date, a "Commitment Fee Payment Date").

 

Any increase or decrease in the commitment fees resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day following the date on which financial statements are delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (x) until the date on which the Administrative Agent receives financial statements for the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ending on June 30, 2018, Pricing Level 2 set forth above shall apply and (y) in the event the Borrower fails to deliver to the Administrative Agent financial statements pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, Pricing Level 4 set forth above shall apply until the date such financial statements have been delivered.

(b)           Other Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners and the Agents for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letters.  Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

2.09         Computation of Interest and Fees.  All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans (including Base Rate Loans determined by reference to the Eurodollar 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 then if computed on the basis of a 365-day year).  Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one day.  Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be prima facie evidence of the interest rate or fee.

 

2.10         Evidence of Debt.  The Loans 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 Loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon.  Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.  Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lender's Loans in addition to such accounts or records.  Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

 

2.11         Payments Generally; Administrative Agent's Clawback.

 

(a)           General.  All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent's Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein.  The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage in respect of the Facility (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender's Lending Office.  All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.  If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in the computation of interest or fees, as the case may be.

(b)           (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount.  In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans.  If the Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period.  If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender's Loan included in such Borrowing.  Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

 

(ii)           Payments by Borrower; Presumptions by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the time at which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the L/C Issuers hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the L/C Issuers, as the case may be, the amount due.  In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the L/C Issuers, as the case may be, severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on written demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be prima facie evidence of the amount.

(c)           Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent.  If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Borrowing set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

(d)           Obligations of Lenders Several.  The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c) are several and not joint.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to make any payment under Section 11.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 11.04(c).

(e)           Funding Source.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(f)            Insufficient Funds.  If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, (ii) second, toward payment of principal then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal then due to such parties, and (iii) third, costs and expenses of the Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners and the Lenders (including fees, charges and disbursements of the advisors and, subject to Section 11.04(a), counsel to any of the Lenders).

 

2.12         Sharing of Payments by Lenders.  If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a) Obligations due and payable to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Parties at such time) of payment on account of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (x) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (y) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of Obligations then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be, provided that:

 

(i)      if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and

(ii)     the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), or (y) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than an assignment to the Borrower or any Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section shall apply).

Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable Law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan Party in the amount of such participation.

2.13         Defaulting Lenders.

 

(a)           Adjustments.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:

 

(i)      Waivers and Amendments.  Such Defaulting Lender's right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in Section 11.01 and in the definition of "Required Lenders".

(ii)     Defaulting Lender Waterfall.  Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 11.09 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment of any amount owing by such Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuers; third, so long as no Cash Collateral Certificate has been delivered to the Administrative Agent (and to the extent only such Cash Collateral Certificate has not been rescinded by the Borrower) to Cash Collateralize each L/C Issuer's Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 2.03(l); fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to (x) satisfy such Defaulting Lender's potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) so long as no Cash Collateral Certificate has been delivered to the Administrative Agent (and to the extent only such Cash Collateral Certificate has not been rescinded by the Borrower), Cash Collateralize each L/C Issuer's future Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.03(l); sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender's breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender's breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Obligations owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Obligations owed to, such Defaulting Lender until such time as all Loans and funded and unfunded participations in L/C Obligations are held by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Commitments hereunder.  Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.13(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

 

(iii)  Fees.

(A)      No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any fee payable under Section 2.08(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).

(B)       Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive Letter of Credit Fees for any period during which such Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent allocable to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the stated amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.03(l).

(C)       With respect to any Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above, the Borrower shall (x) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender that portion of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender's participation in L/C Obligations that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iv) below, (y) pay to each L/C Issuer the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to such L/C Issuer's Fronting Exposure to such Defaulting Lender and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.

(iv)    Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure.  All or any part of such Defaulting Lender's participation in L/C Obligations shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender's Commitment) but only to the extent that (x) the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless the Borrower shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such conditions are satisfied at such time) and (y) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate credit exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender's Commitment.  No reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender's increased exposure following such reallocation.

(b)           Defaulting Lender Cure.  If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages, whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Non-Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender's having been a Defaulting Lender.

 

2.14         Increase in Commitments.

(a)           The Borrower may by written notice to Administrative Agent elect to request, prior to the Maturity Date, an increase to the existing Commitments (any such increase, the "New Commitments") by an amount not in excess of U.S.$85,000,000 in the aggregate. Such New Commitments shall not be less than U.S.$10,000,000 individually (or such lesser amount which shall be approved by Administrative Agent), and shall be in integral multiples of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess of that amount. Each such notice shall specify (A) the date (each, an "Increased Amount Date") on which the Borrower proposes that the New Commitments shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than (10) Business Days after the date on which such notice is delivered to Administrative Agent, and (B) the identity of each Lender or other Person that is an Eligible Assignee (each, a "New Lender") to whom the Borrower proposes any portion of such New Commitments be allocated and the amounts of such allocations; provided any Lender approached to provide all or a portion of the New Commitments, may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a New Commitment; provided, further, that any New Lender shall be acceptable to the Administrative Agent. Such New Commitments shall become effective as of such Increased Amount Date; provided that (1) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on such Increased Amount Date immediately prior to or after giving effect to such New Commitments; (2) both immediately prior to and after giving effect to such New Commitments each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall be satisfied; (3) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11 both as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter and immediately after giving effect to such New Commitments; (4) the New Commitments shall be effected pursuant to one or more joinder agreements substantially in the form of Exhibit G (a "Joinder Agreement") executed and delivered by the Borrower, the New Lender and Administrative Agent, and each of which shall be recorded in the Register and each New Lender shall be subject to the requirements set forth in Section 3.01; and (5) the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered any legal opinions or other documents of the type specified in Section 4.01 reasonably requested by Administrative Agent in connection with any such New Commitment.

(b)           On any Increased Amount Date on which New Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (a) each of the Lenders shall assign to each of the New Lenders, and each of the New Lenders shall purchase from each of the Lenders, at the principal amount thereof (together with accrued interest), such interest in the Loans outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Loans will be held by existing Lenders and New Lenders ratably in accordance with their Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Commitments to the Commitments, (b) each New Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Commitment and each Loan made thereunder (a "New Loan") shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Loan and (c) each New Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the New Commitment and all matters relating thereto.

 

2.15         Refinancing Facilities.

(a)            On one or more occasions after the Closing Date, the Borrower may obtain, from any Lender or any other bank, financial institution or other institutional lender or investor that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Commitments pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15 (each, an "Additional Refinancing Lender") (provided that Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have consented (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed unless a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) to such Lender's or Additional Refinancing Lender's providing such Refinancing Commitments to the extent such consent, if any, would be required under Section 11.06 for an assignment of Loans or Commitments, as applicable, to such Lender or Additional Refinancing Lender), Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of all or any portion of Loans (which, for the purposes of this Section, shall include Refinancing Loans) (or unused Commitments (which, for purposes of this Section, shall include Refinancing Commitments)) then outstanding under this Agreement, in the form of Refinancing Commitments or Refinancing Loans pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15 or otherwise, (i) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Refinancing Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the Refinancing Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments (subject to clause (iii) below)) of Loans with respect to Refinancing Commitments after the date of obtaining any Refinancing Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Commitments, (ii) the permanent repayment of Loans with respect to, and termination of, Refinancing Commitments after the date of obtaining any Refinancing Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Commitments, (iii) assignments and participations of Refinancing Commitments and Refinancing Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Commitments and Loans, (iv) the Refinancing Loans may have different amortization payments and maturity dates than the other Loans and the Refinancing Commitments may have longer (but not shorter) availability periods than the Availability Period; provided that the final maturity date and weighted average life to maturity of such Refinancing Loans shall not be prior to or shorter than that applicable to the Loans being refinanced thereby, (v) all other terms applicable to such Refinancing Loans and Refinancing Commitments (other than provisions relating to original issue discount, upfront fees and interest rates, which shall be as agreed between the Borrower and the Refinancing Lenders providing such Refinancing Loans and Refinancing Commitments) shall be identical to the terms applicable to the Loans and Commitments, respectively, being refinanced thereby (except to the extent such covenants and other terms (A) apply solely to any period after the latest stated final maturity of the Loans in effect on the Refinancing Effective Date immediately prior to the borrowing of such Refinancing Loans and the incurrence of such Refinancing Commitments or (B) are otherwise added for the benefit of the other Lenders hereunder), (vi) the proceeds of Refinancing Loans and the Refinancing Commitments shall be applied, substantially concurrently with the incurrence thereof, to the refinancing of the outstanding Loans and Commitments so refinanced, and (vii) the principal amount of Refinancing Loans and the Refinancing Commitments does not exceed the principal amount of Loans and Commitments, respectively, being refinanced thereby except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other amounts owing or unpaid related to such Loans and Commitments being refinanced and fees and expenses incurred in connection with such refinancing (including, underwriting, commitment, syndication and similar fees).

 

(b)           The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 and, to the extent reasonably requested by Administrative Agent, receipt by Administrative Agent of (i) customary legal opinions, board resolutions and officers' certificates consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date other than changes to such legal opinion resulting from a change in law, change in fact or change to counsel's form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Collateral Documents as may be reasonably requested by Administrative Agent in order to ensure that such Refinancing Indebtedness is provided with the benefit of the applicable Loan Documents.

(c)           Each issuance of Refinancing Indebtedness under Section 2.15(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (x) not less than U.S.$5,000,000 and (y) an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof.

(d)           Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to (i) reflect the existence and terms of the Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto and (ii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.15, including any amendments necessary to treat the applicable Loans and/or Commitments established under the Refinancing Amendment as a new class of Loans and/or Commitments hereunder, and the Lenders hereby expressly authorize Administrative Agent to enter into any such Refinancing Amendment.

 

ARTICLE III

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

3.01         Taxes.

 

(a)            Payments Free of Taxes; Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes.

(i)      Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Laws.  If any applicable Laws (as determined in the good faith discretion of any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent) require the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to make any such deduction or withholding.

(ii)     If any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by any applicable Laws (including the Code) to withhold or deduct any Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as required by such Laws, shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by it to be required, (B) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, to the extent required by such Laws, shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with such Laws, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.

(b)           Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties.  Without limiting the provisions of clause (a) above, the Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c)           Tax Indemnifications.

(i)      The Borrower shall indemnify each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be prima facie evidence.

 

(ii)     Each Lender shall, and does hereby, severally indemnify, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten (10) days after written demand therefor, (x) the Administrative Agent against any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (y) the Administrative Agent and the Loan Parties, as applicable, against any Taxes attributable to such Lender's failure to comply with the provisions of Section 11.06(d) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Loan Parties, as applicable, against any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or a Loan Party in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be prima facie evidence.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this Section 3.01(c)(ii).

(d)           Evidence of Payments.  As soon as reasonably practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party or by the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Borrower, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be.

(e)            Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation.

(i)      Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding.  In addition, the Borrower and the relevant Lender (at the reasonable written request of the Borrower) shall co-operate promptly in completing any procedural formalities necessary for the Borrower to obtain authorization to make a payment without a Tax Deduction.  In addition, each Lender shall promptly deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.

 

(ii)     Each party shall, at the time or times reasonably requested in writing by another party to this Agreement:  (A) supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other party requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA; and (B) supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status as that other party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other party's compliance with any similar law, regulation, or exchange of information regime.  Solely for purposes of this clause (ii), "FATCA" shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

(iii)    Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 3.01 (or was treated as having delivered) expires or becomes inaccurate, incorrect or obsolete, it shall promptly update such form or certification, or notify in writing the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of the change to the information, or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(iv)    Without limiting the generality of Section 3.01(e)(i), each Lender which becomes a Lender under this Agreement after the date of this Agreement shall indicate in the Assignment and Assumption which it executes on becoming a Lender which of the following categories it falls in:  (A) not a Qualifying Lender; (B) a Qualifying Lender (other than a Treaty Lender); or (C) a Treaty Lender.

(v)     Nothing in this Section 3.01(e) shall require a Treaty Lender to:

(A)      register under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme; or

(B)       apply the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme to any Loan if it has so registered.

(vi)    A Treaty Lender which becomes a Lender on the day on which this Agreement is entered into that holds a passport under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme, and which wishes that scheme to apply to this Agreement, shall include an indication to that effect by including its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence opposite its name in Schedule 2.01 and any such passport holder that becomes a Lender after the date of this Agreement and wishes the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme to apply shall give an indication to that effect in the Assignment and Assumption and include its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence in such Assignment and Assumption, and, having done so, that Lender shall be under no obligation pursuant to Section 3.01(e)(i) above, unless:

(A)      the Borrower has made a duly completed DTTP2 filing but:

(1)          the DTTP2 filing has been rejected by HMRC;

(2)          HMRC has not given the Borrower authority to make payments to that Lender without a Tax Deduction within sixty (60) days of the date of the DTTP2 filing; or

 

(B)       HMRC gave but subsequently withdrew authority for the Borrower to make payments to that Lender without a Tax Deduction or such authority has otherwise terminated or expired or is due to otherwise terminate or expire within the next three (3) months,

and in each case, the Borrower has notified that Lender in writing, and such Lender and the Borrower shall co-operate in completing any additional procedural formalities necessary for the Borrower to obtain authorization to make that payment without a Tax Deduction.

(vii)   Where a Lender includes the indication described in Section 3.01(e)(vi) above in Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption, the Borrower shall, to the extent that that Lender is a Lender under a Loan made available to the Borrower, file a duly completed form DTTP2 in respect of such Lender with the HMRC within thirty (30) days of the date of this Agreement or date of assignment, as appropriate, and shall promptly provide the Lender with a copy of that filing.

(viii)  If a Lender has not included an indication to the effect that it wishes the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme to apply to this Agreement in accordance with Section 3.01(e)(vi) above, the Borrower shall not file any form relating to the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme in respect of that Lender's Loan unless the Lender otherwise agrees.

(ix)     If a Loan Party is a U.S. Tax Obligor or the Administrative Agent reasonably believes that its obligations under FATCA or any other applicable law or regulation require it, each Lender shall, within ten (10) Business Days of (A) where a Loan Party is a U.S. Tax Obligor, the date on which the relevant Lender becomes a party to this Agreement or (b) where a Loan Party is not a U.S. Tax Obligor, the date of a request from the Administrative Agent, supply to the Administrative Agent: (1) a withholding certificate on an applicable and properly completed Internal Revenue Service Form W-8, Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or any other relevant form; or (2) any withholding statement or other document, authorization, information or waiver as the Administrative Agent may require to certify or establish the status of such Lender under FATCA or any other Law or regulation.

(x)     The Administrative Agent shall provide any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorization or waiver it receives from a Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(e)(ix) above to the relevant Loan Party.

(xi)     If any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorization or waiver provided to the Administrative Agent by a Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(e)(ix) above is or becomes expired, inaccurate, obsolete or incomplete, that Lender shall promptly update it and provide such updated withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorization or waiver to the Administrative Agent unless it is unlawful for the Lender to do so (in which case the Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent in writing).  The Administrative Agent shall provide any such updated withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorization or waiver to the relevant Loan Party.

 

(f)            Treatment of Certain Refunds.  Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender.  If any Recipient determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Loan Party or with respect to which any Loan Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall pay to the Loan Party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by a Loan Party under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all Taxes and reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Recipient, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Loan Party, upon the request of the Recipient, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Loan Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Recipient in the event the Recipient is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the applicable Recipient be required to pay any amount to the Loan Party pursuant to this clause (f) the payment of which would place the Recipient in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Recipient would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  This clause (f) shall not be construed to require any Recipient to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to any Loan Party or any other Person.

(g)           Survival.  Each party's obligations under this Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.

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 Loans whose interest is determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (a) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended, and (b) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurodollar Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurodollar Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurodollar Rate component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurodollar Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate.  Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.