UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM
CURRENT REPORT
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. (“SWI”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”). On July 30, 2024, SWI as lead borrower, the Company as guarantor and other subsidiaries of the Company, each as borrowers, and PLC Agent LLC (the “Pathlight Agent”), as administrative and collateral agent for various lenders affiliated with Pathlight Capital (the “ABL Lenders”), entered into an ABL Term Loan Credit Agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”). The Term Loan Agreement provides for a senior secured term loan credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $45,000,000, consisting of $25,000,000 in initial ABL term loans that were made by the ABL Lenders on July 30, 2024 and $20,000,000 in delayed draw ABL term loans. The $25,000,000 in proceeds from the initial ABL term loans were used to repay obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement described below. After giving effect to the repayment, we had outstanding borrowings of approximately $136.7 million under the Amended Credit Agreement as of July 30, 2024.
The availability of loans under the Term Loan Agreement are subject to a borrowing base calculation based on eligible credit card receivables, eligible inventory, the revolving borrowing base determined under the Amended Credit Agreement, and reserves. The Term Loan Agreement has a stated maturity date of July 30, 2029. Borrowings under the Term Loan Agreement bear interest at a rate equal to (i) a specified term secured overnight financing rate (SOFR), plus (ii) 0.10% as a SOFR adjustment, plus (iii) the applicable margin as specified in the Term Loan Agreement. The applicable margin means either 3.50% or 6.50% depending on the type of term loan. Under the Term Loan Agreement, loans may be required to be converted to base rate loans and in such case, the applicable margin rate will increase by 1.0%.
In addition, the Term Loan Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit the ability of SWI, the Company and the other subsidiaries to incur, create or assume certain indebtedness, to create, incur or assume certain liens, to make certain investments, to make sales, transfers and dispositions of certain property and to undergo certain fundamental changes, including certain mergers, liquidations and consolidations. The Term Loan Agreement also contains customary events of default, including defaults triggered by defaults under the Amended Credit Agreement.
On July 30, 2024, SWI, as lead borrower, the Company, and other subsidiaries of the Company, each as borrowers, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (“Wells Fargo”), as administrative agent, collateral agent, swing line lender, letter of credit issuer and lender, with a consortium of banks led by Wells Fargo, entered into a Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Second Amendment”). Through Annex A to the Second Amendment, the parties have agreed to an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 23, 2018, as amended May 17, 2022 and July 30, 2024 by and among SWI, as lead borrower, and Wells Fargo, as agent and a lender, and the other parties listed on the signature pages thereto (as amended, including by the Second Amendment the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The Amended Credit Agreement, among other things, permits the indebtedness and payments contemplated by the Term Loan Agreement, and changes the availability, borrowing base and covenant calculations under the Amended Credit Agreement to take into account the Term Loan Agreement.
The foregoing summaries of the Term Loan Agreement and the Second Amendment, including Annex A that is the Amended Credit Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their respective entirety by reference to the full text of the Term Loan Agreement and the Amended Credit Agreement, which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The Company’s guaranty of the obligations under the Term Loan Agreement is reflected in a Facility Guaranty, dated July 30, 2024, in favor of the Pathlight Agent, as administrative and collateral agent, and the ABL Lenders and other credit parties identified therein, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.3 and incorporated by reference herein.
Concurrently with the Term Loan Agreement, SWI, the Company and the other borrowers and guarantors entered into a Security Agreement, dated July 30, 2024 in favor of the Pathlight Agent in its capacity as agent for the ABL Lenders and other credit parties identified in the Term Loan Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4 and is incorporated herein by reference. Concurrently with the Second Amendment, SWI, the Company and the other borrowers and guarantors entered into a Third Amended and Restated Security Agreement in favor of Wells Fargo, as collateral agent, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.5 and is incorporated herein by reference. Through the security agreements, all of the obligations under the Term Loan Agreement and the Amended Credit Agreement are secured by liens on substantially all of the assets of SWI, the Company and the Company’s subsidiaries, including a pledge of all capital stock of each of the Company’s subsidiaries.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information provided in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On August 1, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing the financing transactions described in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, a copy of which is furnished hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information in this Item 7.01 and the related information in Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise
subject to the liabilities of that section and shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in any such filing.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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SPORTSMAN'S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC. |
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August 1, 2024 |
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/s/ Jeff White |
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Jeff White |
Exhibit 10.1
ABL TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of July 30, 2024
among
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC.,
as the Lead Borrower
For
The Borrowers Party Hereto
THE BORROWERS PARTY HERETO
THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
and
PLC AGENT LLC,
as Agent
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
Article I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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1.01 |
Defined Terms |
1 |
1.02 |
Other Interpretive Provisions |
46 |
1.03 |
Accounting Terms |
47 |
1.04 |
Rounding |
48 |
1.05 |
Times of Day |
48 |
1.07 |
Divisions |
48 |
1.08 |
Rates |
48 |
Article II THE loans |
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2.01 |
Loans; Reserves |
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2.02 |
Borrowings of Loans |
50 |
2.03 |
[Reserved] |
51 |
2.04 |
[Reserved] |
51 |
2.05 |
Prepayments |
51 |
2.06 |
[Reserved] |
52 |
2.07 |
Repayment of Loans |
52 |
2.08 |
Interest |
52 |
2.09 |
Fees |
53 |
2.10 |
Computation of Interest and Fees; Term SOFR Conforming Changes |
53 |
2.11 |
Evidence of Debt |
53 |
2.12 |
Payments Generally; Agent’s Clawback |
54 |
2.13 |
Sharing of Payments by Lenders |
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2.14 |
[Reserved] |
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2.15 |
[Reserved] |
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Article III TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY; APPOINTMENT OF LEAD BORROWER |
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Taxes |
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3.02 |
Illegality |
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3.03 |
Inability to Determine Rates |
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3.04 |
Increased Costs |
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3.05 |
Compensation for Losses |
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3.06 |
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
62 |
3.07 |
Survival |
63 |
3.08 |
Designation of Lead Borrower as Borrowers’ Agent |
63 |
Article IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO LOANS |
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4.01 |
Conditions of Initial ABL Term Loans |
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4.02 |
Conditions to all Loans |
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Article V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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5.01 |
Existence, Qualification and Power |
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5.02 |
Authorization; No Contravention |
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5.03 |
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents |
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5.04 |
Binding Effect |
68 |
5.05 |
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect |
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5.06 |
Litigation |
69 |
5.07 |
No Default |
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5.08 |
Ownership of Property; Liens |
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5.09 |
Environmental Compliance |
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5.10 |
Insurance |
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5.11 |
Taxes |
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ERISA Compliance |
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Subsidiaries; Equity Interests |
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Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act |
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Disclosure |
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Compliance with Laws |
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Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc |
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5.18 |
Labor Matters |
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5.19 |
Security Documents |
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5.20 |
Solvency |
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5.21 |
Deposit Accounts; Credit Card Arrangements |
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5.22 |
Brokers |
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Customer and Trade Relations |
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Material Contracts |
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5.25 |
Casualty |
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OFAC; Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws |
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Patriot Act |
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5.28 |
Swap Contracts |
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Article VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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Financial Statements |
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6.02 |
Certificates; Other Information |
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6.03 |
Notices |
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6.04 |
Payment of Obligations |
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Preservation of Existence, Etc |
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6.06 |
Maintenance of Properties |
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Maintenance of Insurance |
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Compliance with Laws |
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Books and Records; Accountants |
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6.10 |
Inspection Rights |
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6.11 |
Use of Proceeds |
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6.12 |
Additional Loan Parties |
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6.13 |
Cash Management |
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6.14 |
Information Regarding the Collateral |
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6.15 |
Physical Inventories |
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6.16 |
Environmental Laws |
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Further Assurances |
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Compliance with Terms of Leaseholds |
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Material Contracts |
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[Reserved.] |
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OFAC; Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws |
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Engagement of Certain Professionals. |
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Post-Closing Covenants |
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Article VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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7.01 |
Liens |
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7.02 |
Investments |
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7.03 |
Indebtedness |
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7.04 |
Fundamental Changes |
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7.05 |
Dispositions |
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7.06 |
Restricted Payments |
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7.07 |
Prepayments of Indebtedness |
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7.08 |
Change in Nature of Business |
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7.09 |
Transactions with Affiliates |
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7.10 |
Burdensome Agreements |
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7.11 |
Use of Proceeds |
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7.12 |
Amendment of Material Documents |
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Fiscal Year |
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7.14 |
Deposit Accounts; Credit Card Processors; ABL Term Loan Priority Account |
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7.15 |
Revolving Availability |
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Article VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES |
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Events of Default |
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8.02 |
Remedies Upon Event of Default |
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8.03 |
Application of Funds |
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Article IX THE AGENT |
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9.01 |
Appointment and Authority |
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9.02 |
Rights as a Lender |
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9.03 |
Exculpatory Provisions |
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9.04 |
Reliance by the Agent |
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9.05 |
Delegation of Duties |
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9.06 |
Resignation of the Agent |
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9.07 |
Non-Reliance on Agent and Other Lenders |
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9.08 |
Reserved |
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9.09 |
Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
101 |
9.10 |
Collateral and Guaranty Matters |
102 |
9.11 |
Notice of Transfer |
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9.12 |
Reports and Financial Statements |
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9.13 |
Agency for Perfection |
103 |
9.14 |
Indemnification of Agent |
104 |
9.15 |
Relation among Lenders |
104 |
9.16 |
Defaulting Lenders |
104 |
Article X MISCELLANEOUS |
105 |
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10.01 |
Amendments, Etc |
105 |
10.02 |
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications |
107 |
10.03 |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
108 |
10.04 |
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
109 |
10.05 |
Payments Set Aside |
110 |
10.06 |
Successors and Assigns |
110 |
10.07 |
Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality |
113 |
10.08 |
Right of Setoff |
114 |
10.09 |
Interest Rate Limitation |
114 |
10.10 |
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
115 |
10.11 |
Survival |
115 |
10.12 |
Severability |
116 |
10.13 |
Replacement of Lenders |
116 |
10.14 |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc |
116 |
10.15 |
Waiver of Jury Trial |
117 |
10.16 |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
118 |
10.17 |
Patriot Act Notice |
118 |
10.18 |
Foreign Asset Control Regulations |
118 |
10.19 |
Time of the Essence |
119 |
10.20 |
Press Releases |
119 |
10.21 |
Additional Waivers |
119 |
10.22 |
No Strict Construction |
121 |
10.23 |
Attachments |
121 |
10.24 |
Keepwell |
121 |
10.25 |
Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions |
121 |
10.26 |
Reserved |
122 |
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10.27 |
Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs |
122 |
10.28 |
Erroneous Payments |
122 |
10.29 |
ABL Intercreditor Agreement. |
124 |
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SCHEDULES
1.01(a) Borrowers
1.01(b) Borrowers’ Fiscal Calendar through Fiscal Year 2028
1.02 [Reserved]
2.01 Commitments and Applicable Percentages
5.01 Loan Parties’ Organizational Information
5.05 Material Indebtedness
5.06 Litigation
5.07 Defaults
5.08(b)(1) Owned Real Estate
5.08(b)(2) Leased Real Estate
5.09 Environmental Matters
5.10 Insurance
5.13 Subsidiaries; Other Equity Investments
5.17 Intellectual Property Matters
5.18 Labor Matters
5.21(a) DDAs and Blocked Accounts
5.21(b) Credit Card Arrangements
5.24 Material Contracts
6.02 Financial and Collateral Reporting
7.01 Existing Liens
7.02 Existing Investments
7.03 Existing Indebtedness
10.02 Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices
EXHIBITS
Form of
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A Notice of Borrowing
B [Reserved]
C-1 [Reserved]
C-2 Initial ABL Term A Loan Note/Initial ABL Term B Loan Note
C-3 Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Note
D Compliance Certificate
E Assignment and Assumption
F Joinder Agreement
G Borrowing Base Certificate
H Credit Card Notification
I [Reserved]
J Employee Stock Plan
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ABL TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
This ABL TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of July 30, 2024, among SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation (the “Lead Borrower”), the Persons named on Schedule 1.01(a) hereto (collectively, the “Borrowers”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”), and PLC AGENT LLC, as administrative and collateral agent for the Lenders (in such capacities, the “Agent”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested, and the Lenders and the Agent have agreed, to provide to the Borrowers on Closing Date, a senior secured term loan credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $45,000,000, consisting of $25,000,000 in Initial ABL Term Loans (as defined below) and $20,000,000 in Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans (as defined below), the proceeds of which shall be used by the Borrowers for purposes permitted under, and otherwise in accordance with and subject to the terms of, this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agree as follows:
Article I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms.
As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“ABL First Amendment Effective Date” means the First Amendment Effective Date, as such term is defined under and in the Revolving Credit Agreement (as in effect on the date hereof).
“ABL Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Agent and the Revolving Agent, and acknowledged by the Loan Parties, as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“ABL Priority Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term A Loans” means the Initial ABL Term A Loans and any Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans made by an Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender, as contemplated by Section 2.01(c)(ii).
“ABL Term B Loans” means the Initial ABL Term B Loans and any Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans made by a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender other than an Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender.
“ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base” means, at any time of calculation, an amount equal to:
(a) the face amount of Eligible Credit Card Receivables multiplied by the Eligible Credit Card Receivables Advance Rate (provided, that the all-in advance rate for such Eligible Credit Card Receivables, when combined with the advance rate for Eligible Credit Card Receivables (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement) under the Revolving Borrowing Base, shall not exceed 100.0%);
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(b) the product of (i) the Eligible Inventory Advance Rate multiplied by (ii) the Cost of Eligible Inventory of the Loan Parties, multiplied by (iii) the Appraised Value of Eligible Inventory of the Loan Parties (provided, that the all‑in advance rate for such Eligible Inventory, when combined with the advance rate for Eligible Inventory (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement) under the Revolving Borrowing Base, shall not exceed (A) from the Closing Date through and including April 30, 2025, 105.0%, and (B) at all times thereafter, 102.5%);
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(c) the Revolving Borrowing Base (calculated without subtracting any Availability Reserves (as such term is defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), including the ABL Term Loan Pushdown Reserve);
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(d) the then amount of all Reserves.
“ABL Term Loan Priority Account” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Priority Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Pushdown Reserve” means, as of any date of calculation of the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base, determined by reference to the most recently delivered Borrowing Base Certificate (or, if applicable, the amount set forth in the ABL Term Pushdown Reserve Correction Notice delivered by the Agent to the Revolving Agent pursuant to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), a reserve to be imposed against the Revolving Borrowing Base in an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Loans exceeds the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“ABL Term Pushdown Correction Notice” has the meaning set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ACH” means automated clearing house transfers.
“Accommodation Payment” as defined in Section 10.21(d).
“Account” means “accounts” as defined in the UCC, and also means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (a) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (b) for services rendered or to be rendered, (c) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (d) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, (e) for energy provided or to be provided, (f) for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, (g) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (h) as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a state, governmental unit of a state, or person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a state or governmental unit of a state. The term “Account” includes health-care-insurance receivables.
“Acquisition” means, with respect to any Person (a) an Investment in, or a purchase of a Controlling interest in, the Equity Interests of any other Person, (b) a purchase or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets or properties of, another Person or of any business unit of another Person, or (c) any merger or consolidation of such Person with any other Person or other transaction or series of transactions resulting
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in the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets, or a Controlling interest in the Equity Interests, of any Person, in each case in any transaction or group of transactions which are part of a common plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any Plan Redemption Payment be construed to be an Acquisition for purposes of this Agreement.
“Act” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.18.
“Adjusted Combined Loan Cap” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement; provided, that for purposes of calculating the Adjusted Loan Cap and/or any other term utilizing the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap, the “Term Loan” and the “Term Loan Borrowing Base”, as each is defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement, shall at all times be deemed to be $0.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Agent.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, (i) 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, (ii) any director, officer, managing member, partner, trustee, or beneficiary of that Person, (iii) any other Person directly or indirectly holding 20% or more of any class of the Equity Interests of that Person, and (iv) any other Person 20% or more of any class of whose Equity Interests is held directly or indirectly by that Person.
“Agent” means PLC Agent LLC, in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor agent.
“Agent’s Office” means the Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address or account as the Agent may from time to time notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders.
“Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c).
“Agreement” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph.
“Allocable Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(d).
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, as amended, and all other applicable laws and regulations or ordinances concerning or relating to bribery, money laundering or corruption in any jurisdiction in which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates is located or is doing business.
“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means the applicable laws or regulations in any jurisdiction in which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates is located or is doing business that relates to money laundering, any predicate crime to money laundering, or any financial record keeping and reporting requirements related thereto.
“Applicable Lenders” means the Required Lenders, and all affected Lenders, or all Lenders, as the context may require.
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“Applicable Margin” means, a rate of interest per annum equal to (i) with respect to the ABL Term A Loans, three and one half of one percent (3.50%), and (ii) with respect to the ABL Term B Loans, six and one half of one percent (6.50%). In the event that at any time Loans hereunder are required to be converted to Base Rate Loans, each of the preceding percentages shall be increased by one percent (1.0%) for so long as such Loans remain as Base Rate Loans hereunder.
“Applicable Percentage” means with respect to any Lender at any time: (a) with respect to such Lender’s portion of the outstanding Initial ABL Term Loans at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Initial ABL Term Loans held by such Lender at such time, (b) with respect to such Lender’s portion of the aggregate outstanding Loans at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans held by such Lender at such time, and (c) with respect to such Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments represented by such Lender’s Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment at such time; provided, that with respect to the foregoing clauses (b) and (c), if the Commitment of each Lender to make Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans has been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 or if the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each applicable Lender shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Lender determined under clause (b) or (c), as the case may be, most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender 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.
“Appraised Value” means, with respect to the Borrowers’ Eligible Inventory, the appraised orderly liquidation value, net of costs and expenses to be incurred in connection with any such liquidation, which value is expressed as a percentage of Cost of the Borrowers’ Eligible Inventory as set forth in the Borrowers’ inventory stock ledger, which value shall be determined from time to time by the most recent appraisal undertaken by an independent appraiser engaged by the Agent.
“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender or (d) the same investment advisor or an advisor under common control with such Lender, Affiliate or advisor, as applicable.
“Assignee Group” means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Agent.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capital Lease Obligation of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, 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 GAAP if such lease, agreement or instrument were accounted for as a capital lease.
“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended February 3, 2024, and the related consolidated statements of income
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or operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then‑current Benchmark, as applicable, (a) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (b) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(iv).
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank Products” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Bank Products Reserves” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, the greatest of (a) the Floor, (b) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus ½%, (c) Term SOFR for a one month tenor in effect on such day, plus 3%, provided that this clause (c) shall not be applicable during any period in which Term SOFR is unavailable or unascertainable, and (d) the rate of interest published by the Wall Street Journal as the “WSJ Prime Rate”.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Benchmark” means, initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(i).
“Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Agent and the Lead Borrower giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than the Floor, such Benchmark Replacement shall be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
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“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Available Tenor, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Agent and the Lead Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities.
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a) in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(b) in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non‑representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date;
For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(b) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the FRB, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or
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indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(c) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative or in compliance with.
For the avoidance of doubt, if the then-current Benchmark has any Available Tenors, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Start Date” means, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).
“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.03(b) and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.03(b).
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a Person means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such Person.
“Blocked Account” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(a)(ii).
“Blocked Account Agreement” means with respect to an account established by a Loan Party, an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (it being agreed that, prior to the payment in full of the Revolving Obligations, with respect to any account other than the ABL Term Loan Priority Account, the form agreed to by the Revolving Agent shall be deemed to be reasonably acceptable to the Agent so long as such agreement provides for substantially similar rights in favor of the Agent as provided to the Revolving Agent, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), establishing control (as defined in the UCC) of such account by the Revolving Agent and the Agent and whereby the bank maintaining such account agrees, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, to comply only with the instructions originated by the Revolving Agent (or (except with respect to the ABL Term Loan Priority Account), following the Discharge of ABL Obligations (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, the Agent) without the further consent of any Loan Party.
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“Blocked Account Bank” means each bank with whom deposit accounts are maintained in which any funds of any of the Loan Parties from one or more DDAs are concentrated and with whom a Blocked Account Agreement has been, or is required to be, executed in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Borrowers” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto (with such changes therein as may be required by the Agent (or, solely with respect to the Revolving Borrowing Base, as may be required by the Revolving Agent) to reflect the components of and reserves against the Borrowing Base as provided for hereunder from time to time) setting forth the most recent calculation of the Borrowing Base and the Revolving Borrowing Base, executed and certified as accurate and complete by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower which shall include appropriate exhibits, schedules, supporting documentation, and additional reports as reasonably requested by the Agent.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is closed.
“Capital Expenditures” means, with respect to any Person for any period, (a) all expenditures made (whether made in the form of cash or other property) or costs incurred for the acquisition or improvement of fixed or capital assets of such Person (excluding normal replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current operations), in each case that are (or should be) set forth as capital expenditures in a Consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person for such period, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP, and (b) Capital Lease Obligations incurred by a Person during such period.
“Capital Lease Obligations” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as liabilities on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and the amount of which obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Dominion Event” means either (a) the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default, or (b) the failure of the Borrowers to maintain Revolving Availability at least equal to twenty percent (20%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap at any time. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing at the Agent’s option (i) so long as such Event of Default has not been waived, and/or (ii) if the Cash Dominion Event arises as a result of the Borrowers’ failure to achieve Revolving Availability as required hereunder, until Revolving Availability has exceeded 20% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap for forty-five (45) consecutive Business Days, in which case a Cash Dominion Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement; provided that a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing (even if an Event of Default is no longer continuing and/or Revolving Availability exceeds the required amount for forty-five (45) consecutive Business Days) at all times after a Cash Dominion Event has occurred and been discontinued on two (2) occasions after the ABL First Amendment Effective Date. The termination of a Cash Dominion Event as provided herein shall in no way limit, waive or delay the occurrence of a subsequent Cash Dominion Event in the event that the conditions set forth in this definition again arise.
“Cash Management Reserves” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Cash Management Services” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
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“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.
“CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
“CFC” means a controlled foreign corporation (as that term is defined in the Code) in which any Loan Party is a “United States shareholder” within the meaning of Section 951(b) of the Code.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, (c) any new, or adjustment to, requirements prescribed by the FRB for “Eurocurrency Liabilities” (as defined in Regulation D of the FRB), requirements imposed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or similar requirements imposed by any domestic or foreign governmental authority or resulting from compliance by the Agent or any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority and related in any manner to SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate or Term SOFR, or (d) the making or issuance of any request, 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 any event, transaction or occurrence as a result of which (a) any “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as in effect on the Closing Date) shall own, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, shares representing more than 35.0% of the ordinary voting power represented by, the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Parent, (b) a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Parent shall at any time be occupied by persons who were neither (i) nominated by the board of directors of the Parent nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated, (c) any change in control (or similar event, however denominated) with respect to the Parent or any Subsidiary of the Parent shall occur under and as defined in any indenture or agreement in respect of Material Indebtedness to which the Parent or any Subsidiary of the Parent is a party, (d) the Parent shall cease to directly own, beneficially and of record, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower, (e) the Lead Borrower ceases to own and control all of the Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries or (f) there occurs any “change of control” or similar event, as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Closing Date” means July 30, 2024.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended and in effect.
“Collateral” means any and all “Collateral” as defined in any applicable Security Document and all other property that is to be subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent under the terms of the Security Documents.
“Collateral Access Agreement” means an agreement reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Agent (it being agreed that, prior to the payment in full of the Revolving Obligations, the form agreed
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to by the Revolving Agent shall be deemed to be reasonably acceptable to the Agent so long as such agreement provides for substantially similar rights in favor of the Agent as provided to the Revolving Agent, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) executed by (a) a bailee or other Person in possession of Collateral, and (b) each landlord of Real Estate leased by any Loan Party, pursuant to which such Person (i) acknowledges the Agent’s Lien on the Collateral, (ii) releases such Person’s Liens in the Collateral held by such Person or located on such Real Estate, (iii) provides the Agent with access to the Collateral held by such bailee or other Person or located in or on such Real Estate, (iv) as to any landlord, provides the Agent with a reasonable time to sell and dispose of the Collateral from such Real Estate, and (v) makes such other agreements with the Agent as the Agent may reasonably require.
“Collection Account” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(b).
“Commitment” means, as to each Lender, such Lender’s Initial ABL Term A Loan Commitment, Initial ABL Term B Loan Commitment or Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment, as applicable.
“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.
“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 3.05 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
“Consent” means actual consent given by a Lender from whom such consent is sought; or the passage of seven (7) Business Days from receipt of written notice to a Lender from the Agent of a proposed course of action to be followed by the Agent without such Lender’s giving the Agent written notice of that Lender’s objection to such course of action.
“Consolidated” means, when used to modify a financial term, test, statement, or report of a Person, the application or preparation of such term, test, statement or report (as applicable) based upon the consolidation, in accordance with GAAP, of the financial condition or operating results of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Debt” means, at any date of determination, the sum of (without duplication) all Indebtedness (other than letters of credit or bank guarantees, to the extent undrawn) consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money and Disqualified Stock of Parent and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis on such date in accordance with GAAP.
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“Consolidated EBITDA” means, at any date of determination, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income of the Parent and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period, plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges, (ii) the provision for Federal, state, local and foreign income Taxes, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense and (iv) other non-recurring expenses reducing such Consolidated Net Income which do not represent a cash item in such period or any future period (in each case of or by the Parent and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period), minus (b) the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Federal, state, local and foreign income tax credits and (ii) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income (in each case of or by the Parent and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period), all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Consolidated EBITDA in any Measurement Period shall include the Consolidated EBITDA on a pro forma basis for such Measurement Period of any Person that is acquired by a Loan Party pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition during such Measurement Period; provided that, in respect of such a Permitted Acquisition, the pro forma information shall include the historical financial results of the acquired Person on a pro forma basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period, and shall assume that the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition occurred on the first day of such Measurement Period.
“Consolidated Interest Charges” means, for any Measurement Period, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing and net costs under Swap Contracts, but excluding any non-cash or deferred interest financing costs, (b) all interest paid or payable with respect to discontinued operations and (c) the portion of rent expense with respect to such period under Capital Lease Obligations that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, in each case of or by the Parent/Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period, all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, as of any date of determination, the net income of the Parent and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period, all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, provided, however, that there shall be excluded therefrom (a) extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses for such Measurement Period, (b) the income (or loss) of such Person during such Measurement Period in which any other Person has a joint interest, except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other distributions actually paid in cash to such Person during such period, (c) the income (or loss) of such Person during such Measurement Period and accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of a Person or any of such Person’s Subsidiaries or is merged into or consolidated with a Person or any of its Subsidiaries or that Person’s assets are acquired by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, and (d) the income of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of a Person to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its Organization Documents or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary, except that the Parent’s equity in any net loss of any such Subsidiary for such Measurement Period shall be included in determining Consolidated Net Income.
“Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) (i) without duplication, the aggregate principal amount of any Consolidated Debt of Parent and its Subsidiaries outstanding as of the last day of the Measurement Period (determined on a pro forma basis) most recently ended as of such date, less (ii) the unrestricted cash balance of the Loan Parties on deposit in a DDA or Securities Account, in either case subject to a Blocked Account Agreement or a Securities Account Control Agreement (as defined in the Security Agreement) in favor of the Agent, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
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Collateral Agent, as of the last day of such Measurement Period, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Measurement Period, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision 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.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
“Cost” means the lower of cost or market value of Inventory, based upon the Borrowers’ accounting practices, known to the Agent, which practices are in effect on the Closing Date as such calculated cost is determined from invoices received by the Borrowers, the Borrowers’ purchase journals or the Borrowers’ stock ledger. “Cost” does not include inventory capitalization costs or other non purchase price charges (such as freight) used in the Borrowers’ calculation of cost of goods sold.
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Covered Party” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“Credit Card Issuer” shall mean any person (other than a Borrower or other Loan Party) who issues or whose members issue credit cards, including, without limitation, MasterCard or VISA bank credit or debit cards or other bank credit or debit cards issued through MasterCard International, Inc., Visa, U.S.A., Inc. or Visa International and American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Carte Blanche and other non-bank credit or debit cards, including, without limitation, credit or debit cards issued by or through American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and Novus Services, Inc. and other issuers approved by the Agent.
“Credit Card Processor” shall mean any servicing or processing agent or any factor or financial intermediary who facilitates, services, processes or manages the credit authorization, billing transfer and/or payment procedures with respect to any Borrower’s sales transactions involving credit card or debit card purchases by customers using credit cards or debit cards issued by any Credit Card Issuer.
“Credit Card Notifications” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(a)(i).
“Credit Card Receivables” means each “Account” and each “Payment Intangible” (each as defined in the UCC) together with all income, payments and proceeds thereof, owed by a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor to a Loan Party resulting from charges by a customer of a Loan Party on credit or
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debit cards issued by such Credit Card Issuer in connection with the sale of goods by a Loan Party, or services performed by a Loan Party, in each case in the ordinary course of its business.
“Credit Party” or “Credit Parties” means (a) individually, (i) each Lender and its Affiliates, (ii) the Agent, and (iii) each beneficiary of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (iv) any other Person to whom Obligations under this Agreement and other Loan Documents are owing, and (v) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing, and (b) collectively, all of the foregoing.
“Credit Party Expenses” means, without limitation, (a) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agent and its Affiliates, in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including without limitation (i) the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of (A) outside counsel for the Agent, (B) outside consultants for the Agent, (C) appraisers, (D) commercial finance examinations, (E) photocopying, notarization, couriers and messengers, telecommunication, public record searches, filing fees, recording fees and publication, (F) the Agent’s customary fees and charges imposed or incurred in connection with any background checks or OFAC/PEP searches related to any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries, and (G) all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of the Obligations, (ii) in connection with (A) the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, (B) the preparation, negotiation, administration, management, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (C) the enforcement or protection of their rights in connection with this Agreement or the Loan Documents or efforts to preserve, protect, collect, or enforce the Collateral (including, without limitation, in connection with, during the continuation of an Event of Default, gaining possession of, maintaining, handling, preserving, storing, shipping, selling, preparing for sale, or advertising to sell the Collateral, or any portion thereof, irrespective of whether a sale is consummated), or (D) any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of any Obligations, (iii) all customary fees and charges (as adjusted from time to time) of the Agent with respect to the disbursement of funds (or the receipt of funds) to or for the account of Borrowers (whether by wire transfer or otherwise), together with any out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith, and (iv) customary charges imposed or incurred by the Agent resulting from the dishonor of checks payable by or to any Loan Party; and (b) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Credit Parties who are not the Agent or any Affiliate of any of them, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, provided that such Credit Parties shall be entitled to reimbursement for no more than one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction representing the Agent for all such Credit Parties (absent a conflict of interest in which case the Credit Parties may engage and be reimbursed for additional counsel).
“Customer Credit Liabilities” means at any time, the aggregate remaining value at such time of (a) outstanding gift certificates and gift cards of the Borrowers entitling the holder thereof to use all or a portion of the certificate or gift card to pay all or a portion of the purchase price for any Inventory, (b) outstanding merchandise credits of the Borrowers, (c) layaway obligations of the Borrowers, and (d) liabilities in connection with frequent shopping programs of the Borrowers.
“Customer Deposits” means deposits made by customers with respect to the purchase of goods or the performance of services.
“DDA” means each checking, savings or other demand deposit account maintained by any of the Loan Parties other than the Blocked Accounts. All funds in each DDA shall be conclusively presumed to be Collateral and proceeds of Collateral and the Agent and the Lenders shall have no duty to inquire as to the source of the amounts on deposit in any DDA.
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“DDA Notification” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(f).
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Default” means any event 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 (a) when used with respect to Loans, an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including the Applicable Margin) otherwise applicable to such Loans plus two percent (2%) per annum, and (b) when used with respect to all other Obligations, an interest rate equal to the Base Rate, plus the then Applicable Margin, plus two percent (2%) per annum.
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Defaulting Lender” means, any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder, or (ii) pay to the Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Lead Borrower or the in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Agent or the Lead Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Agent and the Lead 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 Agent and the Lead 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, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity, or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided, that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the 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 9.16(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Agent to the Lead Borrower and each other Lender promptly following such determination.
“Delayed Draw ABL Funding Date” means any Business Day upon which a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan is funded in accordance with Section 2.01(c)(i).
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan(s)” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(c)(i).
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment(s)” means the commitment of each Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender to make Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section
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2.01(c) of this Agreement in amount equal to the amount set forth opposite the name of such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender on Schedule 2.01 attached hereto (or in the amount of any such Commitment assumed by any Lender pursuant to Section 2.01(c)(ii) hereof), and in an aggregate amount for all of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lenders of $20,000,000.
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Assumption Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(c)(ii).
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Period” means the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Termination Date.
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Termination Date” means the earliest of (i) April 30, 2025, (ii) the date upon which the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments shall have been reduced to zero upon the borrowing of all available Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.01(c), and (iii) the termination of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments in accordance with Article VIII.
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender(s)” means each Lender with a Delayed Draw ABL Commitment (including by assumption pursuant to Section 2.01(c)(ii) hereof) or holding a portion of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans from time to time at any time.
“Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Note” means with respect to a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender, a promissory note evidencing the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan of such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit C-3.
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) and any sale, transfer, license or other disposition of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) of any property (including, without limitation, any Equity Interests) 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, and including any transaction described in this definition that is consummated pursuant to an allocation of assets among newly divided limited liability companies pursuant to a “plan of division”.
“Disqualified Stock” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event, (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, or is convertible into or exchangeable for debt securities or any Equity Interest described in this clause (a), in each case, in whole or in part and on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Loans mature, or (b) has the benefit of any covenants that restrict the payment of the Obligations or that are debt-multiple or income-multiple based (i.e., financial covenants); provided, however, that (i) only the portion of such Equity Interests which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date shall be deemed to be Disqualified Stock and (ii) with respect to any Equity Interests issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Lead Borrower or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interest shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Lead Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, resignation, death or disability and if any class of Equity Interest of such Person that by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder by delivery of an Equity Interest that is not Disqualified Stock, such Equity Interests shall not be deemed to be Disqualified
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Stock. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Equity Interest that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require a Loan Party to repurchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale shall not constitute Disqualified Stock. The amount of Disqualified Stock deemed to be outstanding at any time for purposes of this Agreement will be the maximum amount that the Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries may become obligated to pay upon maturity of, or pursuant to any mandatory redemption provisions of, such Disqualified Stock or portion thereof, plus accrued dividends.
“Dollars” and “$” mean 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 (a) a Credit Party or any of its Affiliates; (b) a bank, insurance company, or company engaged in the business of making commercial loans, which Person, together with its Affiliates, has a combined capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000; (c) an Approved Fund; (d) any Person to whom a Credit Party assigns its rights and obligations under this Agreement as part of an assignment and transfer of such Credit Party’s rights in and to a material portion of such Credit Party’s portfolio of asset based credit facilities, and (e) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by (i) the Agent, and (ii) unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Lead Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include (x) a Loan Party or any of the Loan Parties’ Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or (y) a Defaulting Lender or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries.
“Eligible Credit Card Receivables” means at the time of any determination thereof, each Credit Card Receivable that satisfies the following criteria at the time of creation and continues to meet the same at the time of such determination, as determined by the Agent in its Permitted Discretion: such Credit Card Receivable (i) has been earned by performance and represents the bona fide amounts due to a Borrower from a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor, and in each case originated in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower, and (ii) in each case is acceptable to the Agent in its Permitted Discretion, and is not ineligible for inclusion in the calculation of the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base pursuant to any of clauses (a) through (j) below. Without limiting the foregoing, to qualify as an Eligible Credit Card Receivable, such Credit Card Receivable shall indicate no Person other than a Borrower as payee or remittance party. In determining the amount to be so included, the face amount of a Credit Card Receivable shall be reduced by, without duplication, to the extent not reflected in such face amount, (i) the amount of all accrued and actual discounts, claims, credits or credits pending, promotional program allowances, price adjustments, finance charges or other allowances (including any amount that a Borrower may be obligated to rebate to a customer, a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor pursuant to the terms of any agreement or understanding (written or oral)) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all cash received in respect of such Credit Card Receivable but not yet applied by the Loan Parties to reduce the amount of such Credit Card
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Receivable. Except as otherwise agreed by the Agent, any Credit Card Receivable included within any of the following categories shall not constitute an Eligible Credit Card Receivable:
(a) Credit Card Receivables which do not constitute a “payment intangible” (as defined in the UCC);
(b) Credit Card Receivables that have been outstanding for more than five (5) Business Days from the date of sale;
(c) Credit Card Receivables (i) that are not subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent with the priority set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) with respect to which a Borrower does not have good, valid and marketable title thereto, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Collateral Agent, and those Liens specified in clauses (a), (e), and (p) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances);
(d) Credit Card Receivables that are not subject to a security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent with the priority set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement (it being the intent that chargebacks in the ordinary course by the credit card processors shall not be deemed violative of this clause);
(e) Credit Card Receivables which are disputed, are with recourse, or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback has been asserted (to the extent of such claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback);
(f) Credit Card Receivables as to which the Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor has the right under certain circumstances to require a Loan Party to repurchase the Credit Card Receivables from such Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor;
(g) Credit Card Receivables due from a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor which (i) is the subject of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, or (ii) is a Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Entity;
(h) Credit Card Receivables which are not a valid, legally enforceable obligation of the applicable Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor with respect thereto;
(i) Credit Card Receivables which do not conform to all representations, warranties or other provisions in the Loan Documents relating to Credit Card Receivables; or
(j) Credit Card Receivables which the Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion to be uncertain of collection or which do not meet such other reasonable eligibility criteria for Credit Card Receivables as the Agent may determine in its Permitted Discretion.
“Eligible Credit Card Receivables Advance Rate” means 100%.
“Eligible Inventory” means, as of the date of determination thereof, items of Inventory of a Borrower that are finished goods, merchantable and readily saleable to the public in the ordinary course of a Borrower’s business deemed by the Agent in its Permitted Discretion to be eligible for inclusion in the calculation of the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base, in each case that, except as otherwise agreed by the Agent, complies with each of the representations and warranties respecting Inventory made by the Borrowers in the Loan Documents, and that is not excluded as ineligible by virtue of one or more of the
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criteria set forth below. Except as otherwise agreed by the Agent, the following items of Inventory shall not be included in Eligible Inventory:
(a) Inventory that is not solely owned by a Borrower or a Borrower does not have good and valid title thereto, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Agent, and those Liens specified in clauses (a), (b), (e), (j), (o) and (p) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances);
(b) Inventory that is leased by or is on consignment to a Borrower or which is consigned by a Borrower to a Person which is not a Loan Party;
(c) Inventory that is not located in the United States of America (excluding territories or possessions of the United States);
(d) Inventory at a location that is not owned or leased by a Borrower, except to the extent that the Borrowers have furnished the Agent with (i) any UCC financing statements or other documents that the Agent may determine to be necessary to perfect its security interest in such Inventory at such location, and (ii) a Collateral Access Agreement executed by the Person owning any such location on terms reasonably acceptable to the Agent;
(e) Inventory that is located in a distribution center or warehouse leased by a Borrower, unless the applicable lessor has delivered to the Agent, if requested by the Agent, a Collateral Access Agreement;
(f) Inventory that is comprised of goods which (i) are damaged, defective, “seconds,” or otherwise unmerchantable, (ii) are to be returned to the vendor, (iii) are obsolete or slow moving, or custom items, work in process, raw materials, or that constitute spare parts, promotional, marketing, packaging and shipping materials or supplies used or consumed in a Borrower’s business, (iv) are seasonal in nature and which have been packed away for sale in the subsequent season, (v) not in compliance with all standards imposed by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such Inventory, its use or sale, or (vi) are bill and hold goods;
(g) Inventory that is not subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the Agent with the priority set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement;
(h) Inventory that consists of samples, labels, bags, packaging, and other similar non-merchandise categories;
(i) Inventory that is not insured in compliance with the provisions of Section 5.10 hereof;
(j) Inventory that has been sold but not yet delivered or as to which a Borrower has accepted a deposit;
(k) Inventory that is subject to any licensing, patent, royalty, trademark, trade name or copyright agreement with any third party from which any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has received notice of a dispute in respect of any such agreement;
(l) Inventory that has been purchased by a Borrower from a Person that is a Sanctioned Person or a Sanctioned Entity; or
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(m) Inventory acquired in a Permitted Acquisition or which is not acquired other than for the purpose of sale in a Store in the ordinary course of a Borrower’s business, unless and until (i) the Agent has completed or received an appraisal of such Inventory from an appraiser selected by the Revolving Agent and satisfactory to the Agent, and (ii) such Inventory is included in the Revolving Borrowing Base and the Revolving Agent has applied Inventory Reserves in accordance with the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Eligible Inventory Advance Rate” means (i) from the Closing Date through and including April 30, 2025, 105%, and (ii) at all times thereafter, 102.5%.
“Employee Stock Plan” means, collectively, the Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated 2019 Performance Incentive Plan annexed hereto as Exhibit J (as in effect on the Closing Date and as subsequently amended in accordance with the terms hereof), pursuant to which certain Eligible Persons (as defined therein) may purchase restricted Equity Interests in the Parent.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, obligation, damage, loss, claim, action, suit, judgment, order, fine, penalty, fee, expense, or cost, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any 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 or presence of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Equipment” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“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.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with any Loan Party 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 Sections 412 and 4971 of the Code).
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“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification to the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination of a Pension Plan or a Multiemployer Plan under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) 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 Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; or (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered to be an “at-risk” plan, or that any Multiemployer Plan is considered to be in “endangered” or “critical” status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 or 305 of ERISA.
“Erroneous Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01. An Event of Default shall be deemed to be continuing unless and until that Event of Default has been duly waived as provided in Section 10.03 hereof.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor or the grant of such 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 Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, (i) any tax imposed on the net income or net profits of such Recipient (including any branch profits taxes), in each case imposed by the jurisdiction (or by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) in which such Recipient is organized or the jurisdiction (or by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) in which such Recipient’s principal office is located in or as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction or taxing authority imposing the tax (other than any such connection arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received payment under, or enforced its rights or remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Document), (ii) withholding taxes that would not have been imposed but for a Recipient’s failure to comply with the requirements of Section 3.01 of this
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Agreement, (iii) any United States federal withholding taxes that would be imposed on amounts payable to a Foreign Lender based upon the applicable withholding rate in effect at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office, other than a designation made at the request of a Loan Party), except that Excluded Taxes shall not include (A) any amount that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was previously entitled to receive pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Agreement, if any, with respect to such withholding tax at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), and (B) additional United States federal withholding taxes that may be imposed after the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), as a result of a change in law, rule, regulation, treaty, order or other decision or other Change in Law with respect to any of the foregoing by any Governmental Authority, and (iv) any United States federal withholding taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Executive Order” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Extraordinary Receipt” means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Person not in the ordinary course of business, including tax refunds, pension plan reversions, proceeds of insurance (other than proceeds of business interruption insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for lost earnings), condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity payments and any purchase price adjustments.
“Facility Guaranty” means the Guaranty made by any Guarantor in favor of the Agent and the Lenders, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), and (a) any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, (b) any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, and (c) any intergovernmental agreement entered into by the United States (or any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, or practices adopted pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection therewith).
“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal to, for each day during such period, the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it (and, if any such rate is below the Floor, then the rate determined pursuant to this definition shall be deemed to be the Floor).
“Fee Letter” means that certain letter agreement dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Borrowers and the Agent.
“FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended from time to time.
“Fiscal Month” means any fiscal month of any Fiscal Year, which month shall generally end on the Saturday closest to the end of such calendar month, subject to inclusion of such month in the applicable Fiscal Quarter, in accordance with the fiscal accounting calendar of the Loan Parties. Borrowers’ fiscal calendar through Fiscal Year 2028 is attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(b).
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“Fiscal Quarter” means any fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year, which quarters shall generally end on the Saturday closest to the end of each April, July, October and January of such Fiscal Year in accordance with the fiscal accounting calendar of the Loan Parties. Borrowers’ fiscal calendar through Fiscal Year 2028 is attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(b).
“Fiscal Year” means any period of fifty-two (52) or fifty-three (53) weeks, as the case may be, ending on the Saturday closest to January 31 of any calendar year. Borrowers’ fiscal calendar through Fiscal Year 2028 is attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(b).
“Flood Laws” means the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, and related laws, rules and regulations, including any amendments or successor provisions.
“Floor” means a rate of interest equal to three percent (3%).
“Foreign Asset Control Regulations” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Lead Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation
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is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien). 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” means the Parent and each other Person who shall be required to execute and deliver a Facility Guaranty 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, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind;
(b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or similar instruments;
(c) all obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid;
(d) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property or assets purchased by such Person;
(e) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(f) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding trade accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and, in each case, not past due for more than ninety (90) days after the date on which such trade account payable was created), including, without limitation, all obligations of such Person in respect of earn-out or similar performance-based deferred purchase price arrangements;
(g) all indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed or is limited in recourse;
(h) All Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capital Lease Obligations and Synthetic Lease Obligations of such Person;
(i) (i) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person (including, without limitation, Disqualified Stock, or any warrant, right or option to acquire such Equity Interest), valued, in the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or
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involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and (ii) the liquidation value of all Disqualified Stock of such Person;
(j) the maximum amount of all direct or contingent obligations of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit (including standby and commercial);
(k) all obligations of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments; and
(l) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any Plan Redemption Payment be construed to be Indebtedness for purposes of this Agreement.
“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 the foregoing clause (a), Other Taxes.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.
“Initial ABL Term A Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(a).
“Initial ABL Term A Loan Commitment(s)” means the commitment of each Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender to make an Initial ABL Term A Loan to the Borrowers on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an amount equal to the amount set forth opposite the name of such Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender on Schedule 2.01 attached hereto, and in an aggregate amount for all of the Initial ABL Term A Loan Lenders of $5,000,000.
“Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender(s)” means each Lender with an Initial ABL Term Loan A Commitment or holding a portion of the Initial ABL Term A Loans from time to time.
“Initial ABL Term A Loan Note” means with respect to an Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender, a promissory note evidencing the Initial ABL Term A Loan of such Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2.
“Initial ABL Term B Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(b).
“Initial ABL Term B Loan Commitment(s)” means the commitment of each Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender to make an Initial ABL Term B Loan to the Borrowers on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01(b) in an amount equal to the amount set forth opposite the name of such Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender on Schedule 2.01 attached hereto, and in an aggregate amount for all of the Initial ABL Term B Loan Lenders of $20,000,000.
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“Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender(s)” means each Lender with an Initial ABL Term Loan B Commitment or holding a portion of the Initial ABL Term B Loan from time to time.
“Initial ABL Term B Loan Note” means with respect to an Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender, a promissory note evidencing the Initial ABL Term B Loan of such Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2.
“Initial ABL Term Loan(s)” means the Initial ABL Term A Loans and the Initial ABL Term B Loans.
“Initial ABL Term Loan Lender(s)” means, individually, an Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender or an Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender, as applicable, and collectively, all such Persons.
“Intellectual Property” means all present and future: trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary information; trademarks, trademark applications, internet domain names, service marks, trade dress, trade names, business names, designs, logos, slogans (and all translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations of the foregoing) indicia and other source and/or business identifiers, and all registrations or applications for registrations which have heretofore been or may hereafter be issued thereon throughout the world; copyrights and copyright applications; (including copyrights for computer programs) and all tangible and intangible property embodying the copyrights, unpatented inventions (whether or not patentable); patents and patent applications; industrial design applications and registered industrial designs; license agreements related to any of the foregoing and income therefrom; books, customer lists, records, writings, computer tapes or disks, flow diagrams, specification sheets, computer software, source codes, object codes, executable code, data, databases and other physical manifestations, embodiments or incorporations of any of the foregoing; all other intellectual property; and all common law and other rights throughout the world in and to all of the foregoing.
“Intercreditor Provisions” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(q).
“Interest Payment Date” means, the first day of each calendar month, and the Maturity Date (it being agreed that if the first day of any calendar month is not a Business Day, the Interest Payment Date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day in such calendar month).
“Interest Period” means as to each Term SOFR Loan, (i) initially, the period commencing on the date of funding such Term SOFR Loan and ending on the last day of the calendar month in which such Term SOFR Loan was funded, and (ii) thereafter, the period commencing of the first day of a calendar month and ending on the last day of each such calendar month thereafter, provided, that, no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
“Inventory” has the meaning given that term in the UCC, and shall also include, without limitation, all: (a) goods which (i) are leased by a Person as lessor, (ii) are held by a Person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service, (iii) are furnished by a Person under a contract of service, or (iv) consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials used or consumed in a business; (b) goods of said description in transit; (c) goods of said description which are returned, repossessed or rejected; and (d) packaging, advertising, and shipping materials related to any of the foregoing.
“Inventory Reserves” has the meaning set forth for such term in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“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 Equity Interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition
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of any other debt or interest in, another Person, or (c) any Acquisition, or (d) any other investment of money or capital in order to obtain a profitable return. 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.
“Investment Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any fund or investment vehicle that (a) is organized by such Person for the purpose of making equity or debt investments in one or more companies and (b) is controlled by such Person. For purposes of this definition “control” means the power to direct or cause the direction of management and policies of a Person, whether by contract or otherwise.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Joinder Agreement” means an agreement, in substantially in the form of Exhibit F, pursuant to which, among other things, a Person becomes a party to, and bound by the terms of, this Agreement and/or the other Loan Documents in the same capacity and to the same extent as either a Borrower or a Guarantor, as the Agent may determine.
“Knowledge” means the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer.
“Landlord Lien State” means Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, or such other state(s) as to which Agent notifies the Lead Borrower in writing that a landlord’s claim for rent may have priority over the lien of the Agent in any of the Collateral.
“Laws” means each international, foreign, Federal, state and local statute, treaty, rule, guideline, regulation, ordinance, code and administrative or judicial precedent or authority, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and each applicable administrative order, directed duty, request, license, authorization and permit of, and agreement with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“Lead Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Lease” means any agreement, whether written or oral, no matter how styled or structured, pursuant to which a Loan Party is entitled to the use or occupancy of any space in a structure, land, improvements or premises for any period of time.
“Lender” means, individually, an Initial ABL Term Loan Lender or a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender, as applicable, and collectively, all such Persons.
“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 Lead Borrower and the Agent.
“Lien” means (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale, Capital Lease Obligation, Synthetic Lease Obligation, or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) and (b) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
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“Loans” means collectively, the Initial ABL Term Loans and the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans.
“Loan Account” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a).
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, each Note, the Fee Letter, all Borrowing Base Certificates, the Blocked Account Agreements, the DDA Notifications, the Credit Card Notifications, the Security Documents, the Facility Guaranty, each Notice of Borrowing, each Beneficial Ownership Certification, the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and any other instrument or agreement now or hereafter executed and delivered in connection herewith, each as amended and in effect from time to time.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrowers and each Guarantor.
“Margin Stock” is as defined in Regulation U of the FRB as in effect from time to time.
“Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Loan Parties taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of or benefits available to the Agent or the Lenders under any Loan Document, or a material adverse effect on (x) the Collateral, (y) the validity, perfection or priority of any Lien granted by any Loan Party in favor of the Agent on any material portion of the Collateral, or (z) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party. In determining whether any individual event would result in a Material Adverse Effect, notwithstanding that such event in and of itself does not have such effect, a Material Adverse Effect shall be deemed to have occurred if the cumulative effect of such event and all other than existing events would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
“Material Contract” means, with respect to any Person, each contract to which such Person is a party, the termination or breach of which would be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including, without limitation, the Revolving Credit Documents.
“Material Indebtedness” means (i) the Revolving Obligations (it being understood that the Revolving Obligations shall be deemed to be “Material Indebtedness” so long as any Revolving Obligations remain outstanding) and (ii) any other Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of the Loan Parties in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $25,000,000. For purposes of determining the amount of Material Indebtedness at any time, (a) the amount of the obligations in respect of any Swap Contract at such time shall be calculated at the Swap Termination Value thereof, (b) undrawn committed or available amounts shall be included, and (c) all amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement shall be included.
“Material Intellectual Property” means Intellectual Property material to the business or operations of the Loan Parties.
“Maturity Date” means the earlier of (i) July 30, 2029, or (ii) the Revolving Loan Maturity Date.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.09.
“Measurement Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed trailing twelve (12) Fiscal Months.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
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“Mortgages” means each and every fee and leasehold mortgage or deed of trust, security agreement and assignment by and between the Loan Party owning or holding the leasehold interest in the Real Estate encumbered thereby in favor of the Agent.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means (a) with respect to any Disposition by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Extraordinary Receipt received or paid to the account of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and cash equivalents received in connection with such transaction (including any cash or 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) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset by a Lien permitted hereunder which is senior to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such asset and that is required to be repaid (or to establish an escrow for the future repayment thereof) in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents and the Revolving Credit Documents), (B) to the extent such cash proceeds are received from a Disposition of, or an Extraordinary Receipt received or paid on the account of, ABL Priority Collateral, prior to the Discharge of ABL Obligations (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other Revolving Obligations, in each case, which are required to be repaid or cash collateralized with any such proceeds), and (C) the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such transaction (including, without limitation, appraisals, and brokerage, legal, title and recording or transfer tax expenses and commissions) paid by any Loan Party to third parties (other than Affiliates); and (b) with respect to the sale or issuance of any Equity Interest by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and cash equivalents received in connection with such transaction over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, which are required to be repaid or cash collateralized with any such proceeds.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
“Note” means (a) an Initial ABL Term A Loan Note, (b) an Initial ABL Term B Loan Note, or (c) a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Note, as each may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
“Notice of Borrowing” means a request by the Lead Borrower for a borrowing of a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan in accordance with Section 2.02 and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
“Obligations” means all advances to, and debts (including principal, interest, fees, costs, and expenses), liabilities, obligations, covenants, indemnities, and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest, fees, costs, expenses and indemnities that accrue after the commencement by or against
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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, fees, costs, expenses and indemnities are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided, that the Obligations shall not include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“OFAC” means The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
“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; (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, and (d) in each case, all shareholder or other equity holder agreements, voting trusts and similar arrangements to which such Person is a party or which is applicable to its Equity Interests and all other arrangements relating to the Control or management of such Person.
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“Overadvance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(e).
“Parent” means Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 5.27.
“Payment Conditions” means satisfaction of the following, with respect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of any Specified Transaction: (i) No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, and (ii) (a) at all times during the sixty (60) day period immediately preceding the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, and immediately after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, Revolving Availability shall not be less than 25% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap, and the Lead Borrower shall have represented in writing to the Agent that the Loan Parties’ Revolving Availability forecasts (prepared internally in good faith) reflect sufficient liquidity after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction to operate the Loan Parties’ business (including payment of obligations as and when due in the ordinary course of the Loan Parties’ business and consistent with past practices) for the immediately succeeding twelve (12) months, or (b) (x) at all times during the sixty (60) day period immediately preceding the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, and immediately after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, Revolving Availability shall not be less than 15% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap, and (y) the Agent shall have received projections reasonably satisfactory to the Agent as determined on a pro forma basis, for the one hundred eighty (180) day period immediately following the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction (after giving pro-forma effect thereto), that
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reflect the Borrowers collectively shall have Revolving Availability of at least 15% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap; it being understood and agreed that it shall not constitute a breach of this requirement if Revolving Availability subsequently is less than 15% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap so long as the projection thereof is based on the good faith estimate of the Borrowers at the time of such payment. Prior to undertaking any transaction or payment which is subject to the Payment Conditions, the Loan Parties shall deliver to the Agent (x) an updated Borrowing Base Certificate giving effect to such transaction or payment, and (y) evidence of satisfaction of the conditions contained in clause (ii) above on a basis (including, without limitation, giving due consideration to results for prior periods) reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
“Payment in Full” has the meaning specified in Section 1.02(d). Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings.
“Payment Recipient” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“PCAOB” means the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
“Permitted Acquisition” means an Acquisition in which all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) No Default then exists or would arise from the consummation of such Acquisition;
(b) Such Acquisition shall have been approved by the Board of Directors of the Person (or similar governing body if such Person is not a corporation) which is the subject of such Acquisition and such Person shall not have announced that it will oppose such Acquisition or shall not have commenced any action which alleges that such Acquisition shall violate applicable Law;
(c) (i) If the aggregate consideration for such Acquisition exceeds an amount equal to $35,000,000, the Lead Borrower shall have furnished the Agent with thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of such intended Acquisition and shall have furnished the Agent with a current draft of the documents evidencing the intended Acquisition (and final copies thereof as and when executed), a summary of any due diligence undertaken by the Loan Parties in connection with such Acquisition, appropriate financial statements of the Person which is the subject of such Acquisition, pro forma projected financial statements for the twelve (12) month period following such Acquisition after giving effect to such Acquisition (including balance sheets, cash flows and income statements by month for the acquired Person, individually, and on a Consolidated basis with all Loan Parties), and such other information as the Agent may reasonably require, all of which shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Agent; or (ii) if the aggregate consideration for such Acquisition is an amount less than or equal to $35,000,000, not later than five (5) Business Days following the occurrence thereof, the Lead Borrower shall have notified the Agent of such Acquisition, (A) delivering with such notice, (1) executed copies of the material acquisition documents entered into in connection therewith, together with (2) where available, customary historical financial statements (or summaries thereof, to the extent such historical financial statements are not otherwise available) of
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the Person or business to be acquired (for any acquisition of the Equity Interests of another Person or to the extent otherwise reasonably available to the Loan Parties) along with pro forma financial statements for the next twelve (12) months after such Acquisition (where available) after giving effect to such Acquisition (including to the extent available balance sheets, cash flows and income statements for the Loan Parties) and (B) certifying, as of the date of such Acquisition, that after giving effect to such Acquisition, if such Acquisition was an acquisition of Equity Interests, a Loan Party owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the Equity Interests of the acquired Person and Controls a majority of any voting interests or the governance of the acquired Person;
(d) Either (i) the legal structure of the Acquisition shall be acceptable to the Agent in its Permitted Discretion, or (ii) the Loan Parties shall have provided the Agent with a favorable solvency opinion from an unaffiliated third party valuation firm reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
(e) After giving effect to the Acquisition, if the Acquisition is an Acquisition of the Equity Interests, a Loan Party shall acquire and own, directly or indirectly, a majority of the Equity Interests in the Person being acquired and shall Control a majority of any voting interests or shall otherwise Control the governance of the Person being acquired;
(f) Any assets acquired shall be utilized in, and if the Acquisition involves a merger, consolidation or Acquisition of Equity Interests, the Person which is the subject of such Acquisition shall be engaged in, a business otherwise permitted to be engaged in by a Borrower under this Agreement;
(g) If the Person which is the subject of such Acquisition will be maintained as a Subsidiary of a Loan Party, or if the assets acquired in an acquisition will be transferred to a Subsidiary which is not then a Loan Party, such Subsidiary shall be joined as a “Borrower” hereunder or as a Facility Guarantor, as the Agent shall determine, and the Agent shall receive a security interest with the priority set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement (subject to Permitted Encumbrances having priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of such definition) in such Subsidiary’s Inventory, Accounts and other property of the same nature as constitutes collateral under the Security Documents, in each case as and when required by Section 6.12 of this Agreement;
(h) [Reserved]; and
(i) The Loan Parties shall have satisfied the Payment Conditions.
“Permitted Disposition” means any of the following:
(a) dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(b) bulk sales or other Dispositions of the Inventory of a Loan Party not in the ordinary course of business, made in connection with Store closings, at arm’s length, provided, that such Store closures and related Inventory Dispositions shall not exceed those set forth in the Borrowers’ business plan reasonably satisfactory to Agent, and provided, further, at the Agent’s Permitted Discretion, all sales of Inventory in connection with Store closings shall be in accordance with liquidation agreements and with professional liquidators reasonably acceptable to the Agent;
(c) non-exclusive licenses of Intellectual Property of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; provided, that no such licensing shall adversely
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affect in any material respect the fair value of any Eligible Inventory or the ability of the Agent to dispose of or otherwise realize upon any Eligible Inventory after an Event of Default;
(d) licenses for the conduct of licensed departments within the Loan Parties’ Stores in the ordinary course of business; provided that, if requested by the Agent, the Agent shall have entered into an intercreditor agreement with the Person operating such licensed department on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
(e) the sale or other disposition by a Loan Party of Inventory that is obsolete and having a book value not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate in any Fiscal Year (or such greater amount agreed to by Agent in its Permitted Discretion);
(f) the sale or other disposition by a Loan Party of Equipment or Fixtures that are obsolete or no longer used or useful in such Loan Party’s business and having a book value, not exceeding $1,000,000 in the aggregate in any Fiscal Year (or such greater amount agreed to by Agent in its Permitted Discretion);
(g) Sales, transfers and dispositions among the Loan Parties or by any Subsidiary to a Loan Party;
(h) Sales, transfers and dispositions of or by any Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party to another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; and
(i) as long as no Default then exists or would arise therefrom, sales of Real Estate of any Loan Party (or sales of any Person or Persons created to hold such Real Estate or the equity interests in such Person or Persons), including sale-leaseback transactions involving any such Real Estate pursuant to leases on market terms, as long as, (A) such sale is made for fair market value, (B) the net proceeds of such sale are utilized to repay the Obligations, and (C) in the case of any sale-leaseback transaction permitted hereunder, the Agent shall have received from such each purchaser or transferee a Collateral Access Agreement on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, with respect to a sale, transfer or disposition of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property), such sale, transfer or other disposition shall not be permitted unless the purchaser, assignee or other transferee thereof agrees in writing to be bound by a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license of such Material Intellectual Property in favor of the Agent for use in connection with the exercise of the rights and remedies of the Credit Parties, which license shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property) (in each case, whether as a Permitted Disposition, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Encumbrance or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Agent and the Required Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
“Permitted Discretion” means a determination made in good faith in the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured asset based lender) business judgment.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means:
(a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 6.04;
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(b) Carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by applicable Law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue or are being contested in compliance with Section 6.04;
(c) Pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;
(d) Deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Liens in respect of judgments that would not constitute an Event of Default hereunder;
(f) Easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions, building code laws, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of a Loan Party and such other minor title defects or survey matters that are disclosed by current surveys that, in each case, do not materially interfere with the current use of the real property;
(g) Liens existing on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 7.01 and any renewals or extensions thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed, (ii) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased, (iii) the direct or any contingent obligor with respect thereto is not changed, and (iv) any renewal or extension of the obligations secured or benefited thereby is otherwise permitted hereunder;
(h) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired by any Loan Party which are permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness so long as (i) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within ninety (90) days after such acquisition, (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of acquisition of such fixed or capital assets and (iii) such Liens shall not extend to any other property or assets of the Loan Parties;
(i) Liens in favor the Agent;
(j) Landlords’ and lessors’ Liens in respect of rent not in default;
(k) Possessory Liens in favor of brokers and dealers arising in connection with the acquisition or disposition of Investments owned as of the Closing Date and Permitted Investments, provided that such liens (a) attach only to such Investments and (b) secure only obligations incurred in the ordinary course and arising in connection with the acquisition or disposition of such Investments and not any obligation in connection with margin financing;
(l) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provisions relating to banker’s liens, liens in favor of securities intermediaries, rights of setoff or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or securities accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions or securities intermediaries;
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(m) Liens arising from precautionary UCC filings regarding “true” operating leases or, to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, the consignment of goods to a Loan Party;
(n) voluntary Liens on property (other than property of the type included in a Borrowing Base) in existence at the time such property is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or on such property of a Subsidiary of a Loan Party in existence at the time such Subsidiary is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition; provided, that such Liens are not incurred in connection with or in anticipation of such Permitted Acquisition and do not attach to any other assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary;
(o) Liens in favor of customs and revenues authorities imposed by applicable Law arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the importation of goods and solely to the extent the following conditions are satisfied: (A) such Liens secure obligations that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (B) the applicable Loan Party or Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (C) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation; and
(p) Liens in favor of the Revolving Agent securing the Revolving Obligations to the extent permitted under clause (j) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”, subject at all times to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement; provided, that any such Liens on any ABL Term Priority Collateral are junior to the Liens on the ABL Term Priority Collateral securing the Obligations.
“Permitted Indebtedness” means each of the following as long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would arise from the incurrence thereof:
(a) Indebtedness outstanding on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 7.03 (and Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof);
(b) (x) intercompany Indebtedness of the Borrowers and the Subsidiaries to the extent permitted by clause (g) of the definition of Permitted Investments, and (y) Guarantees by a Loan Party of Indebtedness of another Loan Party;
(c) Capital Lease Obligations and Synthetic Lease Obligations (and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof); provided that, if requested by the Agent, the Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the holders of such Indebtedness to enter into a Collateral Access Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
(d) obligations (contingent or otherwise) of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided that such obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with fluctuations in interest rates or foreign exchange rates, and not for purposes of speculation or taking a “market view;” provided that the aggregate Swap Termination Value thereof shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(e) Contingent liabilities under surety bonds or similar instruments incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the construction or improvement of Stores;
(f) Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, and Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within
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90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (ii) if requested by the Agent, the Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the holders of such Indebtedness to enter into a Collateral Access Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
(g) Indebtedness consisting of debt owing to a seller incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition (whether in the form of an “earn out” or otherwise); provided that such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Obligations in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Agent (but in any event such Indebtedness shall (i) not require the payment in cash of principal (other than in respect of working capital adjustments) prior to the Maturity Date, and (ii) have a maturity which extends beyond the Maturity Date);
(h) (i) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of a Loan Party after the Closing Date as a result of a Permitted Acquisition; provided that (x) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary and (y) immediately before and after such Person becomes a Subsidiary, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(i) the Obligations;
(j) Indebtedness of the Loan Parties incurred under the Revolving Credit Documents in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the Maximum ABL Facility Amount (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement as in effect as of the Closing Date or as subsequently amended in accordance with the terms hereof), so long as such Indebtedness shall at all times be subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement;
(k) other Indebtedness of the Borrowers or the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $35,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(l) Indebtedness under performance bonds or with respect to workers’ compensation claims, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(m) Indebtedness arising in connection with endorsement of instruments for deposit in the ordinary course of business;
(n) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the financing of insurance premiums;
(p) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with cash pooling arrangements, cash management and other similar arrangements consisting of netting arrangements and overdraft protections incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(q) Subordinated Debt;
(r) unsecured Indebtedness not otherwise specifically described herein (i) with a maturity date that is at least ninety (90) days following the Maturity Date, (ii) that does not require amortization or prepayments prior to the Maturity Date, and (iii) is on customary and market terms, or otherwise on terms, and pursuant to documentation, acceptable to the Agent in its Permitted Discretion;
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(s) Indebtedness of the Parent issued in connection with the repurchase of its Equity Interests to the extent such repurchase is permitted hereby.
“Permitted Investments” means each of the following as long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would arise from the making of such Investment:
(a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof;
(b) commercial paper issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least “Prime-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or at least “A-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(c) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for securities described in clause (a) above (without regard to the limitation on maturity contained in such clause) and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above or with any primary dealer and having a market value at the time that such repurchase agreement is entered into of not less than 100% of the repurchase obligation of such counterparty entity with whom such repurchase agreement has been entered into;
(e) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Loan Parties, in any money market fund, mutual fund, or other investment companies that are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P, and which invest solely in one or more of the types of securities described in clauses (a) through (d) above;
(f) Investments existing on the Closing Date, and set forth on Schedule 7.02, but not any increase in the amount thereof or any other modification of the terms thereof;
(g) (i) Investments by any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries outstanding on the Closing Date, and (ii) additional Investments by any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries in Loan Parties (other than the Parent); provided that (x) any such loans and advances made by a Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note pledged to the Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Security Documents and (y) such loans and advances shall be unsecured;
(h) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and
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Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;
(i) Guarantees constituting Permitted Indebtedness;
(j) Investments by any Loan Party in Swap Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business and for bona fide business (and not speculative purposes) to protect against fluctuations in interest rates in respect of the Obligations;
(k) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(l) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) advances to officers, directors and employees of the Loan Parties and Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) other loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Loan Parties and Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(m) Investments constituting Permitted Acquisitions;
(n) capital contributions made by any Loan Party to another Loan Party;
(o) completion of Lead Borrower’s development and initiation of e‑commerce/internet sales to the public;
(p) opening additional Stores consistent with Borrowers’ business plan reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
(q) Plan Redemption Payments; and
(r) other Investments not otherwise subject to the provisions set forth in this definition, provided, that, at the time any such Investment is made, the Payment Conditions are satisfied;
provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, no such Investments specified in clauses (a) through (e) and clause (r) shall be permitted unless (1) either (A) no Loans (under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), or, if then required to be Cash Collateralized (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), Letters of Credit (under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) are then outstanding, or (B) the Investment is a temporary Investment pending expiration of an interest period for a SOFR Loan (under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), the proceeds of which Investment will be applied to the Revolving Obligations after the expiration of such Interest Period, and (2) such Investments are pledged to the Revolving Agent and the Agent as additional collateral for the Obligations pursuant to such agreements as may be reasonably required by the Revolving Agent and the Agent, and (ii) with respect to an Investment in respect of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property), such Investment shall not be permitted unless the purchaser, assignee or other transferee thereof agrees in writing to be bound by a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license of such Material Intellectual Property in favor of the Agent for use in connection with the exercise of the rights and remedies of the Credit Parties, which license shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall make any Investment consisting of a license, sublicense or other transfer of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property) (in each case, whether
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as a Permitted Disposition, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Encumbrance or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Agent and the Required Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” shall mean, with respect to any Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to modify, refinance, refund, renew or extend such Refinanced Indebtedness; provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Refinanced Indebtedness outstanding immediately prior to such exchange, modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension, except by an amount equal to the unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable and customary amounts paid, and reasonable and customary fees and expenses incurred, in connection with such exchange, modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension; provided, further, that in the case of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect of the Revolving Obligations, the aggregate principal amount shall not exceed the amount permitted to be incurred pursuant to clause (j) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness, (b) any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Refinanced Indebtedness, (c) immediately before and after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (d) if the Refinanced Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Agent and the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Indebtedness, (e) the primary obligor(s) in respect of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are the primary obligor(s) in respect of the applicable Refinanced Indebtedness, and each Person (if any) that Guarantees, any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is a Person (if any) that Guaranteed (or would have been obligated to Guarantee) the applicable Refinanced Indebtedness, (f) the interest rate applicable to such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the then applicable market interest rate, (g) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not require any scheduled principal payments due prior to the Maturity Date in excess of, or prior to, the scheduled principal payments due for the Refinanced Indebtedness prior to the Maturity Date, (h) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be otherwise on terms not materially less favorable to the Credit Parties than those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Indebtedness, including, without limitation, with respect to financial and other covenants and events of default, (i) to the extent the Refinanced Indebtedness is secured, any such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be secured by no additional assets of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries than the assets securing such Refinanced Indebtedness (except to the extent of after-acquired assets or proceeds of assets that would have secured such Refinanced Indebtedness), and (j) in the case of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect of the Revolving Obligations, if such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is secured, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness and the Liens securing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, shall be subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, limited partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established, sponsored, maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan.
“Plan Redemption Payments” means payments to Eligible Persons (as defined in the Employee Stock Plan) for the redemption of restricted Equity Interests issued to such employees pursuant to the Employee Stock Plan, which redemption is required pursuant to the terms of the Employee Stock Plan.
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“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Prepayment Event” means:
(a) Any Disposition (including, without limitation, pursuant to any sale-leaseback transaction, but excluding any sublease of a retail store location) of any property or asset of a Loan Party consisting of ABL Term Priority Collateral; provided, that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, Dispositions of such property or assets in an amount not in excess of $2,500,000 in the aggregate in any consecutive twelve (12) month period shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event;
(b) Any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of a Loan Party consisting of ABL Term Priority Collateral, unless the proceeds therefrom are required to be paid to the holder of a Lien on such property or asset having priority over the Lien of the Collateral Agent (excluding Liens permitted under clause (p) of the definition of “Permitted Encumbrances” but subject at all times to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement); provided, that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, receipt of such proceeds in an amount not in excess of $2,500,000 in the aggregate in any consecutive twelve (12) month period shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event;
(c) The issuance by a Loan Party of any Equity Interests, other than any such issuance of Equity Interests (i) to a Loan Party, (ii) as consideration for a Permitted Acquisition, or (iii) as a compensatory issuance to any employee, director, or consultant (including under any option plan); provided that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, such issuance shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event;
(d) [reserved]; or
(e) The receipt by any Loan Party of any Extraordinary Receipts; provided, that (i) so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, any such receipt shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event, and (ii) with respect to any such receipt consisting of (or the proceeds (as defined in the UCC) of) ABL Term Priority Collateral, such receipt shall not constitute a Prepayment Event unless at the time of such receipt (including after giving effect to the application of the same as a Prepayment Event under and as defined in the Revolving Loan Agreement), the outstanding balance of Revolving Loans is zero and all L/C Obligations (as defined in the Revolving Loan Agreement) have been Cash Collateralized (as defined in the Revolving Loan Agreement).
“Protective Advances” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(d).
“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 5390(c)(8)(D).
“QFC Credit Support” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Loan Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person as constitutes an
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“eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Real Estate” means all real property subject to Leases and all land, together with the buildings, structures, parking areas, and other improvements thereon, now or hereafter owned by any Loan Party, including all easements, rights-of-way, and similar rights relating thereto and all leases, tenancies, and occupancies thereof.
“Recipient” means, as applicable, (a) any Person to which any payment on account of any obligation of a Loan Party under any Loan Document is made or owed, including the Agent or any Lender or (b) if any Person described in clause (a) is treated as a pass-through entity for applicable Tax purposes, the beneficial owner of such Person.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).
“Registered Public Accounting Firm” has the meaning specified by the Securities Laws and shall be independent of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as prescribed by the Securities Laws.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the FRB or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the FRB or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.
“Reports” has the meaning specified in Section 9.12(b)).
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, the Lenders holding more than 50% of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment and the then aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Loans; provided, that at any time there are two or more Lenders party to this Agreement, “Required Lenders” shall require at least two Lenders holdings in excess of 50% of the sum of the unused Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment and the aggregate principal balance of the Loans.
“Reserves” means, without duplication of any items to the extent such items are otherwise addressed or excluded through eligibility criteria, such reserves as the Agent from time to time determines in its Permitted Discretion as being appropriate (a) to reflect the impediments to the Agent’s ability to realize upon the Collateral, (b) to reflect claims and liabilities that the Agent determines will need to be satisfied in connection with the realization upon the Collateral, (c) to reflect criteria, events, conditions, contingencies or risks which adversely affect ABL Term Priority Collateral, or the assets, business, financial performance or financial condition of any Loan Party, or (d) to reflect that a Default or an Event of Default then exists; provided, however, that in no event shall the Agent impose reserves with respect to Eligible Inventory or Eligible Accounts included in the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
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“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of a Loan Party or any of the other individuals designated in writing to the Agent by an existing Responsible Officer of a Loan Party as an authorized signatory of any certificate or other document to be delivered hereunder, including, with respect to the Portal, any person authorized and authenticated through the Portal in accordance with the Agent’s procedures for such authentication. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively 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 conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other 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 such 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, and any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest, fees or other charges on or with respect to, and any redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment and any claim for rescission with respect to, any Subordinated Debt. Without limiting the foregoing, “Restricted Payments” with respect to any Person shall also include all payments made by such Person with any proceeds of a dissolution or liquidation of such Person.
“Revolving Agent” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, in its capacities as administrative agent and collateral agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement or any future administrative agent or collateral agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Availability” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Borrowing Base” has the has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 23, 2018, by, among others, the Borrowers, the Guarantors, the Revolving Lenders and the Revolving Agent, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect as of the Closing Date and as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time hereafter in accordance with the terms thereof and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, and any replacement credit agreement entered into pursuant to any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof.
“Revolving Credit Documents” means the “Loan Documents” (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), as may be amended from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means Indebtedness of the Loan Parties pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement, and any Permitted Refinancing thereof, which is subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Revolving Lender” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Loan Cap” has the meaning specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
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“Revolving Loan Maturity Date” means the “Maturity Date” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Obligations” means the “Obligations” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Sanctioned Entity” means (a) a country or territory or a government of a country or territory, (b) an agency of the government of a country or territory, (c) an organization directly or indirectly controlled by a country or territory or its government, or (d) a Person resident in or determined to be resident in a country or territory, in each case of clauses (a) through (d) that is a target of Sanctions, including a target of any country or territory sanctions program administered and enforced by OFAC.
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time (a) any Person named on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by OFAC, OFAC’s consolidated Non-SDN list or any other Sanctions-related list maintained by any Governmental Authority, (b) a Person or legal entity that is a target of Sanctions, (c) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Entity, or (d) any Person directly or indirectly owned or controlled (individually or in the aggregate) by or acting on behalf of any such Person or Persons described in clauses (a) through (c) above.
“Sanctions” means individually and collectively, respectively, any and all economic sanctions, trade sanctions, financial sanctions, sectoral sanctions, secondary sanctions, trade embargoes anti-terrorism laws and other sanctions laws, regulations or embargoes, including those imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by: (a) the United States of America, including those administered by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, or through any existing or future executive order, (b) the United Nations Security Council, (c) the European Union or any European Union member state, (d) His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, or (d) any other Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over any Credit Party or any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates.
“Sarbanes-Oxley” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Second Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement” means that certain Second Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement, which amendment is to be signed on the Closing Date.
“Securities Laws” means the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the applicable accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated, approved or incorporated by the SEC or the PCAOB.
“Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Loan Parties and the Agent, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time.
“Security Documents” means the Security Agreement, the Blocked Account Agreements, the DDA Notifications, the Credit Card Notifications, and each other security agreement or other instrument or document executed and delivered to the Agent pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document granting a Lien to secure any of the Obligations.
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“Senior Executive Officers” means the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, President, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of each Borrower.
“Shareholders’ Equity” means, as of any date of determination, consolidated shareholders’ equity of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of that date determined in accordance with GAAP.
“SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.
“SOFR Adjustment” means 0.10% (10.00 basis points) per annum.
“Solvent” and “Solvency” means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) at fair valuation, all of the properties and assets of such Person are greater than the sum of the debts, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair saleable value of the properties and assets of such Person is not less than the amount that would be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person is able to realize upon its properties and assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the normal course of business, (d) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts become due (whether at maturity or otherwise), (e) such Person is not engaged in a business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in a business or transaction, for which such Person’s properties and assets would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practices in the industry in which such Person is engaged, and (f) such Person is “solvent” or not “insolvent”, as applicable within the meaning given those terms and similar terms under applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).
“Specified Combined Loan Cap” has the meaning set forth in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Specified Transaction” means any Permitted Acquisition, Permitted Investment, prepayment of Indebtedness or Restricted Payment (or declaration of any such prepayment or Restricted Payment), in each case requiring satisfaction of the Payment Conditions hereunder.
“Store” means any retail store (which may include a Borrower’s interest in any real property, fixtures, equipment, inventory and other property related thereto) operated, or to be operated, by any Loan Party.
“Subordinated Debt” means any Indebtedness of any Credit Party subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations (specifically excluding from Subordinated Debt any capital lease payments) in a manner and form satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion, as to right and time of payment and as to any other rights and remedies thereunder.
“Subordination Provisions” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(q).
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body 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
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Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of a Loan Party.
“Supported QFC” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“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.
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so‑called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property (including sale and leaseback transactions), in each case, creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the application of any Debtor Relief Laws to such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term SOFR” means, means at any time of determination for any month, the sum of (a) greater of (x) the Floor and (y) the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such month for Dollar deposits with a term equivalent to three months; provided that if the rate is not published prior to 11:00 a.m. on such determination date then Term SOFR means the Term SOFR Screen Rate on the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately prior thereto, in each case, plus (b) the SOFR Adjustment. Term SOFR shall be determined on a monthly basis as of the first day of each month.
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“Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Agent in its reasonable discretion).
“Term SOFR Loan” mean a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on Term SOFR.
“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.
“Term SOFR Replacement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(b).
“Term SOFR Screen Rate” means the forward-looking SOFR term rate administered by CME (or any successor administrator satisfactory to the Agent) and published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Agent from time to time).
“Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (i) the Maturity Date, (ii) the date on which the maturity of the Obligations is accelerated (or deemed accelerated) and the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments are irrevocably terminated (or deemed terminated) in accordance with Article VIII, or (iii) the date on which all outstanding Obligations (other than unasserted contingent indemnification Obligations) have been paid in full and Commitments are irrevocably terminated in accordance with Section 2.01.
“Trading with the Enemy Act” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“UCC” or “Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that if a term is defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code differently than in another Article thereof, the term shall have the meaning set forth in such Article 9; provided further that, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, perfection, or the effect of perfection or non-perfection, of a security interest in any Collateral or the availability of any remedy hereunder is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than State of New York, “Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection or availability of such remedy, as the case may be.
“UFCA” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(d).
“UFTA” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(d).
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
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“Unfunded Pension Liability” means the excess of a Pension Plan’s benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Pension Plan’s assets, determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (i) a Saturday, (ii) a Sunday or (iii) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or any successor thereto, recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities; provided, that for purposes of notice requirements in Section 2.02(b), such day is also a Business Day.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” shall mean, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“Weekly BBC Reporting Event” means either (a) the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default, or (b) the failure of the Borrowers to maintain Revolving Availability of at least twenty percent (20%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap at any time. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Weekly BBC Reporting Event shall be deemed continuing at the Agent’s option (i) so long as such Event of Default has not been waived, and/or (ii) if the Weekly BBC Reporting Event arises as a result of the Borrowers’ failure to maintain Revolving Availability as required hereunder, until Revolving Availability has exceeded twenty percent (20%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap for thirty (30) consecutive days, in which case a Weekly BBC Reporting Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement. The termination of a Weekly BBC Reporting Event as provided herein shall in no way limit, waive or delay the occurrence of a subsequent Weekly BBC Reporting Event in the event that the conditions set forth in this definition again arise.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any reference to a defined term as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement or any other Revolving Credit Document shall refer to the definition of such term as in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date (including with respect to any component definitions (or any sub-component definitions)), except with respect to any amendment or modification thereto (or to any component definitions (or any sub-component definitions))
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permitted under this Agreement and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement or otherwise consented to by the Agent.
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 (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (iii) the words “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, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) 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.
(d) Any reference herein or in any other Loan Document to the satisfaction, repayment, or payment in full of the Obligations shall mean (x) the repayment in Dollars in full in cash or immediately available funds or other collateral as may be reasonably requested by the Agent of all of the Obligations (including the payment of any termination amount then applicable other than unasserted contingent indemnification Obligations), and (y) the termination of the Commitments and the Loan Documents. As used herein, “Payment in Full” shall mean satisfaction of the conditions described in the foregoing clauses (x) and (y).
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
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with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Lead Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Agent, the Lenders and the Lead Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Lead Borrower shall provide to the 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 GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective as of the first Fiscal Quarter of 2019, Borrowers shall adopt ASU 2016-02 (“Leases”) as issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which adoption is hereby approved by the Agent and the Lenders.
1.04 Rounding.
Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrowers 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.
Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
1.06 Reserved.
1.07 Divisions.
For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
1.08 Rates.
The Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark, any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or with respect to any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any then-current Benchmark or any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement), as it may or may not be adjusted pursuant to Section 3.03(b), will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Term
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SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark, prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes. The Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto and such transactions may be adverse to a Borrower. The Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Term SOFR Reference Rate or Term SOFR, or any other Benchmark, any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to any Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
Article II
THE loans
2.01 Loans; Reserves.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender agrees to make a term loan (the “Initial ABL Term A Loan”) to the Borrowers on the Closing Date in a principal amount equal to the Initial ABL Term A Loan Commitment of such Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender. Amounts repaid in respect of the Initial ABL Term A Loans may not be reborrowed, and upon each Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender’s making of its Initial ABL Term A Loan, the Initial ABL Term A Loan Commitment of such Initial ABL Term A Loan Lender shall be terminated.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender agrees to make a term loan (the “Initial ABL Term B Loan”) to the Borrowers on the Closing Date in a principal amount equal to the Initial ABL Term B Loan Commitment of Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender. Amounts repaid in respect of the Initial ABL Term B Loan may not be reborrowed, and upon each Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender’s making of its Initial ABL Term B Loan, the Initial ABL Term B Loan Commitment of such Initial ABL Term B Loan Lender shall be terminated.
(c) (i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender severally agrees to make term loans (each such loan, a “Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan”) to the Borrowers at any time during the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Period, in an amount not to exceed such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment; provided, that after giving effect to any requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan, the aggregate principal amount of such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans shall not exceed such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment. The Borrower shall request the funding of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 2.02(b) below and such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans shall be funded by the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lenders pursuant to the terms of Section 2.02(c) hereof. Each Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment shall automatically be permanently reduced concurrently with, and in the principal amount of, the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan made by such Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Lender. The principal amount of any Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan which is repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
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(ii) Each Lender having a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment hereby grants to each Lender that does not have a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment the right to assume a portion of such Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment in connection with any request by the Borrowers for the funding of a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan, in an amount for any applicable Lender not to exceed such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (as determined pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of such term) of such requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan. Any Lender desiring to avail itself of the option to assume a portion of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.01(c)(ii) shall, within two (2) Business Days following receipt of notice from the Agent of the Borrowers’ request for funding of a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan pursuant to Section 2.02(b), notify the Agent in writing of its intention to participate in such funding (such notice, a “Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Assumption Notice”) and the amount of the requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan intended to be funded by such Lender; provided, that such amount shall not be less than $500,000 or more than such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (as determined pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of such term) of the requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan. The failure of any Lender to deliver a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Assumption Notice as provided in the immediately preceding sentence shall be deemed such Lender’s declination to participate in such funding. Upon receipt of such notice from any applicable Lender, the Agent shall notify each Lender having a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment of the receipt of such notice and the aggregate amount of Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments to be assumed with respect to the requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan pursuant to this subsection, and the resulting reduction in such Lender’s Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment resulting therefrom (which reductions shall be proportional among all Lenders holding Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments). The delivery of a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Assumption Notice by any Lender shall be irrevocable, and upon Agent’s receipt of such notice the aggregate Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments shall be reallocated among the affected Lenders in the manner contemplated by this Section 2.01(c)(ii) such that after giving effect thereto, each Lender delivering a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Assumption Notice shall be deemed to have a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment in the amount set forth in its Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Assumption Notice. For purposes of the accrual of interest hereunder and application of proceeds pursuant to Section 8.03, any Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan funded by any Lender not having a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment on the Closing Date shall automatically be deemed to be an ABL Term A Loan hereunder, and any Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan made by any Lender having a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment on the Closing Date shall automatically be deemed to be a ABL Term B Loan hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, Lenders that do not have a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment on the Closing Date (A) shall have no obligation to exercise the option to participate in the funding of Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.01(c)(ii), and (B) shall have no right to fees payable pursuant to the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Ticking Fee payable under and as defined in the Fee Letter. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the ability of a Lender to participate in the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment pursuant to this Section 2.01(c)(ii) shall only apply to a Lender that is party to this Agreement on the Closing Date and not to any assignee thereof (other than an assignee that is an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such Lender).
(d) The Agent shall have the right, at any time and from time to time on and after the Closing Date in its Permitted Discretion to establish, modify or eliminate Reserves.
2.02 Borrowings of Loans.
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(a) All Loans made under this agreement shall be Term SOFR Loans unless the provisions of Sections 3.02 or 3.03 shall apply.
(b) The Lead Borrower shall give irrevocable written notice to the Agent of each proposed borrowing of a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan by delivery of a Notice of Borrowing, appropriately completed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower no later than 11:00 a.m. five (5) Business Days prior to the proposed date of such borrowing. Each such Notice of Borrowing shall specify the requested amount of the requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan (which shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof) and the proposed date of funding thereof (which shall be a Business Day). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Borrowers shall not be permitted to make more than two (2) requests for Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans during the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment Period.
(c) Following the receipt of a Notice of Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.02(b), the Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the details and amount of any requested Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan (and, in the case of a Lender having a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment, the amount of such Loan to be made by it as part of the requested borrowing). Following receipt of such notice, each Lender which does not have a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment may exercise its right to participate in the funding of such borrowing pursuant to Section 2.01(c)(ii) above. Each applicable Lender shall then make the amount of its Delayed Draw Term Loan available to the Agent in immediately available funds at the Agent’s office not later than 1:00 pm on the Business Day specified in the applicable Notice of Borrowing. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Article IV of this Agreement, the Agent shall use reasonable efforts to make all funds so received available to the Borrowers in like funds by no later than 4:00 p.m. on the day of receipt by the Agent either by wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Agent by the Lead Borrower.
(d) The Agent, without the request of the Lead Borrower, may advance (i) any interest, fee, service charge (including direct wire fees), Credit Party Expenses, or other payment to which any Credit Party is entitled from the Loan Parties pursuant hereto or any other Loan Document, or (ii) any protective advances contemplated by clause (b) of the term “Maximum ABL Term Loan Facility Amount” as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement in an amount not to exceed the amount permitted under such clause (collectively, “Protective Advances”), and may charge the same to the Loan Account notwithstanding that an Overadvance may result thereby. The Agent shall advise the Lead Borrower of any such advance or charge promptly after the making thereof. Such action on the part of the Agent shall not constitute a waiver of the Agent’s rights and the Borrowers’ obligations under Section 2.05(d). Any amount which is added to the principal balance of the Loan Account as provided in this Section 2.02(d) shall bear interest at the interest rate then and thereafter applicable to ABL Term B Loans and shall constitute Obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. Any Protective Advance made by the Agent under this Section 2.02(d) shall be funded solely by, and shall be for the sole account of, the Agent.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) [Reserved].
(g) [Reserved].
(h) [Reserved].
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2.03 [Reserved].
2.04 [Reserved].
2.05 Prepayments.
(a) [Reserved].
(b) [Reserved].
(c) The Borrowers may, upon irrevocable notice from the Lead Borrower to the Agent, at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay the Loans in whole or in part; provided that such notice must be received by the Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. three (3) Business Days prior to the date of such prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment. The Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Lead Borrower, the Borrowers shall make such prepayment, together with any fees then due hereunder or under any other Loan Document, and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.
(d) [Reserved].
(e) If for any reason the outstanding principal balance of the Loans at any time exceeds the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base as then in effect (“Overadvance”), the Borrowers shall immediately (and in any event, withing one (1) Business Day thereafter) deliver an updated Borrowing Base Certificate to the Agent and the Revolving Agent to cause the Revolving Agent to implement an ABL Term Pushdown Reserve in the amount equal to such excess.
(f) The Borrowers shall prepay the Loans in an amount equal to the Net Cash Proceeds received by a Loan Party on account of any Prepayment Event.
(g) Prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.05(c) and (f) above, shall be applied first to any Protective Advances then outstanding, second, to the outstanding ABL Term A Loans (ratably against each such ABL Term A Loan outstanding), until Paid in Full, and third to the outstanding ABL Term B Loans (ratably against each such ABL Term B Loan); provided, that, upon the Agent’s receipt of any such prepayment, the Agent, at the direction of all Lenders holding ABL Term A Loans, as determined in their discretion, shall pay such amounts either (i) first, to such Lenders for application to the ABL Term A Loans, until paid in full, and second, pro rata to each of the other Lenders, until paid in full, or (ii) pro rata to each the Lenders in accordance with its respective share of the Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing to the contrary, any Lender may, upon written notice to the Agent, waive its right to receive its ratable share of any applicable prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(f), in which case such amounts otherwise payable to such Lender shall be reallocated among those Lenders which have not elected to waive such prepayment amounts.
2.06 [Reserved].
2.07 Repayment of Loans. To the extent not previously paid, the Borrowers shall repay the entire outstanding balance of the Loans and all other outstanding Obligations on the Maturity Date.
2.08 Interest.
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(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(c) below and Section 3.03, the outstanding principal amount of each Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) Term SOFR for such Interest Period, plus (iii) the Applicable Margin.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) (i) If any amount payable under any Loan Document is not paid when due (following any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(ii) If any other Event of Default exists, then the Agent may, and upon the request of the Required Lenders shall, notify the Lead Borrower that all outstanding Obligations shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate and thereafter such Obligations shall bear interest at the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(iii) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(d) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
2.09 Fees. The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent for its account and for the account of the respective Lenders, as applicable, fees in the amounts and at the time specified in the Fee Letter. Unless specified otherwise in the Fee Letter, such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees; Term SOFR Conforming Changes.
(a) All computations of interest and fees shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12, bear interest for one day. Each determination by the Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(b) In connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR, the Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Agent will promptly notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders of the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR.
2.11 Evidence of Debt.
(a) The Loans made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by the Agent in the name of Borrowers (the “Loan Account”) in the ordinary
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course of business. In addition, each Lender may record in such Lender’s internal records, an appropriate notation evidencing the date and amount of each Loan from such Lender, each payment and prepayment of principal of any such Loan, and each payment of interest, fees and other amounts due in connection with the Obligations due to such Lender. The accounts or records maintained by the Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Loans made by the Lenders to the Borrowers 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 Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Agent, the Borrowers shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans, as applicable, in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto. Upon receipt of an affidavit of a Lender as to the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of such Lender’s Note and upon cancellation of such Note, the Borrowers will issue, in lieu thereof, a replacement Note in favor of such Lender, in the same principal amount thereof and otherwise of like tenor.
(b) [Reserved]
2.12 Payments Generally; Agent’s Clawback.
(a) General. All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. Subject to Section 2.14 hereof, the Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage (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 Agent after 2:00 p.m., at the option of the Agent, 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 Borrowers shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
(b) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Agent. Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of any Loan that such Lender will not make available to the Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Loan available to the Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to pay to the 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 Borrowers to but excluding the date of payment to the 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 Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation plus any administrative processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrowers, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If the
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Borrowers and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrowers the amount of such interest paid by the Borrowers for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Loan to the Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrowers shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrowers may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Agent.
(c) Payments by Borrowers; Presumptions by Agent. Unless the Agent shall have received notice from the Lead Borrower prior to the time at which any payment is due to the Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrowers will not make such payment, the Agent may assume that the Borrowers have made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender 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 Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
A notice of the Agent to any Lender or the Lead Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsections (b) and (c) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(d) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the Agent because the conditions to the applicable Loan set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof (subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 4.02 hereof), the Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(e) Obligations of Lenders Several. The obligations of Lenders hereunder to make the Loans are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make its portion of the Loan or to make any payment hereunder 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 portion of the Loan(s) or to make its payment hereunder.
(f) Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders.
If any Credit Party shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of, interest on, or other amounts with respect to, any of the Obligations resulting in such Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such Obligations greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein (including as in contravention of the priorities of payment set forth in Section 8.03), then the Credit Party receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Obligations of the other Credit Parties, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Credit Parties ratably and in the priorities set forth in Section 8.03, provided that:
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(i) if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations 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 the Loan Parties pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement 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 to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary 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.
2.14 [Reserved].
2.15 [Reserved].
Article III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY;
APPOINTMENT OF LEAD BORROWER
3.01 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrowers hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if the Borrowers shall be required by applicable law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Agent or Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrowers shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrowers shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrowers. Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Borrowers shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall indemnify the Agent and each Lender, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) paid by the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other 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 Lead Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Agent), or by the Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(d) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrowers to a Governmental Authority, the Lead Borrower shall deliver to the Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
(e) Status of Lenders. Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which any Borrower is resident for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Lead Borrower (with a copy to the Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. Such delivery shall be provided on the Closing Date and on or before such documentation expires or becomes obsolete or after the occurrence of an event requiring a change in the documentation most recently delivered. In addition, any Lender, if requested by the Lead Borrower or the Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Agent as will enable the Lead Borrower or the Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Borrower is resident for tax purposes in the United States, any Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Lead Borrower or the Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable:
(i) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party,
(ii) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,
(iii) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrowers within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN,
(iv) to the extent a Recipient is not a U.S. person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) and is not the beneficial owner of payments made under this Agreement or any Loan Document (for example, where such Recipient is a non‑U.S. partnership), (A) an IRS Form W-8IMY on behalf of itself and (B) the relevant forms prescribed in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (v) and (vi) of this Section 3.01(e) that would be required of each such beneficial owner if such beneficial owner were a Recipient, or
(v) any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law
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to permit the Lead Borrower to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.
(f) Transfer of Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any Loan Document, if a Lender sells, assigns, grants a participation in or otherwise transfers all or part of the Obligations of the Loan Parties to such Lender, such Lender agrees to notify the Agent of the percentage amount in which it is no longer the beneficial owner of Obligations of the Loan Parties to such Lender. To the extent of such percentage amount, the Agent and the Borrower will treat such Lender’s documentation provided pursuant to subsection (e) of this Section 3.01 as no longer valid. Neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall make any greater payments pursuant to this Section 3.01 as a consequence of (i) such sale, assignment, participation or transfer or (ii) any change by a Lender of its designated lending branch.
(g) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If the Agent or any Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrowers or with respect to which the Borrowers have paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall pay to the Borrowers an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrowers under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Borrowers, upon the request of the Agent or such Lender, agree to repay the amount paid over to the Borrowers (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Agent or such Lender in the event the Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This subsection shall not be construed to require the Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrowers or any other Person.
(h) FATCA. If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal income withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender granting the participation only) at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, the Lender granting the participation) such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, the Lender granting the participation) as may be necessary for the Agent or the Borrowers to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (h), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
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 Term SOFR, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon Term SOFR, then, on written notice thereof by such Lender to the Lead Borrower through the Agent (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Term SOFR Loans shall be suspended, and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest
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rate on which is determined by reference to the Term SOFR 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 Agent without reference to the Term SOFR component of the Base Rate, in each case, until such Lender notifies the Agent and the Lead Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the Borrowers shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Term SOFR 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 Agent without reference to the Term SOFR component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Term SOFR Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Term SOFR Loans and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Term SOFR component of the Base Rate with respect to any Base Rate Loans, the Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Term SOFR component thereof until the 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 Term SOFR. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates.
(a) If in connection with any request for a Loan hereunder, (i) the Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that (A) no Successor Rate has been determined in accordance with Section 3.03(b), and the circumstances under clause (i) of Section 3.03(b) or the Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred, or (B) adequate and reasonable means do not otherwise exist for determining Term SOFR, or (ii) the Agent or the Required Lenders determine that for any reason that Term SOFR does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, the Agent will promptly so notify the Lead Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Term SOFR Loans shall be suspended, and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Term SOFR component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Term SOFR component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Agent (or, in the case of a determination by the Required Lenders described in clause (ii) of this Section 3.03(a), until the Agent upon instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) the Lead Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of Term SOFR Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein and (ii) any outstanding Term SOFR Loans shall be deemed to have been converted to Base Rate Loans.
(b) Benchmark Replacement Setting.
(i) Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Agent and the Lead Borrower may amend this Agreement to replace the then current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. Any such amendment with respect to a Benchmark Transition Event will become effective at 5:00 p.m. on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the Agent has posted such proposed amendment to all affected Lenders and the Lead Borrower so long as the Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such amendment from the Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. No replacement of a Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement pursuant to this Section 3.03(b) will occur prior to the applicable Benchmark Transition Start Date.
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(ii) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(iii) Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Agent will promptly notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders of (A) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (B) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. The Agent will notify the Lead Borrower of (x) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(iv) and (y) the commencement of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 3.03(b), including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 3.03(b).
(iv) Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (A) if the then‑current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (1) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Agent in its reasonable discretion or (2) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (B) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (A) above either (1) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (2) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(v) Benchmark Unavailability Period. Upon Lead Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, (1) the Lead Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Term SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Lead Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans, and (2) any outstanding affected Term SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted to Base Rate Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of the Base Rate based upon the then-current Benchmark
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or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of the Base Rate.
3.04 Increased Costs.
(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any (x) Change in Law, or (y) compliance by any Lender with any direction, request, or requirement (irrespective of whether having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority or monetary authority (including Regulation D of the FRB), shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by any Lender;
(ii) subject any Lender to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement or any Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender in respect thereof (except for Taxes imposed by way of withholding or deduction, Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes and amounts relating to the foregoing which shall be governed solely and exclusively by Section 3.01, and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender); or
(iii) impose on any Lender any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Term SOFR Loans made by such Lender or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase, directly or indirectly, the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Term SOFR Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered, together with interest on such amount from the date of such demand until payment in full thereof at the rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans hereunder.
(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, such Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrowers will pay to such Lender, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Lead Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such
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Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Lead Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
3.05 Compensation for Losses.
Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);
(b) any failure by the Borrowers (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Lead Borrower; or
(c) any assignment of a Term SOFR Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Lead Borrower pursuant to Section 10.13;
including any reasonably calculable loss of anticipated profits and any actual loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained. The Borrowers shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing, provided such administrative charges are associated with the foregoing but not duplicative of the compensation for such loss, cost or expense otherwise described in this Section 3.05.
Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither Agent, nor any Lender, nor any of their Participants, is required actually to acquire eurodollar deposits to fund or match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues based on Term SOFR or the Term SOFR Reference Rate.
A certificate of the Agent or a Lender delivered to Borrowers setting forth in reasonable detail any amount or amounts that the Agent or such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 3.05 shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Borrowers shall pay such amount to the Agent or such Lender, as applicable, within 10 days of the date of their receipt of such certificate.
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender.
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The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, the Borrowers may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.
3.07 Survival.
All of the Borrowers’ obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Commitments and repayment of all Obligations hereunder.
3.08 Designation of Lead Borrower as Borrowers’ Agent.
(a) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Lead Borrower as such Borrower’s agent to obtain Loans, the proceeds of which shall be available to each Borrower for such uses as are permitted under this Agreement. As the disclosed principal for its agent, each Borrower shall be obligated to each Credit Party on account of Loans so made as if made directly by the applicable Credit Party to such Borrower, notwithstanding the manner by which such Loans are recorded on the books and records of the Lead Borrower and of any other Borrower. In addition, each Loan Party other than the Borrowers hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Lead Borrower as such Loan Party’s agent to represent such Loan Party in all respects under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(b) Each Borrower recognizes that credit available to it hereunder is in excess of and on better terms than it otherwise could obtain on and for its own account and that one of the reasons therefor is its joining in the credit facility contemplated herein with all other Borrowers. Consequently, each Borrower hereby assumes and agrees to discharge all Obligations of each of the other Borrowers.
(c) The Lead Borrower shall act as a conduit for each Borrower (including itself, as a “Borrower”) on whose behalf the Lead Borrower has requested a Loan. Neither the Agent nor any other Credit Party shall have any obligation to see to the application of such proceeds therefrom.
Article IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO LOANS
4.01 Conditions of Initial ABL Term Loans.
The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Loans hereunder (including the Initial ABL Term Loans) is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals, telecopies or other electronic image scan transmission (e.g., “pdf” or “tif “ via e-mail) (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent:
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(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement sufficient in number for distribution to the Agent, each Lender and the Lead Borrower;
(ii) a Note executed by the Borrowers in favor of each Lender requesting a Note;
(iii) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Agent may require evidencing (A) the authority of each Loan Party to enter into this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to become a party and (B) the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to become a party;
(iv) copies of each Loan Party’s Organization Documents and such other documents and certifications as the Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and that each Loan Party is validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that failure to so qualify in such jurisdiction could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(v) a favorable opinion of each of Ballard Spahr LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, each addressed to the Agent and each Lender, as to such matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Agent may reasonably request;
(vi) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower certifying (A) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied, (B) that there has been no event or circumstance since the date of the Audited Financial Statements that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (C) to the Solvency of the Loan Parties as of the Closing Date after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby, including the funding of the Initial ABL Term Loans, and (D) either that (1) no consents, licenses or approvals are required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such Loan Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, or (2) that all such consents, licenses and approvals have been obtained and are in full force and effect;
(vii) evidence that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to the Loan Documents and all endorsements in favor of the Agent required under the Loan Documents have been obtained and are in effect;
(viii) [reserved];
(ix) the Security Documents and, subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, certificates evidencing any stock being pledged thereunder, together with undated stock powers executed in blank, each duly executed by the applicable Loan Parties;
(x) all other Loan Documents, each duly executed by the applicable Loan Parties;
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(xi) [reserved];
(xii) results of searches or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Agent (in each case dated as of a date reasonably satisfactory to the Agent) indicating the absence of Liens on the assets of the Loan Parties, except for Permitted Encumbrances and Liens for which termination statements and releases satisfactory to the Agent are being tendered concurrently with such extension of credit or other arrangements satisfactory to the Agent for the delivery of such termination statements and releases have been made; and
(xiii) (A) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by the Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create or perfect the Liens (with the priority set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) intended to be created under the Loan Documents and all such documents and instruments shall have been so filed, registered or recorded to the satisfaction of the Agent, (B) the DDA Notifications, Credit Card Notifications, and Blocked Account Agreements required pursuant to Section 6.13 hereof, (C) control agreements with respect to the Loan Parties’ securities and investment accounts, and (D) Collateral Access Agreements as required by the Agent; and (xiv) such other assurances, certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Agent reasonably may require.
(b) After giving effect to (i) any Loans funded on the Closing Date, (ii) any charges to the Loan Account made in connection with the establishment of the credit facility contemplated hereby, and (iii) all Revolving Loans outstanding under the Revolving Loan Agreement and payment of all fees, costs and expenses associated with the Second Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement, Revolving Availability shall be not less than $100,000,000.
(c) The Agent shall have received a pro forma Borrowing Base Certificate dated the Closing Date reflecting the funding of the Initial ABL Term Loans and the outstanding balance of the Revolving Obligations as of June 29, 2024, prepared with reference to the amounts of the Loan Parties’ Eligible Credit Card Receivables and Eligible Inventory included in the Borrowing Base Certificate submitted for the most recently ended fiscal monthly period, executed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower.
(d) The Agent shall be reasonably satisfied that any financial statements delivered to it fairly present the business and financial condition of the Loan Parties and that there has been no Material Adverse Effect since the date of the most recent financial information delivered to the Agent.
(e) The Agent shall have received and be satisfied with (i) a detailed forecast for the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending February 1, 2025, which shall include a Revolving Availability model, Consolidated income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flow, by month, each prepared in conformity with GAAP and consistent with the Loan Parties’ then current practices and (ii) such other information (financial or otherwise) reasonably requested by the Agent.
(f) There shall not be pending any litigation or other proceeding, the result of which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) There shall not have occurred any default under any Material Contract of any Loan Party.
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(h) The consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby shall not violate any Applicable Law or any Organization Document.
(i) All fees required to be paid to the Agent and to the Lenders on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid in full.
(j) The Borrowers shall have paid all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Agent to the extent invoiced prior to or on the Closing Date, plus such additional amounts of such fees, charges and disbursements as shall constitute the Agent’s reasonable estimate of such fees, charges and disbursements incurred or to be incurred by such Person through the closing proceedings (provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the Borrowers and the Agent).
(k) To the extent requested by the Agent or any Lender, the Borrowers shall have delivered an executed Certificate of Beneficial Ownership with respect to each Borrower and such other documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the Patriot Act, in each case, the results of which are reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders.
(l) No material changes in governmental regulations or policies affecting any Loan Party or any Credit Party shall have occurred prior to the Closing Date.
(m) There shall not have occurred any disruption or material adverse change in the United States financial or capital markets in general that has had, in the reasonable opinion of the Agent, a material adverse effect on the market for loan syndications or adversely affecting the syndication of the Loans.
(n) The Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing for the Initial ABL Term Loans (and, if applicable, any Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans) to borrowed on the Closing Date, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
(o) The Agent shall have received the Second Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders, which Second Amendment to the Revolving Credit Agreement shall be effective contemporaneously with the effectiveness of this Agreement.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.04, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have Consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be Consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Restatement Date specifying its objection thereto.
4.02 Conditions to all Loans.
The obligation of each Lender to honor any request for a Loan is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) The representations and warranties of each Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or
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in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Loan, except (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties are qualified by materiality, in which case they shall be true and correct in all respects, (ii) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (or in all respects, as applicable) as of such earlier date, and (iii) for purposes of this Section 4.02, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a), (b) and (e) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d), respectively, of Section 6.01.
(b) No Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Loan or from the application of the proceeds thereof.
(c) The Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(d) No event or circumstance which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect shall have occurred.
(e) To the extent that any Overadvance shall result from the making of such Loan, the Borrowers shall have delivered an updated Borrowing Base Certificate to the Agent and the Revolving Agent reflecting an ABL Push Down Reserve against the Revolving Borrowing Base in the amount of such Overadvance, and the Revolving Agent shall have implemented such ABL Push Down Reserve.
Each Notice of Borrowing submitted by the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Borrowers that the conditions specified in 4.02(a), (b), (d), and (e) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Loan. The conditions set forth in this Section 4.02 are for the sole benefit of the Credit Parties but until the Required Lenders otherwise direct the Agent to cease making Loans, the Lenders will fund their Applicable Percentage of all Loans, which are requested by the Lead Borrower and which, notwithstanding the failure of the Loan Parties to comply with the provisions of this Article IV, agreed to by the Agent, provided, however, the making of any such Loans shall not be deemed a modification or waiver by any Credit Party of the provisions of this Article IV on any future occasion or a waiver of any rights of the Credit Parties as a result of any such failure to comply.
Article V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Credit Parties to enter into this Agreement and to make Loans, each Loan Party represents and warrants to the Agent and the other Credit Parties that:
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power.
Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary thereof (a) is a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or limited partnership, duly incorporated, organized or formed, validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization, or formation (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, permits, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i) or (c), to the extent that failure to do so could not
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reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 5.01 annexed hereto sets forth, as of the Closing Date, each Loan Party’s name as it appears in official filings in its state of incorporation or organization, its state of incorporation or organization, organization type, organization number, if any, issued by its state of incorporation or organization, and its federal employer identification number.
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention.
The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is or is to be a party, has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and does not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization Documents; (b) conflict in any material respect with or result in any breach, termination, or contravention of, or constitute a default under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any Material Contract or any Material Indebtedness to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; (c) result in or require the creation of any Lien upon any asset of any Loan Party (other than Liens in favor of the Agent under the Security Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of such definition); or (d) violate any Law except where such violation would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents.
No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except for (a) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Security Documents (including the first priority nature thereof, subject to Permitted Encumbrances that have priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term) or (b) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect.
5.04 Binding Effect.
This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered, will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.
(a) The Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby; and (iii) show all Material Indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof, including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and Indebtedness.
(b) Each unaudited Consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(b) and (c) since the date of the audited Consolidated and consolidating financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), and the related Consolidated and consolidating statements of income or operations and cash flows for the
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applicable fiscal periods ended on the dates reflected in each such unaudited balance sheet, (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end audit adjustments. Schedule 5.05 sets forth, as of the date of such financial statements, all Material Indebtedness of the Loan Parties and their Consolidated Subsidiaries, including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and Material Indebtedness, in each case to the extent not otherwise set forth in such financial statements.
(c) Since February 3, 2024, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) Intentionally Omitted.
(e) The Consolidated and consolidating forecasted balance sheet and statements of income and cash flows of the Parent and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(d) will be prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were fair in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the Loan Parties’ best estimate of its future financial performance.
5.06 Litigation.
There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of its properties or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.06, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there has been no adverse change in the status, or financial effect on any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, of the matters described on Schedule 5.06 that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.07 No Default.
Except as disclosed on Schedule 5.07, as of the Closing Date, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary is in default under or with respect to any Material Contract or any Material Indebtedness. No Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens.
(a) Each of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary thereof has good record and marketable title in fee simple to or valid leasehold interests in, all real property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Encumbrances. Each of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary has good and marketable title to, valid leasehold interests in, or valid licenses to use all personal property and assets material to the ordinary conduct of its business.
(b) Schedule 5.08(b)(1) sets forth the address (including street address, county and state) of all Real Estate that is owned by the Loan Parties, together with a list of the holders of any
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mortgage or other Lien thereon as of the Closing Date. Schedule 5.08(b)(2) sets forth the address (including street address, county and state) of all Leases of the Loan Parties, together with a list of the lessor and its contact information with respect to each such Lease as of the Closing Date. Each of such Leases is in full force and effect and the Loan Parties are not in default of the terms thereof.
(c) Schedule 7.01 sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Liens on the property or assets of each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries, showing as of the Closing Date the lienholder thereof, the principal amount of the obligations secured thereby and the property or assets of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary subject thereto. The property of each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries is subject to no Liens, other than Permitted Encumbrances.
(d) Schedule 7.02 sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Investments held by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party on the Closing Date, showing as of the Closing Date the amount, obligor or issuer and maturity, if any, thereof.
(e) Schedule 7.03 sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Indebtedness of each Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party on the Closing Date, showing as of the Closing Date the amount, obligor or issuer and maturity thereof.
5.09 Environmental Compliance.
(a) Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.09, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) to the Knowledge of the Senior Executive Officers, is aware of any basis for any Environmental Liability, except, in each case, as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Except as otherwise set forth in Schedule 5.09, (i) none of the properties currently or formerly owned or currently operated by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof is listed or proposed for listing on the NPL or on the CERCLIS or any analogous foreign, state or local list; (ii) there are no underground or above-ground storage tanks or any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits, sumps or lagoons in which Hazardous Materials are being or have been treated, stored or disposed on any property currently owned by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof; (iii) to the Knowledge of the Senior Executive Officers, there is no asbestos or asbestos-containing material on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof; and (iv) Hazardous Materials have not been unlawfully released, discharged or disposed of by any Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof on any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof.
(c) Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.09, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof is undertaking, and no Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof has completed, either individually or together with other potentially responsible parties, any investigation or assessment or remedial or response action relating to any actual or threatened release, discharge or disposal of Hazardous Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the requirements of any Environmental Law; and all Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof have been disposed of in a manner not reasonably expected to result in material liability to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof.
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5.10 Insurance.
The properties of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries are insured with insurance companies which are financially sound and reputable to the actual knowledge of the Senior Executive Officers and which are not Affiliates of the Loan Parties, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks (including, without limitation, workmen’s compensation, public liability, business interruption and property damage insurance) as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the Loan Parties or the applicable Subsidiary operates. Schedule 5.10 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties as of the Closing Date. Each insurance policy listed on Schedule 5.10 is in full force and effect and all premiums in respect thereof that are due and payable have been paid.
5.11 Taxes.
The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have filed all Federal, state and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all Federal, state and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings being diligently conducted, for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP, as to which Taxes no Lien (other than Permitted Encumbrances) has been filed and which contest effectively suspends the collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation. None of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries has received written notice of a proposed tax assessment against any such Loan Party or Subsidiary that would, if made, have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof is a party to any tax sharing agreement.
5.12 ERISA Compliance.
(a) The Lead Borrower, each of its ERISA Affiliates, and each Plan is in substantial compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or state Laws. Each Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code or sponsor of such plan has received a favorable determination, opinion or advisory letter from the IRS or an application for such a letter is currently being processed by the IRS with respect thereto and, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, nothing has occurred which would prevent, or cause the loss of, such qualification. The Loan Parties and each ERISA Affiliate have made all required contributions to each Plan subject to Sections 412 or 430 of the Code and to each Multiemployer Plan, and no application for a funding waiver or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Sections 412 or 430 of the Code has been made with respect to any Plan. No Lien imposed under the Code or ERISA exists to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties or is likely to arise on account of any Plan or Multiemployer Plan.
(b) There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened (in writing) claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been no prohibited transaction or, if applicable, violation of the ERISA fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan that has resulted or to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ii) no Pension Plan has any Unfunded Pension Liability; (iii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan (other than premiums due and not delinquent under Section 4007 of
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ERISA); (iv) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Sections 4201 or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; and (v) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.
5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests.
The Loan Parties have no Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date other than those specifically disclosed in Part (a) of Schedule 5.13, which Schedule sets forth the legal name, jurisdiction of incorporation or formation and authorized Equity Interests of each such Subsidiary. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in such Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and non‑assessable and are owned by a Loan Party (or a Subsidiary of a Loan Party) in the amounts specified on Part (a) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except for those created under the Security Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term. Except as set forth in Schedule 5.13, there are no outstanding rights to purchase any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary as of the Closing Date. The Loan Parties have no equity investments as of the Closing Date in any other corporation or entity other than those specifically disclosed in Part (b) of Schedule 5.13. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Loan Parties have been validly issued, and are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned in the amounts specified on Part (c) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except for those created under the Security Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term. The copies of the Organization Documents of each Loan Party and each amendment thereto provided pursuant to Section 4.01 are true and correct copies of each such document, each of which is valid and in full force and effect. The Beneficial Ownership Certification executed and delivered to the Agent and the Lenders for each Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date, as updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement, is accurate, complete and correct as of the Closing Date and as of the date any such update is delivered.
5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.
(a) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries owns any Margin Stock or is engaged or will be engaged, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. None of the proceeds of the Loans shall be used directly or indirectly for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, for the purpose of extending credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, or for any purpose that violates the provisions of Regulation T, U or X of the FRB. Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries expects to acquire any Margin Stock.
(b) None of the Loan Parties, any Person Controlling any Loan Party, or any Subsidiary is or is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
5.15 Disclosure.
Each Loan Party has disclosed to the Agent and the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No report, financial statement, certificate or other information furnished (whether in writing or orally) by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in each case, as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any
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material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Loan Parties represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.
5.16 Compliance with Laws
Each of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary is in compliance (A) in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (i) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (ii) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (B) with Sections 10.17 and 10.18.
5.17 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.
The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the Intellectual Property, licenses, permits and other authorizations that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person. To the knowledge of the Lead Borrower, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary infringes upon any rights held by any other Person. Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.17, no claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the knowledge of the Lead Borrower, threatened in writing, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.18 Labor Matters.
There are no strikes, lockouts, slowdowns or other material labor disputes against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened in writing. To the Knowledge of the Senior Executive Officers, the hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Loan Parties comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act and any other applicable federal, state, local or foreign Law dealing with such matters except to the extent that any such violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any material liability or obligation under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act or similar state Law. All payments due from any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries, or for which any claim may be made against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP as a liability on the books of such Loan Party. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.18, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement, management agreement, employment agreement, bonus, restricted stock, stock option, or stock appreciation plan or agreement or any similar plan, agreement or arrangement which, in any case, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no representation proceedings pending or, to any Loan Party’s knowledge, threatened in writing to be filed with the National Labor Relations Board, and no labor organization or group of employees of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary has made a pending demand in writing for recognition. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.18, there are no complaints, unfair labor practice charges, grievances, arbitrations, unfair employment practices charges or any other claims or complaints against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened in writing to be filed with any Governmental Authority or arbitrator based on, arising out of, in connection with, or otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment of any employee of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents will not give rise to any right of
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termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is bound.
5.19 Security Documents.
(a) The Security Agreement creates in favor of the Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties referred to therein, a legal, valid, continuing and enforceable security interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement), the enforceability of which is subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. The financing statements, releases and other filings are in appropriate form and have been or will be filed in the offices specified in the Perfection Certificate. Upon such filings and/or the obtaining of “control” (as defined in the UCC), the Agent will have a perfected Lien on, and security interest in, to and under all right, title and interest of the grantors thereunder in all Collateral that may be perfected by filing, recording or registering a financing statement or analogous document (including without limitation the proceeds of such Collateral subject to the limitations relating to such proceeds in the UCC) or by obtaining control, under the UCC (in effect on the date this representation is made) in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than Permitted Encumbrances having priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term).
(b) When the Security Agreement (or a short form thereof) is filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office and when financing statements, releases and other filings in appropriate form are filed in the offices specified in Schedule II of the Security Agreement, the Agent shall have a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the applicable Loan Parties in the Intellectual Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registering a security agreement, financing statement or analogous document in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than Permitted Encumbrances having priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term) (it being understood that subsequent recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office may be necessary to perfect a Lien on registered trademarks, trademark applications and copyrights acquired by the Loan Parties after the Closing Date).
5.20 Solvency.
After giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Second Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement (including amounts to be borrowed under the Revolving Credit Agreement on the Closing Date), and before and after giving effect to the making of each Loan, the Loan Parties, on a Consolidated basis, are Solvent. No transfer of property has been or will be made by any Loan Party and no obligation has been or will be incurred by any Loan Party in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents with the intent to hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors of any Loan Party.
5.21 Deposit Accounts; Credit Card Arrangements.
(a) Annexed hereto as Schedule 5.21(a) is a list of all DDAs and Blocked Accounts maintained by the Loan Parties as of the Closing Date, which Schedule includes, with respect to each DDA and each Blocked Account (i) the name and address of the depository; (ii) the account number(s) maintained with such depository; (iii) a contact person at such depository, and (iv) the identification of each Blocked Account Bank.
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(b) Annexed hereto as Schedule 5.21(b) is a list describing all arrangements as of the Closing Date to which any Loan Party is a party with respect to the processing and/or payment to such Loan Party of the proceeds of any credit card charges, debit card charges and other e-commerce charges for sales made by such Loan Party.
5.22 Brokers.
No broker or finder brought about the obtaining, making or closing of the Loans or transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, and no Loan Party or Affiliate thereof has any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s or brokerage fees in connection therewith.
5.23 Customer and Trade Relations.
Except for matters which, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, there exists no actual or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened in writing, termination or cancellation of, or any material adverse modification or change in the business relationship of any Loan Party with any supplier material to its operations.
5.24 Material Contracts.
Schedule 5.24 sets forth all Material Contracts to which any Loan Party is a party or is bound as of the Closing Date. The Loan Parties have delivered true, correct and complete copies of such Material Contracts to the Agent on or before the Closing Date. The Loan Parties are not in breach or in default in any material respect of or under any Material Contract and have not received any notice of the intention of any other party thereto to terminate any Material Contract.
5.25 Casualty.
Neither the businesses nor the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries are affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.26 OFAC; Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws.
No Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any Sanctions. No Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of such Loan Party, any director, officer, employee, agent or Affiliate of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (a) is a Sanctioned Person or a Sanctioned Entity, (b) has any assets located in Sanctioned Entities, or (c) derives revenues from investments in, or transactions with Sanctioned Persons or Sanctioned Entities. Each of the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and Affiliates with all Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries, and to the knowledge of each such Loan Party, each director, officer, employee, agent and Affiliate of each such Loan Party and each such Subsidiary, is in compliance (i) with all Sanctions, and (ii) in all material respects with all Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. No proceeds of any loan made or Letter of Credit issued hereunder will be used to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or make any payments to, a Sanctioned Person or a Sanctioned Entity, or otherwise used in any manner that would result in a violation of any applicable Sanctions, Anti‑Corruption Laws or Anti-Money Laundering Laws by any Person (including any Credit Party or other individual or entity participating in any transaction).
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5.27 Patriot Act.
To the extent applicable, each Loan Party is in compliance, in all material respects, with the (a) Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, and (b) Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act of 2001, as amended) (the “Patriot Act”).
5.28 Swap Contracts.
On each date that any Swap Contract is executed, each Loan Party satisfies all eligibility, suitability and other requirements under the Commodity Exchange Act and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations.
Article VI
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Until Payment in Full of the Obligations, the Loan Parties shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, and 6.03) cause each Subsidiary to:
6.01 Financial Statements.
Deliver to the Agent, in form and detail satisfactory to the Agent:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Parent, a Consolidated and, if requested by the Agent, consolidating balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year, and the related Consolidated, and if so requested, consolidating statements of income or operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, such Consolidated statements to be audited and accompanied by (i) a report and unqualified opinion of a Registered Public Accounting Firm reasonably acceptable to the Agent, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit ,and such consolidating statements to be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower to the effect that such statements are fairly stated in all material respects when considered in relation to the Consolidated financial statements of the Parent and its Subsidiaries;
(b) as soon as available, but in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year of the Parent, a Consolidated and, if requested by the Agent, consolidating balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter, and the related Consolidated, and if so requested, consolidating statements of income or operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Quarter and for the portion of the Parent’s Fiscal Year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for (A) such period set forth in the projections delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(d) hereof, (B) the corresponding Fiscal Quarter of the previous Fiscal Year and (C) the corresponding portion of the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail, such Consolidated statements to be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower as fairly presenting the financial condition, results of operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Quarter in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments
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and the absence of footnotes and such consolidating statements to be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower to the effect that such statements are fairly stated in all material respects when considered in relation to the Consolidated financial statements of the Parent and its Subsidiaries;
(c) if requested by the Agent, as soon as available, but in any event within 30 days after the end of each of the Fiscal Months of each Fiscal Year of the Parent, a Consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Month, and the related Consolidated, and if so requested, consolidating statements of income or operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Month, and for the portion of the Parent’s Fiscal Year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for (A) such period set forth in the projections delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(d) hereof, (B) the corresponding Fiscal Month of the previous Fiscal Year and (C) the corresponding portion of the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail, such Consolidated statements to be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower as fairly presenting the financial condition, results of operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Month in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes and such consolidating statements to be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower to the effect that such statements are fairly stated in all material respects when considered in relation to the Consolidated financial statements of the Parent and its Subsidiaries;
(d) as soon as available, but in any event no later than sixty (60) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Parent, forecasts prepared by management of the Lead Borrower, in form satisfactory to the Agent, of Consolidated balance sheets and statements of income or operations and cash flows of the Parent and its Subsidiaries on a monthly basis for the immediately following Fiscal Year (including the Fiscal Year in which the Maturity Date occurs), and as soon as available, any significant revisions to such forecast with respect to such following Fiscal Year.
6.02 Certificates; Other Information.
Deliver to the Agent, in form and detail satisfactory to the Agent:
(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a), a certificate of its Registered Public Accounting Firm certifying such financial statements;
(b) (i) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b) and (c), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower, and in the event of any change in generally accepted accounting principles used in the preparation of such financial statements, the Lead Borrower shall also provide a statement of reconciliation conforming such financial statements to GAAP, and (ii) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b) a copy of management’s discussion and analysis with respect to such financial statements;
(c) on the fifteenth (15th) day of each Fiscal Month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day), a Borrowing Base Certificate showing the Revolving Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base as of the close of business as of the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Month (provided that the Appraised Value applied to the Eligible Inventory set forth in each Borrowing Base Certificate shall be the Appraised Value set forth in the most recent appraisal obtained by the Agent pursuant to Section 6.10 hereof for the applicable Fiscal Month to which such Borrowing Base Certificate relates), each Borrowing Base
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Certificate to be certified as complete and correct by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower; provided that if a Weekly BBC Reporting Event has occurred and is continuing, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Required Lenders, such Borrowing Base Certificate shall be delivered on Wednesday of each week (or, if Wednesday is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day), and shall show the Revolving Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base as of the close of business on the immediately preceding Saturday (provided that the Appraised Value applied to the Eligible Inventory set forth in each Borrowing Base Certificate shall be the Appraised Value set forth in the most recent appraisal obtained by the Agent pursuant to Section 6.10 hereof for the applicable week to which such Borrowing Base Certificate relates);
(d) promptly upon the reasonable request of the Agent, copies of any detailed audit reports, management letters or recommendations submitted to the board of directors (or the audit committee of the board of directors) of any Loan Party by its Registered Public Accounting Firm in connection with the accounts or books of the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary, or any audit of any of them, including, without limitation, specifying any Internal Control Event;
(e) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the stockholders of the Loan Parties, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which any Loan Party may file or be required to file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or with any national securities exchange, and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Agent pursuant hereto;
(f) the financial and collateral reports described on Schedule 6.02 hereto, at the times set forth in such Schedule;
(g) as soon as available, but in any event within sixty (60) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Loan Parties, a report summarizing the insurance coverage (specifying type, amount and carrier) in effect for each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries and containing such additional information as the Agent or any Lender may reasonably specify;
(h) promptly after the Agent’s request therefor, copies of all Material Contracts and documents evidencing Material Indebtedness;
(i) promptly after the Agent’s reasonable request therefor, a calculation of the outstanding Revolving Obligations, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
(j) (i) promptly following receipt by any Loan Party, copies of any amendments, supplements, modifications, waivers, consents and forbearances under the Revolving Credit Documents, and (ii) as and when due pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement, Borrowing Base Certificates (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), to the extent not otherwise provided to the Agent under the Loan Documents;
(k) promptly after the Agent’s or any Lender’s request therefor, (i) confirmation of the accuracy of the information set forth in the most recent Beneficial Ownership Certification for each Borrower provided to the Agent and the Lenders; (ii) a new Beneficial Ownership Certification for each Borrower, in form and substance acceptable to the Agent, when the individual(s) to be identified as a beneficial owner have changed; and (iii) such information as requested pursuant to Section 10.17 hereof; and
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(l) promptly, such additional information regarding the business affairs, financial condition or operations of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), (b), or (c) or Section 6.02(a) or (d) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Lead Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Lead Borrower’s website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Lead Borrower’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Agent); provided that: (i) the Lead Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Agent or any Lender that requests the Lead Borrower to deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Agent or such Lender and (ii) the Lead Borrower shall notify the Agent and each Lender (by telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every instance the Lead Borrower shall be required to provide paper copies of the Compliance Certificates required by Section 6.02(b) to the Agent. The Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Loan Parties with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.
The Loan Parties hereby acknowledge that (a) the Agent will make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Loan Parties hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks, SyndTrack or another similar secure electronic transmission system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders may be “public-side” Lenders (i.e., Lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Loan Parties or their securities) (each, a “Public Lender”). The Loan Parties hereby agree that they will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower Materials that may be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower Materials shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC” or otherwise filing same with the SEC, the Loan Parties shall be deemed to have authorized the Agent and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to the Loan Parties or their securities for purposes of United States federal and state securities laws (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated as “Public Investor” (or another similar term); and (z) the Agent and its Affiliates and the Lenders shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” or that are not at any time filed with the SEC as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Investor” (or such similar term).
The Loan Parties and the Agent hereby agree that the delivery of any Borrowing Base Certificate through the Portal, subject to the Agent’s authentication process, by such other electronic method as may be approved by the Agent from time to time in its sole discretion, or by such other electronic input of information necessary to calculate the Borrowing Base as may be approved by the Agent from time to time in its sole discretion, shall in each case be deemed to satisfy the obligation of the Borrowers to deliver such Borrowing Base Certificate, with the same legal effect as if such Borrowing Base Certificate had been manually executed by the Borrowers and delivered to the Agent.
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6.03 Notices.
Promptly notify the Agent:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default, to the Knowledge of a Senior Executive Officer;
(b) of any matter that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including (i) breach or non-performance of, or any default under, a Material Contract or with respect to Material Indebtedness of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof; (ii) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof and any Governmental Authority; or (iii) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, including pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws;
(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event, to the Knowledge of a Senior Executive Officer;
(d) of any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof;
(e) of any change in any Loan Party’s Senior Executive Officers;
(f) of the discharge by any Loan Party of its present Registered Public Accounting Firm or any withdrawal or resignation by such Registered Public Accounting Firm;
(g) of any collective bargaining agreement or other labor contract to which a Loan Party becomes a party, or the application for the certification of a collective bargaining agent;
(h) of the filing of any Lien for unpaid Taxes against any Loan Party, to the Knowledge of a Senior Executive Officer;
(i) of any casualty or other insured damage to any material portion of the Collateral, to the Knowledge of a Senior Executive Officer, or the commencement of any action or proceeding for the taking of any interest in a material portion of the Collateral under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding or if any material portion of the Collateral is damaged or destroyed;
(j) of the occurrence of any Prepayment Event and any Prepayment Event (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement);
(k) of the occurrence of any “Default” or “Event of Default” under (and as defined in) the Revolving Credit Documents (together with copies of any default letter, reservation of rights letter or equivalent correspondence from the Revolving Agent or any other Revolving Lender);
(l) of the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event; and
(m) of any transaction of the nature contained in Article VII hereof, occurring after the Closing Date, including, without limitation, (i) the entry by a Loan Party into a Material Contract, (ii) the incurrence by a Loan Party of Material Indebtedness, (iii) the voluntary or, to the actual knowledge of a Senior Executive Officer, involuntary grant of any Lien upon any property of a Loan Party; or (iv) the making of any Investments by a Loan Party.
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Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Lead Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto. Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(a) shall describe with particularity any and all provisions of this Agreement and any other Loan Document that have been breached. Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(k) shall describe with particularity any and all provisions of the Revolving Credit Documents that have been breached and the corrective action (if any) taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.
6.04 Payment of Obligations.
Pay and discharge as the same shall become due and payable, all its obligations and liabilities, including (a) all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, (b) all lawful claims (including, without limitation, claims of landlords, warehousemen, customs brokers, and carriers) which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property; and (c) all Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any subordination provisions contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness, except, in each case, where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) such Loan Party has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, (c) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation, (d) no Lien has been filed with respect thereto and (e) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the Agent with respect to determining Reserves pursuant to this Agreement.
6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc.
(a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or formation except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05;
(b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, permits, licenses, including all Federal firearm licenses, and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(c) preserve or renew all of its Intellectual Property, except to the extent such Intellectual Property is no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties.
6.06 Maintenance of Properties.
(a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted; and
(b) make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance.
(a) Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies reasonably acceptable to the Agent not Affiliates of the Loan Parties, insurance with respect to its properties
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and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business and operating in the same or similar locations or as is required by applicable Law, of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons and as are reasonably acceptable to the Agent.
(b) Cause fire and extended coverage policies maintained with respect to any Collateral to be endorsed or otherwise amended to include, as the insurable interest of the Loan Parties, the Agent or Credit Parties should appear, (i) lenders’ loss payable clause (regarding personal property), in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, which endorsements or amendments shall provide that the insurer shall pay all proceeds otherwise payable to the Loan Parties under the policies directly to the Agent, (ii) a provision to the effect that none of the Loan Parties, Credit Parties or any other Person shall be a coinsurer and (iii) such other provisions as the Agent may reasonably require from time to time to protect the interests of the Credit Parties.
(c) Cause commercial general liability policies to be endorsed to name the Agent as an additional insured.
(d) Cause business interruption policies (which may be a component of other policies maintained by the Loan Parties in accordance with this Section 6.07) to name the Agent as a loss payee and to be endorsed or amended to include, as the insurable interest of the Loan Parties, the Agent, or Credit Parties should appear, (1) a provision that, from and after the Closing Date, the insurer shall pay all proceeds otherwise payable to the Loan Parties under the policies directly to the Agent, (2) a provision to the effect that none of the Loan Parties, the Agent or any other party shall be a co-insurer and (3) such other provisions as the Agent may reasonably require from time to time to protect the interests of the Credit Parties.
(e) Cause each such policy referred to in this Section 6.07 to also provide that it shall not be canceled, modified or not renewed (y) by reason of nonpayment of premium except upon not less than ten (10) days’ prior written notice thereof by the insurer to the Agent (giving the Agent the right to cure defaults in the payment of premiums) or (z) for any other reason except upon not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice thereof by the insurer to the Agent.
(f) Deliver to the Agent, prior to the cancellation, modification or non-renewal of any such policy of insurance, a copy of a renewal or replacement policy (or other evidence of renewal of a policy previously delivered to the Agent, including an insurance binder) together with evidence satisfactory to the Agent of payment of the premium therefor.
(g) Maintain for themselves and their Subsidiaries, a Directors and Officers insurance policy, and a “Blanket Crime” policy including employee dishonesty, forgery or alteration, theft, disappearance and destruction, robbery and safe burglary, property, and computer fraud coverage with responsible companies in such amounts as are customarily carried by business entities engaged in similar businesses similarly situated, and will upon request by the Agent furnish the Agent certificates evidencing renewal of each such policy.
(h) Permit any representatives that are designated by the Agent to inspect the insurance policies maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and to inspect books and records related thereto and any properties covered thereby. The Loan Parties shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of any representatives retained by the Agent to conduct any such inspection to the extent constituting Credit Party Expenses.
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(i) If the area in which any Real Estate that is subject to a Mortgage in favor of the Agent is located is designated (i) a “flood hazard area” in any Flood Insurance Rate Map published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency), obtain flood insurance in such total amount and on terms that are satisfactory to the Agent and all Lenders from time to time, and otherwise comply with the Flood Laws or as is otherwise satisfactory to the Agent and all Lenders, or (ii) a “Zone 1” area, obtain earthquake insurance in such total amount as is reasonable and customary for Persons engaged in the same or similar business and operating in the same or similar locations as the Loan Parties.
(j) Each Loan Party shall look solely to its insurance companies or any other parties other than the Credit Parties for the recovery of any loss or damage by the insurance policies required to be maintained under this Section 6.07 and such insurance companies shall have no rights of subrogation against any Credit Party or its agents or employees. If, however, the insurance policies do not provide waiver of subrogation rights against such parties, as required above, then the Loan Parties hereby agree, to the extent permitted by law, to waive their right of recovery, if any, against the Credit Parties and their agents and employees. The designation of any form, type or amount of insurance coverage by any Credit Party under this Section 6.07 shall in no event be deemed a representation, warranty or advice by such Credit Party that such insurance is adequate for the purposes of the business of the Loan Parties or the protection of their properties.
6.08 Compliance with Laws.
Comply (a) in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (i) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside and maintained by the Loan Parties in accordance with GAAP, (ii) such contest effectively suspends enforcement of the contested Laws, and (iii) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (b) with Sections 10.17 and 10.18.
6.09 Books and Records; Accountants.
(a) Maintain proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct entries in all material respects in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary, as the case may be; and (ii) maintain such books of record and account in material conformity with all applicable requirements of any Governmental Authority having regulatory jurisdiction over the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary, as the case may be.
(b) at all times retain a Registered Public Accounting Firm which is reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and shall instruct such Registered Public Accounting Firm to cooperate with, and be available to, the Agent or its representatives to discuss the Loan Parties’ financial performance, financial condition, operating results, controls, and such other matters, within the scope of the retention of such Registered Public Accounting Firm, as may be raised by the Agent.
6.10 Inspection Rights.
(a) Permit representatives and, subject to the provisions of Section 10.07 hereof, independent contractors of the Agent to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, business plan, forecasts and cash flows, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors,
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officers, and Registered Public Accounting Firm, all at the expense of the Loan Parties and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Lead Borrower; provided, however, that when an Event of Default exists the Agent (or any of its representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Loan Parties at any time during normal business hours and without advance notice.
(b) Upon the request of the Agent after reasonable prior notice, permit the Agent or professionals (including investment bankers, consultants, accountants, lawyers and appraisers) retained by the Agent to conduct appraisals, commercial finance examinations and other evaluations, including, without limitation, of (i) the Lead Borrower’s practices in the computation of the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base and (ii) the assets included in the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base and related financial information such as, but not limited to, sales, gross margins, payables, accruals and reserves. The Loan Parties shall pay the fees and expenses of the Agent and such professionals with respect to such evaluations and appraisals. Without limiting the foregoing, the Loan Parties acknowledge that the Agent may, in its discretion, undertake, at the Loan Parties’ expense, up to one (1) inventory appraisal and up to one (1) commercial finance examination in any twelve (12) month period when Revolving Availability is at all times during such period greater than 30% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap; provided that at any time when Revolving Availability is less than or equal to 30% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap, the Agent may, in its discretion, undertake, at the Loan Parties’ expense, up to two (2) inventory appraisals and two (2) commercial finance examinations in such period (it being the intention of the parties that both of such inventory appraisals and commercial finance exams shall be taken within two hundred ten (210) days of the first date on which Revolving Availability is less than or equal to 30% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Agent may cause additional inventory appraisals and commercial finance examinations to be undertaken (x) as it in its discretion deems necessary or appropriate, at its own expense, or (y) at the expense of the Loan Parties, at any time required by applicable Law or if a Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.10 to the contrary, the rights of the Agent and the Lenders under this Section 6.10 are limited as set forth in Section 3.3(c) of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
6.11 Use of Proceeds.
Use the proceeds of the Loans (a) to repay amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Documents, (b) finance the acquisition of working capital assets of the Borrowers, including the purchase of inventory and equipment, in each case in the ordinary course of business, (c) to finance Capital Expenditures of the Borrowers and (d) for general corporate purposes of the Loan Parties, in each case of the foregoing clauses (b) through (d) to the extent expressly permitted under applicable Law and the Loan Documents.
6.12 Additional Loan Parties.
Notify the Agent at the time that any Person becomes a Subsidiary, and promptly thereafter (and in any event within thirty (30) days or such later date as the Agent may agree), cause any such Person (a) which is not a CFC, to (i) become a Loan Party by executing and delivering to the Agent a Joinder to this Agreement or a counterpart of the Facility Guaranty or such other document as the Agent shall deem appropriate for such purpose, (ii) grant a Lien to the Agent on such Person’s assets (of the type constituting Collateral) to secure the Obligations, and (iii) deliver to the Agent documents of the types referred to in
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clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 4.01(a) and favorable opinions of counsel to such Person (which shall cover, among other things, the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability of the documentation referred to in clause (a)), and (b) if any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of such Person are owned by or on behalf of any Loan Party, to pledge such Equity Interests and promissory notes evidencing such Indebtedness (except that, if such Subsidiary is a CFC, the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary to be pledged may be limited to 65% of the outstanding voting Equity Interests of such Subsidiary and 100% of the non-voting Equity Interests of such Subsidiary and such time period may be extended based on local law or practice), in each case in form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. In no event shall compliance with this Section 6.12 waive or be deemed a waiver or Consent to any transaction giving rise to the need to comply with this Section 6.12 if such transaction was not otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement or constitute or be deemed to constitute, with respect to any Subsidiary, an approval of such Person as a Borrower or permit the inclusion of any acquired assets in the computation of each Borrowing Base. At all times, the Loan Parties shall cause each Subsidiary that is a “Loan Party” (as defined in the Revolving Credit Documents) to remain a Loan Party under the Loan Documents, except to the extent a release of such Loan Party from its obligations under the Revolving Credit Documents and the Loan Documents is permitted pursuant to the terms of the Revolving Credit Documents and the Loan Documents.
6.13 Cash Management.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date:
(i) deliver to the Agent originals of notifications (each, a “Credit Card Notification”) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H which have been executed on behalf of such Loan Party, which shall be delivered by the Agent to such Loan Party’s Credit Card Issuers and Credit Card Processors listed on Schedule 5.21(b); and
(ii) enter into a Blocked Account Agreement satisfactory in form and substance to the Agent with each Blocked Account Bank (collectively, the “Blocked Accounts”).
(b) From and after the Closing Date, the Loan Parties shall comply in all respects with Section 6.13 of the Revolving Credit Agreement, including upon the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event, to cause all receipts and collections to be transferred daily to the Collection Account (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) for application against the Revolving Obligations in accordance with the provisions of the Revolving Credit Agreement.
6.14 Information Regarding the Collateral.
(a) Furnish to the Agent at least thirty (30) days prior written notice of any change in: (i) any Loan Party’s name or in any trade name used to identify it in the conduct of its business or in the ownership of its properties; (ii) the location of any Loan Party’s chief executive office, its principal place of business, any office in which it maintains books or records relating to Collateral owned by it or any office or facility at which Collateral owned by it is located (including the establishment of any such new office or facility); (iii) any Loan Party’s organizational structure or jurisdiction of incorporation or formation; or (iv) any Loan Party’s Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification number assigned to it by its state of organization. The Loan Parties agree not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all filings have been made under the UCC or otherwise that are required in order for the Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected first priority security interest (subject to Permitted Encumbrances that have priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of
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such term) or (b) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect. security interest in all the Collateral for its own benefit and the benefit of the other Credit Parties.
(b) Should any of the information on any of the Schedules hereto become inaccurate or misleading in any material respect as a result of changes after the Closing Date, the Lead Borrower shall advise the Agent in writing of such revisions or updates as may be necessary or appropriate to update or correct the same. From time to time as may be reasonably requested by the Agent, the Lead Borrower shall supplement each Schedule hereto, or any representation herein or in any other Loan Document, with respect to any matter arising after the Closing Date that, if existing or occurring on the Closing Date, would have been required to be set forth or described in such Schedule or as an exception to such representation or that is necessary to correct any information in such Schedule or representation which has been rendered inaccurate thereby (and, in the case of any supplements to any Schedule, such Schedule shall be appropriately marked to show the changes made therein). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no supplement or revision to any Schedule or representation shall be deemed the Credit Parties’ consent to the matters reflected in such updated Schedules or revised representations nor permit the Loan Parties to undertake any actions otherwise prohibited hereunder or fail to undertake any action required hereunder from the restrictions and requirements in existence prior to the delivery of such updated Schedules or such revision of a representation; nor shall any such supplement or revision to any Schedule or representation be deemed the Credit Parties’ waiver of any Default resulting from the matters disclosed therein.
6.15 Physical Inventories.
(a) Cause cycle counts to be conducted consistent with current practices reasonably satisfactory to the Agent with results to be shared with Agent and updated in the stock ledger timely. If any Default or Event of Default exists, at the discretion of the Agent, and at Borrowers’ expense, the Borrowers shall conduct a full physical count of Inventory. The Agent, at the expense of the Loan Parties, may participate in and/or observe each scheduled physical count of Inventory which is undertaken on behalf of any Loan Party. The Lead Borrower, within 15 days following the completion of such inventory, shall provide the Agent with a reconciliation of the results of such inventory (as well as of any other physical inventory or cycle counts undertaken by a Loan Party) and shall post such results to the Loan Parties’ stock ledgers and general ledgers, as applicable.
(b) Permit the Agent, in its discretion, if any Default or Event of Default exists, to cause additional such inventories to be taken as the Agent determines (each, at the expense of the Loan Parties).
6.16 Environmental Laws.
(a) Except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, conduct its operations and keep and maintain its Real Estate in material compliance with all Environmental Laws; (b) obtain and renew all environmental permits necessary for its operations and properties; and (c) implement any and all investigation, remediation, removal and response actions that are appropriate or necessary to maintain the value and marketability of the Real Estate or to otherwise comply with Environmental Laws pertaining to the presence, generation, treatment, storage, use, disposal, transportation or release of any Hazardous Materials on, at, in, under, above, to, from or about any of its Real Estate, provided, however, that neither a Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other action to the extent that its obligation to do so is being contested in good faith
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and by proper proceedings and adequate reserves have been set aside and are being maintained by the Loan Parties with respect to such circumstances in accordance with GAAP.
6.17 Further Assurances.
(a) Execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents), that may be required under any applicable Law, or which the Agent may request, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or to grant, preserve, protect or perfect the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents or the validity or priority of any such Lien, all at the expense of the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties also agree to provide to the Agent, from time to time upon request, evidence satisfactory to the Agent as to the perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents.
(b) If any material assets of the type constituting Collateral are acquired by any Loan Party after the Closing Date (other than assets constituting Collateral under the Security Documents that become subject to the Lien of the Security Documents upon acquisition thereof), notify the Agent thereof, and the Loan Parties will cause such assets to be subjected to a Lien securing the Obligations and will take such actions as shall be necessary or shall be requested by the Agent to grant and perfect such Liens, including actions described in paragraph (a) of this Section 6.13, all at the expense of the Loan Parties. In no event shall compliance with this Section 6.13(b) waive or be deemed a waiver or Consent to any transaction giving rise to the need to comply with this Section 6.13(b) if such transaction was not otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement or constitute or be deemed to constitute Consent to the inclusion of any acquired assets in the computation of any Borrowing Base.
(c) Use, and cause each of the Subsidiaries to use, their commercially reasonable efforts to obtain lease terms in any lease entered into by any Loan Party after the date hereof not expressly prohibiting the recording in the relevant real estate filing office of an appropriate memorandum of lease and the encumbrancing of the leasehold interest of such Loan Party in the property that is the subject of such lease.
(d) Upon the request of the Agent, cause each of its customs brokers to deliver an agreement to the Agent covering such matters and in such form as the Agent may reasonably require, as required to protect Agent’s interest in the Eligible Inventory; and (ii) simultaneously with the delivery to the Revolving, deliver to the Agent an agreement covering such matters and in such form as the Agent may reasonably require with each such customs broker for which such an agreement has been provided to the Revolving Agent.
(e) Upon the request of the Agent, request and use reasonable efforts to cause any of its landlords to deliver a Collateral Access Agreement to the Agent in such form as the Agent may reasonably require, provided that in all events such Collateral Access Agreement shall be furnished for each of Borrowers’ distribution centers; and (ii) simultaneously with the delivery to the Revolving Agent, deliver to the Agent a Collateral Access Agreement for any location or Store for which a Collateral Access Agreement has been provided to the Revolving Agent.
(f) If the Revolving Agent or any other secured party under the Revolving Credit Documents receives any additional collateral, guaranty or other credit enhancement of any type after the date hereof, the Loan Parties will cause the same to be granted to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders (in accordance with the ABL Intercreditor Agreement).
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(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein (including Section 6.12 hereof and this Section 6.17) or in any other Loan Document, (x) the Agent shall not accept delivery of any Mortgage from any Loan Party unless each of the Lenders has received forty-five (45) days’ prior written notice thereof and the Agent has received confirmation from each Lender that such Lender has completed its flood insurance diligence, has received copies of all flood insurance documentation and has confirmed that flood insurance compliance has been completed as required by the Flood Laws or as otherwise satisfactory to such Lender, and (y) the Agent shall not accept delivery of any joinder to any Loan Document with respect to any Subsidiary of any Loan Party that is not a Loan Party, if such Subsidiary that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation unless such Subsidiary has delivered a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Subsidiary and the Agent has completed their Patriot Act searches, OFAC/PEP searches and customary individual background checks for such Subsidiary, the results of which shall be satisfactory to the Agent.
6.18 Compliance with Terms of Leaseholds.
Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or otherwise expressly permitted hereunder, make all payments and otherwise perform all obligations in respect of all Leases of real property to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, keep such Leases in full force and effect and not allow such Leases to lapse or be terminated or any rights to renew such leases to be forfeited or cancelled, notify the Agent of any default by any party with respect to such Leases and cooperate with the Agent in all respects to cure any such default, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.
6.19 Material Contracts.
Perform and observe all the terms and provisions of each Material Contract to be performed or observed by it, maintain each such Material Contract in full force and effect except to the extent such Material Contract is no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices, enforce each such Material Contract in accordance with its terms, take all such action to such end as may be from time to time requested by the Agent and, upon request of the Agent, make to each other party to each such Material Contract such demands and requests for information and reports or for action as any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is entitled to make under such Material Contract, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so, except, in any case, where the failure to do so, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.20 [Reserved.]
6.21 OFAC; Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws.
Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply (i) with all applicable Sanctions, and (ii) in all material respects with all Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti‑Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries shall implement and maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and Affiliates with all Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Loan Parties shall and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to comply with all Sanctions and comply in all material respects with all Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws.
6.22 Engagement of Certain Professionals.
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Any engagement by the Borrowers (not including any engagements of the Borrowers in existence as of the Closing Date), the Parent or any of their Subsidiaries of any investment banker, financial advisor, sales broker or liquidator engaged for the purpose of marketing, selling, brokering or otherwise disposing of any assets of the Loan Parties, or a sale, merger or other business combination involving the Loan Parties or the Equity Interests of the Loan Parties or the Loan Parties’ business as a going concern, shall be subject to the prior approval of the Agent, including as to the scope of such engagement and fees payable to such professional. At least ten (10) Business Days prior to the commencement of any such engagement, the Lead Borrower shall provide to the Agent copies of any such engagement letter or other agreement setting forth the terms and conditions and fees relating to such engagement. In addition to any other Reserves imposed by the Agent from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent may, in its Permitted Discretion, impose a Reserve for any such professional fees, provided that such Reserve shall not be duplicative of any Availability Reserve (as such term is defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) imposed for such fees by the Revolving Agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, this Section 6.22 shall not apply to any consultants engaged for specific strategic and operational initiatives which do not include the marketing or sale of assets or equity interest or other restructuring purposes or initiatives.
6.23 Post-Closing Covenants.
The Loan Parties shall perform each of the conditions and obligations set forth on Schedule 6.23 hereto.
Article VII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Until Payment in Full of the Obligations, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:
7.01 Liens.
Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property (excluding real property), assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or sign or file or suffer to exist under the UCC or any similar Law or statute of any jurisdiction a financing statement that names any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof as debtor; sign or suffer to exist any security agreement authorizing any Person thereunder to file such financing statement; sell any of its property or assets subject to an understanding or agreement (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase such property or assets with recourse to it or any of its Subsidiaries; or assign or otherwise transfer any accounts or other rights to receive income, other than, as to all of the above, Permitted Encumbrances.
7.02 Investments.
Make any Investments, except Permitted Investments.
7.03 Indebtedness.
(a) Create, incur, assume, guarantee, suffer to exist or otherwise become or remain liable with respect to, any Indebtedness, except Permitted Indebtedness, (b) without limiting the provisions of clause (a) above, create, incur, assume, guarantee, suffer to exist or otherwise become or remain liable with respect to any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) that is subordinated or junior in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Loan Parties, unless such Indebtedness is also subordinated or junior in right of payment, in the same manner and to the same extent, to the Obligations, or (c) issue Disqualified Stock.
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7.04 Fundamental Changes.
Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, (or agree to do any of the foregoing), except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing prior to or immediately after giving effect to any action described below or would result therefrom:
(a) any Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party may merge with (i) a Loan Party, provided that the Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person, or (ii) any one or more other Subsidiaries which are not Loan Parties, provided that when any wholly-owned Subsidiary is merging with another Subsidiary, the wholly-owned Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving Person;
(b) any Subsidiary which is a Loan Party may merge into any Subsidiary which is a Loan Party or into the Borrower, provided that in any merger involving the Borrower, the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person;
(c) in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, any Subsidiary of a Loan Party may merge with or into or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge with or into or consolidate with it; provided that (i) the Person surviving such merger shall be a wholly-owned Subsidiary of a Loan Party and such Person shall become a Loan Party in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.12 hereof and (ii) in the case of any such merger to which any Loan Party is a party, such Loan Party is the surviving Person; and
(d) any CFC that is not a Loan Party may merge into any CFC that is not a Loan Party.
7.05 Dispositions.
Make any Disposition or enter into any agreement to make any Disposition, except Permitted Dispositions.
7.06 Restricted Payments.
Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing prior to or immediately after giving effect to any action described below or would result therefrom:
(a) each Subsidiary of a Loan Party may make Restricted Payments to any Loan Party; provided that no Restricted Payments shall be made to the Parent unless reasonably contemporaneously therewith, the Parent makes a Restricted Payment (the “Subsequent Restricted Payment”) to its stockholders in like amount and such Subsequent Restricted Payment is expressly permitted by the terms of this Section 7.06;
(b) the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the common stock or other common Equity Interests of such Person;
(c) the Loan Parties may issue and sell Equity Interests provided that (i) (A) with respect to any Equity Interests, all dividends in respect of which are to be paid (and all other payments in respect of which are to be made) shall be in additional shares of such Equity Interests, in lieu of cash, (B) such Equity Interests shall not be subject to redemption other than redemption
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at the option of the Loan Party issuing such Equity Interests, and (C) all payments in respect of such Equity Interests are expressly subordinated to the Obligations, and (ii) no Loan Party shall issue any additional Equity Interests in a Subsidiary;
(d) if the Payment Conditions are satisfied, the Parent may declare or pay cash dividends to its stockholders;
(e) Parent may repurchase its Equity Interests in any transaction or series of related transactions which are part of the “Repurchase Plan” (as defined in the Parent’s 8-K report filed with the SEC on March 24, 2022); provided that (i) the aggregate consideration for all of such repurchases shall not exceed $75,000,000, and (ii) the Payment Conditions are satisfied as of the making of each such repurchase and after giving effect thereto (except that the Loan Parties shall not be required to deliver to the Administrative Agent the updated Borrowing Base Certificate or evidence of satisfaction of the conditions contained in clause (ii) of the definition of “Payment Conditions” described in the last sentence of such definition); and
(f) Parent may repurchase its Equity Interests in any other transaction or series of related transactions which are part of a common plan completed on or at any time within ninety (90) days after the commencement thereof so long as the Payment Conditions are satisfied as of the making of each such repurchase and after giving effect thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a Restricted Payment in respect of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property), such Restricted Payment shall not be permitted unless the recipient thereof agrees in writing to be bound by a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license of such Material Intellectual Property in favor of the Agent for use in connection with the exercise of the rights and remedies of the Credit Parties, which license shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall make any Restricted Payment in respect of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property) (in each case, whether as a Permitted Disposition, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Encumbrance or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Agent and the Required Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
7.07 Prepayments of Indebtedness.
Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner any Indebtedness, or make any payment in violation of any subordination terms of any Subordinated Debt, except (a) as long as no Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, regularly scheduled or mandatory repayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of Permitted Indebtedness (other than Subordinated Debt), (b) mandatory or scheduled payments of the Revolving Obligations and voluntary prepayments of the Revolving Obligations, in each case in accordance with the Revolving Credit Agreement (but subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), (c) certain intercompany loans and advances between Borrowers and Guarantor to the extent mutually agreed by the Lead Borrower, the Agent, including without limitation advances made to the Guarantor for payment of Taxes, (d) voluntary prepayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of Permitted Indebtedness (but excluding on account of any Subordinated Debt), (e) so long as the Payment Conditions shall have been satisfied, payments and prepayments of interest and principal with respect to Subordinated Debt, and (f) refinancings and refundings of such Indebtedness in compliance with Section 7.03.
7.08 Change in Nature of Business.
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(a) In the case of the Parent, engage in any business or activity other than (i) the direct or indirect ownership of all outstanding Equity Interests in the other Loan Parties, (ii) maintaining its corporate existence, (iii) participating in tax, accounting and other administrative activities as the parent of the consolidated group of companies, including the Loan Parties, (iv) the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and the performance of its obligations thereunder, and its guarantee of the Lead Borrower’s indebtedness under the Revolving Credit Agreement, pursuant to the Revolving Credit Documents, and (v) activities incidental to the businesses or activities described in clauses (a) through (iv) of this Section 7.08(a).
(b) In the case of each of the Loan Parties, engage in any line of business substantially different from the business conducted by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries on the Closing Date or any business substantially related or incidental thereto; provided, however, retail sales through e-commerce / internet shall not be construed as a substantially different line of business.
7.09 Transactions with Affiliates.
Enter into, renew, extend or be a party to any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of any Loan Party, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than on fair and reasonable terms substantially as favorable to the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, provided that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to a transaction between or among the Loan Parties.
7.10 Burdensome Agreements.
Enter into or permit to exist any Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any Revolving Credit Document) that (a) limits the ability (i) of any Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments or other distributions to any Loan Party or to otherwise transfer property to or invest in a Loan Party, (ii) of any Subsidiary to Guarantee the Obligations, (iii) of any Subsidiary to make or repay loans to a Loan Party, or (iv) of the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person in favor of the Agent; provided, however, that this clause (iv) shall not prohibit any negative pledge incurred or provided in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under clauses (c) or (f) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness solely to the extent any such negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the subject of such Indebtedness; or (b) requires the grant of a Lien to secure an obligation of such Person if a Lien is granted to secure another obligation of such Person.
7.11 Use of Proceeds.
Use the proceeds of any Loan, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, (a) to purchase or carry Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such Margin Stock or extending credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such Margin Stock or for any purpose that violates the provisions of Regulation T, U or X of the FRB; (b) to make any payments to a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, to finance any investments in a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, to fund any investments, loans or contributions in, or otherwise make such proceeds available to, a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, to fund any operations, activities or business of a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, or in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person; (c) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws or Anti-Money Laundering Laws; or (d) for purposes other than those permitted under this Agreement.
7.12 Amendment of Material Documents.
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(a) Amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition of any Loan Party’s Organization Documents in a manner materially adverse to the Credit Parties, (b) other than with respect to the Revolving Credit Documents or the Revolving Obligations (as which clause (c) below shall apply), amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition under any Material Contract or Material Indebtedness (other than on account of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof), in each case of clauses (a) and (b) to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition of any Revolving Credit Document or agreement in respect of any refinancing of any Indebtedness under any Revolving Credit Document, to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver would not be permitted under the ABL Intercreditor Agreement or (d) amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition of the Employee Stock Plan in a manner materially adverse to the Credit Parties (it being understood and agreed that any material change to the Investments contemplated therein is materially adverse to the Credit Parties) without the written consent of the Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not be deemed to restrict the ability of the Board (as defined in the Employee Stock Plan) to determine additional Eligible Persons (as defined in the Employee Stock Plan) in accordance with the terms of the Employee Stock Plan.
7.13 Fiscal Year.
Change the Fiscal Year of any Loan Party, or the accounting policies or reporting practices of the Loan Parties, except as required by GAAP.
7.14 Deposit Accounts; Credit Card Processors; ABL Term Loan Priority Account.
(a) Open new DDAs or Blocked Accounts unless the Loan Parties shall have delivered to the Agent appropriate DDA Notifications or Blocked Account Agreements consistent with the provisions of Section 6.13 and otherwise satisfactory to the Agent.
(b) Maintain any bank accounts or enter into any agreements with Credit Card Processors or Credit Card Issuers other than the ones expressly contemplated herein or in Section 6.13 hereof.
(c) Deposit, or cause to be deposited, any funds into the ABL Term Loan Priority Account other than proceeds of the ABL Term Priority Collateral.
7.15 Revolving Availability.
Permit Revolving Availability, at any time, to be less than the greater of (x) $30,000,000, and (y) 10.0% of the Specified Combined Loan Cap.
Article VIII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
8.01 Events of Default.
Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default:
(a) Non-Payment. The Borrowers or any other Loan Party fails to pay when and as required to be paid herein, (i) any amount of principal of any Loan, or (ii) any interest on any Loan, or any fee due hereunder within three (3) Business Days of the date required to be paid herein, or
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(iii) any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document within three (3) Business Days of the date required to be paid herein; or
(b) Specific Covenants. (i) Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.05, 6.07, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.22, 6.23 or Article VII; or
(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in subsection (a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 30 days after the earlier of (i) the Loan Parties’ Knowledge of such default and (ii) notice of such default by Agent; or
(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith (including, without limitation, any Borrowing Base Certificate), or in completing any request for a Borrowing via the Portal, shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made (or, with respect to any representation, warranty, certification, or statement of fact qualified by materiality, incorrect or misleading in any respect); or
(e) Cross-Default. (i) Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof (A) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Material Indebtedness (including undrawn committed or available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement), or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Material Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Material Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of any Guarantee thereof (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap Contract as to which a Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which a Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed by the Loan Party or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than $5,000,000; or
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or a proceeding shall be commenced or a petition filed, without the application or consent of such Person, seeking or requesting the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed and the appointment continues undischarged, undismissed or unstayed for 45 calendar days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is
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instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or
(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 10 days after its issuance or levy; or
(h) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof (i) one or more judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount (as to all such judgments and orders) exceeding $25,000,000 (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the potential claim and does not dispute coverage), or (ii) any one or more non-monetary judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and, in either case, (A) enforcement proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order, or (B) there is a period of 45 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect; or
(i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in material liability of any Loan Party under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC or which would reasonably likely result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) a Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan or which would reasonably likely result in a Material Adverse Effect; or
(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents. (i) Any material provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder or Payment in Full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party or any other Person contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation under any provision of any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any provision of any Loan Document or seeks to avoid, limit or otherwise adversely affect any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document; or (ii) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party or any other Person not to be, a valid and perfected Lien on any Collateral, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document (subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) and which is not replaced with a substantially similar Lien on such Collateral; or
(k) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; or
(l) Cessation of Business. Except as otherwise expressly permitted hereunder, any Loan Party shall take any action, or shall make a determination, whether or not yet formally approved by any Loan Party’s management or board of directors, to (i) suspend the operation of all or a material portion of its business in the ordinary course, (ii) suspend the payment of any material obligations in the ordinary course or suspend the performance under material contracts in the ordinary course, (iii) solicit proposals for the liquidation of, or undertake to liquidate, all or a material portion of its assets or Store locations, or (iv) solicit proposals for the employment of, or
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employ, an agent or other third party to conduct a program of closings, liquidations, or “Going-Out-Of-Business” sales of any material portion of its business; or
(m) Loss of Collateral. There occurs any uninsured loss to any material portion of the Collateral; or
(n) Breach of Contractual Obligation. Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Material Contract or fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Material Contract or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the counterparty to such Material Contract to terminate such Material Contract; or
(o) Indictment. The indictment or institution of any legal process or proceeding against, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, under any federal, state, municipal, and other criminal statute, rule, regulation, order, or other requirement having the force of law for a felony; or
(p) Guaranty. The termination or attempted termination of any Facility Guaranty except as expressly permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document; or
(q) Subordination; Intercreditor. (i) The subordination provisions of the documents evidencing or governing any Subordinated Indebtedness (the “Subordination Provisions”) shall, in whole or in part, terminate, cease to be effective or cease to be legally valid, binding and enforceable against any holder of the applicable Subordinated Indebtedness; or (ii) any Borrower or any other Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, (A) make any payment on account of any Subordinated Indebtedness that has been contractually subordinated in right of payment to the payment of the Obligations, except to the extent that such payment is permitted by the terms of the Subordination Provisions applicable to such Subordinated Indebtedness or (B) disavow or contest in any manner (x) the effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any of the Subordination Provisions or the Intercreditor Provisions (as defined below), (y) that the Subordination Provisions and the Intercreditor Provisions exist for the benefit of the Credit Parties, or (z) that all payments of principal of or premium and interest on the applicable Subordinated Indebtedness, or realized from the liquidation of any property of any Loan Party, shall be subject to any of the Subordination Provisions or the Intercreditor Provisions, as applicable; or (iii) the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, any other intercreditor agreement entered into by the Agent related to Subordinated Debt, or any provision of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Intercreditor Provisions”) shall, in whole or in part, terminate or otherwise fail or cease to be valid and binding on, or enforceable against, any Loan Party, the Revolving Agent, or any holder of the Revolving Obligations or any other holder of any applicable Indebtedness (or any Loan Party, the Revolving Agent, or any holder of the Revolving Obligations or any other holder of any applicable Indebtedness shall so state in writing); or (iv) any provision of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement or any such other intercreditor agreement shall fail to be valid and binding, or enforceable.
8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default.
(a) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Agent may, or, at the request of the Required Lenders shall, take any or all of the following actions:
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(i) declare the Commitments of each Lender to make Loans to be terminated, whereupon such Commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
(ii) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Loan Parties;
(iii) [reserved]; and
(iv) whether or not the maturity of the Obligations shall have been accelerated pursuant hereto, proceed to protect, enforce and exercise all rights and remedies of the Credit Parties under this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or applicable Law, including, but not limited to, by suit in equity, action at law or other appropriate proceeding, whether for the specific performance of any covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any instrument pursuant to which the Obligations are evidenced, and, if such amount shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, proceed to enforce the payment thereof or any other legal or equitable right of the Credit Parties;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof under Section 8.01(f), the obligation of each Lender to make Loans shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable.
(b) No remedy herein is intended to be exclusive of any other remedy and each and every remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or any other provision of Law.
(c) Each of the Lenders agrees that it shall not, unless specifically requested to do so in writing by the Agent, take or cause to be taken any action, including, the commencement of any legal or equitable proceedings to enforce any Loan Document against any Loan Party or to foreclose any Lien on, or otherwise enforce any security interest in, or other rights to, any of the Collateral.
8.03 Application of Funds.
After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, Credit Party Expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Agent;
Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting interest and principal of any Protective Advances advanced by the Agent hereunder;
Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting indemnities, Credit Party Expenses, and other amounts (other than principal, interest and fees) payable to the Lenders (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and amounts
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payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees and premiums (other than the Prepayment Premiums (as defined in the Fee Letter)) payable to the ABL Term A Loan Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth payable to them;
Fifth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on ABL Term A Loans, ratably among the ABL Term A Loan Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fifth payable to them;
Sixth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the ABL Term A Loans, ratably among the ABL Term A Loan Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Sixth held by them;
Seventh, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees and premiums (other than the Prepayment Premiums (as defined in the Fee Letter)) payable to the ABL Term B Loan Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Sixth payable to them;
Eighth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the ABL Term B Loans, ratably among the ABL Term B Loan Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Eighth payable to them;
Ninth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the ABL Term B Loans, ratably among the ABL Term B Loan Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Ninth held by them;
Tenth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting Prepayment Premiums payable to the ABL Term A Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Tenth payable to them;
Eleventh, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting Prepayment Premiums payable to the ABL Term B Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Eleventh payable to them
Twelfth, to payment of all other Obligations (including without limitation the cash collateralization of unliquidated indemnification obligations as provided in Section 10.04(g), ratably among the Credit Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Twelfth held by them; and
Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been Paid in Full, to the Loan Parties or as otherwise required by Law.
Article IX
THE AGENT
9.01 Appointment and Authority.
(a) Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints PLC Agent LLC to act on its behalf as the administrative agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes
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the Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, and no Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.
(b) Each of the Lenders (in its capacities as a Lender) hereby irrevocably appoints PLC Agent LLC as collateral agent and authorizes the Agent to act as the agent of such Lender for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Agent, as “collateral agent” and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Agent pursuant to Section 9.05 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX and Article X (including Section 10.04(c)), as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
9.02 Rights as a Lender.
The Person serving as the Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it was not the Agent, and the terms “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions.
The Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Agent:
(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;
(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its respective opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law; and
(c) shall, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, nor shall be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Loan Parties or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
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The Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the Consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 10.01 and 8.02) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
The Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given to such Person by the Loan Parties or a Lender. If the Agent receives notice of such Default or Event of Default, it shall promptly notify the Lenders thereof in writing. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Lenders. Unless and until the Agent shall have received such direction, the Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to any such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of the Credit Parties. In no event shall the Agent be required to comply with any such directions to the extent that the Agent believes that its compliance with such directions would be unlawful.
The Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or the creation, perfection or priority of any Lien purported to be created by the Security Documents, (v) the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral, or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Agent.
9.04 Reliance by the Agent.
The Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including, but not limited to, any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Agent shall have received written notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan. The Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
9.05 Delegation of Duties.
The Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Agent. The Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as the Agent.
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9.06 Resignation of the Agent.
The Agent may at any time give written notice of its resignation to the Lenders and the Lead Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Lead Borrower, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may on behalf of the applicable Lenders appoint a successor Agent, meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that if the Agent shall notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any Collateral held by the Agent on behalf of the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Agent is appointed) and (2) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided for above in this Section. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Lead Borrower and such successor. After the retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Agent was acting as such Agent hereunder.
9.07 Non-Reliance on Agent and Other Lenders.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. Except as provided in Section 9.12, the Agent shall have any duty or responsibility to provide any Credit Party with any other credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of any Loan Party that may come into the possession of the Agent.
9.08 Reserved.
9.09 Agent May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Agent shall have made any demand on the Loan Parties) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise
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(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the Agent and the other Credit Parties (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the Agent, such Credit Parties and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the Agent and such Credit Parties under Sections 2.03(l) and 2.03(m) as applicable, Sections 2.09 and 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Agent and, if the Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters.
The Credit Parties irrevocably authorize the Agent, at their option and in their discretion,
(a) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon the Payment in Full of all Obligations, (ii) that is sold or to be sold as part of or in connection with any sale permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document or, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, as to which the Agent is required to release such Lien pursuant to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, or (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Applicable Lenders in accordance with Section 10.01;
(b) to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by clause (h) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances;
(c) to subordinate any Lien on Collateral other than ABL Term Priority Collateral to the Revolving Agent, in accordance with the ABL Intercreditor Agreement; and
(d) to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Facility Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder; provided, that if such Person is, or continues to be, an obligor with respect to the Revolving Obligations (whether as a borrower or a guarantor thereunder), the Agent shall not release such Person from its obligations under the Facility Guaranty unless and until such Person is no longer an obligor with respect to the Revolving Obligations.
Upon request by the Agent at any time, the Applicable Lenders will confirm in writing the Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Facility Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.10. In each case as specified in
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this Section 9.10, the Agent will, at the Loan Parties’ expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Security Documents or to subordinate its interest in such item, or to release such Guarantor from its obligations under the Facility Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.10.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9.10, the Agent shall be authorized, without the consent of any Lender and without the requirement that a Disposition shall have occurred, to release any security interest in any building, structure or improvement located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards.
9.11 Notice of Transfer.
The Agent may deem and treat a Lender party to this Agreement as the owner of such Lender’s portion of the Obligations for all purposes, unless and until, and except to the extent, an Assignment and Acceptance shall have become effective as set forth in Section 10.06.
9.12 Reports and Financial Statements.
By signing this Agreement, each Lender:
(a) [reserved];
(b) is deemed to have requested that the Agent furnish such Lender, promptly after they become available, copies of all Borrowing Base Certificates and financial statements required to be delivered by the Lead Borrower hereunder and all commercial finance examinations and appraisals of the Collateral received by the Agent (collectively, the “Reports”);
(c) expressly agrees and acknowledges that the Agent makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the Reports, and shall not be liable for any information contained in any Report;
(d) expressly agrees and acknowledges that the Reports are not comprehensive audits or examinations, that the Agent or any other party performing any audit or examination will inspect only specific information regarding the Loan Parties and will rely significantly upon the Loan Parties’ books and records, as well as on representations of the Loan Parties’ personnel;
(e) agrees to keep all Reports confidential in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07 hereof; and
(f) without limiting the generality of any other indemnification provision contained in this Agreement, agrees: (i) to hold the Agent and any such other Lender preparing a Report harmless from any action the indemnifying Lender may take or conclusion the indemnifying Lender may reach or draw from any Report in connection with any Loans that the indemnifying Lender has made or may make to the Borrowers, or the indemnifying Lender’s participation in, or the indemnifying Lender’s purchase of, a Loan or Loans; and (ii) to pay and protect, and indemnify, defend, and hold the Agent and any such other Lender preparing a Report harmless from and against, the claims, actions, proceedings, damages, costs, expenses, and other amounts (including attorney costs) incurred by the Agent and any such other Lender preparing a Report as the direct or indirect result of any third parties who might obtain all or part of any Report through the indemnifying Lender.
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9.13 Agency for Perfection.
Each Lender hereby appoints each other Lender as agent for the purpose of perfecting Liens for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of the UCC or any other applicable Law of the United States can be perfected only by possession. Should any Lender (other than the Agent) obtain possession of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify the Agent thereof, and, promptly upon the Agent’s request therefor shall deliver such Collateral to the Agent or otherwise deal with such Collateral in accordance with the Agent’s instructions.
9.14 Indemnification of Agent.
The Lenders hereby agree to indemnify the Agent and any Related Party, as the case may be (to the extent not reimbursed by the Loan Parties and without limiting the obligations of Loan Parties hereunder), ratably according to their Applicable Percentages, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against any Agent and its Related Parties in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Agent and its Related Parties in connection therewith; provided, that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Agent’s and its Related Parties’ gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
9.15 Relation among Lenders.
The Lenders are not partners or co-venturers, and no Lender shall be liable for the acts or omissions of, or (except as otherwise set forth herein in case of the Agent) authorized to act for, any other Lender.
9.16 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 the definition of “Required Lenders” and Section 10.01.
(ii) Defaulting Lender Waterfall. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise) or received by the Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.08 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Non-Defaulting 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; third, as the Lead 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 reasonably determined by the Agent; fourth, if so determined by the Agent and the Lead
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Borrower, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to satisfy such Defaulting Lender’s potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement; fifth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders as a result of any final, non-appealable 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; sixth, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrowers as a result of any final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrowers against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and seventh, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed in a final, non-appealable order by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans were made 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 all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of such Defaulting Lender until such time as all Loans and funded 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 shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Lead Borrower and the Agent agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the 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 Borrowers while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.
Article X
MISCELLANEOUS
10.01 Amendments, Etc.
No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no Consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Agent, with the Consent of the Required Lenders, and the Lead Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Agent, and each such waiver or Consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a) extend or, increase the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.02) without the written Consent of such Lender, or, except as provided in Section 2.01(c)(ii) with respect to the funding the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loans as
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ABL Term A Loans, extend or increase the amount of the ABL Term A Loans without the written consent of each Initial Term A Lender;
(b) as to any Lender, postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for (i) any scheduled payment (including the Maturity Date) or mandatory prepayment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents without the written Consent of such Lender entitled to such payment, or (ii) any scheduled or mandatory reduction or termination of the Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitments hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written Consent of such Lender;
(c) as to any Lender, reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan held by such Lender, or (subject to clause (iv) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to or for the account of such Lender, without the written Consent of each Lender entitled to such amount; provided, however, that only the Consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest at the Default Rate;
(d) change the definition of “Prepayment Event”, Section 2.05, Section 2.13 or Section 8.03, in each case without the written Consent of such Lender;
(e) change any provision of this Section 10.01 or the last sentence of Section 4.02 without the written Consent of each Lender, or change the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder without the written Consent of each Lender included in any such definition;
(f) except as expressly permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document, release, or limit the liability of, any Loan Party without the written Consent of each Lender;
(g) except for Permitted Dispositions or as otherwise required under the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, release all or substantially all of the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents without the written Consent of each Lender;
(h) change any provision of Section 2.01(c)(ii) without the written Consent of each Lender not having a Delayed Draw ABL Term Loan Commitment on the Closing Date;
(i) change the definition of the term “ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base” or any component definition thereof if as a result thereof the amounts available to be borrowed by the Borrowers would be increased without the written Consent of each Lender, provided that the foregoing shall not limit the discretion of the Agent to change, establish or eliminate any Reserves in accordance with the terms hereof;
(j) except as expressly permitted herein or in any other Loan Document, subordinate the Obligations hereunder or the Liens granted hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, to any other Indebtedness or Lien, as the case may be without the written Consent of each Lender;
(k) [reserved]; and
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and, provided further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or Consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (ii) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (x) no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or Consent hereunder, except that the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender, and (y) no provider or holder of any Bank Products or Cash Management Services shall have any voting or approval rights hereunder (or be deemed a Lender) solely by virtue of its status as the provider or holder of such agreements or products or the Obligations owing thereunder, nor shall the consent of any such provider or holder be required (other than in their capacities as Lenders, to the extent applicable) for any matter hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, including as to any matter relating to the Collateral or the release of Collateral or any Loan Party.
If any Lender does not Consent (a “Non-Consenting Lender”) to a proposed amendment, waiver, consent or release with respect to any Loan Document that requires the Consent of each Lender and that has been approved by the Required Lenders, the Lead Borrower may replace such Non-Consenting Lender in accordance with Section 10.13; provided that such amendment, waiver, consent or release can be effected as a result of the assignment contemplated by such Section (together with all other such assignments required by the Lead Borrower to be made pursuant to this paragraph).
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications.
(a) Notices Generally. Except as provided in subsection (b) below, all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier as follows:
(i) if to the Loan Parties or the Agent, to the address, telecopier number or electronic mail address specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and
(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number or electronic mail address specified in its Administrative Questionnaire.
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such subsection (b).
(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Loan Parties and the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender pursuant to Article II if such Lender has notified the Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Agent or the Lead Borrower may, each in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
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Unless the Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e‑mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e‑mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.
(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Loan Party, any Lender or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the Loan Parties’ or the Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Loan Party, any Lender or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).
(d) Change of Address, Etc. Each of the Loan Parties and the Agent may change its address or telecopier number for notices and other communications hereunder, or, solely with respect to communications, may change its telephone number, by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address or telecopier number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Lead Borrower and the Agent. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Agent from time to time to ensure that the Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender.
(e) Reliance by Agent and Lenders. The Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including, without limitation, all Notices of Borrowing) purportedly given by or on behalf of the Loan Parties even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Loan Parties shall indemnify the Agent, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of the Loan Parties (including, without limitation, pursuant to any Notices of Borrowing). All telephonic communications with the Agent may be recorded by the Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.
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10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
No failure by any Credit Party to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided herein and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether any Credit Party may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.
10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(a) Costs and Expenses. The Borrowers shall pay all Credit Party Expenses.
(b) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall indemnify the Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each other Credit Party, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, causes of action, damages, liabilities, settlement payments, costs, and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee provided that such Indemnitees shall be entitled to reimbursement for no more than one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction (absent a conflict of interest in which case the Indemnitees may engage and be reimbursed for additional counsel)), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Agent (and any sub-agents thereof) and their Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) any claims of, or amounts paid by any Credit Party to, a Blocked Account Bank or other Person which has entered into a control agreement with any Credit Party hereunder, or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party or any of the Loan Parties’ directors, shareholders or creditors, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the comparative, contributory or sole negligence of the Indemnitee; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non-appealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, (y) result from a claim brought by a Borrower or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Borrowers or such Loan Party has obtained a final and non-appealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (z) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non‑appealable judgment to have resulted solely from a claim not involving an act or omission of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and brought by an Indemnitee against another Indemnitee related to Section 10.28 (other than against the Agent in its capacity as such).
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(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. Without limiting their obligations under Section 9.14 hereof, to the extent that the Loan Parties for any reason fail to indefeasibly pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by it, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Agent (or any such subagent) in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(e).
(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, the Loan Parties shall not assert, and hereby waive, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby other than for direct or actual damages resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable on demand therefor.
(f) Survival. The agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation of any Agent, the assignment of any Commitment or Loan by any Lender, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.
10.05 Payments Set Aside.
To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Loan Parties is made to any Credit Party, or any Credit Party exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Credit Party in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Agent upon demand its Applicable Percentage (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the Payment in Full of the Obligations.
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10.06 Successors and Assigns.
(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that no Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written Consent of the Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection Section 10.06(d), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.06(f) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Credit Parties) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment(s) and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) Minimum Amounts
(A) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it or in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Lender, no minimum amount need be assigned; and
(B) in any case not described in subsection (A)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Agent or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $1,000,000 unless each of (i) the Agent, and (ii) so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, the Lead Borrower, otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and shall be deemed given if the Lead Borrower has not responded to a request for such consent within seven (7) Business Days); provided, however, that concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been met;
(ii) Proportionate Amounts. Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned;
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(iii) Required Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by subsection 10.06(b)(i)(A)) of this Section and, in addition:
(A) the consent of the Lead Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and shall be deemed given if the Lead Borrower has not responded to a request for such consent within seven (7) Business Days) shall be required unless (1) a Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and
(B) the consent of the Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments in respect of any Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender; and
(C) [reserved]; and
(D) [reserved]
(iv) Assignment and Assumption. The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 payable by the party requesting such assignment, provided, however, that the Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment. The assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment. Upon request, the Borrowers (at their expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.06(d).
(c) Register. The Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at the Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Loans owing to each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Loan Parties, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Lead Borrower and any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
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(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Loan Parties or the Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Loan Parties or any of the Loan Parties’ Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Loan Parties, the Agent and the Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any Participant shall agree in writing to comply with all confidentiality obligations set forth in Section 10.07 as if such Participant was a Lender hereunder.
Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to Section 10.01 that affects such Participant. Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, the Loan Parties agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.06(b). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.
(e) Limitations upon Participant Rights. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01 or 3.04 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Lead Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 unless the Lead Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Loan Parties, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were a Lender.
(f) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(g) Electronic Execution of Assignments. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
(h) [Reserved].
10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality.
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Each of the Credit Parties individually (and not jointly or jointly and severally) agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, funding sources, attorneys, advisors and representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to any Loan Party and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Lead Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to any Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Loan Parties.
For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof relating to the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof or their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to any Credit Party on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof, provided that, in the case of information received from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary after the First Amendment Effective Date, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
Each of the Credit Parties acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non‑public information concerning the Loan Parties or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including Federal and state securities Laws.
10.08 Right of Setoff.
If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or if any Lender shall have been served with a trustee process or similar attachment relating to property of a Loan Party, each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, after obtaining the prior written consent of the Agent or the Required Lenders, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrowers or any other Loan Party against any and all of the Obligations now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender, regardless of the adequacy of the Collateral, and irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Borrowers or such Loan Party may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender or their respective Affiliates
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may have. Each Lender agrees to notify the Lead Borrower and the Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
10.09 Interest Rate Limitation.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”). If the Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrowers. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.
10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness.
This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Agent and when the Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Execution of any such counterpart may be executed by means of (a) an electronic signature that complies with the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, as in effect from time to time, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect from time to time, or any other relevant and applicable electronic signatures law; (b) an original manual signature; or (c) a faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature. Each electronic signature or faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature shall for all purposes have the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature. The Agent reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to accept, deny, or condition acceptance of any electronic signature on this Agreement or on any notice delivered to the Agent under this Agreement. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by faxed, scanned or photocopied manual signature shall also deliver an original manually executed counterpart, but the failure to deliver an original manually executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability and binding effect of this Agreement. The foregoing shall apply to each other Loan Document, and any notice delivered hereunder or thereunder, mutatis mutandis.
10.11 Survival.
All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof, except to the extent that such representations and warranties may be revised in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Credit Parties, regardless of any investigation made by any Credit Party or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any Credit Party may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Loan, and shall continue in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Obligations. Further, the provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 and Article IX shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the repayment of the Obligations, the expiration or termination of the
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Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. In connection with the termination of this Agreement and the release and termination of the security interests in the Collateral, the Agent may require such indemnities and collateral security as they shall reasonably deem necessary or appropriate to protect the Credit Parties against (x) loss on account of credits previously applied to the Obligations that may subsequently be reversed or revoked, (y) any obligations that may thereafter arise with respect to the Other Liabilities and (z) any Obligations that may thereafter arise under Section 10.04.
10.12 Severability.
If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
10.13 Replacement of Lenders.
If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:
(a) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 10.06(b)(iv);
(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts);
(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter; and
(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws.
A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.
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(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT ANY CREDIT PARTY MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
(e) ACTIONS COMMENCED BY LOAN PARTIES. EACH LOAN PARTY AGREES THAT ANY ACTION COMMENCED BY ANY LOAN PARTY ASSERTING ANY CLAIM OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT SOLELY IN A COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING THEREIN AS THE AGENT MAY ELECT IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION AND CONSENTS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUCH ACTION.
10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO
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A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
10.16 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby, the Loan Parties each acknowledge and agree that: (i) the credit facility provided for hereunder and any related arranging or other services in connection therewith (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document) are an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Loan Parties, on the one hand, and the Credit Parties, on the other hand, and each of the Loan Parties is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents (including any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or thereof); (ii) in connection with the process leading to such transaction, the each Credit Party is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the financial advisor, agent or fiduciary, for the Loan Parties or any of their respective Affiliates, stockholders, creditors or employees or any other Person; (iii) none of the Credit Parties has assumed or will assume an advisory, agency or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Loan Parties with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto, including with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document (irrespective of whether any of the Credit Parties has advised or is currently advising any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates on other matters) and none of the Credit Parties has any obligation to any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; (iv) the Credit Parties and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates, and none of the Credit Parties has any obligation to disclose any of such interests by virtue of any advisory, agency or fiduciary relationship; and (v) the Credit Parties have not provided and will not provide any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document) and each of the Loan Parties has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate. Each of the Loan Parties hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that it may have against each of the Credit Parties with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty.
10.17 Patriot Act Notice.
Each Lender that is subject to the requirements of the Patriot Act hereby notifies the Loan Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify each Loan Party in accordance with the Patriot Act. In addition, the Agent and each Lender shall have the right to periodically conduct due diligence (including, without limitation, in respect of information and documentation as may reasonably be requested by the Agent or any Lender from time to time for purposes of compliance by the Agent or such Lender with applicable Laws (including, without limitation, the Patriot Act and other “know your customer” and Anti-Money Laundering Laws), and any policy or procedure implemented by the Agent or such Lender to comply therewith) on all Loan Parties, their senior management and key principals and legal and beneficial
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owners. Each Loan Party agrees to cooperate in respect of the conduct of such due diligence and further agrees that the reasonable costs and charges for any such due diligence by the Agent shall constitute Credit Party Expenses hereunder and be for the account of Borrowers.
10.18 Foreign Asset Control Regulations.
Neither of the advance of the Loans nor the use of the proceeds of any thereof will violate the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., as amended) (the “Trading With the Enemy Act”) or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) (the “Foreign Assets Control Regulations”) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto (which for the avoidance of doubt shall include, but shall not be limited to (a) Executive Order 13224 of September 21, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)) (the “Executive Order”) and (b) the Patriot Act. Furthermore, none of the Borrowers or their Affiliates (a) is or will become a “blocked person” as described in the Executive Order, the Trading With the Enemy Act or the Foreign Assets Control Regulations or (b) engages or will engage in any dealings or transactions, or be otherwise associated, with any such “blocked person” or in any manner violative of any such order.
10.19 Time of the Essence.
Time is of the essence of the Loan Documents.
10.20 Press Releases.
Each Loan Party agrees to provide its reasonable consent to the publication by Agent or any Lender of advertising material, including any “tombstone,” press release or comparable advertising, on its website or in other marketing materials of the Agent relating to the financing transactions contemplated by this Agreement using any Loan Party’s name, product photographs, logo, trademark or other insignia. The Agent or such Lender shall provide a draft of any advertising material, “tomb stone” or press release to the Lead Borrower at least five (5) days prior to the publication thereof. Upon consent from Lead Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), Agent may provide to industry trade organizations and loan syndication and pricing reporting services information necessary and customary for inclusion in league table measurements.
10.21 Additional Waivers.
(a) The Obligations are the joint and several obligation of each Loan Party. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the obligations of each Loan Party shall not be affected by (i) the failure of any Credit Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce or exercise any right or remedy against any other Loan Party under the provisions of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise, (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or (iii) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the release of, any of the Collateral or other security held by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party.
(b) The obligations of each Loan Party shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than the Payment in Full of the Obligations), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise of any of the Obligations, and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any of the Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each
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Loan Party hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Agent or any other Credit Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any provision of any thereof, any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of any of the Obligations, or by any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Loan Party or that would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Loan Party as a matter of law or equity (other than the Payment in Full of the Obligations).
(c) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, each Loan Party waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of the Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any other Loan Party, other than the Payment in Full of all the Obligations. The Collateral Agent and the other Credit Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or non‑judicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Obligations, make any other accommodation with any other Loan Party, or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Loan Party hereunder except to the extent that all the Obligations have been Paid in Full. Each Loan Party waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable Law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Loan Party against any other Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security.
(d) Each Borrower is obligated to repay the Obligations as joint and several obligors under this Agreement. Upon payment by any Loan Party of any Obligations, all rights of such Loan Party against any other Loan Party arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior Payment in Full of all the Obligations. In addition, any indebtedness of any Loan Party now or hereafter held by any other Loan Party is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the prior Payment in Full of the Obligations and no Loan Party will demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect any such indebtedness. If any amount shall erroneously be paid to any Loan Party on account of (i) such subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar right or (ii) any such indebtedness of any Loan Party, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Credit Parties and shall forthwith be paid to the Agent to be credited against the payment of the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Subject to the foregoing, to the extent that any Loan Party shall, under this Agreement as a joint and several obligor, repay any of the Obligations constituting Revolving Loans made to another Loan Party hereunder or other Obligations incurred directly and primarily by any other Loan Party (an “Accommodation Payment”), then the Loan Party making such Accommodation Payment shall be entitled to contribution and indemnification from, and be reimbursed by, each of the other Loan Parties in an amount, for each of such other Loan Parties, equal to a fraction of such Accommodation Payment, the numerator of which fraction is such other Loan Party’s Allocable Amount and the denominator of which is the sum of the Allocable Amounts of all of the Loan Parties. As of any date of determination, the “Allocable Amount” of each Loan Party shall be equal to the maximum amount of liability for Accommodation Payments which could be asserted against such Loan Party hereunder without (a) rendering such Loan Party “insolvent” within the meaning of Section 101 (31) of the Bankruptcy Code, Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (“UFTA”) or Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (“UFCA”), (b) leaving such Loan Party with unreasonably small capital or assets, within the meaning of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code, Section 4 of the UFTA, or Section 5
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of the UFCA, or (c) leaving such Loan Party unable to pay its debts as they become due within the meaning of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or Section 4 of the UFTA, or Section 5 of the UFCA.
(e) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of any other waiver or other provision set forth in this Agreement, each Loan Party hereby absolutely, knowingly, unconditionally, and expressly waives any and all claim, defense or benefit arising directly or indirectly under any one or more of Sections 2787 to 2855 inclusive of the California Civil Code or any similar law of California.
10.22 No Strict Construction.
The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.
10.23 Attachments.
The exhibits, schedules and annexes attached to this Agreement are incorporated herein and shall be considered a part of this Agreement for the purposes stated herein, except that in the event of any conflict between any of the provisions of such exhibits and the provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.
10.24 Keepwell.
Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Loan Party to honor all of its obligations under the Facility Guaranty in respect of Swap Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 10.24 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 10.24, or otherwise under the Facility Guaranty, voidable under applicable Law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Obligations. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section 10.25 constitute, and this Section 10.24 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Loan Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
10.25 Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and
(b) the effects of any Bail-in Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
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(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.
10.26 Reserved.
10.27 Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs.
To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Swap Contracts or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support”, and each such QFC, a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States): In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.
10.28 Erroneous Payments.
(a) Each Lender hereby severally agrees that if (i) the Agent notifies (which such notice shall be conclusive absent manifest error) such Lender (or the Lender which is an Affiliate of a Lender) or any other Person that has received funds from the Agent or any of its Affiliates, either for its own account or on behalf of a Lender (each such recipient, a “Payment Recipient”) that the Agent has determined in its sole discretion that any funds received by such Payment Recipient were erroneously transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Payment Recipient (whether or not known to such Payment Recipient) or (ii) any Payment Recipient receives any payment from the Agent (or any of its Affiliates) (x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment, prepayment or
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repayment sent by the Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment, as applicable, (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment, as applicable, or (z) that such Payment Recipient otherwise becomes aware was transmitted or received in error or by mistake (in whole or in part) then, in each case, an error in payment shall be presumed to have been made (any such amounts specified in clauses (i) or (ii) of this Section 10.28(a), whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise; individually and collectively, an “Erroneous Payment”), then, in each case, such Payment Recipient is deemed to have knowledge of such error at the time of its receipt of such Erroneous Payment; provided that nothing in this Section shall require the Agent to provide any of the notices specified in clauses (i) or (ii) above. Each Payment Recipient agrees that it shall not assert any right or claim to any Erroneous Payment, and hereby waives any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Agent for the return of any Erroneous Payments, including without limitation waiver of any defense based on “discharge for value” or any similar doctrine.
(b) Without limiting the immediately preceding clause (a), each Payment Recipient agrees that, in the case of clause (a)(ii) above, it shall promptly notify the Agent in writing of such occurrence.
(c) In the case of either clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above, such Erroneous Payment shall at all times remain the property of the Agent and shall be segregated by the Payment Recipient and held in trust for the benefit of the Agent, and upon demand from the Agent such Payment Recipient shall (or, shall cause any Person who received any portion of an Erroneous Payment on its behalf to), promptly, but in all events no later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Agent the amount of any such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made in same day funds and in the currency so received, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Payment Recipient to the date such amount is repaid to the Agent at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect.
(d) In the event that an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered by the Agent for any reason, after demand therefor by the Agent in accordance with immediately preceding clause (c), from any Lender that is a Payment Recipient or an Affiliate of a Payment Recipient (such unrecovered amount as to such Lender, an “Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency”), then at the sole discretion of the Agent and upon the Agent’s written notice to such Lender (i) such Lender shall be deemed to have made a cashless assignment of the full face amount of the portion of its Loans (but not its Commitments) with respect to which such Erroneous Payment was made (the “Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans”) to the Agent or, at the option of the Agent, the Agent’s applicable lending affiliate (such assignee, the “Agent Assignee”) in an amount that is equal to the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency (or such lesser amount as the Agent may specify) (such assignment of the Loans (but not Commitments) of the Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans, the “Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment”) plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such assigned amount, without further consent or approval of any party hereto and without any payment by the Agent Assignee as the assignee of such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment. Without limitation of its rights hereunder, following the effectiveness of the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, the Agent may make a cashless reassignment to the applicable assigning Lender of any Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment at any time by written notice to the applicable assigning Lender and upon such reassignment all of the Loans assigned pursuant to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment shall be reassigned to such
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Lender without any requirement for payment or other consideration. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (1) any assignment contemplated in this clause (d) shall be made without any requirement for any payment or other consideration paid by the applicable assignee or received by the assignor, (2) the provisions of this clause (d) shall govern in the event of any conflict with the terms and conditions of Section 10.06 and (3) the Agent may reflect such assignments in the Register without further consent or action by any other Person.
(e) Each party hereto hereby agrees that (x) in the event an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered from any Payment Recipient that has received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) for any reason, the Agent (1) shall be subrogated to all the rights of such Payment Recipient and (2) is authorized to set off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Payment Recipient under any Loan Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by the Agent to such Payment Recipient from any source, against any amount due to the Agent under this Section 10.28 or under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement, (y) the receipt of an Erroneous Payment by a Payment Recipient shall not for the purpose of this Agreement be treated as a payment, prepayment, repayment, discharge or other satisfaction of any Obligations owed by the Borrowers or any other Loan Party, except, in each case, to the extent such Erroneous Payment is, and solely with respect to the amount of such Erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds received by the Agent from the Borrowers or any other Loan Party for the purpose of making for a payment on the Obligations and (z) to the extent that an Erroneous Payment was in any way or at any time credited as payment or satisfaction of any of the Obligations, the Obligations or any part thereof that were so credited, and all rights of the Payment Recipient, as the case may be, shall be reinstated and continue in full force and effect as if such payment or satisfaction had never been received.
(f) Each party’s obligations under this Section 10.28 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Agent or any transfer of right or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations (or any portion thereof) under any Loan Document.
(g) The provisions of this Section 10.28 to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) nothing in this Section 10.28 will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from any Payment Recipient’s receipt of an Erroneous Payment and (ii) there will only be deemed to be a recovery of the Erroneous Payment to the extent that the Agent has received payment from the Payment Recipient in immediately available funds the Erroneous Payment Return, whether directly from the Payment Recipient, as a result of the exercise by the Agent of its rights of subrogation or set off as set forth above in clause (e) or as a result of the receipt by Agent Assignee of a payment of the outstanding principal balance of the Loans assigned to Agent Assignee pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, but excluding any other amounts in respect thereof (it being agreed that any payments of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts (other than principal) received by Agent Assignee in respect of the Loans assigned to Agent Assignee pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment shall be the sole property of the Agent Assignee and shall not constitute a recovery of the Erroneous Payment).
10.29 ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
(a) EACH LENDER UNDERSTANDS, ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT LIENS SHALL BE CREATED ON THE COLLATERAL PURSUANT TO THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, WHICH LIENS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. PURSUANT TO THE EXPRESS TERMS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE
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TERMS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, THE PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT SHALL GOVERN AND CONTROL.
(b) EACH LENDER AUTHORIZES AND INSTRUCTS THE AGENT TO ENTER INTO THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE LENDERS, AND TO TAKE ALL ACTIONS (AND EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS) REQUIRED (OR DEEMED ADVISABLE) BY THE AGENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT.
(c) THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 10.29 ARE NOT INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE ALL RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. REFERENCE MUST BE MADE TO THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT ITSELF TO UNDERSTAND ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS THEREOF. EACH LENDER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING ITS OWN ANALYSIS AND REVIEW OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS THEREOF, AND NEITHER THE AGENT NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION TO ANY LENDER AS TO THE SUFFICIENCY OR ADVISABILITY OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, no Consent of any Loan Party or any Lender is required to effect any amendment or supplement to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, (A) that is solely for the purpose of adding holders of Indebtedness incurred or issued pursuant to a Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the Revolving Agreement (or any agent or trustee of such holders) as parties thereto, as contemplated by the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and permitted under clause (j) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness (it being understood that any such amendment or supplement may make such other changes to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement as, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, as required to effectuate the foregoing and provided that such other changes are not adverse to the interests of the Lenders) or (B) that is expressly contemplated by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement with respect to a Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the Revolving Credit Agreement permitted under clause (j) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness (or the comparable provisions, if any, of any successor intercreditor agreement with respect to a Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the Revolving Credit Agreement permitted under clause (j) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness).
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the date first above written.
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SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation, as Lead Borrower and as a Borrower By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE SOUTHWEST, INC., a California corporation, as a Borrower By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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MINNESOTA MERCHANDISING CORP., a Minnesota corporation, as a Borrower By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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PACIFIC FLYWAY WHOLESALE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
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SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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ON ADVENTURE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
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SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, as a Guarantor By: /s/ Jeff White Name: Jeff White Title: Chief Financial Officer |
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
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PLC AGENT LLC, as Agent By: Pathlight Capital LP, Its Sole Member
By: Pathlight GP LLC, Its General Partner
By: /s/ Roger Malouf Name: Roger Malouf Title: Managing Director |
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
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Pathlight Capital Fund II LP, as a Lender By: Pathlight Partners II GP, LLC Its General Partner
By: /s/ Roger Malouf Name: Roger Malouf Title: Managing Director |
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
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Pathlight Capital Fund III LP, as a Lender By: Pathlight Partners III GP, LLC Its General Partner
By: /s/ Roger Malouf Name: Roger Malouf Title: Managing Director |
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Pathlight Capital EVERGREEN FUND LP, as a Lender By: Pathlight Partners Evergreen GP, LLC Its General Partner
By: /s/ Roger Malouf Name: Roger Malouf Title: Managing Director |
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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By: /s/ Wai Cheng Name: Wai Cheng Title: Duly Authorized Signatory |
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
Exhibit 10.2
second AMENDMENT TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (this “Amendment”) is made as of July 30, 2024, by and among:
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation (the “Lead Borrower”);
the Persons named on Schedule I hereto (together with the Lead Borrower, individually, a “Borrower”, and collectively, the “Borrowers”);
the Persons named on Schedule II hereto (individually, a “Guarantor”, and collectively, the “Guarantors”, and together with the Borrowers, individually, a “Loan Party”, and collectively the “Loan Parties”);
the LENDERS party hereto; and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, and Swing Line Lender;
in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained and benefits to be derived herefrom.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 23, 2018 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Loan Parties, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer;
WHEREAS, the Loan Parties desire to enter into a term loan agreement and related documents, instruments and agreements with, among others, PLC Agent LLC (as further defined in the Credit Agreement (as amended hereby), the “ABL Term Documents”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Loan Parties will incur Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $45,000,000, which Indebtedness will be secured by a Lien on substantially all of the Loan Parties’ assets (which Lien shall have the priority set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement (as defined in the Credit Agreement (as amended hereby))); such actions, absent the consent of the Required Lenders, would constitute Events of Default under the Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, in connection therewith, the parties hereto desire to amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement as set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
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[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have hereunto caused this Amendment to be executed and their seals to be hereto affixed as of the date first above written.
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation, as Lead Borrower and as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE SOUTHWEST, INC., a California corporation, as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
MINNESOTA MERCHANDISING CORP., a Minnesota corporation, as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
PACIFIC FLYWAY WHOLESALE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: Sportsman's Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Signature Page to Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
ONADVENTURE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
THE AMERICAN PARTS CO., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Signature Page to Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, as a Guarantor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Signature Page to Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender, L/C Issuer and a Lender
By: /s/ Will Boyle
Name: Will Boyle
Title: Duly Authorized Signatory
Signature Page to Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By: /s/ Christine McGuan
Name: Christine McGuan
Title: Vice President
Signature Page to Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By: /s/ Paul L. Starman
Name: Paul L. Starman
Title: Vice President
Signature Page to Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Schedule I
Borrowers other than the Lead Borrower
Sportsman’s Warehouse Southwest, Inc.
Minnesota Merchandising Corp.
Pacific Flyway Wholesale, LLC
Sportsman’s Warehouse Development I, LLC
Sportsman’s Warehouse Development II, LLC
OnAdventure, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
The American Parts Co., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
Schedule II
Guarantors
Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation
ANNEX A
Composite Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
ANNEX A TO FIRSTSECOND AMENDMENT – COMPOSITE CREDIT AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of May 23, 2018,
as amended May 27, 2022 and July 30, 2024
among
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC.,
as the Lead Borrower
For
The Borrowers Party Hereto
THE BORROWERS PARTY HERETO
THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender, and L/C Issuer,
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Syndication Agent
and
WELLS FARGO CAPITAL FINANCE, LLC,
as Sole Lead Arranger
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS..........................................................1
1.01 Defined Terms..........................................................................................................1
1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions.............................................................................5860
1.03 Accounting Terms..............................................................................................5961
1.04 Rounding............................................................................................................5961
1.05 Times of Day......................................................................................................5961
1.06 Letter of Credit Amounts...................................................................................5962
1.07 Divisions..............................................................................................................602
1.08 Rates.....................................................................................................................602
ARTICLE II THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS.......................................602
2.01 Loans; Reserves....................................................................................................602
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Committed Revolving Loans and the Term Loan......................................................................................................614
2.03 Letters of Credit....................................................................................................646
2.04 Swing Line Loans.................................................................................................735
2.05 Prepayments.........................................................................................................758
2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments........................................................779
2.07 Repayment of Loans............................................................................................780
2.08 Interest..................................................................................................................780
2.09 Fees.......................................................................................................................781
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees; Term SOFR Conforming Changes..............7981
2.11 Evidence of Debt................................................................................................7982
2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback.....................................802
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders..........................................................................824
2.14 Settlement Among Lenders..................................................................................824
2.15 Increase in Revolving Commitments...................................................................835
ARTICLE III TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY; APPOINTMENT OF LEAD BORROWER..........................................................................................857
3.01 Taxes....................................................................................................................857
3.02 Illegality...............................................................................................................879
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates..............................................................................8890
3.04 Increased Costs....................................................................................................892
3.05 Compensation for Losses.....................................................................................913
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders................................................914
3.07 Survival................................................................................................................924
3.08 Designation of Lead Borrower as Borrowers’ Agent..........................................924
ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS...............................925
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension.................................................................925
4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions......................................................................958
(i)
ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.......................................................979
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power.....................................................................979
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention.........................................................................979
5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents.................................................97100
5.04 Binding Effect..................................................................................................97100
5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect..........................................98100
5.06 Litigation..........................................................................................................98101
5.07 No Default........................................................................................................99101
5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens..........................................................................99101
5.09 Environmental Compliance.............................................................................99102
5.10 Insurance............................................................................................................1002
5.11 Taxes..................................................................................................................1002
5.12 ERISA Compliance............................................................................................1003
5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests.............................................................................1013
5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.................................................1014
5.15 Disclosure...........................................................................................................1024
5.16 Compliance with Laws.......................................................................................1024
5.17 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc....................................................................1025
5.18 Labor Matters.....................................................................................................1025
5.19 Security Documents...........................................................................................1035
5.20 Solvency.............................................................................................................1036
5.21 Deposit Accounts; Credit Card Arrangements...................................................1046
5.22 Brokers...............................................................................................................1046
5.23 Customer and Trade Relations...........................................................................1047
5.24 Material Contracts..............................................................................................1047
5.25 Casualty..............................................................................................................1047
5.26 OFAC; Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws.......1047
5.27 Patriot Act...........................................................................................................1057
5.28 Swap Contracts...................................................................................................1058
ARTICLE VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.........................................................................1058
6.01 Financial Statements...........................................................................................1058
6.02 Certificates; Other Information..........................................................................1069
6.03 Notices..............................................................................................................10912
6.04 Payment of Obligations......................................................................................1103
6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc............................................................................1103
6.06 Maintenance of Properties..................................................................................1104
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance...................................................................................1114
6.08 Compliance with Laws.......................................................................................1125
6.09 Books and Records; Accountants.......................................................................1125
6.10 Inspection Rights................................................................................................1136
6.11 Use of Proceeds..................................................................................................1136
6.12 Additional Loan Parties......................................................................................1147
6.13 Cash Management..............................................................................................1147
6.14 Information Regarding the Collateral.................................................................1159
6.15 Physical Inventories...........................................................................................1169
6.16 Environmental Laws.........................................................................................11620
(ii)
6.17 Further Assurances...........................................................................................11720
6.18 Compliance with Terms of Leaseholds..............................................................1218
6.19 Material Contracts..............................................................................................1218
6.20 [ReservedABL Term Pushdown Reserve.]......................................................11822
6.21 OFAC; Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws.....11822
6.22 Post-Closing Covenants.......................................................................................118
6.22 Engagement of Certain Professionals...................................................................122
ARTICLE VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS.............................................................................11922
7.01 Liens.................................................................................................................11923
7.02 Investments.......................................................................................................11923
7.03 Indebtedness.....................................................................................................11923
7.04 Fundamental Changes........................................................................................1203
7.05 Dispositions........................................................................................................1204
7.06 Restricted Payments...........................................................................................1204
7.07 Prepayments of Indebtedness.............................................................................1215
7.08 Change in Nature of Business............................................................................1215
7.09 Transactions with Affiliates...............................................................................1226
7.10 Burdensome Agreements...................................................................................1226
7.11 Use of Proceeds..................................................................................................1226
7.12 Amendment of Material Documents..................................................................1237
7.13 Fiscal Year.........................................................................................................1237
7.14 Deposit Accounts; Credit Card Processors; ABL Term Loan Priority Account..............................................................................................................1237
7.15 Revolving Availability.......................................................................................1237
ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES...................................................1237
8.01 Events of Default...............................................................................................1237
8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default....................................................................12631
8.03 Application of Funds.......................................................................................12931
8.04 Separate Claims and Separate Classifications...................................................1313
ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT............................................................................1314
9.01 Appointment and Authority...............................................................................1314
9.02 Rights as a Lender..............................................................................................1324
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions.......................................................................................1325
9.04 Reliance by Agents and Term Loan Agent........................................................1336
9.05 Delegation of Duties..........................................................................................1336
9.06 Resignation of Agents and the Term Loan Agent..............................................1346
9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent or Term Loan Agent and Other Lenders ............................................................................................................................1357
9.08 No Other Duties, Etc..........................................................................................1358
9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim...............................................1358
9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters........................................................................1368
9.11 Notice of Transfer...............................................................................................1369
9.12 Reports and Financial Statements......................................................................1369
9.13 Agency for Perfection.......................................................................................13740
(iii)
9.14 Indemnification of Agents................................................................................13740
9.15 Relation among Lenders...................................................................................13840
9.16 Defaulting Lender.............................................................................................13841
9.17 Providers.............................................................................................................1403
9.18 Lead Arranger; Syndication Agent.....................................................................1414
ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS.............................................................................................1414
10.01 Amendments, Etc...............................................................................................1414
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications.........................................1436
10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.....................................................................1458
10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver..............................................................1458
10.05 Payments Set Aside..........................................................................................14750
10.06 Successors and Assigns....................................................................................14750
10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality ............................................1513
10.08 Right of Setoff....................................................................................................1514
10.09 Interest Rate Limitation......................................................................................1524
10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness............................................................1525
10.11 Survival..............................................................................................................1525
10.12 Severability.........................................................................................................1536
10.13 Replacement of Lenders.....................................................................................1536
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.......................................................................1546
10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial...........................................................................................1557
10.16 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility..........................................................1558
10.17 Patriot Act Notice...............................................................................................1558
10.18 Foreign Asset Control Regulations....................................................................1568
10.19 Time of the Essence............................................................................................1569
10.20 Press Releases.....................................................................................................1569
10.21 Additional Waivers.............................................................................................1569
10.22 No Strict Construction.....................................................................................................15861
10.23 Attachments......................................................................................................15861
10.24 Keepwell...........................................................................................................15861
10.25 Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions..15861
10.26 Amendment and Restatement...........................................................................15962
10.27 Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs........................................15962
10.28 Erroneous Payments.............................................................................................163
10.29 ABL Intercreditor Agreement..............................................................................165
SIGNATURES S-1
SCHEDULES
1.01(a) Borrowers
1.01(b) Borrowers’ Fiscal Calendar through Fiscal Year 2028
1.02 Existing Letters of Credit
2.01 Commitments and Applicable Percentages
5.01 Loan Parties’ Organizational Information
(iv)
5.05 Material Indebtedness
5.06 Litigation
5.07 Defaults
5.08(b)(1) Owned Real Estate
5.08(b)(2) Leased Real Estate
5.09 Environmental Matters
5.10 Insurance
5.13 Subsidiaries; Other Equity Investments
5.17 Intellectual Property Matters
5.18 Labor Matters
5.21(a) DDAs and Blocked Accounts
5.21(b) Credit Card Arrangements
5.24 Material Contracts
6.02 Financial and Collateral Reporting
7.01 Existing Liens
7.02 Existing Investments
7.03 Existing Indebtedness
10.02 Administrative Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices
EXHIBITS
Form of
A SOFR Loan Notice
B Swing Line Loan Notice
C-1 Revolving Note
C-2 Swing Line Note
C-3 Term Note
D Compliance Certificate
E Assignment and Assumption
F Joinder Agreement
G Borrowing Base Certificate
H Credit Card Notification
I [Reserved]
J Employee Stock Plan
(v)
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of May 23, 2018, as amended May 27, 2022 and July 30, 2024, among SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation (the “Lead Borrower”), the Persons named on Schedule 1.01(a) hereto (collectively, the “Borrowers”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”),
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender, and L/C Issuer,
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Syndication Agent, and
WELLS FARGO CAPITAL FINANCE, LLC, as Lead Arranger.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested that the Revolving Lenders provide a revolving credit facility and the Term Lenders make a term loan, and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend and the L/C Issuer has indicated its willingness to issue Letters of Credit, in each case on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
WHEREAS, prior to the date of this Agreement, the Borrowers, on the one hand, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (as successor by merger to Wells Fargo Retail Finance, LLC), as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent thereunder, and the lenders party thereto, on the other hand, previously entered into a Credit Agreement dated as of May 28, 2010 (as amended and in effect, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the lenders party thereto provided the Borrowers with certain financial accommodations;
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 10.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement, the Borrowers, the Lenders, and the Agent desire to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement as provided herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agree that the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended and restated in its entirety to read as set forth herein (it being agreed that this Agreement shall not be deemed to evidence or result in a novation or repayment and reborrowing of the Obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement):
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As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“ABL Intercreditor Agreement” means (a) that certain Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date by and among the Agents and the ABL Term Agent, and acknowledged and agreed to by the Loan Parties, as amended, modified, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, or (b) any other intercreditor agreement, reasonably acceptable to the Agents, among the Agents and any agent or trustee with respect to the ABL Term Credit Agreement or
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any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness thereof, as it may be amended, modified, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“ABL Priority Collateral” shall have the meaning provided to such term in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Agent” means PLC Agent LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent under the ABL Term Documents or any future administrative agent or collateral agent under the ABL Term Documents and party to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Credit Agreement” means that certain ABL Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, among the Loan Parties, the lenders party thereto, and the ABL Term Agent, pursuant to which the ABL Term Loans were made, as amended, amended and restated, supplemented, extended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, and any replacement credit agreement entered into pursuant to any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof.
“ABL Term Documents” means the “Loan Documents” (as defined in the ABL Term Credit Agreement), as may be amended from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base” has the meaning set forth for the term “ABL Term Borrowing Base” in the ABL Term Credit Agreement.
“ABL Term Loan Priority Account” has the meaning set forth for the term “ABL Term Loan Priority Account” in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Loans” has the meaning set forth for the term “Loans” in the ABL Term Credit Agreement.
“ABL Term Obligations” has the meaning set forth for the term “ABL Term Obligations” in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Priority Collateral” has the meaning set forth for the term “ABL Term Priority Collateral” in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Term Pushdown Reserve” has the meaning set forth for the term “ABL Term Pushdown Reserve” in the ABL Term Credit Agreement.
“ABL Term Total Outstandings” means, with respect to the ABL Term Loans, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any prepayments or repayments of such ABL Term Loans occurring on such date.
“ACH” means automated clearing house transfers.
“Accommodation Payment” as defined in Section 10.21(d).
“Account” means “accounts” as defined in the UCC, and also means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (a) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (b) for services rendered or to be rendered, (c) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (d) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, (e) for energy provided or to be provided, (f) for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, (g) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (h) as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a state, governmental unit of a
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state, or person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a state or governmental unit of a state. The term “Account” includes health-care-insurance receivables.
“Acquisition” means, with respect to any Person (a) an Investment in, or a purchase of a Controlling interest in, the Equity Interests of any other Person, (b) a purchase or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets or properties of, another Person or of any business unit of another Person, or (c) any merger or consolidation of such Person with any other Person or other transaction or series of transactions resulting in the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets, or a Controlling interest in the Equity Interests, of any Person, in each case in any transaction or group of transactions which are part of a common plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any Plan Redemption Payment be construed to be an Acquisition for purposes of this Agreement.
“Act” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.18.
“Adjusted Combined Loan Cap” means, at any time of determination, the sum of (i) the Revolving Loan Cap (calculated without subtracting the Term Loan Reserve or the ABL Term Pushdown Reserve from the Revolving Borrowing Base), plus (ii) the lesser of (x) the outstanding amount of the Term Loan, or (y) the Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“Adjustment Date” means (i) initially, July 31, 2022, and (ii) thereafter, the first day of each Fiscal Quarter, commencing October 30, 2022.
“Administrative Agent” means Wells Fargo, in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, (i) 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, (ii) any director, officer, managing member, partner, trustee, or beneficiary of that Person, (iii) any other Person directly or indirectly holding 20% or more of any class of the Equity Interests of that Person, and (iv) any other Person 20% or more of any class of whose Equity Interests is held directly or indirectly by that Person.
“Agent(s)” means, individually, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, and collectively means both of them.
“Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c).
“Aggregate Revolving Commitments” means the Revolving Commitments of all the Revolving Lenders. As of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments are $350,000,000.
“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.
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“Allocable Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(d).
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, as amended, and all other applicable laws and regulations or ordinances concerning or relating to bribery, money laundering or corruption in any jurisdiction in which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates is located or is doing business.
“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means the applicable laws or regulations in any jurisdiction in which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates is located or is doing business that relates to money laundering, any predicate crime to money laundering, or any financial record keeping and reporting requirements related thereto.
“Applicable Commitment Fee Percentage” means:
Level |
Average Daily Availability |
Applicable Commitment Fee Percentage |
I |
Greater than 40% of the Revolving Loan Cap |
0.225% |
II |
Less than or equal to 40% of the Revolving Loan Cap |
0.200% |
“Applicable Lenders” means the Required Lenders, the Required Revolving Lenders, the Required Term Lenders, and all affected Lenders, or all Lenders, as the context may require.
“Applicable Margin” means:
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Level |
Average Daily Availability |
SOFR Margin |
Base Rate Margin |
I |
Greater than 40% of the Revolving Loan Cap |
1.35% |
0.25% |
II |
Less than or equal to 40% of the Revolving Loan Cap |
1.60% |
0.50% |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any SOFR Loan as to which the Interest Period is six months (to the extent selected in accordance with the terms hereof), the Applicable Margin for such SOFR Loan shall be the Applicable Margin otherwise applicable to such SOFR Loan plus 0.30% per annum.
“Applicable Percentage” means, in each case as the context requires, (a) with respect to each Credit Extension under the Revolving Commitments, the Revolving Applicable Percentage, (b) with respect to any Term Lender at any time, the percentage of the aggregate Term Loans represented by the outstanding principal balance such Term Lender’s Term Loan at such time, and (c) with respect to all Lenders at any time, the percentage of the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments represented by the sum of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and the outstanding principal balance of such Lender’s Term Loan at such time, in each case as the context provides. If the Revolving Commitments have been terminated pursuant to Section 2.06 or Section 8.02 or if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Lender shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Lender most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender 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.
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“Applicable Rate” means, at any time of calculation, (a) with respect to Commercial Letters of Credit, a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin for Loans which are SOFR Loans less 0.60%, and (b) with respect to Standby Letters of Credit, a per annum rate equal to 1.00%.
“Appraised Value” means, with respect to the Borrowers’ Eligible Inventory, the appraised orderly liquidation value, net of costs and expenses to be incurred in connection with any such liquidation, which value is expressed as a percentage of Cost of the Borrowers’ Eligible Inventory as set forth in the Borrowers’ inventory stock ledger, which value shall be determined from time to time by the most recent appraisal undertaken by an independent appraiser engaged by the Administrative Agent.
“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender or (d) the same investment advisor or an advisor under common control with such Lender, Affiliate or advisor, as applicable.
“Arranger” means Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, in its capacity as sole lead arranger and sole book manager.
“Assignee Group” means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capital Lease Obligation of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, 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 GAAP if such lease, agreement or instrument were accounted for as a capital lease.
“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended January 29February 3, 20224, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
“Availability Period” means the period from and including the First Amendment Effective Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) the date of termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Lender to make Committed Revolving Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.
“Availability Reserves” means, without duplication of any other Reserves or items to the extent such items are otherwise addressed or excluded through eligibility criteria, such reserves as the Administrative Agent from time to time determines in its Permitted Discretion as being appropriate (a) to reflect the impediments to the Agents’ ability to realize upon the Collateral, (b) to reflect claims and liabilities that the Administrative Agent determines will need to be satisfied in connection with the realization upon the Collateral, (c) to reflect criteria, events, conditions, contingencies or risks which adversely affect any component of a Borrowing Base, or the assets, business, financial performance or financial condition of
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any Loan Party, or (d) to reflect that a Default or an Event of Default then exists. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Availability Reserves may include, in the Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion, (but are not limited to) reserves based on: (i) rent; (ii) customs duties, and other costs to release Inventory which is being imported into the United States, to the extent such Inventory is included in Eligible Inventory; (iii) outstanding Taxes and other governmental charges, including, without limitation, ad valorem, real estate, personal property, sales, claims of the PBGC and other Taxes which may have priority over the interests of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral; (iv) salaries, wages and benefits due to employees of any Borrower, (v) Customer Credit Liabilities, (vi) reserves for reasonably anticipated changes in the Appraised Value of Eligible Inventory between appraisals, (vii) warehousemen’s or bailee’s charges and other Permitted Encumbrances which may have priority over the interests of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral, (viii) amounts due to vendors on account of consigned goods, (ix) Cash Management Reserves, and (x) Bank Products Reserves, and (xi) the ABL Term Pushdown Reserve.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (a) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (b) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(iv).
“Average Daily Availability” shall mean the average daily Revolving Availability for the immediately preceding three month period.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank Products” means any services or facilities provided to any Loan Party by the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any of their respective Affiliates (but excluding Cash Management Services) including, without limitation, on account of (a) Swap Contracts, (b) merchant services constituting a line of credit, (c) leasing, (d) Factored Receivables, (e) purchase cards, (f) credit or debit cards, and (g) supply chain finance services including, without limitation, trade payable services and supplier accounts receivable purchases.
“Bank Products Cap” means the lesser of (i) the aggregate amount of Obligations in respect of Bank Products then outstanding, or (ii) the sum of $2,500,000 plus the aggregate amount of Obligations in respect of Bank Products that is subject to a Bank Products Reserve.
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“Bank Products Reserves” means such reserves as the Administrative Agent from time to time determines in its Permitted Discretion as being appropriate to reflect the liabilities and obligations of the Loan Parties with respect to Bank Products then provided or outstanding.
“Bankruptcy Court” shall mean the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, the greatest of (a) the Floor, (b) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus ½%, (c) Term SOFR for a one month tenor in effect on such day, plus 1%, provided that this clause (c) shall not be applicable during any period in which Term SOFR is unavailable or unascertainable, and (d) the rate of interest announced, from time to time, within Wells Fargo at its principal office in San Francisco as its “prime rate” in effect on such day, with the understanding that the “prime rate” is one of Wells Fargo’s base rates (not necessarily the lowest of such rates) and serves as the basis upon which effective rates of interest are calculated for those loans making reference thereto and is evidenced by the recording thereof after its announcement in such internal publications as Wells Fargo may designate.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Benchmark” means, initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(i).
“Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than the Floor, such Benchmark Replacement shall be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Available Tenor, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities.
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a) in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in
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the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(b) in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date;
For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(b) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the FRB, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(c) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative or in compliance with.
For the avoidance of doubt, if the then-current Benchmark has any Available Tenors, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Start Date” means, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public
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statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).
“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.03(b) and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.03(b).
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a Person means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such Person.
“Blocked Account” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(a)(ii).
“Blocked Account Agreement” means with respect to an account established by a Loan Party, an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, establishing control (as defined in the UCC) of such account by the Collateral Agent and whereby the bank maintaining such account agrees, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, to comply only with the instructions originated by the Collateral Agent without the further consent of any Loan Party.
“Blocked Account Bank” means each bank with whom deposit accounts are maintained in which any funds of any of the Loan Parties from one or more DDAs are concentrated and with whom a Blocked Account Agreement has been, or is required to be, executed in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Borrowers” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Borrowing” means a Committed Revolving Borrowing, a Swing Line Borrowing or the Term Borrowing, as the context may require.
“Borrowing Base” means the Revolving Borrowing Base and/or the Term Loan Borrowing Base, as the context may require.
“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto (with such changes therein as may be required by the Administrative Agent (or, solely with respect to the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base, the ABL Term Agent) to reflect the components of and reserves against the Revolving Borrowing Base, the Term Loan Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base as provided for hereunder from time to time)(or, solely with respect to the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base, under the ABL Term Credit Agreement) from time to time) setting forth the most recent calculation of the Revolving Borrowing Base and the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base, executed and certified as accurate and complete by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower which shall include appropriate exhibits, schedules, supporting documentation, and additional reports as reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.
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“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is closed.
“Capital Expenditures” means, with respect to any Person for any period, (a) all expenditures made (whether made in the form of cash or other property) or costs incurred for the acquisition or improvement of fixed or capital assets of such Person (excluding normal replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current operations), in each case that are (or should be) set forth as capital expenditures in a Consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person for such period, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP, and (b) Capital Lease Obligations incurred by a Person during such period.
“Capital Lease Obligations” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as liabilities on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and the amount of which obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Collateral Account” means a non-interest bearing account established by one or more of the Loan Parties with Wells Fargo, and in the name of the Collateral Agent (or as the Collateral Agent shall otherwise direct) and under the sole and exclusive dominion and control of the Collateral Agent, in which deposits are required to be made in accordance with Section 2.03(k) or 8.02(a)(iii).
“Cash Collateralize” (i) with respect to L/C Obligations, has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(k), (ii) with respect to Obligations in respect of Bank Product Obligations, means to provide cash collateral (pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) to be held by to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Providers in an amount reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent as sufficient to satisfy the reasonably estimated credit exposure, operational risk or processing risk with respect to such Obligations, and (iii) with respect other contingent Obligations, means to provide to the Administrative Agent cash collateral in order to secure such other contingent Obligations for which a claim or demand for payment has been made on or prior to such time or in respect of matters or circumstances known to any Credit Party at such time that are reasonably expected to result in any loss, cost, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal expenses), such cash collateral to be in such amount as the Administrative Agent reasonably determines is appropriate to secure such contingent Obligations. Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings.
“Cash Dominion Event” means either (a) the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default, or (b) the failure of the Borrowers to maintain Revolving Availability at least equal to twenty percent (20%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap at any time. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing at the Agent’s option (i) so long as such Event of Default has not been waived, and/or (ii) if the Cash Dominion Event arises as a result of the Borrowers’ failure to achieve Revolving Availability as required hereunder, until Revolving Availability has exceeded 20% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap for forty-five (45) consecutive Business Days, in which case a Cash Dominion Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement; provided that a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing (even if an Event of Default is no longer continuing and/or Revolving Availability exceeds the required amount for forty-five (45) consecutive Business Days) at all times after a Cash Dominion Event has occurred and been discontinued on two (2) occasions after the First Amendment Effective Date. The termination of a Cash Dominion Event as provided herein shall in no way limit, waive or delay the occurrence of a subsequent Cash Dominion Event in the event that the conditions set forth in this definition again arise.
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“Cash Management Reserves” means such reserves as the Administrative Agent, from time to time, determines in its Permitted Discretion as being appropriate to reflect the reasonably anticipated liabilities and obligations of the Loan Parties with respect to Cash Management Services then provided or outstanding.
“Cash Management Services” means any one or more of the following types or services or facilities provided to any Loan Party by the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any of their respective Affiliates: (a) ACH transactions, (b) cash management services, including, without limitation, controlled disbursement services, treasury, depository, overdraft, and electronic funds transfer services, (c) foreign exchange facilities, (d) credit card processing services, and (e) merchant services not constituting a Bank Product.
“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.
“CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
“CFC” means a controlled foreign corporation (as that term is defined in the Code) in which any Loan Party is a “United States shareholder” within the meaning of Section 951(b) of the Code.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, (c) any new, or adjustment to, requirements prescribed by the FRB for “Eurocurrency Liabilities” (as defined in Regulation D of the FRB), requirements imposed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or similar requirements imposed by any domestic or foreign governmental authority or resulting from compliance by the Agent or any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority and related in any manner to SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate or Term SOFR, or (d) the making or issuance of any request, 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 any event, transaction or occurrence as a result of which (a) any “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as in effect on the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date) shall own, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, shares representing more than 35.0% of the ordinary voting power represented by, the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Parent, (b) a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Parent shall at any time be occupied by persons who were neither (i) nominated by the board of directors of the Parent nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated, (c) any change in control (or similar event, however denominated) with respect to the Parent or any Subsidiary of the Parent shall occur under and as defined in any indenture or agreement in respect of Material Indebtedness to which the Parent or any Subsidiary of the Parent is a party, (d) the Parent shall cease to directly own, beneficially and of record, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower, or (e) the Lead
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Borrower ceases to own and control all of the Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries, or (f) there occurs any “change of control” or similar event as defined in the ABL Term Credit Agreement.
“Closing Date” means May 28, 2010.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended and in effect.
“Collateral” means any and all “Collateral” as defined in any applicable Security Document and all other property that is to be subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent under the terms of the Security Documents.
“Collateral Access Agreement” means an agreement reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Agents executed by (a) a bailee or other Person in possession of Collateral, and (b) each landlord of Real Estate leased by any Loan Party, pursuant to which such Person (i) acknowledges the Collateral Agent’s Lien on the Collateral, (ii) releases such Person’s Liens in the Collateral held by such Person or located on such Real Estate, (iii) provides the Collateral Agent with access to the Collateral held by such bailee or other Person or located in or on such Real Estate, (iv) as to any landlord, provides the Collateral Agent with a reasonable time to sell and dispose of the Collateral from such Real Estate, and (v) makes such other agreements with the Collateral Agent as the Agents may reasonably require.
“Collateral Agent” means Wells Fargo, acting in such capacity for its own benefit and the ratable benefit of the other Credit Parties.
“Collection Account” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(b).
“Combined Borrowing Base” means the sum of the Revolving Borrowing Base and the Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“Combined Loan Cap” means, at any time of determination, the sum of (i) the Revolving Loan Cap, plus (ii) the lesser of (x) the outstanding amount of the Term Loan, or (y) the Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“Commercial Letter of Credit” means any Letter of Credit issued for the purpose of providing the primary payment mechanism in connection with the purchase of any materials, goods or services by a Borrower in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower.
“Commercial Letter of Credit Agreement” means the Commercial Letter of Credit Agreement relating to the issuance of a Commercial Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.
“Commitment” means, as to each Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Commitment or Term Commitment, as applicable.
“Committed Revolving Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Committed Revolving Loans of the same Type and, in the case of SOFR Loans which are Committed Revolving Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Revolving Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01.
“Committed Revolving Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.
“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.
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“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 3.05 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
“Consent” means actual consent given by a Lender from whom such consent is sought; or the passage of seven (7) Business Days from receipt of written notice to a Lender from the Administrative Agent of a proposed course of action to be followed by the Administrative Agent without such Lender’s giving the Administrative Agent written notice of that Lender’s objection to such course of action.
“Consolidated” means, when used to modify a financial term, test, statement, or report of a Person, the application or preparation of such term, test, statement or report (as applicable) based upon the consolidation, in accordance with GAAP, of the financial condition or operating results of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Debt” means, at any date of determination, the sum of (without duplication) all Indebtedness (other than letters of credit or bank guarantees, to the extent undrawn) consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money and Disqualified Stock of Parent and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis on such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, at any date of determination, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income of the Parent and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period, plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges, (ii) the provision for Federal, state, local and foreign income Taxes, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense and (iv) other non-recurring expenses reducing such Consolidated Net Income which do not represent a cash item in such period or any future period (in each case of or by the Parent and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period), minus (b) the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Federal, state, local and foreign income tax credits and (ii) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income (in each case of or by the Parent and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period), all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Consolidated EBITDA in any Measurement Period shall include the Consolidated EBITDA on a pro forma basis for such Measurement Period of any Person that is acquired by a Loan Party pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition during such Measurement Period; provided that, in respect of such a Permitted Acquisition, the pro forma information shall include the historical financial results of the acquired Person on a pro forma basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period, and shall assume that the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition occurred on the first day of such Measurement Period.
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“Consolidated Interest Charges” means, for any Measurement Period, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing and net costs under Swap Contracts, but excluding any non-cash or deferred interest financing costs, (b) all interest paid or payable with respect to discontinued operations and (c) the portion of rent expense with respect to such period under Capital Lease Obligations that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, in each case of or by the Parent/Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period, all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, as of any date of determination, the net income of the Parent and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period, all as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, provided, however, that there shall be excluded therefrom (a) extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses for such Measurement Period, (b) the income (or loss) of such Person during such Measurement Period in which any other Person has a joint interest, except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other distributions actually paid in cash to such Person during such period, (c) the income (or loss) of such Person during such Measurement Period and accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of a Person or any of such Person’s Subsidiaries or is merged into or consolidated with a Person or any of its Subsidiaries or that Person’s assets are acquired by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, and (d) the income of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of a Person to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its Organization Documents or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary, except that the Parent’s equity in any net loss of any such Subsidiary for such Measurement Period shall be included in determining Consolidated Net Income.
“Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) (i) without duplication, the aggregate principal amount of any Consolidated Debt of Parent and its Subsidiaries outstanding as of the last day of the Measurement Period (determined on a pro forma basis) most recently ended as of such date, less (ii) the unrestricted cash balance of the Loan Parties on deposit in a DDA or Securities Account, in either case subject to a Blocked Account Agreement or a Securities Account Control Agreement (as defined in the Security Agreement) in favor of the Collateral Agent, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, as of the last day of such Measurement Period, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Measurement Period, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision 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.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
“Cost” means the lower of cost or market value of Inventory, based upon the Borrowers’ accounting practices, known to the Administrative Agent, which practices are in effect on the FirstSecond
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Amendment Effective Date as such calculated cost is determined from invoices received by the Borrowers, the Borrowers’ purchase journals or the Borrowers’ stock ledger. “Cost” does not include inventory capitalization costs or other non‑purchase price charges (such as freight) used in the Borrowers’ calculation of cost of goods sold.
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Covered Party” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“Credit Card Issuer” shall mean any person (other than a Borrower or other Loan Party) who issues or whose members issue credit cards, including, without limitation, MasterCard or VISA bank credit or debit cards or other bank credit or debit cards issued through MasterCard International, Inc., Visa, U.S.A., Inc. or Visa International and American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Carte Blanche and other non-bank credit or debit cards, including, without limitation, credit or debit cards issued by or through American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and Novus Services, Inc. and other issuers approved by the Agent.
“Credit Card Processor” shall mean any servicing or processing agent or any factor or financial intermediary who facilitates, services, processes or manages the credit authorization, billing transfer and/or payment procedures with respect to any Borrower’s sales transactions involving credit card or debit card purchases by customers using credit cards or debit cards issued by any Credit Card Issuer.
“Credit Card Notifications” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(a)(i).
“Credit Card Receivables” means each “Account” and each “Payment Intangible” (each as defined in the UCC) together with all income, payments and proceeds thereof, owed by a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor to a Loan Party resulting from charges by a customer of a Loan Party on credit or debit cards issued by such Credit Card Issuer in connection with the sale of goods by a Loan Party, or services performed by a Loan Party, in each case in the ordinary course of its business.
“Credit Extensions” mean each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
“Credit Party” or “Credit Parties” means (a) individually, (i) each Lender and its Affiliates, (ii) each Agent, (iii) the Term Loan Agent, (iv) the Arranger, (v) each L/C Issuer, (vi) each beneficiary of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (vii) any other Person to whom Obligations under this Agreement and other Loan Documents are owing, and (viii) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing, and (b) collectively, all of the foregoing.
“Credit Party Expenses” means, without limitation, (a) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agents, the Term Loan Agent and their respective Affiliates, in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including without limitation (i) the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of (A) outside counsel for the Agents and the Term Loan Agent, (B) outside consultants for the Agent and the Term Loan Agent, (C) appraisers, (D) commercial finance examinations, (E)
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photocopying, notarization, couriers and messengers, telecommunication, public record searches, filing fees, recording fees and publication, (F) the Agents’ customary fees and charges imposed or incurred in connection with any background checks or OFAC/PEP searches related to any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries, and (G) all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of the Obligations, (ii) in connection with (A) the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, (B) the preparation, negotiation, administration, management, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (C) the enforcement or protection of their rights in connection with this Agreement or the Loan Documents or efforts to preserve, protect, collect, or enforce the Collateral (including, without limitation, in connection with, during the continuation of an Event of Default, gaining possession of, maintaining, handling, preserving, storing, shipping, selling, preparing for sale, or advertising to sell the Collateral, or any portion thereof, irrespective of whether a sale is consummated), or (D) any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of any Obligations, (iii) all customary fees and charges (as adjusted from time to time) of the Agents and the Term Loan Agent with respect to the disbursement of funds (or the receipt of funds) to or for the account of Borrowers (whether by wire transfer or otherwise), together with any out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith, and (iv) customary charges imposed or incurred by the Administrative Agent resulting from the dishonor of checks payable by or to any Loan Party; (b) with respect to the L/C Issuer, and its Affiliates, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder; and (c) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Credit Parties who are not the Agents, the Term Loan Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Affiliate of any of them, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, provided that such Credit Parties shall be entitled to reimbursement for no more than (1) one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction representing the Agents for all such Credit Parties other than the Term Loan Agent and the Term Lenders (absent a conflict of interest in which case the Credit Parties may engage and be reimbursed for additional counsel), (2) one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction representing the Term Loan Agent, and (3) one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction representing the other Term Lenders.
“Customer Credit Liabilities” means at any time, the aggregate remaining value at such time of (a) outstanding gift certificates and gift cards of the Borrowers entitling the holder thereof to use all or a portion of the certificate or gift card to pay all or a portion of the purchase price for any Inventory, (b) outstanding merchandise credits of the Borrowers, (c) layaway obligations of the Borrowers, and (d) liabilities in connection with frequent shopping programs of the Borrowers.
“Customer Deposits” means deposits made by customers with respect to the purchase of goods or the performance of services.
“DDA” means each checking, savings or other demand deposit account maintained by any of the Loan Parties other than the Blocked Accounts. All funds in each DDA shall be conclusively presumed to be Collateral and proceeds of Collateral and the Agents and the Lenders shall have no duty to inquire as to the source of the amounts on deposit in any DDA.
“DDA Notification” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(f).
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
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receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Default” means any event 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 (a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees and the Term Loan, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Margin, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans, plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a SOFR Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Margin) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum, (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Rate for Standby Letters of Credit or Commercial Letters of Credit, as applicable, plus 2% per annum, and (c) when used with respect to Obligations in respect of the Term Loan, an interest rate equal to the Term Loan Interest Rate plus 2% per annum.
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Defaulting Lender” means any Revolving Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Committed Revolving Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or participations in Swing Line Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date required to be funded hereunder, or (ii) pay to Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer, or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit) within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified any Borrower, Administrative Agent or L/C Issuer in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by Administrative Agent or Lead Borrower, to confirm in writing to Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided, that such Revolving Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity, or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-in Action; provided, that a Revolving Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interestEquity 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 Revolving 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 Revolving Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Revolving Lender. Any determination by Administrative Agent that a Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Revolving Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender upon delivery of written notice of such determination to Lead Borrower, L/C Issuer, and each Lender.
“Defaulting Lender Rate” means (a) for the first three (3) days from and after the date the relevant payment is due, the Base Rate, and (b) thereafter, the interest rate then applicable to Committed Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans (inclusive of the Applicable Margin applicable thereto).
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“DIP Financing” means, in connection with a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws with respect to a Loan Party, the consensual use of cash collateral by, or the provision of financing or financial accommodations to such Loan Party (including, in either event, all of the terms and conditions established and/or approved in connection with the consensual use of cash collateral, financing or financial accommodations) by one or more Credit Parties, permitted under and subject to applicable Law, and pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.Discharge of ABL Term Obligations” has the meaning set forth for the term “Discharge of Term Obligations” in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) and any sale, transfer, license or other disposition of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) of any property (including, without limitation, any Equity Interests) 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, and including any transaction described in this definition that is consummated pursuant to an allocation of assets among newly divided limited liability companies pursuant to a “plan of division”.
“Disqualified Stock” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event, (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, or is convertible into or exchangeable for debt securities or any Equity Interest described in this clause (a), in each case, in whole or in part and on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Loans mature, or (b) has the benefit of any covenants that restrict the payment of the Obligations or that are debt-multiple or income-multiple based (i.e., financial covenants); provided, however, that (i) only the portion of such Equity Interests which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date shall be deemed to be Disqualified Stock and (ii) with respect to any Equity Interests issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Lead Borrower or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interest shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Lead Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, resignation, death or disability and if any class of Equity Interest of such Person that by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder by delivery of an Equity Interest that is not Disqualified Stock, such Equity Interests shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Equity Interest that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require a Loan Party to repurchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale shall not constitute Disqualified Stock. The amount of Disqualified Stock deemed to be outstanding at any time for purposes of this Agreement will be the maximum amount that the Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries may become obligated to pay upon maturity of, or pursuant to any mandatory redemption provisions of, such Disqualified Stock or portion thereof, plus accrued dividends.
“Dollars” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Drawing Document” means any Letter of Credit or other document presented for purposes of drawing under any Letter of Credit.
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“Drawing Document” means any Letter of Credit or other document presented for purposes of drawing under any Letter of Credit, including by electronic transmission such as SWIFT, electronic mail, facsimile or computer generated communication.
“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 (a) a Credit Party or any of its Affiliates; (b) a bank, insurance company, or company engaged in the business of making commercial loans (provided that, in the case of an assignment of a Revolving Commitment, such Person, together with its Affiliates, has a combined capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000); (c) an Approved Fund; (d) any Person to whom a Credit Party assigns its rights and obligations under this Agreement as part of an assignment and transfer of such Credit Party’s rights in and to a material portion of such Credit Party’s portfolio of asset based credit facilities, and (e) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by (i) the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and, in the case of an assignment of a portion of the Term Loan, the Term Loan Agent, and (ii) unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Lead Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include (x) a Loan Party or any of the Loan Parties’ Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or (y) a Defaulting Lender or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries.
“Eligible Credit Card Receivables” means at the time of any determination thereof, each Credit Card Receivable that satisfies the following criteria at the time of creation and continues to meet the same at the time of such determination, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion: such Credit Card Receivable (i) has been earned by performance and represents the bona fide amounts due to a Borrower from a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor, and in each case originated in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower, and (ii) in each case is acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, and is not ineligible for inclusion in the calculation of a Borrowing Base pursuant to any of clauses (a) through (ij) below. Without limiting the foregoing, to qualify as an Eligible Credit Card Receivable, such Credit Card Receivable shall indicate no Person other than a Borrower as payee or remittance party. In determining the amount to be so included, the face amount of a Credit Card Receivable shall be reduced by, without duplication, to the extent not reflected in such face amount, (i) the amount of all accrued and actual discounts, claims, credits or credits pending, promotional program allowances, price adjustments, finance charges or other allowances (including any amount that a Borrower may be obligated to rebate to a customer, a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor pursuant to the terms of any agreement or understanding (written or oral)) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all cash received in respect of such Credit Card Receivable but not yet applied by the Loan Parties to reduce the amount of such Credit Card Receivable. Except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative
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Agent, any Credit Card Receivable included within any of the following categories shall not constitute an Eligible Credit Card Receivable:
(a) Credit Card Receivables which do not constitute a “payment intangible” (as defined in the UCC);
(b) Credit Card Receivables that have been outstanding for more than five (5) Business Days from the date of sale;
(c) Credit Card Receivables (i) that are not subject to a perfected first‑priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent, or (ii) with respect to which a Borrower does not have good, valid and marketable title thereto, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Collateral Agent, and those Liens specified in clauses (a), (e), and (p) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances);
(d) Credit Card Receivables that are not subject to a first priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (it being the intent that chargebacks in the ordinary course by the credit card processors shall not be deemed violative of this clause);
(e) Credit Card Receivables which are disputed, are with recourse, or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback has been asserted (to the extent of such claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback);
(f) Credit Card Receivables as to which the Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor has the right under certain circumstances to require a Loan Party to repurchase the Credit Card Receivables from such Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor;
(g) Credit Card Receivables due from a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor which (i) is the subject of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, or (ii) is a Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Entity;
(h) Credit Card Receivables which are not a valid, legally enforceable obligation of the applicable Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor with respect thereto;
(i) Credit Card Receivables which do not conform to all representations, warranties or other provisions in the Loan Documents relating to Credit Card Receivables; or
(j) Credit Card Receivables which the Administrative Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion to be uncertain of collection or which do not meet such other reasonable eligibility criteria for Credit Card Receivables as the Administrative Agent may determine in its Permitted Discretion.
“Eligible Inventory” means, as of the date of determination thereof, items of Inventory of a Borrower that are finished goods, merchantable and readily saleable to the public in the ordinary course of a Borrower’s business deemed by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion to be eligible for inclusion in the calculation of a Borrowing Base, in each case that, except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, complies with each of the representations and warranties respecting Inventory made by the Borrowers in the Loan Documents, and that is not excluded as ineligible by virtue of one or more of the criteria set forth below. Except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, the following items of Inventory shall not be included in Eligible Inventory:
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(a) Inventory that is not solely owned by a Borrower or a Borrower does not have good and valid title thereto, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Collateral Agent, and those Liens specified in clauses (a), (b), (e), (j), (o) and (p) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances);
(b) Inventory that is leased by or is on consignment to a Borrower or which is consigned by a Borrower to a Person which is not a Loan Party;
(c) Inventory that is not located in the United States of America (excluding territories or possessions of the United States);
(d) Inventory at a location that is not owned or leased by a Borrower, except to the extent that the Borrowers have furnished the Administrative Agent with (i) any UCC financing statements or other documents that the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to perfect its security interest in such Inventory at such location, and (ii) a Collateral Access Agreement executed by the Person owning any such location on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
(e) Inventory that is located in a distribution center or warehouse leased by a Borrower, unless the applicable lessor has delivered to the Collateral Agent, if requested by the Collateral Agent, a Collateral Access Agreement;
(f) Inventory that is comprised of goods which (i) are damaged, defective, “seconds,” or otherwise unmerchantable, (ii) are to be returned to the vendor, (iii) are obsolete or slow moving, or custom items, work‑in‑process, raw materials, or that constitute spare parts, promotional, marketing, packaging and shipping materials or supplies used or consumed in a Borrower’s business, (iv) are seasonal in nature and which have been packed away for sale in the subsequent season, (v) not in compliance with all standards imposed by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such Inventory, its use or sale, or (vi) are bill and hold goods;
(g) Inventory that is not subject to a perfected first‑priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent;
(h) Inventory that consists of samples, labels, bags, packaging, and other similar non-merchandise categories;
(i) Inventory that is not insured in compliance with the provisions of Section 5.10 hereof;
(j) Inventory that has been sold but not yet delivered or as to which a Borrower has accepted a deposit;
(k) Inventory that is subject to any licensing, patent, royalty, trademark, trade name or copyright agreement with any third party from which any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has received notice of a dispute in respect of any such agreement;
(l) Inventory that has been purchased by a Borrower from a Person that is a Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Entity; or
(lm) Inventory acquired in a Permitted Acquisition or which is not acquired other than for the purpose of sale in a Store in the ordinary course of a Borrower’s business, unless and until the Collateral Agent has completed or received (A) an appraisal of such Inventory from appraisers satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, establishes an Inventory Advance Rate and Inventory
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Reserves (if applicable) therefor, and otherwise agrees that such Inventory shall be deemed Eligible Inventory, and (B) such other due diligence as the Agents may require, all of the results of the foregoing to be reasonably satisfactory to the Agents.
“Employee Stock Plan” means, collectively, the Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. Amended and Restated 2019 Performance Incentive Plan annexed hereto as Exhibit J (as in effect on the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date and as subsequently amended in accordance with the terms hereof), pursuant to which certain Eligible Persons (as defined therein) may purchase restricted Equity Interests in the Parent.
“Enforcement Action” means the exercise by any Agent in good faith of any of its material enforcement rights and remedies as a secured creditor hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, applicable law or otherwise at any time upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default (including, without limitation, the solicitation of bids from third parties to conduct the liquidation of the Collateral, the engagement or retention of sales brokers, marketing agents, investment bankers, accountants, appraisers, auctioneers or other third parties for the purposes of valuing, marketing, promoting and selling the Collateral, the commencement of any action to foreclose on the security interests or Liens of the Collateral Agent in all or any material portion of the Collateral, notification of account debtors to make payments to the Administrative Agent, any action to take possession of all or any material portion of the Collateral or commencement of any legal proceedings or actions against or with respect to all or any portion of the Collateral)shall have the meaning set forth in this Agreement as in effect immediately prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, obligation, damage, loss, claim, action, suit, judgment, order, fine, penalty, fee, expense, or cost, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any 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 or presence of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Equipment” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“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
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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.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with any Loan Party 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 Sections 412 and 4971 of the Code).
“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification to the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination of a Pension Plan or a Multiemployer Plan under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) 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 Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; or (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered to be an “at-risk” plan, or that any Multiemployer Plan is considered to be in “endangered” or “critical” status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 or 305 of ERISA.
“Erroneous Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01. An Event of Default shall be deemed to be continuing unless and until that Event of Default has been duly waived as provided in Section 10.03 hereof.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor or the grant of such 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
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of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, (i) any tax imposed on the net income or net profits of such Recipient (including any branch profits taxes), in each case imposed by the jurisdiction (or by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) in which such Recipient is organized or the jurisdiction (or by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) in which such Recipient’s principal office is located in or as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction or taxing authority imposing the tax (other than any such connection arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received payment under, or enforced its rights or remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Document), (ii) withholding taxes that would not have been imposed but for a Recipient’s failure to comply with the requirements of Section 3.01 of this Agreement, (iii) any United States federal withholding taxes that would be imposed on amounts payable to a Foreign Lender based upon the applicable withholding rate in effect at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office, other than a designation made at the request of a Loan Party), except that Excluded Taxes shall not include (A) any amount that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was previously entitled to receive pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Agreement, if any, with respect to such withholding tax at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), and (B) additional United States federal withholding taxes that may be imposed after the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), as a result of a change in law, rule, regulation, treaty, order or other decision or other Change in Law with respect to any of the foregoing by any Governmental Authority, and (iv) any United States federal withholding taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Executive Order” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.
“Existing Letters of Credit” means the Letters of Credit identified on Schedule 1.02.
“Existing Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 10.26.
“Existing Term Loan Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement dated as of December 3, 2014, among the Loan Parties, the lenders party thereto, and Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as administrative agent, as amended, amended and restated, supplemented, extended or otherwise modified and in effect prior to the Restatement Date.
“Extraordinary Receipt” means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Person not in the ordinary course of business, including tax refunds, pension plan reversions, proceeds of insurance (other than proceeds of business interruption insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for lost earnings), condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity payments and any purchase price adjustments.
“Facility Guaranty” means the Guaranty made by any Guarantor in favor of the Agents and the Lenders, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Factored Receivables” means any Accounts originally owed or owing by a Loan Party to another Person which have been purchased by or factored with Wells Fargo or any of its Affiliates pursuant to a factoring arrangement or otherwise with the Person that sold the goods or rendered the services to the Loan Party which gave rise to such Account.
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“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), and (a) any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, (b) any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, and (c) any intergovernmental agreement entered into by the United States (or any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, or practices adopted pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection therewith).
“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal to, for each day during such period, the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it (and, if any such rate is below the Floor, then the rate determined pursuant to this definition shall be deemed to be the Floor).
“Fee Letter” means, collectively, (i) that certain letter agreement dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, and (ii) the Second Amendment Fee Letter.
“FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended from time to time.
“First Amendment” means that certain Joinder and First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date by and among (a) the Borrowers, (b) the Guarantors, (c) the Lenders, and (d) Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.
“First Amendment Effective Date” means May 27, 2022.
“Fiscal Month” means any fiscal month of any Fiscal Year, which month shall generally end on the Saturday closest to the end of such calendar month, subject to inclusion of such month in the applicable Fiscal Quarter, in accordance with the fiscal accounting calendar of the Loan Parties. Borrowers’ fiscal calendar through Fiscal Year 2028 is attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(b).
“Fiscal Quarter” means any fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year, which quarters shall generally end on the Saturday closest to the end of each April, July, October and January of such Fiscal Year in accordance with the fiscal accounting calendar of the Loan Parties. Borrowers’ fiscal calendar through Fiscal Year 2028 is attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(b).
“Fiscal Year” means any period of fifty-two (52) or fifty-three (53) weeks, as the case may be, ending on the Saturday closest to January 31 of any calendar year. Borrowers’ fiscal calendar through Fiscal Year 2028 is attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(b).
“Flood Laws” means the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, and related laws, rules and regulations, including any amendments or successor provisions.
“Floor” means a rate of interest equal to 0%.
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“Foreign Asset Control Regulations” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Lead Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien). 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” means the Parent and each other Person who shall be required to execute and deliver a Facility Guaranty 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, asbestos or
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asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Increase Effective Date” shall have the meaning provided therefor in Section 2.15(a)(iv).
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind;
(b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or similar instruments;
(c) all obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid;
(d) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property or assets purchased by such Person;
(e) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(f) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding trade accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and, in each case, not past due for more than ninety (90) days after the date on which such trade account payable was created), including, without limitation, all obligations of such Person in respect of earn-out or similar performance-based deferred purchase price arrangements;
(g) all indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed or is limited in recourse;
(h) All Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capital Lease Obligations and Synthetic Lease Obligations of such Person;
(i) (i) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person (including, without limitation, Disqualified Stock, or any warrant, right or option to acquire such Equity Interest), valued, in the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and (ii) the liquidation value of all Disqualified Stock of such Person;
(j) the maximum amount of all direct or contingent obligations of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit (including standby and commercial);
(k) all obligations of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments; and
(l) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in
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which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any Plan Redemption Payment be construed to be Indebtedness for purposes of this Agreement.
“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 the foregoing clause (a), Other Taxes.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.
“Insolvency Increase Amount” means, at any time of determination, ten percent (10%) percent of the Revolving Borrowing Base minus all outstanding Permitted Overadvances, other than (i) Unintentional Overadvances, and (ii) Permitted Overadvances made to pay up to two (2) weeks of payroll expenses of the Loan Parties to the extent actually used for such purpose, but in no event to exceed (as to all such Permitted Overadvances other than Unintentional Overadvances) an amount equal to 2.5% of the Combined Borrowing Base.
“Intellectual Property” means all present and future: trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary information; trademarks, trademark applications, internet domain names, service marks, trade dress, trade names, business names, designs, logos, slogans (and all translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations of the foregoing) indicia and other source and/or business identifiers, and all registrations or applications for registrations which have heretofore been or may hereafter be issued thereon throughout the world; copyrights and copyright applications; (including copyrights for computer programs) and all tangible and intangible property embodying the copyrights, unpatented inventions (whether or not patentable); patents and patent applications; industrial design applications and registered industrial designs; license agreements related to any of the foregoing and income therefrom; books, customer lists, records, writings, computer tapes or disks, flow diagrams, specification sheets, computer software, source codes, object codes, executable code, data, databases and other physical manifestations, embodiments or incorporations of any of the foregoing; all other intellectual property; and all common law and other rights throughout the world in and to all of the foregoing.
“Intercreditor Provisions” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(q).
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a SOFR 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 (including a Swing Line Loan), the first day after the end of each month and the Maturity Date.
“Interest Period” means (x) as to each Revolving Loan that is a SOFR Loan, the period commencing on the date such SOFR Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a SOFR Loan and ending on the date that is seven days (if available to all Revolving Lenders) or one, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Lead Borrower in its SOFR Loan Notice, and (y) as to each portion of the Term Loan that is a SOFR Loan, the period commencing on the date such SOFR Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a SOFR Loan and ending on the date that is one month thereafter; provided that, as to each of the foregoing clauses (x) and (y):
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(i) interest shall accrue at the applicable rate based upon Term SOFR, from and including the first day of each Interest Period to, but excluding, the day on which any Interest Period expires;
(ii) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(iii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month that is one, three or six months after the date on which the Interest Period began, as applicable;
(iv) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date;
(v) notwithstanding the provisions of clause (iv), except with respect to Interest Periods of seven days in accordance with the terms hereof, no Interest Period shall have a duration of less than one (1) month, and if any Interest Period applicable to a SOFR Borrowing would be for a shorter period, such Interest Period shall not be available hereunder; and
(vi) no tenor that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(iv) shall be available for specification in any SOFR Loan Notice or conversion or continuation notice.
For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Inventory” has the meaning given that term in the UCC, and shall also include, without limitation, all: (a) goods which (i) are leased by a Person as lessor, (ii) are held by a Person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service, (iii) are furnished by a Person under a contract of service, or (iv) consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials used or consumed in a business; (b) goods of said description in transit; (c) goods of said description which are returned, repossessed or rejected; and (d) packaging, advertising, and shipping materials related to any of the foregoing.
“Inventory Advance Rate” means (a) during the Seasonal Increase Period, ninety-five percent (95%), and (b) at all other times, ninety percent (90%).
“Inventory Reserves” means such reserves as may be established from time to time by the Administrative Agent in the Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion with respect to the determination of the saleability, at retail, of the Eligible Inventory or which reflect such other factors as affect the market value of the Eligible Inventory or which reflect claims and liabilities that the Administrative Agent determines will need to be satisfied in connection with the realization upon the Inventory. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Inventory Reserves may, in the Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion, include (but are not limited to) reserves based on:
(a) Obsolescence;
(b) Seasonality;
(c) Shrink;
(d) Imbalance;
(e) Change in Inventory character;
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(f) Change in Inventory composition;
(g) Change in Inventory mix;
(h) Markdowns (both permanent and point of sale);
(i) Retail markons and markups inconsistent with prior period practice and performance, industry standards, current business plans or advertising calendar and planned advertising events; and
(j) Out-of-date and/or expired Inventory.
“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 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) any Acquisition, or (d) any other investment of money or capital in order to obtain a profitable return. 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.
“Investment Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any fund or investment vehicle that (a) is organized by such Person for the purpose of making equity or debt investments in one or more companies and (b) is controlled by such Person. For purposes of this definition “control” means the power to direct or cause the direction of management and policies of a Person, whether by contract or otherwise.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the International Standby Practices 1998 (International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590) and any version or revision thereof accepted by the L/C Issuer for use.
“Issuer Documents” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter Credit Application, the Standby Letter of Credit Agreement or Commercial Letter of Credit Agreement, as applicable, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer and any Borrower (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating to any such Letter of Credit.
“Joinder Agreement” means an agreement, in substantially in the form of Exhibit F, pursuant to which, among other things, a Person becomes a party to, and bound by the terms of, this Agreement and/or the other Loan Documents in the same capacity and to the same extent as either a Borrower or a Guarantor, as the Administrative Agent may determine.
“Knowledge” means the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer.
“Landlord Lien State” means Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, or such other state(s) as to which Collateral Agent notifies the Lead Borrower in writing that a landlord’s claim for rent may have priority over the lien of the Collateral Agent in any of the Collateral.
“Laws” means each international, foreign, Federal, state and local statute, treaty, rule, guideline, regulation, ordinance, code and administrative or judicial precedent or authority, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and each applicable administrative order, directed duty, request,
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license, authorization and permit of, and agreement with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“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 renewal thereof.
“L/C Issuer” means (a) Wells Fargo in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder (which successor may only be a Lender selected by the Administrative Agent in its discretion), and (b) any other Lender selected by the Administrative Agent in its discretion. The L/C Issuer may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the L/C Issuer and/or for such Affiliate to act as an advising, transferring, confirming and/or nominated bank in connection with the issuance or administration of any such Letter of Credit, in which case the term “L/C Issuer” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.
“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit, plus (b) the aggregate amount of outstanding reimbursement obligations with respect to Letters of Credit which remain unreimbursed or which have not been paid through a Loan. For purposes of computing the amounts available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06. 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 any Rule under the ISP or any article of the UCP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.
“Lead Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Lease” means any agreement, whether written or oral, no matter how styled or structured, pursuant to which a Loan Party is entitled to the use or occupancy of any space in a structure, land, improvements or premises for any period of time.
“Lender” means, individually, a Revolving Lender or a Term Lender, as applicable, and collectively, all such Persons, and as the context requires, includes the Swing Line Lender.
“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 Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Letter of Credit” means each Standby Letter of Credit and each Commercial Letter of Credit issued hereunder and shall include the Existing Letters of Credit.
“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 L/C Issuer.
“Letter of Credit Disbursement” means a payment made by the L/C Issuer pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“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 Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(l).
“Letter of Credit Indemnified Costs” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(f).
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“Letter of Credit Related Person” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(f).
“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to $10,000,000. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments. A permanent reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments shall not require a corresponding pro rata reduction in the Letter of Credit Sublimit; provided, however, that if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments are reduced to an amount less than the Letter of Credit Sublimit, then the Letter of Credit Sublimit shall be reduced to an amount equal to (or, at Lead Borrower’s option, less than) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“Lien” means (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale, Capital Lease Obligation, Synthetic Lease Obligation, or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) and (b) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Liquidation” means the exercise by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent of those rights and remedies accorded to such Agents under the Loan Documents and applicable Law as a creditor of the Loan Parties with respect to the realization on the Collateral, including (after the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default) the conduct by the Loan Parties acting with the consent of the Administrative Agent, of any public, private or “going out of business”, “store closing”, or other similarly themed sale or other disposition of the Collateral for the purpose of liquidating the Collateral. Derivations of the word “Liquidation” (such as “Liquidate”) are used with like meaning in this Agreement.
“Loan” means all Revolving Loans, Swing Line Loans and the Term Loan.
“Loan Account” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a).
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, each Note, each Issuer Document, the Fee Letter, all Borrowing Base Certificates, the Blocked Account Agreements, the DDA Notifications, the Credit Card Notifications, the Security Documents, the Facility Guaranty, each Request for Credit Extension, each Beneficial Ownership Certification, the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, the Post-Closing Letter and any other instrument or agreement now or hereafter executed and delivered in connection herewith, or in connection with any transaction arising out of any Cash Management Services and Bank Products provided by the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates, each as amended and in effect from time to time; provided that for purposes of the definition of “Material Adverse Effect” and Article VII, “Loan Documents” shall not include agreements relating to Cash Management Services and Bank Products.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrowers and each Guarantor.
“London Business Day” means a day on which commercial banks are open for general business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London, EnglandMandatory ABL Term Loan Prepayments” means, so long as the ABL Term Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations for which no claim has then been asserted) remain outstanding, mandatory prepayments of the ABL Term Loan Obligations to the extent required to be made pursuant to the ABL Term Credit Agreement; provided that with respect to any event described in clause (e) of the definition of “Prepayment Event”, such event shall only constitute a Mandatory ABL Term Loan Prepayment to the
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extent (i) no Cash Dominion Event has occurred and is then continuing or would result from such event, (ii) such event does not constitute a Prepayment Event hereunder, or (iii) no Loans are then outstanding and, to the extent required to be Cash Collateralized hereunder, all L/C Obligations have been so Cash Collateralized.
“Margin Stock” is as defined in Regulation U of the FRB as in effect from time to time.
“Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Loan Parties taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of or benefits available to any Agent or the Lenders under any Loan Document, or a material adverse effect on (x) the Collateral, (y) the validity, perfection or priority of any Lien granted by any Loan Party in favor of any Agent on any material portion of the Collateral, or (z) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party. In determining whether any individual event would result in a Material Adverse Effect, notwithstanding that such event in and of itself does not have such effect, a Material Adverse Effect shall be deemed to have occurred if the cumulative effect of such event and all other then existing events would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
“Material Contract” means, with respect to any Person, each contract to which such Person is a party, the termination or breach of which would be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including, without limitation, the ABL Term Documents.
“Material Indebtedness” means any(i) the ABL Term Obligations (it being understood that the ABL Term Obligations shall be deemed to be “Material Indebtedness” so long as any ABL Term Obligations remain outstanding), (ii) the Permitted Term Loan Debt (it being understood that the Permitted Term Loan Debt shall be deemed to be “Material Indebtedness” so long as any Permitted Term Loan Debt remain outstanding), and (iii) any other Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of the Loan Parties in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $25,000,000. For purposes of determining the amount of Material Indebtedness at any time, (a) the amount of the obligations in respect of any Swap Contract at such time shall be calculated at the Swap Termination Value thereof, (b) undrawn committed or available amounts shall be included, and (c) all amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement shall be included. For clarity, all Permitted Term Loan Debt shall at all times constitute Material Indebtedness at any time while the Permitted Term Loan Debt is in effect.
“Material Intellectual Property” means Intellectual Property material to the business or operations of the Loan Parties.
“Maturity Date” means May 27, 2027.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.09.
“Measurement Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed trailing twelve (12) Fiscal Months.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Monthly BBC Reporting Event” means the failure of the Borrowers to maintain Revolving Availability at least equal to forty percent (40%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap at any time. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Monthly BBC Reporting Event shall be deemed continuing at the
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Administrative Agent’s option until Revolving Availability has exceeded forty percent (40%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap for ninety (90) consecutive calendar days, in which case a Monthly BBC Reporting Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement. The termination of a Monthly BBC Reporting Event as provided herein shall in no way limit, waive or delay the occurrence of a subsequent Monthly BBC Reporting Event in the event that the conditions set forth in this definition again arise. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the occurrence of a Monthly BBC Reporting Event shall be deemed continuing so long as any ABL Term Obligations remain outstanding.
“Mortgages” means each and every fee and leasehold mortgage or deed of trust, security agreement and assignment by and between the Loan Party owning or holding the leasehold interest in the Real Estate encumbered thereby in favor of the Collateral Agent.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means (a) with respect to any Disposition by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Extraordinary Receipt received or paid to the account of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and cash equivalents received in connection with such transaction (including any cash or 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) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset by a Lien permitted hereunder which is senior to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such asset and that is required to be repaid (or to establish an escrow for the future repayment thereof) in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents and the ABL Term Documents), (B) to the extent such cash proceeds are received from a Disposition of, or an Extraordinary Receipt constituting, ABL Term Priority Collateral, prior to the Discharge of ABL Term Obligations, the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other ABL Term Obligations, in each case, which are required to be repaid or cash collateralized with any such proceeds), and (BC) the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such transaction (including, without limitation, appraisals, and brokerage, legal, title and recording or transfer tax expenses and commissions) paid by any Loan Party to third parties (other than Affiliates); and (b) with respect to the sale or issuance of any Equity Interest by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and cash equivalents received in connection with such transaction over (ii) the sum of (A) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, and (B) to the extent such cash proceeds are received from the sale or issuance of any Equity Interest constituting ABL Term Priority Collateral, prior to the Discharge of ABL Term Obligations, the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other ABL Term Obligations, in each case which are required to be repaid or cash collateralized with any such proceeds.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means each Revolving Lender other than a Defaulting Lender.
“Note” means (a) a Revolving Note, (b) Swing Line Note, or (c) a Term Note, as each may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
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“NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
“Obligations” means (a) all advances to, and debts (including principal, interest, fees, costs, and expenses), liabilities, obligations, covenants, indemnities, and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit (including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements, interest thereon and obligations to provide cash collateral therefor), 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, fees, costs, expenses and indemnities 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, fees, costs, expenses and indemnities are allowed claims in such proceeding, and (b) any Other Liabilities; provided, that the Obligations shall not include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“OFAC” means The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
“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; (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, and (d) in each case, all shareholder or other equity holder agreements, voting trusts and similar arrangements to which such Person is a party or which is applicable to its Equity Interests and all other arrangements relating to the Control or management of such Person.
“Other Liabilities” means any obligation on account of (i) any Cash Management Services furnished to any of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries and/or (ii) any transaction with any Agent or any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, which arises out of any Bank Product entered into with any Loan Party and any such Person, as each may be amended from time to time.
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“Outstanding Amount” means (i) with respect to Committed Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Committed Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (ii) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date.
“Overadvance” means a Credit Extension to the extent that, immediately after its having been made, Revolving Availability is less than zero.
“Parent” means Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
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“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 5.27.
“Payment Conditions” means satisfaction of the following, with respect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of any Specified Transaction: (i) No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, and (ii) (a) at all times during the sixty (60) day period immediately preceding the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, and immediately after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, Revolving Availability shall not be less than 25% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap, and the Lead Borrower shall have represented in writing to the Agents that the Loan Parties’ Revolving Availability forecasts (prepared internally in good faith) reflect sufficient liquidity after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction to operate the Loan Parties’ business (including payment of obligations as and when due in the ordinary course of the Loan Parties’ business and consistent with past practices) for the immediately succeeding twelve (12) months, or (b) (x) at all times during the sixty (60) day period immediately preceding the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, and immediately after giving effect to the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction, Revolving Availability shall not be less than 15% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap, and (y) the Administrative Agent shall have received projections reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as determined on a pro forma basis, for the one hundred eighty (180) day period immediately following the making, consummation or payment, as the case may be, of such Specified Transaction (after giving pro-forma effect thereto), that reflect the Borrowers collectively shall have Revolving Availability of at least 15% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap; it being understood and agreed that it shall not constitute a breach of this requirement if Revolving Availability subsequently is less than 15% of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap so long as the projection thereof is based on the good faith estimate of the Borrowers at the time of such payment. Prior to undertaking any transaction or payment which is subject to the Payment Conditions, the Loan Parties shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (x) an updated Borrowing Base Certificate giving effect to such transaction or payment, and (y) evidence of satisfaction of the conditions contained in clause (ii) above on a basis (including, without limitation, giving due consideration to results for prior periods) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Payment in Full” has the meaning specified in Section 1.02(d). Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings.
“Payment Recipient” has the meaning specified in Section 10.28.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“PCAOB” means the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
“Permitted Acquisition” means an Acquisition in which all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) No Default then exists or would arise from the consummation of such Acquisition;
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(b) Such Acquisition shall have been approved by the Board of Directors of the Person (or similar governing body if such Person is not a corporation) which is the subject of such Acquisition and such Person shall not have announced that it will oppose such Acquisition or shall not have commenced any action which alleges that such Acquisition shall violate applicable Law;
(c) (i) If the aggregate consideration for such Acquisition exceeds an amount equal to $35,000,000, the Lead Borrower shall have furnished the Administrative Agent with thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of such intended Acquisition and shall have furnished the Administrative Agent with a current draft of the documents evidencing the intended Acquisition (and final copies thereof as and when executed), a summary of any due diligence undertaken by the Loan Parties in connection with such Acquisition, appropriate financial statements of the Person which is the subject of such Acquisition, pro forma projected financial statements for the twelve (12) month period following such Acquisition after giving effect to such Acquisition (including balance sheets, cash flows and income statements by month for the acquired Person, individually, and on a Consolidated basis with all Loan Parties), and such other information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require, all of which shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; or (ii) if the aggregate consideration for such Acquisition is an amount less than or equal to $35,000,000, not later than five (5) Business Days following the occurrence thereof, the Lead Borrower shall have notified the Administrative Agent of such Acquisition, (A) delivering with such notice, (1) executed copies of the material acquisition documents entered into in connection therewith, together with (2) where available, customary historical financial statements (or summaries thereof, to the extent such historical financial statements are not otherwise available) of the Person or business to be acquired (for any acquisition of the Equity Interests of another Person or to the extent otherwise reasonably available to the Loan Parties) along with pro forma financial statements for the next twelve (12) months after such Acquisition (where available) after giving effect to such Acquisition (including to the extent available balance sheets, cash flows and income statements for the Loan Parties) and (B) certifying, as of the date of such Acquisition, that after giving effect to such Acquisition, if such Acquisition was an acquisition of Equity Interests, a Loan Party owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the Equity Interests of the acquired Person and Controls a majority of any voting interests or the governance of the acquired Person;
(d) Either (i) the legal structure of the Acquisition shall be acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, or (ii) the Loan Parties shall have provided the Administrative Agent with a favorable solvency opinion from an unaffiliated third party valuation firm reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(e) After giving effect to the Acquisition, if the Acquisition is an Acquisition of the Equity Interests, a Loan Party shall acquire and own, directly or indirectly, a majority of the Equity Interests in the Person being acquired and shall Control a majority of any voting interests or shall otherwise Control the governance of the Person being acquired;
(f) Any assets acquired shall be utilized in, and if the Acquisition involves a merger, consolidation or Acquisition of Equity Interests, the Person which is the subject of such Acquisition shall be engaged in, a business otherwise permitted to be engaged in by a Borrower under this Agreement;
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(g) If the Person which is the subject of such Acquisition will be maintained as a Subsidiary of a Loan Party, or if the assets acquired in an acquisition will be transferred to a Subsidiary which is not then a Loan Party, such Subsidiary shall be joined as a “Borrower” hereunder or as a Facility Guarantor, as the Administrative Agent shall determine, and the Collateral Agent shall receive a first priority security interest (subject to Permitted Encumbrances having priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Term Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term) in such Subsidiary’s Inventory, Accounts and other property of the same nature as constitutes collateral under the Security Documents, in each case as and when required by Section 6.12 of this Agreement;
(h) [Reserved]; and
(i) The Loan Parties shall have satisfied the Payment Conditions.
“Permitted Disposition” means any of the following:
(a) dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(b) bulk sales or other Dispositions of the Inventory of a Loan Party not in the ordinary course of business, made in connection with Store closings, at arm’s length, provided, that such Store closures and related Inventory Dispositions shall not exceed those set forth in the Borrowers’ business plan reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent and Term Loan Agent, and provided, further, at the Collateral Agent’s Permitted Discretion, all sales of Inventory in connection with Store closings shall be in accordance with liquidation agreements and with professional liquidators reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent and Term Loan Agent;
(c) non-exclusive licenses of Intellectual Property of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; provided, that no such licensing shall adversely affect in any material respect the fair value of any Eligible Inventory or the ability of the Agents to dispose of or otherwise realize upon any Eligible Inventory after an Event of Default;
(d) licenses for the conduct of licensed departments within the Loan Parties’ Stores in the ordinary course of business; provided that, if requested by the Agents, the Agents shall have entered into an intercreditor agreement with the Person operating such licensed department on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Agents and the Term Loan Agent;
(e) the sale or other disposition by a Loan Party of Inventory that is obsolete and having a book value not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate in any Fiscal Year (or such greater amount agreed to by Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion);
(f) the sale or other disposition by a Loan Party of Equipment or Fixtures that are obsolete or no longer used or useful in such Loan Party’s business and having a book value, not exceeding $1,000,000 in the aggregate in any Fiscal Year (or such greater amount agreed to by Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion);
(g) Sales, transfers and dispositions among the Loan Parties or by any Subsidiary to a Loan Party;
(h) Sales, transfers and dispositions of or by any Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party to another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; and
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(i) as long as no Default then exists or would arise therefrom, sales of Real Estate of any Loan Party (or sales of any Person or Persons created to hold such Real Estate or the equity interests in such Person or Persons), including sale-leaseback transactions involving any such Real Estate pursuant to leases on market terms, as long as, (A) such sale is made for fair market value, (B) subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and any Mandatory ABL Term Loan Prepayment actually made with such net proceeds, the net proceeds of such sale are utilized to repay the Obligations, and (C) in the case of any sale-leaseback transaction permitted hereunder, the Agents shall have received from such each purchaser or transferee a Collateral Access Agreement on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Agents.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, with respect to a sale, transfer or disposition of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property), such sale, transfer or other disposition shall not be permitted unless the purchaser, assignee or other transferee thereof agrees in writing to be bound by a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license of such Material Intellectual Property in favor of the Collateral Agent for use in connection with the exercise of the rights and remedies of the Credit Parties, which license shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property) (in each case, whether as a Permitted Disposition, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Encumbrance or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Agents and the Required Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
“Permitted Discretion” means a determination made in good faith in the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured asset based lender) business judgment.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means:
(a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 6.04;
(b) Carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by applicable Law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue or are being contested in compliance with Section 6.04;
(c) Pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;
(d) Deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Liens in respect of judgments that would not constitute an Event of Default hereunder;
(f) Easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions, building code laws, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of a Loan Party and such other minor title defects or survey matters that are disclosed by
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current surveys that, in each case, do not materially interfere with the current use of the real property;
(g) Liens existing on the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date and listed on Schedule 7.01 and any renewals or extensions thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed, (ii) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased, (iii) the direct or any contingent obligor with respect thereto is not changed, and (iv) any renewal or extension of the obligations secured or benefited thereby is otherwise permitted hereunder;
(h) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired by any Loan Party which are permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness so long as (i) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within ninety (90) days after such acquisition, (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of acquisition of such fixed or capital assets and (iii) such Liens shall not extend to any other property or assets of the Loan Parties;
(i) Liens in favor the Collateral Agent;
(j) Landlords’ and lessors’ Liens in respect of rent not in default;
(k) Possessory Liens in favor of brokers and dealers arising in connection with the acquisition or disposition of Investments owned as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date and Permitted Investments, provided that such liens (a) attach only to such Investments and (b) secure only obligations incurred in the ordinary course and arising in connection with the acquisition or disposition of such Investments and not any obligation in connection with margin financing;
(l) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provisions relating to banker’s liens, liens in favor of securities intermediaries, rights of setoff or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or securities accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions or securities intermediaries;
(m) Liens arising from precautionary UCC filings regarding “true” operating leases or, to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, the consignment of goods to a Loan Party;
(n) voluntary Liens on property (other than property of the type included in a Borrowing Base or the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base) in existence at the time such property is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or on such property of a Subsidiary of a Loan Party in existence at the time such Subsidiary is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition; provided, that such Liens are not incurred in connection with or in anticipation of such Permitted Acquisition and do not attach to any other assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary;
(o) Liens in favor of customs and revenues authorities imposed by applicable Law arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the importation of goods and solely to the extent the following conditions are satisfied: (A) such Liens secure obligations that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (B) the applicable Loan Party or Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (C) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation; and
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(p) from(i) Liens in favor of the ABL Term Agent securing ABL Term Obligations to the extent permitted under clause (j) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”, subject at all times to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement; provided that any such Liens on any ABL Priority Collateral are junior to the Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the Obligations; and after(ii) following the Discharge of ABL Term Loan Obligations and the subsequent satisfaction of the Permitted Term Loan Conditions, Liens to secure Permitted Term Loan Debt as described in the definition thereof, subject at all times to the Permitted Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement.
“Permitted Indebtedness” means each of the following as long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would arise from the incurrence thereof:
(a) Indebtedness outstanding on the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date and listed on Schedule 7.03 (and Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof);
(b) (x) intercompany Indebtedness of the Borrowers and the Subsidiaries to the extent permitted by clause (g) of the definition of Permitted Investments, and (y) Guarantees by a Loan Party of Indebtedness of another Loan Party;
(c) Capital Lease Obligations and Synthetic Lease Obligations (and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof); provided that, if requested by the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent, the Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the holders of such Indebtedness to enter into a Collateral Access Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and the Term Loan Agent;
(d) obligations (contingent or otherwise) of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided that such obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with fluctuations in interest rates or foreign exchange rates, and not for purposes of speculation or taking a “market view;” provided that the aggregate Swap Termination Value thereof shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(e) Contingent liabilities under surety bonds or similar instruments incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the construction or improvement of Stores;
(f) Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, and Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (ii) if requested by the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent, the Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the holders of such Indebtedness to enter into a Collateral Access Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and the Term Loan Agent;
(g) Indebtedness consisting of debt owing to a seller incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition (whether in the form of an “earn out” or otherwise); provided that such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Obligations in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Agents and the Term Loan Agent (but in any event such Indebtedness shall (i) not require the payment in cash of principal (other than in respect of working capital adjustments) prior to the Maturity Date, and (ii) have a maturity which extends beyond the Maturity Date);
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(h) (i) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of a Loan Party after the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date as a result of a Permitted Acquisition; provided that (x) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary and (y) immediately before and after such Person becomes a Subsidiary, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(i) the Obligations;
(j) from(i) subject at all times to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, Indebtedness of the Loan Parties incurred under the ABL Term Documents in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the Maximum ABL Term Loan Facility Amount (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement as in effect as of the Second Amendment Effective Date or as subsequently amended in accordance with the terms hereof) at any time outstanding; and after(ii) following the Discharge of ABL Term Loan Obligations and the subsequent satisfaction of the Permitted Term Loan Conditions, but subject at all times to the applicable Permitted Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement, Permitted Term Loan Debt in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $25,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(k) other Indebtedness of the Borrowers or the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $35,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(l) Indebtedness under performance bonds or with respect to workers’ compensation claims, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(m) Indebtedness arising in connection with endorsement of instruments for deposit in the ordinary course of business;
(n) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the financing of insurance premiums;
(p) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with cash pooling arrangements, cash management and other similar arrangements consisting of netting arrangements and overdraft protections incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(q) Subordinated Debt;
(r) unsecured Indebtedness not otherwise specifically described herein (i) with a maturity date that is at least ninety (90) days following the Maturity Date, (ii) that does not require amortization or prepayments prior to the Maturity Date, and (iii) is on customary and market terms, or otherwise on terms, and pursuant to documentation, acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion; and
(s) Indebtedness of the Parent issued in connection with the repurchase of its Equity Interests to the extent such repurchase is permitted hereby.
“Permitted Investments” means each of the following as long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would arise from the making of such Investment:
(a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more
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than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof;
(b) commercial paper issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least “Prime-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or at least “A-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(c) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for securities described in clause (a) above (without regard to the limitation on maturity contained in such clause) and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above or with any primary dealer and having a market value at the time that such repurchase agreement is entered into of not less than 100% of the repurchase obligation of such counterparty entity with whom such repurchase agreement has been entered into;
(e) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Loan Parties, in any money market fund, mutual fund, or other investment companies that are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P, and which invest solely in one or more of the types of securities described in clauses (a) through (d) above;
(f) Investments existing on the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date, and set forth on Schedule 7.02, but not any increase in the amount thereof or any other modification of the terms thereof;
(g) (i) Investments by any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries outstanding on the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date, and (ii) additional Investments by any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries in Loan Parties (other than the Parent); provided that (x) any such loans and advances made by a Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note pledged to the Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Security Documents and (y) such loans and advances shall be unsecured;
(h) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;
(i) Guarantees constituting Permitted Indebtedness;
(j) Investments by any Loan Party in Swap Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business and for bona fide business (and not speculative purposes) to protect against fluctuations in interest rates in respect of the Obligations;
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(k) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(l) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) advances to officers, directors and employees of the Loan Parties and Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) other loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Loan Parties and Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(m) Investments constituting Permitted Acquisitions;
(n) capital contributions made by any Loan Party to another Loan Party;
(o) completion of Lead Borrower’s development and initiation of e-commerce/internet sales to the public;
(p) opening additional Stores consistent with Borrowers’ business plan reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent;
(q) Plan Redemption Payments; and
(r) other Investments not otherwise subject to the provisions set forth in this definition, provided, that, at the time any such Investment is made, the Payment Conditions are satisfied;
provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, no such Investments specified in clauses (a) through (e) and clause (r) shall be permitted unless (1) either (A) no Loans, or, if then required to be Cash Collateralized, Letters of Credit are then outstanding, or (B) the Investment is a temporary Investment pending expiration of an Interest Period for a SOFR Loan, the proceeds of which Investment will be applied to the Obligations after the expiration of such Interest Period, and (2) such Investments are pledged to the Collateral Agent as additional collateral for the Obligations pursuant to such agreements as may be reasonably required by the Collateral Agent, and (ii) with respect to an Investment in respect of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property), such Investment shall not be permitted unless the purchaser, assignee or other transferee thereof agrees in writing to be bound by a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license of such Material Intellectual Property in favor of the Collateral Agent for use in connection with the exercise of the rights and remedies of the Credit Parties, which license shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall make any Investment consisting of a license, sublicense or other transfer of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property) (in each case, whether as a Permitted Disposition, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Encumbrance or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Agents and the Required Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
“Permitted Overadvance” means an Overadvance made by the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, which:
(a) Is made to maintain, protect or preserve the Collateral and/or the Credit Parties’ rights under the Loan Documents or which is otherwise for the benefit of the Credit Parties; or
(b) Is made to enhance the likelihood of, or to maximize the amount of, repayment of any Obligation; or
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(c) Is made to pay any other amount chargeable to any Loan Party hereunder; and
(d) Together with all other Permitted Overadvances then outstanding, shall not (i) exceed ten percent (10%) of the Revolving Borrowing Base at any time or (ii) unless a Liquidation is occurring, remain outstanding for more than forty-five (45) consecutive Business Days, unless in each case, the Required Revolving Lenders and the Required Term Lenders otherwise agree;
provided however, that the foregoing shall not (i) modify or abrogate any of the provisions of Section 2.03 regarding the Revolving Lenders’ obligations with respect to Letters of Credit or Section 2.04 regarding the Revolving Lenders’ obligations with respect to Swing Line Loans, or (ii) result in any claim or liability against the Administrative Agent (regardless of the amount of any Overadvance) for Unintentional Overadvances and such Unintentional Overadvances shall not reduce the amount of Permitted Overadvances allowed hereunder, and further provided that in no event shall the Administrative Agent make an Overadvance, if after giving effect thereto, the principal amount of the Credit Extensions would exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments (as in effect prior to any termination of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06 or Section 8.02 hereof).
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” shall mean, with respect to any Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to modify, refinance, refund, renew or extend such Refinanced Indebtedness; provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Refinanced Indebtedness outstanding immediately prior to such exchange, modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension, except by an amount equal to the unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable and customary amounts paid, and reasonable and customary fees and expenses incurred, in connection with such exchange, modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension; provided, further, that, in the case of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect of the ABL Term Obligations, the aggregate principal amount thereof shall not exceed the amount permitted to be incurred pursuant to clause (j) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness, (b) any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Refinanced Indebtedness, (c) immediately before and after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (d) if the Refinanced Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Indebtedness, (e) the primary obligor(s) in respect of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are the primary obligor(s) in respect of the applicable Refinanced Indebtedness, and each Person (if any) that Guarantees, any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is a Person (if any) that Guaranteed (or would have been obligated to Guarantee) the applicable Refinanced Indebtedness, (f) the interest rate applicable to such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the then applicable market interest rate, (g) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not require any scheduled principal payments due prior to the Maturity Date in excess of, or prior to, the scheduled principal payments due for the Refinanced Indebtedness prior to the Maturity Date, (h) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be otherwise on terms not materially less favorable to the Credit Parties than those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Indebtedness, including, without limitation, with respect to financial and other covenants and events of default, and (i) to the extent the Refinanced Indebtedness is secured, any such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be secured by no additional assets of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries than the assets securing such Refinanced Indebtedness (except to the extent of after-acquired
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assets or proceeds of assets that would have secured such Refinanced Indebtedness), and (j) in the case of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect of the ABL Term Obligations, if such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is secured, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness and the Liens securing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, shall be subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Permitted Term Loan Conditions” means the following:
(a) the Discharge of ABL Term Obligations shall have occurred;
(b) to the extent not previously granted and then in effect, the Loan Parties shall have granted a Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Credit Parties, on assets of the Loan Parties that are collateral for the Permitted Term Loan Debt, including, without limitation, Real Estate and Equipment, Equity Interests and Intellectual Property, which Lien may be second priority (other than in respect of assets constituting Collateral on the First Amendment Effective Date); and
(bc) the Loan Documents shall be amended to effect the grant of security interest contemplated by the foregoing clause (ab) and otherwise to address the incurrence of the Permitted Term Loan Debt (including, without limitation, with respect to Lien priority and required notices and reporting), which amendments shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders.
“Permitted Term Loan Debt” means Indebtedness of the Borrowers with respect to which:
(a) no portion of the principal of such Indebtedness shall be required to be paid, whether by stated maturity, mandatory or scheduled prepayment or redemption or otherwise, prior to the date that is 90 days after the Maturity Date;
(b) none of the obligors or guarantors with respect to such Indebtedness shall be a Person that is not a Loan Party;
(c) as of the incurrence of such Indebtedness and after giving effect thereto, (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) on a pro forma basis, the Loan Parties are in compliance with Section 7.15 hereof, and (iii) on a pro forma basis, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the most recent Measurement Period is less than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00;
(d) such Indebtedness may be secured by (i) a first priority Lien on all Equity Interests of the obligors under the Permitted Term Loan Debt and their Subsidiaries, all Real Estate and Equipment, all Intellectual Property, and related assets and proceeds thereof, and (ii) a second priority Lien on any other Collateral and related assets and proceeds thereof (which Lien shall be subordinate and junior to the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent and subject to the Permitted Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement);
(e) the documentation pursuant to which such Indebtedness shall be issued (including, if such Indebtedness is secured, the security documents), shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Agents; and
(f) if such Indebtedness is secured, it shall be subject to an intercreditor agreement reasonably acceptable to the Agents (the “Permitted Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement”).
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“Permitted Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Term Loan Debt.”
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, limited partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established, sponsored, maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan.
“Plan Redemption Payments” means payments to Eligible Persons (as defined in the Employee Stock Plan) for the redemption of restricted Equity Interests issued to such employees pursuant to the Employee Stock Plan, which redemption is required pursuant to the terms of the Employee Stock Plan.
“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Portal” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.
“Post-Closing Letter” means that certain letter agreement, dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Agents and the Loan Parties, which letter agreement addresses certain post-closing undertakings of the Loan Parties.
“Prepayment Event” means:
(b) Any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of a Loan Party, unless the proceeds therefrom are required to be paid to the holder of a Lien on such property or asset having priority over the Lien of the Collateral Agent; provided that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, receipt of such proceeds in an amount not in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate in any consecutive twelve (12) month period shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event;
(c) The issuance by a Loan Party of any Equity Interests, other than any such issuance of Equity Interests (i) to a Loan Party, (ii) as consideration for a Permitted Acquisition, or (iii) as a compensatory issuance to any employee, director, or consultant (including under any option plan); provided that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, such issuance shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event;
(d) The incurrence by a Loan Party of any Indebtedness for borrowed money other than Permitted Indebtedness; provided that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, such incurrence of Indebtedness shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event; or
(e) The receipt by any Loan Party of any Extraordinary Receipts; provided that so long as no Cash Dominion Event then exists or would result therefrom, such receipt shall not be deemed a Prepayment Event.
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“Provider” has the meaning specified in Section 9.17.
“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 5390(c)(8)(D).
“QFC Credit Support” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Loan Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Real Estate” means all real property subject to Leases and all land, together with the buildings, structures, parking areas, and other improvements thereon, now or hereafter owned by any Loan Party, including all easements, rights-of-way, and similar rights relating thereto and all leases, tenancies, and occupancies thereof.
“Recipient” means, as applicable, (a) any Person to which any payment on account of any obligation of a Loan Party under any Loan Document is made or owed, including the Administrative Agent or any Lender or (b) if any Person described in clause (a) is treated as a pass−through entity for applicable Tax purposes, the beneficial owner of such Person.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).
“Registered Public Accounting Firm” has the meaning specified by the Securities Laws and shall be independent of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as prescribed by the Securities Laws.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the FRB or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the FRB or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.
“Reports” has the meaning specified in Section 9.12(b).
“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Committed Revolving Loans, an electronic notice via the Portal or SOFR Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and, if required by the L/C Issuer, a Standby Letter of Credit Agreement or Commercial Letter of Credit Agreement, as applicable, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, at least two (2) Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the then aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Term Loans or, if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, at least two (2)
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Lenders holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the sum of the Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Lender for purposes of this definition); provided that the Revolving Commitment of, and the portion in the aggregate of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Required Revolving Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, at least two (2) Revolving Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or, if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, at least two (2) Revolving Lenders holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the sum of the Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations being deemed “held” by such Revolving Lender for purposes of this definition); provided that the Revolving Commitment of, and the portion in the aggregate of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Required Term Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Term Lenders holding more than 50% of the then aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Term Loan.
“Reserves” means all (if any) Inventory Reserves and Availability Reserves.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of a Loan Party or any of the other individuals designated in writing to the Administrative Agent by an existing Responsible Officer of a Loan Party as an authorized signatory of any certificate or other document to be delivered hereunder, including, with respect to the Portal, any person authorized and authenticated through the Portal in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s procedures for such authentication. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively 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 conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restatement Date” means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01, such date being May 23, 2018.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other 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 such 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, and any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest, fees or other charges on or with respect to, and any redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment and any claim for rescission with respect to, any Subordinated Debt. Without limiting the foregoing, “Restricted Payments” with respect to any Person shall also include all payments made by such Person with any proceeds of a dissolution or liquidation of such Person.
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“Revolving Applicable Percentage” means with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the fourth decimal place) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments represented by such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment at such time. If the commitment of each Revolving Lender to make Revolving Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 2.06 or if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments have expired, then the Revolving Applicable Percentage of each Lender shall be determined based on the Revolving Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Lender most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Revolving Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Revolving Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Revolving Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.
“Revolving Availability” means, as of any date of determination thereof by the Agent, the result, if a positive number, of:
(a) The Revolving Loan Cap
minus
(b) The aggregate unpaid balance of Revolving Credit Extensions to, or for the account of, the Borrowers.
In calculating Revolving Availability at any time and for any purpose under this Agreement, the Lead Borrower shall certify to the Administrative Agent that all accounts payable and Taxes are being paid on a timely basis (absent which the Administrative Agent may establish a Reserve therefor).
“Revolving Borrowing Base” means, at any time of calculation, an amount equal to:
(a) the face amount of Eligible Credit Card Receivables multiplied by 90%;
plus
(b) the Cost of Eligible Inventory, net of Inventory Reserves, multiplied by the product of (A) the Inventory Advance Rate multiplied by (B) the Appraised Value of Eligible Inventory;
minus
(c) the then current amount of all Availability Reserves;
minus
(d) the sum of (i) the Term Loan Reserve and (ii) the ABL Term Pushdown Reserve.
Subject to the provisions hereof expressly permitting the Administrative Agent to adjust Reserves or eligibility criteria, the Revolving Borrowing Base at any time shall be determined by reference to the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Revolving Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Lender, its obligation to (a) make Committed Revolving Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01, (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and (c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Revolving Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Revolving Lender becomes a
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party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Revolving Commitment Increases” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(i).
“Revolving Credit Extensions” means all Credit Extensions consisting of Revolving Loans, Swing Line Loans, and L/C Obligations.
“Revolving Lender” means each Lender having a Revolving Commitment as set forth on Schedule 2.01 hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance by which such Person becomes a Revolving Lender.
“Revolving Loan Cap” means, at any time of determination, the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or (b) the Revolving Borrowing Base.
“Revolving Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.
“Revolving Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrowers in favor of a Revolving Lender evidencing the Revolving Loans made by such Revolving Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Sanctioned Entity” means (a) a country or territory or a government of a country or territory, (b) an agency of the government of a country or territory, (c) an organization directly or indirectly controlled by a country or territory or its government, or (d) a Person resident in or determined to be resident in a country or territory, in each case of clauses (a) through (d) that is a target of Sanctions, including a target of any country or territory sanctions program administered and enforced by OFAC.
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time (a) any Person named on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by OFAC, OFAC’s consolidated Non-SDN list or any other Sanctions-related list maintained by any Governmental Authority, (b) a Person or legal entity that is a target of Sanctions, (c) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Entity, or (d) any Person directly or indirectly owned or controlled (individually or in the aggregate) by or acting on behalf of any such Person or Persons described in clauses (a) through (c) above.
“Sanctions” means individually and collectively, respectively, any and all economic sanctions, trade sanctions, financial sanctions, sectoral sanctions, secondary sanctions, trade embargoes anti-terrorism laws and other sanctions laws, regulations or embargoes, including those imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by: (a) the United States of America, including those administered by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, or through any existing or future executive order, (b) the United Nations Security Council, (c) the European Union or any European Union member state, (d) HerHis Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, or (d) any other Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over any Credit Party or any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates.
“Sarbanes-Oxley” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
“Seasonal Increase Period” means a period of one hundred (100) consecutive days elected by the Lead Borrower each year upon five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that (a) in no event shall the Lead Borrower select a period which commences prior to the date of notice from the Lead Borrower selecting such period; (b) if an Event of Default then exists, there shall
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be no Seasonal Increase Period for such year; (c) no Seasonal Increase Period shall be in effect at any time that any ABL Term Obligations, the Term Loan or any Permitted Term Loan Debt is outstanding; (d) each Seasonal Increase Period shall commence on or after August 1 and terminate on or before November 30 of each year; and (e) such notice shall be accompanied by an updated Borrowing Base Certificate reflecting the Revolving Borrowing Base and Term Loan Borrowing Base after giving effect to the commencement of such Seasonal Increase Period.
“Second Amendment” means that certain Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date by and among (a) the Borrowers, (b) the Guarantors, (c) the Lenders, and (d) Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.
“Second Amendment Effective Date” means July 30, 2024.
“Second Amendment Fee Letter” means that certain Second Amendment Fee Letter, dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Securities Laws” means the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the applicable accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated, approved or incorporated by the SEC or the PCAOB.
“Security Agreement” means the SecondThird Amended and Restated Security Agreement dated as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date among the Loan Parties and the Collateral Agent, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time.
“Security Documents” means the Security Agreement, the Blocked Account Agreements, the DDA Notifications, the Credit Card Notifications, and each other security agreement or other instrument or document executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document granting a Lien to secure any of the Obligations.
“Senior Executive Officers” means the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, President, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of each Borrower.
“Settlement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“Shareholders’ Equity” means, as of any date of determination, consolidated shareholders’ equity of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as of that date determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Shrink” means Inventory which has been lost, misplaced, stolen, or is otherwise unaccounted for.
“Shrink Reserve” means an amount reasonably estimated by the Agents to be equal to that amount which is required in order that the Shrink reflected in Borrowers’ stock ledger would be reasonably equivalent to the Shrink calculated as part of the Borrowers’ most recent physical inventory.
“SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.
“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
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“SOFR Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of SOFR Loans.
“SOFR Loan” means a Committed Revolving Loan that bears interest at a rate determined by reference to Term SOFR (other than pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate”).
“SOFR Loan Notice” means a notice for a SOFR Borrowing or continuation pursuant to Section 2.02(b), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Solvent” and “Solvency” means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) at fair valuation, all of the properties and assets of such Person are greater than the sum of the debts, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair saleable value of the properties and assets of such Person is not less than the amount that would be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person is able to realize upon its properties and assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the normal course of business, (d) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts become due (whether at maturity or otherwise), (e) such Person is not engaged in a business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in a business or transaction, for which such Person’s properties and assets would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practices in the industry in which such Person is engaged, and (f) such Person is “solvent” or not “insolvent”, as applicable within the meaning given those terms and similar terms under applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).
“Specified Combined Loan Cap” means, at any time of determination, the sum of (i) the Revolving Loan Cap (calculated without subtracting the Term Loan Reserve or the ABL Term Pushdown Reserve from the Revolving Borrowing Base), plus (ii) the lesser of (x) the outstanding amount of the ABL Term Loan, or (y) the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“Specified Transaction” means any Permitted Acquisition, Permitted Investment, prepayment of Indebtedness or Restricted Payment (or declaration of any such prepayment or Restricted Payment), in each case requiring satisfaction of the Payment Conditions hereunder.
“Standard Letter of Credit Practice” means, for the L/C Issuer, any domestic or foreign Law or letter of credit practices applicable in the city in which the L/C Issuer issued the applicable Letter of Credit or, for its branch or correspondent, such Laws and practices applicable in the city in which it has advised, confirmed or negotiated such Letter of Credit, as the case may be, in each case, (a) which letter of credit practices are of banks that regularly issue letters of credit in the particular city, and (b) which laws or letter of credit practices are required or permitted under ISP or UCP, as chosen in the applicable Letter of Credit.
“Standby Letter of Credit” means any Letter of Credit that is not a Commercial Letter of Credit and that (a) is used in lieu or in support of performance guaranties or performance, surety or similar bonds (excluding appeal bonds) arising in the ordinary course of business, (b) is used in lieu or in support of stay or appeal bonds, (c) supports the payment of insurance premiums for reasonably necessary casualty insurance carried by any of the Loan Parties, or (d) supports payment or performance for identified purchases or exchanges of products or services in the ordinary course of business.
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“Standby Letter of Credit Agreement” means the Standby Letter of Credit Agreement relating to the issuance of a Standby Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.
“Stated Amount” means at any time the maximum amount for which a Letter of Credit may be honored.
“Store” means any retail store (which may include a Borrower’s interest in any real property, fixtures, equipment, inventory and other property related thereto) operated, or to be operated, by any Loan Party.
“Subordinated Debt” means any Indebtedness of any Credit Party subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations (specifically excluding from Subordinated Debt any capital lease payments) in a manner and form satisfactory to Administrative Agent and Lenders in their reasonable discretion, as to right and time of payment and as to any other rights and remedies thereunder.
“Subordination Provisions” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(q).
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body 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 a Loan Party.
“Supported QFC” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“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.
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations
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provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Swing Line” means the revolving credit facility made available by the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Swing Line Lender” means Wells Fargo in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.
“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Swing Line Note” means the promissory note of the Borrowers substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2, payable to the order of the Swing Line Lender, evidencing the Swing Line Loans made by the Swing Line Lender.
“Swing Line Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $35,000,000 and (b) ten percent (10%) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property (including sale and leaseback transactions), in each case, creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the application of any Debtor Relief Laws to such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing of the Term Loan made by each of the Term Lenders on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Term Commitment” means, as to each Term Lender, its obligation to make a portion of the Term Loan to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Term Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable. As of the Restatement Date, the aggregate amount of Term Commitments is $40,000,000.
“Term Lender” means each Lender having a Term Commitment as set forth on Schedule 2.01 hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance by which such Person becomes a Term Lender, or after the making of the Term Loan, each Lender holding any portion of the Term Loan.
“Term Loan” means the term loan made by the Term Lenders on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Term Loan Agent” means Wells Fargo, in its capacity as term loan agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor term loan agent.
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“Term Loan Action Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.02(b) hereofthis Agreement as in effect immediately prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date.
“Term Loan Borrowing Base” means, at any time of calculation, an amount equal to:
(a) the face amount of Eligible Credit Card Receivables multiplied by the TL Advance Rate;
plus
(b) the Cost of Eligible Inventory, net of Inventory Reserves, multiplied by the product of (A) the TL Advance Rate multiplied by (B) the Appraised Value of Eligible Inventory.
“Term Loan Interest Rate” means a per annum rate equal to, at the option of the Borrowers in accordance with the terms hereof, (i) the sum of (x) the greater of 1.00% or (y) Term SOFR for the applicable Interest Period, plus (b) 5.75%, or (ii) the sum of (a) the Base Rate, plus (b) 4.75%.
“Term Loan Reserve” means the amount, if any, by which the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Term Loan exceeds the Term Loan Borrowing Base.
“Term Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrowers in favor of a Term Lender evidencing the Term Loan made by such Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-3.
“Term SOFR” means:
(a) for any calculation with respect to a SOFR Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (such day, the “Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day, and
(b) for any calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any day, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one month on the day (such day, the “Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day;
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provided, further, that if Term SOFR determined as provided above (including pursuant to the proviso under clause (a) or clause (b) above) shall ever be less than the Floor, then Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor.
“Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Agent in its reasonable discretion).
“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.
“Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (i) the Maturity Date, (ii) the date on which the maturity of the Obligations is accelerated (or deemed accelerated) and the Revolving Commitments are irrevocably terminated (or deemed terminated) in accordance with Article VII, or (iii) the termination of the Revolving Commitments in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.06(a) hereof.
“TL Advance Rate” means 15%, as such amount shall be reduced by three quarters of one percent (0.75%) on the first day of each February, May, August and November of each year (commencing November 1, 2018), until such amount is equal to 10%. For illustration purposes only, as of November 1, 2018, the TL Advance Rate will be 14.25%.
“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Term Loan and the Total Revolver Outstandings.
“Total Revolver Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Committed Revolving Loans, Swing Line Loans and all L/C Obligations.
“Trading with the Enemy Act” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
“Type” means, with respect to a Committed Revolving Loan or a portion of the Term Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a SOFR Loan.
“UCC” or “Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that if a term is defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code differently than in another Article thereof, the term shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9; provided further that, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, perfection, or the effect of perfection or non-perfection, of a security interest in any Collateral or the availability of any remedy hereunder is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than State of New York, “Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection or availability of such remedy, as the case may be.
“UCP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits 2007 Revision, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 600 and any version or revision thereof accepted by the L/C Issuer for use.
“UFCA” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(d).
“UFTA” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(d).
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to
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time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Unfunded Pension Liability” means the excess of a Pension Plan’s benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Pension Plan’s assets, determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.
“Unintentional Overadvance” means an Overadvance which, to the Administrative Agent’s knowledge, did not constitute an Overadvance when made but which has become an Overadvance resulting from changed circumstances beyond the control of the Credit Parties, including, without limitation, a reduction in the Appraised Value of property or assets included in the Revolving Borrowing Base, increase in Reserves or misrepresentation by the Loan Parties.
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (i) a Saturday, (ii) a Sunday or (iii) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or any successor thereto, recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities; provided, that for purposes of notice requirements in Section 2.02(b), such day is also a Business Day.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” has the meaning specified in Section 10.27.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” shall mean, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“Weekly BBC Reporting Event” means either (a) the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default, or (b) the failure of the Borrowers to maintain Revolving Availability of at least twenty percent (20%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap at any time. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Weekly BBC Reporting Event shall be deemed continuing at the Administrative Agent’s option (i) so long as such Event of Default has not been waived, and/or (ii) if the Weekly BBC Reporting Event arises as a result of the Borrowers’ failure to maintain Revolving Availability as required hereunder, until Revolving Availability has exceeded twenty percent (20%) of the Adjusted Combined Loan Cap for thirty (30) consecutive days, in which case a Weekly BBC Reporting Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement. The termination of a Weekly BBC Reporting Event as provided herein shall in no way limit, waive or delay the occurrence of a subsequent Weekly BBC Reporting Event in the event that the conditions set forth in this definition again arise.
“Wells Fargo” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and its successors.
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“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any reference to a defined term as defined in the ABL Term Credit Agreement or any other ABL Term Document shall refer to the definition of such term as in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date (including with respect to any component definitions (or any sub-component definitions)), except with respect to any amendment or modification thereto (or to any component definitions (or any sub-component definitions)) permitted under this Agreement and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement or otherwise consented to by the Agents.
With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
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Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrowers 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).
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Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
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Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to 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 of any Issuer Documents 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.
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For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
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The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark, any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or with respect to any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any then-current Benchmark or any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement), as it may or may not be adjusted pursuant to Section 3.03(b), will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark, prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may
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engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto and such transactions may be adverse to a Borrower. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Term SOFR Reference Rate or Term SOFR, or any other Benchmark, any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to any Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
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Within the limits of each Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow Committed Revolving Loans under this Section 2.01, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01. Committed Revolving Loans may be Base Rate Loans or SOFR Loans, as further provided herein.
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in each case, including that resulting from the Letter of Credit Related Person’s own negligence; provided, however, that such indemnity shall not be available to any Letter of Credit Related Person claiming indemnification under clauses (i) through (xiii) above to the extent that such Letter of Credit Indemnified Costs may be finally determined in a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted directly from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Letter of Credit Related Person claiming indemnity. The Borrowers hereby agree to pay the Letter of Credit Related Person claiming indemnity on demand from time to time all amounts owing under this Section 2.03(f). If and to the extent that the obligations of the Borrowers under this Section 2.03(f) are unenforceable for any reason, the Borrowers agree to make the maximum contribution to the Letter of Credit Indemnified Costs permissible under applicable Law. This indemnification provision shall survive termination of this Agreement and all Letters of Credit.
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provided, however, that subject to Section 2.03(g) above, the foregoing shall not release the L/C Issuer from such liability to the Borrowers as may be finally determined in a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction against the L/C Issuer following reimbursement or payment of the obligations and liabilities, including reimbursement and other payment obligations, of the Borrowers to the L/C Issuer arising under, or in connection with, this Section 2.03 or any Letter of Credit.
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In addition to certain fees described in subsections (l) and (m) of Section 2.03:
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A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Lead Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
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If any Credit Party shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of, interest on, or other amounts with respect to, any of the Obligations resulting in such Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such Obligations greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein (including as in contravention of the priorities of payment set forth in Section 8.03), then the Credit Party receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Obligations of the other Credit Parties, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Credit Parties ratably and in the priorities set forth in Section 8.03, provided that:
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.
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Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Borrower is resident for tax purposes in the United States, any Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable:
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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 SOFR Loans (or Base Rate Loans determined with reference to Term SOFR), or to determine or charge interest rates based upon Term SOFR or SOFR (including for purposes of determining the Term Loan Interest Rate), then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Lead Borrower through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue SOFR Loans (or Base Rate Loans determined with reference to Term SOFR or SOFR) or to convert Base Rate Loans to SOFR Loans, or to continue its portion of the Term Loan based upon Term SOFR, shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, if necessary to avoid such illegality or impracticability, (i) in the case of any SOFR Loans of such Lender that are outstanding, the Borrowers shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all SOFR Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (and if applicable, without reference to Term SOFR), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such SOFR Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such SOFR Loans, (ii) the Term Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus 4.75%, and (iii) in the case of any such Base Rate Loans of such Lender that are outstanding and that are determined with reference to Term SOFR, interest upon the Base Rate Loans of such Lender after the date specified in such Lender’s notice shall accrue interest at the rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans without reference to the Term SOFR component thereof. Upon any such prepayment or conversion or change in interest calculation, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted or changed.
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and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase, directly or indirectly, the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any SOFR Loan (or any Base Rate Loan determined with reference to Term SOFR) (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Borrowers will promptly pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such
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Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered, together with interest on such amount from the date of such demand until payment in full thereof at the rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans hereunder.
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Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
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including any reasonably calculable loss of anticipated profits and any actual loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained. The Borrowers shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing, provided such administrative charges are associated with the foregoing but not duplicative of the compensation for such loss, cost or expense otherwise described in this Section 3.05.
Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither Administrative Agent, nor any Lender, nor any of their Participants, is required actually to acquire eurodollar deposits to fund or match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues based on Term SOFR or the Term SOFR Reference Rate.
A certificate of the Administrative Agent or a Lender delivered to Borrowers setting forth in reasonable detail any amount or amounts that the Administrative Agent or such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 3.05 shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Borrowers shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as applicable, within 10 days of the date of their receipt of such certificate.
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All of the Borrowers’ obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and repayment of the Term Loan, the Committed Revolving Loans, the Swing Line Loans and all other Obligations hereunder.
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The obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder was subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
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Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.04, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have Consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be Consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Restatement Date specifying its objection thereto.
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The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than a SOFR Loan Notice requesting only a continuation of SOFR Loans) and each L/C Issuer to issue each Letter of Credit is subject to the following conditions precedent:
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Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a SOFR Loan Notice requesting only a continuation of SOFR Loans) submitted by the Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Borrowers that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a), (b), (d), (e) and (bf) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension. The conditions set forth in this Section 4.02 are for the sole benefit of the Credit Parties but until the Required Lenders otherwise direct the Administrative Agent to cease making Loans and the L/C Issuer to cease issuing Letters of Credit, the Lenders will fund their Applicable Percentage of all Loans and participate in all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit whenever made or issued, which are requested by the Lead Borrower and which, notwithstanding the failure of the Loan Parties to comply with the provisions of this Article IV, agreed to by the Administrative Agent, provided, however, the making of any such Loans or the issuance of any Letters of Credit shall not be deemed a modification or waiver by any Credit Party of the provisions of this Article IV on any future occasion or a waiver of any rights of the Credit Parties as a result of any such failure to comply.
To induce the Credit Parties to enter into this Agreement and to make Loans and to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, each Loan Party represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the other Credit Parties that:
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Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary thereof (a) is a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or limited partnership, duly incorporated, organized or formed, validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization, or formation (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, permits, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i) or (c), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 5.01 annexed hereto sets forth, as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date, each Loan Party’s name as it appears in official filings in its state of incorporation or organization, its state of incorporation or organization, organization type, organization number, if any, issued by its state of incorporation or organization, and its federal employer identification number.
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The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is or is to be a party, has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and does not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization Documents; (b) conflict in any material respect with or result in any breach, termination, or contravention of, or constitute a default under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any Material Contract or any Material Indebtedness to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; (c) result in or require the creation of any Lien upon any asset of any Loan Party (other than Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent under the Security Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of such definition); or (d) violate any Law except where such violation would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except for (a) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Security Documents (including the first priority nature thereof, subject to Permitted Encumbrances that have priority by operation of law and, with respect to ABL Term Priority Collateral, Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term) or (b) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect.
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This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered, will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan
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Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
(d) Intentionally Omitted.
(e) The Consolidated and consolidating forecasted balance sheet and statements of income and cash flows of the Parent and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(d) will be prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were fair in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the Loan Parties’ best estimate of its future financial performance.
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There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of its properties or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.06, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there has been no adverse
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change in the status, or financial effect on any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, of the matters described on Schedule 5.06 that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Except as disclosed on Schedule 5.07, as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary is in default under or with respect to any Material Contract or any Material Indebtedness. No Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
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The properties of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries are insured with insurance companies which are financially sound and reputable to the actual knowledge of the Senior Executive Officers and which are not Affiliates of the Loan Parties, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks (including, without limitation, workmen’s compensation, public liability, business interruption and property damage insurance) as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the Loan Parties or the applicable Subsidiary operates. Schedule 5.10 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date. Each insurance policy listed on Schedule 5.10 is in full force and effect and all premiums in respect thereof that are due and payable have been paid.
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The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have filed all Federal, state and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all Federal, state and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings being diligently conducted, for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP, as to which Taxes no Lien (other than Permitted Encumbrances) has been filed and which contest effectively suspends the collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation. None of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries has received written notice of a proposed tax assessment against any such Loan Party or Subsidiary that would, if made, have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof is a party to any tax sharing agreement.
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The Loan Parties have no Subsidiaries as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date other than those specifically disclosed in Part (a) of Schedule 5.13, which Schedule sets forth the legal name, jurisdiction of incorporation or formation and authorized Equity Interests of each such Subsidiary. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in such Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by a Loan Party (or a Subsidiary of a Loan Party) in the amounts specified on Part (a) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except for those created under the Security Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term. Except as set forth in Schedule 5.13, there are no outstanding rights to purchase any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date. The Loan Parties have no equity investments as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date in any other corporation or entity other than those specifically disclosed in Part (b) of Schedule 5.13. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Loan Parties have been validly issued, and are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned in the amounts specified on Part (c) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except for those created under the Security Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (p) of the definition of such term. The copies of the Organization Documents of each Loan Party and each amendment thereto
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provided pursuant to Section 4.01 are true and correct copies of each such document, each of which is valid and in full force and effect. The Beneficial Ownership Certification executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for each Borrower on or prior to the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date, as updated from time to time in accordance with this Agreement, is accurate, complete and correct as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date and as of the date any such update is delivered.
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Each Loan Party has disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No report, financial statement, certificate or other information furnished (whether in writing or orally) by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in each case, as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Loan Parties represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.
Each of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary is in compliance (A) in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (i) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (ii) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (B) with Sections 10.17 and 10.18.
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The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the Intellectual Property, licenses, permits and other authorizations that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person. To the knowledge of the Lead Borrower, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary infringes upon any rights held by any other Person. Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.17, no claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the knowledge of the Lead Borrower, threatened in writing, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
There are no strikes, lockouts, slowdowns or other material labor disputes against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened in writing. To the Knowledge of the Senior Executive Officers, the hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Loan Parties comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act and any other applicable federal, state, local or foreign Law dealing with such matters except to the extent that any such violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any material liability or obligation under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act or similar state Law. All payments due from any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries, or for which any claim may be made against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP as a liability on the books of such Loan Party. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.18, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement, management agreement, employment agreement, bonus, restricted stock, stock option, or stock appreciation plan or agreement or any similar plan, agreement or arrangement which, in any case, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no representation proceedings pending or, to any Loan Party’s knowledge, threatened in writing to be filed with the National Labor Relations Board, and no labor organization or group of employees of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary has made a pending demand in writing for recognition. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.18, there are no complaints, unfair labor practice charges, grievances, arbitrations, unfair employment practices charges or any other claims or complaints against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened in writing to be filed with any Governmental Authority or arbitrator based on, arising out of, in connection with, or otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment of any employee of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is bound.
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After giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the ABL Term Documents, and before and after giving effect to each Credit Extension, the Loan Parties, on a Consolidated basis, are Solvent. No transfer of property has been or will be made by any Loan Party and no obligation has been or will be incurred by any Loan Party in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents with the intent to hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors of any Loan Party.
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No broker or finder brought about the obtaining, making or closing of the Loans or transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, and no Loan Party or Affiliate thereof has any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s or brokerage fees in connection therewith.
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Except for matters which, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, there exists no actual or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened in writing, termination or cancellation of, or any material adverse modification or change in the business relationship of any Loan Party with any supplier material to its operations.
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Schedule 5.24 sets forth all Material Contracts to which any Loan Party is a party or is bound as of the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date. The Loan Parties have delivered true, correct and complete copies of such Material Contracts to the Administrative Agent on or before the FirstSecond Amendment Effective Date. The Loan Parties are not in breach or in default in any material respect of or under any Material Contract and have not received any notice of the intention of any other party thereto to terminate any Material Contract.
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Neither the businesses nor the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries are affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any Sanctions. No Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of such Loan Party, any director, officer, employee, agent or Affiliate of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (a) is a Sanctioned Person or a Sanctioned Entity, (b) has any assets located in Sanctioned Entities, or (c) derives revenues from investments in, or transactions with Sanctioned Persons or Sanctioned Entities. Each of the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and Affiliates with all Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries, and to the knowledge of each such Loan Party, each director, officer, employee, agent and Affiliate of each such Loan Party and each such Subsidiary, is in compliance (i) with all Sanctions, and (ii) in all material respects with all Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. No proceeds of any loan made or Letter of Credit issued hereunder will be used to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or make any payments to, a Sanctioned Person or a
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Sanctioned Entity, or otherwise used in any manner that would result in a violation of any applicable Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws or Anti-Money Laundering Laws by any Person (including any Credit Party or other individual or entity participating in any transaction).
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To the extent applicable, each Loan Party is in compliance, in all material respects, with the (a) Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, and (b) Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act of 2001, as amended) (the “Patriot Act”).
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On each date that any Swap Contract is executed by any Provider, each Loan Party satisfies all eligibility, suitability and other requirements under the Commodity Exchange Act and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations.
Until Payment in Full of the Obligations, the Loan Parties shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, and 6.03) cause each Subsidiary to:
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Deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent, in form and detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent:
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Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), (b), or (c) or Section 6.02(a) or (d) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Lead Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Lead Borrower’s website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Lead Borrower’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that: (i) the Lead Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Agent or any Lender that requests the Lead Borrower to deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Agent or such Lender and (ii) the Lead
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Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Agent and each Lender (by telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every instance the Lead Borrower shall be required to provide paper copies of the Compliance Certificates required by Section 6.02(b) to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Loan Parties with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.
The Loan Parties hereby acknowledge that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arranger will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Loan Parties hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks, SyndTrack or another similar secure electronic transmission system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders may be “public-side” Lenders (i.e., Lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Loan Parties or their securities) (each, a “Public Lender”). The Loan Parties hereby agree that they will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower Materials that may be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower Materials shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC” or otherwise filing same with the SEC, the Loan Parties shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to the Loan Parties or their securities for purposes of United States federal and state securities laws (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated as “Public Investor” (or another similar term); and (z) the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates and the Lenders shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” or that are not at any time filed with the SEC as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Investor” (or such similar term).
The Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent hereby agree that the delivery of any Borrowing Base Certificate through the Portal, subject to the Administrative Agent’s authentication process, by such other electronic method as may be approved by the Agent from time to time in its sole discretion, or by such other electronic input of information necessary to calculate the applicable Borrowing Base as may be approved by the Agent from time to time in its sole discretion, shall in each case be deemed to satisfy the obligation of the Borrowers to deliver such Borrowing Base Certificate, with the same legal effect as if such Borrowing Base Certificate had been manually executed by the Borrowers and delivered to the Administrative Agent.
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Promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent:
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Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Lead Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto. Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(a) shall describe with particularity any and all provisions of this Agreement and any other Loan Document
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that have been breached. Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(k) shall describe with particularity any and all provisions of the ABL Term Documents that have been breached and the corrective action (if any) taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.
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Pay and discharge as the same shall become due and payable, all its obligations and liabilities, including (a) all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, (b) all lawful claims (including, without limitation, claims of landlords, warehousemen, customs brokers, and carriers) which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property; and (c) all Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any subordination provisions contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness, except, in each case, where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) such Loan Party has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, (c) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation, (d) no Lien has been filed with respect thereto and (e) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the Agents with respect to determining Reserves pursuant to this Agreement.
(a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or formation except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05; (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, permits, licenses, including all Federal firearm licenses, and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew all of its Intellectual Property, except to the extent such Intellectual Property is no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties.
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(a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted; and (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Comply (a) in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (i) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside and maintained by the Loan Parties in accordance with GAAP, (ii) such contest effectively suspends enforcement of the contested Laws, and (iii) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (b) with Sections 10.17 and 10.18.
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Use the proceeds of the Credit Extensions (a) to finance the acquisition of working capital assets of the Borrowers, including the purchase of inventory and equipment, in each case in the ordinary course of business, (b) to finance Capital Expenditures of the Borrowers, (c) for general corporate purposes of the Loan Parties, (d) to pay in full any obligations outstanding under the Existing Term Loan Agreement, (e) to pay in full any obligations outstanding in respect of Subordinated Debt, in each case described in this Section 6.11 to the extent expressly permitted under applicable Law and the Loan Documents.
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Notify the Administrative Agent at the time that any Person becomes a Subsidiary, and promptly thereafter (and in any event within thirty (30) days or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree), cause any such Person (a) which is not a CFC, to (i) become a Loan Party by executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent a Joinder to this Agreement or a counterpart of the Facility Guaranty or such other document as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate for such purpose, (ii) grant a Lien to the Collateral Agent on such Person’s assets (of the type constituting Collateral) to secure the Obligations, and (iii) deliver to the Administrative Agent documents of the types referred to in clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 4.01(a) and favorable opinions of counsel to such Person (which shall cover, among other things, the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability of the documentation referred to in clause (a)), and (b) if any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of such Person are owned by or on behalf of any Loan Party, to pledge such Equity Interests and promissory notes evidencing such Indebtedness (except that, if such Subsidiary is a CFC, the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary to be pledged may be limited to 65% of the outstanding voting Equity Interests of such Subsidiary and 100% of the non-voting Equity Interests of such Subsidiary and such time period may be extended based on local law or practice), in each case in form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. In no event shall compliance with this Section 6.12 waive or be deemed a waiver or Consent to any transaction giving rise to the need to comply with this Section 6.12 if such transaction was not otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement or constitute or be deemed to constitute, with respect to any Subsidiary, an approval of such Person as a Borrower or permit the inclusion of any acquired assets in the computation of each Borrowing Base. or the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base. At all times, the Loan Parties shall cause each Subsidiary that is a “Loan Party” (as defined in the ABL Term Documents) to remain a Loan Party under the ABL Loan Documents, except to the extent a release of such Loan Party from its obligations under the ABL Term Documents and the Loan Documents is permitted pursuant to the terms of the ABL Term Documents and the Loan Documents.
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Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or otherwise expressly permitted hereunder, make all payments and otherwise perform all obligations in respect of all Leases of real property to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, keep such Leases in full force and effect and not allow such Leases to lapse or be terminated or any rights to renew such leases to be forfeited or cancelled, notify the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent of any default by any party with respect to such Leases and cooperate with the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent in all respects to cure any such default, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.
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Perform and observe all the terms and provisions of each Material Contract to be performed or observed by it, maintain each such Material Contract in full force and effect except to the extent such Material Contract is no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices, enforce each such Material Contract in accordance with its terms, take all such action to such end as may be from time to time requested by the Administrative Agent and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, make to each other party to each such Material Contract such demands and requests for information and reports or for action as any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is entitled to make under such Material Contract, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so, except, in any case, where the failure to do so, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Cause the ABL Term Pushdown Reserve to be maintained at any time that the ABL Term Total Outstandings exceeds the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base.
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Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply (i) with all applicable Sanctions, and (ii) in all material respects with all Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries shall implement and maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and Affiliates with all Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Loan Parties shall and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to comply with all Sanctions and comply in all material respects with all Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Money Laundering Laws.
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On or before July 26, 2022 (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), the Loan Parties shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the following:
(a) such endorsements in respect of insurance policies as are required pursuant to the terms of Section 6.07 hereof;
(b) updated or new, as applicable, Credit Card Notifications for each of the Loan Parties’ Credit Card Issuers and Credit Card Processors listed on Schedule 5.21(b), which Credit Card Notifications shall include appropriate information for each applicable Store and/or merchant identification number of the Loan Parties;
(c) one or more amendments to the existing Blocked Account Agreements with U.S. Bank National Association, which amendment(s) shall modify the schedule of Blocked Accounts
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covered thereby and be duly executed by U.S. Bank National Association and the applicable Loan Parties; and
(d) a certificate of foreign qualification duly issued by the Secretary of State of the State of Oregon dated as of a recent date, which certificate shall certify that the Lead Borrower is duly qualified to conduct business in the State of Oregon
Any engagement by the Borrowers (not including any engagements of the Borrowers in existence of the Second Amendment Effective Date), the Parent or any of their Subsidiaries of any investment banker, financial advisor, sales broker or liquidator engaged for the purpose of marketing, selling, brokering or otherwise disposing of any assets of the Loan Parties, or a sale, merger or other business combination involving the Loan Parties or the Equity Interests of the Loan Parties or the Loan Parties’ business as a going concern, shall be subject to the prior written approval of the Administrative Agent, including as to the scope of such engagement and fees payable to such professional. At least ten (10) Business Days prior to the commencement of any such engagement, the Lead Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent copies of any such engagement letter or other agreement setting forth the terms and conditions and fees relating to such engagement. In addition to any other Availability Reserves imposed by the Administrative Agent from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Administrative Agent may, in its Permitted Discretion, impose an Availability Reserve for any such professional fees; provided, that such Availability Reserve shall not be duplicative of any Reserve (as such term is defined in the ABL Term Credit Agreement) imposed for such fees by the ABL Term Agent under the ABL Term Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, this Section 6.22 shall not apply to any consultants engaged for specific strategic and operational initiatives which do not include the marketing or sale of assets or Equity Interests or other restructuring purposes or initiatives.
Until Payment in Full of the Obligations, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:
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Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property (excluding real property), assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or sign or file or suffer to exist under the UCC or any similar Law or statute of any jurisdiction a financing statement that names any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof as debtor; sign or suffer to exist any security agreement authorizing any Person thereunder to file such financing statement; sell any of its property or assets subject to an understanding or agreement (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase such property or assets with recourse to it or any of its Subsidiaries; or assign or otherwise transfer any accounts or other rights to receive income, other than, as to all of the above, Permitted Encumbrances.
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Make any Investments, except Permitted Investments.
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(a) Create, incur, assume, guarantee, suffer to exist or otherwise become or remain liable with respect to, any Indebtedness, except Permitted Indebtedness, (b) without limiting the provisions of clause (a) above, create, incur, assume, guarantee, suffer to exist or otherwise become or remain liable with respect to any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) that is subordinated or junior in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Loan Parties, unless such Indebtedness is also subordinated or junior in right of payment, in the same manner and to the same extent, to the Obligations, or (c) issue Disqualified Stock.
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Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, (or agree to do any of the foregoing), except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing prior to or immediately after giving effect to any action described below or would result therefrom:
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Make any Disposition or enter into any agreement to make any Disposition, except Permitted Dispositions.
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Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
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continuing prior to or immediately after giving effect to any action described below or would result therefrom:
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a Restricted Payment in respect of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property), such Restricted Payment shall not be permitted unless the recipient thereof agrees in writing to be bound by a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license of such Material Intellectual Property in favor of the Collateral Agent for use in connection with the exercise of the rights and remedies of the Credit Parties, which license shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall make any Restricted Payment in respect of Material Intellectual Property (or the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that owns Material Intellectual Property) (in each case, whether as a Permitted Disposition, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Encumbrance or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Agents and the Required Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
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Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner any Indebtedness, or make any payment in violation of any subordination terms of any Subordinated Debt, except :
(a) as long as no Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, regularly scheduled or mandatory repayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of Permitted Indebtedness (other than Subordinated Debt and other than the ABL Term Loan Obligations),
(b) [reserved] regularly scheduled payments of principal (including regularly scheduled redemptions in respect of amortization payments thereon), Mandatory ABL Term Loan Prepayments and all payments in respect of interest, fees, expenses, indemnities and other ABL Term Loan Obligations (other than principal) owing under the ABL Term Documents (as in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date or as amended in accordance with the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), including customary and reasonable fees in respect of amendments, consents, waivers and other modifications of the ABL Term Documents permitted by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, in each case of this clause (b) as and when due under the ABL Term Documents (as in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date or as amended in accordance with the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement),
(c) certain intercompany loans and advances between Borrowers and Guarantor to the extent mutually agreed by the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Agent, including without limitation advances made to the Guarantor for payment of Taxes,
(d) voluntary prepayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of Permitted Indebtedness (but excluding on account of any Subordinated Debt or the ABL Term Loan Obligations),
(e) so long as the Payment Conditions shall have been satisfied, voluntary prepayments of principal with respect to the ABL Term Loan Obligations,
(f) so long as the Payment Conditions shall have been satisfied, payments and prepayments of interest and principal with respect to Subordinated Debt, and (f
(g) refinancings and refundings of such Indebtedness in compliance with Section 7.03.
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Enter into, renew, extend or be a party to any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of any Loan Party, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than on fair and reasonable terms substantially as favorable to the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, provided that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to a transaction between or among the Loan Parties.
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Enter into or permit to exist any Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreementany Loan Document or any other LoanABL Term Document) that (a) limits the ability (i) of any Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments or other distributions to any Loan Party or to otherwise transfer property to or invest in a Loan Party, (ii) of any Subsidiary to Guarantee the Obligations, (iii) of any Subsidiary to make or repay loans to a Loan Party, or (iv) of the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person in favor of the Collateral Agent; provided, however, that this clause (iv) shall not prohibit any negative pledge incurred or provided in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under clauses (c) or (f) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness solely to the extent any such negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the subject of such Indebtedness; or (b) requires the grant of a Lien to secure an obligation of such Person if a Lien is granted to secure another obligation of such Person.
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Use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, (a) to purchase or carry Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such Margin Stock or extending credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such Margin Stock or for any purpose that violates the provisions of Regulation T, U or X of the FRB; (b) to make any payments to a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, to finance any investments in a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, to fund any investments, loans or contributions in, or otherwise make such proceeds available to, a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, to fund any operations, activities or business of a Sanctioned Entity or a Sanctioned Person, or in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person; (c) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Sanctions, Anti-Corruption Laws or Anti-Money Laundering Laws; or (d) for purposes other than those permitted under this Agreement.
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(a) Amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition of any Loan Party’s Organization Documents in a manner materially adverse to the Credit Parties, (b) other than with respect to the ABL Term Documents or the ABL Term Obligations (as to which clause (c) below shall apply), amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition under any Material Contract or Material Indebtedness (other than on account of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof), in each case of clauses (a) and (b) to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (c) amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition of any ABL Term Document or agreement in respect of any refinancing of any Indebtedness under any ABL Term Document, to the extent that such amendment, modification or waiver would (i) shorten the maturity date of the ABL Term Obligations or such refinancing Indebtedness to a date which is prior to ninety-one (91) days after the Maturity Date, (ii) shorten the date scheduled for any principal payment or increase the amount of any required scheduled principal payment, or (iii) otherwise not be permitted under the ABL Intercreditor Agreement absent the consent of the Administrative Agent; or (d) amend, modify or waive any term, provision or condition of the Employee Stock Plan in a manner materially adverse to the Credit Parties (it being understood and agreed that any material change to the Investments contemplated therein is materially adverse to the Credit Parties) without the written consent of the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not be deemed to restrict the ability of the Board (as defined in the Employee Stock Plan) to determine additional Eligible Persons (as defined in the Employee Stock Plan) in accordance with the terms of the Employee Stock Plan.
Change the Fiscal Year of any Loan Party, or the accounting policies or reporting practices of the Loan Parties, except as required by GAAP.
Permit Revolving Availability, at any time, to be less than ten percentthe greater of (x) $30,000,000, and (y) 10.0%) of the AdjustedSpecified Combined Loan Cap.
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provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof under Section 8.01(f), the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Loan Parties to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
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(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, if any Loan Party shall be subject to any proceeding with respect to any Debtor Relief Laws:
(i) No Revolving Lender will provide or offer to provide any DIP Financing, with such DIP Financing to be secured by all or any portion of the Collateral (including assets that, but for the application of Section 552 of the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable Law would be Collateral), to the Loan Parties unless (x) the terms of such DIP Financing complies with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, (a) the sum of (1) the Total Revolver Outstandings plus (2) outstanding loans and unfunded commitments under the DIP Financing do not exceed the sum of (A) the then existing Revolving Loan Cap, plus (B) the Insolvency Increase Amount, and the minimum Revolving Availability covenant set forth in Section 7.15 is satisfied at the level provided therein (subject to any adjustment as a result of the increase in Revolving Commitments caused by the Insolvency Increase Amount), (y) the Administrative Agent retains its Lien on the Collateral to secure the Obligations with respect to the Term Loan, subordinate to the DIP Financing (and any other Lien securing
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any claim for diminution in value in connection therewith), including any DIP Financing budget approved by the Administrative Agent, but otherwise with the same priority as existed immediately prior to the commencement of any such proceeding, and (z) the DIP Financing is subject to the applicable rights of the Term Loan Agent under this Agreement (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, each of the Term Loan Agent and the Term Lenders agrees that it will raise no objection and will not support any objection to such DIP Financing or to the Liens securing the same (or securing any claim for diminution in value in connection therewith) on any grounds, that meet the foregoing conditions set forth in this clause (i) and in clause (iii) below).
(ii) The Term Loan Agent and the Term Lenders hereby agree that they shall not (a) provide or offer to provide any DIP Financing to the Loan Parties or (b) endorse the provision of any DIP Financing to the Loan Parties, in each case of (a) and (b), to which Liens that are senior or pari passu in priority to the Liens securing the Obligations are granted on the Collateral.
(iii) All adequate protection granted to the Administrative Agent in any proceeding with respect to any Debtor Relief Laws, including all Liens granted to the Administrative Agent in any such proceeding as adequate protection, are intended to be for the benefit of all Credit Parties and shall be subject to the priorities set forth in Section 8.03, subject to any court order affecting the rights and interests of the parties hereto not in conflict with the terms hereof. Without limiting the foregoing, subject to this Section 8.02(e), the Term Lenders shall have the right to request the Administrative Agent to seek adequate protection for the Term Loan in the form of payment of interest at the non-Default Rate on the Term Loan and reimbursement of expenses of the Term Loan Agent, provided that the Term Lenders may continue to accrue interest on the Term Loan at the Default Rate, subject to any order entered in the proceeding. The Administrative Agent shall not be required to seek such adequate protection for the Term Loan in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence so long as the Administrative Agent shall have appointed the Term Loan Agent as an agent of the Administrative Agent for purposes of exercising the rights of the Administrative Agent to seek such adequate protection.
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After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations (excluding the Other Liabilities and Obligations in respect of the Term Loan) constituting fees, indemnities, Credit Party Expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, each in its capacity as such;
Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations (excluding the Other Liabilities Obligations in respect of the Term Loan) constituting indemnities, Credit Party Expenses, and other amounts
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(other than principal, interest and fees) payable to the Revolving Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Revolving Lenders and the L/C Issuer and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;
Third, to the extent not previously reimbursed by the Revolving Lenders, to payment to the Revolving Lenders of that portion of the Obligations constituting principal and accrued and unpaid interest on any Permitted Overadvances, ratably among the Revolving Lenders in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth, to the extent that Swing Line Loans have not been refinanced by a Committed Revolving Loan, payment to the Swing Line Lender of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Swing Line Loans;
Fifth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Committed Revolving Loans and other Obligations in respect of the Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit, and fees (including Letter of Credit Fees), ratably among the Revolving Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fifth payable to them;
Sixth, to the extent that Swing Line Loans have not been refinanced by a Committed Revolving Loan, to payment to the Swing Line Lender of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Swing Line Loans;
Seventh, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Committed Revolving Loans, ratably among the Revolving Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Seventh held by them;
Eighth, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit;
Ninth, to payment of all other Obligations (including without limitation the cash collateralization of unliquidated indemnification obligations as provided in Section 10.04(g), but excluding any Other Liabilities and any Obligations in respect of the Term Loan), ratably among the Credit Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Ninth held by them;
Tenth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations arising from Cash Management Services to the extent secured under the Security Documents, ratably among the Credit Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Tenth held by them;
Eleventh, to payment of all other Obligations arising from Bank Products to the extent secured under the Security Documents, in an amount not to exceed the Bank Products Cap, ratably among the Credit Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Eleventh held by them;
Twelfth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations in respect of the Term Loan constituting fees, indemnities, Credit Party Expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Term Loan Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Term Loan Agent, in its capacity as such;
Thirteenth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations in respect of the Term Loan constituting indemnities, Credit Party Expenses, and other amounts (other than principal, interest and fees)
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payable to the Term Lenders (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Term Lenders and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Thirteenth payable to them;
Fourteenth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Term Loan and other Obligations in respect of the Term Loan (but not including any fees), ratably among the Term Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourteenth payable to them;
Fifteenth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Term Loan, ratably among the Term Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fifteenth held by them;
Sixteenth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations arising from Bank Products to the extent secured under the Security Documents, to the extent in excess of the Bank Products Cap, ratably among the Credit Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Sixteenth payable to them;
Seventeenth, to payment of all other Obligations (including without limitation, any fees and any Obligations arising from Cash Management Services and Bank Products to the extent not paid pursuant to clauses Tenth and Eleventh above), ratably among the Credit Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Seveneenth held by them; and
Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been Paid in Full, to the Loan Parties or as otherwise required by Law.
Subject to Section 2.03(c), amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Eighth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above.
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Each of the Credit Parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that because of, among other things, their differing rights and priorities in the Collateral, the claims of the Revolving Lenders and the Term Lenders in respect of the Collateral are fundamentally different from each other, and the claims of the Revolving Loans and the Term Loan in respect of any Collateral must be separately classified in any bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding. To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that, in respect of any Collateral, the Revolving Loans and/or the Term Loan in respect of such Collateral constitute only one secured claim (rather than separate classes of secured claims), then all distributions shall be made as if there were separate classes of secured claims in respect of any Collateral and, to the extent that any holder of the Revolving Loans and/or the Term Loan receives distributions in respect of the Collateral, such distributions shall be held in trust by the receiving party and distributed giving effect to the foregoing.
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The Person serving as the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it was not the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable, and the terms “Revolving Lender”, “Revolving Lenders”, “Term Lender” or “Term Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
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None of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent shall have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, none of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent:
None of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the Consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as such Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable, shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 10.01 and 8.02) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
None of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given to such Person by the Loan Parties, a Lender or the L/C Issuer. If the Administrative Agent or the Term Loan Agent receives notice of such Default or Event of Default, it shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable, and the Lenders thereof in writing. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the applicable Agent or Term Loan Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Applicable Lenders. Unless and until the Agents shall have received such direction, the Agents may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to any such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of the Credit Parties. In no event shall the Agents be required to comply with any such directions to the extent that any Agent believes that its compliance with such directions would be unlawful.
None of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or
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genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or the creation, perfection or priority of any Lien purported to be created by the Security Documents, (v) the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral, or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Agents.
Each Agent and the Term Loan Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including, but not limited to, any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. Each Agent and the Term Loan Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or the L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice to the contrary from such Lender or the L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. Each Agent and the Term Loan Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
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Each Agent and the Term Loan Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub‑agents appointed by such Agent and/or the Term Loan Agent. Each Agent and the Term Loan Agent and any such sub‑agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub‑agent and to the Related Parties of the Agents and any such sub‑agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as such Agent and the Term Loan Agent.
Either Agent or the Term Loan Agent may at any time give written notice of its resignation to the Lenders and the Lead Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders (or, in the case of the Term Loan Agent, the Required Term Lenders) shall have the right, in consultation with the Lead Borrower, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders (or, in the case of the Term Loan Agent, the Required Term Lenders) and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent or Term Loan Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent or Term Loan Agent may on behalf of the applicable Lenders and the L/C Issuer, as applicable, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or Term Loan Agent, as applicable, meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that if the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable, shall notify the Lead
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Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring Agent or Term Loan Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any Collateral held by the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Collateral Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Collateral Agent is appointed) and (2) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable, shall instead be made by or to each Lender and the L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders (or, in the case of the Term Loan Agent, the Required Term Lenders) appoint a successor Administrative Agent or Term Loan Agent, as applicable, as provided for above in this Section. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or Term Loan Agent, as applicable, hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Agent or Term Loan Agent, and the retiring Agent or Term Loan Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Lead Borrower and such successor. After the retiring Agent’s or Term Loan Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent or Term Loan Agent, its sub‑agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Agent or Term Loan Agent was acting as such Agent or Term Loan Agent hereunder.
Any resignation by Wells Fargo as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute its resignation as Swing Line Lender and its resignation as L/C Issuer. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, (b) the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (c) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.
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Each Lender and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agents, the Term Loan Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agents, the Term Loan Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. Except as provided in Section 9.12, none of the Agents or the Term Loan Agent shall have any duty or
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responsibility to provide any Credit Party with any other credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of any Loan Party that may come into the possession of such Agent or Term Loan Agent.
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Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, neither the Lead Arranger nor the Syndication Agent listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity as the Agent, a Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder.
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In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Loan Parties) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and the L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, if the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or the L/C Issuer or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender or the L/C Issuer in any such proceeding.
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The Credit Parties irrevocably authorize the Agents, at their option and in their discretion,
Upon request by any Agent at any time, the Applicable Lenders will confirm in writing such Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Facility Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.10. In each case as specified in this Section 9.10, the Agents will, at the Loan Parties’ expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Security Documents or to subordinate its interest in such item, or to release such Guarantor from its obligations under the Facility Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.10.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9.10, the Agents shall be authorized, without the consent of any Lender and without the requirement that a Disposition shall have occurred, to release any security interest in any building, structure or improvement located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards.
The Agents may deem and treat a Lender party to this Agreement as the owner of such Lender’s portion of the Obligations for all purposes, unless and until, and except to the extent, an Assignment and Acceptance shall have become effective as set forth in Section 10.06.
By signing this Agreement, each Lender:
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Each Lender hereby appoints each other Lender as agent for the purpose of perfecting Liens for the benefit of the Agents and the Lenders, in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of the UCC or any other applicable Law of the United States can be perfected only by possession. Should any Lender (other than the Agents) obtain possession of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify the Agents thereof, and, promptly upon the Collateral Agent’s request therefor shall deliver such Collateral to the Collateral Agent or otherwise deal with such Collateral in accordance with the Collateral Agent’s instructions.
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The Lenders hereby agree to indemnify the Agents, the Term Loan Agent, the L/C Issuer and any Related Party, as the case may be (to the extent not reimbursed by the Loan Parties and without limiting the obligations of Loan Parties hereunder), ratably according to their Applicable Percentages, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or
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asserted against any Agent, the Term Loan Agent, the L/C Issuer and their Related Parties in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any action taken or omitted to be taken by any Agent, the Term Loan Agent, the L/C Issuer and their Related Parties in connection therewith; provided, that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from any Agent’s, the Term Loan Agent’s, the L/C Issuer’s and their Related Parties’ gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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The Lenders are not partners or co-venturers, and no Lender shall be liable for the acts or omissions of, or (except as otherwise set forth herein in case of the Agents and the Term Loan Agent) authorized to act for, any other Lender.
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Each provider of Bank Products or Cash Management Services (each, a “Provider”) in its capacity as such shall be deemed a third party beneficiary hereof and of the provisions of the other Loan Documents for purposes of any reference in a Loan Document to the parties for whom the Agents are acting. Each Agent hereby agrees to act as agent for such Providers and, by virtue of entering into an agreement in respect of Bank Products or Cash Management Services (each, a “Specified Agreement”), the applicable Provider shall be automatically deemed to have appointed each Agent as its agent and to have accepted the benefits of the Loan Documents. It is understood and agreed that the rights and benefits of each Provider under the Loan Documents consist exclusively of such Provider’s being a beneficiary of the Liens and security interests (and, if applicable, guarantees) granted to the Collateral Agent and the right to share in payments and collections out of the Collateral as more fully set forth herein. In addition, each Provider, by virtue of entering into a Specified Agreement, shall be automatically deemed to have agreed that the Administrative Agent shall have the right, but shall have no obligation, to establish, maintain, relax, or release Bank Products Reserves and reserves in respect of Cash Management Services and that if reserves are established there is no obligation on the part of the Administrative Agent to determine or insure whether the amount of any such reserve is appropriate or not. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to calculate the amount due and payable with respect to any Other Liabilities, but may rely upon a written notice from the applicable Provider provided pursuant to Section 9.12(a). In the absence of an updated written notice, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to assume that the amount due and payable to the applicable Provider is the amount last certified to the Administrative Agent by such Provider as being due and payable (less any distributions made to such Provider on account thereof). Borrowers may obtain Bank Products or Cash Management Services from any Provider, although Borrowers are not required to do so. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that no Provider has committed to provide any Bank Products or Cash Management Services and that the providing of Bank Products or Cash Management Services by any Provider is in the sole and absolute discretion of such Provider.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, no Person who is or becomes a Lead Arranger or a Syndication Agent shall have any powers, rights, duties, responsibilities or liabilities with respect to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no Consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Administrative Agent, with the Consent of the Required Lenders, and the Lead Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or Consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
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and, provided further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or Consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (ii) no amendment, waiver or Consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement; (iii) no amendment, waiver or Consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (iv) no amendment, waiver or Consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Collateral Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Collateral Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (v) no amendment, waiver or Consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Term Loan Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Term Loan Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (vi) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto; and (vii) any amendment contemplated by Section 2.10(b) or Section 3.03 in connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR or a Benchmark Transition Event, as applicable, shall be effective as contemplated by such Section 2.10(b) or Section 3.03, as applicable.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (x) no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or Consent hereunder, except that the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender, and (y) no provider or holder of any Bank Products or Cash Management Services shall have any voting or approval rights hereunder (or be deemed a Lender) solely by virtue of its status as the provider or holder of such agreements or products or the Obligations owing thereunder,
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nor shall the consent of any such provider or holder be required (other than in their capacities as Lenders, to the extent applicable) for any matter hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, including as to any matter relating to the Collateral or the release of Collateral or any Loan Party.
If any Lender does not Consent (a “Non-Consenting Lender”) to a proposed amendment, waiver, consent or release with respect to any Loan Document that requires the Consent of each Lender and that has been approved by the Required Lenders, the Lead Borrower may replace such Non-Consenting Lender in accordance with Section 10.13; provided that such amendment, waiver, consent or release can be effected as a result of the assignment contemplated by such Section (together with all other such assignments required by the Lead Borrower to be made pursuant to this paragraph).
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such subsection (b).
Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the
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intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.
No failure by any Credit Party to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document preclude
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any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided herein and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether any Credit Party may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.
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To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Loan Parties is made to any Credit Party, or any Credit Party exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Credit Party in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or
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otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Agents upon demand its Applicable Percentage (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Agents, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the Payment in Full of the Obligations.
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Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment. Upon request, the Borrowers (at their expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the
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assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.06(d).
Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to Section 10.01 that affects such Participant. Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, the Loan Parties agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.06(b). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.
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Each of the Credit Parties individually (and not jointly or jointly and severally) agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, funding sources, attorneys, advisors and representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an
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agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to any Loan Party and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Lead Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to any Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Loan Parties.
For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof relating to the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof or their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to any Credit Party on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof, provided that, in the case of information received from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary after the First Amendment Effective Date, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
Each of the Credit Parties acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Loan Parties or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including Federal and state securities Laws.
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If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or if any Lender shall have been served with a trustee process or similar attachment relating to property of a Loan Party, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, after obtaining the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrowers or any other Loan Party against any and all of the Obligations now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, regardless of the adequacy of the Collateral, and irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Borrowers or such Loan Party may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or the L/C Issuer different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the L/C Issuer or their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer agrees to notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”). If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrowers. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.
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This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Execution of any such counterpart may be executed by means of (a) an electronic signature that complies with the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, as in effect from time to time, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect from time to time, or any other relevant and applicable electronic signatures law; (b) an original manual signature; or (c) a faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature. Each electronic signature or faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature shall for all purposes have the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature. The Administrative Agent reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to accept, deny, or condition acceptance of any electronic signature on this Agreement or on any notice delivered to the Administrative Agent under this Agreement. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by faxed, scanned or photocopied manual signature shall also deliver an original manually executed counterpart, but the failure to deliver an original manually executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability and binding effect of this Agreement. The foregoing shall apply to each other Loan Document, and any notice delivered hereunder or thereunder, mutatis mutandis.
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All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof, except to the extent that such representations and warranties may be revised in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Credit Parties, regardless of any investigation made by any Credit Party or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any Credit Party may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Obligations. Further, the provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 and Article IX shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the repayment of the Obligations, the expiration or
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termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. In connection with the termination of this Agreement and the release and termination of the security interests in the Collateral, the Agents may require such indemnities and collateral security as they shall reasonably deem necessary or appropriate to protect the Credit Parties against (x) loss on account of credits previously applied to the Obligations that may subsequently be reversed or revoked, (y) any obligations that may thereafter arise with respect to the Other Liabilities and (z) any Obligations that may thereafter arise under Section 10.04.
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If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
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If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:
A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
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. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby, the Loan Parties each acknowledge and agree that: (i) the credit facility provided for hereunder and any related arranging or other services in connection therewith (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document) are an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Loan Parties, on the one hand, and the Credit Parties, on the other hand, and each of the Loan Parties is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents (including any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or thereof); (ii) in connection with the process leading to such transaction, the each Credit Party is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the financial advisor, agent or fiduciary, for the Loan Parties or any of their respective Affiliates, stockholders, creditors or employees or any other Person; (iii) none of the Credit Parties has assumed or will assume an advisory, agency or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Loan Parties with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto, including with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document (irrespective of whether any of the Credit Parties has advised or is currently advising any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates on other matters) and none of the Credit Parties has any obligation to any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; (iv) the Credit Parties and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates, and none of the Credit Parties has any obligation to disclose any of such interests by virtue of any advisory, agency or fiduciary relationship; and (v) the Credit Parties have not provided and will not provide any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document) and each of the Loan Parties has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate. Each of the Loan Parties hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that it may have against each of the Credit Parties with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty.
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Each Lender that is subject to the requirements of the Patriot Act hereby notifies the Loan Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that
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identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify each Loan Party in accordance with the Patriot Act. In addition, the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have the right to periodically conduct due diligence (including, without limitation, in respect of information and documentation as may reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender from time to time for purposes of compliance by the Administrative Agent or such Lender with applicable Laws (including, without limitation, the Patriot Act and other “know your customer” and Anti-Money Laundering Laws), and any policy or procedure implemented by the Administrative Agent or such Lender to comply therewith) on all Loan Parties, their senior management and key principals and legal and beneficial owners. Each Loan Party agrees to cooperate in respect of the conduct of such due diligence and further agrees that the reasonable costs and charges for any such due diligence by the Administrative Agent shall constitute Credit Party Expenses hereunder and be for the account of Borrowers.
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Neither of the advance of the Loans nor the use of the proceeds of any thereof will violate the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., as amended) (the “Trading With the Enemy Act”) or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) (the “Foreign Assets Control Regulations”) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto (which for the avoidance of doubt shall include, but shall not be limited to (a) Executive Order 13224 of September 21, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)) (the “Executive Order”) and (b) the Patriot Act. Furthermore, none of the Borrowers or their Affiliates (a) is or will become a “blocked person” as described in the Executive Order, the Trading With the Enemy Act or the Foreign Assets Control Regulations or (b) engages or will engage in any dealings or transactions, or be otherwise associated, with any such “blocked person” or in any manner violative of any such order.
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Time is of the essence of the Loan Documents.
Each Loan Party agrees to provide its reasonable consent to the publication by Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Agent or any Lender of advertising material, including any “tombstone,” press release or comparable advertising, on its website or in other marketing materials of the Administrative Agent or the Term Loan Agent, relating to the financing transactions contemplated by this Agreement using any Loan Party’s name, product photographs, logo, trademark or other insignia. The Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Agent or such Lender shall provide a draft of any advertising material, “tomb stone” or press release to the Lead Borrower at least five (5) days prior to the publication thereof. Upon consent from Lead Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), Administrative Agent may provide to industry trade organizations and loan syndication and pricing reporting services information necessary and customary for inclusion in league table measurements.
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The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.
The exhibits, schedules and annexes attached to this Agreement are incorporated herein and shall be considered a part of this Agreement for the purposes stated herein, except that in the event of any conflict between any of the provisions of such exhibits and the provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.
Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Loan Party to honor all of its obligations under the Facility Guaranty in respect of Swap Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 10.24 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 10.24, or otherwise under the Facility Guaranty, voidable under applicable Law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Obligations. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section 10.25 constitute, and this Section
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10.24 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Loan Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
This Agreement is an amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement, it being acknowledged and agreed that as of the Restatement Date all obligations outstanding under or in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents (such obligations, collectively, the “Existing Obligations”) constitute obligations under this Agreement. This Agreement is in no way intended to constitute a novation of the Existing Credit Agreement or the Existing Obligations. With respect to (i) any date or time period occurring and ending prior to the Restatement Date, the Existing Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall govern the respective rights and obligations of any party or parties hereto also party thereto and shall for such purposes remain in full force and effect; and (ii) any date or time period occurring or ending on or after the Restatement Date, the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the exhibits and schedules hereto) and the other Loan Documents. From and after the Restatement Date, any reference to the Existing Credit Agreement in any of the other Loan Documents executed or issued by and/or delivered to any one or more parties hereto pursuant to or in connection therewith shall be deemed to be a reference to this Agreement, and the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between such provisions and those of the Existing Credit Agreement.
To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Swap Contracts or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support”, and each such QFC, a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the
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resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States): In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the date first above written.
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation, as Lead Borrower and as a Borrower
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE SOUTHWEST, INC., a California corporation, as a Borrower
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
MINNESOTA MERCHANDISING CORP., a Minnesota corporation, as a Borrower
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
PACIFIC FLYWAY WHOLESALE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
ON ADVENTURE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
THE AMERICAN PARTS CO., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, as a Guarantor
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Revolving Lender, as Swing Line Lender and as L/C Issuer
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Revolving Lender
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Revolving Lender
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Term Loan Agent
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Term Lender
By: _________________________________
Name: _________________________________
Title: _________________________________
308540068963.79
Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
ANNEX B
Certain Amended and Restated Schedules to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
[see attached]
ANNEX C
Amended and Restated Exhibit D (Form of Compliance Certificate), Exhibit G (Form of Borrowing Base Certificate), Exhibit H (Form of Credit Card Notification) and
Exhibit J (Employee Stock Plan) to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
[see attached]
Exhibit 10.3
FACILITY GUARANTY
FACILITY GUARANTY (this “Guaranty”), dated as of July 30, 2024, by SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC., a Utah corporation (the “Guarantor”) in favor of (a) PLC Agent LLC, as administrative and collateral agent (in such capacities, the “Agent”), for its own benefit and the benefit of the other Credit Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below), and (b) the Credit Parties.
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, reference is made to that certain ABL Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, or modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”; capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning given to such term in the Credit Agreement), by and among (i) Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., a Utah corporation, for itself and as representative (in such capacity, the “Lead Borrower”) for the Borrowers from time to time party thereto (together with the Lead Borrower, collectively, the “Borrowers” and each, a “Borrower”), (ii) the Borrowers from time to time party thereto, (iii) the Guarantors party thereto, (iv) the Lenders from time to time party thereto (the “Lenders”), and (v) the Agent.
WHEREAS, the Lenders have agreed to make Loans to the Borrowers, pursuant to, and upon the terms and subject to the conditions specified in, the Credit Agreement.
WHEREAS, Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the availability of the credit facility provided for in the Credit Agreement and from the making of the Loans by the Lenders.
WHEREAS, the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans are conditioned upon, among other things, the execution and delivery of this Guaranty. As consideration therefor, and in order to induce the Lenders to make Loans, the Guarantor is willing to enter into this Guaranty in the form hereof.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Guaranty. Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by required prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance by each of the Borrowers of all Obligations (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”), including all such Guaranteed Obligations which shall become due but for the operation of the Debtor Relief Laws. The Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon this Guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Guarantor, the term “Guaranteed Obligations” shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Guarantor.
SECTION 2. Guaranteed Obligations Not Affected. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of payment from, and protest to, any
Loan Party of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of this Guaranty, notice of protest for nonpayment and all other notices of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, the obligations of Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of the Agent or any other Credit Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce or exercise any right or remedy against any Loan Party under the provisions of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise or against any other party with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations, (b) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from, any of the terms or provisions of this Guaranty, or of any other Loan Document or any other agreement, with respect to any Loan Party or with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations, (c) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the release of, any of the Collateral held by or on behalf of the Agent or any other Credit Party, or (d) the lack of legal existence of any Loan Party or legal obligation to discharge any of the Guaranteed Obligations by any Loan Party for any reason whatsoever, including, without limitation, in any insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Loan Party.
SECTION 3. Security. Guarantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Agent and each of the other Credit Parties may (a) take and hold security for the payment of this Guaranty and the Guaranteed Obligations and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such security, (b) apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as they in their sole discretion may determine, and (c) release or substitute any one or more endorsees, Borrowers, other Loan Parties or other obligors, in each case without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of Guarantor hereunder.
SECTION 4. Guaranty of Payment. Guarantor further agrees that this Guaranty constitutes a guarantee of payment and performance when due of all Guaranteed Obligations and not of collection and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Agent or any other Credit Party to any of the Collateral or other security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Agent or any other Credit Party in favor of any Loan Party or any other Person or to any other Guarantor of all or part of the Guaranteed Obligations. Any payment required to be made by Guarantor hereunder may be required by the Agent or any other Credit Party on any number of occasions and shall be payable to the Agent, for the benefit of the Agent and the other Credit Parties, in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 5. Indemnification.
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SECTION 6. No Discharge or Diminishment of Guaranty. The obligations of Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than upon the Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Guaranteed Obligations of Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of the Agent or any other Credit Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Guaranty, the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any provision of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guaranteed Obligations, or by any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of Guarantor or that would otherwise
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operate as a discharge of Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations).
SECTION 7. Defenses of Loan Parties Waived. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any other Loan Party, other than the Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations. Guarantor hereby acknowledges that the Agent and the other Credit Parties may, at their election and pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, make any other accommodation with any other Loan Party, or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of each such Guarantor hereunder except to the extent that the Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations has occurred. Pursuant to, and to the extent permitted by, applicable Law, Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election and waives any benefit of and right to participate in any such foreclosure action, even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable Law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement, indemnity, contribution or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Guarantor against any Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security. Guarantor agrees that it shall not assert any claim in competition with the Agent or any other Credit Party in respect of any payment made hereunder in connection with any proceedings under any Debtor Relief Laws.
SECTION 8. Agreement to Pay; Subordination. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Agent or any other Credit Party has at law or in equity against Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of any Loan Party to pay any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Agent or such other Credit Party as designated thereby in cash the amount of such unpaid Guaranteed Obligations. Upon payment by Guarantor of any sums to the Agent or any other Credit Party as provided above, all rights of such Guarantor against any Loan Party arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations. In addition, any indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Loan Party now or hereafter held by Guarantor is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the prior Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations and Guarantor will not demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect any such indebtedness. If any amount shall erroneously be paid to Guarantor on account of (a) such subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar right or (b) any such indebtedness of any Loan Party, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Credit Parties and shall forthwith be paid to the Agent to be credited against the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 9. Limitation on Guaranty of Guaranteed Obligations. In any action or proceeding with respect to Guarantor involving any state corporate law, the Debtor Relief Laws or any other state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty would
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otherwise be held or determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, or subordinated to the claims of any other creditors, on account of the amount of its liability under this Guaranty, then, notwithstanding any other provision hereof to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by such Guarantor, any Credit Party, the Agent or any other Person, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount which is valid and enforceable and not subordinated to the claims of other creditors as determined in such action or proceeding.
SECTION 10. Information. Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of each Loan Party’s financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that none of the Agent or the other Credit Parties will have any duty to advise such Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks. The Guarantor has reviewed and approved copies of the Loan Documents and are fully informed of the remedies the Agent may pursue, with or without notice to the Guarantor.
SECTION 11. Termination. This Guaranty (a) shall terminate when Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations has occurred, and (b) shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Credit Party or Guarantor in connection with Debtor Relief Laws or otherwise.
SECTION 12. Costs of Enforcement. Without limiting or duplicating any of their obligations under the Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents, the Guarantor, agrees to pay on demand all Credit Party Expenses in connection with (i) the administration, negotiation, documentation or amendment of this Guaranty, and (ii) the Agent’s or any other Credit Party’s efforts to collect and/or to enforce any of the Guaranteed Obligations of Guarantor hereunder and/or to enforce any of the rights, remedies, or powers of the Agent or any other Credit Party against or in respect of Guarantor (whether or not suit is instituted by or against the Agent or any other Credit Party).
SECTION 13. Binding Effect; Assignments. Whenever in this Guaranty any party hereto is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party, and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of the Guarantor that are contained in this Guaranty shall bind and inure to the benefit the Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each of the Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of the Agent and the other Credit Parties, and their respective successors and assigns, except that Guarantor shall not have the right to assign or transfer its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein (and any such attempted assignment or transfer shall be void), except as expressly permitted by this Guaranty or the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 14. Waivers; Amendment.
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SECTION 15. Copies and Facsimiles. This instrument and all documents which have been or may be hereinafter furnished by Guarantor to the Agent may be reproduced by the Agent by any photographic, microfilm, xerographic, digital imaging, or other process. Any such reproduction shall be admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding (whether or not the original is in existence and whether or not such reproduction was made in the regular course of business). Any facsimile which bears proof of transmission shall be binding on the party which or on whose behalf such transmission was initiated and likewise so admissible in evidence as if the original of such facsimile had been delivered to the party which or on whose behalf such transmission was received.
SECTION 16. Governing Law. THIS GUARANTY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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SECTION 17. Notices. All communications and notices hereunder shall (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein) be in writing and given as provided in Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement, provided that communications and notices to the Guarantor may be delivered to the Lead Borrower on behalf of the Guarantor.
SECTION 18. Survival of Agreement; Severability.
Parties and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Guaranty, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the making of any Loans by the Lenders, regardless of any investigation made by the Agent or any other Credit Party or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Agent or other Credit Party may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended, and shall continue in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations has occurred. The provisions of Section 5 and Section 11(b) hereof shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the repayment of the Guaranteed Obligations, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Guaranty or any provision hereof.
SECTION 19. Counterparts. This Guaranty may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of which, when taken together, shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Guaranty by electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Guaranty.
SECTION 20. Rules of Interpretation. The rules of interpretation specified in Section 1.02 through 1.06 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Guaranty.
SECTION 21. Jurisdiction; Waiver of Venue; Consent to Service of Process.
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SECTION 22. Waiver of Jury Trial. THE GUARANTOR, THE AGENT, AND EACH CREDIT PARTY (BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF) HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). THE GUARANTOR, THE AGENT, AND EACH CREDIT PARTY (BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF) (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO (OR ACCEPT) THIS GUARANTY AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 22.
SECTION 23. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or if any Lender shall have been served with a trustee process or similar attachment relating to property of a Loan Party, each Credit Party and each of its respective Affiliates is hereby
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authorized at any time and from time to time, after obtaining the prior written consent of the Agent or the Required Lenders, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Credit Party or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of Guarantor against any of and all the Guaranteed Obligations of such Guarantor now or hereafter existing under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document to such Credit Party, irrespective of whether or not such Credit Party shall have made any demand under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of such Guarantor may be unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Credit Party different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Credit Party and its respective Affiliates under this Section 23 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Credit Party or its respective Affiliates may have. Each Credit Party agrees to notify the Guarantor and the Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has duly executed this Guaranty as of the day and year first above written.
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SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, |
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INC., a Utah corporation |
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/s/ Jeff White |
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Jeff White |
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Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to Guaranty (PLC)]
The foregoing is acknowledged and agreed:
Agent: |
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PLC AGENT LLC |
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Pathlight Capital LP, |
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Its Sole Member |
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Pathlight GP LLC, |
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Its General Partner |
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/s/ Brian Lindblom |
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Brian Lindblom |
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Managing Director |
[Signature Page to Guaranty (PLC)]
Exhibit 10.4
SECURITY AGREEMENT
By
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC.
as Lead Borrower
and
THE OTHER BORROWERS AND GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
FROM TIME TO TIME
and
PLC AGENT LLC,
as Agent
Dated as of July 30, 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREAMBLE ................................................................................................................................. 1
RECITALS ................................................................................................................................... 1
AGREEMENT .............................................................................................................................. 2
ARTICLE I |
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SECTION 1.1. Definitions. |
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SECTION 1.2. Interpretation. |
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SECTION 1.3. Perfection Certificate. |
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ARTICLE II |
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SECTION 2.1. Pledge. |
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SECTION 2.2. Security Interest. |
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ARTICLE III |
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SECTION 3.1. Delivery of Certificated Securities Collateral. |
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SECTION 3.2. Perfection of Uncertificated Securities Collateral. |
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SECTION 3.3. Financing Statements and Other Filings; Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest. |
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SECTION 3.4. Other Actions. |
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SECTION 3.5. Joinder of Additional Pledgors. |
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SECTION 3.6. Supplements; Further Assurances. |
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ARTICLE IV |
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SECTION 4.1. Title. |
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SECTION 4.2. Limitation on Liens; Defense of Claims; Transferability of Collateral. |
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SECTION 4.3. Chief Executive Office; Change of Name; Jurisdiction of Organization. |
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SECTION 4.4. Location of Inventory and Equipment. |
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SECTION 4.5. Condition and Maintenance of Equipment. |
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SECTION 4.6. Due Authorization and Issuance. |
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SECTION 4.7. No Claims. |
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SECTION 4.8. No Conflicts, Consents, etc. |
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SECTION 4.9. Collateral. |
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SECTION 4.10. Insurance. |
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SECTION 4.11. Payment of Taxes; Compliance with Laws; Contested Liens; Claims. |
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SECTION 4.12. Access to Collateral, Books and Records; Other Information. |
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SECTION 4.13. Third Party Consents. |
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ARTICLE V |
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SECTION 5.1. Pledge of Additional Securities Collateral. |
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SECTION 5.2. Voting Rights; Distributions; etc. |
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SECTION 5.3. Organization Documents. |
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SECTION 5.4. Defaults, etc. |
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SECTION 5.5. Certain Agreements of Pledgors As Issuers and Holders of Equity Interests. |
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ARTICLE VI |
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SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties with respect to Intellectual Property. |
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SECTION 6.2. Protection of Agent’s Security. |
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SECTION 6.3. After-Acquired Property. |
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SECTION 6.4. Modifications. |
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SECTION 6.5. Litigation. |
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SECTION 6.6. Websites and Domain Names. |
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SECTION 7.1. Special Representations and Warranties. |
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SECTION 7.2. Maintenance of Records. |
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SECTION 7.3. Legend. |
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SECTION 7.4. Modification of Terms, etc. |
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SECTION 7.5. Collection. |
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ARTICLE VIII |
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SECTION 8.1. Remedies. |
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SECTION 8.2. Notice of Sale. |
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SECTION 8.3. Waiver of Notice and Claims. |
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SECTION 8.4. Certain Sales of Collateral. |
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SECTION 8.5. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. |
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SECTION 8.6. Grant of License. |
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SECTION 8.7. Certain Additional Actions Regarding Intellectual Property. |
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ARTICLE IX |
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SECTION 9.1. Application of Proceeds. |
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ARTICLE X |
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SECTION 10.1. Concerning Agent. |
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SECTION 10.2. Agent May Perform; Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. |
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SECTION 10.3. Expenses; Indemnity. |
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SECTION 10.4. Continuing Security Interest; Assignment. |
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SECTION 10.5. Termination; Release. |
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SECTION 10.6. Modification in Writing. |
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SECTION 10.7. Notices. |
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SECTION 10.8. GOVERNING LAW. |
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SECTION 10.9. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. |
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SECTION 10.10. Severability of Provisions. |
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SECTION 10.11. Execution in Counterparts. |
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SECTION 10.12. No Credit for Payment of Taxes or Imposition. |
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SECTION 10.13. No Claims Against Agent. |
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SECTION 10.14. No Release. |
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SECTION 10.15. Obligations Absolute. |
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SECTION 10.16. Additional Pledgor Waivers. |
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SECTION 10.17. ABL Intercreditor Agreement. |
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SIGNATURES
SCHEDULE I Intercompany Notes
SCHEDULE II Filings, Registrations and Recordings
SCHEDULE III Initial Pledged Interests
SCHEDULE IV Licenses and Domain Names
SCHEDULE V Tangible Chattel Paper
SCHEDULE VI Commodity Accounts
SCHEDULE VII Electronic Chattel Paper
EXHIBIT 1 Form of Securities Pledge Amendment
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SECURITY AGREEMENT
SECURITY AGREEMENT dated as of July 30, 2024 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof, this “Agreement”) made by: (i) SPORTSMAN’S warehouse, inc., a Utah corporation, as lead borrower for itself and the other Borrowers (the “Lead Borrower”), (ii) the other Borrowers listed on the signature pages hereto (together with the Lead Borrower, the “Original Borrowers”) or from time to time party hereto by execution of a Joinder Agreement (the “Additional Borrowers,” and together with the Original Borrowers, the “Borrowers”), and (iii) the Guarantors listed on the signature pages hereto (the “Original Guarantors”) and the other Guarantors from time to time party hereto by execution of a Joinder Agreement (the “Additional Guarantors,” and together with the Original Guarantors, the “Guarantors”), as pledgors, assignors and debtors (the Borrowers, together with the Guarantor, in such capacities and together with any successors in such capacities, the “Pledgors”, and each, a “Pledgor”), in favor of PLC AGENT LLC, in its capacity as agent for the Credit Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement defined below) pursuant to the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), as pledgee, assignee and secured party (in such capacities and together with any successors in such capacities, the “Agent”).
R E C I T A L S :
A. The Borrowers, the Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto and the Agent, have, in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, entered into that certain ABL Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).
B. The Guarantors have, pursuant to that certain Facility Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Guaranty”), among other things, unconditionally guaranteed the Guaranteed Obligations (as defined in the Guaranty).
C. The Borrowers and the Guarantors will receive substantial benefits from the execution, delivery and performance of the Obligations and the Guaranteed Obligations and each is, therefore, willing to enter into the Security Agreement.
D. Each Pledgor is or, as to Collateral (as hereinafter defined) acquired by such Pledgor after the Closing Date (as defined in the Credit Agreement), will be, the legal and/or beneficial owner of the Collateral pledged by it hereunder.
E. This Agreement is given by each Pledgor in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Agent and other Credit Parties to secure the payment and performance of all of the Secured Obligations (as hereinafter defined).
F. It is a condition to the obligations of the Lenders to make the Loans under the Credit Agreement that each Pledgor execute and deliver the applicable Loan Documents, including this Agreement.
A G R E E M E N T :
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Pledgor and the Agent hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
(a) Unless otherwise defined herein or in the Credit Agreement, capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings assigned to them in the UCC.
(b) Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein that are defined in Credit Agreement shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
(c) The following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Additional Guarantors” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Additional Pledged Interests” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, (i) all Equity Interests of whatever class of any issuer of Initial Pledged Interests, together with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Pledgor relating to such Equity Interests, and the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests and any and all interest of such Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests from time to time acquired by such Pledgor in any manner, (ii) all Equity Interests, as applicable, of each corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other entity hereafter acquired or formed by such Pledgor and all Equity Interests of whatever class of such limited liability company, partnership or other entity, and (iii) all options, warrants, rights, agreements, additional shares of capital stock of whatever class of any issuer of such Equity Interests, together, in each case, with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Pledgor relating to such interests, and the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests and any and all interest of such Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests, from time to time acquired by such Pledgor in any manner.
“Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such in the Preamble hereof.
“Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Claims” shall mean any and all property taxes and other taxes, assessments and special assessments, levies, fees and all governmental charges imposed upon or assessed against, and all claims (including, without limitation, landlords’, carriers’, mechanics’, workmen’s, repairmen’s, laborers’, materialmen’s, suppliers’ and warehousemen’s Liens and other claims arising by operation of law) against, all or any portion of the Collateral.
“Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.1 hereof.
“Contracts” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all sale, service, performance, equipment or property lease contracts, agreements and grants and all other contracts, agreements or grants (in each case, whether written or oral, or third party or intercompany), between such Pledgor and third parties, and all assignments, amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, renewals, replacements or modifications thereof.
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“Control” shall mean (i) in the case of each DDA, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 9‑104 of the UCC, (ii) in the case of any Security Entitlement, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 8‑106 of the UCC, (iii) in the case of any Securities Account, “control” as described in Section 9-106(c) of the UCC, and (iv) in the case of any Commodity Contract, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 9‑106 of the UCC.
“Copyrights” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all copyrights (whether statutory or common law, whether established or registered in the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof whether registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished) and all copyright registrations and applications made by such Pledgor, in each case, whether now owned or hereafter created or acquired by or assigned to such Pledgor, including, without limitation, the registrations and applications listed in the Perfection Certificate, together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable Law with respect to such Pledgor’s use of such copyrights, (ii) reissues, renewals, continuations and extensions thereof, (iii) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages and payments for past, present or future infringements thereof, (iv) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (v) rights to sue for past, present or future infringements thereof.
“Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Recital A hereof.
“Distributions” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all dividends, cash, options, warrants, rights, instruments, distributions, returns of capital or principal, income, interest, profits and other property, interests (debt or equity) or proceeds, including as a result of a split, revision, reclassification or other like change of the Securities Collateral, from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed to such Pledgor in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the Collateral.
“Excluded Account” shall mean any Deposit Account or other deposit (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) which is exclusively used for, and which contains funds exclusively used for, (i) withholding tax, benefits, escrow, trust or any other fiduciary account, or (ii) payroll, payroll taxes or employee benefits, including flexible spending accounts, to the extent such funds are held for the benefit of any Person other than a Loan Party.
“Excluded Property” shall mean (a) any fee-owned real property that is not Material Real Property and any leasehold interests in real property, (b) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title or ownership, (c) letter of credit rights, except to the extent that the filing of UCC financing statements is sufficient for perfection of security interests in such letter of credit rights, subject to all other clauses of this definition, (d) Equity Interests in any Person (other than any wholly-owned Subsidiaries) to the extent the pledge thereof is not permitted by the terms of such Person’s existing organizational or joint venture documents (without giving effect to any amendment or modification thereto made in contemplation of or in connection with such pledge or the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents), (e) any lease, license or other agreement with any Person (but not any proceeds or receivables thereof) if, to the extent and for so long as, the grant of a Lien thereon to secure the Obligations constitutes a breach of or a default under, or creates a right of termination in favor of any party (other than the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries) with respect to, such lease, license or other agreement (but only to the extent any of the foregoing is not rendered ineffective by, or is otherwise unenforceable under, the Uniform Commercial Code or any applicable Law, including any Debtor Relief Law), (f) any asset if, to the extent and for so long as the grant of a Lien thereon to secure the Obligations is prohibited by any applicable Law (other than to the extent that any such prohibition would be rendered ineffective pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable Law), (g) those assets as to which the Agent (in consultation with the Lead Borrower) reasonably determines that the costs (including any adverse tax consequences or other liabilities reasonably expected to be incurred by the Parent, the Lead Borrower or any Subsidiary) of
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obtaining, perfecting or maintaining a Lien on such assets exceed the fair market value thereof or the practical benefit to the Credit Parties afforded thereby, (h) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations, to the extent security interests in such licenses, franchises, charters or authorizations are prohibited or restricted by the terms thereof, (i) any “intent-to-use” application for registration of a Trademark filed pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1051, prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Lanham Act or an “Amendment to Allege Use” pursuant to Section 1(c) of the Lanham Act with respect thereto, but only if and to the extent that the granting of a security interest in such application would result in the invalidation of such application or any resulting registration; and (j) Excluded Accounts; provided that (x) all Proceeds, substitutions or replacements of any “Excluded Property” described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (j) (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or replacements would constitute “Excluded Property”) shall constitute Collateral hereunder, (y) “Excluded Property” shall not include any assets of any Grantor included in the determination of the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base or the Revolving Borrowing Base, and (z) no property shall constitute “Excluded Property” hereunder to the extent that such property is pledged to secure the Pledgors’ obligations under the Revolving Credit Documents or any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the Revolving Obligations.
“General Intangibles” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all “general intangibles,” as such term is defined in the UCC, of such Pledgor and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, (i) all of such Pledgor’s rights, title and interest in, to and under all insurance policies and Contracts, (ii) all know-how and warranties relating to any of the Collateral, (iii) any and all other rights, claims, choses-in-action and causes of action of such Pledgor against any other Person and the benefits of any and all collateral or other security given by any other Person in connection therewith, (iv) all guarantees, endorsements and indemnifications on, or of, any of the Collateral, (v) all lists, books, records, correspondence, ledgers, print-outs, files (whether in printed form or stored electronically), tapes and other papers or materials containing information relating to any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, all customer or tenant lists, identification of suppliers, data, plans, blueprints, specifications, designs, drawings, appraisals, recorded knowledge, surveys, studies, engineering reports, test reports, manuals, standards, processing standards, performance standards, catalogs, research data, computer and automatic machinery software and programs and the like, field repair data, accounting information pertaining to such Pledgor’s operations or any of the Collateral and all media in which or on which any of the information or knowledge or data or records may be recorded or stored and all computer programs used for the compilation or printout of such information, knowledge, records or data, (vi) all licenses, consents, permits, variances, certifications, authorizations and approvals, however characterized, of any Governmental Authority (or any Person acting on behalf of a Governmental Authority) now or hereafter acquired or held by such Pledgor pertaining to operations now or hereafter conducted by such Pledgor or any of the Collateral including, without limitation, building permits, certificates of occupancy, environmental certificates, industrial permits or licenses and certificates of operation (vii) all Payment Intangibles, (viii) all Intellectual Property, and (ix) all rights to reserves, deferred payments, deposits, refunds, indemnification of claims to the extent the foregoing relate to any Collateral, including, without limitation, Permitted Acquisitions, and claims for tax or other refunds against any Governmental Authority relating to any Collateral.
“Goodwill” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, the goodwill connected with such Pledgor’s business including, without limitation, (i) all goodwill connected with the use of and symbolized by any of the Intellectual Property in which such Pledgor has any interest, (ii) all know-how, trade secrets, customer and supplier lists, proprietary information, inventions, methods, procedures, formulae, descriptions, compositions, technical data, drawings, specifications, name plates, catalogs, confidential information and the right to limit the use or disclosure thereof by any Person, pricing and cost information, business and marketing plans and proposals, consulting agreements, engineering contracts and such other assets which relate to such goodwill and (iii) all product lines of such Pledgor’s business.
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“Guarantor” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Guaranty” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Recital B hereof.
“Initial Pledged Interests” shall mean, with respect to each Pledgor, all Equity Interests of each issuer described in Schedule III annexed hereto, together with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Pledgor in and to each such issuer, the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests, all options, warrants, rights, and other agreements of any issuer, and any and all interest of such Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests.
“Instruments” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all “instruments,” as such term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC, and shall include, without limitation, all promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange or acceptances.
“Intellectual Property” shall mean, collectively, the Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Licenses and Goodwill.
“Intercompany Notes” shall mean, with respect to each Pledgor, all intercompany notes described on Schedule I hereto and each intercompany note hereafter acquired by such Pledgor and all certificates, instruments or agreements evidencing such intercompany notes, and all assignments, amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, renewals, replacements or modifications thereof to the extent permitted pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Investment Property” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all “investment property,” as such term is defined in the UCC, of such Pledgor and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account, excluding, however, the Securities Collateral.
“Lead Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Licenses” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all license and distribution agreements with, and covenants not to sue, any other party with respect to any Patent, Trademark or Copyright or any other patent, trademark or copyright, whether such Pledgor is a licensor or licensee, distributor or distributee under any such license or distribution agreement, including, without limitation, the license and distribution agreements listed in Schedule IV annexed hereto, together with any and all (i) renewals, extensions, supplements and continuations thereof, (ii) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect thereto including, without limitation, damages and payments for past, present or future infringements or violations thereof, (iii) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements or violations thereof and (iv) other rights to use, exploit or practice any or all of the Patents, Trademarks or Copyrights or any other patent, trademark or copyright.
“Material Real Property” shall mean any real property (including fixtures) that, individually, has a fair market value greater than or equal to $1,000,000.
“Paid in Full” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.02(d) of the Credit Agreement. The term “Payment in Full” shall have a correlative meaning.
“Patents” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all letters patent and patents issued or assigned to and all letters patent and patent applications made by such Pledgor (whether
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established or registered or recorded in the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), including, without limitation, those patents, patent applications listed in the Perfection Certificate, together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable Law with respect to such Pledgor’s use of any patents, (ii) inventions and improvements described and claimed therein, (iii) reissues, divisions, continuations, renewals, extensions and continuations-in-part thereof, (iv) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect thereto including, without limitation, damages and payments for past, present or future infringements thereof, (v) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (vi) rights to sue for past, present or future infringements thereof.
“Perfection Certificate” shall mean those certain perfection certificates dated as of the Closing Date, executed and delivered by each Pledgor in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties, and each other Perfection Certificate (which shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent) executed and delivered by the Guarantor in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of each Joinder Agreement executed in accordance with Section 3.5.
“Pledged Interests” shall mean, collectively, the Initial Pledged Interests and the Additional Pledged Interests.
“Pledged Securities” shall mean, collectively, the Pledged Interests and the Successor Interests.
“Pledgor” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Secured Obligations” shall mean, collectively, the Obligations (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and the Guaranteed Obligations (as defined in the Guaranty). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Guarantor, the term “Secured Obligations” shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Guarantor.
“Securities Account Control Agreement” shall mean, with respect to a Securities Account established by a Pledgor, an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (it being agreed that, prior to the payment in full of the Revolving Obligations, the form agreed to by the Revolving Agent shall be deemed to be reasonably acceptable to the Agent so long as such agreement provides for substantially similar rights in favor of the Agent as provided to the Revolving Agent, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), establishing control (as defined in the UCC) of such Securities Account by the Agent.
“Securities Collateral” shall mean, collectively, the Pledged Securities, the Intercompany Notes and the Distributions.
“Successor Interests” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all shares of each class of the capital stock of the successor corporation or interests or certificates of the successor limited liability company, partnership or other entity owned by such Pledgor formed by or resulting from any consolidation or merger in which any Person listed in the Perfection Certificate is not the surviving entity; provided, however, that Successor Interests shall not include shares or interests possessing more than 66% of the voting power or control of all classes of capital stock or interests entitled to vote of any Subsidiary which is a first-tier CFC to the extent such pledge would result in an adverse tax consequence to the Pledgors taken as a whole.
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“Trademarks” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all trademarks (including service marks), slogans, logos, certification marks, trade dress, uniform resource locations (URL’s), domain names, corporate names and trade names, whether registered or unregistered, owned by or assigned to such Pledgor and all registrations and applications for the foregoing (whether statutory or common law and whether established or registered in the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), including, without limitation, the registrations and applications listed in the Perfection Certificate, together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable Law with respect to such Pledgor’s use of any trademarks, (ii) reissues, continuations, extensions and renewals thereof, (iii) income, fees, royalties, damages and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages, claims and payments for past, present or future infringements thereof, (iv) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (v) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements thereof.
SECTION 1.2. Interpretation. The rules of interpretation specified in the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Agreement. In the event of any direct conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the terms of the Credit Agreement, the terms of the Credit Agreement shall control.
SECTION 1.3. Perfection Certificate. The Agent and each Pledgor agree that the Perfection Certificate and all descriptions of Collateral, schedules, amendments and supplements thereto are and shall at all times remain a part of this Agreement.
ARTICLE II
GRANT OF SECURITY AND SECURED OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 2.1. Pledge. As collateral security for the payment and performance in full of all the Secured Obligations, each Pledgor hereby pledges and grants to the Agent for its benefit and for the benefit of the Credit Parties, a lien on and security interest in and to all of the right, title and interest of such Pledgor in, to and under all personal property and interests in property, wherever located, and whether now existing or hereafter arising or acquired from time to time (collectively, the “Collateral”), including, without limitation:
(i) all Accounts;
(ii) all Goods, including Equipment, Inventory and Fixtures;
(iii) all Documents (including, if applicable, electronic Documents), Instruments and Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic);
(iv) all Letters of Credit and Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(v) all Securities Collateral;
(vi) all Investment Property;
(vii) the Commercial Tort Claims described in the Perfection Certificate;
(viii) all General Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Intellectual Property and all Payment Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Credit Card Receivables));
(ix) all cash and all Deposit Accounts (including all DDAs) and Securities Accounts;
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(x) all federal, state, provincial, municipal and other tax refunds or rebates;
(xi) all Proceeds of leases of Real Estate;
(xii) all monies, whether or not in the possession or under the control of the Agent, any Lender, or a bailee or Affiliate of the Agent or any Lender;
(xiii) all Supporting Obligations;
(xiv) all books and records relating to the Collateral; and
(xv) to the extent not covered by clauses (i) through (xiv) of this sentence, all other personal property of such Pledgor, whether tangible or intangible and all Proceeds and products of each of the foregoing and all accessions to, substitutions and replacements for, and rents, profits and products of, each of the foregoing, any and all proceeds of any insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty payable to such Pledgor from time to time with respect to any of the foregoing.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clauses (i) through (xv) above, the security interest created by this Agreement shall not extend to, and the term “Collateral” shall not include, any Excluded Property and the Pledgors shall from time to time at the reasonable request of the Agent give written notice to the Agent identifying in reasonable detail the “Excluded Property” and shall provide to the Agent such other information regarding the Excluded Property as the Agent may reasonably request.
SECTION 2.2. Security Interest.
(a) Each Pledgor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Agent at any time and from time to time to authenticate and file in any relevant jurisdiction any financing statements (including fixture filings) and amendments thereto that contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement or amendment relating to the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) whether such Pledgor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Pledgor, (ii) any financing or continuation statements or other documents without the signature of such Pledgor where permitted by Law, including, without limitation, the filing of a financing statement describing the Collateral as “all assets of the Pledgor, whether now owned or hereafter acquired” and (iii) in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or covering Collateral constituting minerals or the like to be extracted or timber to be cut, a sufficient description of the real property to which such Collateral relates. Each Pledgor agrees to provide all information described in the immediately preceding sentence to the Agent promptly upon request.
(b) Each Pledgor hereby further authorizes the Agent to file filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) or other necessary documents for the purpose of perfecting, confirming, continuing, enforcing or protecting the security interest granted by such Pledgor hereunder in any Intellectual Property, without the signature of such Pledgor, and naming such Pledgor, as debtor, and the Agent, as Credit Party.
(c) Each Pledgor hereby ratifies its authorization for the Agent to file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto, or any filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) if filed prior to the Closing Date.
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ARTICLE III
PERFECTION; SUPPLEMENTS; FURTHER ASSURANCES;
USE OF COLLATERAL
SECTION 3.1. Delivery of Certificated Securities Collateral. Each Pledgor represents and warrants that all certificates, agreements or instruments representing or evidencing the Securities Collateral in existence on the Closing Date have been delivered to the Agent, in suitable form for transfer by delivery or accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank and that the Agent has a perfected first priority security interest therein. Each Pledgor hereby agrees that all certificates, agreements or instruments representing or evidencing Securities Collateral acquired by such Pledgor after the Closing Date, shall promptly (and in any event within three (3) Business Days) upon receipt thereof by such Pledgor be delivered to and held by or on behalf of the Agent pursuant hereto. All certificated Securities Collateral shall be in suitable form for transfer by delivery or shall be accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. The Agent shall have the right, at any time upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, to endorse, assign or otherwise transfer to or to register in the name of the Agent or any of its nominees or endorse for negotiation any or all of the Securities Collateral, without any indication that such Securities Collateral is subject to the security interest hereunder. In addition, the Agent shall have the right with written notice to exchange certificates representing or evidencing Securities Collateral for certificates of smaller or larger denominations, accompanied by instruments of transfer or assignment and letters of direction duly executed in blank.
SECTION 3.2. Perfection of Uncertificated Securities Collateral. Each Pledgor represents and warrants that the Agent has a perfected first priority security interest in all uncertificated Pledged Interests pledged by it hereunder that is in existence on the Closing Date and that the applicable Organization Documents do not require the consent of the other shareholders, members, partners or other Persons to permit the Agent or its designees to be substituted for the applicable Pledgor as a shareholder, member, partner or other equity owner, as applicable, thereto. Each Pledgor hereby agrees that if any of the Pledged Interests are at any time not evidenced by certificates of ownership, then each applicable Pledgor shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law and upon the request of the Agent, cause such pledge to be recorded on the equityholder register or the books of the issuer, execute customary pledge forms or other documents necessary or reasonably requested to complete the pledge, and shall otherwise comply with the provisions of Section 5.1 hereof, and give the Agent the right to transfer such Pledged Interests under the terms hereof and provide to the Agent an opinion of counsel, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, confirming such pledge and perfection thereof. Each Pledgor hereby represents and warrants that no uncertificated Pledged Interests is a “security” for purposes of Article 8 of the UCC of the jurisdiction of organization of the issuer of such Pledged Interests. Each Pledgor agrees that it shall not opt to have any uncertificated Pledged Interests be treated as a “security” for purposes of Article 8 of the UCC of the jurisdiction of organization of the issuer of such Pledged Interests, except in accordance with Section 3.4.
SECTION 3.3. Financing Statements and Other Filings; Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest.
(a) Each Pledgor represents and warrants that all filings, registrations and recordings described on Schedule II hereto have been delivered to the Agent in completed (and, to the extent necessary or appropriate, duly executed) form for filing in each governmental, municipal or other office specified in Schedule II and have been filed in accordance with a letter agreement previously executed by the Pledgors, authorizing such pre-filing, or shall be filed, registered and recorded
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immediately after the date thereof. The filings, registrations and recordings described on Schedule II are all of the filings, recordings and registrations that are necessary to publish notice and protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties) in respect of all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary in any such jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable Law with respect to the filing of continuation statements. Each Pledgor represents and warrants that a fully executed short form hereof and/or a fully executed short form grant of security interest in Intellectual Property in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, and containing a description of all Collateral consisting of Patents and United States registered Trademarks (and Trademarks and Patents for which a United States registration is pending or otherwise applied for) and United States registered Copyrights (and Copyrights for which a United States registration is pending or otherwise applied for) has been delivered to the Agent for recording by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §261, 15 U.S.C. §1060 or 17 U.S.C. §205 and the regulations thereunder, as applicable, to protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties) in respect of all Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and other than the UCC financing statements described in the immediately prior sentence of this Section 3.3, no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary (other than such actions as are necessary to perfect the security interest in favor of the Agent with respect to any Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights (or registration or application for registration thereof) acquired or developed after the Closing Date).
(b) Each Pledgor agrees that at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, (i) such Pledgor will maintain the security interest created by this Agreement in the Collateral and shall defend such security interest against the claims and demands of all Persons (other than with respect to Permitted Encumbrances), (ii) such Pledgor shall furnish to the Agent from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral and such other reports in connection with the Collateral as the Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail and (iii) at any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Agent, such Pledgor shall promptly and duly execute and deliver, and file and have recorded, such further instruments and documents and take such further action as the Agent may deem reasonably necessary for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full benefits of this Agreement and the rights and powers herein granted, including the filing of any financing statements, continuation statements and other documents (including this Agreement) under the UCC (or other applicable Laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the security interest created hereby and the execution and delivery of Blocked Account Agreements and Securities Account Control Agreements, all in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and in such offices (including, without limitation, the United States Patent and Trademark Office) wherever required by Law to perfect, continue and maintain a valid, enforceable, first priority security interest in the Collateral as provided herein and to preserve the other rights and interests granted to the Agent hereunder, as against third parties (other than with respect to Permitted Encumbrances), with respect to the Collateral.
SECTION 3.4. Other Actions. In order to further insure the attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Agent to enforce, the Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, each Pledgor represents, warrants and agrees, in each case at such Pledgor’s own expense, with respect to the following Collateral that:
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(a) Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper. As of the Closing Date (i) no amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral is evidenced by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper other than such Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper listed in the Perfection Certificate and (ii) each Instrument and each item of Tangible Chattel Paper with a book value in excess of $1,000,000 listed in Schedule V annexed hereto, to the extent requested by the Agent, has been properly endorsed, assigned and delivered to the Agent, accompanied by instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank. If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral with a book value in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, shall be evidenced by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper, the Pledgor acquiring such Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Agent may reasonably request from time to time.
(b) Deposit Accounts. As of the Closing Date it has neither opened nor maintains any Deposit Accounts other than the accounts listed in the Perfection Certificate. No Pledgor shall grant Control of any Deposit Account or any Blocked Account to any Person other than the Agent. The Pledgors shall at all times comply with the cash receipt provisions set forth in Section 6.13 of the Credit Agreement.
(c) Investment Property. (i) As of the Closing Date (a) it has no Securities Accounts other than those listed in the Perfection Certificate or Commodity Accounts other than those listed on Schedule VI annexed hereto, (b) it does not hold, own or have any interest in any certificated securities or uncertificated securities other than those constituting Securities Collateral and those maintained in Securities Accounts listed in the Perfection Certificate and (c) it has entered into a duly authorized, executed and delivered Securities Account Control Agreement with respect to each Securities Account listed in the Perfection Certificate, as applicable.
(ii) (A) If any Pledgor shall at any time hold or acquire any certificated securities constituting Investment Property with an aggregate value in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Investment Property that is Proceeds of Collateral, other than any securities of foreign Subsidiaries not required to be pledged hereunder, such interest shall constitute Additional Pledged Shares, and such Pledgor shall promptly (a) endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent or (b) deliver such securities into a Securities Account with respect to which a Securities Account Control Agreement is in effect in favor of the Agent.
(B) Each interest in any limited liability company or limited partnership which is a Subsidiary of Parent (including, without limitation, the Lead Borrower) and pledged hereunder is not certificated or treated as a security pursuant to Section 8-103 of the UCC and each Pledgor covenants and agrees that it shall not take any action that causes or otherwise permits an interest in a limited liability company or limited partnership which is pledged hereunder to be certificated or treated as a security pursuant to Section 8-103 of the UCC; provided, that if any Pledgor takes any action in violation of the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04(c)(ii)(B), such Pledgor shall promptly notify the Agent in writing of such action and, in such event, shall take all actions required by Section 5.1 and requested by the Agent with respect to such limited liability company or limited partnership interests. If any securities now or hereafter acquired by any Pledgor constituting Investment Property, other than any securities of foreign Subsidiaries not required to be pledged hereunder, are uncertificated and are issued to such Pledgor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Pledgor shall promptly notify the Agent thereof and pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, either (a) cause the issuer
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to execute and deliver to the Agent an acknowledgment of the pledge of such securities and agree to comply with instructions from the Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Pledgor or such nominee, (b) cause a Security Entitlement with respect to such uncertificated security to be held in a Securities Account with respect to which the Agent has Control or (c) arrange for the Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. No Pledgor shall hereafter establish and maintain any Securities Account or Commodity Account with any Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary unless (1) the applicable Pledgor shall have given the Agent ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice of its intention to establish such new Securities Account or Commodity Account with such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, (2) such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary shall be reasonably acceptable to the Agent and (3) such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, as the case may be, and such Pledgor shall have duly executed and delivered a Control Agreement with respect to such Securities Account or Commodity Account, as the case may be.
(C) Each Pledgor shall accept any cash and Investment Property which are proceeds of the Pledged Interests or any other Collateral in trust for the benefit of the Agent and within five (5) Business Days of actual receipt thereof, deposit any cash or Investment Property and any new securities, instruments, documents or other property by reason of ownership of the Investment Property received by it into an account in which the Agent has Control. The Agent agrees with each Pledgor that the Agent shall not give any entitlement orders or instructions or directions to any issuer of uncertificated securities, Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, and shall not withhold its consent to the exercise of any withdrawal or dealing rights by such Pledgor, unless a Cash Dominion Event has occurred and is continuing. No Pledgor shall grant Control over any Investment Property to any Person other than the Agent.
(iii) As between the Agent and the Pledgors, the Pledgors shall bear the investment risk with respect to the Investment Property and Securities Collateral, and the risk of loss of, damage to, or the destruction of the Investment Property and Securities Collateral, whether in the possession of, or maintained as a security entitlement or deposit by, or subject to the Control of, the Agent, a Securities Intermediary, Commodity Intermediary, any Pledgor or any other Person; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 3.4(c) shall release or relieve any Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary of its duties and obligations to the Pledgors or any other Person under any Control Agreement or under applicable Law. Each Pledgor shall promptly pay all Claims and fees of whatever kind or nature with respect to the Investment Property and Securities Collateral pledged by it under this Agreement. In the event any Pledgor shall fail to make such payment contemplated in the immediately preceding sentence, the Agent may do so for the account of such Pledgor and the Pledgors shall promptly reimburse and indemnify the Agent for all costs and expenses incurred by the Agent under this Section 3.4(c) in accordance with Section 10.3 of this Agreement.
(d) Electronic Chattel Paper and Transferable Records. Except as set forth on Schedule VII hereto, as of the Closing Date no amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral is evidenced by any Electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record” (as that term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction). If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, shall be evidenced by any Electronic Chattel Paper or any transferable record, the Pledgor acquiring such Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable record shall promptly notify the Agent thereof and shall take such action as the Agent may reasonably request to vest in the Agent control under UCC Section 9‑105 of such Electronic Chattel Paper or control under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures
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in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as so in effect in such jurisdiction, of such transferable record. The Agent agrees with such Pledgor that the Agent will arrange, pursuant to procedures reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and so long as such procedures will not result in the Agent’s loss of Control, for the Pledgor to make alterations to the Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable record permitted under UCC Section 9‑105 or, as the case may be, Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act for a party in control to allow without loss of control, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur after taking into account any action by such Pledgor with respect to such Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable record.
(e) Letter-of-Credit Rights. If such Pledgor is at any time a beneficiary under a Letter of Credit now or hereafter issued in favor of such Pledgor with a face value in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, other than a Letter of Credit issued pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement, such Pledgor shall promptly notify the Agent thereof and such Pledgor shall, at the request of the Agent, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, either (i) arrange for the issuer and any confirmer of such Letter of Credit to consent to an assignment to the Agent of the proceeds of any drawing under the Letter of Credit or (ii) arrange for the Agent to become the transferee beneficiary of such Letter of Credit, with the Agent agreeing, in each case, that the proceeds of any drawing under the Letter of Credit are to be applied as provided in the Credit Agreement.
(f) Commercial Tort Claims. As of the Closing Date it holds no Commercial Tort Claims other than those listed in the Perfection Certificate. If any Pledgor shall at any time hold or acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, such Pledgor shall immediately notify the Agent in writing signed by such Pledgor of the brief details thereof and grant to the Agent in such writing a security interest therein and in the Proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
SECTION 3.5. Joinder of Additional Pledgors. The Pledgors shall cause each direct or indirect Subsidiary of any Loan Party which, from time to time, after the Closing Date shall be required to pledge any assets to the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties pursuant to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, to execute and deliver to the Agent a Perfection Certificate and a Joinder Agreement, in each case, within the time period required pursuant to Section 6.12 of the Credit Agreement and, upon such execution and delivery, such Subsidiary shall constitute a “Borrower” or “Guarantor” (as provided in such Joinder Agreement) and a “Pledgor” for all purposes hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Borrower or Guarantor and Pledgor herein, including, but limited to, granting the Agent a security interest in all Securities Collateral of such Subsidiary. The rights and obligations of each Pledgor hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new Borrower or Guarantor and Pledgor as a party to this Agreement.
SECTION 3.6. Supplements; Further Assurances. Each Pledgor shall take such further actions, and execute and deliver to the Agent such Collateral Access Agreements or additional assignments, agreements, supplements, powers and instruments, as the Agent may in its reasonable judgment deem necessary or appropriate, wherever required by Law, in order to perfect, preserve and protect the security interest in the Collateral as provided herein and the rights and interests granted to the Agent hereunder, to carry into effect the purposes hereof or better to assure and confirm unto the Agent or permit the Agent to exercise and enforce its rights, powers and remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Pledgor shall make, execute, endorse, acknowledge, file or refile and/or deliver to the Agent from time to time upon reasonable request of the Agent such lists,
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descriptions and designations of the Collateral, copies of warehouse receipts, receipts in the nature of warehouse receipts, bills of lading, documents of title, vouchers, invoices, schedules, confirmatory assignments, supplements, additional security agreements, conveyances, financing statements, transfer endorsements, powers of attorney, certificates, reports and other assurances or instruments. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Agent may institute and maintain, in its own name or in the name of any Pledgor, such suits and proceedings as the Agent may be advised by counsel shall be necessary or expedient to prevent any impairment of the security interest in or the perfection thereof in the Collateral. All of the foregoing shall be at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors. The Pledgors and the Agent acknowledge that this Agreement is intended to grant to the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties a security interest in and Lien upon the Collateral and shall not constitute or create a present assignment of any of the Collateral.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
Each Pledgor represents, warrants and covenants as follows:
SECTION 4.1. Title. To the Knowledge of Lead Borrower’s Senior Executive Officers, no financing statement or other public notice with respect to all or any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any public office, except such as have been filed in favor of the Agent pursuant to this Agreement or as are permitted by the Credit Agreement. No Person other than the Agent has Control or possession of all or any part of the Collateral, except as permitted by the Credit Agreement. No Pledgor has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing statement or analogous document under the UCC or any other applicable Laws covering any Collateral, (ii) any assignment or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, (iii) any notice under the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, 31 U.S.C. § 3727(c), as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute, or (iv) any assignment or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or other office, which financing statement or analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument is still in effect, except, in each case, for Permitted Encumbrances.
SECTION 4.2. Limitation on Liens; Defense of Claims; Transferability of Collateral. Each Pledgor is as of the Closing Date, and, as to Collateral acquired by it from time to time after the Closing Date, such Pledgor will be, the sole direct and beneficial owner of all Collateral pledged by it hereunder free from any Lien or other right, title or interest of any Person other than the Liens and security interest created by this Agreement and Permitted Encumbrances. Each Pledgor shall, at its own cost and expense, defend title to the Collateral pledged by it hereunder and the security interest therein and Lien thereon granted to the Agent and the priority thereof against all claims and demands of all Persons, at its own cost and expense, at any time claiming any interest therein adverse to the Agent or any other Credit Party other than Permitted Encumbrances; provided, however, that no Pledgor shall be required to take any such action pursuant to this sentence, the cost of which action the Agent (in consultation with the Lead Borrower) reasonably determines exceeds the practical benefit to the Credit Parties afforded thereby. As of the Closing Date, except as permitted by the Credit Agreement, there is no agreement, and, after the Closing Date, no Pledgor shall enter into any agreement or take any other action, that would restrict the transferability of any of the Collateral or otherwise impair or conflict with such Pledgors’ obligations or the rights of the Agent hereunder.
SECTION 4.3. Chief Executive Office; Change of Name; Jurisdiction of Organization.
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(a) The exact legal name, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization, Federal Taxpayer Identification Number, organizational identification number and chief executive office of such Pledgor is indicated in the Perfection Certificate. Such Pledgor shall furnish to the Agent prompt written notice of any change in (i) its corporate name, (ii) the location of its chief executive office, its principal place of business, any office in which it maintains books or records relating to Collateral owned by it or any office or facility at which Collateral owned by it is located (including the establishment of any such new office or facility), (iii) its identity or type of organization or corporate structure, (iv) its Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification number or (v) its jurisdiction of organization or formation (in each case, including, without limitation, by merging with or into any other entity, reorganizing, dissolving, liquidating, reincorporating or incorporating in any other jurisdiction). Such Pledgor agrees (A) not to effect or permit any such change unless all filings have been made under the UCC or otherwise that are required in order for the Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected first priority security interest in all the Collateral (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) and (B) to take all action reasonably satisfactory to the Agent to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest of the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties in the Collateral intended to be granted hereunder. Each Pledgor agrees to promptly provide the Agent with certified organizational documents reflecting any of the changes described in the preceding sentence.
(b) The Agent may rely on opinions of counsel as to whether any or all UCC financing statements of the Pledgors need to be amended as a result of any of the changes described in Section 4.3(a). If any Pledgor fails to provide information to the Agent about such changes on a timely basis, the Agent shall not be liable or responsible to any party for any failure to maintain a perfected security interest in such Pledgor’s property constituting Collateral, for which the Agent needed to have information relating to such changes. The Agent shall have no duty to inquire about such changes if any Pledgor does not inform the Agent of such changes, the parties acknowledging and agreeing that it would not be feasible or practical for the Agent to search for information on such changes if such information is not provided by any Pledgor.
SECTION 4.4. Location of Inventory and Equipment. As of the Closing Date, all Equipment and Inventory of such Pledgor is located at the chief executive office or such other location listed in the Perfection Certificate (other than (i) Equipment and Inventory in transit to or between such locations, (ii) Equipment and Inventory in possession of employees in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice, (iii) Equipment customarily used to transport people or goods, and (iv) Equipment at other locations in connection with the repair or refurbishment thereof).
SECTION 4.5. Condition and Maintenance of Equipment. The Equipment of such Pledgor is in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. Each Pledgor shall cause the Equipment to be maintained and preserved in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and shall as quickly as commercially reasonable make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements which are necessary in the conduct of such Pledgor’s business except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.6. Due Authorization and Issuance. All of the Initial Pledged Interests have been, and to the extent any Pledged Interests are hereafter issued, such shares will be, upon such issuance, duly authorized, validly issued and, to the extent applicable, fully paid and non-assessable. All of the Initial Pledged Interests have been fully paid for, and there is no amount or other obligation owing by any Pledgor to any issuer of the Initial Pledged Interests in exchange for or in connection with the issuance of the Initial Pledged Interests or any Pledgor’s status as a partner or a member of any issuer of the Initial Pledged Interests, nor shall there be in the future to the extent any Pledged Interests are hereafter issued.
SECTION 4.7. No Claims. Each Pledgor owns or has rights to use all of the Collateral pledged by it hereunder and all rights with respect to any of the foregoing used in, necessary for or material
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to such Pledgor’s business as currently conducted. The use by such Pledgor of such Collateral and all such rights with respect to the foregoing do not infringe on the rights of any Person other than such infringement which would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. No claim has been made and remains outstanding that such Pledgor’s use of any Collateral does or may violate the rights of any third Person that would individually, or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.8. No Conflicts, Consents, etc. No consent of any party (including, without limitation, equity holders or creditors of such Pledgor) and no consent, authorization, approval, license or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or regulatory body or other Person is required (A) for the pledge by such Pledgor of the Collateral pledged by it pursuant to this Agreement or for the execution, delivery or performance hereof by such Pledgor, (B) for the exercise by the Agent of the voting or other rights provided for in this Agreement or (C) for the exercise by the Agent of the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement. Following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, if the Agent desires to exercise any remedies, voting or consensual rights or attorney-in-fact powers set forth in this Agreement and determines it necessary to obtain any approvals or consents of any Governmental Authority or any other Person therefor, then, upon the reasonable request of the Agent, such Pledgor agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to assist and aid the Agent to obtain as soon as commercially practicable any necessary approvals or consents for the exercise of any such remedies, rights and powers.
SECTION 4.9. Collateral. All information set forth herein, including the schedules annexed hereto, and all information contained in any documents, schedules and lists heretofore delivered to any Credit Party in connection with this Agreement, in each case, relating to the Collateral, is accurate and complete in all material respects. The Collateral described on the schedules annexed hereto and as set forth in the Perfection Certificate (to the extent required to be described herein) constitutes all of the property of such type of Collateral owned or held by the Pledgors. Pledgor shall provide prompt notice of any changes to the information disclosed on all schedules to this Agreement (specifying the specific schedule that is being revised).
SECTION 4.10. Insurance. Each Pledgor shall (i) maintain or shall cause to be maintained such insurance as is required pursuant to Section 6.07 of the Credit Agreement; (ii) maintain such other insurance as may be required by applicable Law; and (ii) furnish to the Agent full information as to the insurance carried as and when required pursuant to Section 6.02(g) of the Credit Agreement. Each Pledgor hereby irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Agent) as such Pledgor’s true and lawful agent (and attorney-in-fact), exercisable only after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, for the purpose of making, settling and adjusting claims in respect of the Collateral under policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Pledgor on any check, draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with respect thereto. In the event that any Pledgor at any time or times shall fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required hereby or to pay any premium in whole or in part relating thereto, the Agent may, without waiving or releasing any obligation or liability of the Pledgors hereunder or any Default or Event of Default, in its sole discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premium and take any other actions with respect thereto as the Agent deems advisable in accordance with Section 10.2 of this Agreement. All sums disbursed by the Agent in connection with this Section 4.10, including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall be payable, upon demand, by the Pledgors to the Agent and shall be additional Secured Obligations secured hereby.
SECTION 4.11. Payment of Taxes; Compliance with Laws; Contested Liens; Claims. Each Pledgor represents and warrants that all Claims imposed upon or assessed against the Collateral have
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been paid and discharged except to the extent such Claims constitute (i) a Lien not yet due and payable, (ii) a Permitted Encumbrance, or (iii) are being contested by the Pledgor as set forth in Section 6.04 of the Credit Agreement. Each Pledgor shall comply with all applicable Law relating to the Collateral, unless the failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Each Pledgor may at its own expense contest the validity, amount or applicability of any Claims so long as the contest thereof shall be conducted in accordance with, and permitted pursuant to the provisions of, the Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.11, no contest of any such obligation may be pursued by such Pledgor if such contest would expose the Agent or any other Credit Party to (i) any possible criminal liability or (ii) any additional civil liability for failure to comply with such obligations unless such Pledgor shall have furnished a bond or other security therefor satisfactory to the Agent, or such Credit Party, as the case may be.
SECTION 4.12. Access to Collateral, Books and Records; Other Information. The Agent and its representatives may examine the Collateral in accordance with Section 6.10 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 4.13. Third Party Consents. Each Pledgor shall use reasonable commercial efforts to obtain the consent of third parties to the extent such consent is necessary or desirable to create a valid, perfected security interest in favor of the Agent in any Collateral.
ARTICLE V
CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING SECURITIES COLLATERAL
SECTION 5.1. Pledge of Additional Securities Collateral. Each Pledgor shall, upon obtaining any Securities Collateral of any Person required to be pledged hereunder, accept the same in trust for the benefit of the Agent and forthwith deliver to the Agent a pledge amendment, duly executed by such Pledgor, in substantially the form of Exhibit 1 annexed hereto (each, a “Pledge Amendment”), and the certificates and other documents required under Section 3.1 and Section 3.2 hereof in respect of the additional Securities Collateral which are to be pledged pursuant to this Agreement, and confirming the attachment of the Lien hereby created on and in respect of such additional Securities Collateral. Each Pledgor hereby authorizes the Agent to attach each Pledge Amendment to this Agreement and agrees that all Securities Collateral listed on any Pledge Amendment delivered to the Agent shall for all purposes hereunder be considered Collateral.
SECTION 5.2. Voting Rights; Distributions; etc.
(i) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Pledgor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Securities Collateral or any part thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms or purposes hereof, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document evidencing the Secured Obligations. The Agent shall be deemed without further action or formality to have granted to each Pledgor all necessary consents relating to voting rights and shall, if necessary, upon written request of any Pledgor and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, from time to time execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to such Pledgor all such instruments as such Pledgor may reasonably request in order to permit such Pledgor to exercise the voting and other rights which it is entitled to exercise pursuant to this Section 5.2(i).
(ii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, all rights of each Pledgor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 5.2(i) hereof without any action, other than, in the case of any Securities Collateral, or
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the giving of any notice shall immediately cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Agent, which shall thereupon have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual rights; provided that the Agent shall have the right, in its sole discretion, from time to time following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default to permit such Pledgor to exercise such rights under Section 5.2(i). After such Event of Default is no longer continuing, each Pledgor shall have the right to exercise the voting, managerial and other consensual rights and powers that it would otherwise be entitled to pursuant to Section 5.2(i) hereof.
(iii) So long as no Cash Dominion Event shall have occurred and be continuing, each Pledgor shall be entitled to receive and retain, and to utilize free and clear of the Lien hereof, any and all Distributions, but only if and to the extent made in accordance with, and to the extent permitted by, the provisions of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, any and all such Distributions consisting of rights or interests in the form of securities shall be forthwith delivered to the Agent to hold as Collateral and shall, if received by any Pledgor, be received in trust for the benefit of the Agent, be segregated from the other property or funds of such Pledgor and be forthwith delivered to the Agent as Collateral in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement). The Agent shall, if necessary, upon written request of any Pledgor and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, from time to time execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to such Pledgor all such instruments as such Pledgor may reasonably request in order to permit such Pledgor to receive the Distributions which it is authorized to receive and retain pursuant to this Section 5.2(iii).
(iv) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Cash Dominion Event, all rights of each Pledgor to receive Distributions which it would otherwise be authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 5.2(iii) hereof shall cease and, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Agent, which shall thereupon have the sole right to receive and hold as Collateral such Distributions. After such Cash Dominion Event is no longer continuing, each Pledgor shall have the right to receive the Distributions which it would be authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 5.2(iii).
(v) Each Pledgor shall, at its sole cost and expense, from time to time execute and deliver to the Agent appropriate instruments as the Agent may reasonably request in order to permit the Agent to exercise the voting and other rights which it may be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 5.2(ii) hereof and to receive all Distributions which it may be entitled to receive under Section 5.2(iii) hereof.
(vi) All Distributions which are received by any Pledgor contrary to the provisions of Section 5.2(iii) hereof shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Agent, shall be segregated from other funds of such Pledgor and shall, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, immediately be paid over to the Agent as Collateral in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement).
(vii) Each Pledgor hereby authorizes and instructs each issuer of any Securities Collateral pledged by such Pledgor hereunder to comply with any instruction regarding Agent’s rights under this Section 5.2 without any other or further instructions from such Pledgor, and each Pledgor agrees that each issuer shall be fully protected in so complying and shall have no duty or right to inquire as to the Agent’s authority to give such instruction, including the payment of any dividends or other payments with respect to the Securities Collateral directly to the Agent.
(viii) Each Pledgor hereby grants to Agent or its nominee, on behalf of Secured Parties, an irrevocable proxy until such time as all Obligations are Paid in Full, in cash, to exercise all voting and membership rights relating to the Securities Collateral in any instance, which proxy shall be coupled with an interest and only be exercisable upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default. Each Pledgor covenants and agrees that prior to the expiration of such irrevocable proxy pursuant
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to applicable law, such Pledgor will reaffirm such irrevocable proxy in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. Upon the reasonable request of Agent, such Pledgor agrees to deliver to Agent, on behalf of Agent and the other Secured Parties, such further evidence of such irrevocable proxy or such further irrevocable proxies to vote the Securities Collateral as Agent may reasonably request.
SECTION 5.3. Organization Documents. Each Pledgor has delivered to the Agent true, correct and complete copies of its Organization Documents. The Organization Documents are in full force and effect and have not as of the Closing Date been amended or modified except as disclosed to the Agent. Except as otherwise permitted under Section 7.04 of the Credit Agreement, no Pledgor will terminate or agree to terminate any Organization Documents or make any amendment or modification to any Organization Documents, including electing to treat any Pledged Interests of such Pledgor as a security under Section 8‑103 of the UCC.
SECTION 5.4. Defaults, etc. Such Pledgor is not in default in the payment of any portion of any mandatory capital contribution, if any, required to be made under any agreement to which such Pledgor is a party relating to the Securities Collateral pledged by it, and such Pledgor is not in violation of any other provisions of any such agreement to which such Pledgor is a party, or otherwise in default or violation thereunder. No Securities Collateral pledged by such Pledgor is subject to any defense, offset or counterclaim, nor have any of the foregoing been asserted or alleged against such Pledgor by any Person with respect thereto, and as of the Closing Date, there are no certificates, instruments, documents or other writings (other than the Organization Documents and certificates, if any, delivered to the Revolving Agent or the Agent acting as bailee for the Revolving Agent pursuant to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement)) which evidence any Securities Collateral of such Pledgor.
SECTION 5.5. Certain Agreements of Pledgors As Issuers and Holders of Equity Interests.
(i) In the case of each Pledgor which is an issuer of Securities Collateral, such Pledgor agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement relating to the Securities Collateral issued by it and will comply with such terms insofar as such terms are applicable to it.
(ii) In the case of each Pledgor which is a partner in a partnership, limited liability company or other entity, such Pledgor hereby consents to the extent required by the applicable Organization Documents to the pledge by each other Pledgor, pursuant to the terms hereof, of the Pledged Interests in such partnership, limited liability company or other entity and, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to the transfer of such Pledged Interests to the Agent or its nominee and to the substitution of the Agent or its nominee as a substituted partner or member in such partnership, limited liability company or other entity with all the rights, powers and duties of a general partner or a limited partner or member, as the case may be.
ARTICLE VI
CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY COLLATERAL
SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties with respect to Intellectual Property.
(i) Except pursuant to licenses and other user agreements entered into by any Pledgor in the ordinary course of business and licenses that are listed in Schedule IV, (i) each Pledgor owns and
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possesses the right to use, and has done nothing to authorize or enable any other Person to use, any Material Intellectual Property listed in the Perfection Certificate, and (ii) all Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor is valid, subsisting and, to the best of such Pledgor’s knowledge, enforceable by and in the name of such Pledgor, and has not been abandoned, or allowed to lapse, expire or become dedicated to the public.
(ii) Each Pledgor is the sole and exclusive beneficial and record owner of the entire right, title, and interest in and to all Intellectual Property listed as owned by such Pledgor as of the Closing Date in the Perfection Certificate (and, with respect to the Perfection Certificate as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as of the date of delivery of the most recent Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(c) of the Credit Agreement). Such Pledgor has performed all necessary acts and has paid all registration, renewal and maintenance fees required to maintain each and every registration and application of Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor in full force and effect.
(iii) Except as could not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, to the best of each Pledgor’s knowledge, the use of the Intellectual Property owned by each Pledgor and the conduct of such Pledgor’s business does not infringe on the Intellectual Property rights of any Person. No written claim has been asserted and is pending or, to the best of such Pledgor’s knowledge, has been threatened, by any Person challenging any Pledgor’s use of any Intellectual Property, nor does any Pledgor know of any valid basis for any such claim, except as could not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole.
(iv) Except as set forth on Schedule IV, on the Closing Date, (a) none of the Intellectual Property owned by any Pledgor is the subject of any material licensing agreement pursuant to which such Pledgor is the licensor (other than any Intellectual Property license agreements entered into by such Pledgor in the ordinary course of business that are not material to such Pledgor’s business) and (b) no settlement or consents, covenants not to sue, nonassertion assurances, or releases have been entered into by such Pledgor or to which such Pledgor is bound adversely affect such Pledgor’s rights to own or use any Material Intellectual Property, and such Pledgor has not made a previous assignment, sale, transfer or agreement constituting or contemplating a present or future assignment, sale or transfer of any Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor that has not been terminated or released.
(v) No holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any Governmental Authority which limits the validity of (other than office actions issued in the ordinary course of prosecution of any pending applications for Patents or applications for registration of other Intellectual Property), or any Pledgor’s ownership or rights to use, any Intellectual Property, except, in each case, as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole.
(vi) No action or proceeding is pending, or, to the knowledge of each Pledgor, threatened, against any Pledgor on the Closing Date seeking to limit the validity of any Intellectual Property owned by any Pledgor or any Pledgor’s ownership interest therein or right to register the same (other than office actions issued in the ordinary course of prosecution of any pending applications for Patents or applications for registration of other Intellectual Property), which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, or result in a Material Adverse Effect. To each Pledgor’s knowledge, on and as of the Closing Date, there is no material violation by others of any right of such
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Pledgor with respect to any Intellectual Property listed in the Perfection Certificate, respectively, pledged by it under the name of such Pledgor.
SECTION 6.2. Protection of Agent’s Security.
(i) On a continuing basis, each Pledgor shall, at its sole cost and expense, (a) promptly following its becoming aware thereof, notify the Agent of (x) any materially adverse determination in any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office with respect to any Material Intellectual Property or (y) the institution of any proceeding or any adverse determination in any Federal, state or local court or administrative body regarding such Pledgor’s claim of ownership in or right to use any Material Intellectual Property, its right to register such Intellectual Property or its right to keep and maintain such registration in full force and effect, (b) maintain and protect the Material Intellectual Property as presently used and operated and as contemplated by the Credit Agreement, and, with respect to each Trademark that is owned by such Pledgor and material to the conduct of such Pledgor’s Business, (x) maintain the quality of products and services offered under each Trademark in substantially the same manner as in effect as of the Closing Date, (y) display such Trademark with notice of Federal or foreign registration to the extent necessary and required to preserve its rights under applicable Law, and (z) not knowingly use such Trademark in violation of any third party rights, (c) continue to mark any products covered by a Patent with the relevant patent number as necessary or advisable to preserve its rights under applicable patent Laws, in accordance with such prudent and standard practice used in industries that are the same as or similar to those in which such Patent is engaged, (d) for each work covered by a material registered Copyright that is owned by such Pledgor, continue to publish, reproduce, display, adopt and distribute the work with copyright notices as necessary or advisable to preserve its rights under applicable copyright Laws, (e) not permit to lapse or become abandoned any Material Intellectual Property as presently used and operated and as contemplated by the Credit Agreement, and not settle or compromise any pending or future litigation or administrative proceeding with respect to such Intellectual Property, in each case except as shall be consistent with commercially reasonable business judgment and, if any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, with the prior approval of the Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), (f) upon such Pledgor obtaining knowledge thereof, promptly notify the Agent in writing of (x) the abandonment, expiration, lapse, loss or dedication to the public of any Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor (other than as a result of abandonment or other disposition that is, in the reasonable judgment of such Pledgor, no longer economically practicable to maintain or material in the conduct of the business of all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole), or of any materially adverse determination or development (including the institution of any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any court or similar office of any country) regarding such Pledgor’s ownership of any Patent, Trademark or Copyright, its right to register the same, or its right to keep and maintain the same, and (y) any other event which may be reasonably expected to materially and adversely affect the value or utility of the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof material to the use and operation of the Collateral, the ability of such Pledgor or the Agent to dispose of the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof or the rights and remedies of the Agent in relation thereto including, without limitation, a levy or threat of levy or any legal process against the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof, (g) not license the Intellectual Property other than licenses entered into by such Pledgor in, or incidental to, the ordinary course of business, or amend or permit the amendment of any of the licenses that are Material Intellectual Property in a manner that materially and adversely affects the right to receive payments thereunder, or in any manner that would materially impair the value of the Intellectual Property or the Lien on and security interest in the Intellectual Property intended to be granted to the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties, without the consent of the Agent, (h) until the Agent exercises its rights to make collection, diligently keep adequate records respecting the Intellectual Property and (i) furnish to the Agent from time to time upon the Agent’s reasonable request therefor detailed statements and amended schedules further identifying and describing the Intellectual Property and such other materials evidencing or reports pertaining to the Intellectual Property as the Agent may from time to time request.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent any Pledgor from selling, disposing of or otherwise using any Intellectual Property as permitted under the Credit Agreement.
(ii) Each Pledgor will take such steps that are, in the good business judgment of such Pledgor, consistent with its past practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States or in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue each material application relating to the Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights (and to obtain the relevant grant or registration) and to maintain each issued Patent and each registration of the Trademarks and Copyrights that constitutes Material Intellectual Property, including timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if consistent with such Pledgor’s good business judgment, to initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties unless such Pledgor shall have previously determined that such use or the pursuit or maintenance of such Patent, Trademark and/or Copyright is no longer necessary or advisable in the conduct of such Pledgor’s business and that the loss thereof could not reasonably be expected to impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, in which case such Pledgor will give prompt notice of any such abandonment to the Agent.
(iii) In the event that any Pledgor knows or has reason to believe that any Material Intellectual Property has been infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated by a third person, such Pledgor promptly shall notify the Agent and shall, if consistent with such Pledgor’s good business judgment, take such actions as such Pledgor deems reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances to protect or enforce such Collateral including, without limitation, to sue for infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, to seek an injunction against such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, and to recover any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation.
(iv) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Pledgor shall use its best efforts to obtain all requisite consents or approvals by the licensor of each material License, to effect the assignment of all such Pledgor’s right, title and interest thereunder to the Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties, or its designee; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Pledgor shall be required to make any payments to secure such consent or approval.
SECTION 6.3. After-Acquired Property.
If any Pledgor shall, at any time before the Payment in Full of the Obligations, (i) obtain any rights to any additional Intellectual Property or (ii) become entitled to the benefit of any additional Intellectual Property or any renewal or extension thereof, including any reissue, division, continuation, or continuation-in-part of any Intellectual Property, or any improvement on any Intellectual Property, the provisions hereof shall automatically apply thereto and any such item enumerated in clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 6.3 with respect to such Pledgor shall automatically constitute Intellectual Property if such would have constituted Intellectual Property at the time of execution hereof and be subject to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement without further action by any party. With respect to any federally registered Intellectual Property, each Pledgor shall promptly (i) provide to the Agent written notice of any of the foregoing and (ii) confirm the attachment of the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement to any rights described in clauses (i) and (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 6.3 by execution of an instrument in form reasonably acceptable to the Agent.
SECTION 6.4. Modifications.
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Each Pledgor authorizes the Agent to modify this Agreement by (i) amending the Perfection Certificate to include any Intellectual Property acquired or arising after the Closing Date of such Pledgor including, without limitation, any of the items listed in Section 6.3 hereof, and (ii) taking all such further actions in accordance with Article III herein or any other section herein as necessary to perfect Agent’s security interest.
SECTION 6.5. Litigation.
Unless there shall occur and be continuing any Event of Default, each Pledgor shall have the right to commence and prosecute in its own name, as the party in interest, for its own benefit and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, such applications for protection of the Intellectual Property and suits, proceedings or other actions to prevent the infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution, diminution in value or other damage as are necessary to protect the Intellectual Property. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Agent shall have the right but shall in no way be obligated to file applications for protection of the Intellectual Property and/or bring suit in the name of any Pledgor, the Agent or the Credit Parties to enforce the Intellectual Property and any license thereunder. In the event of such suit, each Pledgor shall, at the reasonable request of the Agent, do any and all lawful acts and execute any and all documents requested by the Agent in aid of such enforcement and the Pledgors shall promptly reimburse and indemnify the Agent, as the case may be, for all costs and expenses incurred by the Agent in the exercise of its rights under this Section 6.5 in accordance with Section 10.3 hereof. In the event that the Agent shall elect not to bring suit to enforce the Intellectual Property, each Pledgor agrees, at the reasonable request of the Agent, to take all commercially reasonable actions necessary, whether by suit, proceeding or other action, to prevent the infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution, diminution in value of or other damage to any of the Intellectual Property by others and for that purpose agrees to diligently maintain any suit, proceeding or other action against any Person so infringing necessary to prevent such infringement.
SECTION 6.6. Websites and Domain Names.
(a) Each Pledgor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain, preserve and protect their rights and interests and the rights and interests of the Agent with respect to all material domain names of the Pledgors and their Subsidiaries, including, making all necessary filings, registrations and applications with the appropriate domain name registrars and paying all fees, costs and expenses associated therewith.
(b) Each Pledgor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain in effect all domain name registrations which are material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, with an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and not permit any such registrations to lapse or to be cancelled, abandoned or terminated.
(c) Set forth on Schedule IV is a complete list of all domain names of the Pledgors material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, as of the Closing Date, including the domain name registrar. Each domain name set forth on Schedule IV is, as of the Closing Date, duly registered with the domain name registrar set forth on Schedule IV opposite such domain name and has not been registered with any other domain name registrar. The Pledgors own and have marketable title to all their domain names material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, and to the knowledge of the Pledgors, the use thereof on any of their websites by the Pledgors does not infringe on, violate or misappropriate the rights of any other Person, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The domain names set forth on Schedule IV have been maintained and renewed in accordance in all material respects with all applicable Laws and all applicable rules and procedures of each domain
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name registrar and ICANN. The Pledgors have taken, in their good faith business judgment, commercially reasonable steps to protect their rights and interests in and to their websites and domain names, in each case, material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole. To the best knowledge of the Lead Borrower, no Person has gained unauthorized access to the Pledgors’ websites or data stored thereon (including any customer data), in each case, which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
ARTICLE VII
CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING CREDIT CARD RECEIVABLES
SECTION 7.1. Special Representations and Warranties.
All Credit Card Receivables and all records, papers and documents relating thereto (i) are genuine and correct and in all material respects what they purport to be, (ii) represent the legal, valid and binding obligation of the account debtor, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability, evidencing indebtedness unpaid and owed by such account debtor, arising out of the performance of labor or services or the sale, lease, license, assignment or other disposition and delivery of the goods or other property listed therein or out of an advance or a loan, (iii) are in all material respects in compliance and conform with all applicable material Federal, state and local Laws and applicable Laws of any relevant foreign jurisdiction.
SECTION 7.2. Maintenance of Records.
Each Pledgor shall keep and maintain at its own cost and expense materially complete records of each Credit Card Receivable, in a manner consistent with past practice, including, without limitation, records of all payments received, all credits granted thereon, all merchandise returned and all other documentation relating thereto. Each Pledgor shall, at such Pledgor’s sole cost and expense, upon the Agent’s demand made at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, deliver all tangible evidence of Credit Card Receivables, including, without limitation, all documents evidencing Credit Card Receivables and any books and records relating thereto to the Agent or to its representatives (copies of which evidence and books and records may be retained by such Pledgor). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Agent may transfer a full and complete copy of any Pledgor’s books, records, credit information, reports, memoranda and all other writings relating to the Credit Card Receivables to and for the use by any Person that has acquired or is contemplating acquisition of an interest in the Credit Card Receivables or the Agent’s security interest therein without the consent of any Pledgor.
SECTION 7.3. Legend.
Each Pledgor shall legend, at the request of the Agent made at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and in form and manner reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, the Credit Card Receivables and the other books, records and documents of such Pledgor evidencing or pertaining to the Credit Card Receivables with an appropriate reference to the fact that the Credit Card Receivables have been assigned to the Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties and that the Agent has a security interest therein.
SECTION 7.4. Modification of Terms, etc.
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No Pledgor shall rescind or cancel any indebtedness evidenced by any Credit Card Receivable or modify any term thereof or make any adjustment with respect thereto, extend or renew any such indebtedness, compromise or settle any dispute, claim, suit or legal proceeding relating thereto, or sell any Credit Card Receivable or interest therein, except, in each such case, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, without the prior written consent of the Agent.
SECTION 7.5. Collection.
Each Pledgor shall cause to be collected from the account debtor of each of the Credit Card Receivables, as and when due in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, Credit Card Receivables that are delinquent, such Credit Card Receivables to be collected in accordance with generally accepted commercial collection procedures), any and all Credit Card Receivables owing under or on account of such Credit Card Receivable, and apply forthwith upon receipt thereof all such amounts as are so collected to the outstanding balance of such Credit Card Receivable. The costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees) of collection, in any case, whether incurred by any Pledgor, the Agent or any Credit Party in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, shall be paid by the Pledgors.
ARTICLE VIII
REMEDIES
SECTION 8.1. Remedies.
(a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Agent may, or at the request of the Required Lenders, shall, from time to time in respect of the Collateral, in addition to the other rights and remedies provided for herein, in the other Loan Documents, under applicable Law or otherwise available to it:
(i) Personally, or by agents or attorneys, immediately take possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, from any Pledgor or any other Person who then has possession of any part thereof with or without notice or process of Law, and for that purpose may enter upon any Pledgor’s premises where any of the Collateral is located, remove such Collateral, remain present at such premises to receive copies of all communications and remittances relating to the Collateral and use in connection with such removal and possession any and all services, supplies, aids and other facilities of any Pledgor;
(ii) Demand, sue for, collect or receive any money or property at any time payable or receivable in respect of the Collateral including, without limitation, instructing the obligor or obligors on any agreement, instrument or other obligation constituting part of the Collateral to make any payment required by the terms of such agreement, instrument or other obligation directly to the Agent, and in connection with any of the foregoing, compromise, settle, extend the time for payment and make other modifications with respect thereto; provided, however, that in the event that any such payments are made directly to any Pledgor, prior to receipt by any such obligor of such instruction, such Pledgor shall segregate all amounts received pursuant thereto in trust for the benefit of the Agent and shall promptly pay such amounts to the Agent;
(iii) Sell, assign, grant a license to use or otherwise liquidate, or direct any Pledgor to sell, assign, grant a license to use or otherwise liquidate, any and all investments made in whole or in part with the Collateral or any part thereof, and take possession of the proceeds of any such sale, assignment, license or liquidation;
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(iv) Take possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, by directing any Pledgor in writing to assemble the collateral in any place or places so designated by the Agent in accordance with Section 9-609 of the UCC, in which event such Pledgor shall at its own expense: (A) forthwith cause the same to be moved to the place or places designated by the Agent and there delivered to the Agent, (B) store and keep any Collateral so delivered to the Agent at such place or places pending further action by the Agent and (C) while the Collateral shall be so stored and kept, provide such security and maintenance services as shall be necessary to protect the same and to preserve and maintain them in good condition. Time is of the essence regarding each Pledgor’s obligation to deliver the Collateral as contemplated in this Section 8.1(a)(iv). Upon application to a court of equity having jurisdiction, the Agent shall be entitled to a decree requiring specific performance by any Pledgor of such obligation;
(v) Withdraw all moneys, instruments, securities and other property in any bank, financial securities, deposit or other account of any Pledgor constituting Collateral for application to the Secured Obligations as provided in Article IX hereof;
(vi) Retain and apply the Distributions to the Secured Obligations as provided in Article IX hereof;
(vii) Exercise any and all rights as beneficial and legal owner of the Collateral, including, without limitation, perfecting assignment of and exercising any and all voting, consensual and other rights and powers with respect to any Collateral; and
(viii) Subject to the valid and enforceable terms of (x) any lease, or (y) any other written restriction against such premises (including Collateral Access Agreements in favor of the Agent with respect to such premises), the Agent shall have the right to conduct such sales on any Pledgor’s premises and shall have the right to use any Pledgor’s premises without charge for such sales for such time or times as the Agent may see fit;
(ix) With respect to any Collateral consisting of Inventory, Goods, and Equipment, the Agent may conduct one or more going out of business sales in the name of the Pledgors, or in the Agent’s own right, or by one or more agents and contractors. Such sale(s) may, subject to the valid and enforceable terms of (x) any lease, or (y) any other written restriction against such premises (including Collateral Access Agreements in favor of the Agent with respect to such premises), be conducted upon any premises owned, leased, or occupied by any Pledgor, without charge for such sales for such time or times as the Agent may see fit. The Agent and any such agent or contractor, in conjunction with any such sale, may augment the Inventory with other goods (all of which other goods shall remain the sole property of the Agent or such agent or contractor). Any amounts realized from the sale of such goods which constitute augmentations to the Inventory (net of an allocable share of the costs and expenses incurred in their disposition) shall be the sole property of the Agent or such agent or contractor and neither any Pledgor nor any Person claiming under or in right of any Pledgor shall have any interest therein. Each purchaser at any such going out of business sale shall hold the property sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of any Pledgor.
(x) with respect to any Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property, promptly following demand, cause the Lien in favor of the Agent to become an assignment, transfer and conveyance of any of or all such Collateral by the applicable Pledgor to the Agent or its designee, or to become a license or sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, of any such Collateral throughout the world on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Agent shall determine (other than in violation of any then-existing licensing arrangements to the extent the waivers cannot be obtained).
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(xi) Exercise all the rights and remedies of a Credit Party under the UCC, and the Agent may also in its sole discretion, without notice except as specified in Section 9.2 hereof, sell, assign or grant a license to use the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any exchange, broker’s board or at any of the Agent’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices and upon such other terms as the Agent may deem commercially reasonable. The Agent or any other Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates may be the purchaser, licensee, assignee or recipient of any or all of the Collateral at any such sale and shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold, assigned or licensed at such sale, to use and apply any of the Secured Obligations owed to such Person as a credit on account of the purchase price of any Collateral payable by such Person at such sale. Each purchaser, assignee, licensee or recipient at any such sale shall acquire the property sold, assigned or licensed absolutely free from any claim or right on the part of any Pledgor, and each Pledgor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, all rights of redemption, stay and/or appraisal which it now has or may at any time in the future have under any rule of Law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted. In case any sale of all or any part of the Collateral is made on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Agent until the sale price is paid by the purchaser or purchasers thereof, but the Agent shall not incur any liability in case any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in case of any such failure, such Collateral may be sold again upon like notice. The Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned. Each Pledgor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, any claims against the Agent and the other Credit Parties arising by reason of the fact that the price at which any Collateral may have been sold, assigned or licensed at such a private sale was less than the price which might have been obtained at a public sale, even if the Agent accepts the first offer received and does not offer such Collateral to more than one offeree. For purposes hereof, a written agreement to purchase the Collateral or any portion thereof shall be treated as a sale thereof; the Agent shall be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement and no Pledgor shall be entitled to the return of the Collateral or any portion thereof subject thereto, notwithstanding the fact that after the Agent shall have entered into such an agreement all Events of Default shall have been remedied and the Obligations Paid in Full. As an alternative to exercising the power of sale herein conferred upon it, the Agent may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose this Agreement and to sell the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court or courts having competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed receiver. Any sale pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.1 shall be deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable standards as provided in Section 9-610(b) of the UCC.
SECTION 8.2. Notice of Sale.
Each Pledgor acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent notice of sale or other disposition of Collateral shall be required by Law and unless the Collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value, or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market (in which event the Agent shall provide such Pledgor such advance notice as may be practicable under the circumstances), ten (10) days’ prior notice to such Pledgor of the time and place of any public sale or of the time after which any private sale or other intended disposition is to take place shall be commercially reasonable notification of such matters. No notification need be given to any Pledgor if it has signed, after the occurrence of an Event of Default, a statement renouncing or modifying (as permitted under Law) any right to notification of sale or other intended disposition.
SECTION 8.3. Waiver of Notice and Claims.
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Each Pledgor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, notice or judicial hearing in connection with the Agent’s taking possession or the Agent’s disposition of any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, any and all prior notice and hearing for any prejudgment remedy or remedies and any such right which such Pledgor would otherwise have under Law, and each Pledgor hereby further waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law: (i) all damages occasioned by such taking of possession, (ii) all other requirements as to the time, place and terms of sale or other requirements with respect to the enforcement of the Agent’s rights hereunder and (iii) all rights of redemption, appraisal, valuation, stay, extension or moratorium now or hereafter in force under any applicable Law. The Agent shall not be liable for any incorrect or improper payment made pursuant to this Article VIII in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct. Any sale of, or the grant of options to purchase, or any other realization upon, any Collateral shall operate to divest all right, title, interest, claim and demand, either at law or in equity, of the applicable Pledgor therein and thereto, and shall be a perpetual bar both at law and in equity against such Pledgor and against any and all Persons claiming or attempting to claim the Collateral so sold, optioned or realized upon, or any part thereof, from, through or under such Pledgor.
SECTION 8.4. Certain Sales of Collateral.
(i) Each Pledgor recognizes that, by reason of certain prohibitions contained in Law, rules, regulations or orders of any Governmental Authority or Securities Laws, the Agent may be compelled, with respect to any sale of all or any part of the Collateral (including Securities Collateral and Investment Property), to limit purchasers to those who meet the requirements of such Governmental Authority, or, with respect to such Securities Collateral and Investment Property, to those Persons who will agree, among other things, to acquire such Securities Collateral or Investment Property for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Pledgor acknowledges that any such sales may be at prices and on terms less favorable to the Agent than those obtainable through a public sale without such restrictions (including, without limitation, a public offering made pursuant to a registration statement under Securities Laws), and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that: (a) any such sale shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner and that, except as may be required by applicable Law, the Agent shall have no obligation to engage in public sales, and (b) that the Agent shall have no obligation to engage in public sales and no obligation to delay the sale of any Securities Collateral or Investment Property for the period of time necessary to permit the issuer thereof to register it for a form of public sale requiring registration under Securities Laws or under applicable state securities Laws, even if such issuer would agree to do so.
(ii) If the Agent determines to exercise its right to sell any or all of the Securities Collateral or Investment Property, upon written request, the applicable Pledgor shall from time to time furnish to the Agent all such information as the Agent may reasonably request in order to determine the number of securities included in the Securities Collateral or Investment Property which may be sold by the Agent as exempt transactions under Securities Laws and the rules of the SEC thereunder, as the same are from time to time in effect.
(iii) Each Pledgor further agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained in this Section 8.4 will cause irreparable injury to the Agent and other Credit Parties, that the Agent and the other Credit Parties have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breach and, as a consequence, that each and every covenant contained in this Section 8.4 shall be specifically enforceable against such Pledgor, and such Pledgor hereby waives and agrees not to assert any defenses against an action for specific performance of such covenants except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
SECTION 8.5. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.
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(i) No failure on the part of the Agent to exercise, no course of dealing with respect to, and no delay on the part of the Agent in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy; nor shall the Agent be required to look first to, enforce or exhaust any other security, collateral or guaranties. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies provided by Law.
(ii) In the event that the Agent shall have instituted any proceeding to enforce any right, power or remedy under this Agreement by foreclosure, sale, entry or otherwise, and such proceeding shall have been discontinued or abandoned under Debtor Relief Laws, or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Agent, then and in every such case, the Pledgors, the Agent and each other Credit Party shall be restored to their respective former positions and rights hereunder with respect to the Collateral, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Agent and the other Credit Parties shall continue as if no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 8.6. Grant of License. For the sole purpose of enabling the Agent, during the continuance of an Event of Default, to exercise rights and remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or applicable Law at such time as the Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, and for no other purpose, each Pledgor hereby grants to the Agent, to the extent assignable, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty, rent or other compensation to such Pledgor) to use, assign, license or sublicense any of the assets of such Pledgor (including, without limitation, all Fixtures, Equipment and Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such Pledgor) and to occupy any Real Estate owned or leased by such Pledgor (subject to the valid and enforceable terms of (x) any lease, or (y) any other written restriction against such premises (including Collateral Access Agreements in favor of the Agent with respect to such premises), wherever the same may be located and whether or not constituting Collateral, including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout hereof.
SECTION 8.7. Certain Additional Actions Regarding Intellectual Property. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, upon the written demand of Agent, each Pledgor shall execute and deliver to Agent an assignment or assignments of the registered Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights and such other documents as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the intent and purposes hereof to the extent such assignment does not result in any loss of rights therein under applicable Law. Within five (5) Business Days of written notice thereafter from the Agent, each Pledgor shall make available to the Agent, to the extent within such Pledgor’s power and authority, such personnel in such Pledgor’s employ on the date of the Event of Default as the Agent may reasonably designate to permit such Pledgor to continue, directly or indirectly, to produce, advertise and sell the products and services sold by such Pledgor under the registered Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights, and such Persons shall be available to perform their prior functions on the Agent’s behalf.
ARTICLE IX
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS OF CASUALTY EVENTS AND COLLATERAL DISPOSITIONS
SECTION 9.1. Application of Proceeds. The proceeds received by the Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral pursuant to the exercise by the Agent of its remedies shall be applied, together with any other sums then held by the Agent pursuant to this Agreement, in accordance with and as set forth in Section 8.03 of the Credit Agreement.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 10.1. Concerning Agent. Without, in any way, limiting the rights of the Agent under the Credit Agreement or other Loan Documents:
(i) The Agent has been appointed as agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement. The actions of the Agent hereunder are subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement. The Agent shall have the right hereunder to make demands, to give notices, to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights, and to take or refrain from taking action (including, without limitation, the release or substitution of the Collateral), in accordance with this Agreement and the Credit Agreement. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact in connection herewith and shall not be liable for the negligence or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it in good faith. The Agent may resign and a successor Agent may be appointed in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the Agent by a successor Agent, that successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent under this Agreement, and the retiring Agent shall thereupon be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring Agent’s resignation, the provisions hereof shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it under this Agreement while it was the Agent.
(ii) The Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of the Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equivalent to that which the Agent, in its individual capacity, accords its own property consisting of similar instruments or interests, it being understood that neither the Agent nor any of the Credit Parties shall have responsibility for (i) ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters relating to any Securities Collateral, whether or not the Agent or any other Credit Party has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters or (ii) taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against any Person with respect to any Collateral. In no event shall the Agent’s or any other Credit Party’s responsibility for the custody and preservation of the Collateral in its possession extend to matters beyond the control of such Person, including, without limitation, acts of God, war, insurrection, riot, governmental actions or acts of any corporate or other depository.
(iii) The Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any written notice, statement, certificate, order or other document or any telephone message believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person, and, with respect to all matters pertaining to this Agreement and its duties hereunder, upon advice of counsel selected by it.
(iv) If any item of Collateral also constitutes collateral granted to Agent under any other deed of trust, mortgage, security agreement, pledge or instrument of any type, in the event of any conflict between the provisions hereof and the provisions of such other deed of trust, mortgage, security agreement, pledge or instrument of any type in respect of such collateral, Agent, in its sole discretion, shall select which provision or provisions shall control.
SECTION 10.2. Agent May Perform; Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. If any Pledgor shall fail to perform any covenants contained in this Agreement or in the Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, such Pledgor’s covenants to (i) pay the premiums in respect of all required insurance policies hereunder, (ii) pay Claims, (iii) make repairs, (iv) discharge Liens or (v) pay or perform any obligations of such Pledgor under any Collateral) or if any warranty on the part of any Pledgor contained herein shall be breached, the Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) do the same or cause it to be done or remedy any such breach, and may expend funds for such purpose; provided, however, that Agent shall
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in no event be bound to inquire into the validity of any tax, lien, imposition or other obligation which such Pledgor fails to pay or perform as and when required hereby and which such Pledgor does not contest in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement. Any and all amounts so expended by the Agent shall be paid by the Pledgors in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.3 hereof. Neither the provisions of this Section 10.2 nor any action taken by Agent pursuant to the provisions of this Section 10.2 shall prevent any such failure to observe any covenant contained in this Agreement nor any breach of warranty from constituting an Event of Default. Each Pledgor hereby appoints the Agent its attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Pledgor and in the name of such Pledgor, or otherwise, from time to time after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default in the Agent’s discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument consistent with the terms of the Credit Agreement and the other Security Documents which the Agent may deem necessary to accomplish the purposes hereof. The foregoing grant of authority is a power of attorney coupled with an interest and such appointment shall be irrevocable for the term hereof. Each Pledgor hereby ratifies all that such attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
SECTION 10.3. Expenses; Indemnity. Without limiting the provisions of Section 10.04 of the Credit Agreement or other Loan Documents:
(a) Each Pledgor will promptly pay to the Agent the amount of any and all reasonable costs and expenses, including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of its outside counsel and the fees and expenses of any experts and agents which the Agent may incur in connection with (i) any action, suit or other proceeding affecting the Collateral or any part thereof commenced, in which action, suit or proceeding the Agent is made a party or participates or in which the right to use the Collateral or any part thereof is threatened, or in which it becomes necessary in the judgment of the Agent to defend or uphold the Lien hereof (including, without limitation, any action, suit or proceeding to establish or uphold the compliance of the Collateral with any requirements of any Governmental Authority or Law), (ii) the collection of the Secured Obligations, (iii) the enforcement and administration hereof, (iv) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of the Collateral, (v) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Agent or any Credit Party hereunder or (vi) the failure by any Pledgor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof. All amounts expended by the Agent and payable by any Pledgor under this Section 10.3 shall be due promptly following demand therefor (together with interest thereon accruing at the highest rate then in effect under the Credit Agreement during the period from and including twenty (20) days from the date on which Agent makes demand for payment therefor to the date of repayment) and shall be part of the Secured Obligations.
(b) The Pledgors agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify the Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each other Credit Party, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and to hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, causes of action, damages, liabilities, settlement payments, obligations, costs, and related expenses (including the fees, charges, and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee; provided that such Indemnitees shall be entitled to reimbursement for no more than one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction (absent a conflict of interest in which case the Indemnitees may engage and be reimbursed for additional counsel)), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by any Pledgor or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the Pledgors of their respective obligations thereunder, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any other transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any Loan or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Loan Party or any of its
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Subsidiaries, (iv) any claims of, or amounts paid by any Credit Party to, a Blocked Account Bank or other Person which has entered into a control agreement with any Credit Party hereunder, or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided, however, that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are (x) determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any Affiliate of such Indemnitee, or (y) result from a claim brought by a Pledgor or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach of bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Pledgor or such Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(c) The provisions of this Section 10.3 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the expiration of the term of this Agreement, the repayment of any of the Loans, the expiration of the Commitments, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agent or any other Credit Party. All amounts due under this Section 10.3 shall be payable promptly (but in any event no more than 10 Business Days following) upon written demand therefor accompanied by reasonable documentation with respect to any reimbursement, indemnification or other amount requested.
SECTION 10.4. Continuing Security Interest; Assignment. This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (i) be binding upon the Pledgors, their respective successors and assigns and (ii) inure, together with the rights and remedies of the Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Agent and the other Credit Parties and each of their permitted respective successors, transferees and assigns. No other Persons (including, without limitation, any other creditor of any Pledgor) shall have any interest herein or any right or benefit with respect hereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (ii), any Credit Party may assign or otherwise transfer any indebtedness held by it secured by this Agreement to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Credit Party, herein or otherwise, subject however, to the provisions of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 10.5. Termination; Release. This Agreement, the Lien in favor of the Agent (for the benefit of itself and the other Credit Parties) and all other security interests granted hereby shall terminate with respect to all Secured Obligations when Payment in Full of the Secured Obligations has occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A) this Agreement, the Lien in favor of the Agent (for the benefit of the Credit Parties) and all other security interests granted hereby shall be reinstated if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Secured Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Credit Party or any Pledgor upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of any Pledgor or otherwise, and (B) in connection with the termination of this Agreement, the Agent may require such indemnities and collateral security as it shall reasonably deem necessary or appropriate to protect the Credit Parties against (x) loss on account of credits previously applied to the Secured Obligations that may subsequently be reversed or revoked, (y) any obligations that may thereafter arise with respect to the Other Liabilities, and (z) any Secured Obligations that may thereafter arise under Section 10.04 of the Credit Agreement.
(i) The Collateral shall be released from the Lien of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement. Upon termination hereof or any release of Collateral in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement, the Agent shall, upon the request and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, assign, transfer and deliver to the Pledgors, against receipt and without recourse to or warranty by the Agent, such of the Collateral to be released (in the case of a release) as may be in possession of the Agent and as shall not have been sold or otherwise applied pursuant to the terms hereof, and, with respect to any other Collateral, proper documents
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and instruments (including UCC 3 termination statements or releases) acknowledging the termination hereof or the release of such Collateral, as the case may be.
(ii) At any time that the respective Pledgor desires that the Agent take any action described in clause (ii) of this Section 10.5, such Pledgor shall, upon request of the Agent, deliver to the Agent an officer’s certificate certifying that the release of the respective Collateral is permitted pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 10.5. The Agent shall have no liability whatsoever to any other Credit Party as the result of any release of Collateral by it as permitted (or which the Agent in good faith believes to be permitted) by this Section 10.5.
SECTION 10.6. Modification in Writing. No amendment, modification, supplement, termination or waiver of or to any provision hereof, nor consent to any departure by any Pledgor therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be made in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement and unless in writing and signed by the Agent. Any amendment, modification or supplement of or to any provision hereof, any waiver of any provision hereof and any consent to any departure by any Pledgor from the terms of any provision hereof shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which made or given. Except where notice is specifically required by this Agreement or any other document evidencing the Secured Obligations, no notice to or demand on any Pledgor in any case shall entitle any Pledgor to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
SECTION 10.7. Notices. Unless otherwise provided herein or in the Credit Agreement, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be given in the manner and become effective as set forth in the Credit Agreement, as to any Pledgor, addressed to it at the address of the Borrower set forth in the Credit Agreement and as to the Agent, addressed to it at the address set forth in the Credit Agreement, or in each case at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other party complying as to delivery with the terms of this Section 10.7.
SECTION 10.8. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 10.9. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
(a) EACH PLEDGOR IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PLEDGORS IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PLEDGORS AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT ANY CREDIT PARTY MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
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OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY PLEDGOR OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(b) EACH PLEDGOR IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE PLEDGORS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(c) EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02 OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
(d) EACH PLEDGOR AGREES THAT ANY ACTION COMMENCED BY ANY PLEDGOR ASSERTING ANY CLAIM OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT SOLELY IN A COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING THEREIN AS THE AGENT MAY ELECT IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION AND CONSENTS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUCH ACTION.
(e) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 10.10. Severability of Provisions. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 10.11. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an
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original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy, pdf or other electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION 10.12. No Credit for Payment of Taxes or Imposition. No Pledgor shall be entitled to any credit against the principal, premium, if any, or interest payable under the Credit Agreement, and such Pledgor shall not be entitled to any credit against any other sums which may become payable under the terms thereof or hereof, by reason of the payment of any Tax on the Collateral or any part thereof.
SECTION 10.13. No Claims Against Agent. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall constitute any consent or request by the Agent, express or implied, for the performance of any labor or services or the furnishing of any materials or other property in respect of the Collateral or any part thereof, nor as giving any Pledgor any right, power or authority to contract for or permit the performance of any labor or services or the furnishing of any materials or other property in such fashion as would permit the making of any claim against the Agent in respect thereof or any claim that any Lien based on the performance of such labor or services or the furnishing of any such materials or other property is prior to the Lien hereof.
SECTION 10.14. No Release. Nothing set forth in this Agreement shall relieve any Pledgor from the performance of any term, covenant, condition or agreement on such Pledgor’s part to be performed or observed under or in respect of any of the Collateral or from any liability to any Person under or in respect of any of the Collateral or shall impose any obligation on the Agent or any other Credit Party to perform or observe any such term, covenant, condition or agreement on such Pledgor’s part to be so performed or observed or shall impose any liability on the Agent or any other Credit Party for any act or omission on the part of such Pledgor relating thereto or for any breach of any representation or warranty on the part of such Pledgor contained in this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or under or in respect of the Collateral or made in connection herewith or therewith. The obligations of each Pledgor contained in this Section 10.14 shall survive the termination hereof and the discharge of such Pledgor’s other obligations under this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 10.15. Obligations Absolute. All obligations of each Pledgor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:
(i) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment, composition, liquidation or the like of any Pledgor or other matters related to Debtor Relief Laws;
(ii) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Secured Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(iv) any pledge, exchange, release or non-perfection of any other collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to any departure from any guarantee, for all or any of the Secured Obligations;
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(v) any exercise, non-exercise or waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege under or in respect hereof, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document except as specifically set forth in a waiver granted pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.6 hereof; or
(vi) any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Pledgor (other than Payment in Full of the Secured Obligations).
SECTION 10.16. Additional Pledgor Waivers. Although the parties hereto fully intend that this Agreement is to be governed in accordance with Section 10.8 of this Agreement, the Pledgors hereby irrevocably waive and agree to the fullest extent permitted by Law and to the extent applicable to the Collateral, as follows:
(i) The Pledgors expressly waive any and all benefits which might otherwise be available to the Pledgors under California Civil Code Sections 2787 to 2855, inclusive;
(ii) The Pledgors waive any and all defenses, including but not limited to Pledgors’ defense of estoppel discussed in Union Bank v. Gradsky, 265 Cal.App.2d 40 (1968), based upon a foreclosure against all or any part of the real property security for the Secured Obligations or the Obligations pursuant to the power of sale contained in any Deed of Trust or any Leasehold Deed of Trust executed by any Pledgor (the “Deed of Trust”) or any of the other Security Documents as opposed to proceeding by way of judicial foreclosure. The Pledgors waive all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by the Agent, even though that election of remedies, such as a nonjudicial foreclosure with respect to security for a guaranteed obligation, has destroyed the Pledgor’s rights of subrogation and reimbursement by the operation of Section 580d of the California Code of Civil Procedure (“CCP”) or otherwise;
(iii) The Pledgors waive all rights and defenses that any Pledgor may have because any of the Borrower’s debt or the Secured Obligations are secured by real property. This means, among other things: (i) the Agent may collect from the Pledgors without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by the Borrower or any other Loan Party, and (ii) if the Agent forecloses on any real property collateral pledged by any Pledgor, the Borrower or any one or more of the Loan Parties: (a) the amount of debt may be reduced only by the price for which the collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth more than the sale price, and (b) the Agent may collect from the Pledgors even if the Agent, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, have destroyed any right such Pledgor may have to collect from the Borrower or any other Loan Party. This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses the Pledgors may have because Borrower’s debt or the Secured Obligations are secured by real property. These rights and defenses include, but are not limited to, any rights or defenses based upon Section 580a, 580b, 580d, or 726 of the CCP;
(iv) In the case of a power of sale foreclosure under the Deed of Trust, the fair market value of the real property collateral shall be conclusively deemed to be the amount of the successful bid at the foreclosure sale. The Pledgors waive any rights or benefits they may now or hereafter have to a fair value hearing under Section 580a of the CCP. The Agent shall have absolutely no obligation to make a bid at any foreclosure sale, but rather may make no bid or bid any amount which the Agent, its sole discretion, deems appropriate;
(v) The Pledgors hereby irrevocably authorize the Agent to apply any and all amounts received by the Secured Parties in repayment of the Obligations first to amounts which are secured pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust and then to amounts which are not secured pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, if any. Each Pledgor hereby waive any and all rights that it has or
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may hereafter have under Section 2822 of the California Civil Code which provides that if a guarantor is “liable upon only a portion of an obligation and the principal provides partial satisfaction of the obligation, the principal may designate the portion of the obligation that is to be satisfied.”;
(vi) Each Pledgor warrants and represents to the Agent that (i) it now has or will continue to have full and complete access to any and all information concerning the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents referred to therein, the value of the assets owned or to be acquired by the Borrower or any Loan Party under the Loan Documents, their financial status and their respective ability to pay and perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents; and (ii) the Pledgors have reviewed and approved copies of the Loan Documents and are fully informed of the remedies the Agent may pursue, with or without notice to the Pledgors, in the event of default under the Loan Documents. The Pledgors shall keep fully informed as to all aspects of the financial condition of the Borrower and other Loan Parties and the performance of their respective obligations under the Loan Documents; and
(vii) The Pledgors agree that the Agent may exercise any right or remedy hereunder or under any of the Loan Documents without the necessity of resorting to or exhausting any security or collateral for the Secured Obligations or the Obligations. Each Pledgor hereby waives any right it may now or hereafter have to require the Agent to proceed against the Borrower, to proceed against any other Loan Party or any other guarantor of any of the Obligations, to foreclose any lien on any real or personal property collateral conveyed or assigned to the Agent by the Pledgors, the Borrower or any other Loan Party, to exercise any right or remedy under the Loan Documents, to draw upon any letter of credit issued in connection with any of the Obligations, or to pursue any other remedy or to enforce any other right under the Loan Documents.
SECTION 10.17. ABL Intercreditor Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary:
(a) the Liens (including the perfection and priority of such Liens) and security interests granted to the Agent pursuant to this Agreement, and the exercise of any right or remedy by the Agent hereunder, are subject to the provisions of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, (i) as between the Agent, on one hand, and the Pledgors, on the other hand, the terms of this Agreement shall govern and control, and (ii) as between the Revolving Agent, on one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.
(b) Until the Discharge of ABL Obligations (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), to the extent the Pledgors are required under the terms of the Loan Documents to (i) deliver any possessory Collateral constituting ABL Term Priority Collateral to the Agent, such delivery shall be deemed to satisfy any obligation hereunder to deliver such Collateral to the Revolving Agent so long as the Revolving Agent holds such Collateral as bailee for the Agent pursuant to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) take any other action with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) or any proceeds thereof, including delivery of such Collateral or proceeds thereof to the Agent, such action shall be deemed satisfied to the extent undertaken in accordance with the Revolving Credit Documents and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Pledgors and the Agent have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation, as Lead Borrower, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE SOUTHWEST, INC., a California corporation, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
MINNESOTA MERCHANDISING CORP., a Minnesota corporation, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
PACIFIC FLYWAY WHOLESALE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Signature Page to Security Agreement]
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
ONADVENTURE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
THE AMERICAN PARTS CO., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Signature Page to Security Agreement]
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, as a Guarantor and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Signature Page to Security Agreement]
PLC AGENT LLC, as Agent
By: Pathlight Capital LP,
Its Sole Member
By: Pathlight GP LLC,
Its General Partner
By: /s/ Roger Malouf
Name: Roger Malouf
Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to Security Agreement]
EXHIBIT 1
[Form of]
SECURITIES PLEDGE AMENDMENT
This Security Pledge Amendment, dated as of _________, is delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 of that certain Security Agreement (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Security Agreement;” capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Security Agreement), dated as of July 30, 2024, made (i) SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., as lead borrower for itself and the other Borrowers (the “Lead Borrower”), (ii) the Borrowers party thereto from time to time (together with the Lead Borrower, the “Borrowers”, and (iii) the Guarantors party thereto from time to time (the “Guarantors”), as pledgors, assignors and debtors (the Borrowers, together with the Guarantors, in such capacities and together with any successors in such capacities, the “Pledgors,” and each, a “Pledgor”), PLC AGENT LLC, as agent for the Credit Parties (in such capacity and together with any successors in such capacity, the “Agent”). The undersigned hereby agrees that this Pledge Amendment may be attached to the Security Agreement and that the Securities Collateral listed on this Pledge Amendment shall be deemed to be and shall become part of the Collateral and shall secure all Obligations.
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as Pledgor
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AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED:
PLC AGENT LLC,
as Agent
By:
Name:
Title:
Schedule I
INTERCOMPANY NOTES
None.
Schedule II
FILINGS, REGISTRATIONS AND RECORDINGS
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Utah Department of Commerce.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Southwest, Inc. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the California Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Minnesota Merchandising Corp. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Pacific Flyway Wholesale, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Development I, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Development II, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming OnAdventure, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming The American Parts Co., LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
Grant of Security Interest in United States Trademarks naming Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. as Grantor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Grantee filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Schedule III
INITIAL PLEDGED INTERESTS
Name of Loan Party |
Name of Issuer |
Type of Organization |
Class of Capital Stock |
Certificate No.(s) |
Number of Shares or Equity Interests |
Percentage of Outstanding Shares or Equity Interests |
Par Value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Corporation |
Common Stock |
1 |
100 shares |
100% |
$0.01 par value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. |
Minnesota Merchandising Corp. |
Corporation |
Common Stock |
1 |
100 shares |
100% |
$0.01 par value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Southwest, Inc. |
Corporation |
Common Stock |
1 |
100 shares |
100% |
$0.01 par value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Pacific Flyway Wholesale, LLC |
Limited Liability company |
Percentage interests |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Development I, LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Development II, LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
OnAdventure, LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
The American Parts Co., LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Schedule IV
LICENSES
None.
DOMAIN NAMES
[to be provided]
Schedule V
TANGIBLE CHATTEL PAPER
None.
Schedule VI
COMMODITY ACCOUNTS
None.
Schedule VII
ELECTRONIC CHATTEL PAPER
None.
Exhibit 10.5
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
By
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC.
as Lead Borrower
and
THE OTHER BORROWERS AND GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
FROM TIME TO TIME
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Collateral Agent
Dated as of July 30, 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREAMBLE ................................................................................................................................. 1
RECITALS ................................................................................................................................... 1
AGREEMENT .............................................................................................................................. 2
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SECTION 1.1. Definitions. |
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SECTION 1.2. Interpretation. |
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SECTION 1.3. Perfection Certificate. |
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ARTICLE II |
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SECTION 2.1. Pledge. |
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SECTION 2.2. Security Interest. |
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ARTICLE III |
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SECTION 3.1. Delivery of Certificated Securities Collateral. |
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SECTION 3.2. Perfection of Uncertificated Securities Collateral. |
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SECTION 3.3. Financing Statements and Other Filings; Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest. |
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SECTION 3.4. Other Actions. |
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SECTION 3.5. Joinder of Additional Pledgors. |
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SECTION 3.6. Supplements; Further Assurances. |
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ARTICLE IV |
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SECTION 4.1. Title. |
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SECTION 4.2. Limitation on Liens; Defense of Claims; Transferability of Collateral. |
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SECTION 4.3. Chief Executive Office; Change of Name; Jurisdiction of Organization. |
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SECTION 4.4. Location of Inventory and Equipment. |
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SECTION 4.5. Condition and Maintenance of Equipment. |
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SECTION 4.6. Due Authorization and Issuance. |
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SECTION 4.7. No Claims. |
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SECTION 4.8. No Conflicts, Consents, etc. |
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SECTION 4.9. Collateral. |
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SECTION 4.10. Insurance. |
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SECTION 4.11. Payment of Taxes; Compliance with Laws; Contested Liens; Claims. |
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SECTION 4.12. Access to Collateral, Books and Records; Other Information. |
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SECTION 4.13. Third Party Consents. |
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ARTICLE V |
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SECTION 5.1. Pledge of Additional Securities Collateral. |
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SECTION 5.2. Voting Rights; Distributions; etc. |
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SECTION 5.3. Organization Documents. |
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SECTION 5.4. Defaults, etc. |
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SECTION 5.5. Certain Agreements of Pledgors As Issuers and Holders of Equity Interests. |
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ARTICLE VI |
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SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties with respect to Intellectual Property. |
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SECTION 6.2. Protection of Collateral Agent’s Security. |
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SECTION 6.3. After-Acquired Property. |
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SECTION 6.4. Modifications. |
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SECTION 6.5. Litigation. |
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SECTION 6.6. Websites and Domain Names. |
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SECTION 7.1. Special Representations and Warranties. |
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SECTION 7.2. Maintenance of Records. |
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SECTION 7.3. Legend. |
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SECTION 7.4. Modification of Terms, etc. |
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SECTION 7.5. Collection. |
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ARTICLE VIII |
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SECTION 8.1. Remedies. |
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SECTION 8.2. Notice of Sale. |
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SECTION 8.3. Waiver of Notice and Claims. |
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SECTION 8.4. Certain Sales of Collateral. |
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SECTION 8.5. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. |
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SECTION 8.6. Grant of License. |
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SECTION 8.7. Certain Additional Actions Regarding Intellectual Property. |
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ARTICLE IX |
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SECTION 9.1. Application of Proceeds. |
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ARTICLE X |
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SECTION 10.1. Concerning Collateral Agent. |
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SECTION 10.2. Collateral Agent May Perform; Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. |
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SECTION 10.3. Expenses; Indemnity. |
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SECTION 10.4. Continuing Security Interest; Assignment. |
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SECTION 10.5. Termination; Release. |
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SECTION 10.6. Modification in Writing. |
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SECTION 10.7. Notices. |
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SECTION 10.8. GOVERNING LAW. |
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SECTION 10.9. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. |
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SECTION 10.10. Severability of Provisions. |
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SECTION 10.11. Execution in Counterparts. |
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SECTION 10.12. No Credit for Payment of Taxes or Imposition. |
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SECTION 10.13. No Claims Against Collateral Agent. |
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SECTION 10.14. No Release. |
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SECTION 10.15. Obligations Absolute. |
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SECTION 10.16. Additional Pledgor Waivers. |
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SECTION 10.17. Existing Security Agreement Amended and Restated. |
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SECTION 10.18. ABL Intercreditor Agreement. |
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SIGNATURES
SCHEDULE I Intercompany Notes
SCHEDULE II Filings, Registrations and Recordings
SCHEDULE III Initial Pledged Interests
SCHEDULE IV Licenses and Domain Names
SCHEDULE V Tangible Chattel Paper
SCHEDULE VI Commodity Accounts
SCHEDULE VII Electronic Chattel Paper
EXHIBIT 1 Form of Securities Pledge Amendment
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THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT dated as of July 30, 2024 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof, the “Agreement”) made by: (i) SPORTSMAN’S warehouse, inc., a Utah corporation, as lead borrower for itself and the other Borrowers (the “Lead Borrower”), (ii) the other Borrowers listed on the signature pages hereto (together with the Lead Borrower, the “Original Borrowers”) or from time to time party hereto by execution of a Joinder Agreement (the “Additional Borrowers,” and together with the Original Borrowers, the “Borrowers”), and (iii) the Guarantors listed on the signature pages hereto (the “Original Guarantors”) and the other Guarantors from time to time party hereto by execution of a Joinder Agreement (the “Additional Guarantors,” and together with the Original Guarantors, the “Guarantors”), as pledgors, assignors and debtors (the Borrowers, together with the Guarantor, in such capacities and together with any successors in such capacities, the “Pledgors”, and each, a “Pledgor”), in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association having an office at 125 High Street, 11th Floor, Boston Massachusetts 02110, in its capacity as collateral agent for the Credit Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement defined below) pursuant to the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), as pledgee, assignee and secured party (in such capacities and together with any successors in such capacities, the “Collateral Agent”).
R E C I T A L S :
A. The Borrowers, the Guarantor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Swing Line Lender, and the Lenders party thereto, among others, have entered into that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 23, 2018 (as amended (including pursuant to the Second Amendment referred to below), amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).
B. Prior to the date of this Agreement, the Pledgors, on the one hand, and the Collateral Agent on the other hand, entered into that certain Second Amended and Restated Security Agreement dated as of May 27, 2022 (as amended and in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Agreement, the “Existing Security Agreement”), pursuant to which the Pledgors granted a security interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Existing Security Agreement) to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties, to secure the Secured Obligations (as defined in the Existing Security Agreement).
C. The Guarantors have, pursuant to that certain Facility Guaranty dated as May 28, 2010 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Facility Guaranty”), among other things, unconditionally guaranteed the obligations of the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (the “Guaranteed Obligations”).
D. Contemporaneously herewith, the Credit Agreement is being amended pursuant to that certain Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of even date herewith (the “Second Agreement”) by, among others, the Pledgors, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, and the Lenders party thereto.
E. Each Pledgor will receive substantial benefits from the execution, delivery and performance of the obligations under the Credit Agreement, the Facility Guaranty and the other Loan Documents and each is, therefore, willing to enter into this Agreement.
F. Each Pledgor is or, as to Collateral (as hereinafter defined) acquired by such Pledgor after the Second Amendment Effective Date, will be, the legal and/or beneficial owner of the Collateral pledged by it hereunder.
G. This Agreement is given by each Pledgor in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties to secure the payment and performance of all of the Secured Obligations (as hereinafter defined).
H. It is a condition to the effectiveness of the Second Amendment, to the obligations of the Lenders to continue to make the Loans under the Credit Agreement, and to the obligation of the L/C Issuer to continue to issue Letters of Credit under the Credit Agreement that each Pledgor execute and deliver the applicable Loan Documents, including this Agreement.
A G R E E M E N T :
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Pledgor and the Collateral Agent hereby agree that the Existing Security Agreement is amended and restated as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
Unless otherwise defined herein or in the Credit Agreement, capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings assigned to them in the UCC.
(a) Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein that are defined in
the Credit Agreement shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
(b) The following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Additional Guarantors” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Additional Pledged Interests” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, (i) all Equity Interests of whatever class of any issuer of Initial Pledged Interests, together with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Pledgor relating to such Equity Interests, and the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests and any and all interest of such Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests from time to time acquired by such Pledgor in any manner, (ii) all Equity Interests, as applicable, of each corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other entity hereafter acquired or formed by such Pledgor and all Equity Interests of whatever class of such limited liability company, partnership or other entity, and (iii) all options, warrants, rights, agreements, additional shares of capital stock of whatever class of any issuer of such Equity Interests, together, in each case, with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Pledgor relating to such interests, and the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests and any and all interest of such Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests, from time to time acquired by such Pledgor in any manner.
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“Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such in the Preamble hereof.
“Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Claims” shall mean any and all property taxes and other taxes, assessments and special assessments, levies, fees and all governmental charges imposed upon or assessed against, and all claims (including, without limitation, landlords’, carriers’, mechanics’, workmen’s, repairmen’s, laborers’, materialmen’s, suppliers’ and warehousemen’s Liens and other claims arising by operation of law) against, all or any portion of the Collateral.
“Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.1 hereof.
“Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Contracts” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all sale, service, performance, equipment or property lease contracts, agreements and grants and all other contracts, agreements or grants (in each case, whether written or oral, or third party or intercompany), between such Pledgor and third parties, and all assignments, amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, renewals, replacements or modifications thereof.
“Control” shall mean (i) in the case of each DDA, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 9‑104 of the UCC, (ii) in the case of any Security Entitlement, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 8‑106 of the UCC, (iii) in the case of any Securities Account, “control” as described in Section 9-106(c) of the UCC, and (iv) in the case of any Commodity Contract, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 9‑106 of the UCC.
“Copyrights” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all copyrights (whether statutory or common law, whether established or registered in the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof whether registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished) and all copyright registrations and applications made by such Pledgor, in each case, whether now owned or hereafter created or acquired by or assigned to such Pledgor, including, without limitation, the registrations and applications listed in the Perfection Certificate, together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable Law with respect to such Pledgor’s use of such copyrights, (ii) reissues, renewals, continuations and extensions thereof, (iii) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages and payments for past, present or future infringements thereof, (iv) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (v) rights to sue for past, present or future infringements thereof.
“Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Recital A hereof.
“Distributions” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all dividends, cash, options, warrants, rights, instruments, distributions, returns of capital or principal, income, interest, profits and other property, interests (debt or equity) or proceeds, including as a result of a split, revision, reclassification or other like change of the Securities Collateral, from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed to such Pledgor in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the Collateral.
“Excluded Account” shall mean any Deposit Account or other deposit (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) which is exclusively used for, and which contains funds exclusively used for, (i) withholding tax, benefits, escrow, trust or any other fiduciary account, or (ii) payroll, payroll taxes or employee benefits, including flexible spending accounts, to the extent such funds are held for the benefit of any Person other than a Loan Party.
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“Excluded Property” shall mean (a) any fee-owned real property that is not Material Real Property and any leasehold interests in real property, (b) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title or ownership, (c) letter of credit rights, except to the extent that the filing of UCC financing statements is sufficient for perfection of security interests in such letter of credit rights, subject to all other clauses of this definition, (d) Equity Interests in any Person (other than any wholly-owned Subsidiaries) to the extent the pledge thereof is not permitted by the terms of such Person’s existing organizational or joint venture documents (without giving effect to any amendment or modification thereto made in contemplation of or in connection with such pledge or the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents), (e) any lease, license or other agreement with any Person (but not any proceeds or receivables thereof) if, to the extent and for so long as, the grant of a Lien thereon to secure the Obligations constitutes a breach of or a default under, or creates a right of termination in favor of any party (other than the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries) with respect to, such lease, license or other agreement (but only to the extent any of the foregoing is not rendered ineffective by, or is otherwise unenforceable under, the Uniform Commercial Code or any applicable Law, including any Debtor Relief Law), (f) any asset if, to the extent and for so long as the grant of a Lien thereon to secure the Obligations is prohibited by any applicable Law (other than to the extent that any such prohibition would be rendered ineffective pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable Law), (g) those assets as to which the Collateral Agent (in consultation with the Lead Borrower) reasonably determines that the costs (including any adverse tax consequences or other liabilities reasonably expected to be incurred by the Parent, the Lead Borrower or any Subsidiary) of obtaining, perfecting or maintaining a Lien on such assets exceed the fair market value thereof or the practical benefit to the Credit Parties afforded thereby, (h) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations, to the extent security interests in such licenses, franchises, charters or authorizations are prohibited or restricted by the terms thereof, (i) any “intent-to-use” application for registration of a Trademark filed pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1051, prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Lanham Act or an “Amendment to Allege Use” pursuant to Section 1(c) of the Lanham Act with respect thereto, but only if and to the extent that the granting of a security interest in such application would result in the invalidation of such application or any resulting registration; and (j) Excluded Accounts; provided that (x) all Proceeds, substitutions or replacements of any “Excluded Property” described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (j) (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or replacements would constitute “Excluded Property”) shall constitute Collateral hereunder, (y) “Excluded Property” shall not include any assets of any Grantor included in the determination of any Borrowing Base or the ABL Term Loan Borrowing Base, and (z) no property shall constitute “Excluded Property” hereunder to the extent that such property is pledged to secure the Pledgors’ obligations under the ABL Term Documents or any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the ABL Term Obligations.
“Facility Guaranty” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Recital C hereof.
“General Intangibles” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all “general intangibles,” as such term is defined in the UCC, of such Pledgor and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, (i) all of such Pledgor’s rights, title and interest in, to and under all insurance policies and Contracts, (ii) all know-how and warranties relating to any of the Collateral, (iii) any and all other rights, claims, choses-in-action and causes of action of such Pledgor against any other Person and the benefits of any and all collateral or other security given by any other Person in connection therewith, (iv) all guarantees, endorsements and indemnifications on, or of, any of the Collateral, (v) all lists, books, records, correspondence, ledgers, print-outs, files (whether in printed form or stored electronically), tapes and other papers or materials containing information relating to any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, all customer or tenant lists, identification of suppliers, data, plans, blueprints, specifications, designs, drawings, appraisals, recorded knowledge, surveys, studies, engineering reports, test reports, manuals, standards, processing standards, performance standards, catalogs, research data, computer and automatic machinery software and programs and the like, field repair data, accounting information pertaining to such
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Pledgor’s operations or any of the Collateral and all media in which or on which any of the information or knowledge or data or records may be recorded or stored and all computer programs used for the compilation or printout of such information, knowledge, records or data, (vi) all licenses, consents, permits, variances, certifications, authorizations and approvals, however characterized, of any Governmental Authority (or any Person acting on behalf of a Governmental Authority) now or hereafter acquired or held by such Pledgor pertaining to operations now or hereafter conducted by such Pledgor or any of the Collateral including, without limitation, building permits, certificates of occupancy, environmental certificates, industrial permits or licenses and certificates of operation (vii) all Payment Intangibles, (viii) all Intellectual Property, and (ix) all rights to reserves, deferred payments, deposits, refunds, indemnification of claims to the extent the foregoing relate to any Collateral, including, without limitation, Permitted Acquisitions, and claims for tax or other refunds against any Governmental Authority relating to any Collateral.
“Goodwill” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, the goodwill connected with such Pledgor’s business including, without limitation, (i) all goodwill connected with the use of and symbolized by any of the Intellectual Property in which such Pledgor has any interest, (ii) all know-how, trade secrets, customer and supplier lists, proprietary information, inventions, methods, procedures, formulae, descriptions, compositions, technical data, drawings, specifications, name plates, catalogs, confidential information and the right to limit the use or disclosure thereof by any Person, pricing and cost information, business and marketing plans and proposals, consulting agreements, engineering contracts and such other assets which relate to such goodwill and (iii) all product lines of such Pledgor’s business.
“Guarantor” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Initial Pledged Interests” shall mean, with respect to each Pledgor, all Equity Interests of each issuer described in Schedule III annexed hereto, together with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Pledgor in and to each such issuer, the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests, all options, warrants, rights, and other agreements of any issuer, and any and all interest of such Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests.
“Instruments” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all “instruments,” as such term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC, and shall include, without limitation, all promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange or acceptances.
“Intellectual Property” shall mean, collectively, the Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Licenses and Goodwill.
“Intercompany Notes” shall mean, with respect to each Pledgor, all intercompany notes described on Schedule I hereto and each intercompany note hereafter acquired by such Pledgor and all certificates, instruments or agreements evidencing such intercompany notes, and all assignments, amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, renewals, replacements or modifications thereof to the extent permitted pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Investment Property” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all “investment property,” as such term is defined in the UCC, of such Pledgor and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account, excluding, however, the Securities Collateral.
“Lead Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
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“Licenses” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all license and distribution agreements with, and covenants not to sue, any other party with respect to any Patent, Trademark or Copyright or any other patent, trademark or copyright, whether such Pledgor is a licensor or licensee, distributor or distributee under any such license or distribution agreement, including, without limitation, the license and distribution agreements listed in Schedule IV annexed hereto, together with any and all (i) renewals, extensions, supplements and continuations thereof, (ii) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect thereto including, without limitation, damages and payments for past, present or future infringements or violations thereof, (iii) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements or violations thereof and (iv) other rights to use, exploit or practice any or all of the Patents, Trademarks or Copyrights or any other patent, trademark or copyright.
“Material Real Property” shall mean any real property (including fixtures) that, individually, has a fair market value greater than or equal to $1,000,000.
“Original Borrowers” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Original Guarantors” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Paid in Full” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.02(d) of the Credit Agreement. The term “Payment in Full” shall have a correlative meaning.
“Patents” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all letters patent and patents issued or assigned to and all letters patent and patent applications made by such Pledgor (whether established or registered or recorded in the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), including, without limitation, those patents, patent applications listed in the Perfection Certificate, together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable Law with respect to such Pledgor’s use of any patents, (ii) inventions and improvements described and claimed therein, (iii) reissues, divisions, continuations, renewals, extensions and continuations-in-part thereof, (iv) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect thereto including, without limitation, damages and payments for past, present or future infringements thereof, (v) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (vi) rights to sue for past, present or future infringements thereof.
“Perfection Certificate” shall mean those certain perfection certificates dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, executed and delivered by each Pledgor in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties, and each other Perfection Certificate (which shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent) executed and delivered by the Guarantor in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of each Joinder Agreement executed in accordance with Section 3.5.
“Pledged Interests” shall mean, collectively, the Initial Pledged Interests and the Additional Pledged Interests.
“Pledged Securities” shall mean, collectively, the Pledged Interests and the Successor Interests.
“Pledgor” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
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“Secured Obligations” shall mean, collectively, the Obligations (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and the Guaranteed Obligations (as defined in the Facility Guaranty). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Guarantor, the term “Secured Obligations” shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Guarantor.
“Securities Account Control Agreement” shall mean, with respect to a Securities Account established by a Pledgor, an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, establishing control (as defined in the UCC) of such Securities Account by the Collateral Agent and whereby the bank maintaining such Securities Account agrees, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, to comply only with the instructions originated by the Collateral Agent without the further consent of any Pledgor.
“Securities Collateral” shall mean, collectively, the Pledged Securities, the Intercompany Notes and the Distributions.
“Successor Interests” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all shares of each class of the capital stock of the successor corporation or interests or certificates of the successor limited liability company, partnership or other entity owned by such Pledgor formed by or resulting from any consolidation or merger in which any Person listed in the Perfection Certificate is not the surviving entity; provided, however, that Successor Interests shall not include shares or interests possessing more than 66% of the voting power or control of all classes of capital stock or interests entitled to vote of any Subsidiary which is a first-tier CFC to the extent such pledge would result in an adverse tax consequence to the Pledgors taken as a whole.
“Trademarks” shall mean, collectively, with respect to each Pledgor, all trademarks (including service marks), slogans, logos, certification marks, trade dress, uniform resource locations (URL’s), domain names, corporate names and trade names, whether registered or unregistered, owned by or assigned to such Pledgor and all registrations and applications for the foregoing (whether statutory or common law and whether established or registered in the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), including, without limitation, the registrations and applications listed in the Perfection Certificate, together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable Law with respect to such Pledgor’s use of any trademarks, (ii) reissues, continuations, extensions and renewals thereof, (iii) income, fees, royalties, damages and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages, claims and payments for past, present or future infringements thereof, (iv) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (v) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements thereof.
SECTION 1.2. Interpretation.
The rules of interpretation specified in the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Agreement. In the event of any direct conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the terms of the Credit Agreement, the terms of the Credit Agreement shall control.
SECTION 1.3. Perfection Certificate.
The Collateral Agent and each Pledgor agree that the Perfection Certificate and all descriptions of Collateral, schedules, amendments and supplements thereto are and shall at all times remain a part of this Agreement.
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ARTICLE II
GRANT OF SECURITY AND SECURED OBLIGATIONS
SECTION 2.1. Pledge.
As collateral security for the payment and performance in full of all the Secured Obligations, each Pledgor hereby pledges and grants to the Collateral Agent for its benefit and for the benefit of the Credit Parties, a lien on and security interest in and to all of the right, title and interest of such Pledgor in, to and under all personal property and interests in property, wherever located, and whether now existing or hereafter arising or acquired from time to time (collectively, the “Collateral”), including, without limitation:
(i) all Accounts;
(ii) all Goods, including Equipment, Inventory and Fixtures;
(iii) all Documents (including, if applicable, electronic Documents), Instruments and Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic);
(iv) all Letters of Credit and Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(v) all Securities Collateral;
(vi) all Investment Property;
(vii) the Commercial Tort Claims described in the Perfection Certificate;
(viii) all General Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Intellectual Property and all Payment Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Credit Card Receivables));
(ix) all cash and all Deposit Accounts (including all DDAs) and Securities Accounts;
(x) all federal, state, provincial, municipal and other tax refunds or rebates;
(xi) all Proceeds of leases of Real Estate;
(xii) all monies, whether or not in the possession or under the control of any Agent, any Lender, or a bailee or Affiliate of any Agent or any Lender;
(xiii) all Supporting Obligations;
(xiv) all books and records relating to the Collateral; and
(xv) to the extent not covered by clauses (i) through (xiv) of this sentence, all other personal property of such Pledgor, whether tangible or intangible and all Proceeds and products of each of the foregoing and all accessions to, substitutions and replacements for, and rents, profits and products of, each of the foregoing, any and all proceeds of any insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty payable to such Pledgor from time to time with respect to any of the foregoing.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clauses (i) through (xv) above, the security interest created by this Agreement shall not extend to, and the term “Collateral” shall not include, any Excluded Property and the Pledgors shall from time to time at the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent give written notice to the Collateral Agent identifying in reasonable detail the “Excluded Property” and shall provide to the Collateral Agent such other information regarding the Excluded Property as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request.
SECTION 2.2. Security Interest.
(a) Each Pledgor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to authenticate and file in any relevant jurisdiction any financing statements (including fixture filings) and amendments thereto that contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement or amendment relating to the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) whether such Pledgor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Pledgor, (ii) any financing or continuation statements or other documents without the signature of such Pledgor where permitted by Law, including, without limitation, the filing of a financing statement describing the Collateral as “all assets of the Pledgor, whether now owned or hereafter acquired” and (iii) in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or covering Collateral constituting minerals or the like to be extracted or timber to be cut, a sufficient description of the real property to which such Collateral relates. Each Pledgor agrees to provide all information described in the immediately preceding sentence to the Collateral Agent promptly upon request.
(b) Each Pledgor hereby further authorizes the Collateral Agent to file filings
with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) or other necessary documents for the purpose of perfecting, confirming, continuing, enforcing or protecting the security interest granted by such Pledgor hereunder in any Intellectual Property, without the signature of such Pledgor, and naming such Pledgor, as debtor, and the Collateral Agent, as Credit Party.
(c) Each Pledgor hereby ratifies its authorization for the Collateral Agent to file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto, or any filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) if filed prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date.
ARTICLE III
PERFECTION; SUPPLEMENTS; FURTHER ASSURANCES;
USE OF COLLATERAL
SECTION 3.1. Delivery of Certificated Securities Collateral.
Each Pledgor represents and warrants that all certificates, agreements or instruments representing or evidencing the Securities Collateral in existence on the Second Amendment Effective Date have been delivered to the Collateral Agent in suitable form for transfer by delivery or accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank and that the Collateral Agent has a perfected first priority security interest therein. Each Pledgor hereby agrees that all certificates, agreements or instruments representing or evidencing Securities Collateral acquired by such Pledgor after the Second Amendment Effective Date, shall promptly (and in any event within three (3) Business Days) upon receipt
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thereof by such Pledgor be delivered to and held by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent pursuant hereto. All certificated Securities Collateral shall be in suitable form for transfer by delivery or shall be accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall have the right, at any time upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, to endorse, assign or otherwise transfer to or to register in the name of the Collateral Agent or any of its nominees or endorse for negotiation any or all of the Securities Collateral, without any indication that such Securities Collateral is subject to the security interest hereunder. In addition, the Collateral Agent shall have the right with written notice to exchange certificates representing or evidencing Securities Collateral for certificates of smaller or larger denominations, accompanied by instruments of transfer or assignment and letters of direction duly executed in blank.
SECTION 3.2. Perfection of Uncertificated Securities Collateral.
Each Pledgor represents and warrants that the Collateral Agent has a perfected first priority security interest in all uncertificated Pledged Interests pledged by it hereunder that is in existence on the Second Amendment Effective Date and that the applicable Organization Documents do not require the consent of the other shareholders, members, partners or other Persons to permit the Collateral Agent or its designees to be substituted for the applicable Pledgor as a shareholder, member, partner or other equity owner, as applicable, thereto. Each Pledgor hereby agrees that if any of the Pledged Interests are at any time not evidenced by certificates of ownership, then each applicable Pledgor shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law and upon the request of the Collateral Agent, cause such pledge to be recorded on the equityholder register or the books of the issuer, execute customary pledge forms or other documents necessary or reasonably requested to complete the pledge, and shall otherwise comply with the provisions of Section 5.1 hereof, and give the Collateral Agent the right to transfer such Pledged Interests under the terms hereof and provide to the Collateral Agent an opinion of counsel, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, confirming such pledge and perfection thereof. Each Pledgor hereby represents and warrants that no uncertificated Pledged Interests is a “security” for purposes of Article 8 of the UCC of the jurisdiction of organization of the issuer of such Pledged Interests. Each Pledgor agrees that it shall not opt to have any uncertificated Pledged Interests be treated as a “security” for purposes of Article 8 of the UCC of the jurisdiction of organization of the issuer of such Pledged Interests, except in accordance with Section 3.4.
SECTION 3.3. Financing Statements and Other Filings; Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest.
(a) Each Pledgor represents and warrants that all filings, registrations and recordings described on Schedule II hereto have been delivered to the Collateral Agent in completed (and, to the extent necessary or appropriate, duly executed) form for filing in each governmental, municipal or other office specified in Schedule II and have been filed in accordance with a letter agreement previously executed by the Pledgors, authorizing such pre-filing, or shall be filed, registered and recorded immediately after the date thereof. The filings, registrations and recordings described on Schedule II are all of the filings, recordings and registrations that are necessary to publish notice and protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties) in respect of all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary in any such jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable Law with respect to the filing of continuation
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statements. Each Pledgor represents and warrants that a fully executed short form hereof and/or a fully executed short form grant of security interest in Intellectual Property in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, and containing a description of all Collateral consisting of Patents and United States registered Trademarks (and Trademarks and Patents for which a United States registration is pending or otherwise applied for) and United States registered Copyrights (and Copyrights for which a United States registration is pending or otherwise applied for) has been delivered to the Collateral Agent for recording by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §261, 15 U.S.C. §1060 or 17 U.S.C. §205 and the regulations thereunder, as applicable, to protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties) in respect of all Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and other than the UCC financing statements described in the immediately prior sentence of this Section 3.3, no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary (other than such actions as are necessary to perfect the security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent with respect to any Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights (or registration or application for registration thereof) acquired or developed after the Second Amendment Effective Date).
(b) Each Pledgor agrees that at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, (i) such Pledgor will maintain the security interest created by this Agreement in the Collateral and shall defend such security interest against the claims and demands of all Persons (other than with respect to Permitted Encumbrances), (ii) such Pledgor shall furnish to the Collateral Agent from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral and such other reports in connection with the Collateral as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail and (iii) at any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Collateral Agent, such Pledgor shall promptly and duly execute and deliver, and file and have recorded, such further instruments and documents and take such further action as the Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full benefits of this Agreement and the rights and powers herein granted, including the filing of any financing statements, continuation statements and other documents (including this Agreement) under the UCC (or other applicable Laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the security interest created hereby and the execution and delivery of Blocked Account Agreements and Securities Account Control Agreements, all in form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and in such offices (including, without limitation, the United States Patent and Trademark Office) wherever required by Law to perfect, continue and maintain a valid, enforceable, first priority security interest in the Collateral as provided herein and to preserve the other rights and interests granted to the Collateral Agent hereunder, as against third parties (other than with respect to Permitted Encumbrances), with respect to the Collateral.
SECTION 3.4. Other Actions.
In order to further insure the attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Collateral Agent to enforce, the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, each Pledgor represents, warrants and agrees, in each case at such Pledgor’s own expense, with respect to the following Collateral that:
(a) Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper. As of the Second Amendment Effective Date (i) no amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral is evidenced by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper other than such Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper listed
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in the Perfection Certificate and (ii) each Instrument and each item of Tangible Chattel Paper with a book value in excess of $1,000,000 listed in Schedule V annexed hereto, to the extent requested by the Collateral Agent, has been properly endorsed, assigned and delivered to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank. If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral with a book value in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, shall be evidenced by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper, the Pledgor acquiring such Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request from time to time.
(b) Deposit Accounts. As of the Second Amendment Effective Date it has neither opened nor maintains any Deposit Accounts other than the accounts listed in the Perfection Certificate. No Pledgor shall grant Control of any Deposit Account or any Blocked Account to any Person other than the Collateral Agent. The Pledgors shall at all times comply with the cash receipt provisions set forth in Section 6.13 of the Credit Agreement.
(c) Investment Property. (i) As of the Second Amendment Effective Date (a) it has no Securities Accounts other than those listed in the Perfection Certificate or Commodity Accounts other than those listed on Schedule VI annexed hereto, (b) it does not hold, own or have any interest in any certificated securities or uncertificated securities other than those constituting Securities Collateral and those maintained in Securities Accounts listed in the Perfection Certificate and (c) it has entered into a duly authorized, executed and delivered Securities Account Control Agreement with respect to each Securities Account listed in the Perfection Certificate, as applicable.
(ii) (A) If any Pledgor shall at any time hold or acquire any certificated securities constituting Investment Property with an aggregate value in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Investment Property that is Proceeds of Collateral, other than any securities of foreign Subsidiaries not required to be pledged hereunder, such interest shall constitute Additional Pledged Shares, and such Pledgor shall promptly (a) endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent or (b) deliver such securities into a Securities Account with respect to which a Securities Account Control Agreement is in effect in favor of the Collateral Agent.
(B) Each interest in any limited liability company or limited partnership which is a Subsidiary of Parent (including, without limitation, the Lead Borrower) and pledged hereunder is not certificated or treated as a security pursuant to Section 8-103 of the UCC and each Pledgor covenants and agrees that it shall not take any action that causes or otherwise permits an interest in a limited liability company or limited partnership which is pledged hereunder to be certificated or treated as a security pursuant to Section 8-103 of the UCC; provided, that if any Pledgor takes any action in violation of the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04(c)(ii)(B), such Pledgor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent in writing of such action and, in such event, shall take all actions required by Section 5.1 and requested by the Collateral Agent with respect to such limited liability company or limited partnership interests. If any securities now or hereafter acquired by any Pledgor constituting Investment Property, other than any securities of foreign Subsidiaries not required to be pledged hereunder, are uncertificated and are issued to such Pledgor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Pledgor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either (a) cause the issuer to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent an acknowledgment of the pledge of such securities and agree to comply with
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instructions from the Collateral Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Pledgor or such nominee, (b) cause a Security Entitlement with respect to such uncertificated security to be held in a Securities Account with respect to which the Collateral Agent has Control or (c) arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. No Pledgor shall hereafter establish and maintain any Securities Account or Commodity Account with any Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary unless (1) the applicable Pledgor shall have given the Collateral Agent ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice of its intention to establish such new Securities Account or Commodity Account with such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, (2) such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary shall be reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent and (3) such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, as the case may be, and such Pledgor shall have duly executed and delivered a Control Agreement with respect to such Securities Account or Commodity Account, as the case may be.
(C) Each Pledgor shall accept any cash and Investment Property which are proceeds of the Pledged Interests or any other Collateral in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and within five (5) Business Days of actual receipt thereof, deposit any cash or Investment Property and any new securities, instruments, documents or other property by reason of ownership of the Investment Property received by it into an account in which the Collateral Agent has Control. The Collateral Agent agrees with each Pledgor that the Collateral Agent shall not give any entitlement orders or instructions or directions to any issuer of uncertificated securities, Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, and shall not withhold its consent to the exercise of any withdrawal or dealing rights by such Pledgor, unless a Cash Dominion Event has occurred and is continuing. No Pledgor shall grant Control over any Investment Property to any Person other than the Collateral Agent.
(iii) As between the Collateral Agent and the Pledgors, the Pledgors shall bear the investment risk with respect to the Investment Property and Securities Collateral, and the risk of loss of, damage to, or the destruction of the Investment Property and Securities Collateral, whether in the possession of, or maintained as a security entitlement or deposit by, or subject to the Control of, the Collateral Agent, a Securities Intermediary, Commodity Intermediary, any Pledgor or any other Person; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 3.4(c) shall release or relieve any Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary of its duties and obligations to the Pledgors or any other Person under any Control Agreement or under applicable Law. Each Pledgor shall promptly pay all Claims and fees of whatever kind or nature with respect to the Investment Property and Securities Collateral pledged by it under this Agreement. In the event any Pledgor shall fail to make such payment contemplated in the immediately preceding sentence, the Collateral Agent may do so for the account of such Pledgor and the Pledgors shall promptly reimburse and indemnify the Collateral Agent for all costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent under this Section 3.4(c) in accordance with Section 10.3 of this Agreement.
(d) Electronic Chattel Paper and Transferable Records. Except as set forth on Schedule VII hereto, as of the Second Amendment Effective Date no amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral is evidenced by any Electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record” (as that term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction). If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, shall be evidenced by any Electronic Chattel Paper or any transferable record, the Pledgor acquiring such Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable record shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and shall take such action as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to vest in the Collateral Agent control under UCC Section 9‑105 of such Electronic Chattel Paper or control under Section
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201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as so in effect in such jurisdiction, of such transferable record. The Collateral Agent agrees with such Pledgor that the Collateral Agent will arrange, pursuant to procedures reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and so long as such procedures will not result in the Collateral Agent’s loss of Control, for the Pledgor to make alterations to the Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable record permitted under UCC Section 9‑105 or, as the case may be, Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act for a party in control to allow without loss of control, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur after taking into account any action by such Pledgor with respect to such Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable record.
(e) Letter-of-Credit Rights. If such Pledgor is at any time a beneficiary under a Letter of Credit now or hereafter issued in favor of such Pledgor with a face value in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, other than a Letter of Credit issued pursuant to the Credit Agreement, such Pledgor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and such Pledgor shall, at the request of the Collateral Agent, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either (i) arrange for the issuer and any confirmer of such Letter of Credit to consent to an assignment to the Collateral Agent of the proceeds of any drawing under the Letter of Credit or (ii) arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the transferee beneficiary of such Letter of Credit, with the Collateral Agent agreeing, in each case, that the proceeds of any drawing under the Letter of Credit are to be applied as provided in the Credit Agreement.
(f) Commercial Tort Claims. As of the Second Amendment Effective Date it holds no Commercial Tort Claims other than those listed in the Perfection Certificate. If any Pledgor shall at any time hold or acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in excess of $1,000,000 individually or $10,000,000 as to all such Collateral, such Pledgor shall immediately notify the Collateral Agent in writing signed by such Pledgor of the brief details thereof and grant to the Collateral Agent in such writing a security interest therein and in the Proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
SECTION 3.5. Joinder of Additional Pledgors.
The Pledgors shall cause each direct or indirect Subsidiary of any Loan Party which, from time to time, after the Second Amendment Effective Date shall be required to pledge any assets to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties pursuant to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent a Perfection Certificate and a Joinder Agreement, in each case, within the time period required pursuant to Section 6.12 of the Credit Agreement and, upon such execution and delivery, such Subsidiary shall constitute a “Borrower” or “Guarantor” (as provided in such Joinder Agreement) and a “Pledgor” for all purposes hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Borrower or Guarantor and Pledgor herein, including, but limited to, granting the Collateral Agent a security interest in all Securities Collateral of such Subsidiary. The rights and obligations of each Pledgor hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new Borrower or Guarantor and Pledgor as a party to this Agreement.
SECTION 3.6. Supplements; Further Assurances.
Each Pledgor shall take such further actions, and execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent such Collateral Access Agreements or additional assignments, agreements, supplements, powers and
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instruments, as the Collateral Agent may in its reasonable judgment deem necessary or appropriate, wherever required by Law, in order to perfect, preserve and protect the security interest in the Collateral as provided herein and the rights and interests granted to the Collateral Agent hereunder, to carry into effect the purposes hereof or better to assure and confirm unto the Collateral Agent or permit the Collateral Agent to exercise and enforce its rights, powers and remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Pledgor shall make, execute, endorse, acknowledge, file or refile and/or deliver to the Collateral Agent from time to time upon reasonable request of the Collateral Agent such lists, descriptions and designations of the Collateral, copies of warehouse receipts, receipts in the nature of warehouse receipts, bills of lading, documents of title, vouchers, invoices, schedules, confirmatory assignments, supplements, additional security agreements, conveyances, financing statements, transfer endorsements, powers of attorney, certificates, reports and other assurances or instruments. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Collateral Agent may institute and maintain, in its own name or in the name of any Pledgor, such suits and proceedings as the Collateral Agent may be advised by counsel shall be necessary or expedient to prevent any impairment of the security interest in or the perfection thereof in the Collateral. All of the foregoing shall be at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors. The Pledgors and the Collateral Agent acknowledge that this Agreement is intended to grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties a security interest in and Lien upon the Collateral and shall not constitute or create a present assignment of any of the Collateral.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
Each Pledgor represents, warrants and covenants as follows:
SECTION 4.1. Title.
To the Knowledge of Lead Borrower’s Senior Executive Officers, no financing statement or other public notice with respect to all or any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any public office, except such as have been filed in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement or as are permitted by the Credit Agreement. No Person other than the Collateral Agent has Control or possession of all or any part of the Collateral, except as permitted by the Credit Agreement. No Pledgor has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing statement or analogous document under the UCC or any other applicable Laws covering any Collateral, (ii) any assignment or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, (iii) any notice under the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, 31 U.S.C. § 3727(c), as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute, or (iv) any assignment or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or other office, which financing statement or analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument is still in effect, except, in each case, for Permitted Encumbrances.
SECTION 4.2. Limitation on Liens; Defense of Claims; Transferability of Collateral.
Each Pledgor is as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, and, as to Collateral acquired by it from time to time after the Second Amendment Effective Date, such Pledgor will be, the sole direct and beneficial owner of all Collateral pledged by it hereunder free from any Lien or other right, title or interest of any Person other than the Liens and security interest created by this Agreement and Permitted Encumbrances. Each Pledgor shall, at its own cost and expense, defend title to the Collateral pledged by it hereunder and the security interest therein and Lien thereon granted to the Collateral Agent and the priority thereof against all claims and demands of all Persons, at its own cost and expense, at any time claiming any interest therein adverse to the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party other than Permitted
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Encumbrances; provided, however, that no Pledgor shall be required to take any such action pursuant to this sentence, the cost of which action the Collateral Agent (in consultation with the Lead Borrower) reasonably determines exceeds the practical benefit to the Credit Parties afforded thereby. As of the Second Amendment Effective Date, except as permitted by the Credit Agreement, there is no agreement, and, after the Second Amendment Effective Date, no Pledgor shall enter into any agreement or take any other action, that would restrict the transferability of any of the Collateral or otherwise impair or conflict with such Pledgors’ obligations or the rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder.
SECTION 4.3. Chief Executive Office; Change of Name; Jurisdiction of Organization.
(a) The exact legal name, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization, Federal Taxpayer Identification Number, organizational identification number and chief executive office of such Pledgor is indicated in the Perfection Certificate. Such Pledgor shall furnish to the Collateral Agent prompt written notice of any change in (i) its corporate name, (ii) the location of its chief executive office, its principal place of business, any office in which it maintains books or records relating to Collateral owned by it or any office or facility at which Collateral owned by it is located (including the establishment of any such new office or facility), (iii) its identity or type of organization or corporate structure, (iv) its Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification number or (v) its jurisdiction of organization or formation (in each case, including, without limitation, by merging with or into any other entity, reorganizing, dissolving, liquidating, reincorporating or incorporating in any other jurisdiction). Such Pledgor agrees (A) not to effect or permit any such change unless all filings have been made under the UCC or otherwise that are required in order for the Collateral Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected first priority security interest in all the Collateral (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) and (B) to take all action reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties in the Collateral intended to be granted hereunder. Each Pledgor agrees to promptly provide the Collateral Agent with certified organizational documents reflecting any of the changes described in the preceding sentence.
(b) The Collateral Agent may rely on opinions of counsel as to whether any or all UCC financing statements of the Pledgors need to be amended as a result of any of the changes described in Section 4.3(a). If any Pledgor fails to provide information to the Collateral Agent about such changes on a timely basis, the Collateral Agent shall not be liable or responsible to any party for any failure to maintain a perfected security interest in such Pledgor’s property constituting Collateral, for which the Collateral Agent needed to have information relating to such changes. The Collateral Agent shall have no duty to inquire about such changes if any Pledgor does not inform the Collateral Agent of such changes, the parties acknowledging and agreeing that it would not be feasible or practical for the Collateral Agent to search for information on such changes if such information is not provided by any Pledgor.
SECTION 4.4. Location of Inventory and Equipment.
As of the Second Amendment Effective Date, all Equipment and Inventory of such Pledgor is located at the chief executive office or such other location listed in the Perfection Certificate (other than (i) Equipment and Inventory in transit to or between such locations, (ii) Equipment and Inventory in possession of employees in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice, (iii) Equipment customarily used to transport people or goods, and (iv) Equipment at other locations in connection with the repair or refurbishment thereof).
SECTION 4.5. Condition and Maintenance of Equipment.
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The Equipment of such Pledgor is in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. Each Pledgor shall cause the Equipment to be maintained and preserved in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and shall as quickly as commercially reasonable make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements which are necessary in the conduct of such Pledgor’s business except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.6. Due Authorization and Issuance.
All of the Initial Pledged Interests have been, and to the extent any Pledged Interests are hereafter issued, such shares will be, upon such issuance, duly authorized, validly issued and, to the extent applicable, fully paid and non-assessable. All of the Initial Pledged Interests have been fully paid for, and there is no amount or other obligation owing by any Pledgor to any issuer of the Initial Pledged Interests in exchange for or in connection with the issuance of the Initial Pledged Interests or any Pledgor’s status as a partner or a member of any issuer of the Initial Pledged Interests, nor shall there be in the future to the extent any Pledged Interests are hereafter issued.
SECTION 4.7. No Claims.
Each Pledgor owns or has rights to use all of the Collateral pledged by it hereunder and all rights with respect to any of the foregoing used in, necessary for or material to such Pledgor’s business as currently conducted. The use by such Pledgor of such Collateral and all such rights with respect to the foregoing do not infringe on the rights of any Person other than such infringement which would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. No claim has been made and remains outstanding that such Pledgor’s use of any Collateral does or may violate the rights of any third Person that would individually, or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.8. No Conflicts, Consents, etc.
No consent of any party (including, without limitation, equity holders or creditors of such Pledgor) and no consent, authorization, approval, license or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or regulatory body or other Person is required (A) for the pledge by such Pledgor of the Collateral pledged by it pursuant to this Agreement or for the execution, delivery or performance hereof by such Pledgor, (B) for the exercise by the Collateral Agent of the voting or other rights provided for in this Agreement or (C) for the exercise by the Collateral Agent of the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement. Following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, if the Collateral Agent desires to exercise any remedies, voting or consensual rights or attorney-in-fact powers set forth in this Agreement and determines it necessary to obtain any approvals or consents of any Governmental Authority or any other Person therefor, then, upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, such Pledgor agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to assist and aid the Collateral Agent to obtain as soon as commercially practicable any necessary approvals or consents for the exercise of any such remedies, rights and powers.
SECTION 4.9. Collateral.
All information set forth herein, including the schedules annexed hereto, and all information contained in any documents, schedules and lists heretofore delivered to any Credit Party in connection with this Agreement, in each case, relating to the Collateral, is accurate and complete in all material respects. The Collateral described on the schedules annexed hereto and as set forth in the Perfection Certificate (to the extent required to be described herein) constitutes all of the property of such type of Collateral owned or held by the Pledgors. Pledgor shall provide prompt notice of any changes to
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the information disclosed on all schedules to this Agreement (specifying the specific schedule that is being revised).
SECTION 4.10. Insurance.
Each Pledgor shall (i) maintain or shall cause to be maintained such insurance as is required pursuant to Section 6.07 of the Credit Agreement; (ii) maintain such other insurance as may be required by applicable Law; and (ii) furnish to the Collateral Agent full information as to the insurance carried as and when required pursuant to Section 6.02(g) of the Credit Agreement. Each Pledgor hereby irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Collateral Agent) as such Pledgor’s true and lawful agent (and attorney-in-fact), exercisable only after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, for the purpose of making, settling and adjusting claims in respect of the Collateral under policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Pledgor on any check, draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with respect thereto. In the event that any Pledgor at any time or times shall fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required hereby or to pay any premium in whole or in part relating thereto, the Collateral Agent may, without waiving or releasing any obligation or liability of the Pledgors hereunder or any Default or Event of Default, in its sole discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premium and take any other actions with respect thereto as the Collateral Agent deems advisable in accordance with Section 10.2 of this Agreement. All sums disbursed by the Collateral Agent in connection with this Section 4.10, including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall be payable, upon demand, by the Pledgors to the Collateral Agent and shall be additional Secured Obligations secured hereby.
SECTION 4.11. Payment of Taxes; Compliance with Laws; Contested Liens; Claims.
Each Pledgor represents and warrants that all Claims imposed upon or assessed against the Collateral have been paid and discharged except to the extent such Claims constitute (i) a Lien not yet due and payable, (ii) a Permitted Encumbrance, or (iii) are being contested by the Pledgor as set forth in Section 6.04 of the Credit Agreement. Each Pledgor shall comply with all applicable Law relating to the Collateral, unless the failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Each Pledgor may at its own expense contest the validity, amount or applicability of any Claims so long as the contest thereof shall be conducted in accordance with, and permitted pursuant to the provisions of, the Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.11, no contest of any such obligation may be pursued by such Pledgor if such contest would expose the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party to (i) any possible criminal liability or (ii) any additional civil liability for failure to comply with such obligations unless such Pledgor shall have furnished a bond or other security therefor satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, or such Credit Party, as the case may be.
SECTION 4.12. Access to Collateral, Books and Records; Other Information.
The Collateral Agent and its representatives may examine the Collateral in accordance with Section 6.10 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 4.13. Third Party Consents.
Each Pledgor shall use reasonable commercial efforts to obtain the consent of third parties to the extent such consent is necessary or desirable to create a valid, perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent in any Collateral.
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ARTICLE V
CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING SECURITIES COLLATERAL
SECTION 5.1. Pledge of Additional Securities Collateral.
Each Pledgor shall, upon obtaining any Securities Collateral of any Person required to be pledged hereunder, accept the same in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and forthwith deliver to the Collateral Agent a pledge amendment, duly executed by such Pledgor, in substantially the form of Exhibit 1 annexed hereto (each, a “Pledge Amendment”), and the certificates and other documents required under Section 3.1 and Section 3.2 hereof in respect of the additional Securities Collateral which are to be pledged pursuant to this Agreement, and confirming the attachment of the Lien hereby created on and in respect of such additional Securities Collateral. Each Pledgor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to attach each Pledge Amendment to this Agreement and agrees that all Securities Collateral listed on any Pledge Amendment delivered to the Collateral Agent (or, subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, to the ABL Term Loan Agent, on behalf of the Collateral Agent) shall for all purposes hereunder be considered Collateral.
SECTION 5.2. Voting Rights; Distributions; etc.
(i) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Pledgor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Securities Collateral or any part thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms or purposes hereof, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document evidencing the Secured Obligations. The Collateral Agent shall be deemed without further action or formality to have granted to each Pledgor all necessary consents relating to voting rights and shall, if necessary, upon written request of any Pledgor and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, from time to time execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to such Pledgor all such instruments as such Pledgor may reasonably request in order to permit such Pledgor to exercise the voting and other rights which it is entitled to exercise pursuant to this Section 5.2(i).
(ii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, all rights of each Pledgor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 5.2(i) hereof without any action, other than, in the case of any Securities Collateral, or the giving of any notice shall immediately cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall thereupon have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual rights; provided that the Collateral Agent shall have the right, in its sole discretion, from time to time following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default to permit such Pledgor to exercise such rights under Section 5.2(i). After such Event of Default is no longer continuing, each Pledgor shall have the right to exercise the voting, managerial and other consensual rights and powers that it would otherwise be entitled to pursuant to Section 5.2(i) hereof.
(iii) So long as no Cash Dominion Event shall have occurred and be continuing, each Pledgor shall be entitled to receive and retain, and to utilize free and clear of the Lien hereof, any and all Distributions, but only if and to the extent made in accordance with, and to the extent permitted by, the provisions of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, any and all such Distributions consisting of rights or interests in the form of securities shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent to hold as Collateral and shall, if received by any Pledgor, be received in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, be segregated from the other property or funds of such Pledgor and be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent as Collateral in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement). The Collateral Agent shall, if necessary, upon written request of any Pledgor and
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at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, from time to time execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to such Pledgor all such instruments as such Pledgor may reasonably request in order to permit such Pledgor to receive the Distributions which it is authorized to receive and retain pursuant to this Section 5.2(iii).
(iv) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Cash Dominion Event, all rights of each Pledgor to receive Distributions which it would otherwise be authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 5.2(iii) hereof shall cease and, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall thereupon have the sole right to receive and hold as Collateral such Distributions. After such Cash Dominion Event is no longer continuing, each Pledgor shall have the right to receive the Distributions which it would be authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 5.2(iii).
(v) Each Pledgor shall, at its sole cost and expense, from time to time execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent appropriate instruments as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to permit the Collateral Agent to exercise the voting and other rights which it may be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 5.2(ii) hereof and to receive all Distributions which it may be entitled to receive under Section 5.2(iii) hereof.
(vi) All Distributions which are received by any Pledgor contrary to the provisions of Section 5.2(iii) hereof shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, shall be segregated from other funds of such Pledgor and shall, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, immediately be paid over to the Collateral Agent as Collateral in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement).
(vii) Each Pledgor hereby authorizes and instructs each issuer of any Securities Collateral pledged by such Pledgor hereunder to comply with any instruction regarding Collateral Agent’s rights under this Section 5.2 without any other or further instructions from such Pledgor, and each Pledgor agrees that each issuer shall be fully protected in so complying and shall have no duty or right to inquire as to the Collateral Agent’s authority to give such instruction, including the payment of any dividends or other payments with respect to the Securities Collateral directly to the Collateral Agent.
(viii) Each Pledgor hereby grants to Collateral Agent or its nominee, on behalf of Secured Parties, an irrevocable proxy until such time as all Obligations are Paid in Full, in cash, to exercise all voting and membership rights relating to the Securities Collateral in any instance, which proxy shall be coupled with an interest and only be exercisable upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default. Each Pledgor covenants and agrees that prior to the expiration of such irrevocable proxy pursuant to applicable law, such Pledgor will reaffirm such irrevocable proxy in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent. Upon the reasonable request of Collateral Agent, such Pledgor agrees to deliver to Collateral Agent, on behalf of Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, such further evidence of such irrevocable proxy or such further irrevocable proxies to vote the Securities Collateral as Collateral Agent may reasonably request.
SECTION 5.3. Organization Documents.
Each Pledgor has delivered to the Collateral Agent true, correct and complete copies of its Organization Documents. The Organization Documents are in full force and effect and have not as of the Second Amendment Effective Date been amended or modified except as disclosed to the Collateral Agent. Except as otherwise permitted under Section 7.04 of the Credit Agreement, no Pledgor will terminate or agree to terminate any Organization Documents or make any amendment or modification to
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any Organization Documents, including electing to treat any Pledged Interests of such Pledgor as a security under Section 8‑103 of the UCC.
SECTION 5.4. Defaults, etc.
Such Pledgor is not in default in the payment of any portion of any mandatory capital contribution, if any, required to be made under any agreement to which such Pledgor is a party relating to the Securities Collateral pledged by it, and such Pledgor is not in violation of any other provisions of any such agreement to which such Pledgor is a party, or otherwise in default or violation thereunder. No Securities Collateral pledged by such Pledgor is subject to any defense, offset or counterclaim, nor have any of the foregoing been asserted or alleged against such Pledgor by any Person with respect thereto, and as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, there are no certificates, instruments, documents or other writings (other than the Organization Documents and certificates, if any, delivered to the Collateral Agent or the ABL Term Agent acting as bailee for the Collateral Agent pursuant to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement)) which evidence any Securities Collateral of such Pledgor.
SECTION 5.5. Certain Agreements of Pledgors As Issuers and Holders of Equity Interests.
(i) In the case of each Pledgor which is an issuer of Securities Collateral, such Pledgor agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement relating to the Securities Collateral issued by it and will comply with such terms insofar as such terms are applicable to it.
(ii) In the case of each Pledgor which is a partner in a partnership, limited liability company or other entity, such Pledgor hereby consents to the extent required by the applicable Organization Documents to the pledge by each other Pledgor, pursuant to the terms hereof, of the Pledged Interests in such partnership, limited liability company or other entity and, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to the transfer of such Pledged Interests to the Collateral Agent or its nominee and to the substitution of the Collateral Agent or its nominee as a substituted partner or member in such partnership, limited liability company or other entity with all the rights, powers and duties of a general partner or a limited partner or member, as the case may be.
ARTICLE VI
CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY COLLATERAL
SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties with respect to Intellectual Property.
(i) Except pursuant to licenses and other user agreements entered into by any Pledgor in the ordinary course of business and licenses that are listed in Schedule IV, (i) each Pledgor owns and possesses the right to use, and has done nothing to authorize or enable any other Person to use, any Material Intellectual Property listed in the Perfection Certificate, and (ii) all Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor is valid, subsisting and, to the best of such Pledgor’s knowledge, enforceable by and in the name of such Pledgor, and has not been abandoned, or allowed to lapse, expire or become dedicated to the public.
(ii) Each Pledgor is the sole and exclusive beneficial and record owner of the entire right, title, and interest in and to all Intellectual Property listed as owned by such Pledgor as of the Second
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Amendment Effective Date in the Perfection Certificate (and, with respect to the Perfection Certificate as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as of the date of delivery of the most recent Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(c) of the Credit Agreement). Such Pledgor has performed all necessary acts and has paid all registration, renewal and maintenance fees required to maintain each and every registration and application of Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor in full force and effect.
(iii) Except as could not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, to the best of each Pledgor’s knowledge, the use of the Intellectual Property owned by each Pledgor and the conduct of such Pledgor’s business does not infringe on the Intellectual Property rights of any Person. No written claim has been asserted and is pending or, to the best of such Pledgor’s knowledge, has been threatened, by any Person challenging any Pledgor’s use of any Intellectual Property, nor does any Pledgor know of any valid basis for any such claim, except as could not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole.
(iv) Except as set forth on Schedule IV, on the Second Amendment Effective Date, (a) none of the Intellectual Property owned by any Pledgor is the subject of any material licensing agreement pursuant to which such Pledgor is the licensor (other than any Intellectual Property license agreements entered into by such Pledgor in the ordinary course of business that are not material to such Pledgor’s business) and (b) no settlement or consents, covenants not to sue, nonassertion assurances, or releases have been entered into by such Pledgor or to which such Pledgor is bound adversely affect such Pledgor’s rights to own or use any Material Intellectual Property, and such Pledgor has not made a previous assignment, sale, transfer or agreement constituting or contemplating a present or future assignment, sale or transfer of any Material Intellectual Property owned by such Pledgor that has not been terminated or released.
(v) No holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any Governmental Authority which limits the validity of (other than office actions issued in the ordinary course of prosecution of any pending applications for Patents or applications for registration of other Intellectual Property), or any Pledgor’s ownership or rights to use, any Intellectual Property, except, in each case, as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole.
(vi) No action or proceeding is pending, or, to the knowledge of each Pledgor, threatened, against any Pledgor on the Second Amendment Effective Date seeking to limit the validity of any Intellectual Property owned by any Pledgor or any Pledgor’s ownership interest therein or right to register the same (other than office actions issued in the ordinary course of prosecution of any pending applications for Patents or applications for registration of other Intellectual Property), which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, or result in a Material Adverse Effect. To each Pledgor’s knowledge, on and as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, there is no material violation by others of any right of such Pledgor with respect to any Intellectual Property listed in the Perfection Certificate, respectively, pledged by it under the name of such Pledgor.
SECTION 6.2. Protection of Collateral Agent’s Security.
(i) On a continuing basis, each Pledgor shall, at its sole cost and expense, (a) promptly following its becoming aware thereof, notify the Collateral Agent of (x) any materially adverse
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determination in any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office with respect to any Material Intellectual Property or (y) the institution of any proceeding or any adverse determination in any Federal, state or local court or administrative body regarding such Pledgor’s claim of ownership in or right to use any Material Intellectual Property, its right to register such Intellectual Property or its right to keep and maintain such registration in full force and effect, (b) maintain and protect the Material Intellectual Property as presently used and operated and as contemplated by the Credit Agreement, and, with respect to each Trademark that is owned by such Pledgor and material to the conduct of such Pledgor’s Business, (x) maintain the quality of products and services offered under each Trademark in substantially the same manner as in effect as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, (y) display such Trademark with notice of Federal or foreign registration to the extent necessary and required to preserve its rights under applicable Law, and (z) not knowingly use such Trademark in violation of any third party rights, (c) continue to mark any products covered by a Patent with the relevant patent number as necessary or advisable to preserve its rights under applicable patent Laws, in accordance with such prudent and standard practice used in industries that are the same as or similar to those in which such Patent is engaged, (d) for each work covered by a material registered Copyright that is owned by such Pledgor, continue to publish, reproduce, display, adopt and distribute the work with copyright notices as necessary or advisable to preserve its rights under applicable copyright Laws, (e) not permit to lapse or become abandoned any Material Intellectual Property as presently used and operated and as contemplated by the Credit Agreement, and not settle or compromise any pending or future litigation or administrative proceeding with respect to such Intellectual Property, in each case except as shall be consistent with commercially reasonable business judgment and, if any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, with the prior approval of the Collateral Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), (f) upon such Pledgor obtaining knowledge thereof, promptly notify the Collateral Agent in writing of (x) the abandonment, expiration, lapse, loss or dedication to the public of any Material Intellectual Property business and owned by such Pledgor (other than as a result of abandonment or other disposition that is, in the reasonable judgment of such Pledgor, no longer economically practicable to maintain or material in the conduct of the business of all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole), or of any materially adverse determination or development (including the institution of any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any court or similar office of any country) regarding such Pledgor’s ownership of any Patent, Trademark or Copyright, its right to register the same, or its right to keep and maintain the same, and (y) any other event which may be reasonably expected to materially and adversely affect the value or utility of the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof material to the use and operation of the Collateral, the ability of such Pledgor or the Collateral Agent to dispose of the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof or the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent in relation thereto including, without limitation, a levy or threat of levy or any legal process against the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof, (g) not license the Intellectual Property other than licenses entered into by such Pledgor in, or incidental to, the ordinary course of business, or amend or permit the amendment of any of the licenses that are Material Intellectual Property in a manner that materially and adversely affects the right to receive payments thereunder, or in any manner that would materially impair the value of the Intellectual Property or the Lien on and security interest in the Intellectual Property intended to be granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties, without the consent of the Collateral Agent, (h) until the Collateral Agent exercises its rights to make collection, diligently keep adequate records respecting the Intellectual Property and (i) furnish to the Collateral Agent from time to time upon the Collateral Agent’s reasonable request therefor detailed statements and amended schedules further identifying and describing the Intellectual Property and such other materials evidencing or reports pertaining to the Intellectual Property as the Collateral Agent may from time to time request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent any Pledgor from selling, disposing of or otherwise using any Intellectual Property as permitted under the Credit Agreement.
(ii) Each Pledgor will take such steps that are, in the good business judgment of such Pledgor, consistent with its past practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark
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Office, United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States or in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue each material application relating to the Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights (and to obtain the relevant grant or registration) and to maintain each issued Patent and each registration of the Trademarks and Copyrights that constitute Material Intellectual Property, including timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if consistent with such Pledgor’s good business judgment, to initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties unless such Pledgor shall have previously determined that such use or the pursuit or maintenance of such Patent, Trademark and/or Copyright is no longer necessary or advisable in the conduct of such Pledgor’s business and that the loss thereof could not reasonably be expected to impair or interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business conducted by all of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, in which case such Pledgor will give prompt notice of any such abandonment to the Collateral Agent.
(iii) In the event that any Pledgor knows or has reason to believe that any Material Intellectual Property has been infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated by a third person, such Pledgor promptly shall notify the Collateral Agent and shall, if consistent with such Pledgor’s good business judgment, take such actions as such Pledgor deems reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances to protect or enforce such Collateral including, without limitation, to sue for infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, to seek an injunction against such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, and to recover any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation.
(iv) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Pledgor shall use its best efforts to obtain all requisite consents or approvals by the licensor of each material License, to effect the assignment of all such Pledgor’s right, title and interest thereunder to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Credit Parties, or its designee; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Pledgor shall be required to make any payments to secure such consent or approval.
SECTION 6.3. After-Acquired Property.
If any Pledgor shall, at any time before the Payment in Full of the Obligations, (i) obtain any rights to any additional Intellectual Property or (ii) become entitled to the benefit of any additional Intellectual Property or any renewal or extension thereof, including any reissue, division, continuation, or continuation-in-part of any Intellectual Property, or any improvement on any Intellectual Property, the provisions hereof shall automatically apply thereto and any such item enumerated in clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 6.3 with respect to such Pledgor shall automatically constitute Intellectual Property if such would have constituted Intellectual Property at the time of execution hereof and be subject to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement without further action by any party. With respect to any federally registered Intellectual Property, each Pledgor shall promptly (i) provide to the Collateral Agent written notice of any of the foregoing and (ii) confirm the attachment of the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement to any rights described in clauses (i) and (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 6.3 by execution of an instrument in form reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent.
SECTION 6.4. Modifications.
Each Pledgor authorizes the Collateral Agent to modify this Agreement by (i) amending the Perfection Certificate to include any Intellectual Property acquired or arising after the Second Amendment Effective Date of such Pledgor including, without limitation, any of the items listed in Section 6.3 hereof, and (ii) taking all such further actions in accordance with Article III herein or any other section herein as necessary to perfect Collateral Agent’s security interest.
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SECTION 6.5. Litigation.
Unless there shall occur and be continuing any Event of Default, each Pledgor shall have the right to commence and prosecute in its own name, as the party in interest, for its own benefit and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, such applications for protection of the Intellectual Property and suits, proceedings or other actions to prevent the infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution, diminution in value or other damage as are necessary to protect the Intellectual Property. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Collateral Agent shall have the right but shall in no way be obligated to file applications for protection of the Intellectual Property and/or bring suit in the name of any Pledgor, the Collateral Agent or the Credit Parties to enforce the Intellectual Property and any license thereunder. In the event of such suit, each Pledgor shall, at the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, do any and all lawful acts and execute any and all documents requested by the Collateral Agent in aid of such enforcement and the Pledgors shall promptly reimburse and indemnify the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, for all costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent in the exercise of its rights under this Section 6.5 in accordance with Section 10.3 hereof. In the event that the Collateral Agent shall elect not to bring suit to enforce the Intellectual Property, each Pledgor agrees, at the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, to take all commercially reasonable actions necessary, whether by suit, proceeding or other action, to prevent the infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution, diminution in value of or other damage to any of the Intellectual Property by others and for that purpose agrees to diligently maintain any suit, proceeding or other action against any Person so infringing necessary to prevent such infringement.
SECTION 6.6. Websites and Domain Names.
(a) Each Pledgor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain, preserve and protect their rights and interests and the rights and interests of the Collateral Agent with respect to all material domain names of the Pledgors and their Subsidiaries, including, making all necessary filings, registrations and applications with the appropriate domain name registrars and paying all fees, costs and expenses associated therewith.
(b) Each Pledgor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain in effect all domain name registrations which are material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, with an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and not permit any such registrations to lapse or to be cancelled, abandoned or terminated.
(c) Set forth on Schedule IV is a complete list of all domain names of the Pledgors material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, including the domain name registrar. Each domain name set forth on Schedule IV is, as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, duly registered with the domain name registrar set forth on Schedule IV opposite such domain name and has not been registered with any other domain name registrar. The Pledgors own and have marketable title to all their domain names material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole, and to the knowledge of the Pledgors, the use thereof on any of their websites by the Pledgors does not infringe on, violate or misappropriate the rights of any other Person, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The domain names set forth on Schedule IV have been maintained and renewed in accordance in all material respects with all applicable Laws and all applicable rules and procedures of each domain name registrar and ICANN. The Pledgors have taken, in their good faith business judgment, commercially reasonable steps to protect their rights and interests in and to their websites and domain names, in each case, material to the conduct of business of the Pledgors, taken as a whole. To the best knowledge of the Lead Borrower, no Person has gained
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unauthorized access to the Pledgors’ websites or data stored thereon (including any customer data), in each case, which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
ARTICLE VII
CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING CREDIT CARD RECEIVABLES
SECTION 7.1. Special Representations and Warranties.
All Credit Card Receivables and all records, papers and documents relating thereto (i) are genuine and correct and in all material respects what they purport to be, (ii) represent the legal, valid and binding obligation of the account debtor, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability, evidencing indebtedness unpaid and owed by such account debtor, arising out of the performance of labor or services or the sale, lease, license, assignment or other disposition and delivery of the goods or other property listed therein or out of an advance or a loan, (iii) are in all material respects in compliance and conform with all applicable material Federal, state and local Laws and applicable Laws of any relevant foreign jurisdiction.
SECTION 7.2. Maintenance of Records.
Each Pledgor shall keep and maintain at its own cost and expense materially complete records of each Credit Card Receivable, in a manner consistent with past practice, including, without limitation, records of all payments received, all credits granted thereon, all merchandise returned and all other documentation relating thereto. Each Pledgor shall, at such Pledgor’s sole cost and expense, upon the Collateral Agent’s demand made at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, deliver all tangible evidence of Credit Card Receivables, including, without limitation, all documents evidencing Credit Card Receivables and any books and records relating thereto to the Collateral Agent or to its representatives (copies of which evidence and books and records may be retained by such Pledgor). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Collateral Agent may transfer a full and complete copy of any Pledgor’s books, records, credit information, reports, memoranda and all other writings relating to the Credit Card Receivables to and for the use by any Person that has acquired or is contemplating acquisition of an interest in the Credit Card Receivables or the Collateral Agent’s security interest therein without the consent of any Pledgor.
SECTION 7.3. Legend.
Each Pledgor shall legend, at the request of the Collateral Agent made at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and in form and manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, the Credit Card Receivables and the other books, records and documents of such Pledgor evidencing or pertaining to the Credit Card Receivables with an appropriate reference to the fact that the Credit Card Receivables have been assigned to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Credit Parties and that the Collateral Agent has a security interest therein.
SECTION 7.4. Modification of Terms, etc.
No Pledgor shall rescind or cancel any indebtedness evidenced by any Credit Card Receivable or modify any term thereof or make any adjustment with respect thereto, extend or renew any such indebtedness, compromise or settle any dispute, claim, suit or legal proceeding relating thereto, or sell
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any Credit Card Receivable or interest therein, except, in each such case, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent.
SECTION 7.5. Collection.
Each Pledgor shall cause to be collected from the account debtor of each of the Credit Card Receivables, as and when due in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, Credit Card Receivables that are delinquent, such Credit Card Receivables to be collected in accordance with generally accepted commercial collection procedures), any and all Credit Card Receivables owing under or on account of such Credit Card Receivable, and apply forthwith upon receipt thereof all such amounts as are so collected to the outstanding balance of such Credit Card Receivable. The costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees) of collection, in any case, whether incurred by any Pledgor, the Collateral Agent or any Credit Party in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, shall be paid by the Pledgors.
ARTICLE VIII
REMEDIES
SECTION 8.1. Remedies.
(a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Collateral Agent may, or at the request of the Required Lenders, shall, from time to time in respect of the Collateral, in addition to the other rights and remedies provided for herein, in the other Loan Documents, under applicable Law or otherwise available to it:
(i) Personally, or by agents or attorneys, immediately take possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, from any Pledgor or any other Person who then has possession of any part thereof with or without notice or process of Law, and for that purpose may enter upon any Pledgor’s premises where any of the Collateral is located, remove such Collateral, remain present at such premises to receive copies of all communications and remittances relating to the Collateral and use in connection with such removal and possession any and all services, supplies, aids and other facilities of any Pledgor;
(ii) Demand, sue for, collect or receive any money or property at any time payable or receivable in respect of the Collateral including, without limitation, instructing the obligor or obligors on any agreement, instrument or other obligation constituting part of the Collateral to make any payment required by the terms of such agreement, instrument or other obligation directly to the Collateral Agent, and in connection with any of the foregoing, compromise, settle, extend the time for payment and make other modifications with respect thereto; provided, however, that in the event that any such payments are made directly to any Pledgor, prior to receipt by any such obligor of such instruction, such Pledgor shall segregate all amounts received pursuant thereto in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and shall promptly pay such amounts to the Collateral Agent;
(iii) Sell, assign, grant a license to use or otherwise liquidate, or direct any Pledgor to sell, assign, grant a license to use or otherwise liquidate, any and all investments made in whole or in part with the Collateral or any part thereof, and take possession of the proceeds of any such sale, assignment, license or liquidation;
(iv) Take possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, by directing any Pledgor in writing to assemble the collateral in any place or places so designated by the Collateral Agent in accordance
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with Section 9-609 of the UCC, in which event such Pledgor shall at its own expense: (A) forthwith cause the same to be moved to the place or places designated by the Collateral Agent and there delivered to the Collateral Agent, (B) store and keep any Collateral so delivered to the Collateral Agent at such place or places pending further action by the Collateral Agent and (C) while the Collateral shall be so stored and kept, provide such security and maintenance services as shall be necessary to protect the same and to preserve and maintain them in good condition. Time is of the essence regarding each Pledgor’s obligation to deliver the Collateral as contemplated in this Section 8.1(a)(iv). Upon application to a court of equity having jurisdiction, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to a decree requiring specific performance by any Pledgor of such obligation;
(v) Withdraw all moneys, instruments, securities and other property in any bank, financial securities, deposit or other account of any Pledgor constituting Collateral for application to the Secured Obligations as provided in Article IX hereof;
(vi) Retain and apply the Distributions to the Secured Obligations as provided in Article IX hereof;
(vii) Exercise any and all rights as beneficial and legal owner of the Collateral, including, without limitation, perfecting assignment of and exercising any and all voting, consensual and other rights and powers with respect to any Collateral; and
(viii) Subject to the valid and enforceable terms of (x) any lease, or (y) any other written restriction against such premises (including Collateral Access Agreements in favor of the Collateral Agent with respect to such premises), the Collateral Agent shall have the right to conduct such sales on any Pledgor’s premises and shall have the right to use any Pledgor’s premises without charge for such sales for such time or times as the Collateral Agent may see fit;
(ix) With respect to any Collateral consisting of Inventory, Goods, and Equipment, the Collateral Agent may conduct one or more going out of business sales in the name of the Pledgors, or in the Collateral Agent’s own right, or by one or more agents and contractors. Such sale(s) may, subject to the valid and enforceable terms of (x) any lease, or (y) any other written restriction against such premises (including Collateral Access Agreements in favor of the Collateral Agent with respect to such premises), be conducted upon any premises owned, leased, or occupied by any Pledgor, without charge for such sales for such time or times as the Collateral Agent may see fit. The Collateral Agent and any such agent or contractor, in conjunction with any such sale, may augment the Inventory with other goods (all of which other goods shall remain the sole property of the Collateral Agent or such agent or contractor). Any amounts realized from the sale of such goods which constitute augmentations to the Inventory (net of an allocable share of the costs and expenses incurred in their disposition) shall be the sole property of the Collateral Agent or such agent or contractor and neither any Pledgor nor any Person claiming under or in right of any Pledgor shall have any interest therein. Each purchaser at any such going out of business sale shall hold the property sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of any Pledgor.
(x) with respect to any Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property, promptly following demand, cause the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent to become an assignment, transfer and conveyance of any of or all such Collateral by the applicable Pledgor to the Collateral Agent or its designee, or to become a license or sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, of any such Collateral throughout the world on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Collateral Agent shall determine (other than in violation of any then-existing licensing arrangements to the extent the waivers cannot be obtained).
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(xi) Exercise all the rights and remedies of a Credit Party under the UCC, and the Collateral Agent may also in its sole discretion, without notice except as specified in Section 9.2 hereof, sell, assign or grant a license to use the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any exchange, broker’s board or at any of the Collateral Agent’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices and upon such other terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable. The Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates may be the purchaser, licensee, assignee or recipient of any or all of the Collateral at any such sale and shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold, assigned or licensed at such sale, to use and apply any of the Secured Obligations owed to such Person as a credit on account of the purchase price of any Collateral payable by such Person at such sale. Each purchaser, assignee, licensee or recipient at any such sale shall acquire the property sold, assigned or licensed absolutely free from any claim or right on the part of any Pledgor, and each Pledgor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, all rights of redemption, stay and/or appraisal which it now has or may at any time in the future have under any rule of Law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted. In case any sale of all or any part of the Collateral is made on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Collateral Agent until the sale price is paid by the purchaser or purchasers thereof, but the Collateral Agent shall not incur any liability in case any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in case of any such failure, such Collateral may be sold again upon like notice. The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Collateral Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned. Each Pledgor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, any claims against the Collateral Agent and the other Credit Parties arising by reason of the fact that the price at which any Collateral may have been sold, assigned or licensed at such a private sale was less than the price which might have been obtained at a public sale, even if the Collateral Agent accepts the first offer received and does not offer such Collateral to more than one offeree. For purposes hereof, a written agreement to purchase the Collateral or any portion thereof shall be treated as a sale thereof; the Collateral Agent shall be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement and no Pledgor shall be entitled to the return of the Collateral or any portion thereof subject thereto, notwithstanding the fact that after the Collateral Agent shall have entered into such an agreement all Events of Default shall have been remedied and the Obligations Paid in Full. As an alternative to exercising the power of sale herein conferred upon it, the Collateral Agent may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose this Agreement and to sell the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court or courts having competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed receiver. Any sale pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.1 shall be deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable standards as provided in Section 9-610(b) of the UCC.
SECTION 8.2. Notice of Sale.
Each Pledgor acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent notice of sale or other disposition of Collateral shall be required by Law and unless the Collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value, or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market (in which event the Collateral Agent shall provide such Pledgor such advance notice as may be practicable under the circumstances), ten (10) days’ prior notice to such Pledgor of the time and place of any public sale or of the time after which any private sale or other intended disposition is to take place shall be commercially reasonable notification of such matters. No notification need be given to any Pledgor if it has signed, after the occurrence of an Event of Default, a statement renouncing or modifying (as permitted under Law) any right to notification of sale or other intended disposition.
SECTION 8.3. Waiver of Notice and Claims.
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Each Pledgor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, notice or judicial hearing in connection with the Collateral Agent’s taking possession or the Collateral Agent’s disposition of any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, any and all prior notice and hearing for any prejudgment remedy or remedies and any such right which such Pledgor would otherwise have under Law, and each Pledgor hereby further waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law: (i) all damages occasioned by such taking of possession, (ii) all other requirements as to the time, place and terms of sale or other requirements with respect to the enforcement of the Collateral Agent’s rights hereunder and (iii) all rights of redemption, appraisal, valuation, stay, extension or moratorium now or hereafter in force under any applicable Law. The Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any incorrect or improper payment made pursuant to this Article VIII in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct. Any sale of, or the grant of options to purchase, or any other realization upon, any Collateral shall operate to divest all right, title, interest, claim and demand, either at law or in equity, of the applicable Pledgor therein and thereto, and shall be a perpetual bar both at law and in equity against such Pledgor and against any and all Persons claiming or attempting to claim the Collateral so sold, optioned or realized upon, or any part thereof, from, through or under such Pledgor.
SECTION 8.4. Certain Sales of Collateral.
(i) Each Pledgor recognizes that, by reason of certain prohibitions contained in Law, rules, regulations or orders of any Governmental Authority or Securities Laws, the Collateral Agent may be compelled, with respect to any sale of all or any part of the Collateral (including Securities Collateral and Investment Property), to limit purchasers to those who meet the requirements of such Governmental Authority, or, with respect to such Securities Collateral and Investment Property, to those Persons who will agree, among other things, to acquire such Securities Collateral or Investment Property for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Pledgor acknowledges that any such sales may be at prices and on terms less favorable to the Collateral Agent than those obtainable through a public sale without such restrictions (including, without limitation, a public offering made pursuant to a registration statement under Securities Laws), and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that: (a) any such sale shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner and that, except as may be required by applicable Law, the Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to engage in public sales, and (b) that the Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to engage in public sales and no obligation to delay the sale of any Securities Collateral or Investment Property for the period of time necessary to permit the issuer thereof to register it for a form of public sale requiring registration under Securities Laws or under applicable state securities Laws, even if such issuer would agree to do so.
(ii) If the Collateral Agent determines to exercise its right to sell any or all of the Securities Collateral or Investment Property, upon written request, the applicable Pledgor shall from time to time furnish to the Collateral Agent all such information as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to determine the number of securities included in the Securities Collateral or Investment Property which may be sold by the Collateral Agent as exempt transactions under Securities Laws and the rules of the SEC thereunder, as the same are from time to time in effect.
(iii) Each Pledgor further agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained in this Section 8.4 will cause irreparable injury to the Collateral Agent and other Credit Parties, that the Collateral Agent and the other Credit Parties have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breach and, as a consequence, that each and every covenant contained in this Section 8.4 shall be specifically enforceable against such Pledgor, and such Pledgor hereby waives and agrees not to assert any defenses against an
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action for specific performance of such covenants except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
SECTION 8.5. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.
(i) No failure on the part of the Collateral Agent to exercise, no course of dealing with respect to, and no delay on the part of the Collateral Agent in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy; nor shall the Collateral Agent be required to look first to, enforce or exhaust any other security, collateral or guaranties. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies provided by Law.
(ii) In the event that the Collateral Agent shall have instituted any proceeding to enforce any right, power or remedy under this Agreement by foreclosure, sale, entry or otherwise, and such proceeding shall have been discontinued or abandoned under Debtor Relief Laws, or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Collateral Agent, then and in every such case, the Pledgors, the Collateral Agent and each other Credit Party shall be restored to their respective former positions and rights hereunder with respect to the Collateral, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Collateral Agent and the other Credit Parties shall continue as if no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 8.6. Grant of License.
For the sole purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent, during the continuance of an Event of Default, to exercise rights and remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or applicable Law at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, and for no other purpose, each Pledgor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, to the extent assignable, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty, rent or other compensation to such Pledgor) to use, assign, license or sublicense any of the assets of such Pledgor (including, without limitation, all Fixtures, Equipment and Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such Pledgor) and to occupy any Real Estate owned or leased by such Pledgor (subject to the valid and enforceable terms of (x) any lease, or (y) any other written restriction against such premises (including Collateral Access Agreements in favor of the Collateral Agent with respect to such premises), wherever the same may be located and whether or not constituting Collateral, including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout hereof.
SECTION 8.7. Certain Additional Actions Regarding Intellectual Property.
If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, upon the written demand of Collateral Agent, each Pledgor shall execute and deliver to Collateral Agent an assignment or assignments of the registered Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights and such other documents as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the intent and purposes hereof to the extent such assignment does not result in any loss of rights therein under applicable Law. Within five (5) Business Days of written notice thereafter from the Collateral Agent, each Pledgor shall make available to the Collateral Agent, to the extent within such Pledgor’s power and authority, such personnel in such Pledgor’s employ on the date of the Event of Default as the Collateral Agent may reasonably designate to permit such Pledgor to continue, directly or indirectly, to produce, advertise and sell the products and services sold by such Pledgor under the registered Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights, and such Persons shall be available to perform their prior functions on the Collateral Agent’s behalf.
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ARTICLE IX
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS OF CASUALTY EVENTS AND COLLATERAL DISPOSITIONS
SECTION 9.1. Application of Proceeds.
The proceeds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral pursuant to the exercise by the Collateral Agent of its remedies shall be applied, together with any other sums then held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement, in accordance with and as set forth in Section 8.03 of the Credit Agreement.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 10.1. Concerning Collateral Agent.
Without, in any way, limiting the rights of the Collateral Agent under the Credit Agreement or other Loan Documents:
(i) The Collateral Agent has been appointed as collateral agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement. The actions of the Collateral Agent hereunder are subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement. The Collateral Agent shall have the right hereunder to make demands, to give notices, to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights, and to take or refrain from taking action (including, without limitation, the release or substitution of the Collateral), in accordance with this Agreement and the Credit Agreement. The Collateral Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact in connection herewith and shall not be liable for the negligence or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it in good faith. The Collateral Agent may resign and a successor Collateral Agent may be appointed in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the Collateral Agent by a successor Collateral Agent, that successor Collateral Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent under this Agreement, and the retiring Collateral Agent shall thereupon be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring Collateral Agent’s resignation, the provisions hereof shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it under this Agreement while it was the Collateral Agent.
(ii) The Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of the Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equivalent to that which the Collateral Agent, in its individual capacity, accords its own property consisting of similar instruments or interests, it being understood that neither the Collateral Agent nor any of the Credit Parties shall have responsibility for (i) ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters relating to any Securities Collateral, whether or not the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters or (ii) taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against any Person with respect to any Collateral. In no event shall the Collateral Agent’s or any other Credit Party’s responsibility for the custody and preservation of the Collateral in its possession extend to matters beyond the control of such Person, including, without limitation, acts of God, war, insurrection, riot, governmental actions or acts of any corporate or other depository.
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(iii) The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any written notice, statement, certificate, order or other document or any telephone message believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person, and, with respect to all matters pertaining to this Agreement and its duties hereunder, upon advice of counsel selected by it.
(iv) If any item of Collateral also constitutes collateral granted to Collateral Agent under any other deed of trust, mortgage, security agreement, pledge or instrument of any type, in the event of any conflict between the provisions hereof and the provisions of such other deed of trust, mortgage, security agreement, pledge or instrument of any type in respect of such collateral, Collateral Agent, in its sole discretion, shall select which provision or provisions shall control.
SECTION 10.2. Collateral Agent May Perform; Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact.
If any Pledgor shall fail to perform any covenants contained in this Agreement or in the Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, such Pledgor’s covenants to (i) pay the premiums in respect of all required insurance policies hereunder, (ii) pay Claims, (iii) make repairs, (iv) discharge Liens or (v) pay or perform any obligations of such Pledgor under any Collateral) or if any warranty on the part of any Pledgor contained herein shall be breached, the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) do the same or cause it to be done or remedy any such breach, and may expend funds for such purpose; provided, however, that Collateral Agent shall in no event be bound to inquire into the validity of any tax, lien, imposition or other obligation which such Pledgor fails to pay or perform as and when required hereby and which such Pledgor does not contest in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement. Any and all amounts so expended by the Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Pledgors in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.3 hereof. Neither the provisions of this Section 10.2 nor any action taken by Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of this Section 10.2 shall prevent any such failure to observe any covenant contained in this Agreement nor any breach of warranty from constituting an Event of Default. Each Pledgor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent its attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Pledgor and in the name of such Pledgor, or otherwise, from time to time after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default in the Collateral Agent’s discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument consistent with the terms of the Credit Agreement and the other Security Documents which the Collateral Agent may deem necessary to accomplish the purposes hereof. The foregoing grant of authority is a power of attorney coupled with an interest and such appointment shall be irrevocable for the term hereof. Each Pledgor hereby ratifies all that such attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
SECTION 10.3. Expenses; Indemnity.
Without limiting the provisions of Section 10.04 of the Credit Agreement or other Loan Documents:
(a) Each Pledgor will promptly pay to the Collateral Agent the amount of any and all reasonable costs and expenses, including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of its outside counsel and the fees and expenses of any experts and agents which the Collateral Agent may incur in connection with (i) any action, suit or other proceeding affecting the Collateral or any part thereof commenced, in which action, suit or proceeding the Collateral Agent is made a party or participates or in which the right to use the Collateral or any part thereof is threatened, or in which it becomes necessary in the judgment of the Collateral Agent to defend or uphold the Lien hereof (including, without limitation, any action, suit or proceeding to establish or uphold the compliance of the Collateral with any requirements of any Governmental Authority or Law), (ii) the collection of the Secured Obligations, (iii) the enforcement
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and administration hereof, (iv) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of the Collateral, (v) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Collateral Agent or any Credit Party hereunder or (vi) the failure by any Pledgor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof. All amounts expended by the Collateral Agent and payable by any Pledgor under this Section 10.3 shall be due promptly following demand therefor (together with interest thereon accruing at the highest rate then in effect under the Credit Agreement during the period from and including twenty (20) days from the date on which Collateral Agent makes demand for payment therefor to the date of repayment) and shall be part of the Secured Obligations.
(b) The Pledgors agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify the Collateral Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each other Credit Party, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and to hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, causes of action, damages, liabilities, settlement payments, obligations, costs, and related expenses (including the fees, charges, and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee; provided that such Indemnitees shall be entitled to reimbursement for no more than one primary counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction (absent a conflict of interest in which case the Indemnitees may engage and be reimbursed for additional counsel)), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by any Pledgor or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the Pledgors of their respective obligations thereunder, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any other transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) any claims of, or amounts paid by any Credit Party to, a Blocked Account Bank or other Person which has entered into a control agreement with any Credit Party hereunder, or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided, however, that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are (x) determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any Affiliate of such Indemnitee, or (y) result from a claim brought by a Pledgor or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach of bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Pledgor or such Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(c) The provisions of this Section 10.3 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the expiration of the term of this Agreement, the repayment of any of the Loans, the expiration of the Commitments, the expiration of any Letter of Credit, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agents or any other Credit Party. All amounts due under this Section 10.3 shall be payable promptly (but in any event no more than 10 Business Days following) upon written demand therefor accompanied by reasonable documentation with respect to any reimbursement, indemnification or other amount requested.
SECTION 10.4. Continuing Security Interest; Assignment.
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This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (i) be binding upon the Pledgors, their respective successors and assigns and (ii) inure, together with the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the other Credit Parties and each of their permitted respective successors, transferees and assigns. No other Persons (including, without limitation, any other creditor of any Pledgor) shall have any interest herein or any right or benefit with respect hereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (ii), any Credit Party may assign or otherwise transfer any indebtedness held by it secured by this Agreement to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Credit Party, herein or otherwise, subject however, to the provisions of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 10.5. Termination; Release.
This Agreement, the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of itself and the other Credit Parties) and all other security interests granted hereby shall terminate with respect to all Secured Obligations when Payment in Full of the Secured Obligations has occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A) this Agreement, the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Credit Parties) and all other security interests granted hereby shall be reinstated if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Secured Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Credit Party or any Pledgor upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of any Pledgor or otherwise, and (B) in connection with the termination of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent may require such indemnities and collateral security as it shall reasonably deem necessary or appropriate to protect the Credit Parties against (x) loss on account of credits previously applied to the Secured Obligations that may subsequently be reversed or revoked, (y) any obligations that may thereafter arise with respect to the Other Liabilities, and (z) any Secured Obligations that may thereafter arise under Section 10.04 of the Credit Agreement.
(i) The Collateral shall be released from the Lien of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement. Upon termination hereof or any release of Collateral in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall, upon the request and at the sole cost and expense of the Pledgors, assign, transfer and deliver to the Pledgors, against receipt and without recourse to or warranty by the Collateral Agent, such of the Collateral to be released (in the case of a release) as may be in possession of the Collateral Agent and as shall not have been sold or otherwise applied pursuant to the terms hereof, and, with respect to any other Collateral, proper documents and instruments (including UCC 3 termination statements or releases) acknowledging the termination hereof or the release of such Collateral, as the case may be.
(ii) At any time that the respective Pledgor desires that the Collateral Agent take any action described in clause (ii) of this Section 10.5, such Pledgor shall, upon request of the Collateral Agent, deliver to the Collateral Agent an officer’s certificate certifying that the release of the respective Collateral is permitted pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 10.5. The Collateral Agent shall have no liability whatsoever to any other Credit Party as the result of any release of Collateral by it as permitted (or which the Collateral Agent in good faith believes to be permitted) by this Section 10.5.
SECTION 10.6. Modification in Writing.
No amendment, modification, supplement, termination or waiver of or to any provision hereof, nor consent to any departure by any Pledgor therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be made in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement and unless in writing and signed by the Collateral Agent. Any amendment, modification or supplement of or to any provision hereof, any waiver of any provision hereof and any consent to any departure by any Pledgor from the terms of any provision hereof shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which made or given.
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Except where notice is specifically required by this Agreement or any other document evidencing the Secured Obligations, no notice to or demand on any Pledgor in any case shall entitle any Pledgor to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
SECTION 10.7. Notices.
Unless otherwise provided herein or in the Credit Agreement, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be given in the manner and become effective as set forth in the Credit Agreement, as to any Pledgor, addressed to it at the address of the Borrower set forth in the Credit Agreement and as to the Collateral Agent, addressed to it at the address set forth in the Credit Agreement, or in each case at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other party complying as to delivery with the terms of this Section 10.7.
SECTION 10.8. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 10.9. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
(a) EACH PLEDGOR IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PLEDGORS IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PLEDGORS AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT ANY CREDIT PARTY MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY PLEDGOR OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(b) EACH PLEDGOR IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE PLEDGORS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN
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INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(c) EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02 OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
(d) EACH PLEDGOR AGREES THAT ANY ACTION COMMENCED BY ANY PLEDGOR ASSERTING ANY CLAIM OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT SOLELY IN A COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING THEREIN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT MAY ELECT IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION AND CONSENTS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUCH ACTION.
(e) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 10.10. Severability of Provisions.
If any provision of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 10.11. Execution in Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy, pdf or other electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
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SECTION 10.12. No Credit for Payment of Taxes or Imposition.
No Pledgor shall be entitled to any credit against the principal, premium, if any, or interest payable under the Credit Agreement, and such Pledgor shall not be entitled to any credit against any other sums which may become payable under the terms thereof or hereof, by reason of the payment of any Tax on the Collateral or any part thereof.
SECTION 10.13. No Claims Against Collateral Agent.
Nothing contained in this Agreement shall constitute any consent or request by the Collateral Agent, express or implied, for the performance of any labor or services or the furnishing of any materials or other property in respect of the Collateral or any part thereof, nor as giving any Pledgor any right, power or authority to contract for or permit the performance of any labor or services or the furnishing of any materials or other property in such fashion as would permit the making of any claim against the Collateral Agent in respect thereof or any claim that any Lien based on the performance of such labor or services or the furnishing of any such materials or other property is prior to the Lien hereof.
SECTION 10.14. No Release.
Nothing set forth in this Agreement shall relieve any Pledgor from the performance of any term, covenant, condition or agreement on such Pledgor’s part to be performed or observed under or in respect of any of the Collateral or from any liability to any Person under or in respect of any of the Collateral or shall impose any obligation on the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party to perform or observe any such term, covenant, condition or agreement on such Pledgor’s part to be so performed or observed or shall impose any liability on the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party for any act or omission on the part of such Pledgor relating thereto or for any breach of any representation or warranty on the part of such Pledgor contained in this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or under or in respect of the Collateral or made in connection herewith or therewith. The obligations of each Pledgor contained in this Section 10.14 shall survive the termination hereof and the discharge of such Pledgor’s other obligations under this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 10.15. Obligations Absolute.
All obligations of each Pledgor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:
(i) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment, composition, liquidation or the like of any Pledgor or other matters related to Debtor Relief Laws;
(ii) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Secured Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(iv) any pledge, exchange, release or non-perfection of any other collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to any departure from any guarantee, for all or any of the Secured Obligations;
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(v) any exercise, non-exercise or waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege under or in respect hereof, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document except as specifically set forth in a waiver granted pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.6 hereof; or
(vi) any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Pledgor (other than Payment in Full of the Secured Obligations).
SECTION 10.16. Additional Pledgor Waivers.
Although the parties hereto fully intend that this Agreement is to be governed in accordance with Section 10.8 of this Agreement, the Pledgors hereby irrevocably waive and agree to the fullest extent permitted by Law and to the extent applicable to the Collateral, as follows:
(i) The Pledgors expressly waive any and all benefits which might otherwise be available to the Pledgors under California Civil Code Sections 2787 to 2855, inclusive;
(ii) The Pledgors waive any and all defenses, including but not limited to Pledgors’ defense of estoppel discussed in Union Bank v. Gradsky, 265 Cal.App.2d 40 (1968), based upon a foreclosure against all or any part of the real property security for the Secured Obligations or the Obligations pursuant to the power of sale contained in any Deed of Trust or any Leasehold Deed of Trust executed by any Pledgor (the “Deed of Trust”) or any of the other Security Documents as opposed to proceeding by way of judicial foreclosure. The Pledgors waive all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by the Collateral Agent, even though that election of remedies, such as a nonjudicial foreclosure with respect to security for a guaranteed obligation, has destroyed the Pledgor’s rights of subrogation and reimbursement by the operation of Section 580d of the California Code of Civil Procedure (“CCP”) or otherwise;
(iii) The Pledgors waive all rights and defenses that any Pledgor may have because any of the Borrower’s debt or the Secured Obligations are secured by real property. This means, among other things: (i) the Collateral Agent may collect from the Pledgors without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by the Borrower or any other Loan Party, and (ii) if the Collateral Agent forecloses on any real property collateral pledged by any Pledgor, the Borrower or any one or more of the Loan Parties: (a) the amount of debt may be reduced only by the price for which the collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth more than the sale price, and (b) the Collateral Agent may collect from the Pledgors even if the Collateral Agent, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, have destroyed any right such Pledgor may have to collect from the Borrower or any other Loan Party. This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses the Pledgors may have because Borrower’s debt or the Secured Obligations are secured by real property. These rights and defenses include, but are not limited to, any rights or defenses based upon Section 580a, 580b, 580d, or 726 of the CCP;
(iv) In the case of a power of sale foreclosure under the Deed of Trust, the fair market value of the real property collateral shall be conclusively deemed to be the amount of the successful bid at the foreclosure sale. The Pledgors waive any rights or benefits they may now or hereafter have to a fair value hearing under Section 580a of the CCP. The Collateral Agent shall have absolutely no obligation to make a bid at any foreclosure sale, but rather may make no bid or bid any amount which the Collateral Agent, its sole discretion, deems appropriate;
(v) The Pledgors hereby irrevocably authorize the Collateral Agent to apply any and all amounts received by the Secured Parties in repayment of the Obligations first to amounts which are secured pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust and then to amounts which are not secured
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pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, if any. Each Pledgor hereby waive any and all rights that it has or may hereafter have under Section 2822 of the California Civil Code which provides that if a guarantor is “liable upon only a portion of an obligation and the principal provides partial satisfaction of the obligation, the principal may designate the portion of the obligation that is to be satisfied.”;
(vi) Each Pledgor warrants and represents to the Collateral Agent that (i) it now has or will continue to have full and complete access to any and all information concerning the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents referred to therein, the value of the assets owned or to be acquired by the Borrower or any Loan Party under the Loan Documents, their financial status and their respective ability to pay and perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents; and (ii) the Pledgors have reviewed and approved copies of the Loan Documents and are fully informed of the remedies the Collateral Agent may pursue, with or without notice to the Pledgors, in the event of default under the Loan Documents. The Pledgors shall keep fully informed as to all aspects of the financial condition of the Borrower and other Loan Parties and the performance of their respective obligations under the Loan Documents; and
(vii) The Pledgors agree that the Collateral Agent may exercise any right or remedy hereunder or under any of the Loan Documents without the necessity of resorting to or exhausting any security or collateral for the Secured Obligations or the Obligations. Each Pledgor hereby waives any right it may now or hereafter have to require the Collateral Agent to proceed against the Borrower, to proceed against any other Loan Party or any other guarantor of any of the Obligations, to foreclose any lien on any real or personal property collateral conveyed or assigned to the Collateral Agent by the Pledgors, the Borrower or any other Loan Party, to exercise any right or remedy under the Loan Documents, to draw upon any letter of credit issued in connection with any of the Obligations, or to pursue any other remedy or to enforce any other right under the Loan Documents.
SECTION 10.17. Existing Security Agreement Amended and Restated.
This Agreement is an amendment and restatement of the Existing Security Agreement. This Agreement is in no way intended to constitute a novation of the Existing Security Agreement or the Secured Obligations (as defined in the Existing Security Agreement). With respect to (i) any date or time period occurring and ending prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date, the Existing Security Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall govern the respective rights and obligations of any party or parties hereto also party thereto and shall for such purposes remain in full force and effect; and (ii) any date or time period occurring or ending on or after the Second Amendment Effective Date, the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the schedules hereto) and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Credit Agreement). From and after the Second Amendment Effective Date, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between such provisions and those of the Existing Security Agreement. Any security granted pursuant to or in connection with the Existing Security Agreement shall continue to secure the obligations of the Pledgors arising pursuant to or in connection with the Credit Agreement (including all such obligations arising initially pursuant to or in connection with the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each as in effect immediately prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date)).
SECTION 10.18. ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary:
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(a) the Liens (including the perfection and priority of such Liens) and security interests granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement, and the exercise of any right or remedy by the Collateral Agent hereunder, are subject to the provisions of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, (i) as between the Collateral Agent, on one hand, and the Pledgors, on the other hand, the terms of this Agreement shall govern and control, and (ii) as between the Collateral Agent, on one hand, and the ABL Term Agent, on the other hand, the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.
(b) Until the Discharge of ABL Term Obligations, to the extent the Pledgors are required under the terms of the ABL Term Documents to (i) deliver any possessory Collateral constituting ABL Term Priority Collateral to the ABL Term Agent, such delivery shall be deemed to satisfy any obligation hereunder to deliver such Collateral to the Collateral Agent so long as the ABL Term Agent holds such Collateral as bailee for the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) take any other action with respect to ABL Term Priority Collateral or the proceeds thereof, including delivery of such Collateral or proceeds thereof to the Collateral Agent, such action shall be deemed satisfied to the extent undertaken in accordance with the Revolving Credit Documents and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Pledgors and the Collateral Agent have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., a Utah corporation, as Lead Borrower, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE SOUTHWEST, INC., a California corporation, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
MINNESOTA MERCHANDISING CORP., a Minnesota corporation, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
PACIFIC FLYWAY WHOLESALE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Security Agreement]
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc., its Sole Member
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
ONADVENTURE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
THE AMERICAN PARTS CO., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Borrower and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Security Agreement]
SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, as a Guarantor and as a Pledgor
By: /s/ Jeff White
Name: Jeff White
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Security Agreement]
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent
By: /s/ Will Boyle
Name: Will Boyle
Title: Duly Authorized Signatory
[Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Security Agreement]
EXHIBIT 1
[Form of]
SECURITIES PLEDGE AMENDMENT
This Security Pledge Amendment, dated as of _________, is delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 of that certain Third Amended and Restated Security Agreement (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Security Agreement;” capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Security Agreement), dated as of July 30, 2024, made (i) SPORTSMAN’S WAREHOUSE, INC., as lead borrower for itself and the other Borrowers (the “Lead Borrower”), (ii) the Borrowers party thereto from time to time (together with the Lead Borrower, the “Borrowers”, and (iii) the Guarantors party thereto from time to time (the “Guarantors”), as pledgors, assignors and debtors (the Borrowers, together with the Guarantors, in such capacities and together with any successors in such capacities, the “Pledgors,” and each, a “Pledgor”), Wells Fargo BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as collateral agent for the Credit Parties (in such capacity and together with any successors in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”). The undersigned hereby agrees that this Pledge Amendment may be attached to the Security Agreement and that the Securities Collateral listed on this Pledge Amendment shall be deemed to be and shall become part of the Collateral and shall secure all Obligations.
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Schedule I
INTERCOMPANY NOTES
None.
Schedule II
FILINGS, REGISTRATIONS AND RECORDINGS
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Utah Department of Commerce.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Southwest, Inc. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the California Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Minnesota Merchandising Corp. as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Pacific Flyway Wholesale, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Development I, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Sportsman’s Warehouse Development II, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming OnAdventure, LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
All asset UCC-1 Financing Statement naming The American Parts Co., LLC as Debtor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Secured Party filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
Grant of Security Interest in United States Trademarks naming Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. as Grantor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Grantee filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Schedule III
INITIAL PLEDGED INTERESTS
Name of Loan Party |
Name of Issuer |
Type of Organization |
Class of Capital Stock |
Certificate No.(s) |
Number of Shares or Equity Interests |
Percentage of Outstanding Shares or Equity Interests |
Par Value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Corporation |
Common Stock |
1 |
100 shares |
100% |
$0.01 par value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. |
Minnesota Merchandising Corp. |
Corporation |
Common Stock |
1 |
100 shares |
100% |
$0.01 par value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Southwest, Inc. |
Corporation |
Common Stock |
1 |
100 shares |
100% |
$0.01 par value |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Pacific Flyway Wholesale, LLC |
Limited Liability company |
Percentage interests |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Development I, LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
Sportsman’s Warehouse Development II, LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
OnAdventure, LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Inc. |
The American Parts Co., LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
Percentage interest |
N/A |
100% of percentage interests |
100% |
N/A |
Schedule IV
LICENSES
None.
DOMAIN NAMES
[to be provided]
Schedule V
TANGIBLE CHATTEL PAPER
None.
Schedule VI
COMMODITY ACCOUNTS
None.
Schedule VII
ELECTRONIC CHATTEL PAPER
None.
Exhibit 99.1
Sportsman’s Warehouse Secures $45 Million Term Loan to Strengthen its Balance Sheet and Enhance Liquidity
WEST JORDAN, Utah, August 1, 2024 – Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. (“Sportsman’s Warehouse” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SPWH) announced today that it has secured a $45 million term loan with a syndicate of premier financial institutions, strengthening the Company’s balance sheet and overall liquidity.
With the addition of the $45 million term loan, the Company’s total borrowing capacity, which includes its revolving credit facility is now $395 million, subject to borrowing base calculations. Of such total borrowing capacity, $162.3 million is currently outstanding and $124.2 million is currently available for future borrowing. The term loan also enhances the Company’s liquidity, which as of July 30, 2024, is approximately $127 million.
“We continue to proactively manage our balance sheet and are pleased to secure this new ABL term loan as we further execute our ongoing reset strategy,” said Paul Stone, Sportsman’s Warehouse President and Chief Executive Officer. “Over the last year, we have been focused on managing our debt and right-sizing our inventory levels to further solidify our capital position. We will continue to closely manage our operating expenses, inventory levels, and overall working capital needs to align with the current trends of the business.”
“Sportsman’s Warehouse services a vital segment of the outdoor sporting goods market and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner with this management team and support their initiatives,” said Roger Malouf, Managing Director at Pathlight. “The term facility provides flexibility and incremental liquidity, which will further the Company’s efforts to enhance its customers’ experience. We have confidence in the long-term trajectory of the business and are pleased to become one of Sportsman’s financial partners.”
About Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc.
Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. is an outdoor specialty retailer focused on meeting the needs of the seasoned outdoor veteran, the first-time participant, and everyone in between. We provide outstanding gear and exceptional service to inspire outdoor memories.
For press releases and certain additional information about the Company, visit the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.sportsmans.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s future execution of its reset strategy and the Company’s future liquidity, inventory levels, and expenses by the fact that they use words such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “can have,” “could,” “due,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “intend,” “likely,” “may,”
“objective,” “plan,” “positioned,” “potential,” “predict,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and similar terms and phrases. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our business and the industry in which we operate and our management’s beliefs and assumptions. We derive many of our forward-looking statements from our own operating budgets and forecasts, which are based upon many detailed assumptions. While we believe that our assumptions are reasonable, we caution that predicting the impact of known factors is very difficult, and we cannot anticipate all factors that could affect our actual results. The Company cannot assure investors that future developments affecting the Company will be those that it has anticipated. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to many factors including, but not limited to: current and future government regulations, in particular regulations relating to the sale of firearms and ammunition, which may impact the supply and demand for the Company’s products and ability to conduct its business; the Company’s retail-based business model which is impacted by general economic and market conditions and economic, market and financial uncertainties that may cause a decline in consumer spending; the Company’s concentration of stores in the Western United States which makes the Company susceptible to adverse conditions in this region, and could affect the Company’s sales and cause the Company’s operating results to suffer; the highly fragmented and competitive industry in which the Company operates and the potential for increased competition; changes in consumer demands, including regional preferences, which we may not be able to identify and respond to in a timely manner; the Company’s entrance into new markets or operations in existing markets, including the Company’s plans to open additional stores in future periods, which may not be successful; the Company’s implementation of a plan to reduce expenses in response to adverse macroeconomic conditions, including an increased focus on financial discipline and rigor throughout the Company’s organization; impact of general macroeconomic conditions, such as labor shortages, inflation, rising interest rates, economic slowdowns, and recessions or market corrections; and other factors that are set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC, including under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2024, which was filed with the SEC on April 4, 2024, and the Company’s other public filings made with the SEC and available at www.sec.gov. If one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if any of the Company’s assumptions prove incorrect, the Company’s actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement made by the Company in this release speaks only as of the date on which the Company makes it. Factors or events that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of them. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.
Investor Contact:
Riley Timmer
Vice President, Investor Relations
Sportsman’s Warehouse
(801) 304-2816
investors@sportsmans.com