Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION COPY
VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED
LONG TERM REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF JUNE 1, 1999
COMERICA BANK,
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
AS SYNDICATION AGENT
AND
CREDIT LYONNAIS NEW YORK BRANCH,
AS DOCUMENTATION AGENT
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1. DEFINITIONS.........................................................1
2. REVOLVING CREDIT...................................................27
2.1 Commitment................................................27
2.2 Accrual of Interest and Maturity; Evidence of
Indebtedness..............................................28
2.3 Requests for and Refundings and Conversions of Advances...29
2.4 Disbursement of Advances..................................32
2.5 (a) Swing Line Advances..............................34
(b) Accrual of Interest..............................34
(c) Requests for Swing Line Advances.................35
(d) Disbursement of Swing Line Advances..............37
(e) Refunding of or Participation Interest in Swing
Line Advances....................................37
2.6 Prime-based Interest Payments.............................39
2.7 Eurocurrency-based Interest Payments and Quoted Rate
Interest Payments.........................................39
2.8 Interest Payments on Conversions..........................40
2.9 Interest on Default.......................................40
2.10 Prepayment................................................41
2.11 Determination, Denomination and Redenomination of
Alternative Currency Advances.............................41
2.12 Prime-based Advance in Absence of Election or Upon
Default...................................................42
2.13 Revolving Credit Facility Fee.............................42
2.14 Currency Appreciation; Mandatory Reduction of
Indebtedness..............................................43
2.15 Optional Reduction or Termination of Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment...............................45
2.16 Extensions of Revolving Credit Maturity Date..............45
2.17 Application of Advances...................................47
3. LETTERS OF CREDIT...................................................47
3.1 Letters of Credit..........................................47
3.2 Conditions to Issuance.....................................48
3.3 Notice 50
3.4 Letter of Credit Fees......................................50
3.5 Other Fees.................................................51
3.6 Drawings and Demands for Payment Under Letters of
Credit.....................................................51
3.7 Obligations Irrevocable....................................53
3.8 Risk Under Letters of Credit...............................54
3.9 Indemnification............................................55
3.10 Right of Reimbursement.....................................56
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4. MARGIN ADJUSTMENTS...................................................56
4.1 Margin Adjustments..........................................56
5. CONDITIONS...........................................................57
5.1 Execution of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents....57
5.2 Corporate Authority.........................................57
5.3 Collateral Documents and Guaranties.........................57
5.4 Representations and Warranties -- All Parties...............58
5.5 Compliance with Certain Documents and Agreements............58
5.6 Opinion of Counsel..........................................58
5.7 Company's Certificate.......................................59
5.8 Payment of Agent's and Other Fees...........................59
5.9 Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement.......................59
5.10 Regulation U Requirements............................................59
5.11 Other Documents and Instruments.............................59
5.12 Continuing Conditions.......................................59
6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.......................................60
6.1 Corporate Existence.........................................60
6.2 Due Authorization - Company.................................60
6.3 Due Authorization -- Subsidiaries...........................60
6.4 Title to Material Property..................................61
6.5 Encumbrances................................................61
6.6 Subsidiaries................................................61
6.7 Taxes.......................................................61
6.8 No Defaults.................................................61
6.9 Compliance with Laws........................................61
6.10 Enforceability of Agreement and Loan Documents..............61
6.11 Non-contravention -- Company................................62
6.12 Non-contravention -- Other Parties..........................62
6.13 No Litigation -- Company....................................62
6.14 No Litigation -- Other Parties..............................63
6.15 Consents, Approvals and Filings, Etc........................63
6.16 Agreements Affecting Financial Condition....................63
6.17 No Investment Company; No Margin Stock......................64
6.18 ERISA.......................................................64
6.19 Environmental Matters and Safety Matters....................64
6.20 Year 2000 Requirement.......................................65
6.21 Accuracy of Information.....................................66
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7. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS................................................66
7.1 Preservation of Existence, Etc..............................66
7.2 Keeping of Books............................................66
7.3 Reporting Requirements......................................66
7.4 Tangible Net Worth..........................................68
7.5 Leverage Ratio..............................................68
7.6 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.................................68
7.7 Inspections.................................................68
7.8 Taxes.......................................................68
7.9 Further Assurances..........................................68
7.10 Insurance...................................................69
7.11 Indemnification.............................................69
7.12 Governmental and Other Approvals............................69
7.13 Compliance with Contractual Obligations and Laws............70
7.14 ERISA.......................................................70
7.15 Environmental Matters.......................................71
7.16 Future Subsidiaries.........................................72
7.17 Foreign Subsidiaries Security...............................73
7.18 Siliconix...................................................73
7.19 Security and Defense of Collateral..........................73
7.20 Vishay Israel...............................................73
7.21 Use of Proceeds.............................................74
7.22 Completion of the Singapore/Taiwan Restructuring............74
8. NEGATIVE COVENANTS...................................................74
8.1 Capital Structure, Business Objects or Purpose..............74
8.2 Limitations on Fundamental Changes..........................74
8.3 Guaranties..................................................75
8.4 Debt........................................................76
8.5 Liens.......................................................77
8.6 Dividends...................................................77
8.7 Investments.................................................78
8.8 Accounts Receivable.........................................79
8.9 Transactions with Affiliates................................79
8.10 Operations of Vishay Israel.................................79
8.11 Prohibition Against Certain Restrictions....................80
8.12 Amendment of the TEMIC Acquisition Agreement or Lite-On
Documents...................................................80
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9. DEFAULTS 80
9.1 Events of Default...........................................80
9.2 Exercise of Remedies........................................83
9.3 Rights Cumulative...........................................83
9.4 Waiver by Company and Permitted Borrowers of Certain Laws;
JURY WAIVER.................................................83
9.5 Waiver of Defaults..........................................83
9.6 Cross-Default...............................................84
10. PAYMENTS, RECOVERIES AND COLLECTIONS.................................84
10.1 Payment Procedure...........................................84
10.2 Application of Proceeds.....................................86
10.3 Pro-rata Recovery...........................................86
10.4 Set Off.....................................................86
11. CHANGES IN LAW OR CIRCUMSTANCES; INCREASED COSTS.....................87
11.1 Reimbursement of Prepayment Costs...........................87
11.2 Eurocurrency Lending Office.................................88
11.3 Availability of Alternative Currency........................88
11.4 Refunding Advances in Same Currency.........................88
11.5 Circumstances Affecting Eurocurrency-based Rate
Availability................................................88
11.6 Laws Affecting Eurocurrency-based Advance Availability......89
11.7 Increased Cost of Eurocurrency-based Advances...............89
11.8 Indemnity...................................................90
11.9 Judgment Currency...........................................91
11.10 Capital Adequacy and Other Increased Costs..................91
11.11 Substitution of Lenders.....................................92
12. AGENTS...............................................................93
12.1 Appointment of Agent........................................93
12.2 Deposit Account with Agent..................................93
12.3 Exculpatory Provisions......................................93
12.4 Successor Agent.............................................94
12.5 Loans by Agents.............................................94
12.6 Credit Decisions............................................94
12.7 Notices by Agent............................................94
12.8 Agent's Fees................................................94
12.9 Nature of Agency............................................95
12.10 Authority of Agent to Enforce This Agreement................95
12.11 Indemnification.............................................95
12.12 Knowledge of Default........................................95
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12.13 Agent's Authorization; Action by Lenders....................96
12.14 Enforcement Actions by the Agent............................96
12.15 Collateral Matters..........................................96
12.16 Managers and Lead Managers..................................97
13. MISCELLANEOUS........................................................97
13.1 Accounting Principles.......................................97
13.2 Consent to Jurisdiction.....................................97
13.3 Law of Michigan.............................................98
13.4 Interest....................................................98
13.5 Closing Costs; Other Costs..................................98
13.6 Notices. 99
13.7 Further Action..............................................99
13.8 Successors and Assigns; Assignments and Participations......99
13.9 Indulgence.................................................103
13.10 Counterparts...............................................103
13.11 Amendment and Waiver.......................................103
13.12 Taxes and Fees.............................................103
13.13 Confidentiality............................................104
13.14 Withholding Taxes..........................................104
13.15 ERISA Restrictions.........................................105
13.16 Effective Date.............................................106
13.17 Severability...............................................106
13.18 Table of Contents and Headings; Construction of Certain
Provisions.................................................107
13.19 Independence of Covenants..................................107
13.20 Reliance on and Survival of Various Provisions.............107
13.21 Complete Agreement; Amendment and Restatement..............107
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SCHEDULES
Schedule 1.1 - Percentages and Allowances
Schedule 1.3 - TEMIC Parties
Schedule 1.4 - Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule 1.6 - Permitted Borrower Sublimit
Schedule 1.7 - Stock Option Plans
Schedule 4.1 - Pricing Matrix
Schedule 5.3 - Jurisdictions to File Initial Financial
Statements
Schedule 6.6 - Subsidiaries
Schedule 6.6A - Significant Subsidiaries: Guarantors
Schedule 6.6B - Significant Subsidiaries whose Share Capital is
Pledged
Schedule 6.13 - Litigation - Company
Schedule 6.14 - Litigation - Other Parties
Schedule 7.15 - Environmental Auditors
Schedule 8.3 - Guaranties of Indebtedness
Schedule 8.5 - Existing Liens
Schedule 8.7 - Existing Investments
EXHIBITS
FORM OF REQUEST FOR REVOLVING CREDIT ADVANCE........................A-1
FORM OF REQUEST FOR SWING LINE ADVANCE..............................A-2
FORM OF REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE -- COMPANY............................B-1
FORM OF REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE -- PERMITTED BORROWERS................B-2
FORM OF SWING LINE NOTE -- COMPANY..................................C-1
FORM OF SWING LINE NOTE -- PERMITTED BORROWERS......................C-2
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE........................................D
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT..........................................E
FORM OF NOTICE OF LETTER OF CREDIT....................................F
FORM OF PERMITTED BORROWER ADDENDUM...................................H
FORM OF SECURITY AGREEMENT............................................I
FORM OF REAFFIRMATION OF LOAN DOCUMENTS...............................J
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AMENDED AND RESTATED LONG TERM
REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LONG TERM REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
("Agreement") is made as of the 1st day of June, 1999 by and among the Lenders
(as defined below), Comerica Bank, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in
such capacity, "Agent"), Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Delaware corporation
("Company") and the Permitted Borrowers (as defined below and collectively with
the Company, the "Borrowers") from time to time signatory hereto.
RECITALS:
A. Company has requested that the Lenders amend, renew and/or extend to
it and the Permitted Borrowers revolving credit and letters of credit as
previously extended to Company and the Permitted Borrowers by the Lenders under
that certain Long Term Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of March 2, 1998, by
and among Company, Agent and the Lenders (the "Prior Credit Agreement") on the
terms and conditions set forth herein.
B. The Lenders are prepared to extend such credit, as aforesaid, by
amendment, restatement and renewal (but not in novation) of the Prior Credit
Agreement, but only upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, COMPANY, PERMITTED BORROWERS, AGENT, AND THE LENDERS
AGREE:
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Certain Defined Terms.
For the purposes of this Agreement the following terms will have the
following meanings:
"Account Party(ies)" shall mean, with respect to any Letter of Credit,
the account party or parties (which shall be Company and/or any Permitted
Borrower and/or any Significant Subsidiary which is not a Permitted Borrower
hereunder jointly and severally with the Company) as named in an application to
the Agent for the issuance of such Letter of Credit.
"Advance(s)" shall mean, as the context may indicate, a borrowing
requested by Company or by a Permitted Borrower, and made by Lenders under
Section 2.1 of this
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Agreement, as the case may be, or requested by the Company or by a Permitted
Borrower and made by the Swing Line Bank under Section 2.5 hereof (including
without limitation any readvance, refunding or conversion of such borrowing
pursuant to Section 2.3 or 2.5(c) hereof) and any advance in respect of a Letter
of Credit under Section 3.6 hereof (including without limitation the
unreimbursed amount of any draws under Letters of Credit) and shall include, as
applicable, a Eurocurrency-based Advance, a Quoted Rate Advance, a Prime-based
Advance and a Swing Line Advance.
"Affiliate" shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person or
group acting in concert in respect of the first Person that, directly or
indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by,
or is under common control with such first Person. For purposes of this
definition, "control" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms
"controlled by" and "under common control with"), as used with respect to any
Person or group of Persons, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly,
of the power to direct or cause the direction of management and policies of such
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or
otherwise.
"Agent" shall mean Comerica Bank, a Michigan banking corporation,
acting as administrative agent hereunder or any successor administrative agent
appointed in accordance with Section 12.4 hereof.
"Agents" shall mean Agent and Syndication Agent.
"Agent's Correspondent" shall mean for Advances in eurodollars, Agent's
Grand Cayman Branch (or for the account of said branch office, at Agent's main
office in Detroit, Michigan, United States); for Advances in other Alternative
Currencies, at such bank or banks as Agent may from time to time designate by
written notice to Company, the Permitted Borrowers and the Lenders.
"Agent's Fees" shall mean those fees and expenses required to be paid
by Company to Agent under Section 12.8 hereof.
"Alternate Base Rate" shall mean, for any day, an interest rate per
annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day, plus one
percent (1%).
"Alternative Currency" shall mean each of the following currencies, as
applicable hereunder: French Francs ("FF"), Japanese Yen ("(Y)"), Deutsche Marks
("DM"), British Pounds Sterling ("Sterling") and, subject to availability and to
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, such other freely convertible
foreign currencies, including (subject to the terms hereof), the "Euro," as
requested by the Company or the Permitted Borrowers and acceptable to
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Agent and the Lenders, in their reasonable discretion. Any reference to a
National Currency Unit of a Participating Member State in this definition of
"Alternative Currency" shall be deemed to also include a reference to the Euro
Unit.
"Applicable Fee Percentage" shall mean, as of any date of determination
thereof, the applicable percentage used to calculate certain of the fees due and
payable hereunder, determined by reference to the appropriate columns in the
Pricing Matrix attached to this Agreement as Schedule 4.1.
"Applicable Interest Rate" shall mean the Eurocurrency-based Rate, the
Prime-based Rate or, with respect to Swing Line Advances, the Quoted Rate, as
selected by Company or a Permitted Borrower from time to time subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
"Applicable Margin" shall mean, as of any date of determination
thereof, the applicable interest rate margin, determined by reference to the
appropriate columns in the Pricing Matrix attached to this Agreement as Schedule
4.1.
"Assignment Agreement" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 13.8(c) hereof.
"Authorized Officer" shall mean the Vice Chairman, Director of
Corporate Treasury, CFO, or the Director Corporate Controller of the Company or
any applicable Subsidiary, as the case may be, or any person otherwise
designated by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, as having the
authority to act for the Company or such Subsidiary in the particular instance.
"Borrowers" is defined in the preamble.
"Business Day" shall mean any day on which commercial banks are open
for domestic and international business (including dealings in foreign exchange)
in Dallas, Detroit, London, New York and (except with respect to any Prime-based
Advances) Frankfurt am Main, and if funds are to be paid or made available in
any Alternative Currency, on such day in the place where such funds are to be
paid or made available and, if the applicable Business Day relates to the
borrowing or payment of a Eurocurrency-based Advance denominated in Euros, on
which banks and foreign exchange markets are open for business in the city where
disbursements of or payments on such Advance are to be made which is a
Trans-European Business Day.
"Capital Expenditures" shall mean, without duplication, any amounts
paid or accrued for a period in respect of any purchase or other acquisition for
value of fixed or capital assets net of the cash proceeds of any grant received
during such period by the Company or any of its
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Subsidiaries from the government of Israel (or any agency or political
subdivision thereof) under the Israeli Capital Investment Act, up to the
aggregate amount of capital additions in Israel during such period; provided
that, in no event shall Capital Expenditures include amounts expended in respect
of normal repair and maintenance of plant facilities, machinery, fixtures and
other like capital assets utilized in the ordinary conduct of business (to the
extent such amounts would not be capitalized in preparing a balance sheet
determined in accordance with GAAP).
"Collateral" shall mean all property or rights in which a security
interest, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance for the benefit of the Lenders is
or has been granted or arises or has arisen, under or in connection with this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or otherwise.
"Collateral Documents" shall mean the Security Agreement and the Pledge
Agreements, in each case as may be amended or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"Company" is defined in the Preamble.
"Company Guaranty" shall mean that certain amended and restated
guaranty of all of the Indebtedness outstanding from the Permitted Borrowers,
executed and delivered in connection with the Prior Credit Agreement by the
Company to the Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, as amended or otherwise modified
from time to time.
"Contractual Obligation" shall mean, as to any Person, any provision of
any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or
undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its
property is bound.
"Consolidated" or "Consolidating" shall, when used with reference to
any financial information pertaining to (or when used as a part of any defined
term or statement pertaining to the financial condition of) Company and its
Subsidiaries mean the accounts of Company and its Subsidiaries determined on a
consolidated or consolidating basis, as the case may be, all determined as to
principles of consolidation and, except as otherwise specifically required by
the definition of such term or by such statements, as to such accounts, in
accordance with GAAP, applied on a consistent basis and consistent with the
financial statements, if any, as at and for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1997.
"Consolidated EBITDA" shall mean the Net Income of the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries for any period adjusted (A) to include the Net Income
of any Person accrued during such period but prior to the date it became a
Subsidiary of the Company or is merged into or consolidated with the Company and
(B) to exclude, without duplication, the following items of income or expense to
the extent that such items are included in the calculation of such Net Income
all on a Consolidated basis (adjusted as set forth in clause (A) hereof): (a)
Interest Expense, (b) any non-cash expenses and charges, (c) total income tax
expense, (d)
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depreciation expense, (e) the expense associated with amortization of intangible
and other assets, (f) non-cash provisions for reserves for discontinued
operations, (g) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gains or losses or
charges or credits, (h) any gain or loss associated with the sale or write-down
of assets, (i) any gain or loss from or attributable to minority interests and
(j) any gain or loss accounted for by the equity method of accounting (except in
the case of income to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or cash
distributions paid to the Company or any Subsidiary by the entity accounted for
by the equity method of accounting).
"Covenant Compliance Report" shall mean the report to be furnished by
the Company to the Agent, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
D, as such exhibit may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time by the
Required Lenders, and certified by the chief financial officer of the Company
pursuant to Section 7.3(c), hereof, for the purpose of monitoring the Company's
and each Permitted Borrower's compliance herewith and to notify the Lenders of
the acquisition or creation of new Subsidiaries.
"Current Dollar Equivalent" shall mean, as of any applicable date of
determination, with respect to any Advance or Letter of Credit made, issued or
carried in an Alternative Currency, the amount of Dollars which is equivalent to
the then outstanding principal amount of such Advance or Letter of Credit at the
most favorable spot exchange rate determined by the Agent to be available to it
for the sale of Dollars for such Alternative Currency for delivery at
approximately 11:00 A.M. (Detroit time) two (2) Business Days after such date.
Alternative Currency equivalents of Advances in Dollars (to the extent used
herein) shall be determined by Agent in a manner consistent herewith.
"Dale Electronics" shall mean Dale Electronics, Inc., a Delaware
corporation and a Subsidiary of the Company.
"Debt" shall mean, as of any applicable date of determination, all
items of indebtedness, obligation or liability of a Person, whether matured or
unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, joint or several, that should be classified as liabilities on a
balance sheet and/or in accompanying footnotes in accordance with GAAP.
"Default" shall mean any event which, with the giving of notice or the
passage of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
"Dollar Amount" shall mean (i) with respect to each Advance or Letter
of Credit made, issued or carried (or to be made, issued or carried) in Dollars,
the principal amount thereof and (ii) with respect to each Advance or Letter of
Credit made, issued or carried (or to be made or carried) in an Alternative
Currency, the amount of Dollars which is equivalent to the principal amount of
such Advance or Letter of Credit at the most favorable spot exchange rate
determined
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by the Agent to be available to it for the sale of Dollars for such Alternative
Currency at approximately 11:00 A.M. (Detroit time) two (2) Business Days before
such Advance or Letter of Credit is made or issued (or to be made or issued), as
such Dollar Amount may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 2.11
hereof. When used with respect to any Alternative Currency portion of an Advance
or Letter of Credit being repaid or remaining outstanding at any time or with
respect to any other sum expressed in an Alternative Currency, "Dollar Amount"
shall mean the amount of Dollars which is equivalent to the principal amount of
such Advance or Letter of Credit, or the amount so expressed in such Alternative
Currency, at the most favorable spot exchange rate determined by the Agent to be
available to it for the sale of Dollars for such Alternative Currency at the
relevant time. Alternative Currency amounts of Advances made, carried or
expressed in Dollars (to the extent used herein) shall be determined by Agent in
a manner consistent herewith.
"Dollars" and the sign "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States
of America.
"Domestic Advance" shall mean any Advance other than a
Eurocurrency-based Advance or any other Advance denominated in an Alternative
Currency.
"Domestic Guaranty" shall mean that certain Domestic Guaranty under the
Prior Credit Agreement covering all Indebtedness outstanding from the Company
and the Permitted Borrowers executed and delivered (or to be executed and
delivered by joinder) by each of the Significant Domestic Subsidiaries, as
amended or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Domestic Permitted Borrower" shall mean any Permitted Borrower which
is not a Foreign Permitted Borrower.
"Domestic Subsidiary" shall mean any Subsidiaries of the Company
incorporated under the laws of the United States of America, or any state,
territory, possession or other political subdivision thereof which is a domestic
Subsidiary for purposes of Section 956 of the Internal Revenue Code; and
"Domestic Subsidiaries" shall mean any or all of them.
"EBITDA" shall mean, of any Person, for any period, the Net Income of
such Person for such period adjusted to exclude, without duplication, the
following items of income or expense to the extent that such items are included
in the calculation of such Net Income: (a) Interest Expense, (b) any non-cash
expenses and charges, (c) total income tax expense, (d) depreciation expense,
(e) the expense associated with amortization of intangible and other assets, (f)
non-cash provisions for reserves for discontinued operations, (g) any
extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gains or losses or charges or credits,
(h) any gain or loss associated with the sale or write-down of assets, (i) any
gain or loss from or attributable to minority interests and (j) any gain or loss
accounted for by the equity method of accounting (except in the case of income
to
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the extent of the amount of cash dividends or cash distributions paid to such
Person or any Subsidiary of such Person by the entity accounted for by the
equity method of accounting).
"Effective Date" shall mean the date on which all of the conditions
precedent set forth in Sections 5.1 through 5.10 hereof have been satisfied.
"EMU" shall mean Economic and Monetary Union as contemplated in the
Treaty on European Union.
"EMU Legislation" shall mean legislative measures of the European
Council (including European Council regulations) for the introduction of,
changeover to or operation of a single or unified European currency (whether
known as the Euro or otherwise), being in part the implementation of the third
stage of EMU.
"Environmental Auditors" shall mean, when selected or retained by the
Company or the Agents, as the case may be hereunder, such counsel, engineering
or testing firms or other experienced, reputable environmental consultants
reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders.
"Environmental Audits" shall mean those environmental audits conducted
in connection with the TEMIC Acquisition and set forth on Schedule 7.15 hereto.
"Equity Offering" shall mean the issuance and sale for cash, on or
after the date hereof, by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of additional
capital stock or other equity interests.
"Equity Offering Adjustment" shall mean that amount to be added to the
minimum Tangible Net Worth required to be maintained under Section 7.4 hereof
consisting of an amount equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of each Equity
Offering conducted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, net of costs of
issuance, on and after January 1, 1998, on a cumulative basis.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended, or any successor act or code, and the regulations in effect from
time to time thereunder.
"ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) which is under common control with the Company within the meaning
of Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group which includes the Company and
would be treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Internal Revenue
Code.
"Euro" shall mean the single currency of Participating Member States of
the European Union.
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"Euro" or "Euro Unit" shall mean the currency unit of the Euro as
defined in the EMU Legislation.
"Eurocurrency Rate" shall mean with respect to each Eurocurrency-based
Advance carried in any Alternative Currency (and each Eurocurrency-Interest
Period pertaining thereto) the per annum interest rate determined by the Agent
to be the offered rate for deposits in such currency with a term comparable to
such Interest Period that appears on the applicable Telerate Page at
approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days (or, in the case of a
Eurocurrency-based Advance in Euros, on such other date as is customary in the
relevant offshore interbank market) prior to the beginning of such Interest
Period; provided, however, that if at any time for any reason such offered rate
for any such currency does not appear on a Telerate Page, "Eurocurrency Rate"
shall mean, with respect to each such Advance denominated in such currency, the
per annum interest rate at which deposits in the relevant currency are offered
to Agent's Eurocurrency Lending Office by other prime banks in the relevant
offshore interbank market in an amount comparable to the relevant
Eurocurrency-based Advance and for a period equal to the relevant
Eurocurrency-Interest Period at approximately 11:00 a.m. Detroit time two (2)
Business Days prior to the first day of such Eurocurrency-Interest Period.
"Eurocurrency-based Advance" shall mean any Advance (including a Swing
Line Advance) which bears interest at the Eurocurrency-based Rate.
"Eurocurrency-based Rate" shall mean a per annum interest rate which is
equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin (subject, if applicable, to adjustment
under Section 4.1 hereof), plus the quotient of:
(A) (a) in the case of Eurocurrency-based Advances
carried in Dollars, the Eurodollar Rate, or (b) in
the case of Eurocurrency-based Advances carried in an
Alternative Currency, the Eurocurrency Rate,
divided by
(B) a percentage equal to 100% minus the maximum rate on
such date at which Agent is required to maintain
reserves on `Eurocurrency Liabilities' as defined in
and pursuant to Regulation D of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System or, if such
regulation or definition is modified, and as long as
Agent is required to maintain reserves against a
category of liabilities which includes eurocurrency
deposits or includes a category of
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assets which includes eurocurrency loans, the rate at
which such reserves are required to be maintained on
such category,
all as conclusively determined by the Agent (absent manifest error), such sum to
be rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of 1/16th of 1%.
"Eurocurrency-Interest Period" shall mean, (a) for Swing Line Advances
carried at the Eurocurrency-based Rate, an interest period of fourteen (14) days
or one month (or any lesser number of days agreed to in advance by Company or a
Permitted Borrower, Agent and the Swing Line Bank) and (b) for all other
Eurocurrency-based Advances, an interest period of one, two, three or six months
(or any lesser or greater number of days agreed to in advance by Company or a
Permitted Borrower, Agent and the Lenders) as selected by Company or such
Permitted Borrower, as applicable, for a Eurocurrency-based Advance pursuant to
Section 2.3 or 2.5 hereof, as the case may be.
"Eurocurrency Lending Office" shall mean, (a) with respect to the
Agent, Agent's office located at its Grand Caymans Branch or such other branch
of Agent, domestic or foreign, as it may hereafter designate as its Eurocurrency
Lending Office by written notice to Company, the Permitted Borrowers and the
Lenders and (b) as to each of the Lenders, its office, branch or affiliate
located at its address set forth on the signature pages hereof (or identified
thereon as its Eurocurrency Lending Office), or at such other office, branch or
affiliate of such Lender as it may hereafter designate as its Eurocurrency
Lending Office by written notice to Company and Agent.
"Eurodollar Rate" shall mean with respect to each Eurocurrency-based
Advance carried in Dollars (and each Eurocurrency-Interest Period pertaining
thereto) the per annum interest rate at which deposits in dollars are offered to
Agent's Eurocurrency Lending Office by other prime banks in the eurocurrency
market in an amount comparable to the relevant Eurocurrency-based Advance and
for a period equal to the relevant Eurocurrency-Interest Period at approximately
11:00 a.m. Detroit time two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such
Eurocurrency-Interest Period.
"Event of Default" shall mean any of the events specified in Section
9.1 hereof.
"Federal Funds Effective Rate" shall mean, for any day, a fluctuating
interest rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight
Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged
by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a
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Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions
received by Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing
selected by it.
"Fee Letter" shall mean the fee letter in effect from time to time
among Company and the Agent hereunder, as amended from time to time.
"Fees" shall mean the Agent's Fees, the Revolving Credit Facility Fee,
the Letter of Credit Fees, the Syndication Fee and the other fees and charges
payable hereunder.
"Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" shall mean, with respect to the Company
and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, as of any date of determination, a ratio, (i)
the numerator of which shall be equal to Consolidated EBITDA for the preceding
four fiscal quarters ending on the date of determination, minus Capital
Expenditures during such period and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the
Interest Expense of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such
period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP.
"Foreign Guaranty" shall mean that certain Foreign Guaranty under the
Prior Credit Agreement covering all Indebtedness of the Foreign Permitted
Borrowers hereunder (but expressly excluding any Hedging Obligations) executed
and delivered (or to be executed and delivered by joinder) by the Significant
Foreign Subsidiaries, other than Vishay Israel, as amended or otherwise modified
from time to time.
"Foreign Permitted Borrower" shall mean any Permitted Borrower
hereunder which is a Foreign Subsidiary.
"Foreign Subsidiary" shall mean any of the Company's Subsidiaries,
other than a Domestic Subsidiary; and "Foreign Subsidiaries" shall mean any or
all of them.
"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States of America, as in effect from time to time, consistently applied.
"Governmental Obligations" means noncallable direct general obligations
of the United States of America or obligations the payment of principal of and
interest on which is unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America.
"Granting Lender" shall mean a Lender which elects to grant to an SPFV
the option to fund all or any part of any Advance that such Lender would
otherwise be obligated to fund pursuant to this Agreement, in each case in
accordance with Section 13.8(c) hereof; provided, however, that notwithstanding
the funding by an SPFV of an Advance (or a portion thereof)
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hereunder, the Granting Lender shall retain all of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement with respect to such Advance or otherwise.
"Guaranty Obligation" shall mean each and any guaranty or other
guaranty obligation by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Debt of any other
Person (excluding endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the
ordinary course of business), including without limitation any and all
agreements, contingent or otherwise to support the obligation of such other
Person, whether or not denominated as a guaranty, any letter of credit
reimbursement obligations and any other agreement or undertaking which would
constitute a guaranty for purposes of GAAP.
"Guaranties" shall mean the Company Guaranty, the Domestic Guaranty and
the Foreign Guaranty, and "Guaranty" shall mean any or all of them.
"Guarantor(s)" shall mean each Significant Subsidiary which is required
by the Lenders to guarantee the obligations of the Company and/or the Permitted
Borrowers hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.
"Hazardous Material" shall mean and include any hazardous, toxic or
dangerous waste, substance or material defined as such in (or for purposes of)
the Hazardous Material Laws.
"Hazardous Material Law(s)" shall mean all laws, codes, ordinances,
rules, regulations, orders, decrees and directives issued by any federal, state,
provincial, local, foreign or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority
or body (or any agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof)
pertaining to Hazardous Material on or about any facilities owned, leased or
operated by Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any portion thereof
including, without limitation, those relating to soil, surface, subsurface
ground water conditions and the condition of the ambient air; and any state and
local laws and regulations pertaining to Hazardous Material and/or asbestos; any
so-called "superfund" or "superlien" law; and any other federal, state,
provincial, foreign or local statute, law, ordinance, code, rule, regulation,
order or decree regulating, relating to, or imposing liability or standards of
conduct concerning, any hazardous, toxic or dangerous waste, substance or
material, as now or at any time hereafter in effect.
"Hedging Obligation(s)" shall mean Interest Rate Protection Agreements
and any foreign currency exchange agreements (including without limitation
foreign currency hedges and swaps) or other foreign exchange transactions, or
any combination of such transactions or agreements or any option with respect to
any such transactions or agreements entered into between Company and/or any of
its Subsidiaries and a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender to manage existing or
anticipated foreign exchange risk and not for speculative purposes.
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"Hereof", "hereto", "hereunder" and similar terms shall refer to this
Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular paragraph or provision of
this Agreement.
"Indebtedness" shall mean all indebtedness and liabilities whether
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, owing by Company or any of the
Permitted Borrowers to the Lenders (or any of them) or to the Agent, in any
manner and at any time, under this Agreement or the Loan Documents, due or
hereafter to become due, now owing or that may hereafter be incurred by the
Company, any of the Permitted Borrowers or any of the Subsidiaries to, or
acquired by, the Lenders (or any of them) or by Agent, and all net obligations
with respect to Hedging Obligations entered into between Company and/or any of
its Subsidiaries and a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and any judgments that
may hereafter be rendered on such indebtedness or any part thereof, with
interest according to the rates and terms specified, or as provided by law, and
any and all consolidations, amendments, renewals, replacements or extensions of
any of the foregoing.
"Intercompany Loan" shall mean any loan (or advance in the nature of a
loan) by the Company or any Subsidiary to another Subsidiary, provided that each
such loan or advance is subordinated in right of payment and priority to the
Indebtedness on terms and conditions satisfactory to Agent and the Required
Lenders.
"Intercompany Loans, Advances or Investments" shall mean any
Intercompany Loan, and any advance or investment by the Company or any
Subsidiary (including without limitation any guaranty of obligations or
indebtedness to third parties) to or in another Subsidiary.
"Intercompany Notes" shall mean the promissory notes issued or to be
issued by any Subsidiary to Company or to any Significant Domestic Subsidiary to
evidence an Intercompany Loan.
"Interest Expense" shall mean, for any Person and with respect to any
period, the sum of the amount of interest paid or accrued in respect of such
period, determined in accordance with GAAP.
"Interest Period" shall mean (a) with respect to a Eurocurrency-based
Advance, a Eurocurrency-Interest Period commencing on the day a
Eurocurrency-based Advance is made, or on the effective date of an election of
the Eurocurrency-based Rate made under Section 2.3 hereof, as the case may be,
and (b) with respect to a Swing Line Advance carried at the Quoted Rate, an
interest period of one month (or any lesser number of days agreed to in advance
by Company or a Permitted Borrower, Agent and the Swing Line Bank); provided,
however that (i) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which is
not a Business Day shall end
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on the next succeeding Business Day, except that as to a Eurocurrency-Interest
Period, if the next succeeding Business Day falls in another calendar month,
such Eurocurrency-Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day,
and (ii) when a Eurocurrency-Interest Period begins on a day which has no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month during which such
Eurocurrency-Interest Period is to end, it shall end on the last Business Day of
such calendar month, and (iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
"Interest Rate Protection Agreement(s)" shall mean any interest rate,
swap, cap, floor, collar, forward rate agreement or other rate protection
transaction, or any combination of such transactions or agreements or any option
with respect to any such transactions or agreements now existing or hereafter
entered into by Company or any of its Subsidiaries to manage existing or
anticipated interest rate risk and not for speculative purposes.
"Internal Revenue Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Investment" shall mean any loan or advance by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to, or any other loan, advance or investment by Company or any of
its Subsidiaries in, any Person (including without limitation, any Subsidiary of
Company), without offset, reduction or other adjustment, whether such loan,
advance or investment shall be in the nature of an investment in shares of stock
or other capital or securities, general or limited partnership, limited
liability company or joint venture interests, evidences of indebtedness or
otherwise.
"Issuing Office" shall mean Agent's office located at One Detroit
Center, 500 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48275 or such other office as
Agent shall designate in writing as its Issuing Office.
"Joinder Agreement" shall mean a joinder agreement in the form attached
as Exhibit A to the form of the Domestic Guaranty or to the form of the Foreign
Guaranty, to be executed and delivered by any Person required to be a Guarantor
pursuant to Section 7.16 of this Agreement.
"Joint Venture" shall mean any corporation, partnership, association,
joint stock company, limited liability company, partnership, business trust or
other combined enterprise, other than a Subsidiary, in which (or to which) the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries has made a loan, investment or advance or has
an ownership stake or interest, whether in the nature of Share Capital or
otherwise (but expressly excluding Permitted Investments) to fund a business
enterprise.
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"Lender(s)" shall mean each of the Lenders signatory to the Prior
Credit Agreement and any assignee which becomes a Lender pursuant to Section
13.8(c) hereof.
"Letter(s) of Credit" shall mean any standby letters of credit issued
by Agent at the request of or for the account of an Account Party or Account
Parties pursuant to Article 3 hereof. The existing Letters of Credit are
scheduled on Schedule 1.4.
"Letter of Credit Agreement" shall mean, in respect of each Letter of
Credit, the application and related documentation satisfactory to the Agent of
an Account Party or Account Parties requesting Agent to issue such Letter of
Credit, as amended from time to time.
"Letter of Credit Fees" shall mean the fees payable to Agent for the
accounts of the Lenders in connection with Letters of Credit pursuant to Section
3.4 hereof.
"Letter of Credit Maximum Amount" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the lesser of: (a) One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) and
(b) the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment as of such date, minus the
aggregate principal amount of Advances outstanding as of such date under the
Revolving Credit and under the Swing Line.
"Letter of Credit Obligation(s)" shall mean the obligation of an
Account Party or Account Parties under this Agreement and each Letter of Credit
Agreement to reimburse the Agent for each payment made by the Agent under the
Letter of Credit issued pursuant to such Letter of Credit Agreement, together
with all other sums, fees, charges and amounts which may be owing to the Agent
under such Letter of Credit Agreement.
"Letter of Credit Payment" shall mean any amount paid or required to be
paid by the Agent in its capacity hereunder as issuer of a Letter of Credit as a
result of a draft or other demand for payment under any Letter of Credit.
"Leverage Ratio" shall mean, as of any date of determination, with
respect to the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, the ratio of (a) Total
Indebtedness as of such day to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the four consecutive
fiscal quarters then ending.
"Lien" shall mean any pledge, assignment, hypothecation, mortgage,
security interest, deposit arrangement, option, trust receipt, conditional sale
or title retaining contract, sale and leaseback transaction, or any other type
of lien, charge or encumbrance, whether based on common law, statute or
contract.
"Lite-On Documents" shall mean the Lite-On Joint Venture Agreement, the
Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of April 25, 1997 by and among the Company and
the shareholders
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of LPSC, the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement dated as of July 17, 1997 by and
between the Company and Lite-On Joint Venture, and such other material
agreements as entered among such parties (or their affiliates) pursuant thereto
or in connection therewith, each as amended (subject to the terms hereof) from
time to time.
"Lite-On Joint Venture Agreement" shall mean the Joint Venture
Agreement dated as of April 25, 1997 by and between the Company and Lite-On
Joint Venture, a company formed under the laws of Taiwan, relating to the
acquisition by the Company of LPSC, as amended (subject to the terms hereof),
from time to time.
"Loan Agreements" shall mean this Agreement and the Short Term
Revolving Credit Agreement.
"Loan Documents" shall mean collectively, this Agreement, the Letter of
Credit Agreements, the Guaranties, the Collateral Documents, Hedging Obligations
entered into between Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries and a Lender or an
Affiliate of a Lender, and any other documents, instruments or agreements
executed pursuant to or in connection with any such document, or this Agreement
as such documents may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time.
"LPSC" shall mean Lite-On Power Semiconductor Corporation, a company
formed under the laws of Taiwan.
"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean any multiemployer plan within the
meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
"National Currency Unit" shall mean a fraction or multiple of one Euro
Unit expressed in units of the former national currency of a Participating
Member State.
"Net Income" shall mean the net income (or loss) of a Person for any
period determined in accordance with GAAP.
"Net Income Adjustment" shall mean that amount to be added to the
minimum Tangible Net Worth required to be maintained under Section 7.4 hereof
consisting of fifty percent (50%) of Company's Consolidated Net Income for each
of the Company's fiscal quarters ending on or after March 31, 1999 (in each
case, only if a positive number), on a cumulative basis.
"New Equity" shall mean capital stock or other equity interests issued
and sold for cash on or after the date of this Agreement, by Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, excluding capital stock issued by any Subsidiary to Company to
evidence additional equity Investments by
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Company in its Subsidiaries and excluding the proceeds of any stock issued and
sold to employees (other than as part of a public offering).
"Notes" shall mean the Revolving Credit Notes or the Swing Line Notes,
or any or all of the Revolving Credit Notes, and the Swing Line Notes as the
context indicates, and in the absence of such indication, all such notes.
"Offering Memorandum" shall mean the Offering Memorandum to the Lenders
dated January, 1998.
"Pamela Holdings" shall mean Pamela Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, a
company organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, one hundred
percent (100%) of the share capital of which is owned (directly or indirectly)
by Company.
"Participating Member State" shall mean such country so described in
any EMU Legislation.
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation under ERISA,
or any successor corporation.
"Pension Plan" shall mean each employee pension benefit plan, as
defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, of the Company or an ERISA Affiliate but only
to the extent such Pension Plan is subject to ERISA, as provided in Section 4 of
ERISA, and is subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code and Section
302 of ERISA other than a Multiemployer Plan.
"Percentage" shall mean, with respect to any Lender, its percentage
share, as set forth on Schedule 1.1 hereto, of the Letters of Credit or the
Revolving Credit, as the context indicates, as such Schedule may be revised from
time to time by Agent in accordance with Section 13.8(d) hereof.
"Permitted Acquisition" shall mean any acquisition by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries of assets, businesses or business interests or shares of
stock or other ownership interests of or in any Person, conducted while no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing hereunder (both
before and after giving effect thereto) in accordance with the following
requirements:
(a) Such acquisition is of a business or Person primarily engaged in a
line of business in which the Company or any Subsidiary is permitted to engage
under Section 8.1(b) hereof;
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(b) The board of directors (or other Person(s) exercising similar
functions) of the seller of the assets or issuer of the shares of stock or other
ownership interests being acquired shall have approved such transaction or
recommended that such transaction be approved;
(c) in the event that the value of such proposed new acquisition,
computed on the basis of total acquisition consideration paid or incurred, or to
be paid or incurred, by the Company or its Subsidiaries with respect thereto,
including all indebtedness which is assumed or to which such assets, businesses
or business or ownership interests or shares, or any Person so acquired, is
subject, but excluding the value of any common shares transferred as a part of
such acquisition, shall be
(i) greater than or equal to Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000),
determined as of the date of such acquisition, then not less than
fifteen (15) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date each such
proposed acquisition is scheduled to be consummated, the Company
provides written notice thereof to Agent, accompanied by (A) the term
sheet, purchase agreement and, when available, drafts of all material
documents pertaining to such proposed acquisition, (B) historical
financial information (including, but not limited to, income
statements, balance sheets and cash flows) covering either the three
most recent complete fiscal years of the acquisition target prior to
the effective date of the acquisition or the entire credit history of
the acquisition target, whichever period is shorter, and the quarterly
financial statements of the acquisition target for the fiscal quarter
then ending (provided however that, if the financial information
referred to in this subparagraph (B) is not available, Company shall
furnish Agent with financial information otherwise reasonably
satisfactory to the Required Lenders) and (C) Pro Forma Projected
Financial Information, or
(ii) less than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) but greater than or
equal to Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000), then not less than ten (10)
Business Days after date each such proposed acquisition has been
consummated, the Company provides written notice thereof to Agent (with
certified copies of all material documents pertaining to such
acquisition);
whereupon Agent shall promptly upon its receipt thereof distribute copies of all
notices and other materials received from Company under this clause (c) to each
Lender; and
(d) within thirty (30) days after any such acquisition has been
completed, the Company, its Subsidiaries and any of the other business entities
involved in such acquisition shall execute or cause to be executed, and provide
or cause to be provided to Agent, any Loan Documents required under Section 7.16
hereof.
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"Permitted Borrower Addendum" shall mean an addendum substantially in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit H, to be executed and delivered by each
Permitted Borrower which becomes a party to this Agreement after the date
hereof, as such Exhibit may be amended from time to time.
"Permitted Borrower Sublimit" shall mean the maximum aggregate amount
of Advances and Letters of Credit (including Letter of Credit Obligations)
available at any time to each of the Permitted Borrowers hereunder, as set forth
on Schedule 1.6 hereof.
"Permitted Borrower(s)" shall mean Vishay Europe, Vishay Electronic,
Pamela Holdings and Siliconix, and any 100% Subsidiary which, after the
Effective Date and with the prior written approval of the Lenders, becomes a
party hereto pursuant to Section 2.1(a) hereof.
"Permitted Company Encumbrances" shall mean, in addition to Permitted
Encumbrances, those liens and encumbrances of the Company identified in Schedule
8.5, hereto.
"Permitted Currencies" shall mean Dollars or any Alternative Currency.
"Permitted Encumbrances" shall mean, with respect to any Person:
(a) liens for taxes not yet due and payable or which are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued,
provided that such provision for the payment of all such taxes known to
such Person has been made on the books of such Person as may be
required by GAAP;
(b) mechanics', materialmen's, banker's, carriers',
warehousemen's and similar liens and encumbrances arising in the
ordinary course of business and securing obligations of such Person
that are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued,
provided that in the case of any such contest (i) any proceedings
commenced for the enforcement of such liens and encumbrances shall have
been duly suspended; and (ii) such provision for the payment of such
liens and encumbrances has been made on the books of such Person as may
be required by GAAP;
(c) liens arising in connection with worker's compensation,
unemployment insurance, old age pensions (subject to the applicable
provisions of this Agreement) and social security benefits which are
not overdue or are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings diligently pursued, provided that in the case of any such
contest (i) any proceedings commenced for the enforcement of such liens
shall have been duly
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suspended; and (ii) such provision for the payment of such liens has
been made on the books of such Person as may be required by GAAP;
(d) (i) liens incurred in the ordinary course of business to
secure the performance of statutory obligations arising in connection
with progress payments or advance payments due under contracts with the
United States or any foreign government or any agency thereof entered
into in the ordinary course of business and (ii) liens incurred or
deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure the
performance of statutory obligations, bids, leases, fee and expense
arrangements with trustees and fiscal agents and other similar
obligations (exclusive of obligations incurred in connection with the
borrowing of money, any lease-purchase arrangements or the payment of
the deferred purchase price of property), provided that full provision
for the payment of all such obligations set forth in clauses (i) and
(ii) has been made on the books of such Person as may be required by
GAAP; and
(e) any minor imperfections of title, including but not limited to
easements, covenants, rights-of-way or other similar restrictions,
which, either individually or in the aggregate do not materially
adversely affect the present or future use of the property to which
they relate, which would have a material adverse effect on the sale or
lease of such property, or which would render title thereto
unmarketable.
"Permitted Encumbrances of the Subsidiaries" shall mean, in addition to
Permitted Encumbrances, those liens and encumbrances of the Subsidiaries
identified in Schedule 8.5, hereto.
"Permitted Investments" shall mean:
(a) Governmental Obligations;
(b) Obligations of a state of the United States, the District of
Columbia or any possession of the United States, or any political
subdivision thereof, which are described in Section 103(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code and are rated in any of the highest 3 major
rating categories as determined by at least one nationally recognized
rating agency; or secured, as to payments of principal and interest, by
a letter of credit provided by a financial institution or insurance
provided by a bond insurance company which itself or its debt is rated
in the highest 3 major rating categories as determined by at least one
Rating Agency;
(c) Banker's acceptances, commercial accounts, certificates of deposit,
or depository receipts issued by a bank, trust company, savings and
loan association, savings bank or
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other financial institution whose deposits are insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation and whose reported capital and surplus
equal at least $500,000,000;
(d) commercial paper with a minimum rating of "A-1" (or better) by S&P
or "P-1" (or better) by Moody's, full faith and credit direct
obligations of the United States of America or, with respect to the
Foreign Subsidiaries, of the central government of the applicable
jurisdiction, or any agency thereof, certificates of deposit, and other
short term investments (each of a duration of one year or less),
maintained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries consistent with
the present investment practices of such parties (as classified in the
current financial statements of such parties);
(e) Secured repurchase agreements against obligations itemized in
paragraph (a) above, and executed by a bank or trust company or by
members of the association of primary dealers or other recognized
dealers in United States government securities, the market value of
which must be maintained at levels at least equal to the amounts
advanced and repurchase agreements entered into with counterparties
having ratings in either of the highest two rating categories by
Moody's or S&P, or the highest rating category by Fitch Investor
Services, Duff & Phelps or Thompson Bank Watch and providing for
underlying securities to be held by a third party;
(f) Any fund or other pooling arrangement which exclusively purchases
and holds the investments itemized in (a) through (e) above; and
(g) other short term investments (excluding investments in
Subsidiaries, Affiliates or Joint Ventures) made or maintained by any
Foreign Subsidiary outside of the United States of America in the
ordinary course of its business, consistent with the present investment
practices of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date hereof
(generally, and as to the individual and aggregate amounts and other
terms thereof).
"Permitted Siliconix Merger" shall mean the merger or other
amalgamation of Vishay TEMIC Holdings (and any of its Subsidiaries) or Pamela
Holdings (or any of its Subsidiaries) into Siliconix, but only after Siliconix
has become a 100% Subsidiary.
"Permitted Transfer" shall mean (i) any disposition of inventory or
worn out or obsolete machinery, equipment or other such personal property in the
ordinary course of business, and (ii) the transfer by Company or its
Subsidiaries to Vishay Israel or its wholly-owned direct subsidiaries existing
under the laws of Israel of machinery and equipment in an aggregate amount
(valued on the basis of the book value of such property on the date of transfer
thereof) of up to Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) from and after the date of
the Prior Credit Agreement.
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"Permitted Transferee" shall mean a "Permitted Transferee" as defined
in the Company's current Certificate of Incorporation, and any subsequent
amendment of the definition of such term approved by the Required Lenders.
"Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, trust, incorporated or unincorporated organization, joint
venture, joint stock company, or a government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof or other entity of any kind.
"Pledge Agreement(s)" shall mean the various stock pledge agreements,
including any nantissements, notarial deeds, pledges of financial instrument
accounts, or other local law pledges (and any of them) executed and delivered in
connection with the Prior Credit Agreement or to be executed or delivered
pursuant to Sections 7.16 and/or 7.18 hereof all by the Company and its
Significant Subsidiaries in favor of the Agent, for and on behalf of the Lenders
under this Agreement and the lenders under the Short Term Revolving Credit
Agreement and, except with respect to those Pledge Agreements executed by or
covering the share capital of a Significant Foreign Subsidiary, on behalf of any
Lenders or their Affiliates (or any of them) under any Hedging Obligations, in
each case as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Prime Rate" shall mean the per annum interest rate established by
Agent as its prime rate for its borrowers as such rate may vary from time to
time, which rate is not necessarily the lowest rate on loans made by Agent at
any such time.
"Prime-based Advance" shall mean an Advance (including a Swing Line
Advance) which bears interest at the Prime-based Rate.
"Prime-based Rate" shall mean that rate of interest which is the
greater of (i) the Prime Rate or (ii) the Alternate Base Rate.
"Prior Credit Agreement" is defined in the Preamble.
"Pro Forma Projected Financial Information" shall mean, as to any
proposed acquisition, a statement executed by an Authorized Officer of the
Company (supported by reasonable detail) setting forth the total consideration
to be paid or incurred in connection with the proposed acquisition and, pro
forma combined projected financial information for the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries and the acquisition target (if applicable), consisting
of projected opening balance sheets and covenant calculations as of the proposed
effective date of the acquisition or the closing date and as of the end of at
least the next succeeding three (3) fiscal years of Company following the
acquisition and projected statements of income, balance sheets and cash flow
statements for each of those years, including sufficient detail to permit
calculation of the amounts and the financial covenants described in Sections 7.4
through 7.6 hereof, as
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projected as of the effective date of the acquisition and for those fiscal years
and accompanied by (i) a statement setting forth a calculation of the ratios and
amounts so described and (ii) a statement in reasonable detail specifying all
material assumptions underlying the projections.
"Prohibited Transaction" shall mean any transaction involving a Pension
Plan which constitutes a "prohibited transaction" under Section 406 of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
"Quoted Rate" shall mean the rate of interest per annum offered by the
Swing Line Bank in its sole discretion with respect to a Swing Line Advance.
"Quoted Rate Advance" means any Swing Line Advance which bears interest
at the Quoted Rate.
"Rating Agency" shall mean Fitch Investor Services, Inc., or Standard &
Poor's Ratings Group, or Moody's Investor Service, Inc., or any of their
respective successors, or any other nationally recognized rating agency, and
"Rating Agencies" shall be the collective reference to any or all of the
foregoing.
"Reaffirmation(s) of Certain Loan Documents" shall mean the
Reaffirmation(s) of Certain Loan Documents, executed and delivered by Company,
the Permitted Borrowers and those other Significant Subsidiaries which were a
party to the Prior Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents, substantially
in the form of Exhibit J attached hereto.
"Refunded Swing Line Advance" is defined in Section 2.5(e) hereof.
"Register" is defined in Section 13.8(f) hereof.
"Remaining Siliconix Acquisition" shall mean the purchase or other
acquisition by Company or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries of all or any portion
of the shares of stock of Siliconix.
"Reportable Event" shall mean a "reportable event" within the meaning
of Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations promulgated thereunder, which is
material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
"Request for Advance" shall mean a Request for Revolving Credit Advance
or a Request for Swing Line Advance, or either of them, as the context may
indicate or otherwise require.
"Request for Revolving Credit Advance" shall mean a request for
Revolving Credit Advance issued by the Company or by a Permitted Borrower and
countersigned by the Company
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under Section 2.3(c) hereof, as the case may be, in the form attached annexed
hereto as Exhibit A-1, as such form may be amended or otherwise modified from
time to time.
"Request for Swing Line Advance" shall mean a request for Swing Line
Advance issued by the Company or by a Permitted Borrower and countersigned by
the Company under Section 2.5(c) hereof, in the form attached annexed hereto as
Exhibit A-2, as such form may be amended or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"Required Lenders" shall mean at any time Lenders holding 51% of the
aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness then outstanding hereunder
(provided that, for purposes of determining Required Lenders hereunder,
Indebtedness outstanding under the Swing Line shall be allocated among the
Lenders based on their respective Percentages of the Revolving Credit) or, if no
Indebtedness is then outstanding, Lenders holding 51% of the Percentages.
"Revolving Credit" shall mean the revolving credit loan to be advanced
to the Company or a Permitted Borrower by the Lenders pursuant to Section 2
hereof, in an aggregate amount (subject to the terms hereof), not to exceed, at
any one time outstanding, the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment.
"Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment" shall mean Eight Hundred
Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($825,000,000), subject to any reductions in or
termination of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment under Section 2.15 or
9.2 hereof.
"Revolving Credit Facility Fee" shall mean the facility fee payable to
Agent for distribution to the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.13, hereof.
"Revolving Credit Maturity Date" shall mean the earlier to occur of (i)
March 2, 2003, as such date may be extended from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.16 hereof, and (ii) the date on which the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment shall be terminated pursuant to Section 2.15 or 9.2 hereof.
"Revolving Credit Notes" shall mean the revolving credit notes which
may be issued by Company or a Permitted Borrower at the request of a Lender
pursuant to Section 2.2(e) hereof in the form annexed to this Agreement as
Exhibit B-1 or B-2, as the case may be, as such Notes may be amended, renewed,
replaced or extended from time to time.
"Security Agreement(s)" shall mean the Security Agreement dated as of
the date hereof and executed and delivered by Company, each Significant Domestic
Subsidiary and certain Significant Foreign Subsidiaries incorporated under the
laws of the United States of America, or any state, territory, possession or
other political subdivision thereof (whether by execution thereof or by
execution of a Joinder Agreement attached as Exhibit A to form of such Security
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Agreement) in favor of the Agent substantially in the form of Exhibit I-1 or
I-2, as the case may be, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Shares", "share capital", "capital stock", "stock" and words of
similar import shall mean and refer to the equity capital interest under
applicable law of any Person in a corporation or other business entity,
howsoever such interest is created or arises, whether such capital consists of
common stock, preferred stock or preference shares, or other stock, and whether
such capital is evidenced by a certificate, share register entry or otherwise.
"Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement" shall mean that certain Amended
and Restated Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof
among the Company, the Permitted Borrowers, certain financial institutions, and
the Agent, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Short Term Loan Documents" shall mean "Loan Documents" as that term is
defined in the Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement.
"Significant Domestic Subsidiaries" shall mean those Domestic
Subsidiaries identified as such on Schedule 6.6A hereto, and any Domestic
Subsidiaries which become Significant Subsidiaries subsequent to the date
hereof.
"Significant Foreign Subsidiaries" shall mean those Foreign
Subsidiaries identified as such on Schedule 6.6A hereto, and any Foreign
Subsidiaries which become Significant Subsidiaries subsequent to the date
hereof.
"Significant Subsidiary" shall mean, on the Effective Date, those
Subsidiaries identified as Significant Subsidiaries on Schedule 6.6A hereto (for
purposes of determining the required Guarantors hereunder) and Schedule 6.6B
hereto (for purposes of determining those Subsidiaries whose share capital is
required to be encumbered by a Pledge Agreement hereunder) and thereafter shall
mean the Significant Subsidiaries as of Effective Date and all other
Subsidiaries, whether existing as of the Effective Date or created or acquired
by the Company thereafter, except any Subsidiary:
(a) the total assets of which, on an individual basis, on any date of
determination, are less than $5,000,000; and
(b) which has, as of the most recent fiscal quarter then ending, for
the four preceding fiscal quarters, an EBITDA of less than $1,000,000;
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provided however that, notwithstanding the foregoing, Vishay Israel shall not be
considered a Significant Subsidiary hereunder and each of Siliconix and LPSC
shall not be considered Significant Subsidiaries hereunder unless and until
becoming 100% Subsidiaries.
"Siliconix" shall mean Siliconix Incorporated, a Delaware corporation.
"Singapore/Taiwan Restructuring" shall mean the restructuring
transactions (including without limitation the "demerger" of Vishay Lite-On
Holding Pte. Ltd.) conducted substantially in accordance with the memorandum of
the Company's counsel dated January 20, 1999.
"SPFV" shall mean a special purpose funding vehicle utilized by a
Granting Lender pursuant to Section 13.8 hereof to fund all or any part of any
Advance that such Lender would otherwise be obligated to fund under this
Agreement.
"Stockholder's Equity" shall mean (i) legal capital consisting of
common or preferred stock, (ii) paid-in capital to the extent of the excess over
par or stated value paid for capital stock and that created by a corporate
readjustment and (iii) retained earnings consisting of cumulative Net Income
reduced by dividends declared or paid.
"Stock Option Plan" shall mean each employee stock option or other
employee incentive plan listed on Schedule 1.7 hereto pursuant to which stock of
the Company is distributed to directors, officers and/or employees of the
Company or its Subsidiaries and other similar plans adopted by the Company or
any Subsidiary subsequent to the date hereof in the ordinary course of business.
"Stock Option Plan Debt" shall mean Debt issued by any Subsidiary to
the Company in exchange for stock in the Company to be distributed pursuant to a
Stock Option Plan, provided that (i) no payments of principal or interest may be
made under such Debt so long as this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents
remains outstanding, and (ii) such Debt shall be subordinated to the
Indebtedness in all respects on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to
the Agent and the Required Lenders.
"Subsidiary(ies)" shall mean any corporation, association, joint stock
company, limited liability company, partnership or business trust of which more
than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting stock or other ownership
interests is owned either directly or indirectly by Company or one or more of
its Subsidiaries or by Company and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or the
management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries, or both, by Company and/or its Subsidiaries. "100%
Subsidiary(ies)" shall mean any of the Company's Subsidiaries whose stock (other
than directors' or qualifying shares to the extent required under applicable
law) or other ownership interests is owned 100% by any other 100% Subsidiary
and/or the Company, and shall also include Vishay Israel.
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"Swing Line" shall mean the revolving credit loan to be advanced to the
Company or a Permitted Borrower by the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.5
hereof, in an aggregate amount (subject to the terms hereof) not to exceed, at
any one time outstanding, the Swing Line Maximum Amount.
"Swing Line Advance" shall mean an Advance made by Swing Line Bank to
Company or a Permitted Borrower pursuant to Section 2.5 hereof.
"Swing Line Bank" shall mean Comerica Bank, in its capacity as lender
under Section 2.5 of this Agreement, and its successors and assigns.
"Swing Line Maximum Amount" shall mean Twenty-Five Million Dollars
($25,000,000).
"Swing Line Notes" shall mean the swing line notes which may be issued
by Company or a Permitted Borrower at the request of Swing Line Bank pursuant to
Section 2.5(a) hereof in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit C-1 or C-2, as the
case may be, as such Notes may be amended or supplemented from time to time, and
any notes issued in substitution, replacement or renewal thereof from time to
time.
"Syndication Fee" shall mean those certain fees payable to the Agents
in the amount set forth in the fee letter dated January 7, 1998 or such other
fee letter as in effect from time to time.
"Tangible Net Worth" shall mean, as of any date of determination, the
total common shareholders' equity of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a
Consolidated basis, together with the amount, if any, of preferred stock which
is classified as part of shareholders' equity, as reflected on the most recent
regularly prepared quarterly balance sheet of the Company and such Subsidiaries,
which balance sheet shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP, minus the book
amount of intangible assets including, without limitation, such items as
goodwill, trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents, licenses and rights in
any intangible assets, and unamortized debt discount and expense, as of such
date determined in accordance with GAAP, but excluding the effects of the
currency translation adjustment and of the pension adjustment under the
additional minimum liability section of FASB 87.
"TEMIC Acquisition" shall mean the acquisition by the Company, subject
to the terms hereof, of the TEMIC Semiconductor Business, including, without
limitation, not less than eighty percent (80%) of the common shares of Siliconix
issued and outstanding on that date of the TEMIC Acquisition, for the price and
on the terms set forth in the TEMIC Acquisition Agreement.
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"TEMIC Acquisition Agreement" shall mean that certain agreement and
notarial deed governing the acquisition of the TEMIC Semiconductor Business
entered into between the TEMIC Parties, as sellers, and the Company, Pamela
Holdings and Vishay TEMIC Holdings, as purchasers, dated as of December 16,
1997, as amended (subject to the terms hereof) from time to time.
"TEMIC Parties" shall mean those sellers of the "TEMIC Semiconductor
Business" identified in Schedule 1.3 hereto and signatories to the TEMIC
Acquisition Agreement.
"TEMIC Semiconductor Business' shall mean the business of, among other
things, designing, marketing and manufacturing discrete electronic devices and
integrated circuits and designing, marketing and manufacturing power and analog
semiconductor products.
"Total Indebtedness" shall mean, with respect to the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries, as of any date of determination, the sum, without
duplication, of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal amounts of (i) Advances
of the Revolving Credit and Swing Line outstanding as of such date and any
Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding as of such date, and (ii) any other
revolving credit or other short-term Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries as
of such date, (b) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all long-term
and short-term Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such date and (c)
all other interest-bearing Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries, whether
short-term or long-term, as of such date.
"Trans-European Business Day" shall mean a day when the Trans-European
Settlement System is open for business.
"Trans-European Settlement System" shall mean the Trans-European
Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System or any successor.
"Treaty on European Union" shall mean the Treaty of Rome of March 25,
1957, as amended by the Single European Act 1986 and the Maastricht Treaty
(which was signed at Maastricht on February 7, 1992 and came into force on
November 1, 1993), as amended from time to time.
"Vishay Europe" shall mean Vishay Europe GmbH, a company organized
under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, formerly known as Vishay
Beteiligungs GmbH.
"Vishay Electronic" shall mean Vishay Electronic GmbH, a company
organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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"Vishay TEMIC Holdings" shall mean Vishay TEMIC Semiconductor
Acquisition Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation, one hundred percent (100%)
of the share capital of which is owned (directly or indirectly) by Company.
"Vishay Israel" shall mean Vishay Israel Limited, a corporation
organized under the laws of Israel and a Subsidiary of the Company.
"Vishay Stock Plans" shall mean that certain 1986 Employee Stock Plan
of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., adopted by the board of directors of the
Company on February 27, 1986, as such plan may be amended from time to time, and
the Stock Option Plan, and any successor plans thereto.
1.2 Euro.
(a) Redenomination of Eurocurrency-based Advances and other Advances
into Euro Units.
(i) From and after January 1, 1999, each obligation under this
Agreement of a party hereto which (A) was originally denominated in the
former national currency of a Participating Member State, or (B) would
otherwise have been denominated in such former national currency prior
to such date shall be denominated in, or redenominated into, as
applicable, the Euro Unit in accordance with EMU Legislation and
applicable state law, provided that, if and to the extent that any EMU
Legislation provides that amounts denominated in the euro unit or the
National Currency Unit of a Participating Member State, that are
payable by crediting an account of the creditor within that country,
may be made in either Euro or National Currency Units, each party to
this Agreement shall be entitled to pay or repay any such amounts in
either the Euro Unit or such National Currency Unit.
(ii) Any Eurocurrency-based Advances denominated in a National
Currency Unit of a Participating Member State which were made prior to
January 1, 1999 but which have Interest Periods ending after January 1,
1999 shall, for purposes of this Agreement, remain denominated in such
National Currency Unit provided that such Advances may be repaid either
in the Euro or in such National Currency Unit after January 1, 1999;
provided, further, that from and after January 1, 2002 all such amounts
shall be deemed to be in Euro Units.
(iii) Subject to any EMU Legislation, references in this
Agreement to a minimum amount (or an integral multiple thereof) in a
National Currency Unit to be paid to or by a party hereto shall be
deemed to be a reference to such reasonably comparable and
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convenient amount (or an integral multiple thereof) in the Euro
Unit as the Agent may from time to time specify.
(b) Payments.
(i) All payments by any Borrower or any Lender of amounts denominated
in the Euro or a National Currency Unit of a Participating Member
State, shall be made in immediately available, freely transferable,
cleared funds to the account of the Agent in the principal financial
center in such Participating Member State, as from time to time
designated by the Agent for such purpose.
(ii) All amounts payable by the Agent to any party under this Agreement
in the National Currency Unit of a Participating Member State shall
instead be paid in the Euro Unit.
(iii) Subject in the case of any Lender to Section 12.3 hereof, the
Agent shall not be liable to any party to this Agreement in any way
whatsoever for any delay, or the consequences of any delay, in the
crediting to any account of any amount denominated in the Euro or a
National Currency Unit of a Participating Member State.
(iv) All references herein to the London interbank or other national
market with respect to any National Currency Unit of a Participating
Member State shall be deemed a reference to the applicable markets and
locations referred to in the definition of "Business Day" in Section
1.1.
(c) Increased Costs. The Borrowers shall, from time to time upon demand
of any Lender (with a copy to the Agent), pay to such Lender the amount of any
cost or increased cost incurred by, or of any reduction in any amount payable to
or in the effective return on its capital to, or of interest or other return
foregone by, such Lender or any holding company of such Lender as a result of
the introduction of, changeover to or operation of the Euro in a Participating
Member State, other than any such cost or reduction or amount foregone reflected
in any interest rate hereunder.
(d) Inconsistent Practice. If the basis of accrual of interest or fees
expressed in this Agreement with respect to the currency of any state that
becomes a Euro Member shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in
the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest or fees in
respect of Euros, such convention or practice shall replace such expressed basis
effective as of and from the date on which such state becomes a Euro Member;
provided, that if any Advance in the currency of such state is outstanding
immediately prior to
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such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Advance, at
the end of the then current Interest Period.
(e) Unavailability of Euro. If the Agent at any time determines that:
(i) the Euro has ceased to be utilized as the basic accounting unit of the
European Community; (ii) for reasons affecting the market in Euros generally,
Euros are not freely traded between banks internationally; or (iii) it is
illegal, impossible or impracticable for payments to be made hereunder in Euro,
then the Agent may, in its discretion declare (such declaration to be binding on
all the parties hereto) that any payment made or to be made thereafter which,
but for this provision, would have been payable in the Euro shall be made in a
component currency of the Euro or Dollars (as selected by the Agent (the
"Selected Currency") and the amount to be so paid shall be calculated on the
basis of the equivalent of the Euro in the Selected Currency).
(f) Additional Changes at Agent's Discretion. This section and other
provisions of this Agreement relating to Euros and the National Currency Units
of Participating Member States shall be subject to such further changes
(including changes in interpretation or construction) as the Agent may from time
to time in its reasonable discretion notify to the Borrowers and the Lenders to
be necessary or appropriate to reflect the changeover to the Euro in
Participating Member States.
2. REVOLVING CREDIT
2.1 Commitment. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement
(including without limitation Section 2.3 hereof), each Lender severally and for
itself alone agrees to make Advances of the Revolving Credit in any one or more
of the Permitted Currencies to the Company or to any of the Permitted Borrowers
from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date
hereof until (but excluding) the Revolving Credit Maturity Date in an aggregate
amount, based on the Dollar Amount of any Advances outstanding in Dollars and
the Current Dollar Equivalent of any Advances outstanding in Alternative
Currencies, not to exceed at any one time outstanding such Lender's Percentage
of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment. Except as provided in Section 2.12
hereof, for purposes of this Agreement, Advances in Alternative Currencies shall
be determined, denominated and redenominated as set forth in Section 2.11
hereof. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, advances,
repayments and readvances may be made under the Revolving Credit. Advances of
the Revolving Credit shall be subject to the following additional conditions and
limitations:
(a) No Permitted Borrower shall be entitled to request an
Advance of the Revolving Credit or the Swing Line or the issuance of a Letter of
Credit hereunder until (i) it has become a party to this Agreement, either by
execution and delivery of this Agreement, or by
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execution and delivery of a Permitted Borrower Addendum to this Agreement, (ii)
it has become a party to the applicable Guaranty either by execution and
delivery of such Guaranty or by execution and delivery of a Joinder Agreement to
such Guaranty, (iii) in the case of each Domestic Permitted Borrower (and any
Foreign Permitted Borrower incorporated under the laws of the United States of
America), it has become a party to the applicable Security Agreement and (iv) in
the case of each Permitted Borrower, the Company has encumbered and/or delivered
(or caused to be encumbered and/or delivered), as the case may be, pursuant to a
Pledge Agreement those shares of stock issued by such Permitted Borrower and
owned (directly or indirectly) by the Company which are required to be
encumbered and/or delivered under the Prior Credit Agreement or Section 7.16 or
7.17 hereof, as applicable, and accompanied in each case by authority documents,
legal opinions and other supporting documents as required by Agent and the
Required Lenders hereunder;
(b) No Subsidiary which is a Permitted Borrower as of the
Effective Date nor any Foreign Subsidiary which becomes a Permitted Borrower
after the Effective Date shall be entitled to request or maintain (or, in the
case of any Eurocurrency-based Advance, maintain beyond any applicable Interest
Period then in effect) an Advance of the Revolving Credit or the Swing Line or
the issuance of a Letter of Credit hereunder if it ceases to be a 100%
Subsidiary of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing however Siliconix shall
be entitled to request (or maintain) Advances of the Revolving Credit and the
Swing Line and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder so long as at least
80% of its common shares are owned directly or indirectly by the Company.
2.2 Accrual of Interest and Maturity; Evidence of Indebtedness. (a) The
Company and each Permitted Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to
the Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of
each Revolving Credit Advance of such Lender on the Revolving Credit Maturity
Date and on such other dates and in such other amounts as may be required from
time to time pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an
account or accounts evidencing indebtedness of the Company and each Permitted
Borrower to the appropriate lending office of such Lender resulting from each
Revolving Credit Advance made by such lending office of such Lender from time to
time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable thereon and paid
to such Lender from time to time under this Agreement.
(c) The Agent shall maintain the Register pursuant to Section 13.8(f),
and a subaccount therein for each Lender, in which Register and subaccounts
(taken together) shall be recorded (i) the amount and applicable Permitted
Currency of each Revolving Credit Advance made hereunder, the type thereof and
each Interest Period applicable to any Eurocurrency-based Advance, (ii) the
amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and
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payable from the Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower, as the case may
be, to each Lender hereunder in respect of the Revolving Credit Advances and
(iii) both the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder from the
Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower in respect of the Revolving Credit
Advances and each Lender's share thereof. (d) The entries made in the Register
and the accounts of each Lender maintained pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of
this Section 2.1 shall absent manifest error, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, be conclusive evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers therein recorded;
provided, however, that the failure of any Lender or the Agent to maintain the
Register or any such account, as applicable, or any error therein, shall not in
any manner affect the obligation of each of the Company and each Permitted
Borrower to repay the Revolving Credit Advances (and all other amounts owing
with respect thereto) made to the Company or such Permitted Borrower by such
Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e) The Company agrees that, upon written request to the Administrative
Agent (with a copy to the Company) by any Lender, the Company and each of the
Permitted Borrowers will execute and deliver, to such Lender, at the Company's
(or such Permitted Borrower's) own expense, a Revolving Credit Note of each of
the Company and each of the Permitted Borrowers evidencing the outstanding
Revolving Credit Advances owing to such Lender; provided, that the delivery of
such Revolving Credit Notes shall not be a condition precedent to the Effective
Date.
2.3 Requests for and Refundings and Conversions of Advances. Company or
a Permitted Borrower (with the countersignature of Company hereunder) may
request an Advance of the Revolving Credit, refund any such Advance in the same
type of Advance or convert any such Advance to any other type of Advance of the
Revolving Credit only after delivery to Agent of a Request for Revolving Credit
Advance executed by an Authorized Officer of Company or of such Permitted
Borrower (with the countersignature of an Authorized Officer of the Company),
subject to the following and to the remaining provisions hereof:
(a) each such Request for Revolving Credit Advance shall set
forth the information required on the Request for Advance form annexed
hereto as Exhibit A-1, including without limitation:
(i) the proposed date of such Advance, which
must be a Business Day;
(ii) whether such Advance is a refunding or
conversion of an outstanding Advance;
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(iii) whether such Advance is to be a Prime-based
Advance or a Eurocurrency-based Advance,
and, except in the case of a Prime-based
Advance, the first Interest Period
applicable thereto; and
(iv) in the case of a Eurocurrency-based Advance,
the Permitted Currency in which such Advance
is to be made.
(b) each such Request for Revolving Credit Advance shall be
delivered to Agent by 12:00 noon (Detroit time) three (3) Business Days
prior to the proposed date of Advance, except in the case of a
Prime-based Advance, for which the Request for Advance must be
delivered by 12:00 noon (Detroit time) on such proposed date;
(c) on the proposed date of such Advance, the Dollar Amount of the
principal amount of such requested Advance, plus the Dollar Amount of
the principal amount of any other Advances of the Revolving Credit and
of the Swing Line being requested on such date, plus the principal
amount of all other Advances of the Revolving Credit and of the Swing
Line then outstanding hereunder, in each case whether to Company or the
Permitted Borrowers (using the Current Dollar Equivalent of any such
Advances outstanding in any Alternative Currency, determined pursuant
to the terms hereof as of the date of such requested Advance), plus the
aggregate undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit which shall be
outstanding as of the date of the requested Advance (based on the
Dollar Amount of the undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit
denominated in Dollars and the Current Dollar Equivalent of the undrawn
portion of any Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative
Currency), the aggregate face amount of Letters of Credit requested but
not yet issued (determined as aforesaid) and the aggregate amount of
all drawings made under any Letter of Credit for which the Agent has
not received full reimbursement from the applicable Account Party
(using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof for any Letters of Credit
denominated in any Alternative Currency), shall not exceed the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment; provided however, that, in the
case of any Advance of the Revolving Credit being applied to refund an
outstanding Swing Line Advance, the aggregate principal amount of Swing
Line Advances to be refunded shall not be included for purposes of
calculating the limitation under this Section 2.3(c);
(d) in the case of a Permitted Borrower, on the proposed date of such
Advance, the principal amount of the Advance of the Revolving Credit
being requested by such Permitted Borrower (determined and tested as
aforesaid), plus the principal amount of any other Advances of the
Revolving Credit and of the Swing Line being requested by such
Permitted Borrower on such date, plus the principal amount of any other
Advances of the Revolving Credit and all Advances of the Swing Line
then outstanding to such Permitted Borrower hereunder (determined as
aforesaid), plus the undrawn portion of any
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Letter of Credit which shall be outstanding as of the date of the
requested Advance for the account of such Permitted Borrower, plus the
aggregate face amount of Letters of Credit requested but not yet issued
for the account of such Permitted Borrower (in each case determined as
aforesaid), plus the unreimbursed amount of any drawings under any
Letters of Credit (using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof for any
Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative Currency) issued for
the account of such Permitted Borrower, shall not exceed the applicable
Permitted Borrower Sublimit;
(e) in the case of a Prime-based Advance, the principal amount of the
initial funding of such Advance, as opposed to any refunding or
conversion thereof, shall be at least $10,000,000;
(f) in the case of a Eurocurrency-based Advance, the principal amount
of such Advance, plus the amount of any other outstanding Advance of
the Revolving Credit to be then combined therewith having the same
Applicable Interest Rate and Interest Period, if any, shall be at least
Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000) or the equivalent thereof in an
Alternative Currency (or a larger integral multiple of One Million
Dollars ($1,000,000), or the equivalent thereof in the applicable
Alternative Currency) and at any one time there shall not be in effect
more than (x) for Advances to Company, ten (10) Applicable Interest
Rates and Interest Periods, and (y) for Advances to each Permitted
Borrower five (5) Applicable Interest Rates and Interest Periods for
each such currency;
(g) a Request for Revolving Credit Advance, once delivered to Agent,
shall not be revocable by Company or the Permitted Borrowers;
(h) each Request for Revolving Credit Advance shall constitute a
certification by the Company and the applicable Permitted Borrower, if
any, as of the date thereof that:
(i) both before and after such Advance, the
obligations of the Company and the Permitted
Borrowers set forth in this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents to which such
Persons are parties are valid, binding and
enforceable obligations of the Company and
the Permitted Borrowers, as the case may be;
(ii) all conditions to Advances of the Revolving
Credit have been satisfied, and shall remain
satisfied to the date of such Advance (both
before and after giving effect to such
Advance);
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(iii) there is no Default or Event of Default in
existence, and none will exist upon the
making of such Advance (both before and
after giving effect to such Advance);
(iv) the representations and warranties contained
in this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents are true and correct in all
material respects and shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of the
making of such Advance (both before and
after giving effect to such Advance); and
(v) the execution of such Request for Advance
will not violate the material terms and
conditions of any material contract,
agreement or other borrowing of Company or
the Permitted Borrowers.
Agent, acting on behalf of the Lenders, may, at its option, lend under
this Section 2 upon the telephone request of an Authorized Officer of
Company or a Permitted Borrower and, in the event Agent, acting on
behalf of the Lenders, makes any such Advance upon a telephone request,
the requesting officer shall fax to Agent, on the same day as such
telephone request, a Request for Advance. Company and Permitted
Borrowers hereby authorize Agent to disburse Advances under this
Section 2.3 pursuant to the telephone instructions of any person
purporting to be a person identified by name on a written list of
persons authorized by the Company and delivered to Agent prior to the
date of such request to make Requests for Advance on behalf of the
Company and the Permitted Borrowers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Company and each Permitted Borrower acknowledge that Company and each
such Permitted Borrower shall bear all risk of loss resulting from
disbursements made upon any telephone request. Each telephone request
for an Advance shall constitute a certification of the matters set
forth in the Request for Revolving Credit Advance form as of the date
of such requested Advance.
2.4 Disbursement of Advances.
(a) Upon receiving any Request for Revolving Credit Advance from
Company or a Permitted Borrower under Section 2.3 hereof, Agent shall
promptly notify each Lender by wire, telex or telephone (confirmed by
wire, telecopy or telex) of the amount and currency of such Advance to
be made and the date such Advance is to be made by said Lender pursuant
to its Percentage of such Advance. Unless such Lender's commitment to
make Advances of the Revolving Credit hereunder shall have been
suspended or terminated in accordance with this Agreement, each such
Lender shall make available the amount of its Percentage of each
Advance in immediately available funds in the currency of such Advance
to Agent, as follows:
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(i) for Domestic Advances, at the office of
Agent located at One Detroit Center,
Detroit, Michigan 48226, not later than 3:00
p.m. (Detroit time) on the date of such
Advance; and
(ii) for Eurocurrency-based Advances, at the
Agent's Correspondent for the account of the
Eurocurrency Lending Office of the Agent,
not later than 12 noon (the time of the
Agent's Correspondent) on the date of such
Advance.
(b) Subject to submission of an executed Request for Revolving Credit
Advance by Company or a Permitted Borrower (with the countersignature
of the Company as aforesaid) without exceptions noted in the compliance
certification therein, Agent shall make available to Company or to the
applicable Permitted Borrower, as the case may be, the aggregate of the
amounts so received by it from the Lenders in like funds and
currencies:
(i) for Domestic Advances, not later than 4:00
p.m. (Detroit time) on the date of such
Advance by credit to an account of Company
or such Permitted Borrower maintained with
Agent or to such other account or third
party as Company or such Permitted Borrower
may reasonably direct; and
(ii) for Eurocurrency-based Advances, not later
than 4:00 p.m. (the time of the Agent's
Correspondent) on the date of such Advance,
by credit to an account of Company or such
Permitted Borrower maintained with Agent's
Correspondent or to such other account or
third party as Company or such Permitted
Borrower may reasonably direct.
(c) Agent shall deliver the documents and papers received by it for the
account of each Lender to such Lender or upon its order. Unless Agent
shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the date of any
proposed Advance that such Lender does not intend to make available to
Agent such Lender's Percentage of such Advance, Agent may assume that
such Lender has made such amount available to Agent on such date and in
such currency, as aforesaid and may, in reliance upon such assumption,
make available to Company or to the applicable Permitted Borrower, as
the case may be, a corresponding amount. If such amount is not in fact
made available to Agent by such Lender, as aforesaid, Agent shall be
entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Lender. If such
Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon Agent's demand therefor,
the
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Agent shall promptly notify Company, and Company or the applicable
Permitted Borrower shall pay such amount to Agent. Agent shall also be
entitled to recover from such Lender or Company or the applicable
Permitted Borrower, as the case may be, but without duplication,
interest on such amount in respect of each day from the date such
amount was made available by Agent to Company or such Permitted
Borrower, as the case may be, to the date such amount is recovered by
Agent, at a rate per annum equal to:
(i) in the case of such Lender, for the first
two (2) Business Days such amount remains
unpaid, with respect to Domestic Advances,
the Federal Funds Effective Rate, and with
respect to Eurocurrency-based Advances,
Agent's aggregate marginal cost (including
the cost of maintaining any required
reserves or deposit insurance and of any
fees, penalties, overdraft charges or other
costs or expenses incurred by Agent as a
result of such failure to deliver funds
hereunder) of carrying such amount and
thereafter, at the rate of interest then
applicable to such Revolving Credit
Advances; and
(ii) in the case of Company or such Permitted
Borrower, the rate of interest then
applicable to such Advance of the Revolving
Credit.
The obligation of any Lender to make any Advance of the Revolving
Credit hereunder shall not be affected by the failure of any other
Lender to make any Advance hereunder, and no Lender shall have any
liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Agent, any
other Lender, or any other party for another Lender's failure to make
any loan or Advance hereunder.
2.5 (a) Swing Line Advances . The Swing Line Bank shall, on the terms
and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth (including without
limitation Section 2.5(c) hereof), make one or more advances in Dollars or in
any Alternative Currency (each such advance being a "Swing Line Advance") to
Company or any of the Permitted Borrowers (provided that any such Permitted
Borrower has become a party to this Agreement, either by execution and delivery
of this Agreement, or by complying with the terms and conditions set forth in
Section 2.1(a) hereof, from time to time on any Business Day during the period
from the date hereof to (but excluding) the Revolving Credit Maturity Date in an
aggregate amount, based on the Dollar Amount of any such Advances outstanding in
Dollars and the Current Dollar Equivalent of any such Advances outstanding in
Alternative Currencies, not to exceed at any time outstanding the Swing Line
Maximum Amount. Swing Line Bank shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing indebtedness of the Company and each
of the Permitted Borrowers to Swing Line Bank resulting from each Swing Line
Advance of such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and
interest payable thereon and
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paid to such Lender from time to time. The entries made in such account or
accounts of Swing Line Bank shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be
conclusive evidence, absent manifest error, of the existence and amounts of the
obligations of the Company and the Permitted Borrower therein recorded;
provided, however, that the failure of Swing Line Bank to maintain such account,
as applicable, or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the
obligation of each of the Company and each Permitted Borrower to repay the Swing
Line Advances (and all other amounts owing with respect thereto) made to the
Company or such Permitted Borrower by Swing Line Bank in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. Advances, repayments and readvances under the Swing
Line may be made, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Each
Swing Line Advance shall mature and the principal amount thereof shall be due
and payable by Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower on the last day of
the Interest Period applicable thereto (if any).
The Company agrees that, upon the written request of Swing Line Bank
(with a copy to the Company), the Company and each of the Permitted Borrowers
will execute and deliver to Swing Line Bank Swing Line Notes of each of the
Company and each of the Permitted Borrowers; provided, that the delivery of such
Swing Line Notes shall not be a condition precedent to the Effective Date.
(b) Accrual of Interest . Each Swing Line Advance shall, from
time to time after the date of such Advance, bear interest at its Applicable
Interest Rate. The amount and date of each Swing Line Advance, its Applicable
Interest Rate, its Interest Period, if any, and the amount and date of any
repayment shall be noted on Swing Line Bank's account maintained pursuant to
Section 2.5(a), which records will be conclusive evidence thereof, absent
manifest error; provided, however, that any failure by the Swing Line Bank to
record any such information shall not relieve Company or the applicable
Permitted Borrower of its obligation to repay the outstanding principal amount
of such Advance, all interest accrued thereon and any amount payable with
respect thereto in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents.
(c) Requests for Swing Line Advances. Company or a Permitted
Borrower (with the countersignature of the Company) may request a Swing Line
Advance only after delivery to Swing Line Bank of a Request for Swing Line
Advance executed by an Authorized Officer of Company or such Permitted Borrower,
subject to the following and to the remaining provisions hereof:
(i) each such Request for Swing Line Advance shall set forth
the information required on the Request for Advance form annexed hereto as
Exhibit A-2, including without limitation:
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(A) the proposed date of such Swing Line Advance, which must
be a Business Day;
(B) whether such Swing Line Advance is to be a Prime-based
Advance, a Eurocurrency-based Advance or a Quoted Rate Advance;
(C) the duration of the Interest Period applicable thereto;
and
(D) in the case of a Eurocurrency-based Advance, the Permitted
Currency in which such Advance is to be made.
(ii) the Dollar Amount of the principal amount of such
requested Swing Line Advance, plus the aggregate principal amount of all other
Swing Line Advances then outstanding hereunder (including any other Swing Line
Advances requested to be made on such date) whether to Company or to any of the
Permitted Borrowers (using the Current Dollar Equivalent of any such Advances
outstanding in any Alternative Currency, determined pursuant to the terms hereof
as of the date of such requested Advance) shall not exceed the Swing Line
Maximum Amount;
(iii) as of the proposed date of such Swing Line Advance, the
Dollar Amount of the principal amount of such requested Swing Line Advance, plus
the aggregate principal amount of all other Swing Line Advances and all Advances
of the Revolving Credit then outstanding hereunder (including any Revolving
Credit Advances or other Swing Line Advances requested to be made on such date)
whether to Company or to any of the Permitted Borrowers (using the Current
Dollar Equivalent of any such Advances outstanding in any Alternative Currency,
determined pursuant to the terms hereof as of the date of such requested
Advance), and the aggregate undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit which shall
be outstanding as of the date of the requested Swing Line Advance (based on the
Dollar Amount of the undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit denominated in
Dollars and the Current Dollar Equivalent of the undrawn portion of any Letters
of Credit denominated in any Alternative Currency), plus the aggregate face
amount of Letters of Credit requested but not yet issued (determined as
aforesaid), plus the unreimbursed amount of any draws under Letters of Credit
(using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof for any Letters of Credit
denominated in any Alternative Currency) shall not exceed the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment;
(iv) in the case of any Permitted Borrower, as of the proposed
date of such Swing Line Advance, the principal amount of the requested Swing
Line Advance to such Permitted Borrower (determined as aforesaid), plus the
aggregate principal amount of any other Swing Line Advances and all other
Advances then outstanding to such Permitted Borrower hereunder (including,
without duplication, Revolving Credit Advances or Swing Line Advances
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requested to be made on such date) determined as aforesaid, plus the aggregate
undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit which shall be outstanding as of the
date of the requested Swing Line Advance for the account of such Permitted
Borrower, plus the aggregate face amount of any Letters of Credit requested but
not yet issued for the account of such Permitted Borrower hereunder (in each
case determined as aforesaid), plus the unreimbursed amount of any drawings
under any Letters of Credit (using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof for any
Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative Currency) issued for the
account of such Permitted Borrower, shall not exceed the applicable Permitted
Borrower Sublimit;
(v) in the case of a Prime-based Advance, the principal amount
of the initial funding of such Advance, as opposed to any refunding or
conversion thereof, shall be at least $100,000;
(vi) in the case of a Eurocurrency-based Advance or a Quoted
Rate Advance, the principal amount of such Advance, the principal amount of such
Swing Line Advance plus the amount of any other outstanding Advance of the Swing
Line to be then combined therewith having the same Applicable Interest Rate and
Interest Period, if any, shall be, at least Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000), or the equivalent thereof in an Alternative Currency (or a larger
integral multiple of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), or the equivalent
thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency), and at any one time there shall
not be in effect more than (x) for Advances in Dollars, Five (5) Applicable
Interest Rates and Interest Periods, and (y) for Advances in any Alternative
Currency (other than eurodollars), two (2) Applicable Interest Rates and
Interest Periods for each such currency;
(vii) each such Request for Swing Line Advance shall be
delivered to the Swing Line Bank (x) for each Advance in Dollars, by 2:00 p.m.
(Detroit time) on the proposed date of the Advance and (y) for each Advance in
any Alternative Currency, by 12:00 noon (Detroit time) two (2) Business Days
prior to the proposed date of Advance;
(viii) each Request for Swing Line Advance, once delivered to
Swing Line Bank, shall be irrevocable by Company, and shall constitute and
include a certification by the Company as of the date thereof that:
(A) both before and after such Swing Line Advance, the obligations of
the Company set forth in this Agreement and the Loan Documents, are
valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company;
(B) all conditions to the making of Swing Line Advances have been
satisfied (both before and after giving effect to such Advance);
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(C) both before and after the making of such Swing Line Advance, there
is no Default or Event of Default in existence; and
(D) both before and after such Swing Line Advance, the representations
and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
are true and correct in all material respects.
Swing Line Bank shall promptly deliver to Agent by telecopy a copy of any
Request for Advance received hereunder.
(d) Disbursement of Swing Line Advances. Subject to submission
of an executed Request for Swing Line Advance by Company or a Permitted Borrower
without exceptions noted in the compliance certification therein and to the
other terms and conditions hereof, Swing Line Bank shall make available to
Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower the amount so requested, in like
funds and currencies, not later than:
(i) for Prime-based Advances or Quoted Rate Advances,
not later than 4:00 p.m. (Detroit time) on the date of such Advance by credit to
an account of Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower maintained with Agent
or to such other account or third party as Company or the Permitted Borrower may
reasonably direct in writing; and
(ii) for Eurocurrency-based Advances, not later than
4:00 p.m. (the time of the Agent's Correspondent) on the date of such Advance,
by credit to an account of Company or the Permitted Borrower maintained with
Agent's Correspondent or to such other account or third party as Company or the
applicable Permitted Borrower may reasonably direct.
Swing Line Bank shall promptly notify Agent of any Swing Line Advance by
telephone, telex or telecopier.
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(e) Refunding of or Participation Interest in Swing Line
Advances .
(i) The Agent, at any time in its sole and absolute
discretion, may on behalf of the Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower
(each of which hereby irrevocably directs the Agent to act on its behalf)
request each of the Lenders (including the Swing Line Bank in its capacity as a
Lender) to make an Advance of the Revolving Credit to each of Company and the
Permitted Borrowers, for each Permitted Currency in which Swing Line Advances
are outstanding to such party, in an amount (in the applicable Permitted
Currency, determined in accordance with Section 2.11(b) hereof) equal to such
Lender's Percentage of the principal amount of the aggregate Swing Line Advances
outstanding in each Permitted Currency to each such party on the date such
notice is given (the "Refunded Swing Line Advances"); provided however that
Swing Line Advances which are carried at the Quoted Rate or the
Eurocurrency-based Rate which are converted to Revolving Credit Advances at the
request of the Agent at a time when no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, shall not be subject to Section 11.1 and no losses, costs or
expenses may be assessed by the Swing Line Bank against the Company, a permitted
Borrower or the other Banks as a consequence of such conversion. In the case of
each Refunded Swing Line Advance outstanding in Dollars, the applicable Advance
of the Revolving Credit used to refund such Swing Line Advance shall be a
Prime-based Advance. In the case of each Refunded Swing Line Advance outstanding
in any Alternative Currency, the applicable Advance of the Revolving Credit used
to refund such Swing Line Advance shall be an Advance in the applicable
Alternative Currency, with an Interest Period of one month (or any lesser number
of days selected by Agent in consultation with the Lenders). In connection with
the making of any such Refunded Swing Line Advances or the purchase of a
participation interest in Swing Line Advances under Section 2.5(e)(ii) hereof,
the Swing Line Bank shall retain its claim against the Company or the applicable
Permitted Borrower for any unpaid interest or fees in respect thereof. Unless
any of the events described in Section 9.1(j) hereof shall have occurred (in
which event the procedures of subparagraph (ii) of this Section 2.5(e) shall
apply) and regardless of whether the conditions precedent set forth in this
Agreement to the making of an Advance of the Revolving Credit are then satisfied
but subject to Section 2.5(e)(iii), each Lender shall make the proceeds of its
Advance of the Revolving Credit available to the Agent for the benefit of the
Swing Line Bank at the office of the Agent specified in Section 2.4(a) hereof
prior to 11:00 a.m. Detroit time (for Domestic Advances) on the Business Day
next succeeding the date such notice is given, and, in the case of any
Eurocurrency-based Advance, prior to 2:00 p.m. Detroit time on the third
Business Day following the date such notice is given, in each case in
immediately available funds in the applicable Permitted Currency. The proceeds
of such Advances of the Revolving Credit shall be immediately applied to repay
the Refunded Swing Line Advances in accordance with the provisions of Section
10.1 hereof.
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(ii) If, prior to the making of an Advance of the
Revolving Credit pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this Section 2.5(e), one of the
events described in Section 9.1(j) hereof shall have occurred, each Lender will,
on the date such Advance of the Revolving Credit was to have been made, purchase
from the Swing Line Bank an undivided participating interest in each Refunded
Swing Line Advance in an amount equal to its Percentage of such Refunded Swing
Line Advance. Each Lender within the time periods specified in Section 2.5(e)(i)
hereof, as applicable, shall immediately transfer to the Agent, in immediately
available funds in the applicable Permitted Currency of such Swing Line Advance,
the amount of its participation and upon receipt thereof the Agent will deliver
to such Lender a participation certificate evidencing such participation.
(iii) Each Lender's obligation to make Advances of
the Revolving Credit and to purchase participation interests in accordance with
clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 2.5(e) shall be absolute and unconditional
and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation,
(i) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such
Lender may have against Swing Line Bank, the Company, the Permitted Borrowers or
any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (ii) the occurrence or continuance
of any Default or Event of Default; (iii) any adverse change in the condition
(financial or otherwise) of the Company, any Permitted Borrower or any other
Person; (iv) any breach of this Agreement by the Company, any Permitted Borrower
or any other Person; (v) any inability of the Company or the Permitted Borrowers
to satisfy the conditions precedent to borrowing set forth in this Agreement on
the date upon which such participating interest is to be purchased; (vi) the
termination of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment hereunder; or (vii) any
other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any
of the foregoing. If any Lender does not make available to the Agent the amount
required pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, as the case may be, the Agent
shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Lender, together
with interest thereon for each day from the date of non-payment until such
amount is paid in full (x) for the first two (2) Business Days such amount
remains unpaid, at the Federal Funds Effective Rate for Advances in Dollars
(other than eurodollars) and for Eurocurrency-based Advances, the Agent's
marginal cost (including the cost of maintaining any required reserves or
deposit insurance and of any fees, penalties, overdraft charges or other costs
or expenses incurred by Agent as a result of such failure to deliver funds
hereunder) of carrying such amount and (y) thereafter, at the rate of interest
then applicable to such Swing Line Advances.
Notwithstanding the foregoing however no Lender shall be required to
make any Revolving Credit Advance to refund a Swing Line Advance or to purchase
a participation in a Swing Line Advance if prior to the making of the Swing Line
Advance by the Swing Line Bank, the Agent had obtained actual knowledge that an
Event of Default had occurred and was continuing; provided, however that the
obligation of the Lenders to make such Revolving Credit
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Advances shall be reinstated upon the date of which such Event of Default has
been waived by the Required Lenders or all Lenders, as applicable.
2.6 Prime-based Interest Payments. Interest on the unpaid balance of
all Prime-based Advances of the Revolving Credit and all Swing Line Advances
carried at the Prime-based Rate from time to time outstanding shall accrue from
the date of such Advance to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date (and until paid),
at a per annum interest rate equal to the Prime-based Rate, and shall be payable
in immediately available funds (a) with respect to Swing Line Advances,
quarterly commencing on the first day of the calendar quarter next succeeding
the calendar quarter during which the initial Swing Line Advance is made and on
the first day of each calendar quarter thereafter, and (b) with respect to
Advances of the Revolving Credit, quarterly commencing on the first day of the
calendar quarter next succeeding the calendar month during which the initial
Advance of the Revolving Credit is made and on the first day of each calendar
quarter thereafter. Interest accruing at the Prime-based Rate shall be computed
on the basis of a 360 day year and assessed for the actual number of days
elapsed, and in such computation effect shall be given to any change in the
interest rate resulting from a change in the Prime-based Rate on the date of
such change in the Prime-based Rate.
2.7 Eurocurrency-based Interest Payments and Quoted Rate Interest
Payments.
(a) Interest on each Eurocurrency-based Advance of the Revolving Credit
and all Swing Line Advances carried at the Eurocurrency-based Rate shall accrue
at its Applicable Interest Rate and shall be payable in immediately available
funds on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto (and, if any
Interest Period shall exceed three months, then on the last Business Day of the
third month of such Interest Period, and at three month intervals thereafter).
Interest accruing at the Eurocurrency-based Rate shall be computed on the basis
of a 360 day year (except that any such Advances made in Sterling or any other
Alternative Currency with respect to which applicable law or market custom so
requires shall be calculated based on a 365 day year, or as otherwise required
under applicable law or market custom) and assessed for the actual number of
days elapsed from the first day of the Interest Period applicable thereto to but
not including the last day thereof. Interest due on a Eurocurrency-based Advance
made in an Alternative Currency shall be paid in such Alternative Currency.
(b) Interest on each Quoted Rate Advance of the Swing Line shall accrue
at its Quoted Rate and shall be payable in immediately available funds on the
last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto. Interest accruing at the
Quoted Rate shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year (except that any
such Advances made in any Alternative Currency with respect to which applicable
law or market custom so requires shall be calculated based on a 365 day year, or
as otherwise required under applicable law or market custom) and assessed for
the actual
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number of days elapsed from the first day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto to, but not including the last day thereof.
(c) If the basis of accrual of interest or fees expressed in this
Agreement with respect to the National Currency Unit of a Participating Member
State shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the London
interbank market or other applicable interbank market, as the case may be, for
the basis of accrual of interest or fees with respect to the Euro, such
convention or practice shall replace such expressed basis, effective as of and
from the date on which such country becomes a Participating Member State;
provided that if any Eurocurrency-based Advance in the currency of such country
is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take
effect, with respect to such Advance, at the end of the then current Interest
Period.
2.8 Interest Payments on Conversions. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in the preceding sections, all accrued and unpaid interest on any
Advance converted pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof shall be due and payable in
full on the date such Advance is converted.
2.9 Interest on Default. In the event and so long as any Event of
Default under Section 9.1(a) or 9.1(b) shall exist, interest shall be payable
daily on all Eurocurrency-based Advances of the Revolving Credit, Swing Line
Advances carried at the Eurocurrency-based Rate and Quoted Rate Advances from
time to time outstanding at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Interest
Rate plus three percent (3%) for the remainder of the then existing Interest
Period, if any, and at all other such times, with respect to Prime-based
Advances from time to time outstanding, at a per annum rate equal to the
Prime-based Rate plus three percent (3%), and, with respect to
Eurocurrency-based Advances thereof in any Alternative Currency from time to
time outstanding, (i) at a per annum rate calculated by the Agent, whose
determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error, on a daily basis, equal
to three percent (3%) above the interest rate per annum at which one (1) day
deposits (or, if such amount due remains unpaid for more than three (3) Business
Days, then for such other period of time as the Agent may elect which shall in
no event be longer than six (6) months) in the relevant eurocurrency in the
amount of such overdue payment due to the Agent are offered by the Agent's
Eurocurrency Lending Office for the applicable period determined as provided
above, or (ii) if at any such time such deposits are not offered by Eurocurrency
Lending Office, then at a rate per annum equal to three percent (3%) above the
rate determined by the Agent to be its aggregate marginal cost (including the
cost of maintaining any required reserves or deposit insurance) of carrying the
amount of such Eurocurrency-based Advance.
2.10 Prepayment. (a) Company or the Permitted Borrowers may prepay all
or part of the outstanding balance of any Prime-based Advance(s) of the
Revolving Credit at any time, provided that the amount of any partial prepayment
shall be at least One Million Dollars
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($1,000,000) and, after giving effect to any such partial prepayment, the
aggregate balance of Prime-based Advance(s) of the Revolving Credit remaining
outstanding, if any, shall be at least Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000).
Subject to Section 11.1 hereof, Company or the Permitted Borrowers may prepay
all or part of any Eurocurrency-based Advance (subject to not less than two (2)
Business Days' notice to Agent) provided that the amount of any such partial
prepayment shall be at least One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), or the Current
Dollar Equivalent thereof in an Alternative Currency, and, after giving effect
to any such partial prepayment, the unpaid portion of such Advance which is
refunded or converted under Section 2.3 hereof shall be at least Fifteen Million
Dollars ($15,000,000) or the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof in an Alternative
Currency.
(b) Company may prepay all or part of the outstanding balance
of any Swing Line Advance carried at the Prime-based Rate at any time, provided
that the amount of any partial prepayment shall be at least Twenty Five Thousand
Dollars ($25,000) and, after giving effect to any such partial prepayment, the
aggregate balance of such Swing Line Advances remaining outstanding, if any,
shall be at least One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000). Subject to Section
11.1 hereof, Company may prepay all or part of any Swing Line Advances carried
at the Eurocurrency-based Rate or Quoted Rate (subject to not less than two (2)
Business Days' notice to Swing Line Bank and Agent) only on the last day of the
Interest Period therefor, provided that the amount of any such partial payment
shall be at least Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), after giving effect of
any such partial prepayment, and the unpaid portion of such Advance which is
refunded or converted under Section 2.5(c) hereof shall be at least Two Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000).
(c) Any prepayment made in accordance with this Section shall
be subject to Section 11.1 hereof, but otherwise without premium, penalty or
prejudice to the right to readvance under the terms of this Agreement.
2.11 Determination, Denomination and Redenomination of Alternative
Currency Advances . Whenever, pursuant to any provision of this Agreement:
(a) an Advance of the Revolving Credit or a Swing Line Advance
is initially funded, as opposed to any refunding or conversion thereof, in an
Alternative Currency, the amount to be advanced hereunder will be the equivalent
in such Alternative Currency of the Dollar Amount of such Advance;
(b) an existing Advance of the Revolving Credit or a Swing
Line Advance denominated in an Alternative Currency is to be refunded, in whole
or in part, with an Advance denominated in the same Alternative Currency, the
amount of the new Advance shall be continued in the amount of the Alternative
Currency so refunded;
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(c) an existing Advance of the Revolving Credit denominated in
an Alternative Currency is to be converted, in whole or in part, to an Advance
denominated in another Alternative Currency, the amount of the new Advance shall
be that amount of the Alternative Currency of the new Advance which may be
purchased, using the most favorable spot exchange rate determined by Agent to be
available to it for the sale of Dollars for such other Alternative Currency at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (Detroit time) two (2) Business Days prior to the last
day of the Eurocurrency Interest Period applicable to the existing Advance, with
the Dollar Amount of the existing Advance, or portion thereof being converted;
and
(d) an existing Advance of the Revolving Credit denominated in
an Alternative Currency is to be converted, in whole or in part, to an Advance
denominated in Dollars, the amount of the new Advance shall be the Dollar Amount
of the existing Advance, or portion thereof being converted (determined as
aforesaid).
2.12 Prime-based Advance in Absence of Election or Upon Default. If,
(a) as to any outstanding Eurocurrency-based Advance of the Revolving Credit, or
any Swing Line Advance carried at the Eurocurrency-based Rate, Agent has not
received payment of all outstanding principal and accrued interest on the last
day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or does not receive a timely
Request for Advance meeting the requirements of Section 2.3 or 2.5(c) hereof
with respect to the refunding or conversion of such Advance, or (b) if any
Advance denominated in an Alternative Currency or any deemed Advance under
Section 3.6 hereof in respect of a Letter of Credit denominated in an
Alternative Currency cannot be refunded or made, as the case may be, in such
Alternative Currency by virtue of Section 11.3 hereof, or (c) subject to Section
2.9 hereof, if on such day a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, then the principal amount thereof which is not then prepaid
in the case of a Eurocurrency-based Advance shall, absent a contrary election of
the Required Lenders, be converted automatically to a Prime-based Advance and
the Agent shall thereafter promptly notify Company of said action. If a
Eurocurrency-based Advance converted hereunder is payable in an Alternative
Currency, the Prime-based Advance shall be in an amount equal to the Dollar
Amount of such Eurocurrency-based Advance at such time and the Agent and the
Lenders shall use said Prime-based Advance to fund payment of the Alternative
Currency obligation, all subject to the provisions of Section 2.14 hereof. The
Company and the Permitted Borrowers, if applicable, shall reimburse the Agent
and the Lenders on demand for any costs incurred by the Agent or any of the
Lenders, as applicable, resulting from the conversion pursuant to this Section
2.12 of Eurocurrency-based Advances payable in an Alternative Currency to
Prime-based Advances.
2.13 Revolving Credit Facility Fee. From the Effective Date to the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date, the Company shall pay to the Agent, for
distribution to the Lenders (as set forth
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below), a Revolving Credit Facility Fee determined by multiplying the Applicable
Fee Percentage per annum times the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment then
applicable under Section 2.15 hereof (whether used or unused) computed on a
daily basis. The Revolving Credit Facility Fee shall be payable quarterly in
arrears commencing April 1, 1998 (in respect of the prior calendar quarter or
portion thereof), and on the first day of each calendar quarter thereafter and
on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, and shall be computed on the basis of a
year of three hundred sixty (360) days and assessed for the actual number of
days elapsed. Whenever any payment of the Revolving Credit Facility Fee shall be
due on a day which is not a Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be
extended to the next Business Day. Upon receipt of such payment Agent shall make
prompt payment to each Lender of its share of the Revolving Credit Facility Fee
based upon its respective Percentage.
2.14 Currency Appreciation; Mandatory Reduction of Indebtedness.
(a) Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment. If at any time and for any
reason, the aggregate principal amount of all Advances of the Revolving Credit
hereunder to the Company and to the Permitted Borrowers made in Dollars and the
aggregate Current Dollar Equivalent of all Advances of the Revolving Credit
outstanding hereunder to the Company and to the Permitted Borrowers in any
Alternative Currency as of such time, plus the aggregate principal amount of
Swing Line Advances outstanding hereunder as of such time (determined as
aforesaid), plus the aggregate undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit which
shall be outstanding (based on the Dollar Amount of the undrawn portion of any
Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars and the Current Dollar Equivalent of
the undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative
Currency), plus the face amount of all Letters of Credit requested but not yet
issued (determined as aforesaid), plus the unreimbursed amount of any draws
under any Letters of Credit (using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof for any
Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative Currency), as of such time
exceeds the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment (as used in this clause (a),
the "Excess"), the Company and the Permitted Borrowers shall:
(i) immediately repay that portion of such Indebtedness then carried as
a Prime-based Advance, if any, by the Dollar Amount of such Excess,
and/or reduce any pending request for an Advance in Dollars on such day
by the Dollar Amount of the Excess, to the extent thereof; and
(ii) on the last day of each Interest Period of any Eurocurrency-based
Advance outstanding as of such time, until the necessary reductions of
Indebtedness under this Section 2.14(a) have been fully made, repay the
Indebtedness carried in such Advances and/or reduce any requests for
refunding or conversion of such Advances submitted (or to be submitted)
by the Company or the applicable Permitted Borrower in respect of such
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Advances, by the amount in Dollars or the applicable Alternative
Currency, as the case may be, of the Excess, to the extent thereof.
Compliance with this Section 2.14(a) shall be tested on a daily or other basis
satisfactory to Agent in its sole discretion, provided that, so long as no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at any time while
the aggregate Advances of the Revolving Credit available to be borrowed
hereunder (based on the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment then in effect)
equal or exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000), compliance with this
Section 2.14(a) shall be tested as of the last day of each calendar quarter.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of
any Default or Event of Default, or if any Excess remains after recalculating
said Excess based on ninety-five percent (95%) of the Current Dollar Equivalent
of any Advances or Letters of Credit denominated in Alternative Currencies (and
one hundred percent (100%) of any Advances or Letters of Credit denominated in
Dollars), Company and the Permitted Borrowers shall be obligated immediately to
reduce the foregoing Indebtedness hereunder by an amount sufficient to eliminate
such Excess.
(b) Permitted Borrower Sublimit. If at any time and for any reason with
respect to any Permitted Borrower, the aggregate principal amount (tested in the
manner set forth in clause (a) above) of all Advances of the Revolving Credit
and of the Swing Line outstanding hereunder to such Permitted Borrower, plus the
aggregate undrawn portion of any Letters of Credit, plus the face amount of any
Letters of Credit requested but not yet issued, plus the unreimbursed amount of
any drawings under any Letters of Credit to or for the account of such Permitted
Borrower (tested in the manner set forth in clause (a) above), which Advances
and Letters of Credit are made or issued, or to be made or issued, in Dollars
and ninety percent (90%) of the aggregate Current Dollar Equivalent of all such
Advances and Letters of Credit (including unreimbursed draws) hereunder for the
account of such Permitted Borrower in any Alternative Currency as of such time,
exceeds the applicable Permitted Borrower Sublimit (as used in this clause (b),
the "Excess"), then in each case, such Permitted Borrower shall
(i) immediately repay that portion of the Indebtedness outstanding to
such Permitted Borrower then carried as a Prime-based Advance, if any,
by the Dollar Amount of such Excess, and/or reduce on such day any
pending request for an Advance in Dollars submitted by such Permitted
Borrower by the Dollar Amount of such Excess, to the extent thereof;
and
(ii) on the last day of each Interest Period of any Eurocurrency-based
Advance outstanding to such Permitted Borrower as of such time, until
the necessary reductions of Indebtedness under this Section 2.14(b)
have been fully made, repay such Indebtedness carried in such Advances
and/or reduce any requests for refunding or conversion of such Advances
submitted (or to be submitted) by such Permitted Borrower in respect of
such
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Advances, by the amount in Dollars or the applicable Alternative
Currency, as the case may be, of such Excess, to the extent thereof.
Provided that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
each Permitted Borrower's compliance with this Section 2.14(b) shall be tested
as of the last day of each calendar quarter or, upon the written request of the
Company from time to time, as of the last day of each calendar month, provided
the Company furnishes Agent with current monthly financial statements complying
with the requirements set forth in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of Section 7.3(c)
hereof. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default or Event
of Default, compliance with this Section 2.14(b) shall be tested on a daily or
other basis satisfactory to Agent in its sole discretion.
2.15 Optional Reduction or Termination of Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment. Provided that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Company may upon at least five Business Days' prior written
notice to the Agent, permanently reduce the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, without premium
or penalty, provided that: (i) each partial reduction of the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment shall be in an aggregate amount equal to Twenty Million
Dollars ($20,000,000) or a larger integral multiple of One Million Dollars
($1,000,000); (ii) each reduction shall be accompanied by the payment of the
Revolving Credit Facility Fee, if any, accrued to the date of such reduction;
(iii) the Company or any Permitted Borrower, as applicable, shall prepay in
accordance with the terms hereof the amount, if any, by which the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of Advances (using the Current Dollar Equivalent of any
such Advance outstanding in any Alternative Currency) of the Revolving Credit,
plus the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Advances outstanding hereunder
(using the Current Dollar Equivalent of any such Advance outstanding in an
Alternative Currency), plus the aggregate undrawn amount of outstanding Letters
of Credit (using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof for any Letters of Credit
denominated in any Alternative Currency), plus the unreimbursed amount of any
draws under any Letters of Credit (determined as aforesaid), exceeds the amount
of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment as so reduced, together with
interest thereon to the date of prepayment; (iv) if the termination or reduction
of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment requires the prepayment of a
Eurocurrency-based Advance or a Quoted Rate Advance, the termination or
reduction may be made only on the last Business Day of the then current Interest
Period applicable to such Eurocurrency-based Advance or such Quoted Rate
Advance; and (v) no reduction shall reduce the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment to an amount which is less than the aggregate undrawn amount of any
Letters of Credit outstanding at such time. Reductions of the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment and any accompanying prepayments of Advances of the
Revolving Credit shall be distributed by Agent to each Lender in accordance with
such Lender's Percentage thereof, and will not be available for reinstatement by
or readvance to the Company or any Permitted Borrower, and any accompanying
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prepayments of Advances of the Swing Line shall be distributed by Agent to the
Swing Line Bank and will not be available for reinstatement by or readvance to
the Company. Any reductions of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment
hereunder shall reduce each Lender's portion thereof proportionately (based on
the applicable Percentages), and shall be permanent and irrevocable. Any
payments made pursuant to this Section shall be applied first to outstanding
Prime-based Advances under the Revolving Credit, next to Swing Line Advances
carried at the Prime-based Rate, next to Eurocurrency-based Advances of the
Revolving Credit and then to Swing Line Advances carried at the
Eurocurrency-based Rate or the Quoted Rate.
2.16 Extensions of Revolving Credit Maturity Date. (a) Provided that no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Company may, by
written notice to Agent and each Lender (which notice shall be irrevocable and
which shall not be deemed effective unless actually received by Agent and each
Lender) prior to May 18th, but not before April 18th, of each year beginning in
2000, request that the Lenders extend the then applicable Revolving Credit
Maturity Date to a date that is one year later than the Revolving Credit
Maturity Date then in effect (each such request, a "Request").
(b) Each Lender shall, within 30 days of receipt of any such request,
notify the Agent in writing whether such Lender consents to the extension of the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date, such consent to be in the sole discretion of
such Lender. If any Lender does not so notify the Agent of its decision within
such 30 day period, such Lender shall be deemed to have not consented to such
request of the Borrower.
(c) The Agent shall promptly notify the Company whether the Lenders
have consented to such request. If the Agent does not so notify the Company
within 30 days of the Agent's receipt such Request, the Agent shall be deemed to
have notified the Company that the Lenders have not consented to the Company's
request.
(d) Each Lender which elects not to extend the Revolving Credit
Maturity Date or fails to so notify the Agent of such consent (a "Non-Consenting
Lender") hereby agrees that if any other Lender or financial institution
acceptable to the Company and the Agents offers to purchase such Non-Consenting
Lender's Percentage of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment within 180 days
after receipt of the related Request for a purchase price equal to the sum of
all amounts then owing with respect to the outstanding Advances (and
participations in any Swing Line Advances or any Letters of Credit) and all
other amounts accrued for the account of such Non-Consenting Lender, such
Non-Consenting Lender will promptly assign, sell and transfer all of its right,
title, interest and obligations with respect to the foregoing to such other
Lender or financial institution pursuant to and on the terms specified in the
form of Assignment Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit E. Before assigning to a
financial institution other than a Lender pursuant to this clause (d), each
Lender that has elected to extend the
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Revolving Credit Maturity Date (a "Consenting Lender") shall have the right, but
not any obligation, pro rata with all other Consenting Lenders which elect to
purchase a pro rata share of such non-consenting Lender's Percentage of the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment (and participations in Swing Line Advances
and Letters of Credit) to purchase each such Non-Consenting Lender's Percentage
thereof pursuant to this clause (d). The Consenting Lenders which elect to
exercise their purchase options hereunder shall by mutual agreement determine
the amount of each Non-Consenting Lender's Percentage of the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment being purchased by each Consenting Lender, provided that if
there is any dispute among the Consenting Lenders such purchase shall be based
upon a pro rata sharing of each Non-Consenting Lender's Percentage thereof. Only
if the Consenting Lenders have determined not to purchase all of the
Non-Consenting Lender's Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment may financial
institutions other than a Consenting Lender then purchase such Non-Consenting
Lender's Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment.
(e) Except as set forth in subparagraph (f) hereof, notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Revolving Credit Maturity Date will not be
extended unless all Lenders have consented to the extension or if another Lender
or financial institution has purchased each such Non-Consenting Lender's
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment pursuant to the terms of clause (d) above.
(f) In the event, after giving effect to any assignments to Consenting
Lenders under Section 2.16(d) hereof or otherwise, Lenders holding eighty
percent (80%) or more of the Percentages (the "Approving Percentages") have
consented to an extension of the Revolving Credit Maturity Date hereunder, such
extension shall become effective, notwithstanding that all of the Lenders have
failed to approve such extension in accordance with this Section 2.16, so long
as Company, within forty five (45) days, reduces the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment to an amount not greater than the product of the Approving
Percentages times the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment then in effect and
repays the Indebtedness then outstanding hereunder (and, if necessary causes any
outstanding Letters of Credit to be terminated or discharged) to the extent such
Indebtedness exceeds the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment as so reduced,
such that the entire Indebtedness outstanding to the Non-Consenting Lenders
shall have been paid and discharged in full. Reductions of the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment made under this Section 2.16 (f) may be made without regard
to the notice provisions set forth in Section 2.15 hereof, but shall otherwise
comply with said Section 2.15, except that any amounts repaid by the Company
against the Indebtedness pursuant to this subparagraph (f) shall be first
applied to the Indebtedness outstanding to the Non-Consenting Lenders still
holding Indebtedness hereunder at such time, with any remaining amounts applied
in accordance with Section 2.15 hereof and the Percentages held by such
Non-Consenting Lenders shall be reallocated to the Consenting Lenders (giving
effect to any assignments, as aforesaid), pro rata, based on the Percentages
then in effect and Agent shall
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distribute to the remaining Lenders a revised Schedule 1.1 reflecting such
reallocated Percentages.
2.17 Application of Advances . Advances of the Revolving Credit
(including Swing Line Advances) shall be available, subject to the terms hereof,
to fund working capital needs, or other general corporate purposes of the
Company and the Permitted Borrowers.
3. LETTERS OF CREDIT.
3.1 Letters of Credit . Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, Agent shall through the Issuing Office, at any time and from time to
time from and after the date hereof until thirty (30) days prior to the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date, upon the written request of an Account
Party(ies) accompanied by a duly executed Letter of Credit Agreement and such
other documentation related to the requested Letter of Credit as the Agent may
require, issue Letters of Credit for the account of such Account Party(ies), in
an aggregate amount for all Letters of Credit issued hereunder at any one time
outstanding not to exceed the Letter of Credit Maximum Amount. Each Letter of
Credit shall be in a minimum face amount of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500,000) and each Letter of Credit (including any renewal thereof) shall
expire on the earlier to occur of (x) 1 year from the date of issuance and (y)
not later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity
Date in effect on the date of issuance thereof. The submission of all
applications in respect of and the issuance of each Letter of Credit hereunder
shall be subject in all respects to the Uniform Customs and Practices for
Documentary Credits of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1993 Revisions,
ICC Publication No. 500, or, if applicable, ISP 98, and any successor
documentation thereto, as selected by the Agent. In the event of any conflict
between this Agreement and any Letter of Credit Document other than a Letter of
Credit, this Agreement shall control.
3.2 Conditions to Issuance . No Letter of Credit shall be issued at the
request and for the account of any Account Party(ies) unless, as of the date of
issuance of such Letter of Credit:
(a) the face amount of the Letter of Credit requested
(based on the Dollar Amount of the undrawn portion of
any Letter of Credit denominated in Dollars and the
Current Dollar Equivalent of the undrawn portion of
any Letter of Credit denominated in any Alternative
Currency), plus the face amount of all other Letters
of Credit of all Account Parties requested on such
date, plus the aggregate undrawn portion of all other
Letters of Credit of all Account Parties as of such
date, plus the face amount of all Letters of Credit
of all Account Parties requested but not yet issued
as of such date, plus the unreimbursed amount of any
draws under Letters of Credit
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of all Account Parties (in each case, determined as
aforesaid), does not exceed the Letter of Credit
Maximum Amount;
(b) the face amount of the Letter of Credit requested,
plus the face amount of all other Letters of Credit
of all Account Parties requested on such date, plus
the aggregate undrawn portion of all other Letters of
Credit of all Account Parties as of such date, plus
the face amount of all Letters of Credit of all
Account Parties requested but not yet issued as of
such date, plus the unreimbursed amount of any
drawings under Letters of Credit of all Account
Parties as of such date, (in each case determined as
aforesaid), plus the aggregate principal amount of
all Advances outstanding under the Revolving Credit
and the Swing Line, including any Advances requested
to be made on such date (determined on the basis of
the Current Dollar Equivalent of any Advances
denominated in any Alternative Currency, and the
Dollar Amount of any Advances in Dollars), do not
exceed the then applicable Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment;
(c) whenever the Account Party is a Permitted Borrower,
the face amount of the Letter of Credit requested by
such Permitted Borrower, plus the face amount of all
other Letters of Credit requested by such Permitted
Borrower on such date, plus the aggregate undrawn
portion of all other outstanding Letters of Credit
issued for the account of such Permitted Borrower (in
each case determined as aforesaid), plus the
unreimbursed amount of any drawings under Letters of
Credit (using the Current Dollar Equivalent thereof
for any such Letters of Credit denominated in any
Alternative Currency) issued for the account of such
Permitted Borrower, plus the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of all Advances of the Revolving
Credit and of the Swing Line to such Permitted
Borrower, including any Advances requested to be made
on such date (in each case determined as aforesaid),
do not exceed the applicable Permitted Borrower
Sublimit;
(d) whenever the Account Party is a Permitted Borrower,
it shall not be entitled to request a Letter of
Credit hereunder until it has complied in all
respects with the provisions of Section 2.3(a) or (b)
hereof, as applicable;
(e) the obligations of Company and the Guarantors set
forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
are valid, binding and
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enforceable obligations of Company and Guarantors and
the valid, binding and enforceable nature of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents has not been
disputed by Company or the Guarantors;
(f) the representations and warranties contained in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true in
all material respects as if made on such date, and
both immediately before and immediately after
issuance of the Letter of Credit requested, no
Default or Event of Default exists;
(g) the execution of the Letter of Credit Agreement with
respect to the Letter of Credit requested will not
violate the terms and conditions of any contract,
agreement or other borrowing of the relevant Account
Party;
(h) the Account Party requesting the Letter of Credit
shall have delivered to Agent at its Issuing Office,
not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the
requested date for issuance (or such shorter time as
the Agent, in its sole discretion, may permit), the
Letter of Credit Agreement related thereto, together
with such other documents and materials as may be
required pursuant to the terms thereof, and the terms
of the proposed Letter of Credit shall be
satisfactory to Agent;
(i) no order, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator
or governmental authority shall purport by its terms
to enjoin or restrain Agent from issuing the Letter
of Credit requested, or any Lender from taking an
assignment of its Percentage thereof pursuant to
Section 3.6 hereof, and no law, rule, regulation,
request or directive (whether or not having the force
of law) shall prohibit or request that Agent refrain
from issuing, or any Lender refrain from taking an
assignment of its Percentage of, the Letter of Credit
requested or letters of credit generally;
(j) there shall have been no introduction of or change in
the interpretation of any law or regulation that
would make it unlawful or unduly burdensome for the
Agent to issue or any Lender to take an assignment of
its Percentage of the requested Letter of Credit, no
suspension of or material limitation on trading on
the New York Stock Exchange or any other national
securities exchange, no declaration of a general
banking moratorium by banking authorities in the
United States, Michigan or the respective
jurisdictions in which the Lenders, the applicable
Account Party and the beneficiary of the requested
Letter of Credit are located, and no establishment of
any new restrictions on transactions involving
letters of
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credit or on banks materially affecting the extension
of credit by banks; and
(k) Agent shall have received the issuance fees required
in connection with the issuance of such Letter of
Credit pursuant to Section 3.4 hereof.
Each Letter of Credit Agreement submitted to Agent pursuant hereto shall
constitute the certification by the Company and the Account Party of the matters
set forth in Section 3.2 (a) through (g) hereof. The Agent shall be entitled to
rely on such certification without any duty of inquiry.
3.3 Notice. Agent shall give notice, substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit F, to each Lender of the issuance of each Letter of Credit,
not later than three (3) Business Days after issuance of each Letter of Credit,
specifying the amount thereof and the amount of such Lender's Percentage
thereof.
3.4 Letter of Credit Fees . Company shall pay to the Agent for
distribution to the Lenders in accordance with their Percentages, letter of
credit fees as follows:
(a) A per annum letter of credit fee with respect to the
undrawn amount of each Letter of Credit issued pursuant hereto (based on the
Dollar Amount of any Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars and the Current
Dollar Equivalent of any Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative
Currency) in the amount of the Applicable Fee Percentage (determined with
reference to Schedule 4.1 to this Agreement).
(b) A letter of credit facing fee in the amount set forth on
Schedule 4.1 to this Agreement to be retained by Agent for its own Account.
(c) If any change in any law or regulation or in the
interpretation thereof by any court or administrative or governmental authority
charged with the administration thereof shall either (i) impose, modify or cause
to be deemed applicable any reserve, special deposit, limitation or similar
requirement against letters of credit issued or participated in by, or assets
held by, or deposits in or for the account of, Agent or any Lender or (ii)
impose on Agent or any Lender any other condition regarding this Agreement, the
Letters of Credit or any participations in such Letters of Credit, and the
result of any event referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above shall be to increase
the cost or expense to Agent or such Lender of issuing or maintaining or
participating in any of the Letters of Credit (which increase in cost or expense
shall be determined by the Agent's or such Lender's reasonable allocation of the
aggregate of such cost increases and expenses resulting from such events), then,
upon demand by the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, the Company shall,
within thirty (30) days following demand for payment, pay to
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Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, from time to time as specified by the
Agent or such Lender, additional amounts which shall be sufficient to compensate
the Agent or such Lender for such increased cost and expense, together with
interest on each such amount from ten days after the date demanded until payment
in full thereof at the Prime-based Rate. A certificate as to such increased cost
or expense incurred by the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, as a result
of any event mentioned in clause (i) or (ii) above, submitted to the Company,
shall be conclusive evidence, absent manifest error, as to the amount thereof.
(d) All payments by the Company or the Permitted Borrowers to
the Agent or the Lenders under this Section 3.4 shall be made in Dollars and in
immediately available funds at the Issuing Office or such other office of the
Agent as may be designated from time to time by written notice to the Company
and the Permitted Borrowers by the Agent. The fees described in clause (a) and
(b) above shall be nonrefundable under all circumstances, shall be payable
quarterly in advance (or such lesser period, if applicable, for Letters of
Credit issued with stated expiration dates of less than three months) upon the
issuance of each such Letter of Credit, and shall be calculated on the basis of
a 360 day year and assessed for the actual number of days from the date of the
issuance thereof to the stated expiration thereof.
3.5 Other Fees . In connection with the Letters of Credit, and in
addition to the Letter of Credit Fees, the Company and the applicable Account
Party(ies) shall pay, for the sole account of the Agent, standard documentation,
administration, payment and cancellation charges assessed by Agent or the
Issuing Office, at the times, in the amounts and on the terms set forth or to be
set forth from time to time in the standard fee schedule of the Issuing Office
in effect from time to time and delivered to the relevant Account Party(ies).
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3.6 Drawings and Demands for Payment Under Letters of Credit .
(a) The Company and each applicable Account Party agree to pay
to the Agent, on the day on which the Agent shall honor a draft or other demand
for payment presented or made under any Letter of Credit, an amount equal to the
amount paid by the Agent in respect of such draft or other demand under such
Letter of Credit and all expenses paid or incurred by the Agent relative
thereto. Unless the Company or the applicable Account Party shall have made such
payment to the Agent on such day, upon each such payment by the Agent, the Agent
shall be deemed to have disbursed to the Company or the applicable Account
Party, and the Company or the applicable Account Party shall be deemed to have
elected to substitute for its reimbursement obligation, with respect to Letters
of Credit denominated in Dollars, a Prime-based Advance of the Revolving Credit
and, with respect to Letters of Credit denominated in any Alternative Currency,
a Eurocurrency-based Advance of the Revolving Credit in the applicable
Alternative Currency with an Interest Period, commencing three (3) Business Days
following the date of Agent's payment pursuant to the applicable Letter of
Credit, of one month (or, if unavailable, such other Interest Period as selected
by Agent in its sole discretion), in each case for the account of the Lenders in
an amount equal to the amount so paid by the Agent in respect of such draft or
other demand under such Letter of Credit. Such Prime-based Advance or
Eurocurrency-based Advance shall be deemed disbursed notwithstanding any failure
to satisfy any conditions for disbursement of any Advance set forth in Section 2
hereof and, to the extent of the Advances so disbursed, the reimbursement
obligation of the Company or the applicable Account Party under this Section 3.6
shall be deemed satisfied, provided that, with respect to any such
Eurocurrency-based Advance deemed to have been made hereunder, Company or the
applicable Permitted Borrower shall also be obligated to pay to the Agent, for
Agent's sole account, interest on the aggregate amount paid by the Agent under
the applicable draft or other demand for payment at Agent's aggregate marginal
cost (including the cost of maintaining any required reserves or deposit
insurance and of any fees, penalties, overdraft charges or other costs or
expenses incurred by Agent as a result of such failure to deliver funds
hereunder) of carrying such amount plus the Applicable Margin then in effect for
Eurocurrency-based Advances, from the date of Agent's payment pursuant to any
Letter of Credit to the date of the commencement of the Interest Period for the
applicable Eurocurrency-based Advance deemed to have been made, as aforesaid,
such interest (the "Gap Interest") to be due and payable on the last day of the
initial Interest Period established for such deemed Advance.
(b) If the Agent shall honor a draft or other demand for
payment presented or made under any Letter of Credit, the Agent shall provide
notice thereof to the Company and the applicable Account Party on the date such
draft or demand is honored, and to each Lender on such date unless the Company
or applicable Account Party shall have satisfied its reimbursement obligation
under Section 3.6(a) hereof by payment to the Agent on such date. The Agent
shall further use reasonable efforts to provide notice to the Company or
applicable Account Party prior
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to honoring any such draft or other demand for payment, but such notice, or the
failure to provide such notice, shall not affect the rights or obligations of
the Agent with respect to any Letter of Credit or the rights and obligations of
the parties hereto, including without limitation the obligations of the Company
or applicable Account Party under Section 3.6(a) hereof.
(c) Upon issuance by the Agent of each Letter of Credit
hereunder, each Lender shall automatically acquire a pro rata participation
interest in such Letter of Credit and each related Letter of Credit Payment
based on its respective Percentage. Each Lender, on the date a draft or demand
under any Letter of Credit is honored (or the next succeeding Business Day if
the notice required to be given by Agent to the Lenders under Section 3.6(b)
hereof is not given to the Lenders prior to 2:00 p.m. (Detroit time) on such
date of draft or demand) or three (3) Business Days thereafter in respect of
draws or demands under Letters of Credit issued in any Alternative Currency,
shall make its Percentage of the amount paid by the Agent, and not reimbursed by
the Company or applicable Account Party on such day, available in the applicable
Permitted Currency and in immediately available funds at the principal office of
the Agent for the account of the Agent. If and to the extent such Lender shall
not have made such pro rata portion available to the Agent, such Lender, the
Company and the applicable Account Party severally agree to pay to the Agent
forthwith on demand such amount together with interest thereon, for each day
from the date such amount was paid by the Agent until such amount is so made
available to the Agent at a per annum rate equal to the interest rate applicable
during such period to the related Advance deemed to have been disbursed under
Section 3.6(a) in respect of the reimbursement obligation of the Company and the
applicable Account Party, as set forth in Section 2.4(c)(i) or 2.4(c)(ii)
hereof, as the case may be. If such Lender shall pay such amount to the Agent
together with such interest, such amount so paid shall be deemed to constitute
an Advance by such Lender disbursed in respect of the reimbursement obligation
of the Company or applicable Account Party under Section 3.6(a) hereof for
purposes of this Agreement, effective as of the dates applicable under said
Section 3.6(a). The failure of any Lender to make its pro rata portion of any
such amount paid by the Agent available to the Agent shall not relieve any other
Lender of its obligation to make available its pro rata portion of such amount,
but no Lender shall be responsible for failure of any other Lender to make such
pro rata portion available to the Agent. Furthermore, in the event of the
failure by Company or the Permitted Borrowers to pay the Gap Interest required
under the proviso to Section 3.6(a) hereof, each of the Lenders shall pay to
Agent, within one Business Day following receipt from Agent of written request
therefor, its pro rata portion of said Gap Interest, excluding any portion
thereof attributable to the Applicable Margin.
Notwithstanding the foregoing however, no Lender shall acquire a pro
rata risk participation in a Letter of Credit or related Letter of Credit
Payment if the Agent had obtained actual knowledge that an Event of Default had
occurred and was continuing at the time of the issuance of such Letter of
Credit; provided, however that each Lender shall acquire a pro rata
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risk participation in such Letter of Credit and the related Letter of Credit
Payment upon the date on which such Event of Default is waived by the Required
Lenders or all Lenders, as applicable.
(d) Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to require or
authorize any Lender to issue any Letter of Credit, it being recognized that the
Agent shall be the sole issuer of Letters of Credit under this Agreement.
3.7 Obligations Irrevocable . The obligations of Company and any
Account Party to make payments to Agent or the Lenders with respect to Letter of
Credit Obligations under Section 3.6 hereof, shall be unconditional and
irrevocable and not subject to any qualification or exception whatsoever,
including, without limitation:
(a) Any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of
Credit or any documentation relating to any Letter of Credit or to any
transaction related in any way to any Letter of Credit (the "Letter of Credit
Documents");
(b) Any amendment, modification, waiver, consent, or any
substitution, exchange or release of or failure to perfect any interest in
collateral or security, with respect to or under any of the Letter of Credit
Documents;
(c) The existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right
which the Company or any Account Party may have at any time against any
beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any persons or
entities for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting),
the Agent or any Lender or any other person or entity, whether in connection
with any of the Letter of Credit Documents, the transactions contemplated herein
or therein or any unrelated transactions;
(d) Any draft or other statement or document presented under
any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient
in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any
respect;
(e) Payment by the Agent to the beneficiary under any Letter
of Credit against presentation of documents which do not comply with the terms
of such Letter of Credit, including failure of any documents to bear any
reference or adequate reference to such Letter of Credit;
(f) Any failure, omission, delay or lack on the part of the
Agent or any Lender or any party to any of the Letter of Credit Documents to
enforce, assert or exercise any right, power or remedy conferred upon the Agent,
any Lender or any such party under this Agreement,
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any of the other Loan Documents or any of the Letter of Credit Documents, or any
other acts or omissions on the part of the Agent, any Lender or any such party;
or
(g) Any other event or circumstance that would, in the absence
of this Section 3.7, result in the release or discharge by operation of law or
otherwise of Company or any Account Party from the performance or observance of
any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in Section 3.6 hereof.
No setoff, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any obligation or any
defense of any kind or nature which Company or any Account Party has or may have
against the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit shall be available hereunder to
Company or any Account Party against the Agent or any Lender. Nothing contained
in this Section 3.7 shall be deemed to prevent Company or the Account Parties,
after satisfaction in full of the absolute and unconditional obligations of
Company and the Account Parties hereunder, from asserting in a separate action
any claim, defense, set off or other right which they (or any of them) may have
against Agent or any Lender.
3.8 Risk Under Letters of Credit . (a) In the administration and
handling of Letters of Credit and any security therefor, or any documents or
instruments given in connection therewith, Agent shall have the sole right to
take or refrain from taking any and all actions under or upon the Letters of
Credit.
(b) Subject to other terms and conditions of this Agreement,
Agent shall issue the Letters of Credit and shall hold the documents related
thereto in its own name and shall make all collections thereunder and otherwise
administer the Letters of Credit in accordance with Agent's regularly
established practices and procedures and, except pursuant to Section 12.3
hereof, Agent will have no further obligation with respect thereto. In the
administration of Letters of Credit, Agent shall not be liable for any action
taken or omitted on the advice of counsel, accountants, appraisers or other
experts selected by Agent with due care and Agent may rely upon any notice,
communication, certificate or other statement from Company, any Account Party,
beneficiaries of Letters of Credit, or any other Person which Agent believes to
be authentic. Agent will, upon request, furnish the Lenders with copies of
Letter of Credit Agreements, Letters of Credit and documents related thereto.
(c) In connection with the issuance and administration of
Letters of Credit and the assignments hereunder, Agent makes no representation
and shall have no responsibility with respect to (i) the obligations of Company
or any Account Party or the validity, sufficiency or enforceability of any
document or instrument given in connection therewith, or the taking of any
action with respect to same, (ii) the financial condition of, any
representations made by, or any act or omission of, Company, the applicable
Account Party or any other Person, or (iii) any
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failure or delay in exercising any rights or powers possessed by Agent in its
capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit in the absence of its gross negligence
or willful misconduct. Each of the Lenders expressly acknowledges that they have
made and will continue to make their own evaluations of Company's and the
Account Parties' creditworthiness without reliance on any representation of
Agent or Agent's officers, agents and employees.
(d) If at any time Agent shall recover any part of any
unreimbursed amount for any draw or other demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit, or any interest thereon, Agent shall receive same for the pro rata
benefit of the Lenders in accordance with their respective Percentages and shall
promptly deliver to each Lender its share thereof, less such Lender's pro rata
share of the costs of such recovery, including court costs and attorney's fees.
If at any time any Lender shall receive from any source whatsoever any payment
on any such unreimbursed amount or interest thereon in excess of such Lender's
Percentage of such payment, such Lender will promptly pay over such excess to
Agent, for redistribution in accordance with this Agreement.
3.9 Indemnification . (a) The Company and each Account Party hereby
indemnifies and agrees to hold harmless the Lenders and the Agent, and their
respective officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and
all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses of any kind or
nature whatsoever which the Lenders or the Agent or any such person may incur or
which may be claimed against any of them by reason of or in connection with any
Letter of Credit, and neither any Lender nor the Agent or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable or
responsible for: (i) the use which may be made of any Letter of Credit or for
any acts or omissions of any beneficiary in connection therewith; (ii) the
validity, sufficiency or genuineness of documents or of any endorsement thereon,
even if such documents should in fact prove to be in any or all respects
invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; (iii) payment by the Agent to the
beneficiary under any Letter of Credit against presentation of documents which
do not comply with the terms of any Letter of Credit (unless such payment
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent); (iv) any
error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of
any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of
Credit; or (v) any other event or circumstance whatsoever arising in connection
with any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that Company and Account Parties
shall not be required to indemnify the Lenders and the Agent and such other
persons, and the Agent shall be liable to the Company and the Account Parties to
the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential
or incidental, damages suffered by Company and the Account Parties which were
caused by the Agent's gross negligence, willful misconduct or wrongful dishonor
of any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary
thereunder of a draft or other demand for payment and other documentation
strictly complying with the terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit.
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(b) It is understood that in making any payment under a Letter of
Credit the Agent will rely on documents presented to it under such Letter of
Credit as to any and all matters set forth therein without further investigation
and regardless of any notice or information to the contrary. It is further
acknowledged and agreed that Company or an Account Party may have rights against
the beneficiary or others in connection with any Letter of Credit with respect
to which Agent or the Lenders are alleged to be liable and it shall be a
condition of the assertion of any liability of Agent or the Lenders by the
Company or any other Account Party under this Section that Company or the
applicable Account Party shall contemporaneously pursue all remedies in respect
of the alleged loss against such beneficiary and any other parties obligated or
liable in connection with such Letter of Credit and any related transactions.
3.10 Right of Reimbursement . Each Lender agrees to reimburse the Agent
on demand, pro rata in accordance with its respective Percentage, for (i) the
reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Agent to be reimbursed by
Company or any Account Party pursuant to any Letter of Credit Agreement or any
Letter of Credit, to the extent not reimbursed by Company or any Account Party
and (ii) any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, fees, reasonable out-of-pocket expenses or
disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be imposed on,
incurred by or asserted against Agent (in its capacity as issuer of any Letter
of Credit) in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, any Letter
of Credit, any documentation or any transaction relating thereto, or any Letter
of Credit Agreement, to the extent not reimbursed by Company or any Account
Party, except to the extent that such liabilities, losses, costs or expenses
were incurred by Agent as a result of Agent's gross negligence or willful
misconduct or by the Agent's wrongful dishonor of any Letter of Credit after the
presentation to it by the beneficiary thereunder of a draft or other demand for
payment and other documentation strictly complying with the terms and conditions
of such Letter of Credit.
4. MARGIN ADJUSTMENTS.
4.1 Margin Adjustments . Adjustments to the Applicable Margin and the
Applicable Fee Percentages, based on Schedule 4.1, shall be implemented on a
quarterly basis as follows:
(a) Such adjustments shall be given prospective effect only, effective
as to all Advances outstanding hereunder and the Applicable Fee
Percentage, upon the date of delivery of the financial statements under
Sections 7.3(b) and 7.3(c) hereunder, in each case establishing
applicability of the appropriate adjustment, in each case with no
retroactivity or claw-back. In the event Company fails timely to
deliver the financial statements required under Section 7.3(b) or
7.3(c), then from the date delivery of such financial statements was
required until such financial statements are delivered, the
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margins and fee percentages shall be at the highest level on the
Pricing Matrix attached to this Agreement as Schedule 4.1.
(b) From the Effective Date until the required date of delivery under
Section 7.3(c) of the Company's financial statements for the fiscal
quarter ending June 30, 1999, the margins and fee percentages shall be
those set forth under the Level IV column of the Pricing Matrix
attached to this Agreement as Schedule 4.1.
5. CONDITIONS. The obligations of Lenders to make Advances or to issue
Letters of Credit, pursuant to this Agreement are subject to the following
conditions, provided however that Sections 5.1 through 5.8 below shall only
apply to the initial Advances or Letters of Credit hereunder:
6.1 Execution of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The
Company shall have executed and delivered to the Agents for the account of each
Lender, this Agreement (including all schedules, exhibits, certificates,
opinions, financial statements and other documents to be delivered pursuant
hereto) and the other Loan Documents, and, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents shall be in full force and effect.
6.1 Corporate Authority. Agents shall have received (i) certified
copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company and each of the
Significant Subsidiaries party to any Loan Document evidencing approval of the
form of this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents to which such Person
is a party and authorizing the execution and delivery thereof and, if
applicable, the borrowing of Advances and requesting of Letters of Credit
hereunder; (ii) (A) certified copies of the Company's, and the Significant
Subsidiaries' articles of incorporation and bylaws or other constitutional
documents certified as true and complete as of a recent date by the appropriate
official of the jurisdiction of incorporation of each such entity (or, if
unavailable in such jurisdiction, by a responsible officer of such entity); and
(B) a certificate of good standing from the state or other jurisdictions of the
Company's incorporation, and from the applicable states of incorporation or
other jurisdictions of the Significant Subsidiaries and from every state or
other jurisdiction in which the Company, or any of such Significant Subsidiaries
is qualified to do business, if issued by such jurisdictions, subject to the
limitations (as to qualification and authorization to do business) contained in
Section 6.1, hereof.
6.2 Collateral Documents and Guaranties. The Agent shall have received
(a) a Reaffirmation of Certain Loan Documents executed by the Company
and the other Significant Domestic Subsidiaries in connection with
those Pledge Agreements and the Domestic Guaranty as executed under the
Prior Credit Agreement;
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(b) a Reaffirmation of Certain Loan Documents executed by the Foreign
Permitted Borrowers and the other Significant Foreign Subsidiaries in
connection with those Pledge Agreements and the Foreign Guaranties as
executed under the Prior Credit Agreement; and
(c) Company, each of the Significant Domestic Subsidiaries and certain
Significant Foreign Subsidiaries incorporated under the laws of the
United States of America, or any state, territory, possession or other
political subdivision thereof, shall have executed and delivered the
Security Agreement and any documents (including, without limitation,
financing statements, amendments to financing statements and
assignments of financing statements) required to be filed in connection
with the Security Agreement to create, in favor of the Agent (for and
on behalf of the Lenders), a perfected security interest in the
Collateral thereunder shall have been delivered to the Agent in a
proper form for filing in each office in each jurisdiction listed in
Schedule 5.3, or other office, as the case may be; (provided, however,
that the Company shall have a period of ninety days following the
Effective Date to deliver, or cause to be delivered, documentation
satisfactory to the Agent to perfect the security interest and lien in
patents, trademarks and other intellectual property and proprietary
rights).
6.3 Representations and Warranties -- All Parties. The representations
and warranties made by the Company, each of the Significant Subsidiaries or any
other party to any of the Loan Documents under this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents (excluding the Agents and the Lenders), and the
representations and warranties of any of the foregoing which are contained in
any certificate, document or financial or other statement furnished at any time
hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith shall have been
true and correct in all material respects when made and shall be true and
correct in all material respects on and as of the date of the making of the
initial Advance hereunder.
6.4 Compliance with Certain Documents and Agreements. The Company and
the Significant Subsidiaries (and any of their respective Subsidiaries or
Affiliates) shall have each performed and complied with all agreements and
conditions contained in this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or any
agreement or other document executed hereunder or thereunder and required to be
performed or complied with by each of them (as of the applicable date) and none
of such parties shall be in default in the performance or compliance with any of
the terms or provisions hereof or thereof.
6.5 Opinion of Counsel. (a) The Company and each of the Significant
Subsidiaries furnished Agent in connection with the Prior Credit Agreement,
opinions of counsel given upon the express instructions of the Company and such
Significant Subsidiaries; and
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(b) the Company shall furnish the opinions of counsel listed on
Schedule 5.6 hereto, such opinions to be substantially in the form of
the opinions of counsel previously delivered under the Prior Credit
Agreement.
6.6 Company's Certificate. The Agents shall have received a certificate
of a responsible senior officer of Company, dated the date of the making of the
initial Advances hereunder, stating that the conditions of paragraphs 5.1, 5.4,
5.5, 5.9, and 5.11 hereof have been fully satisfied.
6.7 Payment of Agent's and Other Fees. Company shall have paid to
Agent, for distribution to the Lenders hereunder (based on the Percentages in
effect under the Prior Credit Agreement) the Facility Fee accrued under the
Prior Credit Agreement to the Effective Date of this Agreement. In addition,
Company shall have paid to the Agents (for Agents' sole accounts), the Agents'
Fees and all costs and expenses required hereunder.
6.8 Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement . The Company and the
applicable Significant Subsidiaries shall have executed and delivered the Short
Term Revolving Credit Agreement (including all schedules, exhibits,
certificates, opinions, financial statements and other documents to be delivered
pursuant hereto) and the other Short Term Loan Documents to which each such
Person is a party, and the Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement and the other
Short Term Loan Documents shall be in full force and effect.
6.9 Regulation U Requirements . The Agent has received in connection
with the Prior Credit Agreement, on behalf of the Lenders, a purpose statement
on FR Form U-1 referred to in Regulation U in form and substance satisfactory to
the Agent and the Lenders to the extent required in connection with the TEMIC
Acquisition or otherwise under applicable law. Furthermore, the Agent has
completed (on behalf of each of the Lenders) a Federal Reserve Form U-1, such
Form U-1 having been reviewed and approved by each of the Lenders and otherwise
being in form and substance satisfactory to Company and the Agent.
6.10 Other Documents and Instruments . The Agents shall have received,
with a photocopy for each Lender, such other instruments and documents as the
Required Lenders may reasonably request in writing in connection with the making
of Advances or the issuing of any Letters of Credit hereunder, and all such
instruments and documents shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the
Agents and the Required Lenders.
6.11 Continuing Conditions. The obligations of the Lenders to make any
of the Advances or loans or of the Agent to issue any Letters of Credit under
this Agreement, including but not limited to the initial Advances of the
Revolving Credit or the Swing Line hereunder, shall be subject to the following
continuing conditions:
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(a) No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing as of the making of the proposed Advance (both before and after
giving effect thereto);
(b) The representations and warranties contained in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material
respects as of the making of the applicable Advance; and
(c) There shall have been no material adverse change in the
condition (financial or otherwise), properties, business, results or operations
of the Company or its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) from December 31, 1998 (or
any subsequent December 31st, if the Agent determines, with the concurrence of
the Required Lenders, based on the Company's financial statements for such
subsequent fiscal year that no material adverse change has occurred during such
year, such determination being made solely for purposes of determining the
applicable date under this paragraph) to the date of the proposed Advance
hereunder.
6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Company and the Permitted Borrowers represent and warrant and such
representations and warranties as applicable shall be deemed to be continuing
representations and warranties during the entire life of this Agreement:
7.1 Corporate Existence. Each of the Company and each of the
Subsidiaries is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in good
standing under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction of organization, charter
or incorporation; each of the Company and each of the Subsidiaries is duly
qualified and authorized to do business as a corporation or foreign corporation
in each jurisdiction where the character of its assets or the nature of its
activities makes such qualification necessary, except where such failure to
qualify and be authorized to do business will not have a material adverse impact
on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.2 Due Authorization - Company. Execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and any other documents and
instruments required under or in connection with this Agreement, and extensions
of credit to the Company are within its corporate powers, have been duly
authorized, are not in contravention of law or the terms of the Company's
articles of incorporation or bylaws, and, except as have been previously
obtained or as referred to in Section 6.15, below, do not require the consent or
approval, material to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or the
Loan Documents, of any governmental body, agency or authority.
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7.3 Due Authorization -- Subsidiaries. Execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and any other documents
and instruments required under or in connection with this Agreement by each of
the Significant Subsidiaries, and extensions of credit to Permitted Borrowers,
are (or will be, on the applicable date of delivery of such Loan Documents)
within their respective corporate powers, have been (or will be, as aforesaid)
duly authorized, are not (or will not be, as aforesaid) in contravention of law
or the terms of articles of incorporation or bylaws or other organic documents
of the parties thereto, as applicable, and, except as have been previously
obtained (or as referred to in Section 6.15, below), do not (or will not, as
aforesaid) require the consent or approval, material to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, or the other Loan Documents, of any governmental
body, agency or authority.
7.4 Title to Material Property. Each of the Company and each of the
Subsidiaries has good and valid title to the Material Property owned by it,
which property (individually or in the aggregate) is material to the business or
operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, excluding
imperfections in title not material to the ownership, use and/or enjoyment of
any such property.
7.5 Encumbrances. There are no security interests in, Liens, mortgages
or other encumbrances on and no financing statements on file with respect to any
property of Company or any of the Subsidiaries, except for those Liens permitted
under Section 8.5 hereof.
7.6 Subsidiaries. As of the Effective Date, there are no directly or
indirectly owned Subsidiaries of the Company, except for those Subsidiaries
identified in Schedule 6.6, attached hereto.
7.7 Taxes. The Company and its Subsidiaries each has filed on or before
their respective due dates, all federal, state and foreign tax returns which are
required to be filed or has obtained extensions for filing such tax returns and
is not delinquent in filing such returns in accordance with such extensions and
has paid all taxes which have become due pursuant to those returns or pursuant
to any assessments received by any such party, as the case may be, to the extent
such taxes have become due, except to the extent such tax payments are being
actively contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to
which adequate provision has been made on the books of the Company or its
Subsidiaries, as applicable, as may be required by GAAP.
7.8 No Defaults. There exists no default under the provisions of any
instrument evidencing any permitted Debt of the Company or its Subsidiaries or
connected with any of the Permitted Company Encumbrances or the Permitted
Encumbrances of the Subsidiaries, or of any agreement relating thereto, except
where such default would not have a material adverse effect
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on the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and would not violate this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents according to the terms thereof.
7.9 Compliance with Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries each has
complied with all applicable laws, including without limitation, Hazardous
Material Laws, to the extent that failure to comply therewith would materially
interfere with the conduct of the business of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or would have a material adverse effect upon
Company or any of its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or upon any property
(whether personal or real) owned by any of them.
7.10 Enforceability of Agreement and Loan Documents. (a) This Agreement
and each of the other Loan Documents to which the Company is a party, including
without limitation, all other certificates, agreements and documents executed
and delivered by Company under or in connection herewith or therewith have each
been duly executed and delivered by duly Authorized Officers of the Company and
constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with their respective terms, except as enforcement thereof may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or
similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditor's rights generally and by
general principles of equity (whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in
equity or at law).
(b) This Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents to
which any of the Subsidiaries is a party, and all certificates, documents and
agreements executed in connection herewith or therewith by the Subsidiaries have
each been duly executed and delivered by duly Authorized Officers of the
applicable Subsidiary and constitute the valid and binding obligations of the
Subsidiaries, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except as
enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors'
rights generally and by general principles of equity (whether enforcement is
sought in a proceeding in equity or at law).
7.11 Non-contravention -- Company. The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other
documents and instruments required under or in connection with this Agreement by
the Company are not in contravention of the terms of any indenture, material
agreement or material undertaking to which the Company is a party or by which it
or its properties are bound or affected, except to the extent such terms have
been waived or are not material to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents or to the financial performance of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.12 Non-contravention -- Other Parties. The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, those other Loan Documents signed by any of the
Subsidiaries, and any other documents and instruments required under or in
connection with this Agreement by any of the
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Subsidiaries are not in contravention of the terms of any indenture, material
agreement or material undertaking to which any of the Subsidiaries is a party or
by which it or its properties are bound or affected, except to the extent such
terms have been waived or are not material to the transaction contemplated by
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or to the financial performance of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.13 No Litigation -- Company. There is no suit, action, proceeding,
including, without limitation, any bankruptcy proceeding, or governmental
investigation pending against or, to the best knowledge of the Company,
threatened or otherwise affecting the Company (other than any suit, action or
proceeding in which the Company is the plaintiff and in which no counterclaim or
cross-claim against Company has been filed), nor has the Company or any of its
officers or directors been subject to any suit, action, proceeding or
governmental investigation as a result of which any such officer or director is
or may be entitled to indemnification by Company, except as otherwise disclosed
in Schedule 6.13 attached hereto and except for miscellaneous suits, actions and
proceedings which have a reasonable likelihood of being adversely determined,
and which suits, if resolved adversely to the Company would not in the aggregate
have a material adverse effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole. Except as so disclosed, there is not outstanding against the Company any
judgment, decree, injunction, rule, or order of any court, government,
department, commission, agency, instrumentality or arbitrator, nor, to the best
knowledge of the Company, is the Company in violation of any applicable law,
regulation, ordinance, order, injunction, decree or requirement of any
governmental body or court where such violation would have a material adverse
effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.14 No Litigation -- Other Parties. There is no suit, action,
proceeding (other than any suit, action or proceeding in which any such party is
the plaintiff and in which no counterclaim or cross-claim against any such party
has been filed), including, without limitation, any bankruptcy proceeding, or
governmental investigation pending against or, to the best knowledge of the
Company, threatened or otherwise affecting any of the Subsidiaries nor has any
such party or any of its officers or directors been subject to any suit, action,
proceeding or governmental investigation as a result of which any such officer
or director is or may be entitled to indemnification by such party, except as
otherwise disclosed in Schedule 6.14 attached hereto and except for
miscellaneous suits, actions and proceedings which have a reasonable likelihood
of being adversely determined, which suits, if resolved adversely to such party,
would not in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. Except as so disclosed, there is not outstanding
against any such party any judgment, decree, injunction, rule, or order of any
court, government, department, commission, agency, instrumentality or arbitrator
nor, to the best knowledge of the Company, is any such party in violation of any
applicable law, regulation, ordinance, order, injunction, decree or requirement
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any governmental body or court where such violation would have a material
adverse effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.15 Consents, Approvals and Filings, Etc. Except as have been
previously obtained, no authorization, consent, approval, license, qualification
or formal exemption from, nor any filing, declaration or registration with, any
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority or any securities exchange or
any other person or party (whether or not governmental) is required in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance: (i) by the Company, of
this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or any
other documents or instruments to be executed and/or delivered by the Company in
connection therewith or herewith; (ii) by each of the Subsidiaries, of this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents to which it is a party or any other
documents or instruments to be executed and/or delivered by the Subsidiaries in
connection therewith or herewith; and (iii) by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, of the liens, pledges, mortgages, security interests or other
encumbrances granted, conveyed or otherwise established (or to be granted,
conveyed or otherwise established) by or under this Agreement or other Loan
Documents, except for such filings to be made concurrently herewith as are
required by the Collateral Documents to perfect liens in favor of the Agent and
the Lenders. All such authorizations, consents, approvals, licenses,
qualifications, exemptions, filings, declarations and registrations which have
previously been obtained or made, as the case may be, are in full force and
effect and are not the subject of any attack, or to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened attack (in any material respect) by appeal or direct
proceeding or otherwise.
7.16 Agreements Affecting Financial Condition. Neither the Company, nor
any of its Subsidiaries is, as of the Effective Date, party to any agreement or
instrument or subject to any charter or other corporate restriction which
materially adversely affects the financial condition or operations of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.17 No Investment Company; No Margin Stock. None of the Company, nor
any of the Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important
activities, directly or indirectly, in the business of extending credit for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. Other than the acquisition of
shares of Siliconix pursuant to the TEMIC Acquisition, none of the Letters of
Credit and none of the proceeds of any of the Advances will be used by the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries to purchase or carry margin stock or will be
made available by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries in any manner to any
other Person to enable or assist such Person in purchasing or carrying margin
stock. Terms for which meanings are provided in Regulation U of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any regulations substituted therefor,
as from time to time in effect, are used in this paragraph with such meanings.
None of the Company, nor any of the Subsidiaries is an "investment company"
within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
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7.18 ERISA . Neither a Reportable Event which is material to the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, nor an Accumulated Funding
Deficiency (herein as defined in Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code or
Section 302 of ERISA) has occurred during the five-year period prior to the date
on which this representation is made or deemed made with respect to any Pension
Plan. Each Pension Plan has complied in all material respects with the
applicable provisions of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code and any applicable
regulations thereof (and, if applicable, any comparable foreign law provisions),
except to the extent that any noncompliance, individually or in the aggregate,
would not have a material adverse effect upon the Company and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole. No termination of a Pension Plan has occurred, and no Lien in
favor of the PBGC or a Pension Plan has arisen, during such five-year period.
Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has had a complete or partial
withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan within the five year period prior to the
date of this Agreement, nor does the Company or any ERISA Affiliate presently
intend to completely or partially withdraw from any Multiemployer Plan. To the
best of Company's knowledge, no such Multiemployer Plan is in bankruptcy or
reorganization or insolvent. There is no pending or, to the best of Company's
knowledge, threatened litigation or investigation questioning the form or
operation of any Pension Plan, nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, is
there any basis for any such litigation or investigation which if adversely
determined could have a material adverse effect upon the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as of the valuation date most closely preceding
the date of this Agreement.
7.19 Environmental Matters and Safety Matters. (a) The Company and each
Subsidiary is in compliance with all federal, state, provincial and local laws,
ordinances and regulations relating to safety and industrial hygiene or to the
environmental condition, including without limitation all applicable Hazardous
Materials Laws in jurisdictions in which the Company or any such Subsidiary owns
or operates, a facility or site, or arranges for disposal or treatment of
hazardous substances, solid waste, or other wastes, accepts for transport any
hazardous substances, solid wastes or other wastes or holds any interest in real
property or otherwise, except for matters which, individually or in the
aggregate, would not have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition
or business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(b) All federal, state, provincial, local and foreign permits,
licenses and authorizations required for present or (to the best of the
Company's knowledge) past use of the facilities and other properties or
activities of the Company and each Subsidiary have been obtained, are presently
in effect, and there is and has been full compliance with all such permits,
licenses or authorizations, except, in all cases, where the failure to comply
with the foregoing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
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(c) No demand, claim, notice, suit (in law or equity), action,
administrative action, investigation or inquiry (including, without limitation,
the listing of any property by any domestic or foreign governmental entity which
identifies sites for remedial, clean-up or investigatory action) whether brought
by any governmental authority, private person or entity or otherwise, arising
under, relating to or in connection with any applicable Hazardous Materials Laws
is pending or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, threatened against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries any real property in which the Company or any
such Subsidiary holds or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, has held an
interest or any present or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, past
operation of the Company or any such Subsidiary, except for such matters which,
individually or in the aggregate, would not have a material adverse effect on
the financial condition or business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole.
(d) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries whether
with respect to present or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, past
operations or properties, (i) is, to the best of the Company's knowledge, the
subject of any federal or state investigation evaluating whether any remedial
action is needed to respond to a release of any toxic substances, radioactive
materials, hazardous wastes or related materials into the environment, (ii) has
received any notice of any toxic substances, radioactive materials, hazardous
waste or related materials in, or upon any of its properties in violation of any
applicable Hazardous Materials Laws, or (iii) knows of any basis for any such
investigation or notice, or for the existence of such a violation, except for
such matters which, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a material
adverse effect on the financial condition or business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(e) No release, threatened release or disposal of hazardous
waste, solid waste or other wastes is occurring or has occurred on, under or to
any real property in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries holds any
interest or performs any of its operations, in violation of any applicable
Hazardous Materials Laws, except for any such matters which, individually or in
the aggregate, would not have a material adverse effect on the financial
condition or business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
7.20 Year 2000 Requirement. The disclosures regarding year 2000
compliance in the Company's most recent report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC
are accurate in all material respects.
7.21 Accuracy of Information. Each of the Company's audited or
unaudited financial statements furnished to Agents and the Lenders by the
Company prior to the date of this Agreement (including without limitation any
draft financial statements in respect of the reporting period ending December
31, 1998 furnished by the Company), is complete and correct in all material
respects and fairly presents the financial condition of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and the results of their operations for the
periods covered thereby; any projections of operations for future years
previously furnished by Company to Agents or the Lenders have been prepared as
the Company's good faith estimate of such future operations, taking into account
all relevant facts and matters known to Company; since December 31, 1998 there
has been no material adverse change in the financial condition of the Company or
its Subsidiaries,
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taken as a whole; neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries has any
contingent obligations (including any liability for taxes) not disclosed by or
reserved against in the December 31, 1998 balance sheet (a draft of which has
been provided to the Lenders prior to the Effective Date) which is likely to
have a material adverse effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole.
7. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Company and each of the Permitted Borrowers covenants and agrees that
it will, and, as applicable, it will cause its Subsidiaries to, so long as any
of the Lenders are committed to make any Advances or issue any Letters of Credit
under this Agreement and thereafter so long as any Indebtedness remains
outstanding under this Agreement:
8.1 Preservation of Existence, Etc.
Except as otherwise specifically permitted hereunder, preserve and
maintain its corporate existence and such of its rights, licenses, and
privileges as are material to the business and operations conducted by it; and
qualify and remain qualified to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is material to the business and operations or ownership of
properties, in each case of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
8.2 Keeping of Books. Keep proper books of record and account in which
full and correct entries shall be made of all of its financial transactions and
its assets and businesses so as to permit the presentation of financial
statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
8.3 Reporting Requirements. Furnish Agent with copies for each Lender:
(a) as soon as possible, and in any event within five (5)
calendar days after becoming aware of the occurrence of each Default or
Event of Default, a written statement of the chief financial officer of
the Company (or in his/her absence, a responsible senior officer)
setting forth details of such Event of Default or event and the action
which the Company has taken or has caused to be taken or proposes to
take or cause to be taken with respect thereto;
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(b) as soon as available, and in any event within one hundred
twenty (120) days after and as of the end of each of Company's fiscal
years, a detailed Consolidated audit report of Company certified to by
independent certified public accountants satisfactory to Lenders
together with an unaudited Consolidating report of Company and its
Subsidiaries certified by the chief financial officer of Company (or in
his/her absence, a responsible senior officer) as to consistency (with
prior financial reports and accounting periods), accuracy and fairness
of presentation, and a Covenant Compliance Report;
(c) as soon as available, and in any event within sixty (60)
days after and as of the end of each of the first three quarters of
each year, Consolidated and Consolidating balance sheet and statement
of profit and loss and surplus reconciliation of Company and its
Subsidiaries certified by the chief financial officer of Company (or in
his/her absence, a responsible senior officer) as to consistency (with
prior financial reports and accounting periods), accuracy and fairness
of presentation, and a Covenant Compliance Report.
(d) as soon as possible, and in any event within five (5) calendar days
after becoming aware (i) of any material adverse change in the
financial condition of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of
the Permitted Borrowers, a certificate of the chief financial officer
of Company (or in his/her absence, a responsible senior officer)
setting forth the details of such change or (ii) of the taking by the
Internal Revenue Service or any foreign taxing jurisdiction of a tax
position (verbal or written) which could have a materially adverse
effect upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or any such tax
position taken by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) setting forth
the details of such position and the financial impact thereof;
(e)(i) as soon as available, the Company's 8-K, 10-Q and 10-K Reports
filed with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, and in any
event, with respect to the 10-Q Report, within sixty (60) days of the
end of each of the Company's fiscal quarters, and with respect to the
10-K Report, within one hundred twenty (120) days after and as of the
end of each of Company's fiscal years; and (ii) as soon as available,
copies of all filings, reports or other documents filed by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries with the federal Securities and Exchange
Commission or other federal regulatory or taxing agencies or
authorities in the United States, or comparable agencies or authorities
in England, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands or Israel, or any
stock exchanges in such jurisdictions;
(f) promptly as issued, all press releases, notices to shareholders and
all other material communications transmitted by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries;
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(g) together with the financial statements delivered pursuant to
Section 7.3(b) hereof, annual financial projections for the Company and
its Significant Subsidiaries covering the period at least through
Revolving Credit Maturity Date then in effect and otherwise in form and
content reasonably acceptable to the Agent and the Lenders; and
(h) promptly, and in form to be satisfactory to Agent and the
requesting Lender or Lenders, such other information as Agent or any of
the Lenders (acting through Agent) may request from time to time.
8.4 Tangible Net Worth . Maintain, and cause its Subsidiaries to
maintain, as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, beginning with the fiscal
quarter ending December 31, 1998, Tangible Net Worth which on a Consolidated
basis will at no time be less Five Hundred Fifty Two Million, Four Hundred and
One Thousand, Three Hundred Twenty Three Dollars ($552,401,323), plus the sum of
the Net Income Adjustment and the Equity Offering Adjustment.
8.5 Leverage Ratio. Maintain, as of the last day of each fiscal
quarter, a Leverage Ratio of not more than 3.25 to 1.0.
8.6 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio . Maintain, as of the last day of each
fiscal quarter, a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of not less than 2.0 to 1.0.
8.7 Inspections. Permit Agent and each Lender, through their authorized
attorneys, accountants and representatives to examine Company's and each of the
Subsidiaries' books, accounts, records, ledgers and assets and properties of
every kind and description wherever located at all reasonable times during
normal business hours, upon oral or written request of Agent; and permit Agent
and each Lender or their authorized representatives, at reasonable times and
intervals, to visit all of its offices, discuss its financial matters with its
officers and independent certified public accountants, and by this provision
Company authorizes such accountants to discuss the finances and affairs of
Company and its Subsidiaries (provided that Company is given an opportunity to
participate in such discussions) and examine any of its or their books and other
corporate records. An examination of the records or properties of Company or any
of its Subsidiaries may require revealment of proprietary and/or confidential
data and information, and the Agent and each of the Lenders agrees upon request
of the inspected party to execute a confidentiality agreement (satisfactory to
Agent or the inspecting Lender, as the case may be, and such party) on behalf of
the Agent or such inspecting Lender and all parties making such inspections or
examinations under its authorization; provided however that such confidentiality
agreement shall not prohibit Agent from revealing such information to Lenders or
prohibit the inspecting Lender from revealing such information to Agent or
another Lender.
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8.8 Taxes. Pay and discharge all taxes and other governmental charges,
and all material contractual obligations calling for the payment of money,
before the same shall become overdue, unless and to the extent only that such
payment is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and is
reserved for, as required by GAAP on its balance sheet, or where the failure to
pay any such matter could not have a material adverse effect on the Company and
its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
8.9 Further Assurances. Execute and deliver or cause to be executed and
delivered within a reasonable time following Agent's request, and at the
Company's expense, such other documents or instruments as Agent may reasonably
require to effectuate more fully the purposes of this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents.
8.10 Insurance. Maintain insurance coverage on its physical assets and
against other business risks in such amounts and of such types as are
customarily carried by companies similar in size and nature, and in the event of
acquisition of additional property, real or personal, or of occurrence of
additional risks of any nature, increase such insurance coverage in such manner
and to such extent as prudent business judgment and then current practice would
dictate; and with all said policies or copies thereof, including all
endorsements thereon and those required hereunder, to be deposited with the
Agent. In the case of all policies covering any Collateral, all such insurance
policies shall provide that the loss payable thereunder shall be payable to
Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries, as applicable, and the Agent for the
benefit of the Lenders (Agent as mortgagee, or, in the case of personal property
interests, lender loss payee) as their respective interests may appear. Upon the
request of Agent or any Lender, certificates evidencing such policies shall be
delivered to Agent or such Lender, as the case may be.
8.11 Indemnification. With respect to the Company, indemnify and save
each Agent and the Lenders harmless from all reasonable loss, cost, damage,
liability or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements,
incurred by each of the Agents and the Lenders by reason of an Event of Default
or enforcing the obligations of the Company or the Permitted Borrowers under
this Agreement, or the other Loan Documents, or in the prosecution or defense of
any action or proceeding concerning any matter growing out of or connected with
this Agreement, or any of the other Loan Documents or any mortgage, stock pledge
or security agreement released by Agents or the Lenders from time to time
hereunder, or relating in any way to the imposition (or attempted imposition) on
Agents or Lenders (or any of them) of any liability for the violation of or
non-compliance by any Person (or purported violation or non-compliance) with
Hazardous Material Laws, other than in any case resulting from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of Agents or the Lenders; and, with respect to
each of the Permitted Borrowers, indemnify and save each Agent and the Lenders
harmless from all reasonable loss, cost, damage, liability or expenses,
including reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements, incurred by each of the
Agents and the Lenders with respect to a Permitted
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Borrower by reason of an Event of Default or enforcing the obligations of the
Permitted Borrowers under this Agreement, or the other Loan Documents or in the
prosecution or defense of any action or proceeding concerning any matter growing
out of or connected with this Agreement, or any of the other Loan Documents or
any mortgage, stock pledge or security agreement released by Agents or the
Lenders from time to time hereunder, or relating in any way to the imposition
(or attempted imposition) on Agents or Lenders (or any of them) of any liability
for the violation of or non-compliance by any Person (or purported violation or
non-compliance) with Hazardous Material Laws, other than in any case resulting
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Agents or the Lenders.
8.12 Governmental and Other Approvals. Apply for, obtain and/or
maintain in effect, as applicable, all material authorizations, consents,
approvals, licenses, qualifications, exemptions, filings, declarations and
registrations (whether with any court, governmental agency, regulatory
authority, securities exchange or otherwise) which are necessary in connection
with the execution, delivery and performance: (i) by the Company, of this
Agreement, the Loan Documents, or any other documents or instruments to be
executed and/or delivered by the Company in connection therewith or herewith;
and (ii) by each of the Significant Subsidiaries, of this Agreement and the Loan
Documents.
8.13 Compliance with Contractual Obligations and Laws. Comply in all
material respects with all Contractual Obligations, and with all applicable
laws, rules, regulations and orders of any governmental authority, whether
federal, state, local or foreign (including without limitation Hazardous
Materials Laws), in effect from time to time, except to the extent that failure
to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in
the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the business, operations, property
or financial or other condition of the Company or the Permitted Borrowers and
their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and could not reasonably be
expected to materially adversely affect the ability of the Company or any of the
Significant Subsidiaries to perform their respective obligations under any of
the Loan Documents to which they are a party.
8.14 ERISA. Comply in all material respects with all requirements
imposed by ERISA as presently in effect or hereafter promulgated or the Internal
Revenue Code (or comparable laws in applicable jurisdictions outside the United
States of America relating to foreign pension plans) and promptly notify Lenders
upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) the termination of any Pension Plan pursuant to Subtitle C
of Title IV of ERISA or otherwise (other than any defined contribution plan not
subject to Section 412 of the Code and any Multiemployer Plan);
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(b) the appointment of a trustee by a United States District
Court to administer any Pension Plan pursuant to ERISA;
(c) the commencement by the PBGC, or any successor thereto, of
any proceeding to terminate any Pension Plan;
(d) the failure of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate to make
any payment in respect of any Pension Plan required under Section 412 of the
Internal Revenue Code;
(e) the withdrawal of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate from
any Multiemployer Plan;
(f) the occurrence of an Accumulated Funding Deficiency or a
Reportable Event; or
(g) the occurrence of a Prohibited Transaction which could
have a material adverse effect upon the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole.
8.15 Environmental Matters.
(a) (i) Not permit any of its property (whether real or personal, or
any portion thereof) to be involved in the use, generation, manufacture,
storage, disposal or transportation of Hazardous Material, except in compliance
with Hazardous Material Laws, and (ii) keep and maintain all of its other
property (whether real or personal, and any portion thereof) in compliance with,
and shall not cause or permit any activity at or condition of the Collateral, or
any of its other property (whether real or personal, or any portion thereof) to
be in violation of any Hazardous Material Laws, unless the failure to comply
therewith or violation thereof will not materially adversely affect the Company
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(b) Promptly notify the Agent in writing of: (i) any and all
enforcement, cleanup, removal or other governmental or regulatory actions
instituted or completed pursuant to any applicable Hazardous Material Laws; (ii)
any and all claims made by any Person against the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries, the Permitted Borrowers or the TEMIC Parties, or any of its other
property (whether real or personal, or any portion thereof) relating to damage,
contribution, cost recovery, compensation, loss or injury resulting from any
Hazardous Material which could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and (iii)
Company's discovery of any occurrence or condition on any real property or
fixtures constituting a part of, adjoining or in the vicinity of any of its
property that could cause any such property (or any part thereof) to be subject
to any material restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, transferability or use
thereof under any Hazardous Material Laws.
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The Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall have the right to join and
participate in, as a party if it or they so elect, any legal proceedings or
actions initiated in connection with any of the matters described in
subparagraphs (b) (i) or (b) (ii), above, and the Company agrees to pay the
Agent's reasonable attorneys fees in connection therewith.
(c) Take any material remedial action as may be required under
applicable law in response to the presence of any Hazardous Material on, under,
or about any of its property (whether real or personal, or any part thereof),
and, pursuant thereto, may enter into settlement agreements, consent decrees, or
other compromises in respect of any of the matters described in subparagraphs
(b) (i) through (iii), above, provided that, in each case, Company has given
Lenders not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice thereof.
(d) With respect to the properties and operations of TEMIC, commence
and diligently proceed to completion with the necessary remedial, corrective or
other actions identified in the Environmental Audits, as applicable, or as
required under the TEMIC Acquisition Agreement, and cause the TEMIC Parties (to
the extent of their respective obligations under the TEMIC Acquisition
Agreement) to do so, according to the time periods specified therein, or if no
time periods are so specified, as soon as reasonably practicable; provided that
Company's obligations under this subparagraph (d) shall not reduce or otherwise
affect Company's other obligations hereunder.
(e) Agent may retain (on its own behalf and on behalf of the Lenders,
but at Company's sole expense) such Environmental Auditors as reasonably
necessary to evaluate and/or confirm Company's environmental responses, reports
or other matters, including Company's compliance with Hazardous Material Laws
generally, under this Section 7.15, or elsewhere herein.
8.16 Future Subsidiaries .
(a) With respect to each Person which becomes a Significant Subsidiary
subsequent to the Effective Date, within thirty days of the date such Person is
created, acquired or otherwise becomes a Significant Subsidiary (whichever first
occurs), cause such new Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Agent (i) in
the case of each Significant Domestic Subsidiary, (x) a Joinder Agreement
whereby such Significant Domestic Subsidiary becomes obligated as a Guarantor
under the Domestic Guaranty and (y) a Joinder Agreement, whereby such
Significant Domestic Subsidiary becomes obligated under the applicable Security
Agreement and (ii) in the case of each Significant Foreign Subsidiary, (a) a
Joinder Agreement whereby such Significant Foreign Subsidiary becomes obligated
as a Guarantor under the Foreign Guaranty and (b) a Joinder Agreement, whereby
each Significant Foreign Subsidiary incorporated under the laws of the United
States of America becomes obligated under the applicable Security Agreement; and
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(b) With respect to the share capital (or other ownership interests) of
each Person, which becomes a Foreign Significant Subsidiary subsequent to the
Effective Date, within sixty days of the date such Person is created, acquired
or becomes a Significant Subsidiary (whichever first occurs), the Company shall
execute, or cause to be executed, and deliver to the Agent a Pledge Agreement
encumbering subject to Section 7.17 hereof, with a first priority Lien 65% of
the share capital of each such Significant Foreign Subsidiary to secure the
Indebtedness of the Company and the Domestic Permitted Borrowers and the
Indebtedness (as such term is defined therein) of such parties under the Short
Term Revolving Credit Agreement and 100% of the share capital of each such
Foreign Significant Subsidiary to secure the Indebtedness of the Foreign
Permitted Borrowers hereunder; and
(c) With respect to the share capital (or other ownership interests) of
each Person, which becomes a Significant Domestic Subsidiary subsequent to the
Effective Date, within thirty days of the date such Person is created, acquired
or becomes a Significant Subsidiary (whichever first occurs), the Company shall
execute, or cause to be executed, and deliver to the Agent a stock pledge
encumbering hereof, 100% of the share capital of each such Significant Domestic
Subsidiary to secure the Indebtedness of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers
and the Indebtedness of such parties under the Short Term Revolving Credit
Agreement;
in each case in form satisfactory to the Agent and the Required Lenders, in
their reasonable discretion, together with such supporting documentation,
including without limitation financing statements, acknowledgments, stock
powers, registrations and like documents, corporate authority items,
certificates and opinions of counsel, as reasonably required by the Agent and
the Required Lenders and the Company shall take, or cause to be taken, such
steps as are necessary or advisable under applicable law to perfect the liens
granted under clauses (c) and (d) hereof.
8.17 Foreign Subsidiaries Security . If, following a change in the
relevant sections of the Internal Revenue Code or the regulations, rules,
rulings, notices or other official pronouncements issued or promulgated
thereunder, counsel for the Company and the Permitted Borrowers acceptable to
the Required Lenders does not within 30 days after a request from the Agent or
the Required Lenders deliver evidence, in form and substance mutually
satisfactory to the Required Lenders and the Company, that, with respect to each
Significant Foreign Subsidiary whose entire share capital, to the extent owned,
directly or indirectly, by the Company has not been encumbered in favor of the
Lenders (a) a pledge of 66-2/3 % or more of the total combined voting power of
all classes of capital stock of such Foreign Subsidiary entitled to vote and (b)
the entering into a guaranty in substantially the form of the Domestic Guaranty
by such Significant Foreign Subsidiary, in either such case would cause the
undistributed earnings of such Significant Foreign Subsidiary as determined for
Federal income tax purposes to be treated as a deemed dividend to such
Significant Foreign Subsidiary's United States parent for Federal
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income tax purposes, then in the case of a failure to deliver the evidence
described in clause (a) above, that portion of such Significant Foreign
Subsidiary's outstanding capital stock so issued by such Significant Foreign
Subsidiary not theretofore pledged pursuant to a Pledge Agreement shall be
pledged to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders pursuant to a Pledge
Agreement (or another pledge agreement in substantially similar form, if needed)
and, in the case of failure to deliver the evidence described in clause (b)
above, such Significant Foreign Subsidiary shall execute and deliver the
Domestic Guaranty (or another guaranty in substantially the same form, if
needed), in each case to the extent that entering into a Pledge Agreement or
such Guaranty is permitted under the laws of the respective foreign jurisdiction
and all such documents delivered pursuant to this Section 7.17 shall be
satisfactory to the Required Lenders.
8.18 Siliconix . Upon the purchase or other acquisition of any
additional shares of stock of Siliconix, shall cause such shares to be
encumbered as security for the Indebtedness of the Company and the Permitted
Borrowers according to the terms of the applicable Pledge Agreement; and within
thirty (30) days of the date on which Siliconix shall become a 100% Subsidiary,
cause Siliconix to become a party, by execution of Joinder Agreements, to the
Domestic Guaranty and to the applicable Security Agreement in each case
according to the requirements set forth in Section 7.16 hereof.
8.19 Security and Defense of Collateral . Take such actions as the
Agent or the Required Lenders may from time to time reasonably request to
establish and maintain first perfected security interests in and Liens on all of
its Collateral, subject only to Permitted Liens and other liens permitted under
Section 8.2 hereof; and defend the Collateral from any Liens other than Liens
permitted by Section 8.2.
8.20 Vishay Israel . Within forty-five (45) days following the end of
each fiscal year ending after the Effective Date, cause Vishay Israel to request
from Israel's Comptroller of Foreign Exchange authorization to increase the
limit on the Pledge Agreement executed and delivered by Vishay Israel
encumbering the shares of Vishay Europe, to the extent of any increases after
the Effective Date in the amount of Vishay Israel's investment in Vishay Europe
and as soon as reasonably practicable following receipt of such approval,
execute and deliver an amendment in form satisfactory to the Agent and the
Required Lenders, in their reasonable discretion, together with such supporting
documentation, including without limitation corporate authority items,
certificates and opinions of counsel, as reasonably required by the Agent and
the Required Lenders and the Company shall take, or cause to be taken, such
steps as are necessary or advisable under applicable law to perfect the liens
granted under such Pledge Agreement as amended thereby.
8.21 Use of Proceeds . The Advances of the Revolving Credit made to the
Company or any Permitted Borrower shall be used by Company or such Permitted
Borrower solely for
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general corporate purposes, including without limitation working capital and
acquisitions. None of the proceeds of the Advances made under this Agreement
will be used in violation of any applicable law or regulation including, without
limitation, Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
8.22 Completion of the Singapore/Taiwan Restructuring . On or before
December 31, 1999, cause the Singapore/Taiwan Restructuring to be completed and
provide the Agent with satisfactory evidence thereof.
8. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Company and each of the Permitted Borrowers covenant and agree that, so
long as any of the Lenders are committed to make any Advances or issue any
Letters of Credit under this Agreement and thereafter so long as any
Indebtedness remains outstanding, it will not, and it will not allow its
Subsidiaries, to:
9.1 Capital Structure, Business Objects or Purpose. Except as otherwise
specifically permitted under this Agreement,
(a) purchase, acquire or redeem any of its capital stock,
except for non-vested stock granted to participants under the Vishay
Stock Plans; and
(b) make any material change in its capital structure or general
business objects or purpose or enter into any business, directly or
through any Subsidiary, except for those businesses in which the
Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the date of this Agreement
or other businesses in the electronic components industry or which are
directly related thereto.
9.2 Limitations on Fundamental Changes. Enter into any transaction of
merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or purchase or otherwise acquire or
become obligated for the purchase of all or substantially all of the assets,
business interests or shares of capital stock of any Person or in any other
manner effectuate or attempt to effectuate an expansion of present business by
acquisition or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation
or dissolution), or convey, sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose
of, all, substantially all or any part of its property, business or assets, or
make any material change in its present method of conducting business, except:
(a) any Subsidiary may be merged or consolidated with or into
the Company (so long as Company shall be the continuing or surviving
corporation); any Domestic Subsidiary may be merged or consolidated with or into
any 100% Domestic Subsidiary (so long as such
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100% Domestic Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving corporation); and
any Foreign Subsidiary may be merged or consolidated with or into any 100%
Domestic Subsidiary or into any 100% Foreign Subsidiary (excluding Vishay
Israel) so long as such 100% Domestic Subsidiary or such 100% Foreign Subsidiary
shall be the continuing or surviving corporation);
(b) any Subsidiary may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to
the Company;
(c) any Domestic Subsidiary may sell, lease, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or
otherwise) to any other Domestic Subsidiary which is a 100% Subsidiary and any
Foreign Subsidiary may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all
of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to any Domestic
Subsidiary or to any other Foreign Subsidiary (excluding Vishay Israel),
provided that such Subsidiary is a 100% Subsidiary;
(d) any Person other than a Subsidiary may merge or
consolidate with and into the Company or any 100% Subsidiary (excluding Vishay
Israel) so long as (i) the Company or such 100% Subsidiary shall be the
surviving corporation and (ii) immediately before and immediately after giving
effect to such merger or consolidation, no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing;
(e) Permitted Transfers;
(f) other sales, transfers or other dispositions of any assets
of the Company and its Subsidiaries from and after the Effective Date in an
aggregate amount not to exceed (i) 15% of Tangible Net Worth in any fiscal year
and (ii) 20% of Tangible Net Worth for any period of three consecutive fiscal
years (or portion thereof) beginning with fiscal year 1998, determined on the
basis of Tangible Net Worth for the fiscal quarter ending immediately prior to
the date of determination;
(g) Permitted Acquisitions; and
(h) the Permitted Siliconix Merger.
9.3 Guaranties. Guarantee, endorse, or otherwise become liable for or
upon the obligations of others, except by endorsement of cash items for deposit
in the ordinary course of business and except for (i) the Guaranties, (ii) the
guaranties executed pursuant to the Short Term Revolving Credit Agreement, (iii)
guaranties by the Company of Hedging Obligations entered into by any Foreign
Subsidiary, (iv) performance guaranties given by Company pursuant to the
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TEMIC Acquisition Documents, and (v) guaranties of indebtedness as set forth on
Schedule 8.3 attached hereto or as permitted under Section 8.7(g) hereof.
9.4 Debt. Become or remain obligated for any Debt for borrowed money,
or for any Debt incurred in connection with the acquisition of any property,
real or personal, tangible or intangible, except:
(a) Indebtedness to Lenders (or their Affiliates) hereunder;
(b) Indebtedness under the Short Term Revolving Credit
Agreement;
(c) current unsecured trade, utility or non-extraordinary
accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business and any unsecured
letters of credit undertaken by such parties in the ordinary course of business
outside the United States of America (and necessary under local customs and
practices) to support such accounts payable;
(d) purchase money Debt for fixed assets (including
capitalized leases or other non-cancelable leases having a term of 12 months or
longer), provided that the aggregate amount of all such purchase money Debt
outstanding at any time shall not exceed seven and one-half percent (7.5%) of
Tangible Net Worth;
(e) any Debt assumed pursuant to an acquisition conducted in
compliance with this Agreement, provided that such Debt was not entered into,
extended or renewed in contemplation of such acquisition and provided further
that the aggregate amount of all such Debt at any time outstanding shall not
exceed six percent (6%) of Tangible Net Worth;
(f) Debt to third parties in an aggregate amount at any time
outstanding not to exceed $55,000,000; provided that such Debt be issued and at
all times maintained on a pari passu basis with the Indebtedness, or on a basis
subordinate thereto, and pursuant to documentation containing covenants not more
restrictive in the aggregate than the covenants contained in this Agreement (as
determined by the Agent and Required Lenders in their reasonable discretion) and
provided further, however, that immediately before and immediately after such
Debt is incurred, and giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing (it being understood that for purposes of this
Section 8.4(f), the granting of Liens which are permitted under Section 8.5
hereof shall not be deemed to constitute the entry into more restrictive
covenants or to be other than on a pari passu basis);
(g) Intercompany Loans, but only to the extent permitted under
the other applicable terms and limitations of this Agreement, including but not
limited to Section 8.7 hereof;
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(h) unsecured Debt issued under Rule 144 of the Securities Act
of 1933 or pursuant to a private placement in an aggregate amount for all such
Debt issued under this subparagraph (but without giving effect to any repayments
or principal reductions thereof) not to exceed Two Hundred Million Dollars
($200,000,000); provided that such Debt be issued and all times maintained on a
pari passu basis with the Indebtedness, or on a basis subordinate thereto, and
pursuant to documentation containing covenants not more restrictive in the
aggregate than the covenants contained in this Agreement (as determined by the
Agent and the Required Lenders in their reasonable discretion); provided
further, however, that immediately before and immediately after such Debt is
incurred, and giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing; and provided further that prior to or concurrently with the
issuance of such Debt, the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment is permanently
reduced by an amount equal to not less than 75% of the proceeds of such Debt,
net of normal and customary expenses of issuance payable to third parties;
(i) unsecured Debt incurred by LPSC and not covered by a
Guaranty Obligation, Hedging Obligations and Stock Option Plan Debt.
9.5 Liens. Permit or suffer any Lien to exist on any of its properties, real,
personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, except:
(a) Liens in favor of the Agent, as security for the
Indebtedness hereunder, for the indebtedness under the Short Term Revolving
Credit Agreement and for indebtedness under any Hedging Obligations;
(b) purchase money security interests in fixed assets to
secure purchase money Debt permitted under Section 8.4(d) hereof, provided that
such security interest is created substantially contemporaneously with the
acquisition of such fixed assets and does not extend to any property other than
the fixed assets so financed;
(c) any lien securing third-party indebtedness assumed
pursuant to any Permitted Acquisition conducted in compliance with this
Agreement, provided that such lien is limited to the property so acquired and
was not entered into, extended or renewed in contemplation of such acquisition;
(d) Permitted Company Encumbrances and Permitted Encumbrances
of the Subsidiaries; and
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(e) Liens securing Debt otherwise permitted hereunder,
provided that the aggregate principal amount of all such Debt which is secured
by a Lien shall not exceed Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000).
9.6 Dividends. Declare or pay any dividends on or make any other
distribution with respect to (whether by reduction of Stockholder's Equity or
otherwise) any shares of its capital stock, except for stock dividends and
except for (a) cash dividends by any 100% Subsidiary to the Company or any other
100% Subsidiary which has executed a Guaranty hereunder, (b) dividends paid in
cash or in kind by any Subsidiary which is not a 100% Subsidiary or by any Joint
Venture, provided that such dividends are paid to each holder of share capital
therein (including Company or any of its other Subsidiaries) on a pro rata basis
(based on the relative amounts of share capital held by each such holder) and
provided further that such dividends are paid to the Company or its other
Subsidiaries on substantially the same (or better) terms as (and
contemporaneously with) any dividends paid to Persons other than the Company and
its Subsidiaries, (c) cash dividends by Vishay Europe which are reinvested in
Vishay Europe by its shareholders in compliance with Section 8.7 hereof and (d)
cash dividends by Vishay Electronic which are reinvested in Vishay Electronic by
Vishay Europe in compliance with Section 8.7, hereof.
9.7 Investments. Make or allow to remain outstanding any investment (whether
such investment shall be of the character of investment in shares of stock,
evidences of indebtedness or other securities or otherwise) in, or any loans or
advances to, any Person, firm, corporation or other entity or association, other
than:
(a) Company's equity ownership interests in the Subsidiaries
as of the Effective Date;
(b) Additional cash investment in Vishay Europe by its
shareholders or in Vishay Electronic by Vishay Europe, which is applied by
Vishay Europe or Vishay Electronic, as the case may be, concurrently with such
investment to reduce its Indebtedness under this Agreement or the Short Term
Revolving Credit Agreement, in substantially the amount of such additional
investment;
(c) The existing investments, loans and/or advances in or to
Subsidiaries set forth on Schedule 8.7 hereto, in addition to any other matters
set forth in this Section 8.7;
(d) Intercompany Loans, Advances, or Investments existing on
or after the Effective Date hereunder to Company, or by Company or any
Subsidiary to Company or any 100% Subsidiary (excluding Vishay Israel), provided
that both before and after giving effect to
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any such loans, advances or investments, no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing under this Agreement;
(e) Intercompany Loans, Advances or Investments existing on or
after the Effective Date by Company or any Subsidiary to Vishay Israel or to any
Subsidiary which does not constitute a 100% Subsidiary other than Siliconix
(provided that any Intercompany Loan included therein be evidenced by and funded
under an Intercompany Note encumbered pursuant to a Pledge Agreement), without
regard to any repayment of such loans, advances or investments (other than the
repayment or recovery of capital or principal), provided that at the time any
such loan, advance or investment is made (before and after giving effect
thereto) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and
provided further that the aggregate amount of all such loans, advances and
investments shall not exceed, at any time outstanding, 10% of Tangible Net
Worth;
(f) Intercompany Loans to Siliconix, but only to the extent
evidenced by and funded under an Intercompany Note encumbered pursuant to a
Pledge Agreement, provided that both before and after giving effect to any such
loans, advances or investments, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing under this Agreement;
(g) loans, advances or investments made on or after the
Effective Date (without regard to any repayment of such loans, advances or
investments, other than the repayment of capital or principal) to any Joint
Venture or other Person, including without limitation guaranties by the Company
or any Subsidiary (valued on the basis of the aggregate amount of indebtedness
covered by a guaranty) of third-party indebtedness of any such Joint Venture or
other Person, which loans, advances or investments are not otherwise permitted
under this Section 8.7, in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to
exceed five percent (5%) of Tangible Net Worth;
(h) the Remaining Siliconix Acquisition, subject to the terms
and conditions of this Agreement;
(i) investments, whether by acquisition of shares of Capital
Stock, indebtedness or other obligations or security of, any Person (other than
a Subsidiary or an Affiliate) which is a customer of the Company or any
Subsidiary, which investment was made in exchange for amounts owed by such
customer to the Company or any Subsidiary (and incurred in the ordinary course
of business) or as an advance on the provision of goods and services in the
ordinary course of business;
(j) Hedging Obligations and guaranties by the Company of
Hedging Obligations entered into by any Foreign Subsidiary; and
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(k) Permitted Investments.
In valuing any investments, loans and advances for the purpose of applying the
limitations set forth in this Section 8.7 (except as otherwise expressly
provided herein), such investments, loans and advances shall be taken at the
original cost thereof, without allowance for any subsequent write-offs or
appreciation or depreciation therein, but less any amount repaid or recovered on
account of capital or principal.
9.8 Accounts Receivable. Sell or assign any account, note or trade
acceptance receivable, except to Agent on behalf of the Lenders.
9.9 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction with any
of its or their stockholders or officers or its or their affiliates, except in
the ordinary course of business and on terms not less favorable than would be
usual and customary in similar transactions between Persons dealing at arm's
length.
9.10 Operations of Vishay Israel. Permit the normal manufacturing or
other operations of Vishay Israel (or of Company or any of its other
Subsidiaries conducted in Israel) to be interrupted, stopped or delayed for any
period of fourteen (14) consecutive days, excluding regularly scheduled
vacations and holidays in the ordinary course of such operations.
9.11 Prohibition Against Certain Restrictions. (a) Enter into or
otherwise become subject to any agreement or arrangement (excluding this
Agreement) with any lender or other third party (i) which prohibits, restricts
or otherwise limits the ability of Company to make loans, advances or
investments to its Subsidiaries or which prohibits, restricts or otherwise
limits the ability of any Subsidiary to make loans, advances or investments in
any other Subsidiary (ii) which prohibits, restricts or otherwise limits the
ability of any Subsidiary to declare or pay any dividends on or make any other
distribution with respect to any shares of its capital stock, or (iii) which
prohibits, restricts or otherwise limits the execution, delivery or performance
by Company or any Subsidiary of any guaranty, indemnity or similar undertaking
in favor of Agent or the Lenders.
(b) Enter into any agreement, document or instrument which would
restrict or prevent Company and its Subsidiaries from granting Agent on behalf
of Lenders liens upon, security interests in and pledges of their respective
assets which are senior in priority to all other Liens.
9.12 Amendment of the TEMIC Acquisition Agreement or Lite-On Documents
. Amend, modify or otherwise alter (or suffer to be amended, modified or
altered) any of the material terms and conditions of the TEMIC Acquisition
Agreement or the Lite-On Documents in any respect which is materially adverse to
the Company, as determined by Company in its
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reasonable discretion, without the prior written approval of Agent and the
Required Lenders; provided that promptly following any amendment to any of such
documents, Company shall provide Agent with copies of such amendments, for
distribution to the Lenders.
9. DEFAULTS
10.1 Events of Default. Any of the following events is an "Event of
Default":
(a) non-payment when due of the principal or interest of any
Advance in accordance with the terms thereof or of any reimbursement
obligation under Section 3.6 hereof, and in the case of interest
payments, continuance thereof for three (3) days;
(b) default in the payment of any money by Company or any of
the Permitted Borrowers under this Agreement (other than as set forth
in subsection (a), above) or the other Loan Documents, and continuance
thereof for three (3) days of the date the same is due and payable;
(c) default in the observance or performance of any of the
other conditions, covenants or agreements set forth in this Agreement
or any of the other Loan Documents by any party thereto (provided that,
with respect to the covenants set forth in Sections 7.8, 7.10, 7.12,
7.13 and 7.14 hereof, such event has continued for thirty (30)
consecutive days) or the occurrence of any other default or Event of
Default, as the case may be hereunder or thereunder;
(d) any representation or warranty made by Company or any of
the Permitted Borrowers herein or in any instrument submitted pursuant
hereto or by any other party to the Loan Documents proves untrue in any
material adverse respect when made; provided that, with respect to any
misrepresentation or breach of warranty arising subsequent to the date
hereof under Sections 6.7, 6.8, 6.13 through 6.15 and 6.18 of this
Agreement solely by virtue of the nature of the representations and
warranties hereunder as continuing, (i) as to Section 6.8, hereof, any
applicable cure period existing in respect of such matters shall have
expired and (ii) as to the remaining Sections of this Agreement
specified in this subparagraph (d), such misrepresentation or breach of
warranty hereunder shall have continued for a period of thirty (30)
consecutive days;
(e) any provision of any Guaranty, or any Collateral Document
shall at any time for any reason (other than in accordance with its
terms or the terms of this Agreement) cease to be valid and binding and
enforceable against the Company or the Significant Subsidiaries, as
applicable, or the validity, binding effect or enforceability thereof
shall be contested by any Person, or the Company or any of the
Significant Subsidiaries shall
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deny that it has any or further liability or obligation under any
Guaranty, or any Collateral Document, as applicable, or any Guaranty,
or any Collateral Document shall be terminated, invalidated or set
aside or in any way cease to give or provide to the Lenders and the
Agent the benefits purported to be created thereby;
(f) default in the payment of any other obligation of Company,
its Subsidiaries or any of the Permitted Borrowers for borrowed money
in excess of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) (or the equivalent
thereof in an Alternative Currency), individually or in the aggregate;
or default in the observance or performance of any conditions,
covenants or agreements related or given with respect to any other
obligations for borrowed money in an aggregate amount in excess of Ten
Million Dollars ($10,000,000) (or the equivalent thereof in an
Alternative Currency), which is sufficient to permit the holder thereof
to accelerate the maturity of such obligation;
(g) the rendering of any judgment or judgments for the payment
of money in excess of the sum of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) (or
the Alternative Currency equivalent thereof) in the aggregate against
Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of the Permitted Borrowers, and
such judgments shall remain unpaid, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed by
appeal or otherwise for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days,
except as covered by adequate insurance with a reputable carrier and an
action is pending in which an active defense is being made with respect
thereto;
(h) any Person shall engage in any Prohibited Transaction
involving any Pension Plan, (ii) any Accumulated Funding Deficiency,
whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Pension Plan or
any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Pension Plan shall arise on the
assets of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, (iii) a Reportable Event
shall occur with respect to, or proceedings shall commence to have a
trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be appointed, to administer or to
terminate, any Single Employer Plan, (iv) any Single Employer Plan
shall terminate for purposes of Title IV of ERISA or (v) the Company or
any ERISA Affiliate shall, or in the reasonable opinion of the Required
Lenders is likely to, incur any liability in connection with a
withdrawal from, or the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of, a
Multiemployer Plan and in each case in clauses (i) through (v) above,
(x) a period of sixty (60) days, or more, has elapsed from the
occurrence of such event or condition and (y) such event or condition,
together with all other such events or conditions, if any, could
reasonably be expected to subject the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to any tax, penalty or other liabilities in the aggregate
material in relation to the business, operations, property or financial
or other condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole;
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(i) (A) any one Person or group of Persons acting in concert
shall acquire or control, directly or indirectly, whether by ownership,
proxy, voting trust or otherwise, twenty percent (20%) or more of the
voting power of the issued and outstanding stock of Company, other than
(x) any Person or group of Persons beneficially owning, directly or
indirectly, as of the date hereof capital stock of the Company with
twenty percent (20%) or more of such voting power or (y) any Permitted
Transferee; or (B) individuals who constitute the Continuing Directors
cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Company's
directors (for purposes of this Section 9.1(i)(B), "Continuing
Director" means any director who is currently a director and any
director who is nominated or elected by a majority of Continuing
Directors who are then directors);
(j) If a creditors' committee shall have been appointed for
the business of Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or if Company or
any of its Subsidiaries shall have made a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors or shall have been adjudicated bankrupt, or shall
have filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization or
to effect a plan or arrangement with creditors or shall fail to pay its
debts generally as such debts become due in the ordinary course of
business (except as contested in good faith and for which adequate
reserves are made in such party's financial statements); or shall file
an answer to a creditor's petition or other petition filed against it,
admitting the material allegations thereof for an adjudication in
bankruptcy or for reorganization; or shall have applied for or
permitted the appointment of a receiver or trustee or custodian for any
of its property or assets; or such receiver, trustee or custodian shall
have been appointed for any of its property or assets (otherwise than
upon application or consent of Company, or any of its Subsidiaries) and
such appointment has not been dismissed or stayed within thirty (30)
days from the date of appointment or if an order for relief or
otherwise approving any petition for reorganization of Company or any
of its Subsidiaries shall be entered; or if an involuntary petition is
filed against Company or any of its Subsidiaries and shall not be
dismissed or stayed within thirty (30) days from the date of filing
thereof.
10.2 Exercise of Remedies. If an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing hereunder: (a) the Agent shall, if directed to do so by the Required
Lenders, declare any commitment of the Lenders to extend credit hereunder
immediately terminated; (b) the Agent shall, if directed to do so by the
Required Lenders, declare the entire unpaid Indebtedness immediately due and
payable, without presentment, notice or demand, all of which are hereby
expressly waived by Company and the Permitted Borrowers; (c) upon the occurrence
of any Event of Default specified in Section 9.1(j) above, and notwithstanding
the lack of any declaration by Agent under the preceding clause (a) or (b), the
Lenders' commitments to extend credit hereunder shall immediately and
automatically terminate and the entire unpaid Indebtedness shall become
automatically due and payable without presentment, notice or
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demand; (d) the Agent shall, upon being directed to do so by the Required
Lenders, demand immediate delivery of cash collateral, and the Company and each
Account Party agree to deliver such cash collateral upon demand, in an amount
equal to the maximum amount that may be available to be drawn at any time prior
to the stated expiry of all outstanding Letters of Credit; and (e) the Agent
shall, if directed to do so by the Required Lenders or the Lenders, as
applicable (subject to the terms hereof), exercise any remedy permitted by this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents or law.
10.3 Rights Cumulative. No delay or failure of Agent and/or Lenders in
exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall affect such right,
power or privilege, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude
any other or further exercise thereof, or the exercise of any other power, right
or privilege. The rights of Lenders under this Agreement are cumulative and not
exclusive of any right or remedies which Lenders would otherwise have.
10.4 Waiver by Company and Permitted Borrowers of Certain Laws; JURY
WAIVER. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Company and each of the
Permitted Borrowers hereby agree to waive, and do hereby absolutely and
irrevocably waive and relinquish the benefit and advantage of any valuation,
stay, appraisement, extension or redemption laws now existing or which may
hereafter exist, which, but for this provision, might be applicable to any sale
made under the judgment, order or decree of any court, on any claim for interest
on any principal of any Advance, AND FURTHER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AGREE TO WAIVE
THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY WITH RESPECT TO ANY AND ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS IN
WHICH AGENT OR THE LENDERS (OR ANY OF THEM), ON THE ONE HAND, AND THE COMPANY OR
ANY OF THE PERMITTED BORROWERS, ON THE OTHER HAND, ARE PARTIES, WHETHER OR NOT
SUCH ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISE OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENTS, OR OTHERWISE. These waivers have been voluntarily given, with full
knowledge of the consequences thereof.
10.5 Waiver of Defaults. No Event of Default shall be waived by the
Lenders except in a writing signed by an officer of the Agent in accordance with
Section 13.11 hereof. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or
privilege hereunder, nor any delay in the exercise thereof, shall preclude any
other or further exercise of the Lenders' rights by Agent. No waiver of any
Event of Default shall extend to any other or further Event of Default. No
forbearance on the part of the Agent in enforcing any of the Lenders' rights
shall constitute a waiver of any of their rights. Company and the Permitted
Borrowers expressly agree that this Section may not be waived or modified by the
Lenders or Agent by course of performance, estoppel or otherwise.
10.6 Cross-Default. In addition to the other Events of Default
specified herein, any default in the observance, payment or performance of or
failure to comply with, after allowance
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for any applicable cure period, any of the conditions, covenants or agreements
of Company or the Permitted Borrowers under the Short Term Credit Agreement or
any of the other Short Term Loan Documents, or any security agreements in
relation thereto, shall be an Event of Default under the provisions of this
Agreement entitling Agent, with the consent of the Required Lenders (without
notice or any cure period except as expressly provided herein or therein), to
exercise any and all rights and remedies provided hereby. Any Event of Default
shall also constitute a default under all other instruments securing this or any
other present or future borrowings, or any agreements in relation thereto,
entitling Agent and the Lenders to exercise any and all rights and remedies
provided therein.
10. PAYMENTS, RECOVERIES AND COLLECTIONS.
11.1 Payment Procedure.
(a) All payments by Company and/or by any of the Permitted
Borrowers of principal of, or interest on, Advances of the Revolving
Credit or the Swing Line or of Letter of Credit Obligations or Fees
shall be made without setoff or counterclaim on the date specified for
payment under this Agreement not later than 11:00 a.m. (Detroit time)
in Dollars in immediately available funds to Agent, for the ratable
account of the Lenders, at Agent's office located at One Detroit
Center, Detroit, Michigan 48226, in respect of Domestic Advances or
Fees payable in Dollars. Payments made in respect of any Advance in any
Alternative Currency or any Fees payable in any Alternative Currency
shall be made in such Alternative Currency in immediately available
funds for the account of Agent's Eurocurrency Lending Office, at the
Agent's Correspondent, for the ratable account of the Lenders, not
later than 11:00 a.m. (the time of Agent's Correspondent). Upon receipt
of each such payment, the Agent shall make prompt payment to each
Lender, or, in respect of Eurocurrency-based Advances, such Lender's
Eurocurrency Lending Office, in like funds and currencies, of all
amounts received by it for the account of such Lender.
(b) Unless the Agent shall have been notified by the Company
prior to the date on which any payment to be made by the Company or any
of the Permitted Borrowers is due that the Company or such Permitted
Borrower does not intend to remit such payment, the Agent may, in its
discretion, assume that the Company or such Permitted Borrower has
remitted such payment when so due and the Agent may, in reliance upon
such assumption, make available to each Lender on such payment date an
amount equal to such Lender's share of such assumed payment. If the
Company or any of the Permitted Borrowers has not in fact remitted such
payment to the Agent, each Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to
the Agent in the applicable currency the amount of such assumed payment
made available to such Lender, together with the interest thereon,
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in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made
available by the Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid
to the Agent at a rate per annum equal to (i) for Prime-based Advances,
the Federal Funds Effective Rate, as the same may vary from time to
time, and (ii) with respect to Eurocurrency-based Advances, Agent's
aggregate marginal cost (including the cost of maintaining any required
reserves or deposit insurance and of any fees, penalties, overdraft
charges or other costs or expenses incurred by Agent) of carrying such
amount.
(c) Whenever any payment to be made hereunder (other than
payments in respect of any Eurocurrency-based Advance or a Quoted Rate
Advance) shall otherwise be due on a day which is not a Business Day,
such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and such
extension of time shall be included in computing interest, if any, in
connection with such payment. Whenever any payment of principal of, or
interest on, a Eurocurrency-based Advance or a Quoted Rate Advance
shall be due on a day which is not a Business Day the date of payment
thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless as
a result thereof it would fall in the next calendar month, in which
case it shall be shortened to the next preceding Business Day and, in
the case of a payment of principal, interest thereon shall be payable
for such extended or shortened time, if any.
(d) All payments to be made by the Company or the Permitted
Borrowers under this Agreement (including without limitation payments
under the Swing Line) shall be made without set-off or counterclaim, as
aforesaid, and without deduction for or on account of any present or
future withholding or other taxes of any nature imposed by any
governmental authority or of any political subdivision thereof or any
federation or organization of which such governmental authority may at
the time of payment be a member, unless Company or any of the Permitted
Borrowers, as the case may be, is compelled by law to make payment
subject to such tax. In such event, Company and such Permitted Borrower
shall:
(i) pay to the Agent for Agent's own account
and/or, as the case may be, for the account
of the Lenders (and, in the case of any
Swing Line Advances, pay to the Swing Line
Bank which funded such Advances) such
additional amounts as may be necessary to
ensure that the Agent and/or such Lender or
Lenders receive a net amount in the
applicable Permitted Currency equal to the
full amount which would have been receivable
had payment not been made subject to such
tax; and
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(ii) remit such tax to the relevant taxing
authorities according to applicable law, and
send to the Agent such certificates or
certified copy receipts as the Agent or any
Lender shall reasonably require as proof of
the payment by the Company or such Permitted
Borrower of any such taxes payable by the
Company or such Permitted Borrower.
As used herein, the terms "tax", "taxes" and "taxation" include all
taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions and withholdings and
any restrictions or conditions resulting in a charge together with interest (and
any taxes payable upon the amounts paid or payable pursuant to this Section
10.1) thereon and fines and penalties with respect thereto which may be imposed
by reason of any violation or default with respect to the law regarding such
tax, assessed as a result of or in connection with the transactions in any
Alternative Currency hereunder, or the payment and/or receipt of funds in any
Alternative Currency hereunder, or the payment or delivery of funds into or out
of any jurisdiction other than the United States (whether assessed against
Company, the Permitted Borrower, Agent or any of the Lenders).
11.2 Application of Proceeds. Subject to the Collateral Documents, but
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or other Loan
Document, after an Event of Default, the proceeds of any Collateral, together
with any offsets, voluntary payments by the Company or the Permitted Borrowers
or others and any other sums received or collected in respect of the
Indebtedness, shall be applied, first, to payment of principal and interest of
outstanding Advances and of any reimbursement obligations under Section 3.6
hereof in such order and manner as determined by the Required Lenders (subject,
however, to the applicable Percentages of the Revolving Credit held by each of
the Lenders), next, to any other Indebtedness on a pro rata basis, and then, if
there is any excess, to the Company or the Permitted Borrowers, as the case may
be. The application of such proceeds and other sums to the outstanding
Indebtedness hereunder shall be based on each Lender's Percentage of the
aggregate Indebtedness.
11.3 Pro-rata Recovery. If any Lender shall obtain any payment or other
recovery (whether voluntary, involuntary, by application of offset or otherwise)
on account of principal of, or interest on, any of the outstanding Advances (or
on account of its participation in any Letter of Credit) in excess of its pro
rata share of payments then or thereafter obtained by all Lenders upon principal
of and interest on all outstanding Advances (or such participation), such Lender
shall purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the outstanding
Advances (or subparticipations in the Letters of Credit) held by them as shall
be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment or
other recovery ratably in accordance with the Percentages of the Revolving
Credit with each of them; provided, however, that if all or any portion of the
excess payment or other recovery is thereafter recovered from such purchasing
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holder, the purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the
extent of such recovery, but without interest.
11.4 Set Off. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any
Event of Default, each Lender may at any time and from time to time, without
notice to the Company but subject to the provisions of Section 10.3 hereof, (any
requirement for such notice being expressly waived by the Company) set off and
apply against any and all of the obligations of the Company or any Permitted
Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement, whether owing to such
Lender or any other Lender or the Agent, any and all deposits (general or
special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other
indebtedness at any time owing by such Lender to or for the credit or the
account of the Company or such Permitted Borrower and any property of the
Company or such Permitted Borrower from time to time in possession of such
Lender, irrespective of whether or not such deposits held or indebtedness owing
by such Lender may be contingent and unmatured and regardless of whether any
Collateral then held by Agent or any Lender is adequate to cover the
Indebtedness. Promptly following any such setoff, such Lender shall give written
notice to Agent and to Company and the applicable Permitted Borrower of the
occurrence thereof. Each of the Company and each Permitted Borrower hereby
grants to the Lenders and the Agent a lien on and security interest in all such
deposits, indebtedness and property as collateral security for the payment and
performance of all of the obligations of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers
under this Agreement. The rights of each Lender under this Section 10.4 are in
addition to the other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other
rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.
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11. CHANGES IN LAW OR CIRCUMSTANCES; INCREASED COSTS.
11.1 Reimbursement of Prepayment Costs. If Company or any Permitted
Borrower makes any payment of principal with respect to any Eurocurrency-based
Advance or Quoted Rate Advance on any day other than the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto (whether voluntarily, by acceleration, or
otherwise), or if Company or any Permitted Borrower converts or refunds (or
attempts to convert or refund) any such Advance on any day other than the last
day of the Interest Period applicable thereto; or if Company or any Permitted
Borrower fails to borrow, refund or convert into any Eurocurrency-based Advance
or Quoted Rate Advance after notice has been given by Company or such Permitted
Borrower to Agent in accordance with the terms hereof requesting such Advance,
or if Company or any Permitted Borrower fails to make any payment of principal
or interest in respect of a Eurocurrency-based Advance or Quoted Rate Advance
when due, Company and the applicable Permitted Borrower shall reimburse Agent
for itself and/or on behalf of any Lender, as the case may be, on demand for any
resulting loss, cost or expense incurred (excluding the loss of any Applicable
Margin) by Agent and Lenders, as the case may be as a result thereof, including,
without limitation, any such loss, cost or expense incurred in obtaining,
liquidating, employing or redeploying deposits from third parties, whether or
not Agent and Lenders, as the case may be, shall have funded or committed to
fund such Advance. Such amount payable by Company to Agent for itself and/or on
behalf of any Lender, as the case may be, may include, without limitation, an
amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the amount of interest which would
have accrued on the amount so prepaid, or not so borrowed, refunded or
converted, for the period from the date of such prepayment or of such failure to
borrow, refund or convert, through the last day of the relevant Interest Period,
at the applicable rate of interest for said Advance(s) provided under this
Agreement, over (b) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined by Agent
and Lenders, as the case may be) which would have accrued to Agent and Lenders,
as the case may be, on such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a
comparable period with leading banks in the interbank eurocurrency market.
Calculation of any amounts payable to any Lender under this paragraph shall be
made as though such Lender shall have actually funded or committed to fund the
relevant Advance through the purchase of an underlying deposit in an amount
equal to the amount of such Advance and having a maturity comparable to the
relevant Interest Period; provided, however, that any Lender may fund any
Eurocurrency-based Advance or Quoted Rate Advance, as the case may be, in any
manner it deems fit and the foregoing assumptions shall be utilized only for the
purpose of the calculation of amounts payable under this paragraph. Upon the
written request of Company, Agent and Lenders shall deliver to Company a
certificate setting forth the basis for determining such losses, costs and
expenses, which certificate shall be conclusively presumed correct, absent
manifest error.
11.2 Eurocurrency Lending Office. For any Advance to which the
Eurocurrency-based Rate is applicable, if Agent or a Lender, as applicable,
shall designate a Eurocurrency Lending
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Office which maintains books separate from those of the rest of Agent or such
Lender, Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, shall have the option of
maintaining and carrying the relevant Advance on the books of such Eurocurrency
Lending Office.
11.3 Availability of Alternative Currency. The Agent and the Lenders
shall not be required to make any Advance in an Alternative Currency if, at any
time prior to making such Advance, the Agent or the Required Lenders (after
consultation with Agent) shall determine, in its or their sole discretion, that
(i) deposits in the applicable Alternative Currency in the amounts and
maturities required to fund such Advance will not be available to the Agent and
the Lenders; (ii) a fundamental change has occurred in the foreign exchange or
interbank markets with respect to the applicable Alternative Currency
(including, without limitation, changes in national or international financial,
political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange
controls); or (iii) it has become otherwise materially impractical for the Agent
or the Lenders, as applicable, to make such Advance in the applicable
Alternative Currency. The Agent or the applicable Lender, as the case may be,
shall promptly notify the Company and Lenders of any such determination.
11.4 Refunding Advances in Same Currency. If pursuant to any provisions
of this Agreement, the Company or any of the Permitted Borrowers repays one or
more Advances and on the same day borrows an amount in the same currency, the
Agent (or the Swing Line Bank, in the case of a Swing Line Advance) shall apply
the proceeds of such new borrowing to repay the principal of the Advance or
Advances being repaid and only an amount equal to the difference (if any)
between the amount being borrowed and the amount being repaid shall be remitted
by the Agent to the Company or such Permitted Borrower, or by the Company or
such Permitted Borrower to the Agent, as the case may be.
11.5 Circumstances Affecting Eurocurrency-based Rate Availability. If
with respect to any Interest Period, Agent or the Required Lenders (after
consultation with Agent) shall determine that, by reason of circumstances
affecting the foreign exchange and interbank markets generally, deposits in
eurodollars or in any applicable Alternative Currency, as the case may be, in
the applicable amounts are not being offered to the Agent or such Lenders for
such Interest Period, then Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the
Company and the Permitted Borrowers. Thereafter, until Agent notifies Company
and the Permitted Borrowers that such circumstances no longer exist, (i) the
obligation of Lenders to make Eurocurrency-based Advances (other than in any
applicable Alternative Currency with respect to which deposits are available, as
required hereunder), and the right of Company and the Permitted Borrowers to
convert an Advance to or refund an Advance as a Eurocurrency-based Advance, as
the case may be (other than in any applicable Alternative Currency with respect
to which deposits are available, as required hereunder), shall be suspended, and
(ii) the Company and the Permitted Borrowers shall repay in full (or cause to be
repaid in full) the then outstanding principal amount
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of each such Eurocurrency-based Advance covered hereby in the applicable
Permitted Currency, together with accrued interest thereon, any amounts payable
under Sections 11.1 and 11.8 hereof, and all other amounts payable hereunder on
the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such Advance.
Upon the date for repayment as aforesaid and unless Company notifies Agent to
the contrary within two (2) Business Days after receiving a notice from Agent
pursuant to this Section, such outstanding principal amount shall be converted
to a Prime-based Advance as of the last day of such Interest Period.
11.6 Laws Affecting Eurocurrency-based Advance Availability. If, after
the date of this Agreement, the introduction of, or any change in, any
applicable law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or administration
thereof by any governmental authority charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by any of the Lenders (or any of their
respective Eurocurrency Lending Offices) with any request or directive (whether
or not having the force of law) of any such authority, shall make it unlawful or
impossible for any of the Lenders (or any of their respective Eurocurrency
Lending Offices) to honor its obligations hereunder to make or maintain any
Advance with interest at the Eurocurrency-based Rate, or in an Alternative
Currency, such Lender shall forthwith give notice thereof to Company and to
Agent. Thereafter, (a) the obligations of Lenders to make Eurocurrency-based
Advances or Advances in any such Alternative Currency and the right of Company
or any Permitted Borrower to convert an Advance into or refund an Advance as a
Eurocurrency-based Advance or as an Advance in any such Alternative Currency
shall be suspended and thereafter Company and the Permitted Borrowers may select
as Applicable Interest Rates or as Alternative Currencies only those which
remain available and which are permitted to be selected hereunder, and (b) if
any of the Lenders may not lawfully continue to maintain an Advance to the end
of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto as a Eurocurrency-based
Advance or in such Alternative Currency, the applicable Advance shall
immediately be converted to a Prime-based Advance (in the Dollar Amount thereof)
and the Prime-based Rate shall be applicable thereto for the remainder of such
Interest Period. For purposes of this Section, a change in law, rule,
regulation, interpretation or administration shall include, without limitation,
any change made or which becomes effective on the basis of a law, rule,
regulation, interpretation or administration presently in force, the effective
date of which change is delayed by the terms of such law, rule, regulation,
interpretation or administration.
11.7 Increased Cost of Eurocurrency-based Advances. If the adoption
after the date of this Agreement of, or any change after the date of this
Agreement in, any applicable law, rule or regulation of or in the interpretation
or administration thereof by any governmental authority, central bank or
comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or
compliance by Agent or any of the Lenders (or any of their respective
Eurocurrency Lending Offices) with any request or directive (whether or not
having the force of law) made by any such authority, central bank or comparable
agency after the date hereof:
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(a) shall subject any of the Lenders (or any of their
respective Eurocurrency Lending Offices) to any tax, duty or other
charge with respect to any Advance or shall change the basis of
taxation of payments to any of the Lenders (or any of their respective
Eurocurrency Lending Offices) of the principal of or interest on any
Advance or any other amounts due under this Agreement in respect
thereof (except for changes in the rate of tax on the overall net
income of any of the Lenders or any of their respective Eurocurrency
Lending Offices imposed by the jurisdiction in which such Lender's
principal executive office or Eurocurrency Lending Office is located);
or
(b) shall impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve
(including, without limitation, any imposed by the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System), special deposit or similar requirement
against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit
extended by, any of the Lenders (or any of their respective
Eurocurrency Lending Offices) or shall impose on any of the Lenders (or
any of their respective Eurocurrency Lending Offices) or the foreign
exchange and interbank markets any other condition affecting any
Advance;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the costs to any of the
Lenders of maintaining any part of the Indebtedness hereunder as a
Eurocurrency-based Advance or as an Advance in any Alternative Currency or to
reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by any of the Lenders under
this Agreement in respect of a Eurocurrency-based Advance or any Advance in an
Alternative Currency, whether with respect to Advances to Company or to any of
the Permitted Borrowers, then such Lender shall promptly notify Agent (or, in
the case of a Swing Line Advance, shall notify Company and the applicable
Permitted Borrower directly, with a copy of such notice to Agent), and Agent (or
such Lender, as aforesaid) shall promptly notify Company and Permitted Borrowers
of such fact and demand compensation therefor and, within fifteen (15) days
after such notice, Company agrees to pay to such Lender such additional amount
or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Lenders for such increased cost or
reduction. Agent will promptly notify Company and the Permitted Borrowers of any
event of which it has knowledge which will entitle Lenders to compensation
pursuant to this Section, or which will cause Company or Permitted Borrowers to
incur additional liability under Sections 11.1 and 11.8 hereof, provided that
Agent shall incur no liability whatsoever to the Lenders, Company or Permitted
Borrowers in the event it fails to do so. A certificate of Agent (or such
Lender, if applicable) setting forth the basis for determining such additional
amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Lenders shall be
conclusively presumed to be correct save for manifest error. For purposes of
this Section, a change in law, rule, regulation, interpretation, administration,
request or directive shall include, without limitation, any change made or which
becomes effective on the basis of a law, rule, regulation, interpretation,
administration, request or directive presently in force, the effective date of
which change is
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delayed by the terms of such law, rule, regulation, interpretation,
administration, request or directive.
11.8 Indemnity. The Company will indemnify Agent and each of the
Lenders against any loss or expense (but excluding loss of any Applicable
Margin) which may arise or be attributable to the Agent's and each Lender's
obtaining, liquidating or employing deposits or other funds acquired to effect,
fund or maintain the Advances (a) as a consequence of any failure by the Company
or any of the Permitted Borrowers to make any payment when due of any amount due
hereunder in connection with a Eurocurrency-based Advance, (b) due to any
failure of the Company or any Permitted Borrower to borrow, refund or convert on
a date specified therefor in a Request for Advance or (c) due to any payment,
prepayment or conversion of any Eurocurrency-based Advance on a date other than
the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance. Such loss or expense shall
be calculated based upon the present value, as applicable, of payments due from
the Company or such Permitted Borrower with respect to a deposit obtained by the
Agent or any of the Lenders in order to fund such Advance to the Company or to
such Permitted Borrower. The Agent's and each Lender's, as applicable,
calculations of any such loss or expense shall be furnished to the Company and
shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
11.9 Judgment Currency. The obligation of the Company and Permitted
Borrowers to make payments of the principal of and interest on the outstanding
Advances and any other amounts payable hereunder in the currency specified for
such payment herein shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any
recovery pursuant to any judgment, which is expressed in or converted into any
other currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result
in the actual receipt by each of the Lenders of the full amount of the
particular Permitted Currency expressed to be payable herein. The Agent (or the
Swing Line Bank, as applicable) shall, using all amounts obtained or received
from the Company and from Permitted Borrowers pursuant to any such tender or
recovery in payment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Advances,
promptly purchase the applicable Permitted Currency at the most favorable spot
exchange rate determined by the Agent to be available to it. The obligation of
the Company and the Permitted Borrowers to make payments in the applicable
Permitted Currency shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of
action solely for the purpose of recovering in the applicable Permitted Currency
the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full
amount of the Permitted Currency expressed to be payable herein.
11.10 Capital Adequacy and Other Increased Costs . In the event that
after the Effective Date the adoption of or any change in any applicable law,
treaty, rule or regulation (whether domestic or foreign) now or hereafter in
effect and whether or not presently applicable to any Lender or Agent, or any
interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority charged
with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender
or Agent
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with any guideline, request or directive of any such authority (whether or not
having the force of law), including any risk based capital guidelines, affects
or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by
such Lender or Agent (or any corporation controlling such Lender or Agent) and
such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, determines that the amount of such
capital is increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender's or Agent's
obligations or Advances hereunder and such increase has the effect of reducing
the rate of return on such Lender's or Agent's (or such controlling
corporation's) capital as a consequence of such obligations or Advances
hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or Agent (or such controlling
corporation) could have achieved but for such circumstances (taking into
consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed
by such Lender or Agent to be material (collectively, "Increased Costs"), then
Agent or such Lender shall notify the Company, and thereafter the Company shall
pay to such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, from time to time, upon request
by such Lender or Agent, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender
or Agent (or such controlling corporation) for any increase in the amount of
capital and reduced rate of return which such Lender or Agent reasonably
determines to be allocable to the existence of such Lender's or Agent's
obligations or Advances hereunder; provided, however that the Company shall not
be obligated to reimburse any Lender for any Increased Costs pursuant to this
Section 11.10 unless such Lender notifies Company and the Agent within 180 days
after such affected Lender has obtained actual knowledge of such Increased Costs
(but in any event within 365 days after such affected Lender is required to
comply with the applicable change in law). A statement as to the amount of such
compensation, prepared in good faith and in reasonable detail by such Lender or
Agent, as the case may be, shall be submitted by such Lender or by Agent to the
Company, reasonably promptly after becoming aware of any event described in this
Section 11.10 and shall be conclusive, absent manifest error in computation.
11.11 Substitution of Lenders . If (a) the obligation of any Lender to
make Eurocurrency-based Advances has been suspended pursuant to Section 11.5 or
11.6 or (b) any Lender has demanded compensation under Section 11.1 or 11.7, (in
each case, an "Affected Lender"), then Company shall have the right (subject to
Section 13.8 hereof), with the assistance of the Agent, to seek a substitute
lender or lenders (which may be one or more of the Lenders (the "Purchasing
Lender" or "Purchasing Lenders") to purchase the Advances of the Revolving
Credit and assume the commitments (including without limitation its
participations in Swing Line Advances and Letters of Credit) under this
Agreement of such Affected Lender. The Affected Lender shall be obligated to
sell its Advances of the Revolving Credit and assign its commitments to such
Purchasing Lender or Purchasing Lenders within fifteen days after receiving
notice from Company requiring it to do so, at an aggregate price equal to the
outstanding principal amount thereof, plus unpaid interest accrued thereon up to
but excluding the date of the sale. In connection with any such sale, and as a
condition thereof, Company shall pay to the Affected Lender all fees accrued for
its account hereunder to but excluding the date of
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such sale, plus, if demanded by the Affected Lender within ten Business Days
after such sale, (i) the amount of any compensation which would be due to the
Affected Lender under Section 11.1 if Company (or the applicable Permitted
Borrower) has prepaid the outstanding Eurocurrency-based Advances of the
Affected Lender on the date of such sale and (ii) any additional compensation
accrued for its account under Sections 3.4, 11.7 and 11.10 to but excluding said
date. Upon such sale, the Purchasing Lender or Purchasing Lenders shall assume
the Affected Lender's commitment, and the Affected Lender shall be released from
its obligations hereunder to a corresponding extent. If any Purchasing Lender is
not already one of the Lenders, the Affected Lender, as assignor, such
Purchasing Lender, as assignee, Company and the Agent, with the required consent
of the Swing Line Bank shall enter into an Assignment Agreement pursuant to
Section 13.8 hereof, whereupon such Purchasing Lender shall be a Lender party to
this Agreement, shall be deemed to be an assignee hereunder and shall have all
the rights and obligations of a Lender with a Percentage equal to its ratable
share of the then applicable Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment. In
connection with any assignment pursuant to this Section 11.11, Company or the
Purchasing Lender shall pay to the Agent the administrative fee for processing
such assignment referred to in Section 13.8.
12. AGENTS
13.1 Appointment of Agent. Each Lender appoints and authorizes the
Agent to act on behalf of such Lender under the Loan Documents and appoints and
authorizes the Agents to exercise such powers hereunder and thereunder as are
specifically delegated to or required of the Agents, as the case may be, by the
terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as may be reasonably
incidental thereto. Each Lender agrees (which agreement shall survive any
termination of this Agreement) to reimburse Agent for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses (including in-house and outside attorneys' fees) incurred
by Agent hereunder or in connection herewith or with an Event of Default or in
enforcing the obligations of Company or any of the Permitted Borrowers under
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any other instrument executed
pursuant hereto (to the extent of Agent's powers hereunder or thereunder, as
aforesaid), and for which Agent is not reimbursed by Company or such Permitted
Borrower, pro rata according to such Lender's Percentage, but excluding any such
expenses resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such
Agent, as applicable. Agent shall not be required to take any action under the
Loan Documents, or to prosecute or defend any suit in respect of the Loan
Documents, unless indemnified to their respective satisfaction by the Lenders
against loss, costs, liability and expense (excluding liability resulting from
its gross negligence or willful misconduct). If any indemnity furnished to Agent
shall become impaired, it may call for additional indemnity and cease to do the
acts indemnified against until such additional indemnity is given.
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13.2 Deposit Account with Agent. Each of Company and the Permitted
Borrowers hereby authorizes Agent to charge its general deposit account, if any,
maintained with Agent for the amount of any principal, interest, or other
amounts or costs due under this Agreement when the same becomes due and payable
under the terms of this Agreement.
13.3 Exculpatory Provisions. The Agent agrees to exercise its rights
and powers, and to perform its duties, as an agent hereunder and under the other
Loan Documents in accordance with its usual customs and practices in bank-agency
transactions, but only upon and subject to the express terms and conditions of
this Section 12 (and no implied covenants or other obligations shall be read
into this Agreement against the Agent); neither the Agent nor any of its
directors, officers, employees or agents shall be liable to any Lender for any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under this Agreement or any
document executed pursuant hereto, or in connection herewith or therewith,
except for its or their own willful misconduct or gross negligence, nor be
responsible for any recitals or warranties herein or therein, or for the
effectiveness, enforceability, validity or due execution of this Agreement or
any document executed pursuant hereto, or any security thereunder, or to make
any inquiry respecting the performance by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or
any of the Permitted Borrowers of its obligations hereunder or thereunder. Agent
shall not have, or be deemed to have, a fiduciary relationship with any Lender
by reason of this Agreement. Agent shall be entitled to rely upon advice of
counsel concerning legal matters and upon any notice, consent, certificate,
statement or writing which it believes to be genuine and to have been presented
by a proper person.
13.4 Successor Agent. The Agent may resign as such at any time upon at
least 30 days prior notice to Company and all Lenders. If Agent at any time
shall resign or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Agent for any
other reason, Required Lenders shall, by written instrument, appoint a successor
Agent (consisting of any other Lender or financial institution satisfactory to
such Required Lenders) which shall thereupon become Agent hereunder and shall be
entitled to receive from the prior agent such documents of transfer and
assignment as such successor agent may reasonably request. Such successor Agent
shall succeed to all of the rights and obligations of the retiring agent as if
originally named. The retiring agent shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Agent all moneys at the time held by the retiring agent hereunder
after deducting therefrom its expenses for which it is entitled to be
reimbursed. Upon such succession of any such successor agent, the retiring agent
shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder, except for its
gross negligence or willful misconduct arising prior to its retirement
hereunder, and the provisions of this Section 12 shall continue in effect for
its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while
it was acting as an agent hereunder.
13.5 Loans by Agents. Each of the Agents shall have the same rights and
powers with respect to the credit extended by it as any Lender and may exercise
the same as if it were not an
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agent hereunder, and the term "Lender" and, when appropriate, "holder" shall
include the Agents in their respective individual capacities.
13.6 Credit Decisions. Each Lender acknowledges that it has,
independently of Agents and each other Lender and based on the financial
statements of Company, the Permitted Borrowers and the Subsidiaries and such
other documents, information and investigations as it has deemed appropriate,
made its own credit decision to extend credit hereunder from time to time. Each
Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently of Agents and each other
Lender and based on such other documents, information and investigations as it
shall deem appropriate at any time, continue to make its own credit decisions as
to exercising or not exercising from time to time any rights and privileges
available to it under this Agreement or any document executed pursuant hereto.
13.7 Notices by Agent. Agent shall give prompt notice to each Lender of
its receipt of each notice or request required or permitted to be given to Agent
by Company or a Permitted Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and
shall promptly distribute to the Lenders any reports received from the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or any of the Permitted Borrowers under the terms
hereof, or other material information or documents received by Agent, in its
capacity Agent, from the Company, its Subsidiaries or the Permitted Borrowers.
13.8 Agent's Fees. Until the Indebtedness has been repaid and
discharged in full and no commitment to fund any loan hereunder is outstanding,
the Company shall pay to the Agent, as applicable, an agency fee(s) set forth
(or to be set forth from time to time) in the Fee Letter on the terms set forth
therein. The Agent's Fees described in this Section 12.8 shall not be refundable
under any circumstances.
13.9 Nature of Agency. The appointment of Agents as Agent and
Syndication Agent, respectively, is for the convenience of Lenders, Company and
the Permitted Borrowers in making Advances of the Revolving Credit or any other
Indebtedness of Company or the Permitted Borrowers hereunder, collecting fees,
and principal and interest on the Indebtedness, and otherwise administering this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents according to the express terms hereof and
thereof. No Lender is purchasing any Indebtedness from Agents (or either of
them) and this Agreement is not intended to be a purchase or participation
agreement (except to the extent of risk participations acquired pursuant to
Section 3.6(c) hereof).
13.10 Authority of Agent to Enforce This Agreement . Each Lender,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including, without
limitation, any required approval or direction of the Required Lenders or the
Lenders, as applicable, to be obtained by or given to the Agent hereunder),
authorizes the Agent with full power and authority as attorney-in-fact to
institute and maintain actions, suits or proceedings for the collection of the
Indebtedness and
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enforcement of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to file such
proofs of debt or other documents as may be necessary to have the claims of the
Lenders allowed in any proceeding relative to the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries, any of the Permitted Borrowers or its creditors or affecting its
properties, and to take such other actions which Agent considers to be necessary
or desirable for the protection, collection and enforcement of the Indebtedness,
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, but in each case only to the extent
of any required approval or direction of the Required Lenders or the Lenders, as
applicable, obtained by or given to the Agent hereunder.
13.11 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify each of the
Agents in their respective capacities as such, to the extent not reimbursed by
the Company or the Permitted Borrowers, pro rata according to their respective
Percentages, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, and reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which
may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Agents in any way
relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents
or any action taken or omitted to be taken or suffered in good faith by the
Agents, or either of them, as the case may be, hereunder, provided that no
Lender shall be liable to Agent or Syndication Agent, as the case may be, for
any portion of any of the foregoing items resulting from the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of such agent, or any of its officers, employees, directors
or agents.
13.12 Knowledge of Default. It is expressly understood and agreed that
Agent (whether in the capacity Swing Line Bank or otherwise) shall be entitled
to assume that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
unless the officers of such agent immediately responsible for matters concerning
this Agreement shall have actual (rather than constructive) knowledge of such
occurrence or shall have been notified in writing by Company or a Lender that
the Company or such Lender considers that a Default or an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, and specifying the nature thereof. Upon obtaining
actual knowledge of any Default or Event of Default as described above, the
Agent shall promptly, but in any event within three (3) Business Days after
obtaining actual knowledge thereof, notify each Lender of such Default or Event
of Default and the action, if any, the Agent proposes be taken with respect
thereto.
13.13 Agent's Authorization; Action by Lenders. Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, whenever the Agent is authorized and empowered
hereunder on behalf of the Lenders to give any approval or consent, or to make
any request, or to take any other action, on behalf of the Lenders (including
without limitation the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder or under the
other Loan Documents), the Agent shall be required to give such approval or
consent, or to make such request or to take such other action only when so
requested in writing by the Required Lenders or the Lenders, as applicable
hereunder. Action that may be taken by
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Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be (as provided for
hereunder), may be taken (i) pursuant to a vote at a meeting (which may be held
by telephone conference call) as to which all of the Lenders have been given
reasonable advance notice (subject to the requirement that amendments, waivers
or consents under Section 13.11 hereof be made in writing by the Required
Lenders or all the Lenders, as applicable), or (ii) pursuant to the written
consent of the requisite Percentages of the Lenders as required hereunder,
provided that all of the Lenders are given reasonable advance notice of the
requests for such consent.
13.14 Enforcement Actions by the Agent. Except as otherwise expressly
provided under this Agreement or in any of the other Loan Documents and subject
to the terms hereof, Agent will take such action, assert such rights and pursue
such remedies under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as the Required
Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be (as provided for hereunder),
shall direct. Except as otherwise expressly provided in any of the Loan
Documents, Agent will not (and will not be obligated to) take any action, assert
any rights or pursue any remedies under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents in violation or contravention of any express direction or instruction
of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be (as provided
for hereunder). Agent may refuse (and will not be obligated) to take any action,
assert any rights or pursue any remedies under this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents in the absence of the express written direction and
instruction of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be
(as provided for hereunder). In the event Agent fails, within a commercially
reasonable time, to take such action, assert such rights, or pursue such
remedies as the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be (as
provided for hereunder), shall direct in conformity with this Agreement, the
Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as the case may be (as provided for
hereunder), shall have the right to take such action, to assert such rights, or
pursue such remedies on behalf of all of the Lenders unless the terms hereof
otherwise require the consent of all the Lenders to the taking of such actions
(in which event all of the Lenders must join in such action). Except as
expressly provided above or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents, no Lender (other than the Agent, acting in its capacity as Agent)
shall be entitled to take any enforcement action of any kind under any of the
Loan Documents.
13.15 Collateral Matters.
(a) The Agent is authorized on behalf of all the Lenders,
without the necessity of any notice to or further consent from the Lenders, from
time to time to take any action with respect to any Collateral or the Collateral
Documents which may be necessary to perfect and maintain a perfected security
interest in and Liens upon the Collateral granted pursuant to the Loan
Documents.
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(b) The Lenders agree to release, and hereby irrevocably
authorize the Agent to release, (x) any Lien granted to or held by the Agent
upon any Collateral (i) upon termination of the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment and payment in full of all Indebtedness payable under this Agreement
and under any other Loan Document; or (ii) constituting property sold or to be
sold or disposed of as part of or in connection with any express disposition
permitted hereunder; (y) the Guaranty of any Subsidiary, but only in connection
with the sale of all of the share capital of such Subsidiary and only to the
extent that such sale is expressly permitted hereunder, and (z) any Lien granted
to or held by the Agent upon any Collateral or any Guaranty issued hereunder,
but only if and to the extent approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the
Required Lenders, or all the Lenders, as the case may be, as provided in Section
13.11. Upon request by the Agent at any time, the Lenders will confirm in
writing the Agent's authority to release particular types or items of Collateral
pursuant to this Section 12.15(b).
13.16 Managers and Lead Managers. Credit Lyonnais New York Branch has
been designated by the Company as "Documentation Agent," Banc of America
Securities LLC has been designated by the Company as "Syndication Agent" and
Barclay's Capital, CoreStates Bank N.A. and Fleet National Bank have been
designated by the Company as "Managing Agents" under this Agreement. Other than
its rights and remedies as a Lender hereunder, such Documentation Agent,
Syndication Agent and each such Managing Agent shall have no administrative,
collateral or other rights or responsibilities, provided, however, that each
such Documentation Agent, Syndication Agent and each Managing Agent shall be
entitled to the benefits afforded to the Agents under Sections 12.5, 12.6 and
12.11 hereof.
13. MISCELLANEOUS
14.1 Accounting Principles. Where the character or amount of any asset
or liability or item of income or expense is required to be determined or any
consolidation or other accounting computation is required to be made for the
purposes of this Agreement, it shall be done in accordance with GAAP.
14.2 Consent to Jurisdiction. Each of the Company and the Permitted
Borrowers hereby irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any
United States Federal or Michigan state court sitting in Detroit in any action
or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents and each of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers hereby
irrevocably agrees that all claims in respect of such action or proceeding may
be heard and determined in any such United States Federal or Michigan state
court. Each of the Permitted Borrowers irrevocably appoints the Company as its
agent for service of process. Each of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers
irrevocably consents to the service of any and all process in any such action or
proceeding brought in any court in or of the State of Michigan by the delivery
of copies of such process to the Company at its address specified on the
signature
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page hereto or by certified mail directed to such address. Nothing in this
Section shall affect the right of the Lenders and the Agent to serve process in
any other manner permitted by law or limit the right of the Lenders or the Agent
(or any of them) to bring any such action or proceeding against the Company or
the Permitted Borrowers or any of its or their property in the courts of any
other jurisdiction. Each of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers hereby
irrevocably waives any objection to the laying of venue of any such suit or
proceeding in the above described courts.
14.3 Law of Michigan. This Agreement has been delivered at Detroit,
Michigan, and shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with
the laws of the State of Michigan, except as and to the extent expressed to the
contrary in any of the Loan Documents. Whenever possible each provision of this
Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under
applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement shall be prohibited by or
invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent
of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such
provision or the remaining provisions of this Agreement.
14.4 Interest. In the event the obligation of the Company or any of the
Permitted Borrowers to pay interest on the principal balance of the outstanding
Advances is or becomes in excess of the maximum interest rate which the Company
or any Permitted Borrower is permitted by law to contract or agree to pay,
giving due consideration to the execution date of this Agreement, then, in that
event, the rate of interest applicable with respect to any Lender's Percentage
of the Revolving Credit, as applicable, shall be deemed to be immediately
reduced to such maximum rate and all previous payments in excess of the maximum
rate shall be deemed to have been payments in reduction of principal and not of
interest.
14.5 Closing Costs; Other Costs. Company shall pay or reimburse Agents
for their own accounts or on behalf of the Lenders for payment of, on demand (a)
all closing costs and expenses, including, by way of description and not
limitation, in-house and outside attorney fees and advances, appraisal and
accounting fees, title and lien search fees, and required travel costs, incurred
by Agents (and either of them) in connection with the commitment, consummation
and closing of the loans contemplated hereby, or in connection with any
refinancing or restructuring of the loans or advances provided under this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or any amendment thereof or waiver or
consent with respect thereto requested by Company; and (b) all stamp and other
taxes and fees payable or determined to be payable (by either of the Agents or
any Lender) in connection with the execution, delivery, filing or recording of
this Agreement and the Loan Documents and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting
from any delay in paying or omitting to pay such taxes or fees. Furthermore, all
reasonable costs and expenses, including without limitation attorney fees, and
costs and expenses to Environmental Auditors retained by Agent hereunder,
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incurred by Agents (and either of them) in revising, preserving, protecting,
exercising or enforcing any of its or any of the Lenders' rights against Company
or any of the Permitted Borrowers, or otherwise incurred by Agents and by the
Lenders (using a single law firm retained by Agent, with the approval of the
Required Lenders) in connection with any Event of Default or the enforcement of
the loans (whether incurred through negotiations, legal proceedings or
otherwise), including by way of description and not limitation, such charges in
any court or bankruptcy proceedings or arising out of any claim or action by any
person against Agents (and either of them) or any Lender which would not have
been asserted were it not for the Agents' or such Lender's relationship with
Company and the Permitted Borrowers hereunder or otherwise, shall also be paid
by Company and the Permitted Borrowers. All of said amounts required to be paid
by Company hereunder and not paid forthwith upon demand, as aforesaid, shall
bear interest, from the date incurred to the date payment is received by Agents,
as applicable, at the Prime-based Rate, plus three percent (3%).
14.6 Notices. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this
Agreement, all notices and other communications provided to any party hereto
under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be in writing and shall be
given by personal delivery, by mail, by reputable overnight courier, by telex or
by facsimile and addressed or delivered to it at its address set forth on the
Administrative Detail forms on file with the Agent or at such other address as
may be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties that complies
as to delivery with the terms of this Section 13.6. Any notice, if personally
delivered or if mailed and properly addressed with postage prepaid and sent by
registered or certified mail, shall be deemed given when received or when
delivery is refused; any notice, if given to a reputable overnight courier and
properly addressed, shall be deemed given two (2) Business Days after the date
on which it was sent, unless it is actually received sooner by the named
addressee; and any notice, if transmitted by telex or facsimile, shall be deemed
given when received (answer back confirmed in the case of telexes and receipt
confirmed in the case of telecopies). Agents may, but, except as specifically
provided herein, shall not be required to, take any action on the basis of any
notice given to it by telephone, but the giver of any such notice shall promptly
confirm such notice in writing or by telex or facsimile, and such notice will
not be deemed to have been received until such confirmation is deemed received
in accordance with the provisions of this Section set forth above. If such
telephonic notice conflicts with any such confirmation, the terms of such
telephonic notice shall control.
14.7 Further Action. Company and the Permitted Borrowers, from time to
time, upon written request of Agents will make, execute, acknowledge and deliver
or cause to be made, executed, acknowledged and delivered, all such further and
additional instruments, and take all such further action, as may be required to
carry out the intent and purpose of this Agreement, and to provide for Advances
under this Agreement, according to the intent and purpose herein and therein
expressed.
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14.8 Successors and Assigns; Assignments and Participations.
(a) This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to
the benefit of Company and the Permitted Borrowers and the Lenders and their
respective successors and assigns.
(b) The foregoing shall not authorize any assignment by
Company or any of the Permitted Borrowers, of its rights or duties hereunder,
and no such assignment shall be made (or effective) without the prior written
approval of the Lenders.
(c) The Company, Permitted Borrowers and Agents acknowledge
that each of the Lenders may at any time and from time to time, subject to the
terms and conditions hereof (including Section 13.14 hereof), (i) assign or
grant participations in such Lender's rights and obligations hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents to any commercial bank, savings and loan association,
insurance company, pension fund, mutual fund, commercial finance company or
other similar financial institution, the identity of which institution is
approved by Company and the Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld
or delayed; provided, however, that (x) the approval of Company shall not be
required upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of
Default and (y) the approval of Company and Agent shall not be required for any
such sale, transfer, assignment or participation to the Affiliate of an
assigning Lender, any other Lender or any Federal Reserve Bank and (ii) grant to
an SPFV the option to fund all or any part of any Advance that the Granting
Lender would otherwise be obligated to fund pursuant to this Agreement;
provided, however, that (A) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any
SPFV to fund any Advance, but if an SPFV elects not to fund all or any part of
an Advance hereunder, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to fund such
Advance pursuant to the terms hereof; (B) the funding of any Advance by an SPFV
hereunder shall be credited against the applicable commitment of the Granting
Lender to fund such Advance to the same extent as, and as if, such Advance were
funded by such Granting Lender; and (C) Company and Agent agree that no SPFV
shall be liable for any indemnity or payment under this Agreement for which a
Granting Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent, the
Granting Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment. The Company and
each of Permitted Borrowers authorize each Lender to disclose to any prospective
assignee or participant, once approved by Company and Agent and to any assignee
under an assignment not required to be approved by the Company pursuant to
clauses (x) and (y) of the first proviso of this Section 13.8(c) and to an SPFV
(and on a confidential basis to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or
provider of any surety or guaranty to such SPFV), any and all financial
information in such Lender's possession concerning the Company and such
Permitted Borrower which has been delivered to such Lender pursuant to this
Agreement; provided that each such prospective participant shall execute a
confidentiality agreement consistent with the
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terms of Section 13.13 hereof. Clause (ii), the definition of "Granting Lender,"
and the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 13.8(c) may not be
amended without the prior written consent of each Granting Lender, all or any
part of whose Advances are being funded by an SPFV at the time of any such
amendment.
(d) Each assignment by a Lender of any portion of its rights
and/or obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, other than
assignments to such Lender's Affiliates or to a Federal Reserve Bank under
Section 13.8(c)(ii) hereof, shall be made pursuant to an Assignment Agreement
("Assignment Agreement") substantially (as determined by Agent), in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit E (with appropriate insertions acceptable to Agent)
and shall be subject to the terms and conditions hereof, and to the following
restrictions:
(i) each partial
assignment shall be made as an assignment of
a part of all of the assigning Lender's
rights and obligations hereunder;
(ii) each assignment shall
be in a minimum amount of the lesser of (x)
Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) and (y)
the entire remaining amount of assigning
Lender's interest in the Revolving Credit
(and participations in any outstanding
Letters of Credit); provided however that,
after giving effect to such assignment, in
no event shall the entire remaining amount
(if any) of assigning Lender's interest in
the Revolving Credit (and participations in
any outstanding Letters of Credit) be less
than $10,000,000;
(iii) no assignment shall
be effective unless Agent has received from
the assignee (or from the assigning Lender)
an assignment fee of $3,500 for each such
assignment.
In connection with any assignment subject to this Section 13.8(d), Company, each
of the Permitted Borrowers and Agents shall be entitled to continue to deal
solely and directly with the assigning Lender in connection with the interest so
assigned until the Agent shall have received a notice of assignment duly
executed by the assigning Lender and an Assignment Agreement (with respect
thereto) duly executed by the assigning Lender and each assignee; and (y) the
assigning Lender shall have delivered to the Agent the original of each Note, if
any, issued to such Lender, held by the assigning Lender under this Agreement.
From and after the date on which the Agents shall notify Company and the Lender
which has accepted an assignment subject to this Section 13.8(d) that the
foregoing conditions shall have been satisfied and all consents (if any)
required shall have been given, the assignee thereunder shall be deemed to be a
party to this
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Agreement. To the extent that rights and obligations hereunder shall have been
assigned to such assignee as provided in such notice of assignment (and
Assignment Agreement), such assignee shall have the rights and obligations of a
Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including without
limitation the right to receive fees payable hereunder in respect of the period
following such assignment). In addition, the assigning Lender, to the extent
that rights and obligations hereunder shall have been assigned by it as provided
in such notice of assignment (and Assignment Agreement), but not otherwise,
shall relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Schedule 1.1 to this Agreement shall be
deemed to be amended to reflect the applicable new Percentages of the Lenders
(including the assignee Lender), taking into account such assignment.
(e) Each Lender agrees that any participation agreement
permitted hereunder shall comply with all applicable laws and shall be subject
to the following restrictions (which shall be set forth in the applicable
participation agreement):
(i) such Lender shall remain the holder of
its interest in the Indebtedness hereunder,
notwithstanding any such participation;
(ii) except as expressly set forth in this
Section 13.8(e) with respect to rights of
setoff and the benefits of Section 11
hereof, a participant shall have no direct
rights or remedies hereunder;
(iii) such Lender shall retain the sole
right and responsibility to enforce the
obligations of the Company and Permitted
Borrowers relating to this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents, including, without
limitation, the right to proceed against any
Guarantors, or cause Agent to do so (subject
to the terms and conditions hereof), and the
right to approve any amendment, modification
or waiver of any provision of this Agreement
without the consent of the participant,
except in the case of participations granted
to an Affiliate of such Lender and except
for those matters covered by Section
13.11(a) through (e) and (h) hereof
(provided that a participant may exercise
approval rights over such matters only on an
indirect basis, acting through such Lender,
and Company, Permitted Borrowers, Agent and
the other Lenders may continue to deal
directly with such Lender in connection with
such Lender's rights and duties hereunder).
Company and each of the Permitted Borrowers each agrees that each participant
shall be deemed to have the right of setoff under Section 10.4 hereof in respect
of its participation interest in
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amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to the same
extent as if the Indebtedness were owing directly to it as a Lender under this
Agreement, shall be subject to the pro rata recovery provisions of Section 10.3
hereof and shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 11 hereof. The amount,
terms and conditions of any participation shall be as set forth in the
participation agreement between the issuing Lender and the Person purchasing
such participation, and the Company, the Permitted Borrowers, the Agents and the
other Lenders shall not have any responsibility or obligation with respect
thereto, or to any Person to whom any such participation may be issued. No such
participation shall relieve any issuing Lender of any of its obligations under
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and all actions hereunder
shall be conducted as if no such participation had been granted.
(f) The Agent shall maintain at its principal office a copy of
each Assignment Agreement delivered to it and a register (the "Register") for
the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, the Percentages of
such Lenders and the principal amount of each type of Advance owing to each such
Lender from time to time. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive
evidence, absent manifest error, and the Company, the Permitted Borrowers, the
Agent, and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the
Register as the owner of the Advances recorded therein for all purposes of this
Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Company, the
Permitted Borrowers or any Lender upon reasonable notice to the Agent and a copy
of such information shall be provided to any such party on their prior written
request. The Agent shall give prompt written notice to the Company of the making
of any entry in the Register or any change in such entry.
(g) Nothing in this Agreement, or the other Loan Documents,
expressed or implied, is intended to or shall confer on any Person other than
the respective parties hereto and thereto and their successors and assignees and
participants permitted hereunder and thereunder any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or other claim under this Agreement, or the other Loan
Documents.
14.9 Indulgence. No delay or failure of Agents and the Lenders in
exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall affect such right,
power or privilege nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any
other or further exercise thereof, or the exercise of any other right, power or
privilege. The rights of Agents and the Lenders hereunder are cumulative and are
not exclusive of any rights or remedies which Agents and the Lenders would
otherwise have.
14.10 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in several
counterparts, and each executed copy shall constitute an original instrument,
but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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14.11 Amendment and Waiver. No amendment or waiver of any provision of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or consent to any departure by the
Company or the Permitted Borrowers therefrom, shall in any event be effective
unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Lenders (or
signed by the Agent at the direction of the Required Lenders), and then such
waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no amendment, waiver
or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Lenders, do any of the
following: (a) increase any Lender's commitments hereunder, (b) reduce the
principal of, or interest on, the Advances or any Fees or other amounts payable
hereunder, (c) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or
interest on, the outstanding Advances or any Fees or other amounts payable
hereunder, (d) waive any Event of Default specified in Section 9.1(a) or (b)
hereof, (e) release or defer the granting or perfecting of a lien or security
interest in any collateral or release any guaranty or similar undertaking
provided by any Person or modify any indemnity provided to the Lenders,
hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, except as shall be otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (f) take any
action which requires the signing of all Lenders pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, (g) change the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the outstanding Advances which shall be required for the Lenders or
any of them to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document,
(h) change this Section 13.11, or (i) change the definition of "Required
Lenders", "Interest Periods", "Alternative Currencies", "Permitted Borrower" or
"Percentage", and provided further, however, that no amendment, waiver or
consent hereunder shall, unless in writing and signed by the Agents in addition
to all the Lenders, affect the rights or duties of the Agent under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, whether in its capacity as Agent, issuing
bank or Swing Line Bank. All references in this Agreement to "Lenders" or "the
Lenders" shall refer to all Lenders, unless expressly stated to refer to
Required Lenders.
14.12 Taxes and Fees. Should any tax (other than a tax based upon the
net income of any Lender or Agents (or either of them) by any jurisdiction where
a Lender or Agent is located), recording or filing fee become payable in respect
of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or any amendment,
modification or supplement hereof or thereof, the Company and each of the
Permitted Borrowers, jointly and severally, agrees to pay the same together with
any interest or penalties thereon and agrees to hold the Agent and the Lenders
harmless with respect thereto.
14.13 Confidentiality. Each Lender agrees that without the prior
consent of Company, it will not disclose (other than to its employees or to
employees of any of its Affiliates, to another Lender or to any of their
respective auditors or counsel) any information with respect to the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or any of the Permitted Borrowers which is furnished
pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents or which is designated (in writing) by Company or any of the Permitted
Borrowers to be
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confidential; provided that any Lender may disclose any such information (a) as
has become generally available to the public or has been lawfully obtained by
such Lender from any third party under no duty of confidentiality to the Company
or such Permitted Borrower known to such Lender after reasonable inquiry, (b) as
may be required or appropriate in any report, statement or testimony submitted
to, or in respect of any inquiry by, any municipal, state or federal regulatory
body having or claiming to have jurisdiction over such Lender, including the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States or the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or similar organizations (whether in the
United States or elsewhere) or their successors, (c) as may be required or
appropriate in respect of any summons or subpoena or in connection with any
litigation, (d) in order to comply with any law, order, regulation or ruling
applicable to such Lender, and (e) to any permitted transferee or assignee or to
any approved participant of, or with respect to, an interest in this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, as aforesaid.
14.14 Withholding Taxes. If any Lender is not incorporated under the
laws of the United States or a state thereof, such Lender shall promptly (but in
any event prior to the initial payment of interest hereunder) deliver to the
Agent two executed copies of (i) Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 specifying
the applicable tax treaty between the United States and the jurisdiction of such
Lender's domicile which provides for the exemption from withholding on interest
payments to such Lender, (ii) Internal Revenue Service Form 4224 evidencing that
the income to be received by such Lender hereunder is effectively connected with
the conduct of a trade or business in the United States or (iii) other evidence
satisfactory to the Agent that such Lender is exempt from United States income
tax withholding with respect to such income; provided, however, that such Lender
shall not be required to deliver to Agent the aforesaid forms or other evidence
with respect to (i) Advances to any Foreign Subsidiary which is or becomes a
Permitted Borrower hereunder or (ii) with respect to Advances to the Company or
any Domestic Subsidiary which subsequently becomes a Permitted Borrower
hereunder, if such Lender has assigned its interest in the Revolving Credit
(including any outstanding Advances thereunder and participations in Letters of
Credit issued hereunder) and any Notes issued to it by the Company, or any
Domestic Subsidiary (if any) which subsequently becomes a Permitted Borrower
hereunder, to an Affiliate which is incorporated under the laws of the United
States or a state thereof, and so notifies the Agent. Such Lender shall amend or
supplement any such form or evidence as required to insure that it is accurate,
complete and non-misleading at all times. Promptly upon notice from the Agent of
any determination by the Internal Revenue Service that any payments previously
made to such Lender hereunder were subject to United States income tax
withholding when made, such Lender shall pay to the Agent the excess of the
aggregate amount required to be withheld from such payments over the aggregate
amount actually withheld by the Agent. In addition, from time to time upon the
reasonable request and at the sole expense of the Company or the Permitted
Borrowers, each Lender and each of the Agents shall (to the extent it is able to
do so based upon applicable facts and circumstances), complete and provide
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the Company or the Permitted Borrowers with such forms, certificates or other
documents as may be reasonably necessary to allow the Company or the Permitted
Borrowers, as applicable, to make any payment under this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents without any withholding for or on the account of any tax under
Section 10.1(d) hereof (or with such withholding at a reduced rate), provided
that the execution and delivery of such forms, certificates or other documents
does not adversely affect or otherwise restrict the right and benefits
(including without limitation economic benefits) available to such of the Lender
or the Agents, as the case may be, under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, or under or in connection with any transactions not related to the
transactions contemplated hereby.
14.15 ERISA Restrictions. To the extent any Advance hereunder is funded
by or on behalf of an insurance company, bank, or other Person deemed to hold
assets of any employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or other plan as defined in
and subject to the prohibited transaction provisions of Section 4975 of the
Internal Revenue Code pursuant to applicable Department of Labor regulations
(the "Plan Asset Regulations"), or any such plan acting on its own behalf, such
insurance company, bank, entity or plan warrants and represents that at least
one of the following statements is an accurate representation as to each source
of funds (a "Source") to be used by such insurance company, bank, entity or plan
to fund the Advance(s) hereunder:
(a) the Source consists of plan assets subject to the
discretionary authority or control of an in-house asset manager ("INHAM") as
such term is defined in Section IV(a) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
96-23 (issued April 10, 1996) ("PTCE 96-23"), and the funding of the Advance(s)
hereunder is exempt under the provisions of PTCE 96-23; or
(b) the Source is an "insurance company general account" as
such term is defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
95-60 (issued July 12, 1995) ("PTCE 95-60"), and the funding of the Advance(s)
hereunder is exempt under the provisions of PTCE 95-60; or
(c) the Source is either (x) an insurance company pooled
separate account, within the meaning of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
90-1 (issued January 29, 1990) ("PTCE 90-1") or (y) a bank collective investment
fund, within the meaning of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 91-38 (issued
July 12, 1991) ("PTCE 91-38") and, except as such insurance company or bank has
disclosed to the Company in writing pursuant to this paragraph (ii), no plan or
group of plans maintained by the same employer or employee organization,
beneficially owns more than 10% of all assets allocated to such pooled separate
account or collective investment fund; and, in either such case, all records
necessary to establish the availability of each exemption by reason thereof will
be maintained and made available as required by the terms of such exemption; or
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(d) the Source is an "investment fund" (within the meaning of
Part V of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 84-14 (issued March 13, 1984)
(the "QPAM Exemption")) managed by a "qualified professional asset manager"
("QPAM") within the meaning of Part V of the QPAM exemption) which has been
identified pursuant to this paragraph (iii), such that the funding of the
Advance(s) by or on behalf of such investment fund is exempt from the
application of the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA and Section 4975 of the
Internal Revenue Code, provided that no party to the transactions described in
this Agreement and no affiliate (within the meaning of Section V(c)(1) of the
QPAM Exemption) of such party has, or at any time during the immediately
preceding year exercised, the authority to appoint or terminate the identified
QPAM as manager of the assets of any employee benefit plan that has an interest
in such investment fund (which plans have been identified pursuant to this
paragraph (iii)) or to negotiate the terms of said QPAM's management agreement
on behalf of any such identified plan; or
(e) the Source is a "governmental plan" as defined in Title 1,
Section 3(32) of ERISA; or
(f) the Source is one or more "employee benefit plans" (or
other plan as defined in and subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue
Code) or a separate account, trust fund, or other entity comprised of one or
more such plans (determined after giving effect to the Plan Asset Regulations)
each of which has been identified to the Company in writing pursuant to this
paragraph (v); or
(g) the Source does not include assets of any employee benefit
plan or other plan, other than a plan exempt from coverage under ERISA and from
the prohibited transactions of Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
14.16 Effective Date. This Agreement shall become effective upon the
Effective Date, and shall remain effective until the Indebtedness has been
repaid and discharged in full and no commitment to extend any credit hereunder
remains outstanding. Those Permitted Borrowers not signatories to this Agreement
on the Effective Date shall become obligated hereunder (and shall be deemed
parties to this Agreement) upon the execution and delivery, according to the
terms and conditions set forth in Section 2.1 hereof, of the Permitted Borrower
Addendum.
14.17 Severability. In case any one or more of the obligations of the
Company or any of the Permitted Borrowers under this Agreement, or any of the
other Loan Documents shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
obligations of the Company or such Permitted Borrower shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby, and such invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability in one jurisdiction shall not affect the validity, legality or
enforceability of the obligations of the Company or such
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Permitted Borrower under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in
any other jurisdiction.
14.18 Table of Contents and Headings; Construction of Certain
Provisions. The table of contents and the headings of the various subdivisions
hereof are for convenience of reference only and shall in no way modify or
affect any of the terms or provisions hereof. If any provision of this Agreement
or any of the other Loan Documents refers to any action to be taken by any
Person, or which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be
applicable whether such action is taken directly or indirectly by such Person,
whether or not expressly specified in such provision.
14.19 Independence of Covenants. Each covenant hereunder shall be given
independent effect (subject to any exceptions stated in such covenant) so that
if a particular action or condition is not permitted by any such covenant
(taking into account any such stated exception), the fact that it would be
permitted by an exception to, or would be otherwise within the limitations of,
another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of a Default or an Event of
Default if such action is taken or such condition exists.
14.20 Reliance on and Survival of Various Provisions. All terms,
covenants, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company or any
party to any of the Loan Documents made herein or in any of the other Loan
Documents or in any certificate, report, financial statement or other document
furnished by or on behalf of the Company, any such party in connection with this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to have been relied
upon by the Lenders, notwithstanding any investigation heretofore or hereafter
made by any Lender or on such Lender's behalf, and those covenants and
agreements of the Company and the Permitted Borrowers set forth in Section 11.8
hereof (together with any other indemnities of the Company or the Permitted
Borrowers contained elsewhere in this Agreement or in any of the other Loan
Documents and of Lenders set forth in Sections 12.1, 12.12 and 13.13 hereof
shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement,
survive the repayment in full of the Indebtedness and the termination of any
commitments to make Advances hereunder.
14.21 Complete Agreement; Amendment and Restatement . This Agreement,
the Notes (if issued), any Requests for Advance or Letters of Credit hereunder,
the other Loan Documents and any agreements, certificates, or other documents
given to secure the Indebtedness, contain the entire agreement of the parties
hereto, and none of the parties hereto shall be bound by anything not expressed
in writing. This Agreement constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Prior
Credit Agreement, which Prior Credit Agreement is fully superseded and amended
and restated in its entirety hereby; provided, however, that the Indebtedness
governed by the Prior
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Credit Agreement shall remain outstanding and in full force and effect and
provided further that this Agreement does not constitute a novation of such
Indebtedness.
[SIGNATURES FOLLOW ON SUCCEEDING PAGES]
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WITNESS the due execution hereof as of the day and year first above
written.
COMPANY: AGENT:
VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC. COMERICA BANK, As Agent
By: /s/ Richard N. Grubb By: /s/
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Its: Executive Vice President, Its: Vice President
Chief Financial Officer and Director One Detroit Center
63 Lincoln Highway 500 Woodward Avenue
Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 Detroit, Michigan 48226
Attention: Corporate Finance
PERMITTED BORROWERS:
VISHAY EUROPE GmbH
By: /s/ Richard N. Grubb
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Its: Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and Director
63 Lincoln Highway
Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355
VISHAY ELECTRONIC GmbH
By: /s/ Richard N. Grubb
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Its: Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and Director
63 Lincoln Highway
Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355
PAMELA VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mbH
By: /s/ Richard N. Grubb
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Its: Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and Director
63 Lincoln Highway
Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355
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SILICONIX INCORPORATED
By: /s/
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Its:
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BANKS:
COMERICA BANK, Individually, as
Issuing Bank and as Swing Line Bank
By: /s/
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Its:
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FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
By: /s/
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Its:
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NATIONSBANK, N.A.
By: /s/
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Its:
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BHF-BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
By: /s/
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Its:
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BANK HAPOALIM B.M.,
NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/
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Its:
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By: /s/
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Its:
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BANK LEUMI le-ISRAEL, B.M.
By: /s/
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Its:
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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/
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Its:
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THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI, LTD.
NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/
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Its:
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SOCIETE GENERALE, NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/
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Its:
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FLEET NATIONAL BANK
By: /s/
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Its:
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BARCLAYS BANK PLC
By: /s/
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Its:
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ABN AMRO BANK NV
By: /s/
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Its:
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By: /s/
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Its:
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BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
By: /s/
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Its:
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THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
By: /s/
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Its:
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO
By: /s/
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Its:
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WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK
GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/
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Its:
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT
By: /s/
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Its:
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By: /s/
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Its:
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BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS
By: /s/
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Its:
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By: /s/
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Its:
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CREDIT AGRICOLE INDOSUEZ
By: /s/
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Its:
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/
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Its:
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MELLON BANK, N.A.
By: /s/
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Its:
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WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.
By: /s/
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Its:
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KBC BANK N.V.
By: /s/
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Its:
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NATEXIS BANQUE
By: /s/
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Its:
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By: /s/
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Its:
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ISTITUTO BANCARIO SAN PAOLO
DI TORINO, S.p.A.
By: /s/
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Its:
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CREDIT LYONNAIS NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/
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Its:
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REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK
By: /s/
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Its:
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Schedule 1.1
Percentages
(Long Term Revolving Credit Agreement)
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Lender Percentage Allocation*/
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Comerica Bank 6.82% $56,250,000.00
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NationsBank 6.82% $56,250,000.00
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Credit Lyonnais New York Branch 5.91% $48,750,000.00
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Barclays Capital 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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Bank Hapoalim 5.45% $45,000,000.00
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Fleet Bank 5.45% $45,000,000.00
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ABN-AMRO 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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BHF Bank 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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First Union 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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Bank Leumi 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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Bank of America 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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Bank of Nova Scotia 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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FNBC 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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West LB 4.55% $37,500,000.00
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PNC Bank 3.18% $26,250,000.00
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Bank Austria Creditanstalt 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Bank of New York 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Banque Nationale de Paris 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Credit Agricole Indosuez 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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*Percentages rounded to two decimal places for convenience.
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KeyBank National Association 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Mellon Bank 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Societe Generale 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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Wachovia Bank 2.27% $18,750,000.00
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KBC 1.36% $11,250,000.00
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Natexis Banque BFCE 1.36% $11,250,000.00
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San Paolo Bank 1.36% $11,250,000.00
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Republic Bank of New York .91% $ 7,500,000.00
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SCHEDULE 4.1
PRICING MATRIX
Applicable Margin Grid
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
$Amended and Restated Long Term Revolving Credit Facility
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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Basis for Pricing LEVEL I LEVEL II LEVEL III LEVEL IV
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
2.0:1.0 2.0:1.0 2.5:1.0 3.0:1.0
Leverage Ratio but but
2.5:1.0 3.0:1.0
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Revolving Credit Facility Fee 0.25% 0.30% 0.35% 0.40%
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Eurocurrency-based Margin 0.75% 0.85% 1.025% 1.20%
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Prime-based Rate Margin 0 0 0 0
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Letter of Credit Fee 0.75% 0.85% 1.025% 1.20%
(exclusive of facing fee)
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</TABLE>
From the Effective Date until the required date of delivery under Section 7.3(c)
of the Company's financial statements for the fiscal quarter ending June 30,
1999, the margins and fee percentages shall be those set forth under the Level
IV column.
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SCHEDULE 13.6
See Administrative Detail Forms addressed to Agent.
