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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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SCHEDULE 14D-1
(AMENDMENT NO. 3)
Tender Offer Statement Pursuant To Section
14(d)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
RELIANCE ELECTRIC COMPANY
(NAME OF SUBJECT COMPANY)
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
ROK ACQUISITION CORPORATION
(BIDDER)
CLASS A COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $.01 PER SHARE
(INCLUDING THE ASSOCIATED SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE RIGHTS)
(TITLE OF CLASS OF SECURITIES)
759458102
(CUSIP NUMBER OF CLASS OF SECURITIES)
William J. Calise, Jr., Esq.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Rockwell International Corporation
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3123
(412) 565-2905
(NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF PERSON AUTHORIZED TO
RECEIVE NOTICES AND COMMUNICATIONS ON BEHALF OF BIDDER)
Copies to:
Martin Lipton, Esq. Peter R. Kolyer, Esq.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Chadbourne & Parke
51 West 52nd Street 30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10019 New York, New York 10112
(212) 403-1000 (212) 408-5100
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This Statement amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on
Schedule 14D-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") on October 21, 1994, as previously amended and supplemented (the
"Schedule 14D-1"), by Rockwell International Corporation, a Delaware
corporation ("Rockwell"), and ROK Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware
corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rockwell (the "Purchaser"), and
relates to a tender offer to purchase (i) all of the outstanding shares of Class
A Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Class A Shares"), of Reliance
Electric Company, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and the associated
Series A preferred stock purchase rights (the "Class A Rights") issued pursuant
to the Rights Agreement (as defined in the Offer to Purchase) at a purchase
price of $30.00 per Class A Share (and associated Class A Right), net to the
seller in cash, without interest thereon, (ii) all of the outstanding shares of
Class B Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Class B Shares"), of the
Company and the associated Series B preferred stock purchase rights (the "Class
B Rights") issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement at a purchase price of $30.00
per Class B Share (and associated Class B Right), net to the seller in cash,
without interest thereon and (iii) all of the outstanding shares of Class C
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Class C Shares"), of the Company
and the associated Series C preferred stock purchase rights (the "Class C
Rights") issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement at a purchase price of $81.24
per Class C Share (and associated Class C Right), net to the seller in cash,
without interest thereon, in each case upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated October 21, 1994 (the "Offer
to Purchase") and the related Letters of Transmittal (which together constitute
the "Offer"), which were annexed to and filed with the Schedule 14D-1 as
Exhibits (a)(1) to (a)(4). Only the Class A Shares and the Class A Rights are
registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings
assigned to such terms in the Offer to Purchase and the Schedule 14D-1.
ITEM 4. SOURCE AND AMOUNT OF FUNDS OR OTHER CONSIDERATION.
(a)-(b) On November 9, 1994, Rockwell entered into two definitive credit
agreements, a $1,500,000,000 Five-Year Credit Agreement dated as of November 9,
1994 (the "Five Year Credit Agreement") among Rockwell, the banks listed therein
and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Agent (the "Agent"), and a
$1,000,000,000 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 (the "364
Day Credit
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Agreement" and, together with the Five Year Credit Agreement, the "Credit
Agreements") among Rockwell, the banks listed therein and the Agent.
The banks that are parties to the Five Year Credit Agreement have
committed to provide Rockwell with revolving credit loans of up to
$1,500,000,000 for a period of five years ending on November 9, 1999. The
banks that are parties to the 364 Day Credit Agreement have committed to
provide Rockwell with revolving credit loans of up to $1,000,000,000 for a
period of 364 days ending on November 8, 1995.
Committed loans under the Credit Agreements bear interest at rates
depending upon the borrowing option selected by Rockwell. The interest rates
for those options consist of (i) a base rate equal to the higher of the rate
announced by the Agent as its Prime Rate or the daily federal funds rate plus
.50%, (ii) a London interbank offered rate ("LIBOR") (as adjusted for certain
reserve requirements) for a one-, two-, three- or six-month period plus an
interest margin based on the rating of Rockwell's long-term debt by Moody's
Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") and Standard & Poor's Corporation ("S&P")
(ranging from 0.145% to 0.50%, and currently 0.145%, in the case of the Five
Year Credit Agreement and ranging from 0.165% to 0.5625%, and currently 0.165%,
in the case of the 364 Day Credit Agreement) or (iii) a CD rate (as adjusted
for certain reserve requirements) for a 30-, 60-, 90- or 180-day period plus
an interest margin based on the rating of Rockwell's long-term debt by Moody's
and S&P (ranging from 0.27% to 0.625%, and currently 0.27%, in the case of the
Five Year Credit Agreement and ranging from 0.29% to 0.6875%, and currently
0.29%, in the case of the 364 Day Credit Agreement). In addition, each Credit
Agreement provides for competitive bid borrowings, which bear interest at
either a LIBOR-based rate (as adjusted for certain reserve requirements) or a
fixed rate.
Rockwell has agreed to pay a facility fee on the amount of the banks'
commitments (whether used or unused) under each Credit Agreement in an amount
based on the rating of Rockwell's long-term debt by Moody's and S&P. Such fee
ranges from 0.08% to 0.25%, and is currently 0.08%, in the case of the Five
Year Credit Agreement and ranges from 0.06% to 0.1875%, and is currently 0.06%,
in the case of the 364 Day Credit Agreement. Rockwell also has agreed to pay
fees to the Agent and certain expenses of the Agent incurred in connection with
the Credit Agreements. In addition, Rockwell has agreed to indemnify the
Agent, each bank and certain other persons under each Credit Agreement against
certain losses relating to such Credit Agreement or the use of the proceeds
thereunder.
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Each Credit Agreement contains representations and warranties,
covenants, conditions precedent to the banks' funding obligations, events of
default, and other provisions customary in agreements for loans of this size
and type.
The foregoing summary of the Credit Agreements is qualified in its
entirety by reference to the text of the Credit Agreements, copies of which are
attached hereto as Exhibits (b)(1) and (b)(2), respectively, and are hereby
incorporated herein by reference.
Rockwell plans to use funds available in its cash accounts and/or
borrowings under the Credit Agreements to make a capital contribution to the
Purchaser in an amount required by the Purchaser to purchase all outstanding
Shares pursuant to the Offer and to pay fees and expenses related to the Offer
and the Proposed Rockwell Merger. Rockwell expects that any borrowings under
the Credit Agreements used to make capital contributions to the Purchaser will
be repaid from the net proceeds of the sale of the Company's wholly-owned
subsidiary, Reliance Comm/Tec Corporation, and from cash flow from the normal
operations of Rockwell's businesses.
ITEM 10. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
(f) On November 10, 1994, Rockwell issued a press release announcing
that it has entered into the Credit Agreements and stating that if the Company
fails to redeem its poison pill and work with Rockwell promptly to complete the
Offer, the conditions to the Offer would not be satisfied by November 18, the
current expiration date, and Rockwell would extend the Offer. A copy of such
press release is attached as Exhibit (a)(15) hereto and is hereby incorporated
herein by reference and the foregoing description of such press release is
qualified in its entirety by reference to such exhibit.
ITEM 11. MATERIAL TO BE FILED AS EXHIBITS
(a)(15) -- Press release issued by Rockwell on November 10, 1994.
(b)(1) -- $1,500,000,000 Five-Year Credit Agreement dated as of
November 9, 1994 among Rockwell, the banks listed therein
and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Agent.
(b)(2) -- $1,000,000,000 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as of
November 9, 1994 among Rockwell, the banks listed therein
and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Agent.
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SIGNATURE
After due inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I
certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and
correct.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By: William J. Calise, Jr.
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William J. Calise, Jr.
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel & Secretary
ROK ACQUISITION CORPORATION
By: William J. Calise, Jr.
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William J. Calise, Jr.
Secretary
Dated: November 10, 1994
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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(a)(15) -- Press release issued by Rockwell on November 10, 1994.
(b)(1) -- $1,500,000,000 Five-Year Credit Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among
Rockwell, the banks listed therein and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, as Agent.
(b)(2) -- $1,000,000,000 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among
Rockwell, the banks listed therein and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, as Agent.
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Exhibit (a)(15)
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION LETTERHEAD
Contact: Mary Lou Kromer
(310) 797-5819
ROCKWELL ARRANGES CREDIT FACILITIES
SEAL BEACH, Calif. (November 10, 1994) -- Rockwell International Corporation
(NYSE: ROK) announced today that it has executed two revolving credit
agreements under which it may borrow up to an aggregate amount of $2.5 billion.
The agreements include a $1.5 billion facility with a term of
five years and a $1.0 billion facility for a term of 364 days. Morgan Guaranty
Trust Co. of New York is leading a group of 27 banks as agent for both credits.
The Company will use the funds available under these
facilities for its general corporate needs and acquisitions including its
current tender offer for all outstanding stock of Reliance Electric Company.
Rockwell stated that execution of the credit agreements,
together with the previously announced expiration of the antitrust waiting
period, make clear that there are no contingencies or uncertainties to
Rockwell's offer that cannot be resolved by Reliance. Rockwell again urged the
Reliance Board to redeem its poison pill and to work with Rockwell promptly to
complete its offer. If Reliance fails to take such actions, Rockwell said, the
conditions to the Rockwell offer would not be satisfied by November 18, the
current expiration date, and Rockwell would extend the offer. Rockwell stated
that this would only serve to delay the receipt by the Reliance shareowners of
the $30 per share in cash being offered by Rockwell and would be against the
interest of the Reliance shareowners.
Rockwell is a diversified, high-technology
company holding leadership market positions in automation, avionics, aerospace,
defense electronics, telecommunications, automotive components and graphics
systems, with annual worldwide sales of $11 billion.
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Exhibit (b)(1)
[Conformed Copy]
$1,500,000,000
FIVE-YEAR
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
November 9, 1994
among
Rockwell International Corporation
The Banks Listed Herein
and
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
as Agent
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.02 Accounting Terms and Determinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.03 Types of Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01 Commitments to Lend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.02 Notice of Committed Borrowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.03 Money Market Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.04 Notice to Banks; Funding of Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.05 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.06 Maturity of Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.07 Interest Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.08 Facility Fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.09 Optional Termination or
Reduction of Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.10 Scheduled Termination
of Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.11 Optional Prepayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.12 General Provisions as to Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.13 Funding Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.14 Computation of Interest and Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.15 Regulation D Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS
SECTION 3.01 Effectiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.02 Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 4.01 Corporate Existence and Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.02 Corporate and Governmental
Authorization; No Contravention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.03 Binding Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.04 Financial Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.05 Litigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
SECTION 5.01 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.02 Maintenance of Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.03 Compliance with Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.04 Use of Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.05 Indenture Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS
SECTION 6.01 Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.02 Notice of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
ARTICLE VII
THE AGENT
SECTION 7.01 Appointment and Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.02 Agent and Affiliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.03 Action by Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.04 Consultation with Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.05 Liability of Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.06 Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.07 Credit Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.08 Successor Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.09 Agent's Fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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ARTICLE VIII
CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
SECTION 8.01 Basis for Determining Interest
Rate Inadequate or Unfair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.02 Illegality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.03 Increased Cost and Reduced Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.04 Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.05 Base Rate Loans Substituted for
Affected Fixed Rate Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
9.02 No Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
9.03 Expenses; Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.04 Sharing of Set-Offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.05 Amendments and Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.06 Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.07 Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.08 Governing Law; Submission to Juris-
diction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.09 Counterparts; Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.10 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Pricing Schedule
Exhibit A - Note
Exhibit B - Money Market Quote Request
Exhibit C - Invitation for Money Market Quotes
Exhibit D - Money Market Quote
Exhibit E - Opinion of General Counsel of the Company
Exhibit F - Opinion of Special Counsel for the
Agent
Exhibit G - Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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FIVE-YEAR
CREDIT AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated as of November 9, 1994 among ROCKWELL
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, the BANKS listed on the signature pages hereof and
MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, as Agent.
The parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS. The following terms, as used herein,
have the following meanings:
"Absolute Rate Auction" means a solicitation of Money Market
Quotes setting forth Money Market Absolute Rates pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Adjusted CD Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"Administrative Questionnaire" means, with respect to each Bank,
an administrative questionnaire in the form prepared by the Agent and submitted
to the Agent (with a copy to the Company) duly completed by such Bank.
"Agent" means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in its
capacity as agent for the Banks hereunder, and its successors in such capacity.
"Applicable Lending Office" means, with respect to any Bank, (i)
in the case of its Domestic Loans, its Domestic Lending Office, (ii) in the
case of its Euro-Dollar Loans, its Euro-Dollar Lending Office and (iii) in the
case of its Money Market Loans, its Money Market Lending Office.
"Assessment Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"Assignee" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.06(c).
"Bank" means each bank listed on the signature pages hereof, each
Assignee which becomes a Bank pursuant to Section 9.06(c), and their respective
successors.
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"Base Rate" means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the
higher of (i) the Prime Rate for such day and (ii) the sum of 1/2 of 1% plus
the Federal Funds Rate for such day.
"Base Rate Loan" means a Committed Loan to be made by a Bank as a
Base Rate Loan in accordance with the applicable Notice of Committed Borrowing
or pursuant to Article VIII.
"Borrowing" has the meaning set forth in Section 1.03.
"CD Base Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"CD Loan" means a Committed Loan to be made by a Bank as a CD Loan
in accordance with the applicable Notice of Committed Borrowing.
"CD Margin" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"CD Reference Banks" means Deutsche Bank AG, Mellon Bank, N.A. and
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any
successor to its duties under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
"Commitment" means, with respect to each Bank, the amount set
forth opposite the name of such Bank on the signature pages hereof, as such
amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09.
"Committed Loan" means a loan made by a Bank pursuant to Section
2.01.
"Company" means Rockwell International Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.
"Company's 1993 Form 10-K" means the Company's annual report on
Form 10-K for 1993, as filed with the Commission.
"Company's June 1994 Form 10-Q" means the Company's quarterly
report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1994, as filed with the
Commission.
"Consolidated Subsidiary" means at any date any Subsidiary or
other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the
Company in its consolidated
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financial statements if such statements were prepared as of such date.
"Default" means any condition or event which constitutes an Event
of Default or which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would,
unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
"Domestic Business Day" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized by law to
close.
"Domestic Lending Office" means, as to each Bank, its office
located at its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or
identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Domestic Lending Office)
or such other office as such Bank may hereafter designate as its Domestic
Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Agent; PROVIDED that any Bank
may so designate separate Domestic Lending Offices for its Base Rate Loans, on
the one hand, and its CD Loans, on the other hand, in which case all references
herein to the Domestic Lending Office of such Bank shall be deemed to refer to
either or both of such offices, as the context may require.
"Domestic Loans" means CD Loans or Base Rate Loans or both.
"Domestic Reserve Percentage" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.07(b).
"Effective Date" means the date this Agreement becomes effective
in accordance with Section 3.01.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended, or any successor statute.
"Euro-Dollar Business Day" means any Domestic Business Day on
which commercial banks are open for international business (including dealings
in dollar deposits) in London.
"Euro-Dollar Lending Office" means, as to each Bank, its office,
branch or affiliate located at its address set forth in its Administrative
Questionnaire (or identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its
Euro-Dollar Lending Office) or such other office, branch or affiliate of such
Bank as it may hereafter designate as its Euro-Dollar Lending Office by notice
to the Company and the Agent.
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"Euro-Dollar Loan" means a Committed Loan to be made by a Bank as
a Euro-Dollar Loan in accordance with the applicable Notice of Committed
Borrowing.
"Euro-Dollar Margin" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(c).
"Euro-Dollar Reference Banks" means the principal London offices
of Deutsche Bank AG, Mellon Bank, N.A. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
York.
"Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.15.
"Event of Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
"Existing Credit Agreements" means the respective credit
agreements, each dated May 24, 1994, between the Company and each of the Banks.
"Federal Funds Rate" means, for any day, the rate per annum
(rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%) equal to the
weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such
day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Domestic
Business Day next succeeding such day, PROVIDED that (i) if such day is not a
Domestic Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate
on such transactions on the next preceding Domestic Business Day as so
published on the next succeeding Domestic Business Day, and (ii) if no such
rate is so published on such next succeeding Domestic Business Day, the Federal
Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York on such day on such transactions as determined by the
Agent.
"Fixed Rate Loans" means CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans or Money
Market Loans (excluding Money Market LIBOR Loans bearing interest at the Base
Rate pursuant to Section 8.01(a)) or any combination of the foregoing.
"Indemnitee" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).
"Indenture" means the indenture dated as of October 1, 1982
between the Company and Chemical Bank (successor by merger to Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Company), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture
dated as of February 27, 1987 and, subject to Section 5.05, as the same may be
amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time
hereafter.
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"Interest Period" means: (1) with respect to each Euro-Dollar
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending one,
two, three or six months thereafter, as the Company may elect in the applicable
Notice of Borrowing; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (c) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day unless such
Euro-Dollar Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case
such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business
Day;
(b) any Interest Period which begins on the last Euro-Dollar
Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (c) below, end on the last
Euro-Dollar Business Day of a calendar month; and
(c) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
(2) with respect to each CD Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of
such Borrowing and ending 30, 60, 90 or 180 days thereafter, as the Company may
elect in the applicable Notice of Borrowing; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (b) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day; and
(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
(3) with respect to each Base Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the
date of such Borrowing and ending 30 days thereafter; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (b) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day; and
(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
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(4) with respect to each Money Market LIBOR Borrowing, the period commencing
on the date of such Borrowing and ending such whole number of months thereafter
as the Company may elect in accordance with Section 2.03; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (c) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day unless such
Euro-Dollar Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case
such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business
Day;
(b) any Interest Period which begins on the last Euro-Dollar
Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (c) below, end on the last
Euro-Dollar Business Day of a calendar month; and
(c) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
(5) with respect to each Money Market Absolute Rate Borrowing, the period
commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending such number of days
thereafter (but not less than 7 days) as the Company may elect in accordance
with Section 2.03; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (b) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day; and
(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
"LIBOR Auction" means a solicitation of Money Market Quotes
setting forth Money Market Margins based on the London Interbank Offered Rate
pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Loan" means a Domestic Loan or a Euro-Dollar Loan or a Money
Market Loan and "Loans" means Domestic Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans or Money
Market Loans or any combination of the foregoing.
"London Interbank Offered Rate" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.07(c).
"Material Debt" means indebtedness for borrowed money (other than
the Notes) of the Company and/or one or
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more of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding
$75,000,000, determined by aggregating one or more Single Issues (which may be
otherwise unrelated) each of which is in a principal amount not less than
$10,000,000.
"Money Market Absolute Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.03(d).
"Money Market Absolute Rate Loan" means a loan to be made by a
Bank pursuant to an Absolute Rate Auction.
"Money Market Lending Office" means, as to each Bank, its Domestic
Lending Office or such other office, branch or affiliate of such Bank as it may
hereafter designate as its Money Market Lending Office by notice to the Company
and the Agent; PROVIDED that any Bank may from time to time by notice to the
Company and the Agent designate separate Money Market Lending Offices for its
Money Market LIBOR Loans, on the one hand, and its Money Market Absolute Rate
Loans, on the other hand, in which case all references herein to the Money
Market Lending Office of such Bank shall be deemed to refer to either or both
of such offices, as the context may require.
"Money Market LIBOR Loan" means a loan to be made by a Bank
pursuant to a LIBOR Auction (including such a loan bearing interest at the Base
Rate pursuant to Section 8.01(a)).
"Money Market Loan" means a Money Market LIBOR Loan or a Money
Market Absolute Rate Loan.
"Money Market Margin" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(d).
"Money Market Quote" means an offer by a Bank to make a Money
Market Loan in accordance with Section 2.03.
"Notes" means promissory notes of the Company, substantially in
the form of Exhibit A hereto, evidencing the obligation of the Company to repay
the Loans, and "Note" means any one of such promissory notes issued hereunder.
"Notice of Borrowing" means a Notice of Committed Borrowing (as
defined in Section 2.02) or a Notice of Money Market Borrowing (as defined in
Section 2.03(f)).
"Parent" means, with respect to any Bank, any Person controlling
such Bank.
"Participant" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.06(b).
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"Person" means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an
association, a trust or any other entity or organization, including a
government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.
"Pricing Schedule" means the Schedule attached hereto identified
as such.
"Prime Rate" means the rate of interest publicly announced by
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in New York City from time to time as
its Prime Rate.
"Reference Banks" means the CD Reference Banks or the Euro-Dollar
Reference Banks, as the context may require, and "Reference Bank" means any one
of such Reference Banks.
"Regulation U" means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
"Required Banks" means at any time Banks having at least 66 2/3%
of the aggregate amount of the Commitments or, if the Commitments shall have
been terminated, holding Notes evidencing at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of the Loans.
"Revolving Credit Period" means the period from and including the
Effective Date to but excluding the Termination Date.
"Single Issue" means indebtedness for borrowed money arising in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions. Indebtedness issued in
discrete offerings but governed by a single shelf indenture shall not be
aggregated as a Single Issue, but indebtedness owing to multiple lenders under
parallel agreements comprising a single private placement and indebtedness
arising from multiple takedowns under a single or a series of related
commitments from one or more lenders shall be so aggregated.
"Subsidiary" means, as to any Person, any corporation or other
entity of which securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting
power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other persons performing
similar functions are at the time directly or indirectly owned by such Person;
unless otherwise specified, "Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary of the Company.
"Termination Date" means November 9, 1999, or, if such day is not
a Euro-Dollar Business Day, the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business Day.
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"United States" means the United States of America, including the
States and the District of Columbia, but excluding its territories and
possessions.
SECTION 1.02. ACCOUNTING TERMS AND DETERMINATIONS. Unless
otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be
interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all
financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time
to time, applied on a basis consistent (except for changes concurred in by the
Company's independent public accountants) with the most recent audited
consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries delivered to the Banks.
SECTION 1.03. TYPES OF BORROWINGS. The term "Borrowing" denotes
the aggregation of Loans of one or more Banks to be made to the Company
pursuant to Article II on a single date and for a single Interest Period.
Borrowings are classified for purposes of this Agreement either by reference to
the pricing of Loans comprising such Borrowing (E.G., a "Euro-Dollar Borrowing"
is a Borrowing comprised of Euro-Dollar Loans) or by reference to the
provisions of Article II under which participation therein is determined (I.E.,
a "Committed Borrowing" is a Borrowing under Section 2.01 in which all Banks
participate in proportion to their Commitments, while a "Money Market
Borrowing" is a Borrowing under Section 2.03 in which the Bank participants are
determined on the basis of their bids in accordance therewith).
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01. COMMITMENTS TO LEND. During the Revolving Credit
Period each Bank severally agrees, on the terms and conditions set forth in
this Agreement, to make loans to the Company pursuant to this Section from time
to time in amounts such that the aggregate principal amount of Committed Loans
by such Bank at any one time outstanding shall not exceed the amount of its
Commitment. Each Borrowing under this Section shall be in an aggregate
principal amount of $25,000,000 or any larger multiple of $1,000,000 (except
that any such Borrowing may be in the aggregate amount available in accordance
with Section 3.02(b)) and shall be made from the several Banks ratably in
proportion to their respective Commitments. Within the foregoing limits, the
Company may borrow under this Section,
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repay, or to the extent permitted by Section 2.11, prepay Loans and reborrow at
any time during the Revolving Credit Period under this Section.
SECTION 2.02. NOTICE OF COMMITTED BORROWING. The Company shall
give the Agent notice (a "Notice of Committed Borrowing") not later than 10:30
A.M. (New York City time) on (x) the date of each Base Rate Borrowing, (y) the
second Domestic Business Day before each CD Borrowing and (z) the third
Euro-Dollar Business Day before each Euro-Dollar Borrowing, specifying:
(a) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Domestic
Business Day in the case of a Domestic Borrowing or a Euro-Dollar Business
Day in the case of a Euro-Dollar Borrowing,
(b) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing,
(c) whether the Loans comprising such Borrowing are to be CD
Loans, Base Rate Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, and
(d) in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, the duration of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, subject to the provisions of the
definition of Interest Period.
SECTION 2.03. MONEY MARKET BORROWINGS.
(a) THE MONEY MARKET OPTION. In addition to Committed Borrowings
pursuant to Section 2.01, the Company may, as set forth in this Section,
request the Banks during the Revolving Credit Period to make offers to make
Money Market Loans to the Company. The Banks may, but shall have no obligation
to, make such offers and the Company may, but shall have no obligation to,
accept any such offers in the manner set forth in this Section.
(b) MONEY MARKET QUOTE REQUEST. When the Company wishes to
request offers to make Money Market Loans under this Section, it shall transmit
to the Agent by telex or facsimile transmission a Money Market Quote Request
substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto so as to be received no later
than 10:30 A.M. (New York City time) on (x) the fifth Euro-Dollar Business Day
prior to the date of Borrowing proposed therein, in the case of a LIBOR Auction
or (y) the Domestic Business Day next preceding the date of Borrowing proposed
therein, in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case, such
other time or date as the Company and the Agent shall have mutually agreed and
shall have notified to the Banks not later than the date of the Money Market
Quote Request for the first LIBOR Auction or
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Absolute Rate Auction for which such change is to be effective) specifying:
(i) the proposed date of Borrowing, which shall be a Euro-Dollar
Business Day in the case of a LIBOR Auction or a Domestic Business
Day in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction,
(ii) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing, which shall be
$25,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000,
(iii) the duration of the Interest Period applicable thereto,
subject to the provisions of the definition of Interest Period, and
(iv) whether the Money Market Quotes requested are to set forth a
Money Market Margin or a Money Market Absolute Rate.
The Company may request offers to make Money Market Loans for more than one
Interest Period in a single Money Market Quote Request. No Money Market Quote
Request shall be given within five Euro-Dollar Business Days (or such other
number of days as the Company and the Agent may agree) of any other Money
Market Quote Request.
(c) INVITATION FOR MONEY MARKET QUOTES. Promptly upon receipt of
a Money Market Quote Request, the Agent shall send to the Banks by telex or
facsimile transmission an Invitation for Money Market Quotes substantially in
the form of Exhibit C hereto, which shall constitute an invitation by the
Company to each Bank to submit Money Market Quotes offering to make the Money
Market Loans to which such Money Market Quote Request relates in accordance
with this Section.
(d) SUBMISSION AND CONTENTS OF MONEY MARKET QUOTES. (i) Each
Bank may submit a Money Market Quote containing an offer or offers to make
Money Market Loans in response to any Invitation for Money Market Quotes. Each
Money Market Quote must comply with the requirements of this subsection (d) and
must be submitted to the Agent by telex or facsimile transmission at its
offices specified in or pursuant to Section 9.01 not later than (x) 2:00 P.M.
(New York City time) on the fourth Euro-Dollar Business Day prior to the
proposed date of Borrowing, in the case of a LIBOR Auction or (y) 9:30 A.M.
(New York City time) on the proposed date of Borrowing, in the case of an
Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case, such other time or date as the
Company and the Agent shall have mutually agreed and shall have notified to the
Banks not later than the date of the Money Market Quote Request for the first
LIBOR Auction or
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Absolute Rate Auction for which such change is to be effective); PROVIDED that
Money Market Quotes submitted by the Agent (or any affiliate of the Agent) in
the capacity of a Bank may be submitted, and may only be submitted, if the
Agent or such affiliate notifies the Company of the terms of the offer or
offers contained therein not later than (x) one hour prior to the deadline for
the other Banks, in the case of a LIBOR Auction or (y) 15 minutes prior to the
deadline for the other Banks, in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction. Subject
to Articles III and VI, any Money Market Quote so made shall be irrevocable
except with the written consent of the Agent given on the instructions of the
Company.
(ii) Each Money Market Quote shall be in substantially the form
of Exhibit D hereto and shall in any case specify:
(A) the proposed date of Borrowing,
(B) the principal amount of the Money Market Loan for which each
such offer is being made, which principal amount (w) may be greater than or
less than the Commitment of the quoting Bank, (x) must be $5,000,000 or a
larger multiple of $1,000,000, (y) may not exceed the principal amount of
Money Market Loans for which offers were requested and (z) may be subject
to an aggregate limitation as to the principal amount of Money Market Loans
for which offers being made by such quoting Bank may be accepted,
(C) in the case of a LIBOR Auction, the margin above or below the
applicable London Interbank Offered Rate (the "Money Market Margin")
offered for each such Money Market Loan, expressed as a percentage
(specified to the nearest 1/10,000th of 1%) to be added to or subtracted
from such base rate,
(D) in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction, the rate of interest
per annum (specified to the nearest 1/10,000th of 1%) (the "Money Market
Absolute Rate") offered for each such Money Market Loan, and
(E) the identity of the quoting Bank.
A Money Market Quote may set forth up to five separate offers by the quoting
Bank with respect to each Interest Period specified in the related Invitation
for Money Market Quotes.
(iii) Any Money Market Quote shall be disregarded if it:
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(A) is not substantially in conformity with Exhibit D hereto or
does not specify all of the information required by subsection (d)(ii);
(B) contains qualifying, conditional or similar language;
(C) proposes terms other than or in addition to those set forth
in the applicable Invitation for Money Market Quotes; or
(D) arrives after the time set forth in subsection (d)(i).
(e) NOTICE TO COMPANY. The Agent shall promptly notify the
Company of the terms (x) of any Money Market Quote submitted by a Bank that is
in accordance with subsection (d) and (y) of any Money Market Quote that
amends, modifies or is otherwise inconsistent with a previous Money Market
Quote submitted by such Bank with respect to the same Money Market Quote
Request. Any such subsequent Money Market Quote shall be disregarded by the
Agent unless such subsequent Money Market Quote is submitted solely to correct
a manifest error in such former Money Market Quote. The Agent's notice to the
Company shall specify (A) the aggregate principal amount of Money Market Loans
for which offers have been received for each Interest Period specified in the
related Money Market Quote Request, (B) the respective principal amounts and
Money Market Margins or Money Market Absolute Rates, as the case may be, so
offered and (C) if applicable, limitations on the aggregate principal amount of
Money Market Loans for which offers in any single Money Market Quote may be
accepted.
(f) ACCEPTANCE AND NOTICE BY COMPANY. Not later than 10:30 A.M.
(New York City time) on (x) the third Euro-Dollar Business Day prior to the
proposed date of Borrowing, in the case of a LIBOR Auction or (y) the proposed
date of Borrowing, in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case,
such other time or date as the Company and the Agent shall have mutually agreed
and shall have notified to the Banks not later than the date of the Money
Market Quote Request for the first LIBOR Auction or Absolute Rate Auction for
which such change is to be effective), the Company shall notify the Agent of
its acceptance or non-acceptance of the offers so notified to it pursuant to
subsection (e). In the case of acceptance, such notice (a "Notice of Money
Market Borrowing") shall specify the aggregate principal amount of offers for
each Interest Period that are accepted. A failure by the Company to notify the
Agent as aforesaid shall constitute non-acceptance of the offers so notified to
it. The Company may
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accept any Money Market Quote in whole or in part; PROVIDED that:
(i) the aggregate principal amount of each Money Market Borrowing
may not exceed the applicable amount set forth in the related
Money Market Quote Request,
(ii) the principal amount of each Money Market Borrowing must be
$25,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000,
(iii) acceptance of offers may only be made on the basis of
ascending Money Market Margins or Money Market Absolute Rates, as
the case may be, and
(iv) the Company may not accept any offer that is described in
subsection (d)(iii) or that otherwise fails to comply with the
requirements of this Agreement.
(g) ALLOCATION BY AGENT. If offers are made by two or more Banks
with the same Money Market Margins or Money Market Absolute Rates, as the case
may be, for a greater aggregate principal amount than the amount in respect of
which such offers are accepted for the related Interest Period, the principal
amount of Money Market Loans in respect of which such offers are accepted shall
be allocated by the Agent among such Banks as nearly as possible (in multiples
of $1,000,000, as the Agent may deem appropriate) in proportion to the
aggregate principal amounts of such offers. Determinations by the Agent of the
amounts of Money Market Loans shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest
error.
SECTION 2.04. NOTICE TO BANKS; FUNDING OF LOANS.
(a) Upon receipt of a Notice of Borrowing, the Agent shall
promptly notify each Bank of the contents thereof and of such Bank's share (if
any) of such Borrowing and such Notice of Borrowing shall not thereafter be
revocable by the Company.
(b) Not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date of
each Borrowing, each Bank participating therein shall (except as provided in
subsection (c) of this Section) make available its share of such Borrowing, in
Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City, to the Agent at
its address referred to in Section 9.01. Unless the Agent determines that any
applicable condition specified in Article III has not been satisfied, the Agent
will make the funds so received from the Banks available to the Company at the
Agent's aforesaid address.
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(c) If any Bank makes a new Loan hereunder on a day on which the
Company is to repay all or any part of an outstanding Loan from such Bank, such
Bank shall apply the proceeds of its new Loan to make such repayment and only
an amount equal to the difference (if any) between the amount being borrowed
and the amount being repaid shall be made available by such Bank to the Agent
as provided in subsection (b), or remitted by the Company to the Agent as
provided in Section 2.12, as the case may be.
(d) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Bank prior
to the date of any Borrowing (or, in the case of a Base Rate Borrowing, prior
to the 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing) that such
Bank will not make available to the Agent such Bank's share of such Borrowing,
the Agent may assume that such Bank has made such share available to the Agent
on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of
this Section 2.04 and the Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make
available to the Company on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the
extent that such Bank shall not have so made such share available to the Agent,
such Bank and the Company severally agree to repay to the Agent forthwith on
demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day
from the date such amount is made available to the Company until the date such
amount is repaid to the Agent, at (i) in the case of the Company, a rate per
annum equal to the higher of the Federal Funds Rate and the interest rate
applicable thereto pursuant to Section 2.07 and (ii) in the case of such Bank,
the Federal Funds Rate. If such Bank shall repay to the Agent such
corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such Bank's Loan
included in such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.05. NOTES. (a) The Loans of each Bank shall be
evidenced by a single Note payable to the order of such Bank for the account of
its Applicable Lending Office in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of such Bank's Loans.
(b) Each Bank may, by notice to the Company and the Agent,
request that its Loans of a particular type or types be evidenced by a separate
Note in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Loans.
Each reference in this Agreement to the "Note" of such Bank shall be deemed to
refer to and include any or all of such Notes, as the context may require.
(c) Upon receipt of each Bank's Note pursuant to Section 3.01(b),
the Agent shall forward such Note to such Bank. Each Bank shall record the
date, amount, type and maturity of each Loan made by it and the date and amount
of
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each payment of principal made by the Company with respect thereto, and may, if
such Bank so elects in connection with any transfer or enforcement of its Note,
endorse on the schedule forming a part thereof appropriate notations to
evidence the foregoing information with respect to each such Loan then
outstanding; PROVIDED that the failure of any Bank to make, or any error in
making, any such recordation or endorsement shall not affect the obligations of
the Company hereunder or under the Notes. Each Bank is hereby irrevocably
authorized by the Company so to endorse its Note and to attach to and make a
part of its Note a continuation of any such schedule as and when required. The
Agent shall also record the date, amount, type and maturity of each Loan made
by any Bank hereunder and the date and amount of each payment of principal made
by the Company to the Agent with respect thereto.
SECTION 2.06. MATURITY OF LOANS. Each Loan included in any
Borrowing shall mature, and the principal amount thereof shall be due and
payable, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. INTEREST RATES. (a) Each Base Rate Loan shall
bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof, for each day from
the date such Loan is made until it becomes due, at a rate per annum equal to
the Base Rate for such day. Such interest shall be payable for each Interest
Period on the last day thereof. Any overdue principal of or interest on any
Base Rate Loan shall bear interest, payable on demand, for each day until paid
at a rate per annum equal to the sum of 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable
to Base Rate Loans for such day.
(b) Each CD Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal
amount thereof, for each day during the Interest Period applicable thereto, at
a rate per annum equal to the sum of the CD Margin for such day plus the
Adjusted CD Rate applicable to such Interest Period; PROVIDED that if any CD
Loan shall, as a result of clause (2)(b) of the definition of Interest Period,
have an Interest Period of less than 30 days, such CD Loan shall bear interest
during such Interest Period at the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans during
such period. Such interest shall be payable for each Interest Period on the
last day thereof and, if such Interest Period is longer than 90 days, at
intervals of 90 days after the first day thereof. Any overdue principal of or
interest on any CD Loan shall bear interest, payable on demand, for each day
until paid at a rate per annum equal to the sum of 2% plus the higher of (i)
the sum of the CD Margin for such day plus the Adjusted CD Rate applicable to
the Interest Period for such Loan and (ii) the rate applicable to Base Rate
Loans for such day.
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"CD Margin" means a rate per annum determined in accordance with
the Pricing Schedule.
The "Adjusted CD Rate" applicable to any Interest Period means a
rate per annum determined pursuant to the following formula:
[ CDBR ]*
ACDR = [ ---------- ] + AR
[ 1.00 - DRP ]
ACDR = Adjusted CD Rate
CDBR = CD Base Rate
DRP = Domestic Reserve Percentage
AR = Assessment Rate
__________
* The amount in brackets being rounded upward, if
necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%
The "CD Base Rate" applicable to any Interest Period is the rate
of interest determined by the Agent to be the average (rounded upward, if
necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%) of the prevailing rates per annum
bid at 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) (or as soon thereafter as practicable)
on the first day of such Interest Period by two or more New York certificate of
deposit dealers of recognized standing for the purchase at face value from each
CD Reference Bank of its certificates of deposit in an amount comparable to the
principal amount of the CD Loan of such CD Reference Bank to which such
Interest Period applies and having a maturity comparable to such Interest
Period.
"Domestic Reserve Percentage" means for any day that percentage
(expressed as a decimal) which is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including without limitation any
basic, supplemental or emergency reserves) for a member bank of the Federal
Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding five billion dollars in
respect of new non-personal time deposits in dollars in New York City having a
maturity comparable to the related Interest Period and in an amount of $100,000
or more. The Adjusted CD Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the
effective date of any change in the Domestic Reserve Percentage.
"Assessment Rate" means for any day the annual assessment rate in
effect on such day which is payable by a
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member of the Bank Insurance Fund classified as adequately capitalized and
within supervisory subgroup "A" (or a comparable successor assessment risk
classification) within the meaning of 12 C.F.R. Section 327.3(e) (or any
successor provision) to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any
successor) for such Corporation's (or such successor's) insuring time deposits
at offices of such institution in the United States. The Adjusted CD Rate
shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change
in the Assessment Rate.
(c) Each Euro-Dollar Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof, for each day during the Interest Period applicable
thereto, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Euro-Dollar Margin for
such day plus the London Interbank Offered Rate applicable to such Interest
Period. Such interest shall be payable for each Interest Period on the last
day thereof and, if such Interest Period is longer than three months, at
intervals of three months after the first day thereof.
"Euro-Dollar Margin" means a rate per annum determined in
accordance with the Pricing Schedule.
The "London Interbank Offered Rate" applicable to any Interest
Period means the average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/16
of 1%) of the respective rates per annum at which deposits in dollars are
offered to each of the Euro-Dollar Reference Banks in the London interbank
market at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Euro-Dollar Business Days
before the first day of such Interest Period in an amount approximately equal
to the principal amount of the Euro-Dollar Loan of such Euro-Dollar Reference
Bank to which such Interest Period is to apply and for a period of time
comparable to such Interest Period.
(d) Any overdue principal of or interest on any Euro-Dollar Loan
shall bear interest, payable on demand, for each day until paid at a rate per
annum equal to the higher of (i) the sum of 2% plus the Euro-Dollar Margin for
such day plus the London Interbank Offered Rate applicable to the Interest
Period for such Loan and (ii) the sum of 2% plus the Euro-Dollar Margin for
such day plus the quotient obtained (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next
higher 1/100 of 1%) by dividing (x) the average (rounded upward, if necessary,
to the next higher 1/16 of 1%) of the respective rates per annum at which one
day (or, if such amount due remains unpaid more than three Euro-Dollar Business
Days, then for such other period of time not longer than six months as the
Agent may select) deposits in dollars in an amount approximately equal to such
overdue payment due to each of the Euro-Dollar Reference Banks are offered to
such Euro-Dollar Reference Bank in the London interbank market
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for the applicable period determined as provided above by (y) 1.00 minus the
Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage (or, if the circumstances described in clause
(a) or (b) of Section 8.01 shall exist, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of
2% plus the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans for such day).
(e) Subject to Section 8.01(a), each Money Market LIBOR Loan
shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof, for the
Interest Period applicable thereto, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the
London Interbank Offered Rate for such Interest Period (determined in
accordance with Section 2.07(c) as if the related Money Market LIBOR Borrowing
were a Committed Euro-Dollar Borrowing) plus (or minus) the Money Market Margin
quoted by the Bank making such Loan in accordance with Section 2.03. Each
Money Market Absolute Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof, for the Interest Period applicable thereto, at a rate
per annum equal to the Money Market Absolute Rate quoted by the Bank making
such Loan in accordance with Section 2.03. Such interest shall be payable for
each Interest Period on the last day thereof and, if such Interest Period is
longer than three months, at intervals of three months after the first day
thereof. Any overdue principal of or interest on any Money Market Loan shall
bear interest, payable on demand, for each day until paid at a rate per annum
equal to the sum of 2% plus the Base Rate for such day.
(f) The Agent shall determine each interest rate applicable to
the Loans hereunder. The Agent shall give prompt notice to the Company and the
participating Banks of each rate of interest so determined, and its
determination thereof shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(g) Each Reference Bank agrees to use its best efforts to furnish
quotations to the Agent as contemplated by this Section. If any Reference Bank
does not furnish a timely quotation, the Agent shall determine the relevant
interest rate on the basis of the quotation or quotations furnished by the
remaining Reference Bank or Banks or, if none of such quotations is available
on a timely basis, the provisions of Section 8.01 shall apply.
SECTION 2.08. FACILITY FEE. The Company shall pay to the Agent
for the account of the Banks ratably a facility fee at the Facility Fee Rate
(determined daily in accordance with the Pricing Schedule). Such facility fee
shall accrue (i) from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the
Termination Date (or earlier date of termination of the Commitments in their
entirety), on the daily aggregate amount of the Commitments (whether used or
unused) and (ii) from and including the Termination Date or
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such earlier date of termination to but excluding the date the Loans shall be
repaid in their entirety, on the daily aggregate outstanding principal amount
of the Loans. Accrued fees under this Section shall be payable quarterly in
arrears on each February 8, May 8, August 8 and November 8 and upon the date of
termination of the Commitments in their entirety (and, if later, the date the
Loans shall be repaid in their entirety).
SECTION 2.09. OPTIONAL TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF COMMITMENTS.
During the Revolving Credit Period, the Company may, upon at least three
Domestic Business Days' notice to the Agent, (i) terminate the Commitments at
any time, if no Loans are outstanding at such time or (ii) ratably reduce from
time to time by an aggregate amount of $25,000,000 or any larger multiple
thereof, the aggregate amount of the Commitments in excess of the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Loans.
SECTION 2.10. SCHEDULED TERMINATION OF COMMITMENTS. The
Commitments shall terminate on the Termination Date, and any Loans then
outstanding (together with accrued interest thereon) shall be due and payable
on such date.
SECTION 2.11. OPTIONAL PREPAYMENTS. (a) Subject in the case of
any Fixed Rate Borrowing to Section 2.13, the Company may, upon at least one
Domestic Business Day's notice to the Agent, prepay any Base Rate Borrowing (or
any Money Market Borrowing bearing interest at the Base Rate pursuant to
Section 8.01(a)), upon at least two Domestic Business Days' notice to the
Agent, prepay any CD Borrowing or upon at least three Euro-Dollar Business
Days' notice to the Agent, prepay any Euro-Dollar Borrowing, in each case in
whole at any time, or from time to time in part in amounts aggregating
$25,000,000 or any larger multiple of $1,000,000, by paying the principal
amount to be prepaid together with accrued interest thereon to the date of
prepayment. Each such optional prepayment shall be applied to prepay ratably
the Loans of the several Banks included in such Borrowing.
(b) Except as provided in Section 2.11(a), the Company may not
prepay all or any portion of the principal amount of any Money Market Loan
prior to the maturity thereof.
(c) Upon receipt of a notice of prepayment pursuant to this
Section, the Agent shall promptly notify each Bank of the contents thereof and
of such Bank's ratable share (if any) of such prepayment and such notice shall
not thereafter be revocable by the Company.
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SECTION 2.12. GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO PAYMENTS. (a) The Company
shall make each payment of principal of, and interest on, the Loans and of fees
hereunder, not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date when due,
in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City, to the Agent
at its address referred to in Section 9.01. The Agent will promptly distribute
to each Bank its ratable share of each such payment received by the Agent for
the account of the Banks. Whenever any payment of principal of, or interest
on, the Domestic Loans or of fees shall be due on a day which is not a Domestic
Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the next
succeeding Domestic Business Day. Whenever any payment of principal of, or
interest on, the Euro-Dollar Loans shall be due on a day which is not a
Euro-Dollar Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the
next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day unless such Euro-Dollar Business Day
falls in another calendar month, in which case the date for payment thereof
shall be the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business Day. Whenever any payment of
principal of, or interest on, the Money Market Loans shall be due on a day
which is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day. If the date for any
payment of principal is extended by operation of law or otherwise, interest
thereon shall be payable for such extended time.
(b) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from the Company
prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Banks hereunder that the
Company will not make such payment in full, the Agent may assume that the
Company has made such payment in full to the Agent on such date and the Agent
may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each Bank on
such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Bank. If and to the
extent that the Company shall not have so made such payment, each Bank shall
repay to the Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Bank
together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is
distributed to such Bank until the date such Bank repays such amount to the
Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.
SECTION 2.13. FUNDING LOSSES. If the Company makes any payment
of principal with respect to any Fixed Rate Loan (pursuant to Article II, VI or
VIII or otherwise) on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto, or the last day of an applicable period fixed pursuant to
Section 2.07(d), or if the Company fails to borrow or prepay any Fixed Rate
Loans after notice has been given to any Bank in accordance with Section
2.04(a) or 2.11(c), the Company shall reimburse each Bank within 15 days after
demand for any resulting loss or expense incurred by it (or by an existing or
prospective Participant in the
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related Loan), including (without limitation) any loss incurred in obtaining,
liquidating or employing deposits from third parties, but excluding loss of
margin for the period after any such payment or failure to borrow or prepay,
PROVIDED that such Bank shall have delivered to the Company a certificate as to
the amount of such loss or expense, which certificate shall be conclusive in
the absence of manifest error.
SECTION 2.14. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST AND FEES. Interest based
on the Prime Rate hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365
days (or 366 days in a leap year) and paid for the actual number of days
elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). All other
interest and fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and paid
for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding
the last day).
SECTION 2.15. REGULATION D COMPENSATION. Each Bank may require
the Company to pay, contemporaneously with each payment of interest on the
Euro-Dollar Loans, additional interest on the related Euro-Dollar Loan of such
Bank at a rate per annum determined by such Bank up to but not exceeding the
excess of (i) (A) the applicable London Interbank Offered Rate divided by (B)
one MINUS the Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage over (ii) the applicable London
Interbank Offered Rate. Any Bank wishing to require payment of such additional
interest (x) shall so notify the Company and the Agent, in which case such
additional interest on the Euro-Dollar Loans of such Bank shall be payable to
such Bank at the place indicated in such notice with respect to each Interest
Period commencing at least three Euro-Dollar Business Days after the giving of
such notice and (y) shall notify the Company at least five Euro-Dollar Business
Days prior to each date on which interest is payable on the Euro-Dollar Loans
of the amount then due it under this Section.
"Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage" means for any day that percentage
(expressed as a decimal) which is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor), for
determining the maximum reserve requirement for a member bank of the Federal
Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding five billion dollars in
respect of "Eurocurrency liabilities" (or in respect of any other category of
liabilities which includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on
Euro-Dollar Loans is determined or any category of extensions of credit or
other assets which includes loans by a non-United States office of any Bank to
United States residents).
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ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS
SECTION 3.01. EFFECTIVENESS. This Agreement shall become
effective on the date that each of the following conditions shall have been
satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.05):
(a) receipt by the Agent of counterparts hereof signed by each of
the parties hereto (or, in the case of any party as to which an executed
counterpart shall not have been received, receipt by the Agent in form
satisfactory to it of telegraphic, telex or other written confirmation from
such party of execution of a counterpart hereof by such party);
(b) receipt by the Agent of a duly executed Note for the account
of each Bank dated on or before the Effective Date complying with the
provisions of Section 2.05;
(c) receipt by the Agent of an opinion of the General Counsel of
the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto and covering
such additional matters relating to the transactions contemplated hereby as
the Required Banks may reasonably request;
(d) receipt by the Agent of an opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell,
special counsel for the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit F
hereto and covering such additional matters relating to the transactions
contemplated hereby as the Required Banks may reasonably request;
(e) receipt by the Agent of all documents the Agent may
reasonably request relating to the existence of the Company, the corporate
authority for and the validity of this Agreement and the Notes, and any
other matters relevant hereto, all in form and substance satisfactory to
the Agent; and
(f) receipt by the Agent of evidence satisfactory to it of the
payment of all principal of and interest on any loans outstanding under,
and of payment or provision for payment of all other amounts payable under,
the Existing Credit Agreements;
PROVIDED that this Agreement shall not become effective or be binding on any
party hereto unless all of the foregoing conditions are satisfied not later
than November , 1994. The Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the
Banks of
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the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding on all
parties hereto. The Banks that are parties to the Existing Credit Agreements
and the Company agree that the commitments under the Existing Credit Agreements
shall terminate in their entirety simultaneously with and subject to the
effectiveness of this Agreement and that the Company shall be obligated to pay
the accrued commitment and facility fees thereunder to but excluding the date
of such effectiveness. It is understood that the foregoing does not restrict
the right of the Company and any bank to enter into any other mutually
satisfactory credit agreement.
SECTION 3.02. BORROWINGS. The obligation of any Bank to make a
Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing is subject to the satisfaction of the
following conditions:
(a) receipt by the Agent of a Notice of Borrowing as required by
Section 2.02 or 2.03, as the case may be;
(b) the fact that, immediately after such Borrowing, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans will not exceed the
aggregate amount of the Commitments;
(c) the fact that, immediately before and after such Borrowing,
no Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(d) the fact that the representations and warranties of the
Company contained in Sections 4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 shall be true on and as
of the date of such Borrowing.
Each Borrowing hereunder shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by
the Company on the date of such Borrowing as to the facts specified in clause
(d) of this Section.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Company represents and warrants that, on and as of the
Effective Date:
SECTION 4.01. CORPORATE EXISTENCE AND POWER. The Company is a
corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of Delaware, and has all corporate powers and all material governmental
licenses,
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authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business.
SECTION 4.02. CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATION; NO
CONTRAVENTION. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this
Agreement and the Notes are within the Company's corporate powers, have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, require no action by or in
respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official, do not
contravene any provision of applicable law or regulation or of the certificate
of incorporation or by-laws of the Company and do not contravene, or constitute
a material default under, any debt instrument known to the Company to be
binding upon it.
SECTION 4.03. BINDING EFFECT. This Agreement constitutes a valid
and binding agreement of the Company and each Note, when executed and delivered
in accordance with this Agreement, will constitute a valid and binding
obligation of the Company, in each case enforceable in accordance with its
terms.
SECTION 4.04. FINANCIAL INFORMATION.
(a) The consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries as of September 30, 1993 and the related consolidated
statements of income and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, reported on
by independent public accountants and set forth in the Company's 1993 Form
10-K, a copy of which has been delivered to each of the Banks, fairly present,
in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, the consolidated
financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such
date and their consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such
fiscal year.
(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of June 30, 1994 and the related unaudited
consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the nine months then
ended, set forth in the Company's June 1994 Form 10-Q, a copy of which has been
delivered to each of the Banks, fairly present, in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles applied on a basis consistent with the financial
statements referred to in subsection (a) of this Section, the consolidated
financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such
date and their consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such
nine-month period (subject to normal year-end adjustments).
(c) From June 30, 1994 to the Effective Date, there has been no
material adverse change in the financial
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condition, business or operations of the Company and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 4.05. LITIGATION. Except as disclosed in the Company's
1993 Form 10-K and in the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the
quarters ended December 31, 1993, March 31, 1994 and June 30, 1994, there is no
action, suit or proceeding pending against, or to the knowledge of the Company
threatened against or affecting, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries before
any court or arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official, in which
there is a reasonable probability of an adverse decision which could materially
adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated
results of operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries,
considered as a whole, or which in any manner draws into question the validity
of this Agreement or the Notes.
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
The Company agrees that, so long as any Bank has any Commitment
hereunder or any amount payable under any Note remains unpaid:
SECTION 5.01. INFORMATION. The Company will deliver to each of
the Banks:
(a) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company, the Company's Annual Report to Shareowners and annual report on
Form 10-K for such fiscal year, as filed with the Commission;
(b) within 60 days after the end of each of the first three
quarters of each fiscal year of the Company, the Company's quarterly report
on Form 10-Q for such fiscal quarter, as filed with the Commission;
(c) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of financial
statements referred to in clause (a), a certificate of the chief financial
officer, the treasurer or the controller of the Company stating whether any
Default exists on the date of such financial statements;
(d) within 10 days after the chief financial officer, the
treasurer or the controller of the Company obtains knowledge of any
Default, if such Default is then continuing, a certificate of the chief
financial officer, the treasurer or the controller of the Company setting
forth the details thereof;
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(e) promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of all reports on
Form 8-K (or its equivalent) which the Company shall have filed with the
Commission; and
(f) from time to time such additional information regarding the
financial position or business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as the
Agent, at the request of any Bank, may reasonably request.
SECTION 5.02. MAINTENANCE OF EXISTENCE. The Company will
preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and
its rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal
conduct of business; PROVIDED that nothing in this Section 5.02 shall prohibit
a merger or consolidation permitted by Section 5.05.
SECTION 5.03. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. The Company will comply in
all material respects with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations,
and requirements of governmental authorities (including, without limitation,
environmental laws and ERISA and the rules and regulations thereunder) except
where (i) the necessity of compliance therewith is contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings or (ii) non-compliance would not, in the reasonable
judgment of the Company, have a material adverse effect on the financial
condition, business or operation of the Company and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 5.04. USE OF PROCEEDS. The proceeds of the Loans made
under this Agreement will be used by the Company for its general corporate
purposes, including but not limited to commercial paper backstop, acquisitions
and stock repurchases. None of such proceeds will be used in violation of
Regulation G, T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
SECTION 5.05. INDENTURE COVENANTS. The Company hereby agrees
to perform for the benefit of the Agent and the Banks each of its covenants set
forth in Sections 8-1, 8-2 and 8-3 and Sections 10-5, 10-6, 10-8, 10-9 and
10-10 of the Indenture, copies of which have been furnished to each of Banks,
which provisions, together with related definitions and ancillary provisions,
are hereby incorporated herein as if fully set forth herein; PROVIDED that (a)
for purposes of such incorporation by reference, (i) except for purposes of
clause (b)(ii) of Section 10-6 of the Indenture, references to the "Securities"
or the like shall be deemed references to the Notes and other obligations of
the Company hereunder, (ii) references to the "holders of the Securities" or
the like shall be deemed
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references to the "Banks", (iii) references to the "Trustee" shall be deemed to
be references to the "Agent" and (iv) except for purposes of clause (a) of
Section 10-5 of the Indenture, references to "this Indenture" or the like shall
be deemed references to this Agreement and (b) any amendment, supplement,
waiver or other modification to or termination of the Indenture shall be
effective for purposes of this Section 5.05 if, and only if, the Required Banks
shall have consented thereto in writing.
ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS
SECTION 6.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. If one or more of the following
events ("Events of Default") shall have occurred and be continuing:
(a) the Company shall fail to pay when due any principal of any
Loan, or shall fail to pay within 10 days of the due date thereof any
interest on any Loan, any fees or any other amount payable hereunder;
(b) the Company shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or
agreement contained in Article V for 60 days after notice thereof has been
given to the Company by the Agent at the request of any Bank;
(c) any representation or warranty made by the Company (i) in
Article IV on the Effective Date or (ii) pursuant to Section 3.02 on the
date of any Borrowing shall prove to have been incorrect in any material
respect when made (or deemed made);
(d) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to pay the
principal of or interest on Material Debt when due, or within any
applicable grace period, in accordance with the instrument or agreement
under which the same was created;
(e) any event or condition shall occur (including failure to
pay principal or interest) which results in the acceleration of the
maturity of Material Debt;
(f) the entry of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now constituted or hereafter
amended, or any other applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian,
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trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation
of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed
and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(g) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case under the
Federal bankruptcy laws, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any
other applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law, or the consent by it to the appointment of or taking possession by a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its
property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by
the Company in furtherance of any such action;
then, and in every such event, the Agent shall (i) if requested by Banks having
more than 50% in aggregate amount of the Commitments, by notice to the Company
terminate the Commitments and they shall thereupon terminate, and (ii) if
requested by Banks holding Notes evidencing more than 50% in aggregate
principal amount of the Loans, by notice to the Company declare the Notes
(together with accrued interest thereon) to be, and the Notes shall thereupon
become, immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or
other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Company;
PROVIDED that in the case of any of the Events of Default specified in clause
(f) or (g) above, without any notice to the Company or any other act by the
Agent or the Banks, the Commitments shall thereupon terminate and the Notes
(together with accrued interest thereon) shall become immediately due and
payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all
of which are hereby waived by the Company.
SECTION 6.02. NOTICE OF DEFAULT. The Agent shall give notice to
the Company under Section 6.01(b) promptly upon being requested to do so by any
Bank and shall thereupon notify all the Banks thereof.
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ARTICLE VII
THE AGENT
SECTION 7.01. APPOINTMENT AND AUTHORIZATION. Each Bank
irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on
its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and the Notes as
are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with all
such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
SECTION 7.02. AGENT AND AFFILIATES. Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company of New York shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement
as any other Bank and may exercise or refrain from exercising the same as
though it were not the Agent, and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and
its affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in
any kind of business with the Company or any Subsidiary or affiliate of the
Company as if it were not the Agent hereunder.
SECTION 7.03. ACTION BY AGENT. The obligations of the Agent
hereunder are only those expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Agent shall not be required to take any action
with respect to any Default, except as expressly provided in Article VI.
SECTION 7.04. CONSULTATION WITH EXPERTS. The Agent may consult
with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Company), independent public
accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.
SECTION 7.05. LIABILITY OF AGENT. Neither the Agent nor any of
its affiliates nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or
employees shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in connection
herewith (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Banks or (ii)
in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Neither the
Agent nor any of its affiliates nor any of their respective directors,
officers, agents or employees shall be responsible for or have any duty to
ascertain, inquire into or verify (i) any statement, warranty or representation
made in connection with this Agreement or any borrowing hereunder; (ii) the
performance or observance of any of the covenants or agreements of the Company;
(iii) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Article III, except
receipt of items required to be delivered to the Agent; or (iv) the validity,
effectiveness
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or genuineness of this Agreement, the Notes or any other instrument or writing
furnished in connection herewith. The Agent shall not incur any liability by
acting in reliance upon any notice, consent, certificate, statement, or other
writing (which may be a bank wire, telex, facsimile transmission or similar
writing) believed by it to be genuine or to be signed by the proper party or
parties.
SECTION 7.06. INDEMNIFICATION. Each Bank shall, ratably in
accordance with its Commitment, indemnify the Agent, its affiliates and their
respective directors, officers, agents and employees (to the extent not
reimbursed by the Company) against any cost, expense (including counsel fees
and disbursements), claim, demand, action, loss or liability (except such as
result from such indemnitees' gross negligence or willful misconduct) that such
indemnitees may suffer or incur in connection with this Agreement or any action
taken or omitted by such indemnitees hereunder.
SECTION 7.07. CREDIT DECISION. Each Bank acknowledges that it
has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Bank, and
based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its
own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Bank also
acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or
any other Bank, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking any action under this Agreement.
SECTION 7.08. SUCCESSOR AGENT. The Agent may resign at any time
by giving 30 days' notice thereof to the Banks and the Company. Upon any such
resignation, the Required Banks shall have the right to appoint a successor
Agent. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required
Banks, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the
retiring Agent gives notice of resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on
behalf of the Banks, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a commercial
bank organized or licensed under the laws of the United States of America or of
any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Agent hereunder by a
successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become
vested with all the rights and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring
Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After any
retiring Agent's resignation hereunder as Agent, the provisions of this Article
shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it
while it was Agent.
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SECTION 7.09. AGENT'S FEE. The Company shall pay to the Agent
for its own account fees in the amounts and at the times previously agreed upon
between the Company and the Agent.
ARTICLE VIII
CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
SECTION 8.01. BASIS FOR DETERMINING INTEREST RATE INADEQUATE OR
UNFAIR. If on or prior to the first day of any Interest Period for any Fixed
Rate Borrowing:
(a) the Agent is advised by the Reference Banks that deposits in
dollars (in the applicable amounts) are not being offered to the Reference
Banks in the relevant market for such Interest Period, or
(b) in the case of a Committed Borrowing, Banks having 50% or
more of the aggregate amount of the Commitments advise the Agent that the
Adjusted CD Rate or the London Interbank Offered Rate, as the case may be,
as determined by the Agent will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost
to such Banks of funding their CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case
may be, for such Interest Period,
the Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Company and the Banks,
whereupon until the Agent notifies the Company that the circumstances giving
rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligations of the Banks to make
CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case may be, shall be suspended. Unless
the Company notifies the Agent at least two Domestic Business Days before the
date of any Fixed Rate Borrowing for which a Notice of Borrowing has previously
been given that it elects not to borrow on such date, (i) if such Fixed Rate
Borrowing is a Committed Borrowing, such Borrowing shall instead be made as a
Base Rate Borrowing and (ii) if such Fixed Rate Borrowing is a Money Market
LIBOR Borrowing, the Money Market LIBOR Loans comprising such Borrowing shall
bear interest for each day from and including the first day to but excluding
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto at the Base Rate for
such day.
SECTION 8.02. ILLEGALITY. If, on or after the date of this
Agreement, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any
change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change in the
interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority,
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central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by any Bank (or its Euro-Dollar Lending
Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law)
of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall make it unlawful
or impossible for any Bank (or its Euro-Dollar Lending Office) to make,
maintain or fund its Euro-Dollar Loans and such Bank shall so notify the Agent,
the Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the other Banks and the
Company, whereupon until such Bank notifies the Company and the Agent that the
circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of
such Bank to make Euro-Dollar Loans shall be suspended. Before giving any
notice to the Agent pursuant to this Section, such Bank shall designate a
different Euro-Dollar Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need
for giving such notice and will not, in the sole judgment of such Bank, be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Bank. If such Bank shall determine that it
may not lawfully continue to maintain and fund any of its outstanding
Euro-Dollar Loans to maturity and shall so specify in such notice, the Company
shall immediately prepay in full the then outstanding principal amount of each
such Euro-Dollar Loan, together with accrued interest thereon. Concurrently
with prepaying each such Euro-Dollar Loan, the Company shall borrow a Base Rate
Loan in an equal principal amount from such Bank (on which interest and
principal shall be payable contemporaneously with the related Euro-Dollar Loans
of the other Banks), and such Bank shall make such a Base Rate Loan.
SECTION 8.03. INCREASED COST AND REDUCED RETURN. (a) If on or
after (x) the date hereof, in the case of any Committed Loan or any obligation
to make Committed Loans or (y) the date of the related Money Market Quote, in
the case of any Money Market Loan, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or
regulation, or any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any
change 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 any Bank (or its Applicable Lending
Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law)
of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall impose, modify
or deem applicable any reserve (including, without limitation, any such
requirement imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
but excluding (i) with respect to any CD Loan any such requirement included in
an applicable Domestic Reserve Percentage and (ii) with respect to any
Euro-Dollar Loan any such requirement included in an applicable Euro-Dollar
Reserve Percentage), special deposit, insurance assessment (excluding, with
respect to any CD Loan, any such
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requirement reflected in an applicable Assessment Rate) or similar requirement
against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by,
any Bank (or its Applicable Lending Office) or shall impose on any Bank (or its
Applicable Lending Office) or on the United States market for certificates of
deposit or the London interbank market any other condition affecting its Fixed
Rate Loans, its Note or its obligation to make Fixed Rate Loans and the result
of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Bank (or its Applicable
Lending Office) of making or maintaining any Fixed Rate Loan, or to reduce the
amount of any sum received or receivable by such Bank (or its Applicable
Lending Office) under this Agreement or under its Note with respect thereto, by
an amount deemed by such Bank to be material, then, within 15 days after demand
by such Bank (with a copy to the Agent), the Company shall pay to such Bank
such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Bank for such
increased cost or reduction.
(b) If any Bank shall have determined that, after the date
hereof, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation regarding
capital adequacy, or any change in any such law, rule or regulation, or any
change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental
authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or any request or directive regarding capital adequacy
(whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or
comparable agency, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return
on capital of such Bank (or its Parent) as a consequence of such Bank's
obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Bank (or its Parent)
could have achieved but for such adoption, change, request or directive (taking
into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount
deemed by such Bank to be material, then from time to time, within 15 days
after demand by such Bank (with a copy to the Agent), the Company shall pay to
such Bank such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Bank (or
its Parent) for such reduction.
(c) Each Bank will promptly notify the Company and the Agent of
any event of which it has knowledge, occurring after the date hereof, which
will entitle such Bank to compensation pursuant to this Section and will
designate a different Applicable Lending Office if such designation will avoid
the need for, or reduce the amount of, such compensation and will not, in the
sole judgment of such Bank, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Bank. A
certificate of any Bank claiming compensation under this Section and setting
forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. In determining such amount, such
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Bank may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods. Notwithstanding
the foregoing subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 8.03, the Company shall
only be obligated to compensate any Bank for any amount arising or accruing
during (i) any time or period commencing not more than 90 days prior to the
date on which such Bank notifies the Agent and the Company that it proposes to
demand such compensation and identifies to the Agent and the Company the
statute, regulation or other basis upon which the claimed compensation is or
will be based and (ii) any time or period during which, because of the
retroactive application of such statute, regulation or other such basis, such
Bank did not know that such amount would arise or accrue.
SECTION 8.04. TAXES. (a) For purposes of this Section 8.04,
the following terms have the following meanings:
"Taxes" means any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings with respect to any payment by the
Company pursuant to this Agreement or under any Note, and all liabilities with
respect thereto, EXCLUDING (i) in the case of each Bank and the Agent, taxes
imposed on its income, and franchise or similar taxes imposed on it, by a
jurisdiction under the laws of which such Bank or the Agent (as the case may
be) is organized or in which its principal executive office is located or, in
the case of each Bank, in which its Applicable Lending Office is located or by
any State, possession or territory of the United States in which such Bank or
the Agent (as the case may be) is doing business and (ii) in the case of each
Bank, any United States withholding tax imposed on such payments but only to
the extent that such Bank is subject to United States withholding tax at the
time such Bank first becomes a party to this Agreement.
"Other Taxes" means any present or future stamp or documentary
taxes and any other excise or property taxes, or similar charges or levies,
which arise from any payment made pursuant to this Agreement or under any Note
or from the execution or delivery of, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any Note.
(b) Any and all payments by the Company to or for the account
of any Bank or the Agent hereunder or under any Note shall be made without
deduction for any Taxes or Other Taxes; PROVIDED that, if the Company shall be
required by law to deduct any Taxes or Other Taxes from any such payments, (i)
the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all
required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable
under this Section 8.04) such Bank or the Agent (as the case may be) receives
an amount equal to the sum it would have
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received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Company shall make such
deductions, (iii) the Company shall pay the full amount deducted to the
relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable
law and (iv) the Company shall furnish to the Agent, at its address referred to
in Section 9.01, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing
payment thereof.
(c) The Company agrees to indemnify each Bank and the
Agent for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without
limitation, any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on
amounts payable under this Section 8.04) paid by such Bank or the Agent (as the
case may be) and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses)
arising therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification shall be paid
within 15 days after such Bank or the Agent (as the case may be) makes demand
therefore.
(d) Each Bank organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
outside the United States, on or prior to the date of its execution and
delivery of this Agreement in the case of each Bank listed on the signature
pages hereof and on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Bank in the case
of each other Bank, and from time to time thereafter if requested in writing by
the Company (but only so long as such Bank remains lawfully able to do so),
shall provide the Company with Internal Revenue Service form 1001 or 4224, as
appropriate, or any successor form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service,
certifying that such Bank is entitled to benefits under an income tax treaty to
which the United States is a party which exempts the Bank from United States
withholding tax or reduces the rate of withholding tax on payments of interest
for the account of such Bank or certifying that the income receivable pursuant
to this Agreement is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or
business in the United States.
(e) For any period with respect to which a Bank has
failed to provide the Company with the appropriate form pursuant to Section
8.04(d) (unless such failure is due to a change in treaty, law or regulation
occurring subsequent to the date on which such form originally was required to
be provided), such Bank shall not be entitled to indemnification under Section
8.04(b) or (c) with respect to Taxes imposed by the United States; PROVIDED
that if a Bank, which is otherwise exempt from or subject to a reduced rate of
withholding tax, becomes subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a
form required hereunder, the Company shall take such steps as such Bank shall
reasonably request to assist such Bank to recover such Taxes.
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(f) If the Company is required to pay additional amounts
to or for the account of any Bank pursuant to this Section 8.04, then such Bank
will change the jurisdiction of its Applicable Lending Office if, in the sole
judgment of such Bank, such change (i) will eliminate or reduce any such
additional payment which may thereafter accrue and (ii) is not otherwise
disadvantageous to such Bank.
SECTION 8.05. BASE RATE LOANS SUBSTITUTED FOR AFFECTED FIXED
RATE LOANS. If (i) the obligation of any Bank to make Euro-Dollar Loans has
been suspended pursuant to Section 8.02 or (ii) any Bank has demanded
compensation under Section 8.03 or 8.04 with respect to its CD Loans or
Euro-Dollar Loans and the Company shall, by at least five Euro-Dollar Business
Days' prior notice to such Bank through the Agent, have elected that the
provisions of this Section shall apply to such Bank, then, unless and until
such Bank notifies the Company that the circumstances giving rise to such
suspension or demand for compensation no longer exist:
(a) all Loans which would otherwise be made by such Bank as
CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case may be, shall be made
instead as Base Rate Loans (on which interest and principal shall be
payable contemporaneously with the related Fixed Rate Loans of the
other Banks), and
(b) after each of its CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the
case may be, has been repaid, all payments of principal which would
otherwise be applied to repay such Fixed Rate Loans shall be applied
to repay its Base Rate Loans instead.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01. NOTICES. All notices, requests and other
communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including bank wire,
telex, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given to such
party: (x) in the case of the Company or the Agent, at its address, facsimile
number or telex number set forth on the signature pages hereof, (y) in the case
of any Bank, at its address, facsimile number or telex number set forth in its
Administrative Questionnaire or (z) in the case of any party, such other
address, facsimile number or telex number as such party may hereafter specify
for the purpose by notice to the Agent and the Company. Each such notice,
request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by telex, when
such telex is transmitted to the telex
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number specified in this Section and the appropriate answerback is
received, (ii) if given by facsimile transmission, when transmitted to the
facsimile number specified in this Section and confirmation of receipt is
received, (iii) if given by mail, 72 hours after such communication is
deposited in the mails with first class postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid
or (iv) if given by any other means, when delivered at the address specified in
this Section; PROVIDED that notices to the Agent under Article II or Article
VIII shall not be effective until received.
SECTION 9.02. NO WAIVERS. No failure or delay by the Agent
or any Bank in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any
Note shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise
thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided shall
be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
SECTION 9.03. EXPENSES; INDEMNIFICATION. (a) The Company
shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent, including
fees and disbursements of special counsel for the Agent, in connection with the
preparation and administration of this Agreement, any waiver or consent
hereunder or any amendment hereof or any Default or alleged Default hereunder
and (ii) if an Event of Default occurs, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred by the Agent and each Bank, including (without duplication) the fees
and disbursements of outside counsel and the allocated cost of inside counsel,
in connection with such Event of Default and collection, bankruptcy, insolvency
and other enforcement proceedings resulting therefrom.
(b) The Company agrees to indemnify the Agent and each Bank,
their respective affiliates and the respective directors, officers, agents and
employees of the foregoing (each an "Indemnitee") and hold each Indemnitee
harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, costs and
expenses of any kind, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel, which may be incurred by such Indemnitee in
connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding
(whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a party thereto) brought or
threatened relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any actual or
proposed use of proceeds of Loans hereunder; PROVIDED that no Indemnitee shall
have the right to be indemnified hereunder for such Indemnitee's own gross
negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
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SECTION 9.04. SHARING OF SET-OFFS. Each Bank agrees that if
it shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise,
receive payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of principal and
interest due with respect to any Note held by it which is greater than the
proportion received by any other Bank in respect of the aggregate amount of
principal and interest due with respect to any Note held by such other Bank,
the Bank receiving such proportionately greater payment shall purchase such
participations in the Notes held by the other Banks, and such other adjustments
shall be made, as may be required so that all such payments of principal and
interest with respect to the Notes held by the Banks shall be shared by the
Banks pro rata; PROVIDED that nothing in this Section shall impair the right of
any Bank to exercise any right of set-off or counterclaim it may have and to
apply the amount subject to such exercise to the payment of indebtedness of the
Company other than its indebtedness hereunder. The Company agrees, to the
fullest extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any holder
of a participation in a Note, if acquired pursuant to the foregoing
arrangements or if the Company has otherwise received notice of the granting of
such participation, may exercise rights of set-off or counterclaim and other
rights with respect to such participation as fully as if such holder of a
participation were a direct creditor of the Company in the amount of such
participation.
SECTION 9.05. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any provision of this
Agreement or the Notes may be amended or waived if, but only if, such amendment
or waiver is in writing and is signed by the Company and the Required Banks
(and, if the rights or duties of the Agent are affected thereby, by the Agent);
PROVIDED that no such amendment or waiver shall, unless signed by all the
Banks, (i) increase or decrease the Commitment of any Bank (except for a
ratable decrease in the Commitments of all Banks) or subject any Bank to any
additional obligation, (ii) reduce the principal of or rate of interest on any
Loan or any fees hereunder, (iii) postpone the date fixed for any payment of
principal of or interest on any Loan or any fees hereunder or for termination
of any Commitment or (iv) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Notes, or the number of Banks, which
shall be required for the Banks or any of them to take any action under this
Section or any other provision of this Agreement.
SECTION 9.06. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. (a) The provisions of
this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties
hereto and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Company may
not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights under this Agreement without
the prior written consent of all Banks.
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(b) Any Bank may at any time grant to one or more banks or
other institutions (each a "Participant") participating interests in its
Commitment or any or all of its Loans. In the event of any such grant by a
Bank of a participating interest to a Participant, whether or not upon notice
to the Company and the Agent, such Bank shall remain responsible for the
performance of its obligations hereunder, and the Company and the Agent shall
continue to deal solely and directly with such Bank in connection with such
Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to
which any Bank may grant such a participating interest shall provide that such
Bank shall retain the sole right and responsibility to enforce the obligations
of the Company hereunder including, without limitation, the right to approve
any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement;
PROVIDED that such participation agreement may provide that such Bank will not
agree to any modification, amendment or waiver of this Agreement described in
clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) of Section 9.05 without the consent of the
Participant. The Company agrees that each Participant shall, to the extent
provided in its participation agreement, be entitled to the benefits of Article
VIII with respect to its participating interest. An assignment or other
transfer which is not permitted by subsection (c) or (d) below shall be given
effect for purposes of this Agreement only to the extent of a participating
interest granted in accordance with this subsection (b).
(c) Any Bank may at any time assign to one or more banks or
other institutions (each an "Assignee") all, or a proportionate part
(equivalent to an initial Commitment of not less than $10,000,000) of all, of
its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Notes, and such
Assignee shall assume such rights and obligations, pursuant to an Assignment
and Assumption Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto executed
by such Assignee and such transferor Bank, with (and subject to) the subscribed
consent of the Company and the Agent; PROVIDED that such assignment may, but
need not, include rights of the transferor Bank in respect of outstanding Money
Market Loans. Upon execution and delivery of such instrument and payment by
such Assignee to such transferor Bank of an amount equal to the purchase price
agreed between such transferor Bank and such Assignee, such Assignee shall be a
Bank party to this Agreement and shall have all the rights and obligations of a
Bank with a Commitment as set forth in such instrument of assumption, and the
transferor Bank shall be released from its obligations hereunder to a
corresponding extent, and no further consent or action by any party shall be
required. Upon the consummation of any assignment pursuant to this subsection
(c), the transferor
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Bank, the Agent and the Company shall make appropriate arrangements so that, if
required, a new Note is issued to the Assignee. In connection with any such
assignment, the transferor Bank shall pay to the Agent an administrative fee
for processing such assignment in the amount of $2,500. If the Assignee is not
incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof,
it shall deliver to the Company and the Agent certification as to exemption
from deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes in
accordance with Section 8.04.
(d) Any Bank may at any time assign all or any portion of its
rights under this Agreement and its Note to a Federal Reserve Bank. No such
assignment shall release the transferor Bank from its obligations hereunder.
(e) No Assignee, Participant or other transferee of any
Bank's rights shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section
8.03 or 8.04 than such Bank would have been entitled to receive with respect to
the rights transferred, unless such transfer is made with the Company's prior
written consent or by reason of the provisions of Section 8.02, 8.03 or 8.04
requiring such Bank to designate a different Applicable Lending Office under
certain circumstances or at a time when the circumstances giving rise to such
greater payment did not exist.
SECTION 9.07. COLLATERAL. Each of the Banks represents to
the Agent and each of the other Banks that it in good faith is not relying upon
any "margin stock" (as defined in Regulation U) as collateral in the extension
or maintenance of the credit provided for in this Agreement.
SECTION 9.08. GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION.
This Agreement and each Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New York. The Company hereby submits to the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York and of any New York State court sitting in New York City
for purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company irrevocably
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now
or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in
such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has
been brought in an inconvenient forum.
SECTION 9.09. COUNTERPARTS; INTEGRATION. This Agreement may
be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original,
with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same
instrument. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
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and understanding among the parties hereto and supersedes any and all prior
agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter
hereof.
SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE Company, THE
AGENT AND THE BANKS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY
JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By /s/ Lee H. Cramer
--------------------------
Title: Vice President and
Treasurer
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Telex number:
Facsimile number:
Commitments
- -----------
$130,000,000 MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
By /s/ Laura E. Reim
--------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 80,000,000 CHEMICAL BANK
By /s/ Robert M. Wood, Jr.
-------------------------- .
Title: Vice President
$ 80,000,000 BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST
AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
By /s/ John M. Dillon
--------------------------
Title:
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 80,000,000 THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Lawrence K. Williamson
-----------------------------
Title: Managing Director
$ 80,000,000 DEUTSCHE BANK AG AND/OR CAYMAN
ISLANDS BRANCHES
By /s/ Jeffrey N. Wieser
-----------------------------
Title: Director
By /s/ Gregory M. Hill
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 80,000,000 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
CHICAGO
By /s/ Kenneth A. Hirsch
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 80,000,000 FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF
CALIFORNIA
By [SIGNATURE]
-----------------------------
Title: Senior VP
By /s/ Wendy Purcell
-----------------------------
Title: Assistant VP
$ 80,000,000 MELLON BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Frederick W. Okie
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 80,000,000 PNC BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Louann E. Tronsberg
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 80,000,000 UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND
By /s/ Robert W. Casey, Jr.
-----------------------------
Title: VP
By /s/ Laurant Chaix
-----------------------------
Title: Assistant Vice President
$ 60,000,000 THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN
TRUST COMPANY
By [SIGNATURE]
-----------------------------
Title: Senior Vice President &
Senior Manager
$ 60,000,000 NATIONSBANK OF NORTH CAROLINA,
N.A.
By [SIGNATURE]
-----------------------------
Title: SVP
$ 60,000,000 TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS) INC.
By /s/ Frederick B. Hawley
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 45,000,000 THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By /s/ Craig Rethmeyer
----------------------
Title: VP
$ 45,000,000 COMERICA BANK
By /s/ John Costa
-----------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 45,000,000 CREDIT LYONNAIS, NEW YORK BRANCH
By /s/ Michael J. Moretti
----------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 45,000,000 THE MITSUBISHI BANK
By /s/ Robert J. Dilloff
----------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 45,000,000 NBD BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Thomas W. Doddridge
-----------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 45,000,000 ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
By /s/ A. Birr
----------------------
Title: Senior Manager
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 45,000,000 WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION
By /s/ R. Christopher Noble
-----------------------------
Title: Senior Vice President
$ 20,000,000 THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
By /s/ A. S. Norsworthy
-----------------------------
Title: Assistant Agent
$ 20,000,000 BARCLAYS BANK PLC
By /s/ Jonathan L. Grey
-----------------------------
Title: Associate Director
$ 35,000,000 CITICORP USA, INC.
By /s/ Barbara A. Cohen
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 20,000,000 CREDIT SUISSE
By /s/ Christopher Eldin
-----------------------------
Title: Member of Senior Management
By /s/ Daniela E. Hess
-----------------------------
Title: Associate
$ 20,000,000 ISTITUTO BANCARIO SAN PAOLO DI
TORINO, S.p.A.
By /s/ Gerard M. McKenna
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 20,000,000 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
By /s/ John R. Ronstadt
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 15,000,000 FIRSTAR BANK, MILWAUKEE, N.A.
By /s/ Timothy W. Somer
-----------------------------
Title:
$ 5,000,000 BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN & CO.
By /s/ W. Carter Sullivan
-----------------------------
Title: Manager
_________________
Total Commitments
$1,500,000,000
=================
MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK, as Agent
By /s/ L. Reim
-----------------------------
Title:
60 Wall Street
New York, New York 10260-0060
Attention: L. Reim, Corporate Banking
Telex number: 177615
Facsimile number:
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PRICING SCHEDULE
The "Euro-Dollar Margin", "CD Margin", "Commitment Fee Rate"
and "Facility Fee Rate" for any day are the respective percentages set forth
below in the applicable row under the column corresponding to the Status that
exists on such day:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Level Level Level Level
Status I II III IV
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Euro-Dollar Margin 0.145 0.225 0.3625 0.50
CD Margin 0.27 0.35 0.4825 0.625
Facility Fee Rate 0.08 0.10 0.1875 0.25
</TABLE>
For purposes of this Schedule, the following terms have the
following meanings:
"Level I Status" exists at any date if, at such date, the
Company's long-term debt is rated A+ or higher by S&P and A1 or higher by
Moody's.
"Level II Status" exists at any date if, at such date, (i) the
Company's long-term debt is rated A- or higher by S&P and A3 or higher by
Moody's and (ii) Level I Status does not exist.
"Level III Status" exists at any date if, at such date, (i)
the Company's long-term debt is rated BBB- or higher by S&P and Baa3 or higher
by Moody's and (ii) neither Level I Status nor Level II Status exists.
"Level IV Status" exists at any date if, at such date, no
other Status exists.
"Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Corporation.
"Status" refers to the determination of which of Level I
Status, Level II Status, Level III Status or Level IV Status exists at any
date.
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The credit ratings to be utilized for purposes of this Schedule are
those assigned to the senior unsecured long-term debt securities of the Company
without third-party credit enhancement, and any rating assigned to any other
debt security of the Company shall be disregarded. The rating in effect at any
date is that in effect at the close of business on such date.
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EXHIBIT A
NOTE
New York, New York
,19
For value received, Rockwell International Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), promises to pay to the order of
(the "Bank"), for the account of its Applicable Lending Office,
the unpaid principal amount of each [Designate type or types of Loan, if not
all types of Loan are to be evidenced by this note] Loan made by the Bank to
the Company pursuant to the Credit Agreement referred to below on the last day
of the Interest Period relating to such Loan. The Company promises to pay
interest on the unpaid principal amount of each such Loan on the dates and at
the rate or rates provided for in the Credit Agreement. All such payments of
principal and interest shall be made in lawful money of the United States in
Federal or other immediately available funds at the office of Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, 60 Wall Street, New York, New York.
All [Designate type or types of Loan, if not all types of Loan
are to be evidenced by this note] Loans made by the Bank, the respective types
and maturities thereof and all repayments of the principal thereof shall be
recorded by the Bank and, if the Bank so elects in connection with any transfer
or enforcement hereof, appropriate notations to evidence the foregoing
information with respect to each such Loan then outstanding may be endorsed by
the Bank on the schedule attached hereto, or on a continuation of such schedule
attached to and made a part hereof; PROVIDED that the failure of the Bank to
make, or any error in making, any such recordation or endorsement shall not
affect the obligations of the Company hereunder or under the Credit Agreement.
This note is one of the Notes referred to in the Five-Year
Credit Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among the Company, the banks
listed on the signature pages
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thereof and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Agent (as the
same may be amended from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"). Terms defined
in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings. Reference is
made to the Credit Agreement for provisions for the prepayment hereof and the
acceleration of the maturity hereof.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By ________________________
Title:
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Note (cont'd)
LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
_____________________________________________________________________________
Amount of
Amount of [Type of Principal Maturity Notation
Date Loan Loan]* Repaid Date Made By
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
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*Delete if only one type of Loan is to be evidenced by this note.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF MONEY MARKET QUOTE REQUEST
[Date]
To: Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
(the "Agent")
From: Rockwell International Corporation
Re: Five-Year Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agreement")
dated as of November 9, 1994 among the Company, the
Banks listed on the signature pages thereof and the
Agent
We hereby give notice pursuant to Section 2.03 of the
Credit Agreement that we request Money Market Quotes for the following
proposed Money Market Borrowing(s):
Date of Borrowing: __________________
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT* INTEREST PERIOD**
$
Such Money Market Quotes should offer a Money Market
[Margin] [Absolute Rate]. [The applicable base rate is the London
Interbank Offered Rate.]
_________________
*Amount must be $25,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000.
**Not less than one month (LIBOR Auction) or not less than 7 days
(Absolute Rate Auction), subject to the provisions of the definition of
Interest Period.
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Terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the
Credit Agreement.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By ________________________
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF INVITATION FOR MONEY MARKET QUOTES
To: [Name of Bank]
Re: Invitation for Money Market Quotes to Rockwell International
Corporation (the "Company")
Pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Five-Year Credit Agreement
dated as of November 9, 1994 among the Company, the Banks parties thereto and
the undersigned, as Agent, we are pleased on behalf of the Company to invite
you to submit Money Market Quotes to the Company for the following proposed
Money Market Borrowing(s):
Date of Borrowing: __________________
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT INTEREST PERIOD
$
Such Money Market Quotes should offer a Money Market [Margin]
[Absolute Rate]. [The applicable base rate is the London Interbank Offered
Rate.]
Please respond to this invitation by no later than [2:00 P.M.]
[9:30 A.M.] (New York City time) on [date].
MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
By ______________________
Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF MONEY MARKET QUOTE
To: Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
as Agent
Re: Money Market Quote to Rockwell International Corporation (the
"Company")
In response to your invitation on behalf of the Company dated
_____________, 19__, we hereby make the following Money Market Quote on the
following terms:
1. Quoting Bank: ________________________________
2. Person to contact at Quoting Bank:
_____________________________
3. Date of Borrowing: ____________________*
4. We hereby offer to make Money Market Loan(s) in the following
principal amounts, for the following Interest Periods and at the
following rates:
PRINCIPAL INTEREST MONEY MARKET
AMOUNT** PERIOD*** [MARGIN****] [ABSOLUTE RATE*****]
$
$
[Provided, that the aggregate principal amount of Money Market Loans
for which the above offers may be accepted shall not exceed
$____________.]**
__________
* As specified in the related Invitation.
** Principal amount bid for each Interest Period may not exceed principal
amount requested. Specify aggregate limitation if the sum of the individual
offers exceeds the amount the Bank is willing to lend. Bids must be made for
$5,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000.
(notes continued on following page)
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We understand and agree that the offer(s) set forth above,
subject to the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in the
Five-Year Credit Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among the Company, the
Banks listed on the signature pages thereof and yourselves, as Agent,
irrevocably obligates us to make the Money Market Loan(s) for which any
offer(s) are accepted, in whole or in part.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF BANK]
Dated:_______________ By:__________________________
Authorized Officer
__________
*** Not less than one month or not less than 7 days, as specified in the
related Invitation. No more than five bids are permitted for each Interest
Period.
**** Margin over or under the London Interbank Offered Rate determined for the
applicable Interest Period. Specify percentage (to the nearest 1/10,000 of 1%)
and specify whether "PLUS" or "MINUS".
***** Specify rate of interest per annum (to the nearest 1/10,000th of 1%).
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EXHIBIT E
OPINION OF
COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
[Effective Date]
To the Banks and the Agent
Referred to Below
c/o Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, as Agent
60 Wall Street
New York, New York 10260
Dear Sirs:
I am Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of
Rockwell International Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company). In
that capacity, I have acted as counsel for the Company in connection with the
Five-Year Credit Agreement (the Credit Agreement) dated as of November 9, 1994
among the Company, the banks listed on the signature pages thereof and Morgan
Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Agent. Terms defined in the Credit
Agreement are used herein as therein defined. This opinion is being rendered
to you at the request of the Company pursuant to Section 3.01(c) of the Credit
Agreement.
I have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise
identified to my satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records,
certificates of public officials and other instruments and have conducted such
other investigations of fact and law as I have deemed necessary or advisable
for purposes of this opinion. As to questions of fact material to this
opinion, I have, when relevant facts were not independently established, relied
upon certifications of appropriate officers of the Company. In rendering this
opinion, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures (except the
signatures on behalf of the Company on the Credit Agreement and the Notes), the
authenticity of all documents submitted to me as originals and the conformity
to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to me as certified,
conformed or photostatic copies.
Upon the basis of the foregoing, I am of the opinion that:
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1. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated, validly
existing and in good standing under the law of Delaware, and has all corporate
powers and all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and
approvals required to carry on its business as now conducted.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of
the Credit Agreement and the Notes are within the Company's corporate powers;
have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, require no action
by or in respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official
of the State of New York or the United States of America; do not contravene, or
constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of
the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or of any agreement,
judgement, injunction, order, decree or other instrument known to me and
binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and do not result in the
creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries under any such provision.
3. The Credit Agreement constitutes a valid and binding
agreement of the Company and each Note, upon the making of one or more loans by
the Bank in whose favor it is drawn, will constitute a valid and binding
obligation of the Company, in each case enforceable in accordance with its
terms, except as the same may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar
laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity.
4. Except as disclosed in the Company's 1993 Form 10-K or in
the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended December
31, 1993, March 31, 1994 and June 30, 1994, there is no action, suit or
proceeding pending against, or to the best of my knowledge threatened against
or affecting, the Company or any or its Subsidiaries before any court or
arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official, in which there is a
reasonable probability of an adverse decision which could materially adversely
affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of
operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a
whole or which in any manner draws into question the validity of the Credit
Agreement or the Notes.
I am a member of the Bar of the State of New York and do not
for purposes of this opinion purport to be an expert on the laws of any other
jurisdiction except the federal laws of the United States and, to the extent
applicable to the opinions hereinabove expressed, the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware.
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Accordingly, the foregoing opinion is limited to such matters as depend upon
the application of those laws.
This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the
above matter and may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose, or by any
other person, without my prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
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EXHIBIT F
OPINION OF
DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL, SPECIAL COUNSEL
FOR THE AGENT
[Effective Date]
To the Banks and the Agent
Referred to Below
c/o Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, as Agent
60 Wall Street
New York, New York 10260
Dear Sirs:
We have participated in the preparation of the Five-Year
Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agreement") dated as of November 9, 1994 among
Rockwell International Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), the
banks listed on the signature pages thereof (the "Banks") and Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, as Agent (the "Agent"), and have acted as special
counsel for the Agent for the purpose of rendering this opinion pursuant to
Section 3.01(d) of the Credit Agreement. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement
are used herein as therein defined.
We have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise
identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records,
certificates of public officials and other instruments and have conducted such
other investigations of fact and law as we have deemed necessary or advisable
for purposes of this opinion.
Upon the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of
the Credit Agreement and the Notes are within the Company's corporate powers
and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action.
2. The Credit Agreement constitutes a valid and binding
agreement of the Company and each Note constitutes a
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valid and binding obligation of the Company, in each case enforceable in
accordance with its terms, except as the same may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general
principles of equity.
We are members of the Bar of the State of New York and the
foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York, the federal
law of the United States of America and the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware. In giving the foregoing opinion, we express no opinion as
to the effect (if any) of any law of any jurisdiction (except the State of New
York) in which any Bank is located which limits the rate of interest that such
Bank may charge or collect.
This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the
above matter. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose
or relied upon by any other person without our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
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EXHIBIT G
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated as of _________, 19__ among [ASSIGNOR] (the
"Assignor"), [ASSIGNEE] (the "Assignee"), ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
(the "Company") and MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, as Agent (the
"Agent").
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, this Assignment and Assumption Agreement (the
"Agreement") relates to the Five-Year Credit Agreement dated as of November 9,
1994 among the Company, the Assignor and the other Banks party thereto, as
Banks, and the Agent (the "Credit Agreement");
WHEREAS, as provided under the Credit Agreement, the Assignor
has a Commitment to make Loans to the Company in an aggregate principal amount
at any time outstanding not to exceed $__________;
WHEREAS, Committed Loans made to the Company by the Assignor
under the Credit Agreement in the aggregate principal amount of $__________ are
outstanding at the date hereof; and
WHEREAS, the Assignor proposes to assign to the Assignee all
of the rights of the Assignor under the Credit Agreement in respect of a
portion of its Commitment thereunder in an amount equal to $__________ (the
"Assigned Amount"), together with a corresponding portion of its outstanding
Committed Loans, and the Assignee proposes to accept assignment of such rights
and assume the corresponding obligations from the Assignor on such terms;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the
mutual agreements contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. All capitalized terms not otherwise
defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Credit
Agreement.
SECTION 2. ASSIGNMENT. The Assignor hereby assigns and sells
to the Assignee all of the rights of the
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Assignor under the Credit Agreement to the extent of the Assigned Amount, and
the Assignee hereby accepts such assignment from the Assignor and assumes all
of the obligations of the Assignor under the Credit Agreement to the extent of
the Assigned Amount, including the purchase from the Assignor of the
corresponding portion of the principal amount of the Committed Loans made by the
Assignor outstanding at the date hereof. Upon the execution and delivery hereof
by the Assignor, the Assignee, the Company and the Agent and the payment of the
amounts specified in Section 3 required to be paid on the date hereof (i) the
Assignee shall, as of the date hereof, succeed to the rights and be obligated to
perform the obligations of a Bank under the Credit Agreement with a Commitment
in an amount equal to the Assigned Amount, and (ii) the Commitment of the
Assignor shall, as of the date hereof, be reduced by a like amount and the
Assignor released from its obligations under the Credit Agreement to the extent
such obligations have been assumed by the Assignee. The assignment provided for
herein shall be without recourse to the Assignor.
SECTION 3. PAYMENTS. As consideration for the assignment and
sale contemplated in Section 2 hereof, the Assignee shall pay to the Assignor
on the date hereof in Federal funds the amount heretofore agreed between them.*
It is understood that commitment and/or facility fees accrued to the date
hereof are for the account of the Assignor and such fees accruing from and
including the date hereof are for the account of the Assignee. Each of the
Assignor and the Assignee hereby agrees that if it receives any amount under
the Credit Agreement which is for the account of the other party hereto, it
shall receive the same for the account of such other party to the extent of
such other party's interest therein and shall promptly pay the same to such
other party.
SECTION 4. CONSENT OF THE COMPANY AND THE AGENT. This
Agreement is conditioned upon the consent of the Company and the Agent pursuant
to Section 9.06(c) of the Credit Agreement. The execution of this Agreement by
the Company and the Agent is evidence of this consent. Pursuant to Section
9.06(c) the Company agrees to execute and deliver a Note payable to the order
of the Assignee to evidence the assignment and assumption provided for herein.
__________________________________
*Amount should combine principal together with accrued interest
and breakage compensation, if any, to be paid by the Assignee, net of any
portion of any upfront fee to be paid by the Assignor to the Assignee. It may
be preferable in an appropriate case to specify these amounts generically or by
formula rather than as a fixed sum.
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SECTION 5. NON-RELIANCE ON ASSIGNOR. The Assignor makes no
representation or warranty in connection with, and shall have no responsibility
with respect to, the solvency, financial condition, or statements of the
Company, or the validity and enforceability of the obligations of the Company
in respect of the Credit Agreement or any Note. The Assignee acknowledges that
it has, independently and without reliance on the Assignor, and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and will continue to be
responsible for making its own independent appraisal of the business, affairs
and financial condition of the Company.
SECTION 6. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 7. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be signed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same
effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to
be executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the date
first above written.
[ASSIGNOR]
By _________________________
Title:
[ASSIGNEE]
By __________________________
Title:
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION
By __________________________
Title:
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Exhibit (b)(2)
[Conformed Copy]
$1,000,000,000
364-DAY
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
November 9, 1994
among
Rockwell International Corporation
The Banks Listed Herein
and
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
as Agent
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.02 Accounting Terms and Determinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.03 Types of Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01 Commitments to Lend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.02 Notice of Committed Borrowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.03 Money Market Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.04 Notice to Banks; Funding of Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.05 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.06 Maturity of Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.07 Interest Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.08 Facility Fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.09 Optional Termination or
Reduction of Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.10 Scheduled Termination
of Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.11 Optional Prepayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.12 General Provisions as to Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.13 Funding Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.14 Computation of Interest and Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.15 Regulation D Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS
SECTION 3.01 Effectiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.02 Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 4.01 Corporate Existence and Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.02 Corporate and Governmental
Authorization; No Contravention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.03 Binding Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.04 Financial Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.05 Litigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
SECTION 5.01 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.02 Maintenance of Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.03 Compliance with Laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.04 Use of Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.05 Indenture Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS
SECTION 6.01 Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.02 Notice of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
ARTICLE VII
THE AGENT
SECTION 7.01 Appointment and Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.02 Agent and Affiliates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.03 Action by Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.04 Consultation with Experts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.05 Liability of Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.06 Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.07 Credit Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.08 Successor Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.09 Agent's Fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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ARTICLE VIII
CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
SECTION 8.01 Basis for Determining Interest
Rate Inadequate or Unfair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.02 Illegality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.03 Increased Cost and Reduced Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.04 Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.05 Base Rate Loans Substituted for
Affected Fixed Rate Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
9.02 No Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.03 Expenses; Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.04 Sharing of Set-Offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.05 Amendments and Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.06 Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.07 Collateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.08 Governing Law; Submission to Juris-
diction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.09 Counterparts; Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.10 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Pricing Schedule
Exhibit A - Note
Exhibit B - Money Market Quote Request
Exhibit C - Invitation for Money Market Quotes
Exhibit D - Money Market Quote
Exhibit E - Opinion of General Counsel of the Company
Exhibit F - Opinion of Special Counsel for the
Agent
Exhibit G - Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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364-DAY
CREDIT AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated as of November 9, 1994 among ROCKWELL
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, the BANKS listed on the signature pages hereof and
MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, as Agent.
The parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS. The following terms, as used herein,
have the following meanings:
"Absolute Rate Auction" means a solicitation of Money Market
Quotes setting forth Money Market Absolute Rates pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Adjusted CD Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"Administrative Questionnaire" means, with respect to each Bank,
an administrative questionnaire in the form prepared by the Agent and submitted
to the Agent (with a copy to the Company) duly completed by such Bank.
"Agent" means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in its
capacity as agent for the Banks hereunder, and its successors in such capacity.
"Applicable Lending Office" means, with respect to any Bank, (i)
in the case of its Domestic Loans, its Domestic Lending Office, (ii) in the
case of its Euro-Dollar Loans, its Euro-Dollar Lending Office and (iii) in the
case of its Money Market Loans, its Money Market Lending Office.
"Assessment Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"Assignee" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.06(c).
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"Bank" means each bank listed on the signature pages hereof, each
Assignee which becomes a Bank pursuant to Section 9.06(c), and their respective
successors.
"Base Rate" means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the
higher of (i) the Prime Rate for such day and (ii) the sum of 1/2 of 1% plus
the Federal Funds Rate for such day.
"Base Rate Loan" means a Committed Loan to be made by a Bank as a
Base Rate Loan in accordance with the applicable Notice of Committed Borrowing
or pursuant to Article VIII.
"Borrowing" has the meaning set forth in Section 1.03.
"CD Base Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"CD Loan" means a Committed Loan to be made by a Bank as a CD Loan
in accordance with the applicable Notice of Committed Borrowing.
"CD Margin" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
"CD Reference Banks" means Deutsche Bank AG, Mellon Bank, N.A. and
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any
successor to its duties under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
"Commitment" means, with respect to each Bank, the amount set
forth opposite the name of such Bank on the signature pages hereof, as such
amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09.
"Committed Loan" means a loan made by a Bank pursuant to Section
2.01.
"Company" means Rockwell International Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.
"Company's 1993 Form 10-K" means the Company's annual report on
Form 10-K for 1993, as filed with the Commission.
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"Company's June 1994 Form 10-Q" means the Company's quarterly
report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1994, as filed with the
Commission.
"Consolidated Subsidiary" means at any date any Subsidiary or
other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the
Company in its consolidated financial statements if such statements were
prepared as of such date.
"Default" means any condition or event which constitutes an Event
of Default or which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would,
unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
"Domestic Business Day" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized by law to
close.
"Domestic Lending Office" means, as to each Bank, its office
located at its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or
identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Domestic Lending Office)
or such other office as such Bank may hereafter designate as its Domestic
Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Agent; PROVIDED that any Bank
may so designate separate Domestic Lending Offices for its Base Rate Loans, on
the one hand, and its CD Loans, on the other hand, in which case all references
herein to the Domestic Lending Office of such Bank shall be deemed to refer to
either or both of such offices, as the context may require.
"Domestic Loans" means CD Loans or Base Rate Loans or both.
"Domestic Reserve Percentage" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.07(b).
"Effective Date" means the date this Agreement becomes effective
in accordance with Section 3.01.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended, or any successor statute.
"Euro-Dollar Business Day" means any Domestic Business Day on
which commercial banks are open for international business (including dealings
in dollar deposits) in London.
"Euro-Dollar Lending Office" means, as to each Bank, its office,
branch or affiliate located at
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its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or identified in its
Administrative Questionnaire as its Euro-Dollar Lending Office) or such other
office, branch or affiliate of such Bank as it may hereafter designate as its
Euro-Dollar Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Agent.
"Euro-Dollar Loan" means a Committed Loan to be made by a Bank as
a Euro-Dollar Loan in accordance with the applicable Notice of Committed
Borrowing.
"Euro-Dollar Margin" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(c).
"Euro-Dollar Reference Banks" means the principal London offices
of Deutsche Bank AG, Mellon Bank, N.A. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
York.
"Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.15.
"Event of Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
"Existing Credit Agreements" means the respective credit
agreements, each dated May 24, 1994, between the Company and each of the Banks.
"Federal Funds Rate" means, for any day, the rate per annum
(rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%) equal to the
weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such
day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Domestic
Business Day next succeeding such day, PROVIDED that (i) if such day is not a
Domestic Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate
on such transactions on the next preceding Domestic Business Day as so
published on the next succeeding Domestic Business Day, and (ii) if no such
rate is so published on such next succeeding Domestic Business Day, the Federal
Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York on such day on such transactions as determined by the
Agent.
"Fixed Rate Loans" means CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans or Money
Market Loans (excluding Money Market LIBOR Loans bearing interest at the Base
Rate pursuant to Section 8.01(a)) or any combination of the foregoing.
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"Indemnitee" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).
"Indenture" means the indenture dated as of October 1, 1982
between the Company and Chemical Bank (successor by merger to Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Company), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture
dated as of February 27, 1987 and, subject to Section 5.05, as the same may be
amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time
hereafter.
"Interest Period" means: (1) with respect to each Euro-Dollar
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending one,
two, three or six months thereafter, as the Company may elect in the applicable
Notice of Borrowing; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (c) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day unless such
Euro-Dollar Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case
such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business
Day;
(b) any Interest Period which begins on the last Euro-Dollar
Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (c) below, end on the last
Euro-Dollar Business Day of a calendar month; and
(c) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
(2) with respect to each CD Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of
such Borrowing and ending 30, 60, 90 or 180 days thereafter, as the Company may
elect in the applicable Notice of Borrowing; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (b) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day; and
(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
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(3) with respect to each Base Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the
date of such Borrowing and ending 30 days thereafter; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (b) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day; and
(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
(4) with respect to each Money Market LIBOR Borrowing, the period commencing
on the date of such Borrowing and ending such whole number of months thereafter
as the Company may elect in accordance with Section 2.03; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (c) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day unless such
Euro-Dollar Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case
such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business
Day;
(b) any Interest Period which begins on the last Euro-Dollar
Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (c) below, end on the last
Euro-Dollar Business Day of a calendar month; and
(c) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
(5) with respect to each Money Market Absolute Rate Borrowing, the period
commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending such number of days
thereafter (but not less than 7 days) as the Company may elect in accordance
with Section 2.03; PROVIDED that:
(a) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which
is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day shall, subject to clause (b) below, be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day; and
(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the
Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.
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"LIBOR Auction" means a solicitation of Money Market Quotes
setting forth Money Market Margins based on the London Interbank Offered Rate
pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Loan" means a Domestic Loan or a Euro-Dollar Loan or a Money
Market Loan and "Loans" means Domestic Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans or Money
Market Loans or any combination of the foregoing.
"London Interbank Offered Rate" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.07(c).
"Material Debt" means indebtedness for borrowed money (other than
the Notes) of the Company and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries in an
aggregate principal amount exceeding $75,000,000, determined by aggregating one
or more Single Issues (which may be otherwise unrelated) each of which is in a
principal amount not less than $10,000,000.
"Money Market Absolute Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.03(d).
"Money Market Absolute Rate Loan" means a loan to be made by a
Bank pursuant to an Absolute Rate Auction.
"Money Market Lending Office" means, as to each Bank, its Domestic
Lending Office or such other office, branch or affiliate of such Bank as it may
hereafter designate as its Money Market Lending Office by notice to the Company
and the Agent; PROVIDED that any Bank may from time to time by notice to the
Company and the Agent designate separate Money Market Lending Offices for its
Money Market LIBOR Loans, on the one hand, and its Money Market Absolute Rate
Loans, on the other hand, in which case all references herein to the Money
Market Lending Office of such Bank shall be deemed to refer to either or both
of such offices, as the context may require.
"Money Market LIBOR Loan" means a loan to be made by a Bank
pursuant to a LIBOR Auction (including such a loan bearing interest at the Base
Rate pursuant to Section 8.01(a)).
"Money Market Loan" means a Money Market LIBOR Loan or a Money
Market Absolute Rate Loan.
"Money Market Margin" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(d).
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"Money Market Quote" means an offer by a Bank to make a Money
Market Loan in accordance with Section 2.03.
"Notes" means promissory notes of the Company, substantially in
the form of Exhibit A hereto, evidencing the obligation of the Company to repay
the Loans, and "Note" means any one of such promissory notes issued hereunder.
"Notice of Borrowing" means a Notice of Committed Borrowing (as
defined in Section 2.02) or a Notice of Money Market Borrowing (as defined in
Section 2.03(f)).
"Parent" means, with respect to any Bank, any Person controlling
such Bank.
"Participant" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.06(b).
"Person" means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an
association, a trust or any other entity or organization, including a
government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.
"Pricing Schedule" means the Schedule attached hereto identified
as such.
"Prime Rate" means the rate of interest publicly announced by
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in New York City from time to time as
its Prime Rate.
"Reference Banks" means the CD Reference Banks or the Euro-Dollar
Reference Banks, as the context may require, and "Reference Bank" means any one
of such Reference Banks.
"Regulation U" means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
"Required Banks" means at any time Banks having at least 66 2/3%
of the aggregate amount of the Commitments or, if the Commitments shall have
been terminated, holding Notes evidencing at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of the Loans.
"Revolving Credit Period" means the period from and including the
Effective Date to but excluding the Termination Date.
"Single Issue" means indebtedness for borrowed money arising in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions. Indebtedness issued in
discrete offerings but
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governed by a single shelf indenture shall not be aggregated as a Single Issue,
but indebtedness owing to multiple lenders under parallel agreements comprising
a single private placement and indebtedness arising from multiple takedowns
under a single or a series of related commitments from one or more lenders
shall be so aggregated.
"Subsidiary" means, as to any Person, any corporation or other
entity of which securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting
power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other persons performing
similar functions are at the time directly or indirectly owned by such Person;
unless otherwise specified, "Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary of the Company.
"Termination Date" means November 8, 1995, or, if such day is not
a Euro-Dollar Business Day, the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business Day.
"United States" means the United States of America, including the
States and the District of Columbia, but excluding its territories and
possessions.
SECTION 1.02. ACCOUNTING TERMS AND DETERMINATIONS. Unless
otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be
interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all
financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time
to time, applied on a basis consistent (except for changes concurred in by the
Company's independent public accountants) with the most recent audited
consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries delivered to the Banks.
SECTION 1.03. TYPES OF BORROWINGS. The term "Borrowing" denotes
the aggregation of Loans of one or more Banks to be made to the Company
pursuant to Article II on a single date and for a single Interest Period.
Borrowings are classified for purposes of this Agreement either by reference to
the pricing of Loans comprising such Borrowing (e.g., a "Euro-Dollar Borrowing"
is a Borrowing comprised of Euro-Dollar Loans) or by reference to the
provisions of Article II under which participation therein is determined (i.e.,
a "Committed Borrowing" is a Borrowing under Section 2.01 in which all Banks
participate in proportion to their Commitments, while a "Money Market
Borrowing" is a Borrowing under Section 2.03 in which the Bank participants are
determined on the basis of their bids in accordance therewith).
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ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01. COMMITMENTS TO LEND. During the Revolving Credit
Period each Bank severally agrees, on the terms and conditions set forth in
this Agreement, to make loans to the Company pursuant to this Section from time
to time in amounts such that the aggregate principal amount of Committed Loans
by such Bank at any one time outstanding shall not exceed the amount of its
Commitment. Each Borrowing under this Section shall be in an aggregate
principal amount of $25,000,000 or any larger multiple of $1,000,000 (except
that any such Borrowing may be in the aggregate amount available in accordance
with Section 3.02(b)) and shall be made from the several Banks ratably in
proportion to their respective Commitments. Within the foregoing limits, the
Company may borrow under this Section, repay, or to the extent permitted by
Section 2.11, prepay Loans and reborrow at any time during the Revolving Credit
Period under this Section.
SECTION 2.02. NOTICE OF COMMITTED BORROWING. The Company shall
give the Agent notice (a "Notice of Committed Borrowing") not later than 10:30
A.M. (New York City time) on (x) the date of each Base Rate Borrowing, (y) the
second Domestic Business Day before each CD Borrowing and (z) the third
Euro-Dollar Business Day before each Euro-Dollar Borrowing, specifying:
(a) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Domestic
Business Day in the case of a Domestic Borrowing or a Euro-Dollar Business
Day in the case of a Euro-Dollar Borrowing,
(b) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing,
(c) whether the Loans comprising such Borrowing are to be CD
Loans, Base Rate Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, and
(d) in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, the duration of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, subject to the provisions of the
definition of Interest Period.
SECTION 2.03. MONEY MARKET BORROWINGS.
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(a) THE MONEY MARKET OPTION. In addition to Committed Borrowings
pursuant to Section 2.01, the Company may, as set forth in this Section,
request the Banks during the Revolving Credit Period to make offers to make
Money Market Loans to the Company. The Banks may, but shall have no obligation
to, make such offers and the Company may, but shall have no obligation to,
accept any such offers in the manner set forth in this Section.
(b) MONEY MARKET QUOTE REQUEST. When the Company wishes to
request offers to make Money Market Loans under this Section, it shall transmit
to the Agent by telex or facsimile transmission a Money Market Quote Request
substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto so as to be received no later
than 10:30 A.M. (New York City time) on (x) the fifth Euro-Dollar Business Day
prior to the date of Borrowing proposed therein, in the case of a LIBOR Auction
or (y) the Domestic Business Day next preceding the date of Borrowing proposed
therein, in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case, such
other time or date as the Company and the Agent shall have mutually agreed and
shall have notified to the Banks not later than the date of the Money Market
Quote Request for the first LIBOR Auction or Absolute Rate Auction for which
such change is to be effective) specifying:
(i) the proposed date of Borrowing, which shall be a Euro-Dollar
Business Day in the case of a LIBOR Auction or a Domestic Business Day in
the case of an Absolute Rate Auction,
(ii) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing, which shall be
$25,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000,
(iii) the duration of the Interest Period applicable thereto,
subject to the provisions of the definition of Interest Period, and
(iv) whether the Money Market Quotes requested are to set forth a
Money Market Margin or a Money Market Absolute Rate.
The Company may request offers to make Money Market Loans for more than one
Interest Period in a single Money Market Quote Request. No Money Market Quote
Request shall be given within five Euro-Dollar Business Days (or such other
number of days as the Company and the Agent may agree) of any other Money
Market Quote Request.
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(c) INVITATION FOR MONEY MARKET QUOTES. Promptly upon receipt of
a Money Market Quote Request, the Agent shall send to the Banks by telex or
facsimile transmission an Invitation for Money Market Quotes substantially in
the form of Exhibit C hereto, which shall constitute an invitation by the
Company to each Bank to submit Money Market Quotes offering to make the Money
Market Loans to which such Money Market Quote Request relates in accordance
with this Section.
(d) SUBMISSION AND CONTENTS OF MONEY MARKET QUOTES. (i) Each
Bank may submit a Money Market Quote containing an offer or offers to make
Money Market Loans in response to any Invitation for Money Market Quotes. Each
Money Market Quote must comply with the requirements of this subsection (d) and
must be submitted to the Agent by telex or facsimile transmission at its
offices specified in or pursuant to Section 9.01 not later than (x) 2:00 P.M.
(New York City time) on the fourth Euro-Dollar Business Day prior to the
proposed date of Borrowing, in the case of a LIBOR Auction or (y) 9:30 A.M.
(New York City time) on the proposed date of Borrowing, in the case of an
Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case, such other time or date as the
Company and the Agent shall have mutually agreed and shall have notified to the
Banks not later than the date of the Money Market Quote Request for the first
LIBOR Auction or Absolute Rate Auction for which such change is to be
effective); PROVIDED that Money Market Quotes submitted by the Agent (or any
affiliate of the Agent) in the capacity of a Bank may be submitted, and may
only be submitted, if the Agent or such affiliate notifies the Company of the
terms of the offer or offers contained therein not later than (x) one hour
prior to the deadline for the other Banks, in the case of a LIBOR Auction or
(y) 15 minutes prior to the deadline for the other Banks, in the case of an
Absolute Rate Auction. Subject to Articles III and VI, any Money Market Quote
so made shall be irrevocable except with the written consent of the Agent given
on the instructions of the Company.
(ii) Each Money Market Quote shall be in substantially the form
of Exhibit D hereto and shall in any case specify:
(A) the proposed date of Borrowing,
(B) the principal amount of the Money Market Loan for which each
such offer is being made, which principal amount (w) may be greater than or
less than the Commitment of the quoting Bank, (x) must be $5,000,000 or a
larger multiple of $1,000,000, (y) may
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not exceed the principal amount of Money Market Loans for which offers were
requested and (z) may be subject to an aggregate limitation as to the
principal amount of Money Market Loans for which offers being made by such
quoting Bank may be accepted,
(C) in the case of a LIBOR Auction, the margin above or below the
applicable London Interbank Offered Rate (the "Money Market Margin")
offered for each such Money Market Loan, expressed as a percentage
(specified to the nearest 1/10,000th of 1%) to be added to or subtracted
from such base rate,
(D) in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction, the rate of interest
per annum (specified to the nearest 1/10,000th of 1%) (the "Money Market
Absolute Rate") offered for each such Money Market Loan, and
(E) the identity of the quoting Bank.
A Money Market Quote may set forth up to five separate offers by the quoting
Bank with respect to each Interest Period specified in the related Invitation
for Money Market Quotes.
(iii) Any Money Market Quote shall be disregarded if it:
(A) is not substantially in conformity with Exhibit D hereto or
does not specify all of the information required by subsection (d)(ii);
(B) contains qualifying, conditional or similar language;
(C) proposes terms other than or in addition to those set forth
in the applicable Invitation for Money Market Quotes; or
(D) arrives after the time set forth in subsection (d)(i).
(e) NOTICE TO COMPANY. The Agent shall promptly notify the
Company of the terms (x) of any Money Market Quote submitted by a Bank that is
in accordance with subsection (d) and (y) of any Money Market Quote that
amends, modifies or is otherwise inconsistent with a previous Money Market
Quote submitted by such Bank with respect to the same Money Market Quote
Request. Any such subsequent Money Market Quote shall be disregarded by the
Agent unless such subsequent Money Market Quote is submitted
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solely to correct a manifest error in such former Money Market Quote. The
Agent's notice to the Company shall specify (A) the aggregate principal amount
of Money Market Loans for which offers have been received for each Interest
Period specified in the related Money Market Quote Request, (B) the respective
principal amounts and Money Market Margins or Money Market Absolute Rates, as
the case may be, so offered and (C) if applicable, limitations on the aggregate
principal amount of Money Market Loans for which offers in any single Money
Market Quote may be accepted.
(f) ACCEPTANCE AND NOTICE BY COMPANY. Not later than 10:30 A.M.
(New York City time) on (x) the third Euro-Dollar Business Day prior to the
proposed date of Borrowing, in the case of a LIBOR Auction or (y) the proposed
date of Borrowing, in the case of an Absolute Rate Auction (or, in either case,
such other time or date as the Company and the Agent shall have mutually agreed
and shall have notified to the Banks not later than the date of the Money
Market Quote Request for the first LIBOR Auction or Absolute Rate Auction for
which such change is to be effective), the Company shall notify the Agent of
its acceptance or non-acceptance of the offers so notified to it pursuant to
subsection (e). In the case of acceptance, such notice (a "Notice of Money
Market Borrowing") shall specify the aggregate principal amount of offers for
each Interest Period that are accepted. A failure by the Company to notify the
Agent as aforesaid shall constitute non-acceptance of the offers so notified to
it. The Company may accept any Money Market Quote in whole or in part;
PROVIDED that:
(i) the aggregate principal amount of each Money Market Borrowing
may not exceed the applicable amount set forth in the related Money Market
Quote Request,
(ii) the principal amount of each Money Market Borrowing must be
$25,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000,
(iii) acceptance of offers may only be made on the basis of
ascending Money Market Margins or Money Market Absolute Rates, as the case
may be, and
(iv) the Company may not accept any offer that is described in
subsection (d)(iii) or that otherwise fails to comply with the requirements
of this Agreement.
(g) ALLOCATION BY AGENT. If offers are made by two or more Banks
with the same Money Market Margins or
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Money Market Absolute Rates, as the case may be, for a greater aggregate
principal amount than the amount in respect of which such offers are accepted
for the related Interest Period, the principal amount of Money Market Loans in
respect of which such offers are accepted shall be allocated by the Agent among
such Banks as nearly as possible (in multiples of $1,000,000, as the Agent may
deem appropriate) in proportion to the aggregate principal amounts of such
offers. Determinations by the Agent of the amounts of Money Market Loans shall
be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
SECTION 2.04. NOTICE TO BANKS; FUNDING OF LOANS.
(a) Upon receipt of a Notice of Borrowing, the Agent shall
promptly notify each Bank of the contents thereof and of such Bank's share (if
any) of such Borrowing and such Notice of Borrowing shall not thereafter be
revocable by the Company.
(b) Not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date of
each Borrowing, each Bank participating therein shall (except as provided in
subsection (c) of this Section) make available its share of such Borrowing, in
Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City, to the Agent at
its address referred to in Section 9.01. Unless the Agent determines that any
applicable condition specified in Article III has not been satisfied, the Agent
will make the funds so received from the Banks available to the Company at the
Agent's aforesaid address.
(c) If any Bank makes a new Loan hereunder on a day on which the
Company is to repay all or any part of an outstanding Loan from such Bank, such
Bank shall apply the proceeds of its new Loan to make such repayment and only
an amount equal to the difference (if any) between the amount being borrowed
and the amount being repaid shall be made available by such Bank to the Agent
as provided in subsection (b), or remitted by the Company to the Agent as
provided in Section 2.12, as the case may be.
(d) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Bank prior
to the date of any Borrowing (or, in the case of a Base Rate Borrowing, prior
to the 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing) that such
Bank will not make available to the Agent such Bank's share of such Borrowing,
the Agent may assume that such Bank has made such share available to the Agent
on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of
this Section 2.04 and the Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make
available to the Company on such date a
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corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Bank shall not have so
made such share available to the Agent, such Bank and the Company severally
agree to repay to the Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount
together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made
available to the Company until the date such amount is repaid to the Agent, at
(i) in the case of the Company, a rate per annum equal to the higher of the
Federal Funds Rate and the interest rate applicable thereto pursuant to Section
2.07 and (ii) in the case of such Bank, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Bank
shall repay to the Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall
constitute such Bank's Loan included in such Borrowing for purposes of this
Agreement.
SECTION 2.05. NOTES. (a) The Loans of each Bank shall be
evidenced by a single Note payable to the order of such Bank for the account of
its Applicable Lending Office in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of such Bank's Loans.
(b) Each Bank may, by notice to the Company and the Agent,
request that its Loans of a particular type or types be evidenced by a separate
Note in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Loans.
Each reference in this Agreement to the "Note" of such Bank shall be deemed to
refer to and include any or all of such Notes, as the context may require.
(c) Upon receipt of each Bank's Note pursuant to Section 3.01(b),
the Agent shall forward such Note to such Bank. Each Bank shall record the
date, amount, type and maturity of each Loan made by it and the date and amount
of each payment of principal made by the Company with respect thereto, and may,
if such Bank so elects in connection with any transfer or enforcement of its
Note, endorse on the schedule forming a part thereof appropriate notations to
evidence the foregoing information with respect to each such Loan then
outstanding; PROVIDED that the failure of any Bank to make, or any error in
making, any such recordation or endorsement shall not affect the obligations of
the Company hereunder or under the Notes. Each Bank is hereby irrevocably
authorized by the Company so to endorse its Note and to attach to and make a
part of its Note a continuation of any such schedule as and when required. The
Agent shall also record the date, amount, type and maturity of each Loan made
by any Bank hereunder and the date and amount of each payment of principal made
by the Company to the Agent with respect thereto.
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SECTION 2.06. MATURITY OF LOANS. Each Loan included in any
Borrowing shall mature, and the principal amount thereof shall be due and
payable, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. INTEREST RATES. (a) Each Base Rate Loan shall
bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof, for each day from
the date such Loan is made until it becomes due, at a rate per annum equal to
the Base Rate for such day. Such interest shall be payable for each Interest
Period on the last day thereof. Any overdue principal of or interest on any
Base Rate Loan shall bear interest, payable on demand, for each day until paid
at a rate per annum equal to the sum of 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable
to Base Rate Loans for such day.
(b) Each CD Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal
amount thereof, for each day during the Interest Period applicable thereto, at
a rate per annum equal to the sum of the CD Margin for such day plus the
Adjusted CD Rate applicable to such Interest Period; PROVIDED that if any CD
Loan shall, as a result of clause (2)(b) of the definition of Interest Period,
have an Interest Period of less than 30 days, such CD Loan shall bear interest
during such Interest Period at the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans during
such period. Such interest shall be payable for each Interest Period on the
last day thereof and, if such Interest Period is longer than 90 days, at
intervals of 90 days after the first day thereof. Any overdue principal of or
interest on any CD Loan shall bear interest, payable on demand, for each day
until paid at a rate per annum equal to the sum of 2% plus the higher of (i)
the sum of the CD Margin for such day plus the Adjusted CD Rate applicable to
the Interest Period for such Loan and (ii) the rate applicable to Base Rate
Loans for such day.
"CD Margin" means a rate per annum determined in accordance with
the Pricing Schedule.
The "Adjusted CD Rate" applicable to any Interest Period means a
rate per annum determined pursuant to the following formula:
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[ CDBR ]*
ACDR = [ ----------- ] + AR
[ 1.00 - DRP ]
ACDR = Adjusted CD Rate
CDBR = CD Base Rate
DRP = Domestic Reserve Percentage
AR = Assessment Rate
__________
* The amount in brackets being rounded upward, if necessary, to the next
higher 1/100 of 1%
The "CD Base Rate" applicable to any Interest Period is the rate
of interest determined by the Agent to be the average (rounded upward, if
necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%) of the prevailing rates per annum
bid at 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) (or as soon thereafter as practicable)
on the first day of such Interest Period by two or more New York certificate of
deposit dealers of recognized standing for the purchase at face value from each
CD Reference Bank of its certificates of deposit in an amount comparable to the
principal amount of the CD Loan of such CD Reference Bank to which such
Interest Period applies and having a maturity comparable to such Interest
Period.
"Domestic Reserve Percentage" means for any day that percentage
(expressed as a decimal) which is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including without limitation any
basic, supplemental or emergency reserves) for a member bank of the Federal
Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding five billion dollars in
respect of new non-personal time deposits in dollars in New York City having a
maturity comparable to the related Interest Period and in an amount of $100,000
or more. The Adjusted CD Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the
effective date of any change in the Domestic Reserve Percentage.
"Assessment Rate" means for any day the annual assessment rate in
effect on such day which is payable by a member of the Bank Insurance Fund
classified as adequately capitalized and within supervisory subgroup "A" (or a
comparable successor assessment risk classification) within the meaning of 12
C.F.R. Section 327.3(e) (or any successor provision) to the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (or any successor) for such Corporation's (or such
successor's) insuring time deposits at offices of such institution in the
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United States. The Adjusted CD Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as
of the effective date of any change in the Assessment Rate.
(c) Each Euro-Dollar Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof, for each day during the Interest Period applicable
thereto, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Euro-Dollar Margin for
such day plus the London Interbank Offered Rate applicable to such Interest
Period. Such interest shall be payable for each Interest Period on the last
day thereof and, if such Interest Period is longer than three months, at
intervals of three months after the first day thereof.
"Euro-Dollar Margin" means a rate per annum determined in
accordance with the Pricing Schedule.
The "London Interbank Offered Rate" applicable to any Interest
Period means the average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/16
of 1%) of the respective rates per annum at which deposits in dollars are
offered to each of the Euro-Dollar Reference Banks in the London interbank
market at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Euro-Dollar Business Days
before the first day of such Interest Period in an amount approximately equal
to the principal amount of the Euro-Dollar Loan of such Euro-Dollar Reference
Bank to which such Interest Period is to apply and for a period of time
comparable to such Interest Period.
(d) Any overdue principal of or interest on any Euro-Dollar Loan
shall bear interest, payable on demand, for each day until paid at a rate per
annum equal to the higher of (i) the sum of 2% plus the Euro-Dollar Margin for
such day plus the London Interbank Offered Rate applicable to the Interest
Period for such Loan and (ii) the sum of 2% plus the Euro-Dollar Margin for
such day plus the quotient obtained (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next
higher 1/100 of 1%) by dividing (x) the average (rounded upward, if necessary,
to the next higher 1/16 of 1%) of the respective rates per annum at which one
day (or, if such amount due remains unpaid more than three Euro-Dollar Business
Days, then for such other period of time not longer than six months as the
Agent may select) deposits in dollars in an amount approximately equal to such
overdue payment due to each of the Euro-Dollar Reference Banks are offered to
such Euro-Dollar Reference Bank in the London interbank market for the
applicable period determined as provided above by (y) 1.00 minus the
Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage (or, if the circumstances described in clause
(a) or (b) of Section 8.01 shall exist, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of
2% plus the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans for such day).
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(e) Subject to Section 8.01(a), each Money Market LIBOR Loan
shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof, for the
Interest Period applicable thereto, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the
London Interbank Offered Rate for such Interest Period (determined in
accordance with Section 2.07(c) as if the related Money Market LIBOR Borrowing
were a Committed Euro-Dollar Borrowing) plus (or minus) the Money Market Margin
quoted by the Bank making such Loan in accordance with Section 2.03. Each
Money Market Absolute Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof, for the Interest Period applicable thereto, at a rate
per annum equal to the Money Market Absolute Rate quoted by the Bank making
such Loan in accordance with Section 2.03. Such interest shall be payable for
each Interest Period on the last day thereof and, if such Interest Period is
longer than three months, at intervals of three months after the first day
thereof. Any overdue principal of or interest on any Money Market Loan shall
bear interest, payable on demand, for each day until paid at a rate per annum
equal to the sum of 2% plus the Base Rate for such day.
(f) The Agent shall determine each interest rate applicable to
the Loans hereunder. The Agent shall give prompt notice to the Company and the
participating Banks of each rate of interest so determined, and its
determination thereof shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(g) Each Reference Bank agrees to use its best efforts to furnish
quotations to the Agent as contemplated by this Section. If any Reference Bank
does not furnish a timely quotation, the Agent shall determine the relevant
interest rate on the basis of the quotation or quotations furnished by the
remaining Reference Bank or Banks or, if none of such quotations is available
on a timely basis, the provisions of Section 8.01 shall apply.
SECTION 2.08. FACILITY FEE. The Company shall pay to the Agent
for the account of the Banks ratably a facility fee at the Facility Fee Rate
(determined daily in accordance with the Pricing Schedule). Such facility fee
shall accrue (i) from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the
Termination Date (or earlier date of termination of the Commitments in their
entirety), on the daily aggregate amount of the Commitments (whether used or
unused) and (ii) from and including the Termination Date or such earlier date
of termination to but excluding the date the Loans shall be repaid in their
entirety, on the daily aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans.
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Accrued fees under this Section shall be payable quarterly in arrears on each
February 8, May 8, August 8 and November 8 and upon the date of termination of
the Commitments in their entirety (and, if later, the date the Loans shall be
repaid in their entirety).
SECTION 2.09. OPTIONAL TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF COMMITMENTS.
During the Revolving Credit Period, the Company may, upon at least three
Domestic Business Days' notice to the Agent, (i) terminate the Commitments at
any time, if no Loans are outstanding at such time or (ii) ratably reduce from
time to time by an aggregate amount of $25,000,000 or any larger multiple
thereof, the aggregate amount of the Commitments in excess of the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Loans.
SECTION 2.10. SCHEDULED TERMINATION OF COMMITMENTS. The
Commitments shall terminate on the Termination Date, and any Loans then
outstanding (together with accrued interest thereon) shall be due and payable
on such date.
SECTION 2.11. OPTIONAL PREPAYMENTS. (a) Subject in the case of
any Fixed Rate Borrowing to Section 2.13, the Company may, upon at least one
Domestic Business Day's notice to the Agent, prepay any Base Rate Borrowing (or
any Money Market Borrowing bearing interest at the Base Rate pursuant to
Section 8.01(a)), upon at least two Domestic Business Days' notice to the
Agent, prepay any CD Borrowing or upon at least three Euro-Dollar Business
Days' notice to the Agent, prepay any Euro-Dollar Borrowing, in each case in
whole at any time, or from time to time in part in amounts aggregating
$25,000,000 or any larger multiple of $1,000,000, by paying the principal
amount to be prepaid together with accrued interest thereon to the date of
prepayment. Each such optional prepayment shall be applied to prepay ratably
the Loans of the several Banks included in such Borrowing.
(b) Except as provided in Section 2.11(a), the Company may not
prepay all or any portion of the principal amount of any Money Market Loan
prior to the maturity thereof.
(c) Upon receipt of a notice of prepayment pursuant to this
Section, the Agent shall promptly notify each Bank of the contents thereof and
of such Bank's ratable share (if any) of such prepayment and such notice shall
not thereafter be revocable by the Company.
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SECTION 2.12. GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO PAYMENTS. (a) The Company
shall make each payment of principal of, and interest on, the Loans and of fees
hereunder, not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date when due,
in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City, to the Agent
at its address referred to in Section 9.01. The Agent will promptly distribute
to each Bank its ratable share of each such payment received by the Agent for
the account of the Banks. Whenever any payment of principal of, or interest
on, the Domestic Loans or of fees shall be due on a day which is not a Domestic
Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the next
succeeding Domestic Business Day. Whenever any payment of principal of, or
interest on, the Euro-Dollar Loans shall be due on a day which is not a
Euro-Dollar Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the
next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day unless such Euro-Dollar Business Day
falls in another calendar month, in which case the date for payment thereof
shall be the next preceding Euro-Dollar Business Day. Whenever any payment of
principal of, or interest on, the Money Market Loans shall be due on a day
which is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be
extended to the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day. If the date for any
payment of principal is extended by operation of law or otherwise, interest
thereon shall be payable for such extended time.
(b) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from the Company
prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Banks hereunder that the
Company will not make such payment in full, the Agent may assume that the
Company has made such payment in full to the Agent on such date and the Agent
may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each Bank on
such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Bank. If and to the
extent that the Company shall not have so made such payment, each Bank shall
repay to the Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Bank
together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is
distributed to such Bank until the date such Bank repays such amount to the
Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.
SECTION 2.13. FUNDING LOSSES. If the Company makes any payment
of principal with respect to any Fixed Rate Loan (pursuant to Article II, VI or
VIII or otherwise) on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto, or the last day of an applicable period fixed pursuant to
Section 2.07(d), or if the Company fails to borrow or prepay any Fixed Rate
Loans after notice has been given to any Bank in accordance with Section
2.04(a) or 2.11(c), the Company shall reimburse each Bank within 15
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days after demand for any resulting loss or expense incurred by it (or by an
existing or prospective Participant in the related Loan), including (without
limitation) any loss incurred in obtaining, liquidating or employing deposits
from third parties, but excluding loss of margin for the period after any such
payment or failure to borrow or prepay, PROVIDED that such Bank shall have
delivered to the Company a certificate as to the amount of such loss or
expense, which certificate shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest
error.
SECTION 2.14. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST AND FEES. Interest based
on the Prime Rate hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365
days (or 366 days in a leap year) and paid for the actual number of days
elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). All other
interest and fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and paid
for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding
the last day).
SECTION 2.15. REGULATION D COMPENSATION. Each Bank may require
the Company to pay, contemporaneously with each payment of interest on the
Euro-Dollar Loans, additional interest on the related Euro-Dollar Loan of such
Bank at a rate per annum determined by such Bank up to but not exceeding the
excess of (i) (A) the applicable London Interbank Offered Rate divided by (B)
one MINUS the Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage over (ii) the applicable London
Interbank Offered Rate. Any Bank wishing to require payment of such additional
interest (x) shall so notify the Company and the Agent, in which case such
additional interest on the Euro-Dollar Loans of such Bank shall be payable to
such Bank at the place indicated in such notice with respect to each Interest
Period commencing at least three Euro-Dollar Business Days after the giving of
such notice and (y) shall notify the Company at least five Euro-Dollar Business
Days prior to each date on which interest is payable on the Euro-Dollar Loans
of the amount then due it under this Section.
"Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage" means for any day that percentage
(expressed as a decimal) which is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor), for
determining the maximum reserve requirement for a member bank of the Federal
Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding five billion dollars in
respect of "Eurocurrency liabilities" (or in respect of any other category of
liabilities which includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on
Euro-Dollar Loans is determined or any category of extensions of credit or
other assets which
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includes loans by a non-United States office of any Bank to United States
residents).
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS
SECTION 3.01. EFFECTIVENESS. This Agreement shall become
effective on the date that each of the following conditions shall have been
satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.05):
(a) receipt by the Agent of counterparts hereof signed by each of
the parties hereto (or, in the case of any party as to which an executed
counterpart shall not have been received, receipt by the Agent in form
satisfactory to it of telegraphic, telex or other written confirmation from
such party of execution of a counterpart hereof by such party);
(b) receipt by the Agent of a duly executed Note for the account
of each Bank dated on or before the Effective Date complying with the
provisions of Section 2.05;
(c) receipt by the Agent of an opinion of the General Counsel of
the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto and covering
such additional matters relating to the transactions contemplated hereby as
the Required Banks may reasonably request;
(d) receipt by the Agent of an opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell,
special counsel for the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit F
hereto and covering such additional matters relating to the transactions
contemplated hereby as the Required Banks may reasonably request;
(e) receipt by the Agent of all documents the Agent may
reasonably request relating to the existence of the Company, the corporate
authority for and the validity of this Agreement and the Notes, and any
other matters relevant hereto, all in form and substance satisfactory to
the Agent; and
(f) receipt by the Agent of evidence satisfactory to it of the
payment of all principal of and interest on any loans outstanding under,
and of payment or
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provision for payment of all other amounts payable under, the Existing
Credit Agreements;
PROVIDED that this Agreement shall not become effective or be binding on any
party hereto unless all of the foregoing conditions are satisfied not later
than November , 1994. The Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the
Banks of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding on
all parties hereto. The Banks that are parties to the Existing Credit
Agreements and the Company agree that the commitments under the Existing Credit
Agreements shall terminate in their entirety simultaneously with and subject to
the effectiveness of this Agreement and that the Company shall be obligated to
pay the accrued commitment and facility fees thereunder to but excluding the
date of such effectiveness. It is understood that the foregoing does not
restrict the right of the Company and any bank to enter into any other mutually
satisfactory credit agreement.
SECTION 3.02. BORROWINGS. The obligation of any Bank to make a
Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing is subject to the satisfaction of the
following conditions:
(a) receipt by the Agent of a Notice of Borrowing as required by
Section 2.02 or 2.03, as the case may be;
(b) the fact that, immediately after such Borrowing, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans will not exceed the
aggregate amount of the Commitments;
(c) the fact that, immediately before and after such Borrowing,
no Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(d) the fact that the representations and warranties of the
Company contained in Sections 4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 shall be true on and as
of the date of such Borrowing.
Each Borrowing hereunder shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by
the Company on the date of such Borrowing as to the facts specified in clause
(d) of this Section.
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ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Company represents and warrants that, on and as of the
Effective Date:
SECTION 4.01. CORPORATE EXISTENCE AND POWER. The Company is a
corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of Delaware, and has all corporate powers and all material governmental
licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its
business.
SECTION 4.02. CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATION; NO
CONTRAVENTION. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this
Agreement and the Notes are within the Company's corporate powers, have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, require no action by or in
respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official, do not
contravene any provision of applicable law or regulation or of the certificate
of incorporation or by-laws of the Company and do not contravene, or constitute
a material default under, any debt instrument known to the Company to be
binding upon it.
SECTION 4.03. BINDING EFFECT. This Agreement constitutes a valid
and binding agreement of the Company and each Note, when executed and delivered
in accordance with this Agreement, will constitute a valid and binding
obligation of the Company, in each case enforceable in accordance with its
terms.
SECTION 4.04. FINANCIAL INFORMATION.
(a) The consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries as of September 30, 1993 and the related consolidated
statements of income and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, reported on
by independent public accountants and set forth in the Company's 1993 Form
10-K, a copy of which has been delivered to each of the Banks, fairly present,
in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, the consolidated
financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such
date and their consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such
fiscal year.
(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of June 30,
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1994 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows
for the nine months then ended, set forth in the Company's June 1994 Form 10-Q,
a copy of which has been delivered to each of the Banks, fairly present, in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis
consistent with the financial statements referred to in subsection (a) of this
Section, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and their consolidated results of
operations and cash flows for such nine-month period (subject to normal
year-end adjustments).
(c) From June 30, 1994 to the Effective Date, there has been no
material adverse change in the financial condition, business or operations of
the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 4.05. LITIGATION. Except as disclosed in the Company's
1993 Form 10-K and in the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10- Q for the
quarters ended December 31, 1993, March 31, 1994 and June 30, 1994, there is no
action, suit or proceeding pending against, or to the knowledge of the Company
threatened against or affecting, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries before
any court or arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official, in which
there is a reasonable probability of an adverse decision which could materially
adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated
results of operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries,
considered as a whole, or which in any manner draws into question the validity
of this Agreement or the Notes.
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
The Company agrees that, so long as any Bank has any Commitment
hereunder or any amount payable under any Note remains unpaid:
SECTION 5.01. INFORMATION. The Company will deliver to each of
the Banks:
(a) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company, the Company's Annual Report to Shareowners and annual report on
Form 10-K for such fiscal year, as filed with the Commission;
(b) within 60 days after the end of each of the first three
quarters of each fiscal year of the
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Company, the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for such fiscal
quarter, as filed with the Commission;
(c) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of financial
statements referred to in clause (a), a certificate of the chief financial
officer, the treasurer or the controller of the Company stating whether any
Default exists on the date of such financial statements;
(d) within 10 days after the chief financial officer, the
treasurer or the controller of the Company obtains knowledge of any
Default, if such Default is then continuing, a certificate of the chief
financial officer, the treasurer or the controller of the Company setting
forth the details thereof;
(e) promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of all reports on
Form 8-K (or its equivalent) which the Company shall have filed with the
Commission; and
(f) from time to time such additional information regarding the
financial position or business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as the
Agent, at the request of any Bank, may reasonably request.
SECTION 5.02. MAINTENANCE OF EXISTENCE. The Company will
preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and
its rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal
conduct of business; PROVIDED that nothing in this Section 5.02 shall prohibit
a merger or consolidation permitted by Section 5.05.
SECTION 5.03. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. The Company will comply in
all material respects with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations,
and requirements of governmental authorities (including, without limitation,
environmental laws and ERISA and the rules and regulations thereunder) except
where (i) the necessity of compliance therewith is contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings or (ii) non-compliance would not, in the reasonable
judgment of the Company, have a material adverse effect on the financial
condition, business or operation of the Company and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 5.04. USE OF PROCEEDS. The proceeds of the Loans made
under this Agreement will be used by the Company for its general corporate
purposes, including but not limited to commercial paper backstop, acquisitions
and
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stock repurchases. None of such proceeds will be used in violation of
Regulation G, T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
SECTION 5.05. INDENTURE COVENANTS. The Company hereby agrees
to perform for the benefit of the Agent and the Banks each of its covenants set
forth in Sections 8-1, 8-2 and 8-3 and Sections 10-5, 10-6, 10-8, 10-9 and
10-10 of the Indenture, copies of which have been furnished to each of Banks,
which provisions, together with related definitions and ancillary provisions,
are hereby incorporated herein as if fully set forth herein; PROVIDED that (a)
for purposes of such incorporation by reference, (i) except for purposes of
clause (b)(ii) of Section 10-6 of the Indenture, references to the "Securities"
or the like shall be deemed references to the Notes and other obligations of
the Company hereunder, (ii) references to the "holders of the Securities" or
the like shall be deemed references to the "Banks", (iii) references to the
"Trustee" shall be deemed to be references to the "Agent" and (iv) except for
purposes of clause (a) of Section 10-5 of the Indenture, references to "this
Indenture" or the like shall be deemed references to this Agreement and (b) any
amendment, supplement, waiver or other modification to or termination of the
Indenture shall be effective for purposes of this Section 5.05 if, and only if,
the Required Banks shall have consented thereto in writing.
ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS
SECTION 6.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. If one or more of the following
events ("Events of Default") shall have occurred and be continuing:
(a) the Company shall fail to pay when due any principal of any
Loan, or shall fail to pay within 10 days of the due date thereof any
interest on any Loan, any fees or any other amount payable hereunder;
(b) the Company shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or
agreement contained in Article V for 60 days after notice thereof has been
given to the Company by the Agent at the request of any Bank;
(c) any representation or warranty made by the Company (i) in
Article IV on the Effective Date or (ii) pursuant to Section 3.02 on the
date of any Borrowing
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shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made (or
deemed made);
(d) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to pay the
principal of or interest on Material Debt when due, or within any
applicable grace period, in accordance with the instrument or agreement
under which the same was created;
(e) any event or condition shall occur (including failure to
pay principal or interest) which results in the acceleration of the
maturity of Material Debt;
(f) the entry of a decree or order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now constituted or hereafter
amended, or any other applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Company or of
any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order
unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(g) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case under the
Federal bankruptcy laws, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any
other applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law, or the consent by it to the appointment of or taking possession by a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its
property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by
the Company in furtherance of any such action;
then, and in every such event, the Agent shall (i) if requested by Banks having
more than 50% in aggregate amount of the Commitments, by notice to the Company
terminate the Commitments and they shall thereupon terminate, and (ii) if
requested by Banks holding Notes evidencing more than 50% in aggregate
principal amount of the Loans, by notice to the Company declare the Notes
(together with accrued interest thereon) to be, and the Notes shall thereupon
become, immediately due and payable without presentment, demand,
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protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the
Company; PROVIDED that in the case of any of the Events of Default specified in
clause (f) or (g) above, without any notice to the Company or any other act by
the Agent or the Banks, the Commitments shall thereupon terminate and the Notes
(together with accrued interest thereon) shall become immediately due and
payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all
of which are hereby waived by the Company.
SECTION 6.02. NOTICE OF DEFAULT. The Agent shall give notice to
the Company under Section 6.01(b) promptly upon being requested to do so by any
Bank and shall thereupon notify all the Banks thereof.
ARTICLE VII
THE AGENT
SECTION 7.01. APPOINTMENT AND AUTHORIZATION. Each Bank
irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on
its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and the Notes as
are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with all
such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
SECTION 7.02. AGENT AND AFFILIATES. Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company of New York shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement
as any other Bank and may exercise or refrain from exercising the same as
though it were not the Agent, and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and
its affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in
any kind of business with the Company or any Subsidiary or affiliate of the
Company as if it were not the Agent hereunder.
SECTION 7.03. ACTION BY AGENT. The obligations of the Agent
hereunder are only those expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Agent shall not be required to take any action
with respect to any Default, except as expressly provided in Article VI.
SECTION 7.04. CONSULTATION WITH EXPERTS. The Agent may consult
with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Company), independent public
accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
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accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.
SECTION 7.05. LIABILITY OF AGENT. Neither the Agent nor any of
its affiliates nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or
employees shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in connection
herewith (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Banks or (ii)
in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Neither the
Agent nor any of its affiliates nor any of their respective directors,
officers, agents or employees shall be responsible for or have any duty to
ascertain, inquire into or verify (i) any statement, warranty or representation
made in connection with this Agreement or any borrowing hereunder; (ii) the
performance or observance of any of the covenants or agreements of the Company;
(iii) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Article III, except
receipt of items required to be delivered to the Agent; or (iv) the validity,
effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, the Notes or any other
instrument or writing furnished in connection herewith. The Agent shall not
incur any liability by acting in reliance upon any notice, consent,
certificate, statement, or other writing (which may be a bank wire, telex,
facsimile transmission or similar writing) believed by it to be genuine or to
be signed by the proper party or parties.
SECTION 7.06. INDEMNIFICATION. Each Bank shall, ratably in
accordance with its Commitment, indemnify the Agent, its affiliates and their
respective directors, officers, agents and employees (to the extent not
reimbursed by the Company) against any cost, expense (including counsel fees
and disbursements), claim, demand, action, loss or liability (except such as
result from such indemnitees' gross negligence or willful misconduct) that such
indemnitees may suffer or incur in connection with this Agreement or any action
taken or omitted by such indemnitees hereunder.
SECTION 7.07. CREDIT DECISION. Each Bank acknowledges that it
has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Bank, and
based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its
own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Bank also
acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or
any other Bank, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking any action under this Agreement.
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SECTION 7.08. SUCCESSOR AGENT. The Agent may resign at any time
by giving 30 days' notice thereof to the Banks and the Company. Upon any such
resignation, the Required Banks shall have the right to appoint a successor
Agent. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required
Banks, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the
retiring Agent gives notice of resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on
behalf of the Banks, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a commercial
bank organized or licensed under the laws of the United States of America or of
any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Agent hereunder by a
successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become
vested with all the rights and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring
Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After any
retiring Agent's resignation hereunder as Agent, the provisions of this Article
shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it
while it was Agent.
SECTION 7.09. AGENT'S FEE. The Company shall pay to the Agent
for its own account fees in the amounts and at the times previously agreed upon
between the Company and the Agent.
ARTICLE VIII
CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
SECTION 8.01. BASIS FOR DETERMINING INTEREST RATE INADEQUATE OR
UNFAIR. If on or prior to the first day of any Interest Period for any Fixed
Rate Borrowing:
(a) the Agent is advised by the Reference Banks that deposits in
dollars (in the applicable amounts) are not being offered to the Reference
Banks in the relevant market for such Interest Period, or
(b) in the case of a Committed Borrowing, Banks having 50% or
more of the aggregate amount of the Commitments advise the Agent that the
Adjusted CD Rate or the London Interbank Offered Rate, as the case may be,
as determined by the Agent will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost
to such Banks of funding their CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case
may be, for such Interest Period,
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the Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Company and the Banks,
whereupon until the Agent notifies the Company that the circumstances giving
rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligations of the Banks to make
CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case may be, shall be suspended. Unless
the Company notifies the Agent at least two Domestic Business Days before the
date of any Fixed Rate Borrowing for which a Notice of Borrowing has previously
been given that it elects not to borrow on such date, (i) if such Fixed Rate
Borrowing is a Committed Borrowing, such Borrowing shall instead be made as a
Base Rate Borrowing and (ii) if such Fixed Rate Borrowing is a Money Market
LIBOR Borrowing, the Money Market LIBOR Loans comprising such Borrowing shall
bear interest for each day from and including the first day to but excluding
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto at the Base Rate for
such day.
SECTION 8.02. ILLEGALITY. If, on or after the date of this
Agreement, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any
change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change 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 any Bank (or its Euro-Dollar Lending Office) with any
request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such
authority, central bank or comparable agency shall make it unlawful or
impossible for any Bank (or its Euro-Dollar Lending Office) to make, maintain
or fund its Euro-Dollar Loans and such Bank shall so notify the Agent, the
Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the other Banks and the Company,
whereupon until such Bank notifies the Company and the Agent that the
circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of
such Bank to make Euro-Dollar Loans shall be suspended. Before giving any
notice to the Agent pursuant to this Section, such Bank shall designate a
different Euro-Dollar Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need
for giving such notice and will not, in the sole judgment of such Bank, be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Bank. If such Bank shall determine that it
may not lawfully continue to maintain and fund any of its outstanding
Euro-Dollar Loans to maturity and shall so specify in such notice, the Company
shall immediately prepay in full the then outstanding principal amount of each
such Euro-Dollar Loan, together with accrued interest thereon. Concurrently
with prepaying each such Euro-Dollar Loan, the Company shall borrow a Base Rate
Loan in an equal principal amount from such Bank (on which interest and
principal shall be payable contemporaneously with the related Euro-Dollar Loans
of the
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other Banks), and such Bank shall make such a Base Rate Loan.
SECTION 8.03. INCREASED COST AND REDUCED RETURN. (a) If on or
after (x) the date hereof, in the case of any Committed Loan or any obligation
to make Committed Loans or (y) the date of the related Money Market Quote, in
the case of any Money Market Loan, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or
regulation, or any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any
change 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 any Bank (or its Applicable Lending
Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law)
of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall impose, modify
or deem applicable any reserve (including, without limitation, any such
requirement imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
but excluding (i) with respect to any CD Loan any such requirement included in
an applicable Domestic Reserve Percentage and (ii) with respect to any
Euro-Dollar Loan any such requirement included in an applicable Euro-Dollar
Reserve Percentage), special deposit, insurance assessment (excluding, with
respect to any CD Loan, any such requirement reflected in an applicable
Assessment Rate) or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for
the account of, or credit extended by, any Bank (or its Applicable Lending
Office) or shall impose on any Bank (or its Applicable Lending Office) or on
the United States market for certificates of deposit or the London interbank
market any other condition affecting its Fixed Rate Loans, its Note or its
obligation to make Fixed Rate Loans and the result of any of the foregoing is
to increase the cost to such Bank (or its Applicable Lending Office) of making
or maintaining any Fixed Rate Loan, or to reduce the amount of any sum received
or receivable by such Bank (or its Applicable Lending Office) under this
Agreement or under its Note with respect thereto, by an amount deemed by such
Bank to be material, then, within 15 days after demand by such Bank (with a
copy to the Agent), the Company shall pay to such Bank such additional amount
or amounts as will compensate such Bank for such increased cost or reduction.
(b) If any Bank shall have determined that, after the date
hereof, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation regarding
capital adequacy, or any change in any such law, rule or regulation, or any
change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental
authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or any request
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or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of
law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency (including any
determination by any such authority, central bank or comparable agency that,
for purposes of capital adequacy requirements, the Commitments hereunder do not
constitute commitments with an original maturity of one year or less, which
shall be deemed a change in the interpretation and administration of such
requirements), has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on
capital of such Bank (or its Parent) as a consequence of such Bank's
obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Bank (or its Parent)
could have achieved but for such adoption, change, request or directive (taking
into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount
deemed by such Bank to be material, then from time to time, within 15 days
after demand by such Bank (with a copy to the Agent), the Company shall pay to
such Bank such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Bank (or
its Parent) for such reduction.
(c) Each Bank will promptly notify the Company and the Agent of
any event of which it has knowledge, occurring after the date hereof, which
will entitle such Bank to compensation pursuant to this Section and will
designate a different Applicable Lending Office if such designation will avoid
the need for, or reduce the amount of, such compensation and will not, in the
sole judgment of such Bank, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Bank. A
certificate of any Bank claiming compensation under this Section and setting
forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. In determining such amount, such
Bank may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods. Notwithstanding
the foregoing subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 8.03, the Company shall
only be obligated to compensate any Bank for any amount arising or accruing
during (i) any time or period commencing not more than 90 days prior to the
date on which such Bank notifies the Agent and the Company that it proposes to
demand such compensation and identifies to the Agent and the Company the
statute, regulation or other basis upon which the claimed compensation is or
will be based and (ii) any time or period during which, because of the
retroactive application of such statute, regulation or other such basis, such
Bank did not know that such amount would arise or accrue.
SECTION 8.04. TAXES. (a) For purposes of this Section 8.04,
the following terms have the following meanings:
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"Taxes" means any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings with respect to any payment by the
Company pursuant to this Agreement or under any Note, and all liabilities with
respect thereto, EXCLUDING (i) in the case of each Bank and the Agent, taxes
imposed on its income, and franchise or similar taxes imposed on it, by a
jurisdiction under the laws of which such Bank or the Agent (as the case may
be) is organized or in which its principal executive office is located or, in
the case of each Bank, in which its Applicable Lending Office is located or by
any State, possession or territory of the United States in which such Bank or
the Agent (as the case may be) is doing business and (ii) in the case of each
Bank, any United States withholding tax imposed on such payments but only to
the extent that such Bank is subject to United States withholding tax at the
time such Bank first becomes a party to this Agreement.
"Other Taxes" means any present or future stamp or documentary
taxes and any other excise or property taxes, or similar charges or levies,
which arise from any payment made pursuant to this Agreement or under any Note
or from the execution or delivery of, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any Note.
(b) Any and all payments by the Company to or for the account
of any Bank or the Agent hereunder or under any Note shall be made without
deduction for any Taxes or Other Taxes; PROVIDED that, if the Company shall be
required by law to deduct any Taxes or Other Taxes from any such payments, (i)
the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all
required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable
under this Section 8.04) such Bank or the Agent (as the case may be) receives
an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been
made, (ii) the Company shall make such deductions, (iii) the Company shall pay
the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority
in accordance with applicable law and (iv) the Company shall furnish to the
Agent, at its address referred to in Section 9.01, the original or a certified
copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof.
(c) The Company agrees to indemnify each Bank and the Agent
for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any
Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable
under this Section 8.04) paid by such Bank or the Agent (as the case may be)
and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses) arising
therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification shall be paid within
15 days
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after such Bank or the Agent (as the case may be) makes demand therefor.
(d) Each Bank organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
outside the United States, on or prior to the date of its execution and
delivery of this Agreement in the case of each Bank listed on the signature
pages hereof and on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Bank in the case
of each other Bank, and from time to time thereafter if requested in writing by
the Company (but only so long as such Bank remains lawfully able to do so),
shall provide the Company with Internal Revenue Service form 1001 or 4224, as
appropriate, or any successor form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service,
certifying that such Bank is entitled to benefits under an income tax treaty to
which the United States is a party which exempts the Bank from United States
withholding tax or reduces the rate of withholding tax on payments of interest
for the account of such Bank or certifying that the income receivable pursuant
to this Agreement is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or
business in the United States.
(e) For any period with respect to which a Bank has failed to
provide the Company with the appropriate form pursuant to Section 8.04(d)
(unless such failure is due to a change in treaty, law or regulation occurring
subsequent to the date on which such form originally was required to be
provided), such Bank shall not be entitled to indemnification under Section
8.04(b) or (c) with respect to Taxes imposed by the United States; PROVIDED
that if a Bank, which is otherwise exempt from or subject to a reduced rate of
withholding tax, becomes subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a
form required hereunder, the Company shall take such steps as such Bank shall
reasonably request to assist such Bank to recover such Taxes.
(f) If the Company is required to pay additional amounts to or
for the account of any Bank pursuant to this Section 8.04, then such Bank will
change the jurisdiction of its Applicable Lending Office if, in the sole
judgment of such Bank, such change (i) will eliminate or reduce any such
additional payment which may thereafter accrue and (ii) is not otherwise
disadvantageous to such Bank.
SECTION 8.05. BASE RATE LOANS SUBSTITUTED FOR AFFECTED FIXED RATE
LOANS. If (i) the obligation of any Bank to make Euro-Dollar Loans has been
suspended pursuant to Section 8.02 or (ii) any Bank has demanded compensation
under Section 8.03 or 8.04 with respect to its CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans
and the Company shall, by at least five Euro-Dollar Business Days' prior notice
to such Bank through
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the Agent, have elected that the provisions of this Section shall apply to such
Bank, then, unless and until such Bank notifies the Company that the
circumstances giving rise to such suspension or demand for compensation no
longer exist:
(a) all Loans which would otherwise be made by such Bank as CD
Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case may be, shall be made instead as
Base Rate Loans (on which interest and principal shall be payable
contemporaneously with the related Fixed Rate Loans of the other Banks),
and
(b) after each of its CD Loans or Euro-Dollar Loans, as the case
may be, has been repaid, all payments of principal which would otherwise be
applied to repay such Fixed Rate Loans shall be applied to repay its Base
Rate Loans instead.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01. NOTICES. All notices, requests and other
communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including bank wire,
telex, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given to such
party: (x) in the case of the Company or the Agent, at its address, facsimile
number or telex number set forth on the signature pages hereof, (y) in the case
of any Bank, at its address, facsimile number or telex number set forth in its
Administrative Questionnaire or (z) in the case of any party, such other
address, facsimile number or telex number as such party may hereafter specify
for the purpose by notice to the Agent and the Company. Each such notice,
request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by telex, when
such telex is transmitted to the telex number specified in this Section and the
appropriate answerback is received, (ii) if given by facsimile transmission,
when transmitted to the facsimile number specified in this Section and
confirmation of receipt is received, (iii) if given by mail, 72 hours after
such communication is deposited in the mails with first class postage prepaid,
addressed as aforesaid or (iv) if given by any other means, when delivered at
the address specified in this Section; PROVIDED that notices to the Agent under
Article II or Article VIII shall not be effective until received.
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SECTION 9.02. NO WAIVERS. No failure or delay by the Agent or
any Bank in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any
Note shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise
thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided shall
be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
SECTION 9.03. EXPENSES; INDEMNIFICATION. (a) The Company shall
pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent, including fees and
disbursements of special counsel for the Agent, in connection with the
preparation and administration of this Agreement, any waiver or consent
hereunder or any amendment hereof or any Default or alleged Default hereunder
and (ii) if an Event of Default occurs, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred by the Agent and each Bank, including (without duplication) the fees
and disbursements of outside counsel and the allocated cost of inside counsel,
in connection with such Event of Default and collection, bankruptcy, insolvency
and other enforcement proceedings resulting therefrom.
(b) The Company agrees to indemnify the Agent and each Bank,
their respective affiliates and the respective directors, officers, agents and
employees of the foregoing (each an "Indemnitee") and hold each Indemnitee
harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, costs and
expenses of any kind, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel, which may be incurred by such Indemnitee in
connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding
(whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a party thereto) brought or
threatened relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any actual or
proposed use of proceeds of Loans hereunder; PROVIDED that no Indemnitee shall
have the right to be indemnified hereunder for such Indemnitee's own gross
negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.04. SHARING OF SET-OFFS. Each Bank agrees that if it
shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, receive
payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of principal and interest due
with respect to any Note held by it which is greater than the proportion
received by any other Bank in respect of the aggregate amount of principal and
interest due with respect to any Note held by such other Bank, the Bank
receiving such proportionately greater payment shall purchase such
participations in the Notes held by the other
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Banks, and such other adjustments shall be made, as may be required so that all
such payments of principal and interest with respect to the Notes held by the
Banks shall be shared by the Banks pro rata; PROVIDED that nothing in this
Section shall impair the right of any Bank to exercise any right of set-off or
counterclaim it may have and to apply the amount subject to such exercise to
the payment of indebtedness of the Company other than its indebtedness
hereunder. The Company agrees, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so
under applicable law, that any holder of a participation in a Note, if acquired
pursuant to the foregoing arrangements or if the Company has otherwise received
notice of the granting of such participation, may exercise rights of set-off or
counterclaim and other rights with respect to such participation as fully as if
such holder of a participation were a direct creditor of the Company in the
amount of such participation.
SECTION 9.05. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any provision of this
Agreement or the Notes may be amended or waived if, but only if, such amendment
or waiver is in writing and is signed by the Company and the Required Banks
(and, if the rights or duties of the Agent are affected thereby, by the Agent);
PROVIDED that no such amendment or waiver shall, unless signed by all the
Banks, (i) increase or decrease the Commitment of any Bank (except for a
ratable decrease in the Commitments of all Banks) or subject any Bank to any
additional obligation, (ii) reduce the principal of or rate of interest on any
Loan or any fees hereunder, (iii) postpone the date fixed for any payment of
principal of or interest on any Loan or any fees hereunder or for termination
of any Commitment or (iv) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Notes, or the number of Banks, which
shall be required for the Banks or any of them to take any action under this
Section or any other provision of this Agreement.
SECTION 9.06. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. (a) The provisions of this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto
and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Company may not
assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights under this Agreement without the
prior written consent of all Banks.
(b) Any Bank may at any time grant to one or more banks or other
institutions (each a "Participant") participating interests in its Commitment
or any or all of its Loans. In the event of any such grant by a Bank of a
participating interest to a Participant, whether or not upon notice to the
Company and the Agent, such Bank shall remain responsible for the performance
of its obligations
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hereunder, and the Company and the Agent shall continue to deal solely and
directly with such Bank in connection with such Bank's rights and obligations
under this Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to which any Bank may grant such
a participating interest shall provide that such Bank shall retain the sole
right and responsibility to enforce the obligations of the Company hereunder
including, without limitation, the right to approve any amendment, modification
or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; PROVIDED that such participation
agreement may provide that such Bank will not agree to any modification,
amendment or waiver of this Agreement described in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or
(iv) of Section 9.05 without the consent of the Participant. The Company
agrees that each Participant shall, to the extent provided in its participation
agreement, be entitled to the benefits of Article VIII with respect to its
participating interest. An assignment or other transfer which is not permitted
by subsection (c) or (d) below shall be given effect for purposes of this
Agreement only to the extent of a participating interest granted in accordance
with this subsection (b).
(c) Any Bank may at any time assign to one or more banks or other
institutions (each an "Assignee") all, or a proportionate part (equivalent to
an initial Commitment of not less than $10,000,000) of all, of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement and the Notes, and such Assignee shall assume
such rights and obligations, pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption Agreement
in substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto executed by such Assignee and
such transferor Bank, with (and subject to) the subscribed consent of the
Company and the Agent; PROVIDED that such assignment may, but need not, include
rights of the transferor Bank in respect of outstanding Money Market Loans.
Upon execution and delivery of such instrument and payment by such Assignee to
such transferor Bank of an amount equal to the purchase price agreed between
such transferor Bank and such Assignee, such Assignee shall be a Bank party to
this Agreement and shall have all the rights and obligations of a Bank with a
Commitment as set forth in such instrument of assumption, and the transferor
Bank shall be released from its obligations hereunder to a corresponding
extent, and no further consent or action by any party shall be required. Upon
the consummation of any assignment pursuant to this subsection (c), the
transferor Bank, the Agent and the Company shall make appropriate arrangements
so that, if required, a new Note is issued to the Assignee. In connection with
any such assignment, the transferor Bank shall pay to the Agent an
administrative fee for processing such assignment in the amount of $2,500. If
the Assignee is not incorporated under the laws of the
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United States of America or a state thereof, it shall deliver to the Company
and the Agent certification as to exemption from deduction or withholding of
any United States federal income taxes in accordance with Section 8.04.
(d) Any Bank may at any time assign all or any portion of its
rights under this Agreement and its Note to a Federal Reserve Bank. No such
assignment shall release the transferor Bank from its obligations hereunder.
(e) No Assignee, Participant or other transferee of any Bank's
rights shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 8.03 or
8.04 than such Bank would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
rights transferred, unless such transfer is made with the Company's prior
written consent or by reason of the provisions of Section 8.02, 8.03 or 8.04
requiring such Bank to designate a different Applicable Lending Office under
certain circumstances or at a time when the circumstances giving rise to such
greater payment did not exist.
SECTION 9.07. COLLATERAL. Each of the Banks represents to the
Agent and each of the other Banks that it in good faith is not relying upon any
"margin stock" (as defined in Regulation U) as collateral in the extension or
maintenance of the credit provided for in this Agreement.
SECTION 9.08. GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. This
Agreement and each Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York. The Company hereby submits to the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York and of any New York State court sitting in New York City
for purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company irrevocably
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now
or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in
such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has
been brought in an inconvenient forum.
SECTION 9.09. COUNTERPARTS; INTEGRATION. This Agreement may be
signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with
the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same
instrument. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding
among the parties hereto and supersedes any and all prior agreements and
understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.
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SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE Company, THE
AGENT AND THE BANKS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY
JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement
to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and
year first above written.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By /s/ Lee H. Cramer
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Title: Vice President and Treasurer
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Telex number:
Facsimile number:
Commitments
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$ 90,000,000 MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
By /s/ Laura E. Reim
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Title: Vice President
$ 55,000,000 CHEMICAL BANK
By /s/ Robert M. Wood, Jr.
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Title: Vice President
$ 55,000,000 BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST
AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
By /s/ John M. Dillon
---------------------
Title:
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Commitments
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$ 55,000,000 THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Lawrence K. Williamson
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Title: Managing Director
$ 55,000,000 DEUTSCHE BANK AG AND/OR CAYMAN
ISLANDS BRANCHES
By /s/ Jeffrey N. Wieser
-----------------------------
Title: Director
By /s/ Gregory M. Hill
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 55,000,000 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
CHICAGO
By /s/ Kenneth A. Hirsh
-----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 55,000,000 FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF
CALIFORNIA
By [SIGNATURE]
-----------------------------
Title: Senior VP
By /s/ Wendy Purcell
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Title: Assistant VP
$ 55,000,000 MELLON BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Frederick W. Okie
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Title: Vice President
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 55,000,000 PNC BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Louann E. Tronsberg
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Title: Vice President
$ 55,000,000 UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND
By /s/ Robert W. Casey, JR.
---------------------------
Title: VP
By /s/ Laurant Chaix
---------------------------
Title: Assistant Vice President
$ 40,000,000 THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN
TRUST COMPANY
By [SIGNATURE]
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Title: Senior Vice President &
Senior Manager
$ 40,000,000 NATIONSBANK OF NORTH CAROLINA,
N.A.
By [SIGNATURE]
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Title: SVP
$ 40,000,000 TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS) INC.
By /s/ Frederick B. Hawley
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Title: Vice President
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Commitments
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$ 30,000,000 THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By /s/ Craig Rethmeyer
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Title: VP
$ 30,000,000 COMERICA BANK
By /s/ John Costa
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Title: Vice President
$ 30,000,000 CREDIT LYONNAIS, NEW YORK BRANCH
By /s/ Michael J. Moretti
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Title: Vice President
$ 30,000,000 THE MITSUBISHI BANK
By /s/ Robert J. Dilloff
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Title: Vice President
$ 30,000,000 NBD BANK, N.A.
By /s/ Thomas W. Doddridge
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Title: Vice President
$ 30,000,000 ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
By /s/ A. Birr
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Title: Senior Manager
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Commitments
- -----------
$ 30,000,000 WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION
By /s/ R. Christopher Noble
----------------------------
Title: Senior Vice President
$ 15,000,000 THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
By /s/ A. S. Norsworthy
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Title: Assistant Agent
$ 15,000,000 BARCLAYS BANK PLC
By /s/ Jonathan L. Grey
-------------------------
Title: Associate Director
$ 15,000,000 CREDIT SUISSE
By /s/ Christopher Eldin
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Title: Member of Senior Management
By /s/ Daniela E. Hess
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Title: Associate
$ 15,000,000 ISTITUTO BANCARIO SAN PAOLO DI
TORINO, S.p.A.
By /s/ Gerard M. McKenna
----------------------------
Title: Vice President
$ 15,000,000 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
By /s/ John R. Ronstadt
----------------------------
Title: Vice President
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Commitments
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$ 10,000,000 FIRSTAR BANK, MILWAUKEE, N.A.
By /s/ Timothy W. Somer
----------------------
Title:
_________________
Total Commitments
$1,000,000,000
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MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK, as Agent
By /s/ L. Reim
----------------------
Title:
60 Wall Street
New York, New York 10260-0060
Attention: L. Reim, Corporate Banking
Telex number: 177615
Facsimile number:
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PRICING SCHEDULE
The "Euro-Dollar Margin", "CD Margin", "Commitment Fee Rate" and
"Facility Fee Rate" for any day are the respective percentages set forth below
in the applicable row under the column corresponding to the Status that exists
on such day:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Level Level Level Level
Status I II III IV
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Euro-Dollar Margin 0.165 0.245 0.425 0.5625
CD Margin 0.29 0.37 0.55 0.6875
Facility Fee Rate 0.06 0.08 0.125 0.1875
</TABLE>
For purposes of this Schedule, the following terms have the
following meanings:
"Level I Status" exists at any date if, at such date, the
Company's long-term debt is rated A+ or higher by S&P and A1 or higher by
Moody's.
"Level II Status" exists at any date if, at such date, (i) the
Company's long-term debt is rated A- or higher by S&P and A3 or higher by
Moody's and (ii) Level I Status does not exist.
"Level III Status" exists at any date if, at such date, (i) the
Company's long-term debt is rated BBB- or higher by S&P and Baa3 or higher by
Moody's and (ii) neither Level I Status nor Level II Status exists.
"Level IV Status" exists at any date if, at such date, no other
Status exists.
"Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Corporation.
"Status" refers to the determination of which of Level I Status,
Level II Status, Level III Status or Level IV Status exists at any date.
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The credit ratings to be utilized for purposes of this Schedule are those
assigned to the senior unsecured long-term debt securities of the Company
without third-party credit enhancement, and any rating assigned to any other
debt security of the Company shall be disregarded. The rating in effect at any
date is that in effect at the close of business on such date.
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EXHIBIT A
NOTE
New York, New York
, 19
For value received, Rockwell International Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), promises to pay to the order of
(the "Bank"), for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, the unpaid
principal amount of each [Designate type or types of Loan, if not all types of
Loan are to be evidenced by this note] Loan made by the Bank to the Company
pursuant to the Credit Agreement referred to below on the last day of the
Interest Period relating to such Loan. The Company promises to pay interest
on the unpaid principal amount of each such Loan on the dates and at the rate
or rates provided for in the Credit Agreement. All such payments of principal
and interest shall be made in lawful money of the United States in Federal or
other immediately available funds at the office of Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company of New York, 60 Wall Street, New York, New York.
All [Designate type or types of Loan, if not all types of Loan are
to be evidenced by this note] Loans made by the Bank, the respective types and
maturities thereof and all repayments of the principal thereof shall be
recorded by the Bank and, if the Bank so elects in connection with any transfer
or enforcement hereof, appropriate notations to evidence the foregoing
information with respect to each such Loan then outstanding may be endorsed by
the Bank on the schedule attached hereto, or on a continuation of such schedule
attached to and made a part hereof; PROVIDED that the failure of the Bank to
make, or any error in making, any such recordation or endorsement shall not
affect the obligations of the Company hereunder or under the Credit Agreement.
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This note is one of the Notes referred to in the 364-Day Credit
Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among the Company, the banks listed on
the signature pages thereof and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as
Agent (as the same may be amended from time to time, the "Credit Agreement").
Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings.
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for provisions for the prepayment
hereof and the acceleration of the maturity hereof.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By________________________
Title:
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Note (cont'd)
LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
___________________________________________________________________
Amount of
Amount of [Type of Principal Maturity Notation
Date Loan Loan]* Repaid Date Made By
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
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*Delete if only one type of Loan is to be evidenced by this note.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF MONEY MARKET QUOTE REQUEST
[Date]
To: Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
(the "Agent")
From: Rockwell International Corporation
Re: 364-Day Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agreement") dated as of
November 9, 1994 among the Company, the Banks listed on the
signature pages thereof and the Agent
We hereby give notice pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement
that we request Money Market Quotes for the following proposed Money Market
Borrowing(s):
Date of Borrowing: __________________
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT* INTEREST PERIOD**
$
Such Money Market Quotes should offer a Money Market [Margin] [Absolute
Rate]. [The applicable base rate is the London Interbank Offered Rate.]
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*Amount must be $25,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000.
**Not less than one month (LIBOR Auction) or not less than 7 days (Absolute
Rate Auction), subject to the provisions of the definition of Interest Period.
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Terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By________________________
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF INVITATION FOR MONEY MARKET QUOTES
To: [Name of Bank]
Re: Invitation for Money Market Quotes to Rockwell International
Corporation (the "Company")
Pursuant to Section 2.03 of the 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as of
November 9, 1994 among the Company, the Banks parties thereto and the
undersigned, as Agent, we are pleased on behalf of the Company to invite you to
submit Money Market Quotes to the Company for the following proposed Money
Market Borrowing(s):
Date of Borrowing: __________________
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT INTEREST PERIOD
$
Such Money Market Quotes should offer a Money Market [Margin] [Absolute
Rate]. [The applicable base rate is the London Interbank Offered Rate.]
Please respond to this invitation by no later than [2:00 P.M.] [9:30
A.M.] (New York City time) on [date].
MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
By______________________
Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF MONEY MARKET QUOTE
To: Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
as Agent
Re: Money Market Quote to Rockwell International Corporation
(the "Company")
In response to your invitation on behalf of the Company dated
_____________, 19__, we hereby make the following Money Market Quote on the
following terms:
1. Quoting Bank: ________________________________
2. Person to contact at Quoting Bank:
_____________________________
3. Date of Borrowing: ____________________*
4. We hereby offer to make Money Market Loan(s) in the following principal
amounts, for the following Interest Periods and at the following rates:
PRINCIPAL INTEREST MONEY MARKET
AMOUNT** PERIOD*** [MARGIN****] [ABSOLUTE RATE*****]
$
$
[Provided, that the aggregate principal amount of Money Market Loans for
which the above offers may be accepted shall not exceed $____________.]**
__________
* As specified in the related Invitation.
** Principal amount bid for each Interest Period may not exceed principal
amount requested. Specify aggregate limitation if the sum of the individual
offers exceeds the
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amount the Bank is willing to lend. Bids must be made for $5,000,000 or a
larger multiple of $1,000,000.
(notes continued on following page)
We understand and agree that the offer(s) set forth above, subject to
the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in the 364-Day Credit
Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among the Company, the Banks listed on
the signature pages thereof and yourselves, as Agent, irrevocably obligates us
to make the Money Market Loan(s) for which any offer(s) are accepted, in whole
or in part.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF BANK]
Dated:_______________ By:__________________________
Authorized Officer
__________
*** Not less than one month or not less than 7 days, as specified in the
related Invitation. No more than five bids are permitted for each Interest
Period.
**** Margin over or under the London Interbank Offered Rate determined
for the applicable Interest Period. Specify percentage (to the nearest
1/10,000 of 1%) and specify whether "PLUS" or "MINUS".
***** Specify rate of interest per annum (to the nearest 1/10,000th of 1%).
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EXHIBIT E
OPINION OF
COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
[Effective Date]
To the Banks and the Agent
Referred to Below
c/o Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, as Agent
60 Wall Street
New York, New York 10260
Dear Sirs:
I am Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Rockwell
International Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company). In that
capacity, I have acted as counsel for the Company in connection with the
364-Day Credit Agreement (the Credit Agreement) dated as of November 9, 1994
among the Company, the banks listed on the signature pages thereof and Morgan
Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as Agent. Terms defined in the Credit
Agreement are used herein as therein defined. This opinion is being rendered
to you at the request of the Company pursuant to Section 3.01(c) of the Credit
Agreement.
I have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified
to my satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of
public officials and other instruments and have conducted such other
investigations of fact and law as I have deemed necessary or advisable for
purposes of this opinion. As to questions of fact material to this opinion, I
have, when relevant facts were not independently established, relied upon
certifications of appropriate officers of the Company. In rendering this
opinion, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures (except the
signatures on behalf of the Company on the Credit Agreement and the Notes), the
authenticity of all documents submitted to me as originals and the conformity
to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to me as certified,
conformed or photostatic copies.
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Upon the basis of the foregoing, I am of the opinion that:
1. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing
and in good standing under the law of Delaware, and has all corporate powers
and all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals
required to carry on its business as now conducted.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the
Credit Agreement and the Notes are within the Company's corporate powers; have
been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, require no action by or
in respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official of the
State of New York or the United States of America; do not contravene, or
constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of
the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or of any agreement,
judgement, injunction, order, decree or other instrument known to me and
binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and do not result in the
creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries under any such provision.
3. The Credit Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement
of the Company and each Note, upon the making of one or more loans by the Bank
in whose favor it is drawn, will constitute a valid and binding obligation of
the Company, in each case enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as
the same may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity.
4. Except as disclosed in the Company's 1993 Form 10-K or in the
Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended December 31,
1993, March 31, 1994 and June 30, 1994, there is no action, suit or proceeding
pending against, or to the best of my knowledge threatened against or
affecting, the Company or any or its Subsidiaries before any court or
arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official, in which there is a
reasonable probability of an adverse decision which could materially adversely
affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of
operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a
whole or which in any manner draws into question the validity of the Credit
Agreement or the Notes.
I am a member of the Bar of the State of New York and do not for
purposes of this opinion purport to be an
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expert on the laws of any other jurisdiction except the federal laws of the
United States and, to the extent applicable to the opinions hereinabove
expressed, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Accordingly,
the foregoing opinion is limited to such matters as depend upon the application
of those laws.
This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the above
matter and may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose, or by any other
person, without my prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
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EXHIBIT F
OPINION OF
DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL, SPECIAL COUNSEL
FOR THE AGENT
[Effective Date]
To the Banks and the Agent
Referred to Below
c/o Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, as Agent
60 Wall Street
New York, New York 10260
Dear Sirs:
We have participated in the preparation of the 364-Day Credit Agreement
(the "Credit Agreement") dated as of November 9, 1994 among Rockwell
International Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), the banks
listed on the signature pages thereof (the "Banks") and Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company of New York, as Agent (the "Agent"), and have acted as special counsel
for the Agent for the purpose of rendering this opinion pursuant to Section
3.01(d) of the Credit Agreement. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are
used herein as therein defined.
We have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified
to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of
public officials and other instruments and have conducted such other
investigations of fact and law as we have deemed necessary or advisable for
purposes of this opinion.
Upon the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the
Credit Agreement and the Notes are within the Company's corporate powers and
have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action.
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2. The Credit Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement of
the Company and each Note constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the
Company, in each case enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the
same may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity.
We are members of the Bar of the State of New York and the foregoing
opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York, the federal law of the
United States of America and the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware. In giving the foregoing opinion, we express no opinion as to the
effect (if any) of any law of any jurisdiction (except the State of New York)
in which any Bank is located which limits the rate of interest that such Bank
may charge or collect.
This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the above
matter. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or
relied upon by any other person without our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
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EXHIBIT G
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated as of _________, 19__ among [ASSIGNOR] (the
"Assignor"), [ASSIGNEE] (the "Assignee"), ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
(the "Company") and MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, as Agent (the
"Agent").
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, this Assignment and Assumption Agreement (the "Agreement")
relates to the 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as of November 9, 1994 among the
Company, the Assignor and the other Banks party thereto, as Banks, and the
Agent (the "Credit Agreement");
WHEREAS, as provided under the Credit Agreement, the Assignor has a
Commitment to make Loans to the Company in an aggregate principal amount at any
time outstanding not to exceed $__________;
WHEREAS, Committed Loans made to the Company by the Assignor under the
Credit Agreement in the aggregate principal amount of $__________ are
outstanding at the date hereof; and
WHEREAS, the Assignor proposes to assign to the Assignee all of the
rights of the Assignor under the Credit Agreement in respect of a portion of
its Commitment thereunder in an amount equal to $__________ (the "Assigned
Amount"), together with a corresponding portion of its outstanding Committed
Loans, and the Assignee proposes to accept assignment of such rights and assume
the corresponding obligations from the Assignor on such terms;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual
agreements contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined
herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 2. ASSIGNMENT. The Assignor hereby assigns and sells to the
Assignee all of the rights of the Assignor under the Credit Agreement to the
extent of the Assigned Amount, and the Assignee hereby accepts such assignment
from the Assignor and assumes all of the obligations of the Assignor under the
Credit Agreement to the extent of the Assigned Amount, including the purchase
from the Assignor of the corresponding portion of the principal amount of the
Committed Loans made by the Assignor outstanding at the date hereof. Upon the
execution and delivery hereof by the Assignor, the Assignee, the Company and
the Agent and the payment of the amounts specified in Section 3 required to be
paid on the date hereof (i) the Assignee shall, as of the date hereof, succeed
to the rights and be obligated to perform the obligations of a Bank under the
Credit Agreement with a Commitment in an amount equal to the Assigned Amount,
and (ii) the Commitment of the Assignor shall, as of the date hereof, be
reduced by a like amount and the Assignor released from its obligations under
the Credit Agreement to the extent such obligations have been assumed by the
Assignee. The assignment provided for herein shall be without recourse to the
Assignor.
SECTION 3. PAYMENTS. As consideration for the assignment and sale
contemplated in Section 2 hereof, the Assignee shall pay to the Assignor on the
date hereof in Federal funds the amount heretofore agreed between them.* It is
understood that commitment and/or facility fees accrued to the date hereof are
for the account of the Assignor and such fees accruing from and including the
date hereof are for the account of the Assignee. Each of the Assignor and the
Assignee hereby agrees that if it receives any amount under the Credit
Agreement which is for the account of the other party hereto, it shall receive
the same for the account of such other party to the extent of such other
party's interest therein and shall promptly pay the same to such other party.
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*Amount should combine principal together with accrued interest and breakage
compensation, if any, to be paid by the Assignee, net of any portion of any
upfront fee to be paid by the Assignor to the Assignee. It may be preferable
in an appropriate case to specify these amounts generically or by formula
rather than as a fixed sum.
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SECTION 4. CONSENT OF THE COMPANY AND THE AGENT. This Agreement is
conditioned upon the consent of the Company and the Agent pursuant to Section
9.06(c) of the Credit Agreement. The execution of this Agreement by the
Company and the Agent is evidence of this consent. Pursuant to Section 9.06(c)
the Company agrees to execute and deliver a Note payable to the order of the
Assignee to evidence the assignment and assumption provided for herein.
SECTION 5. NON-RELIANCE ON ASSIGNOR. The Assignor makes no
representation or warranty in connection with, and shall have no responsibility
with respect to, the solvency, financial condition, or statements of the
Company, or the validity and enforceability of the obligations of the Company
in respect of the Credit Agreement or any Note. The Assignee acknowledges that
it has, independently and without reliance on the Assignor, and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and will continue to be
responsible for making its own independent appraisal of the business, affairs
and financial condition of the Company.
SECTION 6. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 7. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be signed in any number
of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if
the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be
executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the date first
above written.
[ASSIGNOR]
By_________________________
Title:
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[ASSIGNEE]
By__________________________
Title:
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
By__________________________
Title:
MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
By__________________________
Title:
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