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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
X QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
--- EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended June 17, 1995
OR
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
- --- ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
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Commission file number 1-41
SAFEWAY INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 94-3019135
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
Fourth and Jackson Streets
Oakland, California 94660
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code (510) 891-3000
Not Applicable
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last
report.)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to
such filing requirements for the past 90 days. YES X NO .
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As of July 14, 1995, there were issued and outstanding 106,014,039 shares of the
registrant's common stock.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
INDEX
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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION (UNAUDITED) Page
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ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 17, 1995 and December 3
31, 1994
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for the 12 and 24 weeks 5
ended June 17, 1995 and June 18, 1994
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the 24 weeks ended 6
June 17, 1995 and June 18, 1994
Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 7
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS 11
OF OPERATIONS
PART II OTHER INFORMATION
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ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS 14
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS 14
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K 15
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
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JUNE 17, DECEMBER 31,
1995 1994
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ASSETS
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Current assets:
Cash and equivalents $ 28.2 $ 60.7
Receivables 159.6 147.9
Merchandise inventories 1,087.5 1,136.0
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 107.7 93.0
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Total current assets 1,383.0 1,437.6
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Property 4,498.2 4,375.3
Less accumulated depreciation
and amortization 1,980.1 1,868.9
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Property, net 2,518.1 2,506.4
Goodwill, net of amortization of $100.2
and $95.0, respectively 327.8 331.1
Prepaid pension costs 323.0 319.6
Investments in unconsolidated affiliates 316.9 329.3
Other assets 100.9 98.1
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Total assets $4,969.7 $5,022.1
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (Continued)
(In millions, except per-share amounts)
(Unaudited)
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JUNE 17, DECEMBER 31,
1995 1994
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
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Current liabilities:
Current maturities of notes
and debentures $ 215.4 $ 152.5
Current obligations under capital leases 19.4 19.3
Accounts payable 922.5 1,012.1
Accrued salaries and wages 209.6 223.6
Other accrued liabilities 429.4 416.1
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Total current liabilities 1,796.3 1,823.6
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Long-term debt:
Notes and debentures 1,789.1 1,849.5
Obligations under capital leases 173.2 174.8
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Total long-term debt 1,962.3 2,024.3
Deferred income taxes 124.1 128.3
Accrued claims and other liabilities 423.9 402.1
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Total liabilities 4,306.6 4,378.3
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Stockholders' equity:
Common stock: par value $0.01 per share;
300 shares authorized; 106.0 and 104.8
shares outstanding, respectively 1.1 1.0
Additional paid-in capital 669.8 655.6
Unexercised warrants purchased: 4.4 shares (113.2) -
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit) 88.8 (41.9)
Cumulative translation adjustments 16.6 29.1
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Total stockholders' equity 663.1 643.8
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Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $4,969.7 $5,022.1
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(In millions, except per-share amounts)
(Unaudited)
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12 WEEKS ENDED 24 WEEKS ENDED
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JUNE 17, JUNE 18, JUNE 17, JUNE 18,
1995 1994 1995 1994
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Sales $ 3,753.4 $ 3,612.7 $ 7,385.7 $ 7,104.5
Cost of goods sold (2,745.6) (2,629.5) (5,382.7) (5,180.8)
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Gross profit 1,007.8 983.2 2,003.0 1,923.7
Operating and administrative expenses (842.7) (836.5) (1,683.9) (1,659.6)
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Operating profit 165.1 146.7 319.1 264.1
Interest expense (49.2) (52.7) (96.7) (108.5)
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates 5.0 7.9 7.8 18.4
Other income, net 0.6 1.5 1.1 2.9
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Income before income taxes and
extraordinary loss 121.5 103.4 231.3 176.9
Income taxes (52.8) (44.5) (100.6) (76.1)
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Income before extraordinary loss 68.7 58.9 130.7 100.8
Extraordinary loss related to early retirement of
debt, net of income tax benefit of $4.8 - (7.4) - (7.4)
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Net income $ 68.7 $ 51.5 $ 130.7 $ 93.4
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Primary and fully diluted earnings per common
share and common share equivalent:
Income before extraordinary loss $ 0.57 $ 0.48 $ 1.08 $ 0.83
Extraordinary loss - (0.06) - (0.06)
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Net income $ 0.57 $ 0.42 $ 1.08 $ 0.77
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Weighted average common shares and common
share equivalents:
Primary 120.2 121.6 120.6 121.3
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Fully diluted 120.3 121.9 120.9 121.9
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
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24 WEEKS ENDED
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JUNE 17, JUNE 18,
1995 1994
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CASH FLOW FROM OPERATIONS:
Net income $ 130.7 $ 93.4
Reconciliation to net cash flow from operations:
Extraordinary loss related to early retirement of debt,
before income tax benefit - 12.2
Depreciation and amortization 150.9 150.1
LIFO expense 4.6 4.6
Equity in undistributed earnings of unconsolidated affiliates (7.8) (18.4)
Other 28.8 26.2
Changes in working capital items:
Receivables and prepaids (26.5) (11.7)
Inventories at FIFO cost 48.5 57.1
Payables and accruals (86.9) 32.3
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Net cash flow from operations 242.3 345.8
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CASH FLOW FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Cash paid for property additions (163.1) (105.9)
Proceeds from sale of property 12.7 14.4
Other (4.4) (26.9)
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Net cash flow used by investing activities (154.8) (118.4)
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CASH FLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Additions to short-term borrowings 92.2 39.8
Payments on short-term borrowings (37.7) (33.9)
Additions to long-term borrowings 502.3 233.1
Payments on long-term borrowings (568.5) (531.6)
Premiums paid on early retirement of debt - (9.5)
Net proceeds from exercise of warrants and stock options 5.5 7.2
Purchase of unexercised warrants (113.2) -
Other (0.6) (1.6)
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Net cash flow used by financing activities (120.0) (296.5)
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Decrease in cash and equivalents (32.5) (69.1)
CASH AND EQUIVALENTS:
Beginning of period 60.7 118.4
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End of period $ 28.2 $ 49.3
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
NOTE A - BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements of Safeway Inc. and
subsidiaries ("Safeway" or the "Company") for the 12 and 24 weeks ended June 17,
1995 and June 18, 1994 are unaudited and, in the opinion of management, contain
all adjustments that are of a normal and recurring nature necessary to present
fairly the financial position and results of operations for such periods. The
condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with
the consolidated financial statements and related notes contained in the
Company's 1994 Annual Report to Stockholders. The results of operations for the
12 and 24 weeks ended June 17, 1995 are not necessarily indicative of the
results expected for the full year.
NOTE B - INVENTORY
Net income reflects the application of the LIFO method of valuing certain
domestic inventories, based upon estimated annual inflation ("LIFO Indices").
LIFO expense was $2.3 million in the second quarters of both 1995 and 1994 and
was $4.6 million for the first 24 weeks of both 1995 and 1994. Actual LIFO
Indices are calculated during the fourth quarter of the year based upon a
statistical sampling of inventories.
NOTE C - INVESTMENTS IN AFFILIATES
Investments in affiliates consist of a 35% interest in The Vons Companies, Inc.
("Vons") which operates 325 supermarkets located mostly in southern California,
and a 49% interest in Casa Ley, S.A. de C.V. which operates 71 stores in western
Mexico. Safeway records income from its equity investments on a one-quarter
delay basis.
Mexico has experienced economic difficulties, including very high interest
rates, since the December 1994 devaluation of the peso. As a result, Safeway's
share of Casa Ley's earnings fell to $0.4 million for the 12 and 24 weeks ended
June 17, 1995 from $5.1 million and $9.3 million for the comparable periods of
1994.
The Company's recorded investment in Vons at June 17, 1995 was $244.3 million,
including unamortized goodwill of $46.3 million that is being amortized over a
40 year life. Income from Safeway's equity investment in Vons was $4.6 million
and $7.4 million for 12 and 24 weeks ended June 17, 1995 compared to $2.8
million and $9.1 million for the comparable periods in 1994.
Based on the June 16, 1995 closing price for Vons common stock as quoted on the
New York Stock Exchange, the Company's 15.1 million shares of Vons common stock
had an aggregate market value of $310.1 million.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
NOTE C - INVESTMENTS IN AFFILIATES (CONTINUED)
Summarized financial information derived from Vons' financial reports to the
Securities and Exchange Commission is as follows (in millions):
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March 26, January 1,
FINANCIAL POSITION 1995 1995
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Current assets $ 440.9 $ 467.8
Property and equipment, net 1,194.6 1,203.0
Other assets 550.5 551.2
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Total assets $2,186.0 $2,222.0
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Current liabilities $ 546.4 $ 563.9
Long-term obligations 1,073.0 1,105.7
Shareholders' equity 566.6 552.4
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Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $2,186.0 $2,222.0
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12 Weeks Ended 24 Weeks Ended
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March 26, March 27, March 26, March 27,
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 1995 1994 1995 1994
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Sales $ 1,142.5 $ 1,144.0 $ 2,318.7 $ 2,314.5
Cost of sales and other expenses (1,128.5) (1,135.0) (2,295.6) (2,286.6)
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Net income $ 14.0 $ 9.0 $ 23.1 $ 27.9
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
NOTE D - FINANCING
Notes and debentures were composed of the following at June 17, 1995 and
December 31, 1994 (in millions):
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JUNE 17, 1995 DECEMBER 31, 1994
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Credit Agreement, unsecured $ 296.5
Bank Credit Agreement, secured - $ 135.0
Working Capital Credit Agreement,
secured - 196.8
9.30% Senior Secured Debentures due 2007 70.7 70.7
10% Senior Notes due 2002, unsecured 59.1 59.1
10% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2001,
unsecured 241.4 241.4
9.875% Senior Subordinated Debentures
due 2007, unsecured 110.0 110.0
9.65% Senior Subordinated Debentures
due 2004, unsecured 228.2 228.2
9.35% Senior Subordinated Notes due
1999, unsecured 172.5 172.5
Mortgage notes payable, secured 416.9 $ 50.3 426.7 $ 51.3
Other notes payable, unsecured 191.3 26.7 209.1 13.3
Other bank borrowings, unsecured 2.5 138.4 - 87.9
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$1,789.1 $ 215.4 $1,849.5 $152.5
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Note B to the Company's consolidated financial statements on pages 25 through 27
of the 1994 Annual Report to Stockholders and the information appearing under
the caption "Terms of Outstanding Indebtedness" in Item 1 of the Company's 1994
Form 10-K describe all of the material restrictive covenants of the Company's
subordinated indebtedness.
CREDIT AGREEMENT
On May 24, 1995, Safeway entered into a new unsecured bank credit agreement (the
"Credit Agreement") that is less restrictive than Safeway's previous bank
agreement, extends the maturity date and provides lower borrowing costs. The
Credit Agreement matures in 2000 and has two one-year extension options. Safeway
may borrow up to $1.15 billion under the Credit Agreement, including up to $400
million in Canada. In connection with obtaining the new Credit Agreement, all
collateral securing the Subordinated Securities was released.
U.S. borrowings under the Credit Agreement carry interest at one of the
following rates selected by the Company: (i) the prime rate; (ii) the rate at
which Eurodollar deposits are offered to first-class banks by the lenders in the
Credit Agreement plus a pricing margin based on the Company's debt rating or
interest coverage ratio (the "Pricing Margin"); or (iii) rates quoted at the
discretion of the lenders. Canadian borrowings denominated in U.S. dollars carry
interest at one of the following rates selected by the Company: (i) the Canadian
base rate; or (ii) the Canadian Eurodollar rate plus the Pricing Margin.
Canadian borrowings denominated in Canadian dollars carry interest at the
Canadian prime rate.
The Credit Agreement sets certain restrictions on payments by the Company (i) of
dividends on any class of stock; (ii) to acquire shares of any class of stock of
the Company; or (iii) to acquire certain outstanding warrants or any options or
other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock of the Company, other than
those held by certain Company officers and employees.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
Other provisions of the Credit Agreement limit certain acts of the Company and
require the Company to meet certain financial tests which pertain to its ability
to generate adequate cash to meet required payments.
NOTE E - CONTINGENCIES
LEGAL MATTERS
Note H to the Company's consolidated financial statements, under the caption
"Legal Matters" on page 32 of the 1994 Annual Report to Stockholders, provides
information on certain claims and litigation in which the Company is involved.
There have been no material developments related to those matters.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Safeway's net income for the second quarter ended June 17, 1995 was $68.7
million ($0.57 per share) compared to income before extraordinary loss of $58.9
million ($0.48 per share) for the second quarter of 1994. A nine-day strike
during the second quarter of 1995 affected 208 stores in Northern California,
reducing earnings per share by an estimated $0.05 per share. For the first 24
weeks of 1995, net income was $130.7 million ($1.08 per share) compared to
income before extraordinary loss of $100.8 million ($0.83 per share) for the
same period of 1994. Net income for the 12 and 24 weeks ended June 18, 1994 was
$51.5 million ($0.42 per share) and $93.4 million ($0.77 per share) and
included an extraordinary loss of $7.4 million ($0.06 per share) for the early
retirement of debt.
Sales, which were reduced by the strike, were $3.8 billion for the second
quarter of 1995 compared to $3.6 billion for the second quarter of 1994.
Same-store sales increased 3.4% in the second quarter of 1995, continuing a
ten-quarter trend of same-store sales increases. For the first 24 weeks of
1995, sales were $7.4 billion compared to $7.1 billion for the same period of
1994. Same-store sales for the first 24 weeks of 1995 increased 4.2%.
Safeway's commitment to reinvest the cost savings achieved throughout the
Company has resulted in sales growth despite the continuing lack of food price
inflation.
Gross profit declined to 26.9% of sales in the second quarter of 1995, compared
to 27.2% for the same period in 1994 as a result of the Northern California
strike. For the first 24 weeks of both 1995 and 1994, gross profit was 27.1% of
sales. LIFO expense was $4.6 million for the first 24 weeks of both 1995 and
1994 reflecting the Company's expectation of low inflation for the year.
Operating and administrative expense improved to 22.45% of sales in the second
quarter of 1995 from 23.15% in the second quarter of 1994. For the first two
quarters of 1995, operating and administrative expense decreased to 22.80% from
23.36% for the same period of 1994. Higher overall company sales and ongoing
efforts to reduce or control expenses contributed to the lower operating and
administrative expenses.
Interest expense was $49.2 million in the second quarter of 1995 compared to
$52.7 million in the same quarter of 1994. For the first 24 weeks of 1995,
interest expense fell to $96.7 million compared to $108.5 million for the same
period of 1994. Interest expense decreased in 1995 as a result of lower overall
debt levels.
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, recorded on a one-quarter delay
basis, decreased to $5.0 million for the second quarter of 1995 compared to $7.9
million for the same period of 1994. For the first two quarters of the year,
equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates fell to $7.8 million compared to
$18.4 million in 1994. Safeway's share of Vons' earnings increased to $4.6
million in the second quarter of 1995 from $2.8 million in 1994. For the first
24 weeks of 1995, Safeway's share of Vons' earnings decreased slightly to $7.4
million from $9.1 million in 1994. Earnings from Casa Ley decreased to $0.4
million in the second quarter of 1995 from $5.1 million in 1994. For the first
24 weeks of 1995, Safeway's share of Casa Ley's earnings was $0.4 million
compared to $9.3 million in 1994. Mexico has experienced economic difficulties,
including very high interest rates, since the December 1994 devaluation of the
peso. While interest rates have recently declined somewhat, the economic
situation in Mexico will continue to affect Casa Ley's financial results.
However, the impact is not expected to be material to the consolidated operating
results of Safeway.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
In January 1995, the Company acquired 31.8% of the partnership interests in SSI
Equity Associates, L.P. for $113 million with proceeds from bank borrowings. SSI
Equity Associates, L.P., a related party, is a limited partnership whose sole
asset consists of warrants to purchase 13.9 million shares of Safeway common
stock at $2.00 per share. At the date of acquisition, Safeway estimated that
this transaction would reduce common stock equivalents by about 4.16 million
shares, which began having a favorable effect on earnings per share in the first
quarter of 1995. The favorable effect on earnings per share from reducing common
stock equivalents is being partially offset by interest expense on the bank
borrowings.
LIQUIDITY AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES
On May 24, 1995, Safeway entered into a new unsecured bank credit agreement (the
"Credit Agreement") that is less restrictive than Safeway's previous bank
agreement, extends the maturity date and provides lower borrowing costs. The
Credit Agreement matures in 2000 and has two one-year extension options. Safeway
may borrow up to $1.15 billion under the Credit Agreement, including up to $400
million in Canada. In connection with obtaining the new Credit Agreement, all
collateral securing the Subordinated Securities was released.
U.S. borrowings under the Credit Agreement carry interest at one of the
following rates selected by the Company: (i) the prime rate; (ii) the rate at
which Eurodollar deposits are offered to first-class banks by the lenders in the
Credit Agreement plus a pricing margin based on the Company's debt rating or
interest coverage ratio (the "Pricing Margin"); or (iii) rates quoted at the
discretion of the lenders. Canadian borrowings denominated in U.S. dollars carry
interest at one of the following rates selected by the Company: (i) the Canadian
base rate; or (ii) the Canadian Eurodollar rate plus the Pricing Margin.
Canadian borrowings denominated in Canadian dollars carry interest at the
Canadian prime rate.
The Credit Agreement sets certain restrictions on payments by the Company (i) of
dividends on any class of stock; (ii) to acquire shares of any class of stock of
the Company; or (iii) to acquire certain outstanding warrants or any options or
other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock of the Company, other than
those held by certain Company officers and employees.
Other provisions of the Credit Agreement limit certain acts of the Company and
require the Company to meet certain financial tests which pertain to its ability
to generate adequate cash to meet required payments.
Operating cash flow, as presented below, provides a measure of the Company's
ability to generate cash to pay interest and fixed charges, and facilitates the
comparison of Safeway's results of operations with those of companies having
different capital structures. Safeway's computation of operating cash flow is as
follows (dollars in millions):
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12 Weeks Ended 24 Weeks Ended
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June 17, June 18, June 17, June 18,
1995 1994 1995 1994
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Income before income taxes and
extraordinary loss $121.5 $103.4 $231.3 $176.9
LIFO expense 2.3 2.3 4.6 4.6
Interest expense 49.2 52.7 96.7 108.5
Depreciation and amortization 76.4 75.4 150.9 150.1
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
affiliates (5.0) (7.9) (7.8) (18.4)
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Operating cash flow $244.4 $225.9 $475.7 $421.7
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As a percent of sales 6.51% 6.25% 6.44% 5.94%
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As a multiple of interest expense 4.97x 4.29x 4.92x 3.89x
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Cash flow from operations supplemented by credit available under the Credit
Agreement are the Company's primary sources of short-term liquidity. At
June 17, 1995, the Company had available unused borrowing capacity of $762.7
million under the Credit Agreement. Management believes that this amount is
adequate to meet the Company's requirements.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE PROGRAM
A key component of the Company's long-term strategy is its capital expenditure
program. During the first two quarters of 1995, Safeway invested $188 million in
capital expenditures and opened nine new stores. The Company plans to invest
over $450 million for capital expenditures in 1995 to open 25 to 30 new stores
and complete more than 100 remodels.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
PART II OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Note H to the Company's consolidated financial statements, under the caption
"Legal Matters" on page 32 of the 1994 Annual Report to Stockholders, provides
information on certain claims and litigation in which the Company is involved.
Item 3 of the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994
provides information of a Notice of Violation and Intent to Assess issued in
March 1995 by Service District No. 1 of the Clackamas County, Oregon Department
of Utilities (the "District") alleging violations of a waste water discharge
permit at a Company facility. In July 1995, the District and the Company agreed
to a Stipulated and Final Order pursuant to which the Company has agreed to
install certain systems at the facility, the cost of which is not expected to be
material, and pay a civil penalty of $35,000 to resolve the matter.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders was held on May 9, 1995 at which the
stockholders voted on proposals as follows:
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Votes Against Votes Abstained and
Votes For or Withheld Broker Non-votes
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Election of Directors:
Steven A. Burd 97,403,240 639,623 Not applicable
Sam Ginn 97,597,742 445,121 Not applicable
Robert I. MacDonnell 97,378,089 664,774 Not applicable
Adoption of the 1994 Amended and Restated
Stock Option and Incentive Plan for Key
Employees of Safeway Inc. 79,699,425 18,162,019 181,419
Adoption of amendment to Safeway Inc.
Outside Director Equity Purchase Plan 84,013,872 13,811,203 217,788
Adoption of stockholder proposal on
disclosure of executive compensation 1,751,376 92,422,384 3,869,103
Adoption of stockholder proposal on
disclosure of equal employment opportunity
matters 3,429,636 88,210,547 6,402,680
Ratification of appointment of Deloitte &
Touche LLP as independent auditors for fiscal
year 1995. 97,716,088 163,922 162,853
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
ITEM 6(a). EXHIBITS
Exhibit 4(i).1 Form of Warrant Agreement between the Company and The
First National Bank of Boston as Warrant Agent relating
to Warrants to purchase shares of common stock of the
Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to
Registration Statement No. 33-9913) and Amendment to the
Warrant Agreement between the Company and The First
National Bank of Boston as Warrant Agent relating to
Warrants to purchase shares of common stock of the
Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(i).6 to
Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 30,
1989).
Exhibit 4(i).2 Specimen Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
4(i).5 to Registration Statement No. 33-33388).
Exhibit 4(i).3 Specimen Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4(i).2 to Registration Statement No.
33-33388).
Exhibit 4(i).4 Registration Rights Agreement dated November 25, 1986
between the Company and certain limited partnerships
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(i).4 to
Registration Statement No. 33-33388).
Exhibit 4(i).5 Indenture dated as of November 20, 1991 among the Company
and The Bank of New York as Trustee relating to the
Company's Senior Subordinated Debt Securities
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Registrant's
Form 8-K dated November 13, 1991).
Exhibit 4(i).6 Form of Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of
the 10% Senior Subordinated Notes due December 1, 2001,
including the form of Note (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4.4 of Registrant's Form 8-K dated November 13,
1991).
Exhibit 4(i).7 Form of Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of
the 9.65% Senior Subordinated Debentures due January 15,
2004, including the form of Debenture (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Registrant's Form 8-K dated
January 15, 1992).
Exhibit 4(i).8 Indenture dated as of February 1, 1992 between the
Company and The First National Bank of Chicago as Trustee
relating to the Company's 9.30% Senior Secured Debentures
due 2007, including the form of Debenture and the forms
of Deed of Trust and Environmental Indemnity Agreement
attached as exhibits thereto (incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 4(i).14 to Registrant's Form 10-K for the year
ended December 28, 1991).
Exhibit 4(i).9 Indenture dated as of March 15, 1992 between the Company
and Harris Trust and Savings Bank as Trustee relating to
the Company's Senior Subordinated Debt Securities
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Registrant's
Form 8-K dated March 17, 1992).
Exhibit 4(i).10 Form of Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of
the 9.35% Senior Subordinated Notes due March 15, 1999
and the 9.875% Senior Subordinated Debentures due March
15, 2007, including the form of Note and form of
Debenture (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of
Registrant's Form 8-K dated March 17, 1992).
Exhibit 4(i).11 Indenture dated as of September 1, 1992 between the
Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), as Trustee relating to the Company's Debt
Securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of
Registrant's Form 8-K dated September 16, 1992).
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ITEM 6(a). EXHIBITS (CONTINUED)
Exhibit 4(i).12 Form of Officers' Certificate relating to the Company's
Fixed Rate Medium-Term Notes and the Company's Floating Rate
Medium-Term Notes, form of Fixed Rate Note and form of
Floating Rate Note (incorporated by reference to Exhibits
4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of Registrant's Form 8-K dated September
16, 1992).
Exhibit 4(i).13 Form of Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of a
separate series of Safeway Inc.'s Medium-Term Notes entitled
10% Senior Notes due November 1, 2002, including the form of
Note (incorporated by reference to Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 of
Registrant's Form 8-K dated November 5, 1992).
Exhibit 4(i).14 Form of Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of a
separate series of Safeway Inc.'s Medium-Term Notes entitled
Medium-Term Notes due June 1, 2003 (Series OPR-1), including
the form of Note (incorporated by reference to Exhibits 4.1
and 4.2 of Registrant's Form 8-K dated June 1, 1993).
Exhibit 4(i).15 Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrants dated November 25,
1986 to purchase 13,928,000 shares of Safeway Common Stock
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 to Registration
Statement No. 33-9254).
Exhibit 4(i).16 Credit Agreement dated as of May 24, 1995 among Safeway
Inc., Canada Safeway Limited, and Lucerne Foods Ltd., as
Borrowers, Bankers Trust Company, as Administrative Agent,
The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Documentation Agent, The Chase
Manhattan Bank, N.A., Chemical Bank, and Citicorp USA, Inc.,
as Co-Agents, the Lead Managers listed therein, as Lead
Managers, and the lenders listed therein, as Lenders.
Exhibit 4(iii) Registrant agrees to provide to the Securities and Exchange
Commission, upon request, copies of instruments defining the
rights of holders of long-term debt of Registrant and all of
its subsidiaries for which consolidated financial statements
are required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Exhibit 10(iii).1 Safeway Inc. Outside Director Equity Purchase Plan
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Registration
Statement No. 33-36753) and First Amendment to the Safeway
Inc. Outside Director Equity Purchase Plan dated as of July
5, 1994 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).1 to
Registrant's Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
September 10, 1994).
Exhibit 10(iii).2 Share Appreciation Rights Plan of Canada Safeway Limited
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).17 to
Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 29, 1990)
and Amendment No. 1 thereto dated December 13, 1991
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).17 to
Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 28,
1991).
Exhibit 10(iii).3 Share Appreciation Rights Plan of Lucerne Foods Ltd.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).18 to
Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 29, 1990)
and Amendment No. 1 thereto dated December 13, 1991
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).18 to
Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended December 28,
1991).
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ITEM 6(a). EXHIBITS (CONTINUED)
Exhibit 10(iii).4 Letter Agreement dated March 24, 1993 between the Company
and Peter A. Magowan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
10(iii).6 to Registrant's Form 10-Q for the quarterly period
ended June 19, 1993).
Exhibit 10(iii).5 Stock Option Plan for Consultants of Safeway Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).7 to
Registrant's Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June
19, 1993) and First Amendment to the Stock Option Plan for
Consultants of Safeway Inc. (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10(iii).7 to Registrant's Form 10-K for the year
ended January 1, 1994).
Exhibit 10(iii).6 1994 Amended and Restated Stock Option and Incentive Plan
for Key Employees of Safeway Inc. (incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 10(iii).8 to Registrant's Form 10-K for the year
ended January 1, 1994) and First Amendment thereto dated
March 1, 1995 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
10(iii).7 of Registrants Form 10-K/A for the year ended
December 31, 1994).
Exhibit 10(iii).7 Operating Performance Bonus Plan for Executive Officers of
Safeway Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(iii).9
to Registrant's Form 10-K for the year ended January 1,
1994).
Exhibit 10(iii).8 Capital Performance Bonus Plan (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10(iii).10 to Registrant's Form 10-K for the year
ended January 1, 1994).
Exhibit 10(iii).9 Retirement Restoration Plan of Safeway Inc. (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 10(iii).11 to Registrant's Form 10-K
for the year ended January 1, 1994).
Exhibit 10(iii).10 Deferred Compensation Plan for Safeway Directors
(incorporated by reference to Registrant's Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 1994).
Exhibit 11.1 Computation of Earnings Per Common Share and Common Share
Equivalent.
Exhibit 12.1 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
Exhibit 27 Financial Data Schedule (electronic filing only).
ITEM 6(b). REPORTS ON FORM 8-K.
On March 29, 1995, the Company filed a Form 8-K listing under Item 7 (Exhibits)
its Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges for the fourth quarter of
1994.
On May 22, 1995, the Company filed a Form 8-K listing under Item 7 (Exhibits)
its Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges for the first quarter of
1995.
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Registrant
has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
thereunto duly authorized.
Date: July 27, 1995 /s/ Steven A. Burd
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Steven A. Burd
President and Chief Executive Officer
Date: July 27, 1995 /s/ Julian C. Day
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Julian C. Day
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Exhibit Index
LIST OF EXHIBITS FILED WITH FORM 10-Q FOR THE PERIOD
ENDED JUNE 17, 1995
Exhibit 4(i).16 Credit Agreement dated as of May 24, 1995 among Safeway
Inc., Canada Safeway Limited, and Lucerne Foods Ltd., as
Borrowers, Bankers Trust Company, as Administrative Agent,
The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Documentation Agent, The Chase
Manhattan Bank, N.A., Chemical Bank, and Citicorp USA, Inc.,
as Co-Agents, the Lead Managers listed therein, as Lead
Managers, and the lenders listed therein, as Lenders.
Exhibit 11.1 Computation of Earnings Per Common Share and Common Share
Equivalent
Exhibit 12.1 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
Exhibit 27 Financial Data Schedule (electronic filing only)
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Exhibit 4(i).16
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF MAY 24, 1995
AMONG
SAFEWAY INC.,
CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED
AND
LUCERNE FOODS LTD.,
AS BORROWERS,
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT,
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
AS DOCUMENTATION AGENT,
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A., CHEMICAL BANK,
AND CITICORP USA, INC.,
AS CO-AGENTS,
THE LEAD MANAGERS LISTED HEREIN,
AS LEAD MANAGERS,
AND
THE LENDERS LISTED HEREIN,
AS LENDERS
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ARRANGED BY
BT SECURITIES CORPORATION
AND
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
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CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED
LUCERNE FOODS LTD.
CREDIT AGREEMENT
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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 Certain Defined Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Accounting Terms; Utilization of GAAP for Purposes of Calculations Under Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.3 Other Definitional Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 2. AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS AND LOANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1 Commitments; Making of Loans; the Register; Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2 Interest on the Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.3 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.4 Prepayments and Reductions in Commitments; General Provisions Regarding Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.5 Use of Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2.6 Special Provisions Governing Fixed Rate Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2.7 Extension of Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 3. LETTERS OF CREDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.1 Issuance of Letters of Credit and Lenders' Purchase of Participations Therein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.2 Letter of Credit Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.3 Drawings and Reimbursement of Amounts Drawn Under Letters of Credit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3.4 Obligations Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
3.5 Indemnification; Nature of Issuing Lenders' Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 4. ACCEPTANCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.1 Acceptance Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.2 Drawing Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.3 Form of Acceptances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.4 Acceptance and Purchase or Delivery of Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.5 Payment of the Drawing Purchase Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.6 Average Effective Discount Rate Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.7 Payment at Maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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4.8 Presigned Draft Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.9 Circumstances Making Acceptances Unavailable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.10 Prepayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.11 Use of Proceeds of Loans and Acceptance Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 5. INCREASED COSTS, TAXES, CAPITAL ADEQUACY, AND MITIGATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.1 Increased Costs; Taxes; Capital Adequacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2 Obligation of Lenders and Issuing Lenders to Mitigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
5.3 Replacement of Lenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SECTION 6. CONDITIONS TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6.1 Conditions to Initial Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6.2 Conditions to All Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
6.3 Conditions to Letters of Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.4 Conditions to Acceptances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SECTION 7. COMPANY'S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
7.1 Organization, Powers, Qualification, Good Standing, Business and Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
7.2 Authorization of Borrowing, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7.3 Financial Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
7.4 No Material Adverse Change; No Restricted Junior Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7.5 Litigation; Adverse Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7.6 Payment of Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7.7 Governmental Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.8 Securities Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.9 Employee Benefit Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.10 Environmental Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.11 Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.12 Solvency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 8. BORROWERS' AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.1 Financial Statements and Other Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8.2 Corporate Existence, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8.3 Payment of Taxes and Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.4 Maintenance of Properties; Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.5 Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.6 Compliance with Laws, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.7 Environmental Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.8 Material Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
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SECTION 9. BORROWERS' NEGATIVE COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
9.1 Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
9.2 Liens and Related Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
9.3 Restricted Junior Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
9.4 Financial Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
9.5 Restriction on Fundamental Changes; Material Asset Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
9.6 Consolidated Capital Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
9.7 Transactions with Shareholders and Affiliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
9.8 Conduct of Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
9.9 Unrestricted Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
SECTION 10. EVENTS OF DEFAULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
10.1 Failure to Make Payments When Due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
10.2 Default in Other Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
10.3 Breach of Certain Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.4 Breach of Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.5 Other Defaults Under Loan Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.6 Involuntary Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.7 Voluntary Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
10.8 Judgments and Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
10.9 Dissolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
10.10 Employee Benefit Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
10.11 Invalidity of Guaranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
10.12 Change in Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
SECTION 11. AGENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
11.1 Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
11.2 Powers; General Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
11.3 Representations and Warranties; No Responsibility For Appraisal of Creditworthiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
11.4 Right to Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
11.5 Successor Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
11.6 Collateral Account Agreement; Guaranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
SECTION 12. COMPANY GUARANTY OF CANADIAN CREDIT FACILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
SECTION 13. MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
13.1 Assignments and Participations in Loans and Letters of Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
13.2 Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
13.3 Indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
13.4 Set-Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
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13.5 Ratable Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
13.6 Amendments and Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
13.7 Independence of Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
13.8 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
13.9 Survival of Representations, Warranties and Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
13.10 Failure or Indulgence Not Waiver; Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
13.11 Marshalling; Payments Set Aside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
13.12 Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
13.13 Obligations Several; Independent Nature of Lenders' Rights and Borrowers' Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
13.14 Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
13.15 Applicable Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
13.16 Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
13.17 Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
13.18 Waiver of Jury Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
13.19 Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
13.20 Judgment Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
13.21 Counterparts; Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Signature pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-1
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I FORM OF NOTICE OF BORROWING
II FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION/CONTINUATION
III FORM OF NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF LETTER OF CREDIT
IV-A FORM OF NOTE (COMPANY)
IV-B FORM OF NOTE (CANADA SAFEWAY)
IV-C FORM OF NOTE (LUCERNE)
V FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
VI-A FORM OF OPINION OF LATHAM & WATKINS
VI-B FORM OF OPINION OF MICHAEL ROSS
VI-C FORM OF OPINION OF PARLEE MCLAWS
VII FORM OF OPINION OF O'MELVENY & MYERS
VIII FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
IX FORM OF CANADA SAFEWAY GUARANTY
X FORM OF LUCERNE GUARANTY
XI FORM OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY
XII FORM OF DRAWING NOTICE
XIII FORM OF EXTENSION REQUEST
XIV FORM OF DRAFT
XV FORM OF CERTIFICATE RE NON-BANK STATUS
XVI FORM OF ACCEPTANCE ENDORSEMENT
XVII FORM OF SAFEWAY NEW CANADA GUARANTY
XVIII FORM OF PRICING LEVEL DETERMINATION CERTIFICATE
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3.1 EXISTING LETTERS OF CREDIT
7.1 SUBSIDIARIES OF COMPANY
7.5 LITIGATION
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SAFEWAY INC.
CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED
LUCERNE FOODS LTD.
CREDIT AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT is dated as of May 24, 1995 and
entered into by and among SAFEWAY INC., a Delaware corporation ("COMPANY"),
CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED, an Alberta corporation ("CANADA SAFEWAY"), LUCERNE
FOODS LTD., an Alberta corporation ("LUCERNE"; together with Canada Safeway,
collectively, "CANADIAN BORROWERS"; and together with Canada Safeway and
Company, collectively, "BORROWERS"), BANKERS TRUST COMPANY ("BTCO"), as
administrative agent for the Lenders referred to below (in such capacity,
"ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT"), THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA ("SCOTIABANK"), as the
documentation agent for the Lenders referred to below ("DOCUMENTATION AGENT"),
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A., CITICORP USA, INC., AND CHEMICAL BANK, as
co-agents ("CO-AGENTS"), BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS
ASSOCIATION, BANK OF MONTREAL, CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, CREDIT
LYONNAIS LOS ANGELES BRANCH, THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED, SAN FRANCISCO
AGENCY, NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, THE
SUMITOMO BANK, LIMITED, SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH, UNION BANK, AND UNITED STATES
NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON, as lead managers ("LEAD MANAGERS"), and THE LENDERS
LISTED ON THE SIGNATURE PAGES HEREOF (each individually referred to herein as a
"LENDER" and collectively as "LENDERS").
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, Company desires that Lenders extend certain credit
facilities to Borrowers for working capital and other general corporate
purposes, including the refinancing of amounts outstanding under existing bank
credit facilities;
WHEREAS, certain subsidiaries of Company will benefit from
the extensions of credit to be provided under such credit facilities and, in
order to induce Lenders to provide such credit facilities, are willing to
guaranty Borrowers' obligations with respect to such credit facilities;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, Company, Canadian
Borrowers, Lenders, Lead Managers, Co-Agents, Documentation Agent and
Administrative Agent agree as follows:
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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 CERTAIN DEFINED TERMS.
The following terms used in this Agreement shall have the
following meanings:
"ACCEPTANCE" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 4.1.
"ACCEPTANCE FACILITY" means the bankers' acceptance facility
established under Section 4.
"ACCEPTANCE USAGE" means, as at any date, the sum (without
duplication) of the aggregate Face Amount of all Acceptances created by
Canadian Lenders pursuant to Section 4 which have not been repaid by the
applicable Canadian Borrower whether or not due and whether or not held by any
Lender. For purposes of this definition, any Acceptance which has been prepaid
in full shall not be deemed to be outstanding and all Acceptances shall be
valued in Dollar Equivalents as of any date of determination.
"ADJUSTED EURODOLLAR RATE" means, for any Interest Rate
Determination Date with respect to an Interest Period for a Domestic Eurodollar
Rate Loan, the rate per annum obtained by dividing (i) the arithmetic average
(rounded upward to the nearest 1/16 of one percent) of the offered quotation,
if any, to first class banks in the interbank Eurodollar market by each of the
Domestic Reference Banks for Dollar deposits of amounts in same day funds
comparable to the principal amount of the Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loan of that
Domestic Reference Bank for which the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate is then being
determined with maturities comparable to such Interest Period as of
approximately 10:00 A.M. (New York time) on such Interest Rate Determination
Date by (ii) a percentage equal to 100% minus the stated maximum rate of all
reserve requirements (including, without limitation, any marginal, emergency,
supplemental, special or other reserves) applicable on such Interest Rate
Determination Date to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect
of "Eurocurrency liabilities" as defined in Regulation D (or any successor
category of liabilities under Regulation D); provided that if any Domestic
Reference Bank fails to provide Documentation Agent with its aforementioned
quotation then the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate shall be determined based on the
quotation(s) provided to Documentation Agent by the other Domestic Reference
Bank(s).
"AFFECTED LENDER" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 2.6C.
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"AFFILIATE", as applied to any Person, means any other
Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common
control with, that Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control"
(including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling", "controlled by"
and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person, means the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise.
"ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT" has the meaning assigned to that term
in the introduction to this Agreement and also means and includes any successor
Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to subsection 11.5.
"AGENTS" means either or both of Administrative Agent and
Documentation Agent.
"AGGREGATE AMOUNTS DUE FROM CANADIAN BORROWERS" has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 13.5B.
"AGGREGATE AMOUNTS DUE FROM COMPANY" has the meaning
assigned to that term in subsection 13.5A.
"AGGREGATE COMMITMENT" means the aggregate Domestic
Commitment and Canadian Commitment of a Lender, and "AGGREGATE COMMITMENTS"
means the Aggregate Commitments of all Lenders.
"AGGREGATE CONSIDERATION" means, with respect to any
Material Asset Sale, the aggregate value of the consideration received or to be
received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries from such Material Asset Sale,
it being agreed that the value of any such consideration in the form of a note
or deferred cash payments shall equal the principal amount of such note or the
aggregate amount of such deferred cash payments, the value of any equity
securities received shall be the market price of such securities quoted on any
national securities exchange as of the close of business on the day such
Material Asset Sale is closed (or if no market price exists the fair market
value thereof as determined in good faith by Company's board of directors), and
in the case of any other consideration, the fair market value thereof (or, in
the absence of any established market therefor, the fair market value thereof
as determined in good faith by Company's board of directors).
"AGGREGATE PRO RATA SHARE" means, with respect to any
Lender, the Aggregate Commitment of such Lender as a percentage of the sum of
the Aggregate Commitments of all Lenders.
"AGREEMENT" means this Credit Agreement dated as of May 24,
1995, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
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"ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT" means an Assignment Agreement in
substantially the form of Exhibit VIII annexed hereto.
"AUTHORIZED OFFICER" has the meaning assigned to that term
in subsection 6.2A.
"AVERAGE EFFECTIVE DISCOUNT RATE" means, (a) in respect of
any Acceptances to be purchased by a Schedule I Lender pursuant hereto, the
arithmetic average of the discount rates (calculated on an annual basis and
rounded to the nearest one- hundredth of 1%, with five-thousandths of 1% being
rounded up) quoted by each Schedule I Reference Bank at or about 10:00 A.M.
(Toronto time) as the discount rate at which such Schedule I Reference Bank
would purchase, on the relevant Drawing Date, its own bankers' acceptances
having an aggregate Face Amount equal to and with a term to maturity the same
as the Acceptances to be acquired by such Schedule I Reference Bank on such
Drawing Date or (b) in respect of any Acceptances to be purchased by a Schedule
II Lender or any other Person (other than a Schedule I Lender) pursuant hereto,
the arithmetic average of the discount rates (calculated on an annual basis and
rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of 1%, with five-thousandths of 1% being
rounded up) quoted by each Schedule II Reference Bank at or about 10:00 A.M.
(Toronto time) as the discount rate at which such Schedule II Reference Bank
would purchase, on the relevant Drawing Date, its own bankers' acceptances
having an aggregate Face Amount equal to and with a term to maturity the same
as the Acceptances to be acquired by such Schedule II Reference Bank or other
Person on such Drawing Date. If any Schedule I Reference Bank or Schedule II
Reference Bank fails to provide its quotation to Documentation Agent, the
Average Effective Discount Rate shall be determined on the basis of the
quotation(s) by the other Schedule I Reference Bank(s) or Schedule II Reference
Bank(s), as applicable.
"BANKRUPTCY CODE" means Title 11 of the United States Code
entitled "Bankruptcy", as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor
statute.
"BOOK VALUE" means, with respect to the assets of Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, the value of such Person's assets recorded in the
consolidated balance sheet of Company most recently delivered to Lenders
pursuant to subsection 8.1(i) or 8.1(ii).
"BORROWERS" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
"BTCO" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
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"BUSINESS DAY" means any day excluding Saturday and Sunday
and also excluding (i) for all purposes other than as covered by clauses (ii)
and (iii) below, any day which is a legal holiday under the laws of the States
of New York or California or is a day on which banking institutions located in
any such state are authorized or required by law or other governmental action
to close, (ii) with respect to all notices, determinations, fundings and
payments in connection with Canadian Loans, Canadian Swing Line Loans and the
Acceptance Facility, any day which is a legal holiday under the laws of the
Province of Ontario or Alberta, Canada or is a day on which banking
institutions located in any such Province are authorized or required by law or
other governmental action to close; and (iii) with respect to all notices,
determinations, fundings and payments in connection with the Adjusted
Eurodollar Rate or Canadian Eurodollar Rate, any day which is not a Business
Day pursuant to clause (i) or which is not a day for trading by and between
banks in Dollar deposits in the applicable interbank Eurodollar market and with
respect to all notices, determinations, fundings and payments in connection
with the Canadian Eurodollar Rate, any day which is not a Business Day pursuant
to clause (ii) and which is also not a day for trading by and between banks in
Dollar deposits in the applicable interbank Eurodollar market.
"CANADA SAFEWAY" has the meaning assigned to that term in
the introduction to this Agreement.
"CANADA SAFEWAY GUARANTY" means the Guaranty executed and
delivered by Canada Safeway on the Closing Date, substantially in the form of
Exhibit IX annexed hereto, as such Guaranty may hereafter be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"CANADIAN BASE RATE" means as at any date, with respect to
any Canadian Loan denominated in Dollars that is to be or has been advanced to
a Canadian Borrower in Canada, the variable rate of interest per annum equal to
the greater of (a) the rate which Documentation Agent announces from time to
time as its base lending rate per annum with respect to loans denominated in
Dollars advanced to Canadian customers in Canada, as in effect from time to
time and (b) the aggregate of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate per annum
for such day and (ii) 3/8 of 1% per annum. As to any loan, the Canadian Base
Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best
rate actually charged to any customer for loans denominated in Dollars.
Documentation Agent may make commercial loans or other loans denominated in
Dollars at rates of interest at, above or below the Canadian Base Rate. Any
Canadian Borrower may borrow Canadian Loans bearing interest at the Canadian
Base Rate.
"CANADIAN BASE RATE LOANS" means Canadian Loans (other than
Canadian Swing Line Loans) denominated in Dollars advanced to Canadian
Borrowers and bearing interest at rates determined by reference to the Canadian
Base Rate as provided in subsection 2.2A.
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"CANADIAN BORROWERS" has the meaning assigned to that term
in the introduction to this Agreement.
"CANADIAN COMMITMENT" means the commitment of a Canadian
Lender to make Loans to Company, Canada Safeway or Lucerne pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(ii), and "CANADIAN COMMITMENTS" means such commitments of all
Canadian Lenders in the aggregate.
"CANADIAN DOLLARS" or "CDN.$" means the lawful money of
Canada.
"CANADIAN EURODOLLAR RATE" means, with respect to each
Interest Period to be applicable to a Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate
per annum obtained by determining the arithmetic average (rounded upward to the
nearest 1/16th of 1%) of the offered quotation to first-class banks in the
interbank Eurodollar market by each Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank for
Dollar deposits of an amount in immediately available funds approximately equal
to the principal amount of the Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loan to be made by such
Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank for a period approximately equal to such
Interest Period determined as of 10:00 a.m. (New York time) two Business Days
prior to the commencement of such Interest Period. If any Canadian Loan
Pricing Reference Bank fails to provide its offered quotation to Documentation
Agent, the Canadian Eurodollar Rate shall be determined on the basis of the
offered quotation(s) by the other Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank(s).
"CANADIAN EURODOLLAR RATE LOANS" means any Canadian Loan
denominated in Dollars advanced to Canadian Borrowers and bearing interest at a
rate determined with reference to the Canadian Eurodollar Rate as provided in
subsection 2.2A.
"CANADIAN FUNDING AND PAYMENT OFFICE" means the office of
Documentation Agent located at Commercial Banking Centre, 240-8th Avenue S.W.,
Calgary, Alberta.
"CANADIAN GUARANTY" means the guaranty by Company of the
Canadian Obligations set forth in Section 12.
"CANADIAN LENDERS" means any Lender having a Canadian
Commitment or, on and after the termination of the Commitments, Canadian Loans
outstanding, and shall include any U.S. Affiliate of any such Lender.
"CANADIAN LOAN PRICING REFERENCE BANKS" means Scotiabank, BT
Bank of Canada, and Bank of America Canada.
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"CANADIAN LOANS" means the Loans made by Canadian Lenders
pursuant to their Canadian Commitments to any Borrower pursuant to subsection
2.1A(ii) and the Canadian Swing Line Loans, or any combination thereof.
"CANADIAN OBLIGATIONS" has the meaning assigned to that term
in Section 12.
"CANADIAN PRIME RATE" means with respect to any Canadian
Loan denominated in Canadian Dollars as of any date, the greater of (a) the
arithmetic average (rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of 1%, with
five-thousandths of 1% being rounded up) of the variable rates announced by
each of the Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Banks from time to time as the
prime lending rate per annum of such Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank for
Canadian Dollar loans made by such Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank in
Canada, as in effect on such date and (b) the sum of (i) the arithmetic average
(rounded upward to the nearest 1/16th of 1%) of the rates per annum for
Canadian Dollar bankers' acceptances having a term of 30 days for the Canadian
Loan Pricing Reference Banks as of 10:00 A.M. (Toronto time) on such date, as
determined by Documentation Agent, and (ii) 3/8 of 1% per annum. As to any
loan, the Canadian Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily
represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. Each
Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank may make commercial loans or other loans
at rates of interest at, above or below the Canadian Prime Rate. If any
Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank fails to provide its rate to Documentation
Agent, the Canadian Prime Rate shall be determined on the basis of the
quotation(s) by the other Canadian Loan Pricing Reference Bank(s). Only
Canadian Borrowers may borrow Canadian Loans bearing interest at the Canadian
Prime Rate.
"CANADIAN PRIME RATE LOANS" means Canadian Loans (other than
Canadian Swing Line Loans) advanced to Canadian Borrowers and denominated in
Canadian Dollars and bearing interest at rates determined by reference to the
Canadian Prime Rate as provided in subsection 2.2A.
"CANADIAN PRO RATA SHARE" means, with respect to any
Canadian Lender (and any U.S. Affiliate of such Canadian Lender, if any), the
Canadian Commitment of such Canadian Lender as a percentage of the sum of the
Canadian Commitments of all Canadian Lenders.
"CANADIAN SWING LINE COMMITMENT" means the commitment of
Swing Line Lender to make Canadian Swing Line Loans pursuant to subsection
2.1A(iii).
"CANADIAN SWING LINE LOANS" has the meaning assigned to that
term in subsection 2.1A(iii).
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"CANADIAN/U.S. FUNDING ASSIGNMENT" has the meaning assigned
to that term in subsection 13.1B.
"CANADIAN/U.S. LOANS" means Dollar denominated Loans
advanced to Company by Canadian Lenders.
"CAPITAL LEASE", as applied to any Person, means any lease
of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee
that, in conformity with GAAP, is accounted for as a capital lease on the
balance sheet of that Person.
"CASA LEY" means Casa Ley, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican
corporation.
"CERTIFICATE RE NON-BANK STATUS" means a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit XV annexed hereto delivered by a Lender to
Documentation Agent pursuant to subsection 5.1B(iii).
"CLOSING DATE" means the date on or before June 30, 1995, on
which the initial Loans are made.
"CO-AGENTS" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
"COMMERCIAL LETTER OF CREDIT" means any letter of credit or
similar instrument (which may include a "steamship guaranty" or similar
undertaking issued in connection with such letter of credit or similar
instrument) issued for the purpose of providing the primary payment mechanism
in connection with the purchase of any materials, goods or services by Company
or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of Company or
such Subsidiary.
"COMMITMENTS" means the Domestic Commitments or the Canadian
Commitments or both.
"COMMITMENT TERMINATION DATE" means May 24, 2000 or such
subsequent date to which the Commitment Termination Date is extended pursuant
to subsection 2.7.
"COMPANY" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
"COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE" means a certificate substantially
in the form of Exhibit V annexed hereto delivered to Documentation Agent and
Lenders by Company pursuant to subsection 8.1(iii).
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"CONSOLIDATED ADJUSTED EBITDA" means, for any period,
Consolidated Net Income adjusted to exclude (without duplication) the effects
of (i) any LIFO expense or income, (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense, (iii)
provisions for taxes based on income, (iv) depreciation expense, (v)
amortization expense, (vi) equity in earnings or losses of unconsolidated
affiliates to the extent not actually received or paid by Company or its
Subsidiaries, and (vii) material non-cash, non-recurring gains and losses, all
of the foregoing as determined on a consolidated basis for Company and its
Subsidiaries (excluding any Unrestricted Subsidiaries) in conformity with GAAP.
"CONSOLIDATED CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, for any period,
the sum of the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or other
consideration or accrued as a liability, including, without limitation, that
portion of Capital Leases which is capitalized on the consolidated balance
sheet of Company and its Subsidiaries but excluding (i) expenditures made in
connection with the replacement, substitution or restoration of assets (a) to
the extent financed from insurance proceeds paid on account of the loss or
damage to the assets being replaced or (b) with awards of compensation arising
from the taking by eminent domain or condemnation of the assets being replaced
and (ii) any expenditures made in connection with the acquisition of any Person
(or any operating division or group of properties of any Person) having three
or more business locations) by Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding any
Unrestricted Subsidiaries) during that period that, in conformity with GAAP,
are included in "property, plant or equipment" or comparable items shown on the
consolidated balance sheet of Company and such Subsidiaries.
"CONSOLIDATED INTEREST EXPENSE" means, for any period,
interest expense with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness (including,
without limitation, net costs under Interest Rate Agreements and any such
expense attributable to Capital Leases in accordance with GAAP) of Company and
its Subsidiaries (excluding any Unrestricted Subsidiaries) for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP.
"CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means, for any period, the net
income (or loss), before extraordinary items, of Company and its Subsidiaries
(excluding any Unrestricted Subsidiaries) on a consolidated basis for such
period taken as a single accounting period determined in conformity with GAAP.
"CONSOLIDATED TOTAL DEBT" means, as at any date of
determination, the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness
and all guaranties of Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding any Unrestricted
Subsidiaries), determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP.
"CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION", as applied to any Person, means
any provision of any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, contract,
undertaking, agreement
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or other instrument to which that Person is a party or by which it or any of
its properties is bound or to which it or any of its properties is subject.
"DEEMED FLOATING RATE" means (a) with respect to any portion
of the principal amount of any Loan advanced to, or to be advanced to, Company,
the Domestic Base Rate, (b) with respect to any portion of the principal amount
of any Dollar denominated Loan advanced to, or to be advanced to, a Canadian
Borrower, the Canadian Base Rate, or (c) with respect to any portion of the
principal amount of any Canadian Dollar denominated Loan advanced to, or to be
advanced to, a Canadian Borrower, the Canadian Prime Rate.
"DOCUMENTATION AGENT" has the meaning assigned to that term
in the introduction to this Agreement and also means and includes any successor
Documentation Agent appointed pursuant to subsection 11.5.
"DOLLARS", "$" and "U.S.$" mean the lawful money of the
United States of America.
"DOLLAR EQUIVALENTS" means Dollars or, with respect to any
amount of Canadian Dollars, an equivalent amount of Dollars determined at the
rate of exchange quoted by Documentation Agent in New York City, at 9:00 A.M.
(New York time) on the date of determination, to prime banks in New York City
for the spot purchase in the New York foreign exchange market of Dollars with
Canadian Dollars.
"DOMESTIC BASE RATE" means the rate that Documentation Agent
announces from time to time as its prime lending rate in the United States for
Dollar denominated loans, as in effect from time to time. Such prime lending
rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best
rate actually charged to any customer. Documentation Agent or any other Lender
may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or
below such prime lending rate.
"DOMESTIC BASE RATE LOANS" means Loans advanced to Company
(including, without limitation, any Canadian/U.S. Loans, but excluding
Domestic Swing Line Loans) bearing interest at rates determined by reference to
the Domestic Base Rate as provided in subsection 2.2A.
"DOMESTIC COMMITMENT" means the commitment of a Domestic
Lender to make Loans to Company pursuant to subsection 2.1A(i), and "DOMESTIC
COMMITMENTS" means such commitments of all Domestic Lenders in the aggregate.
"DOMESTIC EURODOLLAR RATE LOANS" means Loans (excluding any
Negotiated Rate Loans) denominated in Dollars, advanced to Company (including,
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without limitation, any Canadian/U.S. Loans) and bearing interest at rates
determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate as provided in
subsection 2.2A.
"DOMESTIC FUNDING AND PAYMENT OFFICE" means the office of
Documentation Agent located at 600 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30308.
"DOMESTIC LENDERS" means any Lender having a Domestic
Commitment or, on and after the termination of the Commitments, Domestic Loans
outstanding.
"DOMESTIC LOANS" means the Loans made by Domestic Lenders
pursuant to their Domestic Commitments to Company pursuant to subsection 2.1A,
the Domestic Swing Line Loans and the Negotiated Rate Loans, or any combination
thereof.
"DOMESTIC PRO RATA SHARE" means, with respect to any Lender,
the Domestic Commitment of such Domestic Lender as a percentage of the sum of
the Domestic Commitments of all Domestic Lenders.
"DOMESTIC REFERENCE BANKS" means BTCo, Scotiabank and Bank
of America National Trust and Savings Association.
"DOMESTIC SWING LINE LOANS" has the meaning assigned to that
term in subsection 2.1A(iii).
"DRAFTS" means, at any time, a blank bill of exchange,
within the meaning of the Bills of Exchange Act (Canada), in substantially the
form of Exhibit XIV annexed hereto, drawn by the applicable Canadian Borrower
on a Canadian Lender and bearing such distinguishing letters and numbers as
such Canadian Lender may determine, but which at such time, except as otherwise
provided herein, has not been completed or accepted by such Canadian Lender.
"DRAWING" means the creation of Acceptances by a Canadian
Lender pursuant to Section 4.
"DRAWING DATE" means any Business Day fixed pursuant to
subsection 4.1 for a Drawing.
"DRAWING FEE" means, with respect to the Drafts drawn by any
Canadian Borrower hereunder and accepted by any Canadian Lender as provided
herein on any Drawing Date, an amount equal to the Pricing Margin per annum on
the aggregate Face Amount of such Drafts, calculated, in each case, on the
basis of the term to maturity of such Draft and a year of 365 or 366 days, as
appropriate.
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"DRAWING NOTICE" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 4.2.
"DRAWING PURCHASE PRICE" means, in respect of Acceptances to
be purchased by a Canadian Lender, the difference between (i) the result
(rounded to the nearest whole cent, with one-half of one cent being rounded up)
obtained by dividing the aggregate Face Amount of such Acceptances by the sum
of one plus the product of (x) the applicable Average Effective Discount Rate
multiplied by (y) a fraction the numerator of which is the term of maturity of
such Acceptances and the denominator of which is 365 or 366 (as appropriate
given the number of days in the current calendar year); and (ii) the applicable
Drawing Fee.
"ELIGIBLE ASSIGNEE" means (A) (i) a commercial bank
organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof; (ii) a
savings and loan association or savings bank organized under the laws of the
United States or any state thereof; (iii) a commercial bank organized under the
laws of any other country or a political subdivision thereof; provided that (x)
such bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the United States or
(y) such bank is organized under the laws of a country that is a member of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or a political
subdivision of such country; and (iv) any other entity which is an "accredited
investor" (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act) which extends
credit or buys loans as one of its businesses including, but not limited to,
insurance companies, mutual funds and lease financing companies, in each case
(under clauses (i) through (iv) above) to which Administrative Agent and
Company have consented (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld); and
(B) subject to such transfer not resulting in additional costs being payable by
Borrowers under subsection 2.6 or 5.1, any Lender and any Affiliate of any
Lender; provided that no Borrower or Affiliate of Company shall be an Eligible
Assignee.
"EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" means any "employee benefit plan" as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA which is, or was at any time, maintained or
contributed to by Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates.
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means all statutes, ordinances, orders,
rules, regulations, plans, policies or decrees and the like relating to (i)
environmental matters, including, without limitation, those relating to fines,
injunctions, penalties, damages, contribution, cost recovery compensation,
losses or injuries resulting from the Release or threatened Release of
Hazardous Materials, (ii) the generation, use, storage, transportation or
disposal of Hazardous Materials, or (iii) occupational safety and health,
industrial hygiene, land use or the protection of human, plant or animal health
or welfare, in any manner applicable to Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their respective properties, including, without limitation, the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42
U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq.), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49
U.S.C. Section 1801 et seq.), the Resource
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Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.), the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq.), the Clean Air
Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.), the Toxic Substances Control Act (15
U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. Section 136 et seq.), the Occupational Safety and
Health Act (29 U.S.C. Section 651 et seq.) and the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. Section 11001 et seq.), each as amended
or supplemented, and any analogous future or present local, state and federal
statutes and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, each as in effect as of
the date of determination.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
"ERISA AFFILIATE", as applied to any Person as of any date,
means (i) any corporation which is (or, for the purposes of subsection 10.10
only, was at any time during the preceding five years) a member of a controlled
group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Internal
Revenue Code of which that Person is (or was at any time during the preceding
five years) a member; (ii) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated)
which is (or, for the purposes of subsection 10.10 only, was at any time during
the preceding five years) a member of a group of trades or businesses under
common control within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Internal Revenue
Code of which that Person is (or was at any time during the preceding five
years) a member; and (iii) any member of an affiliated service group within the
meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of which that
Person, any corporation described in clause (i) above or any trade or business
described in clause (ii) above is (or, for the purposes of subsection 10.10
only, was at any time during the preceding five years) a member.
"ERISA EVENT" means (i) a "reportable event" within the
meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder with
respect to any Pension Plan (excluding those for which the provision for 30-day
notice to the PBGC has been waived by regulation); (ii) the failure to meet the
minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code with
respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section
412(d) of the Internal Revenue Code) or the failure to make by its due date a
required installment under Section 412(m) of the Internal Revenue Code with
respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to
a Multiemployer Plan; (iii) the provision by the administrator of any Pension
Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate
such plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (iv)
the withdrawal by Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan
with two or more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension
Plan resulting in liability pursuant to Sections 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (v) the
institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the
occurrence of any event or condition which might constitute grounds under ERISA
for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer,
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any Pension Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on Company or any of its
ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of
the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the withdrawal by Company or
any of its ERISA Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the
meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan if
there is any potential liability therefor, or the receipt by Company or any of
its ERISA Affiliates of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in
reorganization or insolvency pursuant to Section 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, or that
it intends to terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA;
(viii) the occurrence of an act or omission which could give rise to the
imposition on Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates of fines, penalties, taxes
or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Internal Revenue Code or under
Section 409 or 502(c), (i) or (l) or 4071 of ERISA in respect of any Employee
Benefit Plan; (ix) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims
for benefits) against any Employee Benefit Plan other than a Multiemployer Plan
or the assets thereof, or against Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates in
connection with any such Employee Benefit Plan; (x) receipt from the Internal
Revenue Service of notice of the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other
Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code) to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Pension Plan to qualify
for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;
or (xi) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of
the Internal Revenue Code or pursuant to ERISA with respect to any Pension
Plan; provided, however, that for all purposes of this Agreement, no event
specified in clauses (i) through (xi) above shall constitute an ERISA Event if
Company and its ERISA Affiliates would not reasonably be expected to incur
liabilities aggregating more than $25,000,000 in connection with such event and
all other such events.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" means each of the events set forth in
Section 10.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
"EXCLUDED TAXES" means with respect to any Person (i) any
Tax imposed by the jurisdiction in which that Person's principal office
(and/or, in the case of a Lender, its lending office) is located or in which
that Person is deemed to be organized, resident or doing business on all or
part of the net income, profits or gains of that Person (whether worldwide, or
only insofar as such income, profits or gains are considered to arise in or to
relate to a particular jurisdiction, or otherwise), (ii) any Taxes imposed
pursuant to provisions of any laws, treaties or regulations in effect on (and
as interpreted by any relevant taxing authority or agency on) the Closing Date
in the United States of America or Canada or any state or province thereof or
political subdivision of any of the foregoing that are applicable to any of the
Obligations or to any payments thereof made by any Borrower to any Lender
except
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(a) any such Taxes that are applicable to the Obligations or any such payment
solely by reason of the fact any Canadian Borrower is doing business in the
United States of America or (b) any withholding tax payable during the
continuance of any Event of Default and (iii) Taxes which a Lender could have
avoided in the ordinary course of business (including by payments of its taxes)
without the incurrence of additional expense.
"EXISTING CREDIT AGREEMENTS" means the Second Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 12, 1990, among Company, the lenders
named therein, the managers and co-managers named therein, and BTCo, as lead
manager and Agent, as amended, and the Second Amended and Restated Working
Capital Credit Agreement dated as of June 14, 1990, among Borrowers, the
lenders named therein, Scotiabank, as Canadian paying agent, BT Bank of Canada,
as Canadian administrative agent, and BTCo, as lead manager and agent, as
amended.
"EXTENSION REQUEST" means written notice substantially in
the form of Exhibit XIII annexed hereto to be delivered by Company in
accordance with the provisions of subsection 2.7 to request a one-year
extension of the Commitment Termination Date then in effect.
"FACE AMOUNT" means, in respect of a Draft or an Acceptance,
as the case may be, the amount payable to the holder thereof on its maturity.
"FACILITY FEE PERCENTAGE" means, as of any date, the
percentage per annum set forth below that corresponds to the Pricing Level in
effect on such date:
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Facility Fee Percentage
Pricing Level (in basis points)
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Pricing Level A: 10.00
Pricing Level B: 12.50
Pricing Level C: 12.50
Pricing Level D: 15.00
Pricing Level E: 20.00
Pricing Level F: 25.00
Pricing Level G: 37.50
</TABLE>
The Facility Fee Percentage shall change as of the opening of business on any
day that the Pricing Level changes pursuant to the definition of "Pricing
Level."
"FACILITIES" means any and all real property (including,
without limitation, all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located
thereon) owned, leased, operated or used by Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
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"FEDERAL FUNDS EFFECTIVE RATE" means, for any period, a
fluctuating interest rate equal for each day during such period to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of
the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for
such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding
Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not
so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations
for such day on such transactions received by Documentation Agent from three
Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by Documentation Agent.
"FINANCIAL COVENANTS" means any covenant designed to monitor
and test or preserve the financial performance or condition of any Person,
including, without limitation, covenants specifying a maximum leverage ratio, a
minimum fixed charge or interest coverage ratio, a minimum net worth, required
levels of working capital or liquidity or a maximum amount of periodic lease
payments or capital expenditures and covenants generally limiting or
restricting investments, Indebtedness, contingent obligations, Liens,
prepayments of debt or payments of dividends.
"FISCAL YEAR" means, for any purpose, any of the 52-week or
53-week reporting periods used by Company in the financial reports it prepares
for external reporting purposes.
"FLOATING RATE LOANS" means Domestic Base Rate Loans,
Canadian Prime Rate Loans or Canadian Base Rate Loans, or any combination
thereof.
"FIXED RATE LOANS" means Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans or
Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans, or any combination thereof.
"FUNDING DATE" means the date any Loan is funded or any
Acceptance is created, as applicable.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set
forth in opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of
the accounting profession, in each case as the same are applicable to the
circumstances as of the date of determination.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATION" means any permit, license,
authorization, plan, directive, consent order or consent decree of or from any
federal, state or local governmental authority, agency or court.
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"GUARANTIES" means the Canada Safeway Guaranty, the Safeway
New Canada Guaranty, the Lucerne Guaranty, the Subsidiary Guaranty and the
Canadian Guaranty.
"GUARANTOR" means, at any time, Company or any Subsidiary of
Company that is then a party to any of the Guaranties.
"HAZARDOUS MATERIALS" means (i) any chemical, material or
substance at any time defined as or included in the definition of "hazardous
substances", "hazardous wastes", "hazardous materials", "extremely hazardous
waste", "restricted hazardous waste", "infectious waste", "toxic substances" or
any other formulations intended to define, list or classify substances by
reason of deleterious properties such as ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity,
carcinogenicity, toxicity, reproductive toxicity, "TCLP toxicity" or "EP
toxicity" or words of similar import under any applicable Environmental Laws or
publications promulgated pursuant thereto; (ii) any oil, petroleum, petroleum
fraction or petroleum derived substance; (iii) any drilling fluids, produced
waters and other wastes associated with the exploration, development or
production of crude oil, natural gas or geothermal resources; (iv) any
flammable substances or explosives; (v) any radioactive materials; (vi)
asbestos in any form; (vii) urea formaldehyde foam insulation; (viii)
electrical equipment which contains any oil or dielectric fluid containing
levels of polychlorinated biphenyls in excess of fifty parts per million; and
(ix) pesticides.
"INDEBTEDNESS", as applied to any Person, means (i) all
indebtedness for borrowed money, (ii) that portion of obligations with respect
to Capital Leases that is properly classified as a liability on a balance sheet
in conformity with GAAP, (iii) notes payable and drafts accepted representing
extensions of credit whether or not representing obligations for borrowed
money, (iv) any obligation owed for all or any part of the deferred purchase
price of property or services (excluding any such obligations incurred under
ERISA), which purchase price is (a) due more than six months from the date of
incurrence of the obligation in respect thereof or (b) evidenced by a note or
similar written instrument, and (v) all indebtedness secured by any Lien on any
property or asset owned or held by that Person regardless of whether the
indebtedness secured thereby shall have been assumed by that Person or is
nonrecourse to the credit of that Person.
"INDEMNITEE" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 13.3.
"INSOLVENCY LAWS" means the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Act (Canada) or any comparable law of Canada or any other
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect in
the United States of America or any state thereof or Canada or any province
thereof.
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"INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO" means, as at any date of
determination, the ratio (rounded down to the nearest one- hundredth) of (i)
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense, in each
case for the four fiscal quarter period ending with the most recently completed
fiscal quarter of Company.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means (i) with respect to any
Floating Rate Loan, each Quarterly Payment Date; (ii) with respect to any Swing
Line Loan, the last day of each month; (iii) with respect to any Fixed Rate
Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan; provided
that in the case of each Interest Period of longer than three months "Interest
Payment Date" shall also include each date that is three months, or an integral
multiple thereof, after the commencement of such Interest Period, and (iv) in
the case of any Negotiated Rate Loan, the last day of each month or such other
dates as are mutually agreed upon by Company and the applicable Lender.
"INTEREST PERIOD" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 2.2B.
"INTEREST RATE AGREEMENT" means any interest rate swap
agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement or other
similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect Company or any of its
Subsidiaries against fluctuations in interest rates.
"INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION DATE" means, with respect to
any Interest Period, the second Business Day prior to the first day of such
Interest Period.
"INTERNAL REVENUE CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended to the date hereof and from time to time hereafter.
"ISSUING LENDER" means, with respect to any Letter of
Credit, the Lender which agrees or is otherwise obligated to issue such Letter
of Credit, determined as provided in subsection 3.1B(ii).
"KKR" means Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership.
"KKR ASSOCIATES" means KKR Associates, a New York limited
partnership under common control with KKR.
"LEAD MANAGERS" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
"LENDER" and "LENDERS" means the persons identified as
"Lenders" and listed on the signature pages of this Agreement, together with
their successors and
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permitted assigns pursuant to subsection 13.1 (including, without limitation,
any U.S. Affiliates).
"LETTER OF CREDIT" or "LETTERS OF CREDIT" means Commercial
Letters of Credit and Standby Letters of Credit issued or to be issued by
Issuing Lenders for the account of Company pursuant to subsection 3.1.
"LETTER OF CREDIT USAGE" means, as at any date, (1) with
respect to all Domestic Lenders, the sum of (i) the maximum aggregate amount
which is or at any time thereafter may become available for drawing under all
Letters of Credit then outstanding plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all
drawings under Letters of Credit honored by Issuing Lenders and not theretofore
reimbursed by Company (including any such reimbursement out of the proceeds of
Loans pursuant to subsection 3.3B) and (2) with respect to any Domestic Lender,
such Domestic Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share of the sum of the amounts
described in the preceding clauses (i) and (ii). For purposes of this
definition, any amount described in clauses (i) or (ii) of the preceding
sentence which is denominated in Canadian Dollars shall be valued in Dollar
Equivalents as of such date.
"LIEN" means any lien, mortgage, pledge, assignment,
security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, and
any agreement to give any security interest).
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the Notes, the
Letters of Credit (and any applications for, or reimbursement agreements or
other documents or certificates executed by Company in favor of an Issuing
Lender relating to, the Letters of Credit), the Drafts, the Acceptances, the
Guaranties, any collateral account agreement executed and delivered pursuant to
Section 10, and any other agreements or instruments executed and delivered by
any Borrower or Guarantor hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or
therewith.
"LOAN EXPOSURE" means:
(i) with respect to any Domestic Lender as of any date
(i) prior to the termination of the Commitments, that Lender's Domestic
Commitment and (ii) after the termination of the Commitments, the sum of
(a) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans of that
Lender plus (b) in the event that Lender is an Issuing Lender, the
aggregate Letter of Credit Usage in respect of all Letters of Credit
issued by that Lender (in each case net of any participations purchased
by other Lenders in any such Letter of Credit or any unreimbursed
drawings under such Letters of Credit) plus (c) the aggregate amount of
all participations purchased by that Lender in Letters of Credit or in
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any drawings thereunder honored by Issuing Lenders and not theretofore
reimbursed by Company; or
(ii) with respect to any Canadian Lender as of any date
(i) prior to the termination of the Commitments, that Lender's Canadian
Commitment minus the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
Canadian/U.S. Loans advanced by any U.S. Affiliate of such Lender, and
(ii) after the termination of the Commitments, the sum of (a) the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans of that Lender (it
being agreed and understood that the Canadian/U.S. Loans of any U.S.
Affiliate of any Canadian Lender are Loans of such U.S. Affiliate and
not Loans of such Canadian Lender) plus (b) without duplication, the
aggregate outstanding amount of Acceptances created by that Lender, as
measured by the Face Amounts of the applicable Drafts; or
(iii) with respect to any U.S. Affiliate of any Canadian
Lender as of any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the
Canadian/U.S. Loans of that U.S. Affiliate.
"LOAN PARTIES" means each of the Borrowers and Guarantors.
"LOANS" means Domestic Loans made by Domestic Lenders to
Company pursuant to subsections 2.1A(i), 2.1A(iii) and 2.1A(iv) or Canadian
Loans made by Canadian Lenders to any Borrower pursuant to subsections 2.1A(ii)
and 2.1A(iii), or any combination thereof.
"LUCERNE" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
"LUCERNE GUARANTY" means the Guaranty executed and delivered
by Lucerne on the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit X annexed
hereto, as such Guaranty may hereafter be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
"MARGIN STOCK" has the meaning assigned to that term in
Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as in
effect from time to time.
"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means (i) a material adverse
effect upon the business, operations, properties, assets or condition
(financial or otherwise) of Company and its Subsidiaries (other than
Unrestricted Subsidiaries), taken as a whole, or (ii) the material impairment
of the ability of Company to perform, or of Agents or Lenders to enforce, the
Obligations.
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"MATERIAL ASSET SALE" means the sale, in a single
transaction or series of related transactions, by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to any Person other than
Company or any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of (i) any of the stock of any
of Company's Subsidiaries, or (ii) any other assets (whether tangible or
intangible) of Company or any of its Subsidiaries outside of the ordinary
course of business provided that the aggregate Book Value of all assets
transferred in such sale (including, without limitation, the assets of any
Subsidiary the stock of which is so transferred) equals or exceeds 20% of the
Book Value of the consolidated assets of Company and its Subsidiaries (other
than Unrestricted Subsidiaries).
"MATERIAL SUBSIDIARY" means, at any date, any domestic
Subsidiary of Company (other than Safeway New Canada, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and any Unrestricted Subsidiary) whose tangible assets have a Book
Value equal to or exceeding 5% of the Book Value of the consolidated tangible
assets of Company and its Subsidiaries.
"MOODYS" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
"MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means a "multiemployer plan", as
defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA, to which Company or any of its ERISA
Affiliates is contributing, or ever has contributed, or to which Company or any
of its ERISA Affiliates has, or ever has had, an obligation to contribute.
"NEGOTIATED RATE" means, with respect to any Negotiated Rate
Loan, the fixed rate of interest per annum agreed upon by Company and the
Domestic Lender funding such Loan.
"NEGOTIATED RATE LOANS" means a Loan made by a Lender to
Company pursuant to subsection 2.1A(iv), in each case, bearing interest at the
Negotiated Rate for such Loan.
"NET CONSIDERATION" means, with respect to any Material
Asset Sale, the Aggregate Consideration received or to be received by Company
or any of its Subsidiaries net of bona fide direct costs of sale including (i)
all legal, title and recording taxes, expenses, commissions and other fees and
expenses incurred and all federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes
(including, without limitation, income taxes) payable by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as a consequence of such Material Asset Sale, (ii) all reasonable
reserves determined in good faith by Company and reflected in the financial
statements of Company for the after-tax cost of any indemnification payments
(fixed or contingent) attributable to seller's indemnities to the purchaser
undertaken by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such
Material Asset Sale, (iii) all distributions and other payments made by Company
or any of its Subsidiaries to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries as a
result of
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such Material Asset Sale, which distributions are attributable to the interest
of such minority interest holder in such Subsidiaries and (iv) payment of the
outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and interest on
any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) that is required to be repaid under the
terms thereof as a result of such Material Asset Sale.
"NOTES" means any promissory notes issued by Company, Canada
Safeway or Lucerne pursuant to subsection 2.1E, substantially in the form of
Exhibit IV-A, IV-B or IV-C annexed hereto, respectively, to evidence the Loans
of any Lenders, as notes may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time.
"NOTICE OF BORROWING" means a notice substantially in the
form of Exhibit I annexed hereto delivered by a Borrower to Documentation Agent
pursuant to subsection 2.1B with respect to a proposed borrowing.
"NOTICE OF CONVERSION/CONTINUATION" means a notice
substantially in the form of Exhibit II annexed hereto delivered by a Borrower
to Documentation Agent pursuant to subsection 2.2D with respect to a proposed
conversion or continuation of the applicable basis for determining the interest
rate with respect to the Loans specified therein.
"NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF LETTER OF CREDIT" means a notice
substantially in the form of Exhibit III annexed hereto delivered by Company to
Documentation Agent pursuant to subsection 3.1B(i) with respect to the proposed
issuance of a Letter of Credit.
"OBLIGATIONS" means all obligations of every nature of
Borrowers from time to time owed to Agents, Lenders or any of them under the
Loan Documents, whether for principal, interest, reimbursement of amounts drawn
under Letters of Credit, fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means, as applied to any
corporation, a certificate executed on behalf of such corporation by any of its
executive officers and by any of its vice presidents; provided that every
Officers' Certificate with respect to the compliance with a condition precedent
to the making of any Loans hereunder shall include (i) a statement that the
officer or officers making or giving such Officers' Certificate have read such
condition and any definitions or other provisions contained in this Agreement
relating thereto, (ii) a statement that, in the opinion of the signers, they
have made or have caused to be made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable them to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such condition has been complied with, and (iii) a statement as to whether, in
the opinion of the signers, such condition has been complied with.
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"OPERATING LEASE" means, as applied to any Person, any lease
(including, without limitation, leases that may be terminated by the lessee at
any time) of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as
lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is not a Capital Lease.
"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or
any successor thereto).
"PDA" means Property Development Associates, a California
general partnership.
"PENSION PLAN" means any Employee Benefit Plan, other than a
Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code or Section 302 of ERISA.
"PERMITTED ENCUMBRANCES" means the following types of Liens
(other than any such Lien imposed pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of
the Internal Revenue Code or by ERISA):
(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges
or claims the payment of which is not, at the time, required by
subsection 8.3;
(ii) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers,
warehousemen, mechanics and materialmen and other Liens imposed by law
incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not yet delinquent
or being contested in good faith, if such reserve or other appropriate
provision, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made
therefor;
(iii) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary
course of business in connection with workers' compensation,
unemployment insurance and other types of social security (and related
standby letters of credit), or to secure the performance of tenders,
statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government
contracts, trade contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and
other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of
borrowed money);
(iv) any attachment or judgment Lien not constituting an
Event of Default under subsection 10.8;
(v) leases or subleases or licenses of occupancy granted
to others not interfering in any material respect with the ordinary
conduct of the business of Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
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(vi) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, minor
defects, encroachments or irregularities in title and other similar
charges or encumbrances not interfering in any material respect with the
ordinary conduct of the business of Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vii) any (a) interest or title of a lessor or sublessor
under any lease, (b) restriction or encumbrance that the interest or
title of such lessor or sublessor may be subject to, or (c)
subordination of the interest of the lessee or sublessee under such
lease to any restriction or encumbrance referred to in the preceding
clause (b);
(viii) Liens arising from filing UCC financing statements
relating solely to leases permitted by this Agreement;
(ix) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities
arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in
connection with the importation of goods;
(x) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations
arising from statutory, regulatory, contractual or warranty
requirements of Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding deposits
securing the repayment of Indebtedness);
(xi) Liens encumbering customary initial deposits and
margin deposits, and other Liens incurred in the ordinary course of
business and which are within the general parameters customary in the
industry securing obligations under commodities agreements; and
(xii) Liens securing reimbursement obligations under
Commercial Letters of Credit or bankers' acceptance facilities, which
Liens encumber documents and other property to be acquired by drawings
under such Commercial Letters of Credit or drafts accepted under such
bankers' acceptance facilities.
"PERSON" means and includes natural persons, corporations,
limited partnerships, general partnerships, joint stock companies, joint
ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts,
business trusts or other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and
governments and agencies and political subdivisions thereof.
"POTENTIAL EVENT OF DEFAULT" means a condition or event that,
after notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
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"PRICING LEVEL" means as of any date, the higher Pricing
Level, whether (in descending order from the highest Pricing Level to the lowest
Pricing Level) Pricing Level A, Pricing Level B, Pricing Level C, Pricing Level
D, Pricing Level E, Pricing Level F, or Pricing Level G, that corresponds to
either (a) Company's unsecured senior debt ratings from Moodys or S&P (the more
creditworthy of such ratings being used in the case of a split rating) or (b)
Company's Interest Coverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent effective
Pricing Level Determination Certificate delivered in accordance with the
provisions of subsection 8.1(iv):
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Debt Ratings/Interest
Pricing Level Coverage Ratio
------------- ---------------------
<S> <C>
Pricing Level A: A2 or better by Moodys or A
or better by S&P or Interest
Coverage Ratio of 5.75 or
higher
Pricing Level B: A3 by Moodys or A- by S&P or
Interest Coverage Ratio of 5.25
to 5.74
Pricing Level C: Baa1 by Moodys or BBB+ by
S&P or Interest Coverage
Ratio of 4.75 to 5.24
Pricing Level D: Baa2 by Moodys or BBB by
S&P or Interest Coverage
Ratio of 4.25 to 4.74
Pricing Level E: Baa3 by Moodys or BBB- by
S&P or Interest Coverage
Ratio of 3.75 to 4.24
Pricing Level F: Ba1 by Moodys or BB+ by
S&P or Interest Coverage
Ratio of 3.00 to 3.74
Pricing Level G: Ba2 or below by Moodys or BB
or below by S&P or Interest
Coverage Ratio below 3.00
</TABLE>
For the purposes of determining the Pricing Level, a Pricing Level
Determination certificate shall be deemed effective on the next Business Day
following
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Documentation Agent's receipt thereof, and the Pricing Level shall change on
such Business Day to the extent necessary to reflect Company's debt rating and
Interest Coverage Ratio as set forth in such Pricing Level Determination
Certificate.
"PRICING LEVEL DETERMINATION CERTIFICATE" means a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit XVIII annexed hereto delivered to
Documentation Agent and Lenders by Company pursuant to subsection 8.1(iv).
"PRICING MARGIN" means, as of any date, the Pricing Margin
set forth below that corresponds to the Pricing Level in effect on such date:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Pricing Margin
Pricing Level (in basis points)
------------- -----------------
<S> <C>
Pricing Level A: 12.50
Pricing Level B: 12.50
Pricing Level C: 20.00
Pricing Level D: 22.50
Pricing Level E: 30.00
Pricing Level F: 37.50
Pricing Level G: 37.50
</TABLE>
The Pricing Margin shall change as of the opening of business on any day that
the Pricing Level changes pursuant to the definition of "Pricing Level."
"QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE" means the last day of March, June,
September and December in each calendar year.
"REGISTER" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 2.1D.
"REGULATION D" means Regulation D of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
"REIMBURSEMENT DATE" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 3.3B.
"RELEASE" means any release, spill, emission, leaking,
pumping, pouring, injection, escaping, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal,
dumping, leaching or migration of Hazardous Materials into the indoor or outdoor
environment (including, without limitation, the abandonment or disposal of any
barrels, containers or other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous
Materials), including the movement of any Hazardous Material through the air,
soil, surface water, groundwater or property.
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"REQUISITE LENDERS" means Lenders having or holding 51% or
more of the aggregate Loan Exposure of all Lenders.
"RESTRICTED JUNIOR PAYMENT" means (i) any dividend or other
distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any shares of any class of
capital stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend
payable solely in shares of that class of capital stock to the holders of that
class or in options, warrants or other rights to purchase such capital stock,
(ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or
other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any shares of any class of
capital stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding (other than in exchange
for capital stock of Company or options, warrants or other rights to purchase
such capital stock), (iii) any payment made to retire, or to obtain the
surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire
shares of any class of capital stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding,
and (iv) any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including
in-substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect
to, any Subordinated Indebtedness.
"SAFEWAY NEW CANADA" means Safeway New Canada, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
"SAFEWAY NEW CANADA GUARANTY" means the Guaranty executed and
delivered by Safeway New Canada on the Closing Date, substantially in the form
of Exhibit XVII annexed hereto, as such Guaranty may hereafter be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"SCHEDULE I LENDER" means any Canadian Lender that is a bank
referred to in Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada), S.C. 1991, c.46, as
amended.
"SCHEDULE I REFERENCE BANKS" means Scotiabank, The Royal Bank
of Canada and Bank of Montreal.
"SCHEDULE II LENDER" means any Canadian Lender that is not a
Schedule I Lender.
"SCHEDULE II REFERENCE BANKS" means BT Bank of Canada, Bank of
America Canada and The Sumitomo Bank of Canada.
"SCOTIABANK" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
introduction to this Agreement.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any
successor thereto.
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"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
from time to time, and any successor statute.
"SOLVENT" means, with respect to any Person, that as of the
date of determination, (i) the then fair saleable value of the property of such
Person is (a) greater than the total amount of liabilities (including
reasonably anticipated liabilities with respect to contingent obligations) of
such Person and (b) greater than the amount that will be required to pay the
probable liabilities on such Person's then existing debts as they become
absolute and matured considering all financing alternatives and potential asset
sales reasonably available to such Person, and (ii) such person has not
incurred and does not intend to incur, or does not believe that it will incur,
debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due.
"S&P" means Standard & Poors Rating Group, a division of McGraw
Hill, Inc.
"STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT" means any standby letter of credit
or similar instrument issued for the purpose of supporting (i) Indebtedness
incurred by any joint venture to which Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party for working capital and general business purposes, (ii) obligations of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to capital calls or similar
requirements in respect of joint ventures to which Company or such Subsidiary
is a party, (iii) workers' compensation liabilities and directors and officers
insurance of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) the obligations of third
party insurers of Company or any of its Subsidiaries arising by virtue of the
laws of any jurisdiction requiring third party insurers, (v) Indebtedness of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Casa Ley in respect of industrial revenue
or development bonds or financings, (vi) obligations with respect to capital or
operating leases, (vii) performance, payment, deposit or surety obligations of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in any case if required by law or
governmental rule or regulation or in accordance with custom and practice in
the industry, (viii) the performance of obligations of Company and its
Subsidiaries incurred in connection with the sale of any asset of Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, (ix) the payment of trade payables of Company or any
of its Subsidiaries which payables are incurred on terms customary in the
industry, (x) indebtedness (other than Subordinated Indebtedness) which was
previously secured in whole or in part by assets which were but are no longer
owned by Company and its Subsidiaries, (xi) the obligations of Company or any
of its Subsidiaries with respect to any judgments that are stayed pending
appeal (including, any appeal bonds or other security required to obtain a stay
pending appeal), or (xii) other obligations approved by Administrative Agent,
in its reasonable discretion.
"SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS" means (i) the Indebtedness of
Company evidenced by the Subordinated Securities and (ii) any other
Indebtedness of Company subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations.
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"SUBORDINATED SECURITIES" means Company's 10% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2001, 9.875% Senior Subordinated Debentures due 2007,
9.65% Senior Subordinated Debentures due 2004, and 9.35% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 1999.
"SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person, any
corporation, partnership, association, joint venture or other business entity
of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of capital stock or
other ownership interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency) to vote in the election of the Person or Persons (whether
directors, managers, trustees or other Persons performing similar functions)
having the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by
that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a
combination thereof.
"SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY" means the Guaranty Agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit XI annexed hereto executed and delivered
on the Closing Date by each Material Subsidiary and thereafter by each Person
that becomes a Material Subsidiary after the Closing Date, as such Guaranty
Agreement may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"SWING LINE LENDER" means Scotiabank or any Lender succeeding
Scotiabank as the Documentation Agent hereunder.
"SWING LINE LOANS" means any Domestic Swing Line Loans, any
Canadian Swing Lines Loans or any combination thereof.
"TAX" or "TAXES" means any present or future governmental tax,
levy, impost, duty, charge, fee, deduction or withholding of any nature and
whatever called, by whomsoever, on whomsoever and wherever imposed, levied,
collected, withheld or assessed.
"TOTAL UTILIZATION OF CANADIAN COMMITMENTS" means, (i) as to
Canadian Lenders at any date, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of
all outstanding Canadian Loans, with all Canadian Loans denominated in Canadian
Dollars valued in Dollar Equivalents, plus (b) the aggregate Acceptance Usage;
or (ii) as to any Canadian Lender at any date of determination, the sum of (x)
the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Canadian Loans (other than
Canadian Swing Line Loans) made by such Lender (and its U.S. Affiliate) with
all such Loans denominated in Canadian Dollars valued in Dollar Equivalents
plus (y) the Acceptance Usage of such Lender.
"TOTAL UTILIZATION OF DOMESTIC COMMITMENTS" means, (i) as to
Domestic Lenders at any date, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of
all outstanding Domestic Loans plus (b) the Letter of Credit Usage or (ii) as
to any Domestic
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Lender at any date of determination, the sum of (x) the aggregate principal
amount of all outstanding Domestic Loans (other than Domestic Swing Line Loans
and Negotiated Rate Loans) made by such Lender plus (y) the Letter of Credit
Usage of such Lender.
"UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary designated by
Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions of
subsection 9.9.
"U.S. AFFILIATE" means, with respect to any Canadian Lender
that is not resident in the United States of America for withholding tax
purposes, the Affiliate of such Canadian Lender that is resident in the United
States of America for such purposes to which such Canadian Lender shall have
assigned its obligation to fund Canadian/U.S. Loans in accordance with the
provisions of subsection 13.1
"U.S./CDN.$" means Dollars or Canadian Dollars, as the case may
be.
"WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person,
any Subsidiary of such Person that is directly or indirectly wholly-owned by
such Person.
1.2 ACCOUNTING TERMS; UTILIZATION OF GAAP FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATIONS
UNDER AGREEMENT.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, all
accounting terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to them in conformity with GAAP. Financial statements, determinations relating
to covenants, and other information required to be delivered or determined by
Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared or determined in
conformity with GAAP as in effect at the time of such preparation or
determination.
1.3 OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS.
References to "Sections" and "subsections" shall be to Sections
and subsections, respectively, of this Agreement unless otherwise specifically
provided. Any of the terms defined in subsection 1.1 may, unless the context
otherwise requires, be used in the singular or the plural, depending on the
reference.
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SECTION 2. AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS AND LOANS
2.1 COMMITMENTS; MAKING OF LOANS; THE REGISTER; NOTES.
A. COMMITMENTS AND LOANS. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of
Company herein set forth:
(i) Domestic Loans. Each Domestic Lender severally
agrees, subject to the limitations set forth below with respect to the
maximum amount of Domestic Loans permitted to be outstanding from time
to time, to lend to Company from time to time during the period from
the Closing Date to but excluding the Commitment Termination Date an
aggregate amount not exceeding its Domestic Pro Rata Share of the
aggregate amount of the Domestic Commitments to be used for the
purposes identified in subsection 2.5A. The original amount of each
Domestic Lender's Commitment is set forth opposite its name on Schedule
2.1 annexed hereto and the aggregate original amount of the Domestic
Commitments is $750,000,000; provided that the Domestic Commitments of
Lenders shall be adjusted to give effect to any assignments of the
Domestic Commitments pursuant to subsection 13.1B; and provided,
further that the amount of the Domestic Commitments shall be reduced
from time to time by the amount of any reductions thereto made pursuant
to subsections 2.4A(ii) and 2.4A(iii). Each Domestic Lender's Domestic
Commitment shall expire on the Commitment Termination Date and all
Domestic Loans and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the
Domestic Loans and the Domestic Commitments shall be paid in full no
later than that date; provided that each Domestic Lender's Domestic
Commitment shall expire immediately and without further action on June
30, 1995 if the Closing Date shall not have occurred on or before that
date. Amounts borrowed under this subsection 2.1A(i) may be repaid and
reborrowed to but excluding the Commitment Termination Date.
Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Domestic Loans and the Domestic Commitments shall
be subject to the limitation that in no event shall the Total
Utilization of Domestic Commitments at any time exceed the Domestic
Commitments then in effect. All Domestic Loans shall be denominated
and funded in Dollars.
(ii) Canadian Loans. Each Canadian Lender severally
agrees, subject to the limitations set forth below with respect to the
maximum amount of Canadian Loans permitted to be outstanding from time
to time, to lend to Borrowers from time to time during the period from
the Closing Date to but excluding the Commitment Termination Date an
aggregate amount not exceeding its Canadian Pro Rata Share of the
aggregate amount of the
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Canadian Commitments to be used for the purposes identified in
subsection 2.5A. The original amount of each Canadian Lender's
Commitment is set forth opposite its name on Schedule 2.1 annexed
hereto and the aggregate original amount of the Canadian Commitments is
$400,000,000; provided that the Canadian Commitments of Lenders shall
be adjusted to give effect to any assignments of the Canadian
Commitments pursuant to subsection 13.1B; and provided, further that
the amount of the Canadian Commitments shall be reduced from time to
time by the amount of any reductions thereto made pursuant to
subsections 2.4A(ii) and 2.4A(iii). Each Canadian Lender's Canadian
Commitment shall expire on the Commitment Termination Date and all
Canadian Loans and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the
Canadian Loans and the Canadian Commitments shall be paid in full no
later than that date; provided that each Canadian Lender's Canadian
Commitment shall expire immediately and without further action on June
30, 1995 if the Closing Date shall not have occurred on or before that
date. Amounts borrowed under this subsection 2.1A(ii) may be repaid
and reborrowed to but excluding the Commitment Termination Date.
Upon receipt of a Notice of Borrowing with respect to a
Canadian/U.S. Loan, each Canadian Lender that is not resident in the
United States of America for withholding tax purposes, may, in
accordance with the provisions of subsection 13.1, assign its
obligation under this subsection 2.1A(ii) to fund such Canadian/U.S.
Loan (together with all of its outstanding Canadian/U.S. Loans) to a
U.S. Affiliate. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to
the contrary, no U.S. Affiliate shall be deemed to have a Canadian
Commitment under this Agreement. For the purposes of determining
whether the Total Utilization of Canadian Commitments of any Canadian
Lender exceeds its Canadian Commitments, the outstanding principal
amount of its U.S. Affiliate's Canadian/U.S. Loans shall be considered
to be outstanding from such Canadian Lender hereunder.
Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Canadian Loans and the Canadian Commitments shall
be subject to the limitation that in no event shall the Total
Utilization of Canadian Commitments at any time exceed the Canadian
Commitments then in effect. Canadian Loans advanced to any Canadian
Borrower may, at such Canadian Borrower's option, be denominated and
funded in Dollars or Canadian Dollars; Canadian Loans advanced to
Company (otherwise referred to herein as "Canadian/U.S. Loans") shall
be denominated and funded in Dollars only.
(iii) Swing Line Commitments and Swing Line Loans. Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties of Borrowers set forth herein, Swing
Line Lender hereby agrees, from time to time during the period from the
Closing
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Date through but excluding the Commitment Termination Date, (a) to make
a portion of the Domestic Commitments available to Company in an
aggregate amount not exceeding $50,000,000 by making Swing Line Loans
denominated in Dollars to Company ("DOMESTIC SWING LINE LOANS") and (b)
to make a portion of the Canadian Commitments available to Canada
Safeway in an aggregate principal amount of up to $25,000,000 by making
Swing Line Loans, denominated in Canadian Dollars or Dollars, to Canada
Safeway ("CANADIAN SWING LINE LOANS"), notwithstanding the fact that
such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Total Utilization of
Domestic Commitments or Total Utilization of Canadian Commitments, as
the case may be, of Swing Line Lender may exceed Swing Line Lender's
Domestic Commitment or Canadian Commitment, respectively. Swing Line
Lender's commitment to make Domestic Swing Line Loans pursuant to this
subsection 2.1A(iii) is hereby called its "DOMESTIC SWING LINE
COMMITMENT," and Swing Line Lender's commitment to make Canadian Swing
Line Loans pursuant to this subsection 2.1A(iii) is hereby called its
"CANADIAN SWING LINE COMMITMENT." In no event shall the aggregate
principal amount of Domestic Swing Line Loans outstanding at any time
exceed the Domestic Swing Line Commitment nor shall the aggregate
principal amount of Canadian Swing Line Loans outstanding at any time
exceed the Canadian Swing Line Commitment, and in no event shall the
Total Utilization of Domestic Commitments at any time exceed the
Domestic Commitments then in effect nor shall the Total Utilization of
Canadian Commitments at any time exceed the Canadian Commitments then
in effect. In no event shall the Domestic Swing Line Commitment exceed
the Domestic Commitments nor shall the Canadian Swing Line Commitment
exceed the Canadian Commitments, and any voluntary reduction of the
Domestic Commitments or Canadian Commitments made pursuant to
subsection 2.4A which reduces the Domestic Commitments or Canadian
Commitments below the then current amount of the Domestic Swing Line
Commitment or the Canadian Swing Line Commitment, respectively, shall
result in an automatic corresponding reduction of the Domestic Swing
Line Commitment or the Canadian Swing Line Commitment, respectively, to
the amount of the Domestic Commitments or the Canadian Commitments,
respectively, as so reduced, without any further action on the part of
Swing Line Lender.
The Domestic Swing Line Commitment and Canadian Swing Line
Commitment shall expire on the Commitment Termination Date and all
Swing Line Loans shall be paid in full no later than that date.
Amounts borrowed under this subsection 2.1A(iii) may be repaid
and, through but excluding the Commitment Termination Date, reborrowed.
All Swing Line Loans shall bear interest as provided in subsection
2.2A(v). Swing Line Loans made on any Funding Date shall be in an
aggregate minimum
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amount of U.S./Cdn.$1,000,000 and integral multiples of
U.S/Cdn.$500,000 in excess of that amount.
Swing Line Lender, at any time in its sole and absolute
discretion may, and on the fifth Business Day after the making of a
Swing Line Loan which has not been voluntarily prepaid by the
applicable Borrower pursuant to subsection 2.4A(i) shall, on one
Business Day's notice, so long as amounts are available to be borrowed
under the Domestic Commitments or Canadian Commitments, as the case may
be, require each Domestic Lender or Canadian Lender (including, in
either case, Swing Line Lender), as the case may be, and each Lender
hereby agrees, subject to this subsection 2.1A(iii), to make a Domestic
Loan or Canadian Loan, as the case may be (which shall initially bear
interest at the applicable Deemed Floating Rate), in an amount equal to
such Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share or Canadian Pro Rata Share of the
amount of the Domestic Swing Line Loans or Canadian Swing Line Loans,
respectively ("REFUNDED DOMESTIC SWING LINE LOANS" and "REFUNDED
CANADIAN SWING LINE LOANS," respectively) outstanding on the date
notice is given by Swing Line Lender; provided, however, that, any
provision of subsection 2.1C(iii) or any other subsection of this
Agreement to the contrary not withstanding, the obligation of each
Lender to make any such Loan is subject to the condition that (i) Swing
Line Lender believed in good faith that all conditions under subsection
6.2 to the making of such Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loan or Refunded
Canadian Swing Line Loan were satisfied at the time such Swing Line
Loan was made, or (ii) such Lender shall have actual knowledge, by
receipt of the statements required pursuant to subsection 8.1 or
otherwise, that any such condition has not been satisfied and shall
have failed to notify Swing Line Lender and Agents in writing that it
has no obligation to make Loans until such condition has been satisfied
(which notice shall be effective as of the date of receipt by Swing
Line Lender and Agents), or (iii) the satisfaction of any such
condition not satisfied had been waived by Requisite Lenders prior to
or at the time such Swing Line Loan was made. In the event that Loans
are made by Lenders other than Swing Line Lender under the immediately
preceding sentence, each such Lender shall make the amount of its Loan
available to Documentation Agent, in same day funds and the applicable
currency (whether Dollars or Canadian Dollars), at the Domestic Funding
and Payment Office (in the case of Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loans)
or the Canadian Funding and Paying Office (in the case of Refunded
Canadian Swing Line Loans), in either case not later than 1:00 p.m.
(Toronto time) on the Business Day next succeeding the date such notice
is given. The proceeds of such Loans shall be immediately delivered to
Swing Line Lender (and not to any Borrower) and applied to repay the
Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loans or Refunded Canadian Swing Line
Loans, as applicable. On the day such Loans are made, Swing Line
Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share or Canadian Pro Rata Share of the
Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loans or Refunded
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Canadian Swing Line Loans, respectively, shall be deemed to be paid
with the proceeds of a Loan made by Swing Line Lender bearing interest
at the applicable Deemed Floating Rate and such portion of the Swing
Line Loans deemed to be so paid shall no longer be outstanding as Swing
Line Loans.
Each of Company and Canada Safeway authorizes Documentation
Agent to charge Company's accounts with Documentation Agent, in the
case of any Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loan, and Canada Safeway's
accounts with Documentation Agent, in the case of any Refunded Canadian
Swing Line Loans (in each case up to the amount available in each such
account) in order to immediately pay Swing Line Lender the amount of
any Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loans or Refunded Canadian Swing Lines
Loans, as the case may be, to the extent amounts received from Lenders,
including amounts deemed to be received from Swing Line Lender, are not
sufficient to repay in full such Refunded Domestic Swing Line Loans or
Refunded Canadian Swing Line Loans. If any portion of any such amount
paid (or deemed to be paid) to Swing Line Lender should be recovered by
or on behalf of Company or Canada Safeway from Swing Line Lender in
bankruptcy, by assignment for the benefit of creditors or otherwise,
the loss of the amount so recovered shall be ratably shared among
Domestic Lenders or Canadian Lenders, as the case may be, in the manner
contemplated by subsection 13.5. Nothing in this Agreement shall
prejudice the rights of any Lender sharing such loss as against any
Lender causing such loss through its failure to make a Loan pursuant to
this subsection to refund any Swing Line Loan. Subject to the proviso
contained in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph of this
subsection 2.1A(iii), each Lender's obligation to make the Loans
referred to in this paragraph shall be absolute and unconditional and
shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without
limitation, (i) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other
right which such Lender may have against Swing Line Lender, Company,
Canada Safeway or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (ii) the
occurrence or continuance of an Event of Default or a Potential Event
of Default; (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or
otherwise) of any Borrower; (iv) any breach of this Agreement by any
Borrower or any other Lender; (v) the acceleration or maturity of any
Loans or the termination of the Commitments after the making of any
Swing Line Loan; or (vi) any other circumstance, happening or event
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
In the event that any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries has
filed for or becomes subject to protection under the Bankruptcy Code,
or in the case of any Subsidiary of Company organized under the laws of
Canada or any Province, any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws of
Canada or its Provinces or otherwise if Swing Line Lender requests and,
in any event, subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in
the proviso to the first sentence of the
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fourth paragraph of this subsection 2.1A(iii), each Lender shall
acquire without recourse or warranty an undivided participation
interest equal to such Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share or Canadian Pro
Rata Share of any Domestic Swing Line Loan or Canadian Swing Line Loan,
respectively, otherwise required to be repaid by such Lender pursuant
to the preceding paragraph by paying to Swing Line Lender on the date
on which such Lender would otherwise have been required to make a Loan
in respect of such Domestic Swing Line Loan or Canadian Swing Line
Loan, as the case may be, pursuant to the preceding paragraph, in
immediately available funds and the applicable currency (whether
Dollars or Canadian Dollars), an amount equal to such Lenders's
Domestic Pro Rata Share or Canadian Pro Rata Share, as the case may be,
of such Domestic Swing Line Loan or Canadian Swing Line Loan, as the
case may be, and no Loans shall be made by such Lender pursuant to the
fourth paragraph of this subsection 2.1A(iii). If any such amount is
not in fact made available to Swing Line Lender by that Lender on the
date when Loans would otherwise be required to be made pursuant to the
preceding paragraph, Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover
such amount on demand from that Lender together with interest accrued
from such date at the customary rate set by Swing Line Lender for the
correction of errors among banks for three Business Days and thereafter
at the applicable Deemed Floating Rate. From and after the date on
which any Lender purchases an undivided participation interest in a
Swing Line Loan pursuant to this paragraph, Swing Line Lender shall
promptly distribute to such Lender such Lender's Domestic Pro Rata
Share or Canadian Pro Rata Share, as applicable, of all payments of
principal and interest in respect of such Swing Line Loan.
A copy of each notice given by Swing Line Lender to Lenders
pursuant to the fourth paragraph of this subsection 2.1A(iii) shall be
promptly delivered by Swing Line Lender to Company and Canada Safeway.
Upon the making of a Loan by any Lender pursuant to this subsection
2.1A(iii), Documentation Agent shall make such entries in the Register,
and Lenders shall make such entries in their respective internal
records, as appropriate in accordance with subsection 2.1D to reflect
the funding of such Loan and the associated repayment of any Refunded
Domestic Swing Line Loan or Refunded Canadian Swing Line Loan.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Swing Line
Lender shall not be obligated to make any Swing Line Loans upon the
occurrence and during the continuation of a Potential Event of Default
or Event of Default provided the Swing Line Lender shall have notified
Company and Canada Safeway in writing or by telephone of its election
not to make Swing Line Loans during the continuation of such Potential
Event of Default or Event of Default.
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(iv) Negotiated Rate Loans. Subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations
and warranties of Company set forth herein, (a) each Domestic Lender
agrees that, from time to time during the period from and including the
Closing Date to but excluding the Commitment Termination Date, Company
may request one or more Domestic Lenders, in the sole discretion of
each, to make one or more Loans to Company on a non-pro rata basis,
each such Loan to remain outstanding for at least one day and to mature
no later than 180 days after the making thereof (or if earlier, the
Commitment Termination Date) and to bear interest at such rate as shall
be agreed to by Company and the applicable Domestic Lender (each such
Loan, a "NEGOTIATED RATE LOAN"); provided that in no event shall (x)
the aggregate principal amount of Negotiated Rate Loans outstanding at
any time exceed $250,000,000 or (y) the Total Utilization of Domestic
Commitments exceed the Domestic Commitments then in effect. All
Negotiated Rate Loans shall be in such minimum amounts as may be
mutually agreed upon by Company and the applicable Domestic Lender.
Company and Domestic Lenders acknowledge that (A) subject to the
proviso in the first sentence of this paragraph, notwithstanding the
Domestic Commitment of any Domestic Lender, each Domestic Lender may,
but shall not be obligated to, make Negotiated Rate Loans as of any
date in a aggregate amount that would not cause the Total Utilization
of Domestic Commitments to exceed the Domestic Commitments then in
effect (and for such purposes each Domestic Lender may rely on the
information provided by Company in the Notice of Borrowing, absent any
actual knowledge to the contrary); and (B) Negotiated Rate Loans need
not be made in accordance with Lenders' Domestic Pro Rata Shares.
Each Lender making any Negotiated Rate Loan shall, prior to or
concurrently with the making thereof, provide Documentation Agent with
written notice of the amount, Funding Date and maturity date of such
Negotiated Rate Loan, and Company and Lenders will, from time to time,
furnish such information to Documentation Agent as Documentation Agent
may request relating to the making of Negotiated Rates Loans,
including, without limitation, confirmation of amounts, Funding Dates
and maturities (and, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of
any Potential Event of Default or Event of Default, applicable interest
rates), for the purpose of determining the Total Utilization of
Domestic Commitments and the allocation of amounts received from
Company for payment of all amounts owing hereunder.
B. BORROWING MECHANICS.
(i) Domestic Loans. Domestic Loans made on any Funding
Date (other than Swing Line Loans, Domestic Loans made pursuant to subsection
2.1A(iii)
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for the purpose of refunding Swing Line Loans, Negotiated Rate Loans, and
Domestic Loans made pursuant to subsection 3.3B for the purpose of reimbursing
any Issuing Lender for the amount of a drawing under a Letter of Credit issued
by it) shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $50,000,000 and integral
multiples of $10,000,000 in excess of that amount. Domestic Swing Line Loans
made on any Funding Date shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000 and
integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount. Whenever Company
desires that Domestic Lenders make Domestic Loans or that Swing Line Lender
make Domestic Swing Line Loans it shall deliver to Documentation Agent a Notice
of Borrowing no later than 12:00 noon (New York time) at least three Business
Days in advance of the proposed Funding Date in the case of a Domestic
Eurodollar Rate Loan, at least one Business Day in advance of the proposed
Funding Date in the case of a Domestic Base Rate Loan, or on the proposed
Funding Date in the case of a Swing Line Loan or a Negotiated Rate Loan. The
Notice of Borrowing shall specify (i) the proposed Funding Date (which shall be
a Business Day), (ii) the amount of Loans requested, (iii) whether such Loans
are to be Domestic Swing Line Loans, Negotiated Rate Loans, Domestic Base Rate
Loans or Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans (it being agreed and understood that
Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans may not be borrowed on the Closing Date), (iv)
that, after giving effect to such requested Loans, the Total Utilization of
Domestic Commitments will not exceed the Domestic Commitments and, if
applicable, that the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Domestic Swing
Line Loans will not exceed the Domestic Swing Line Commitment or that the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of Negotiated Rate Loans will not exceed
$250,000,000, (v) in the case of any Loans requested to be made as Domestic
Eurodollar Rate Loans, the initial Interest Period requested therefor, and (vi)
in the case of any Negotiated Rate Loans, the proposed maturity date therefor.
Domestic Loans (other than Swing Line Loans and Negotiated Rate Loans) may be
continued as or converted into Domestic Base Rate Loans and Domestic Eurodollar
Rate Loans in the manner provided in subsection 2.2D. In lieu of delivering
the above-described Notice of Borrowing, Company may give Documentation Agent
telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed borrowing under this
subsection 2.1B; provided that such notice shall be promptly confirmed in
writing by delivery of a Notice of Borrowing to Documentation Agent on or
before the applicable Funding Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection
2.1B(i), no Loan may be borrowed as a Domestic Base Rate Loan during the period
from December 24 of any year to and including January 7 of the immediately
succeeding year for the purpose of investing in securities bearing interest at
a rate determined by reference to any other basis for the purpose of arbitrage
or speculation.
(ii) Canadian Loans. Canadian Loans made on any Funding
Date (other than Canadian Swing Line Loans, Canadian Loans made pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(iii) for the purpose of refunding Canadian Swing Line Loans,
and Canadian Loans made pursuant to subsection 4.7 for the purpose of paying
matured
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Acceptances) shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of U.S./Cdn.$10,000,000
and integral multiples of U.S./Cdn.$1,000,000 in excess of that amount.
Canadian Swing Line Loans made on any Funding Date shall be in a minimum amount
of U.S./Cdn.$1,000,000 and integral multiples of U.S./Cdn.$500,000 in excess of
that amount. Whenever a Borrower desires that Canadian Lenders make Canadian
Loans or that Swing Line Lender make Canadian Swing Line Loans, it shall
deliver to Documentation Agent a Notice of Borrowing no later than 12:00 noon
(New York time) at least ten Business Days in advance of the proposed Funding
Date in the case of any Canadian/U.S. Loan, at least three Business Days in
advance of the proposed Funding Date in the case of a Canadian Eurodollar Rate
Loan, at least two Business Days in advance of the proposed Funding Date in the
case of any Canadian Base Rate Loan or Canadian Prime Rate Loan having a
principal amount exceeding U.S./Cdn.$50,000,000, at least one Business Day in
advance of the proposed Funding Date in the case of a Canadian Base Rate Loan
or a Canadian Prime Rate Loan having a principal amount not exceeding
U.S./Cdn.$50,000,000, or on the proposed Funding Date in the case of a Canadian
Swing Line Loan. The Notice of Borrowing shall specify (i) the proposed
Borrower, (ii) the proposed Funding Date (which shall be a Business Day), (iii)
the amount of Loans requested, (iv) whether such Loans are requested to be
denominated in Dollars or Canadian Dollars (it being understood that Company
may request Loans denominated in Dollars only), (v) whether such Loans are to
be Canadian Swing Line Loans, Canadian Base Rate Loans, Canadian Prime Rate
Loans, Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans, Canadian/U.S. Loans that are Domestic
Eurodollar Rate Loans or Canadian/U.S. Loans that are Domestic Base Rate Loans
(it being agreed and understood that Borrowers may not request Fixed Rate Loans
on the Closing Date), (vi) that, after giving effect to the requested Loans,
the Total Utilization of Canadian Commitments will not exceed the Canadian
Commitments then in effect and, if applicable, that the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of the Canadian Swing Line Loans will not exceed the Canadian
Swing Line Commitment, and (vii) in the case of any Loans requested to be made
as Fixed Rate Loans, the initial Interest Period requested therefor.
Canadian/U.S. Loans may be continued as or converted into Domestic Base Rate
Loans and Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans and Canadian Loans (other than
Canadian/U.S. Loans and Canadian Swing Line Loans) denominated in Dollars may
be continued as or converted into Canadian Base Rate Loans or Canadian
Eurodollar Rate Loans in the manner provided in subsection 2.2D. In lieu of
delivering the above-described Notice of Borrowing, a Borrower may give
Documentation Agent telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed
borrowing under this subsection 2.1B; provided that such notice shall be
promptly confirmed in writing by delivery of a Notice of Borrowing to
Documentation Agent on or before the applicable Funding Date.
(iii) General Provisions Relating to Borrowing. Neither
Documentation Agent nor any Lender shall incur any liability to any Borrower in
acting upon any telephonic notice referred to above that Documentation Agent
believes in good faith to have been given by a duly authorized officer or other
person
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authorized to borrow on behalf of a Borrower or for otherwise acting in good
faith under this subsection 2.1B, and upon funding of Loans by Lenders in
accordance with this Agreement pursuant to any such telephonic notice, the
applicable Borrower shall have effected Loans hereunder.
The Borrower submitting any Notice of Borrowing shall notify
Documentation Agent prior to the funding of any Loans thereby requested in the
event that any of the matters to which such Borrower is required to certify in
the applicable Notice of Borrowing is no longer true and correct as of the
applicable Funding Date, and the acceptance by any Borrower of the proceeds of
any Loans shall constitute a re-certification by such Borrower, as of the
applicable Funding Date, as to the matters to which such Borrower is required
to certify in the applicable Notice of Borrowing.
Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2.6B, 2.6C and
2.6G, a Notice of Borrowing for a Fixed Rate Loan (or telephonic notice in lieu
thereof) shall be irrevocable on and after the related Interest Rate
Determination Date, and Company shall be bound to make a borrowing in
accordance therewith.
C. DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS.
(i) Funding Domestic Loans Other Than Swing Line Loans and
Negotiated Rate Loans. All Domestic Loans (other than Swing Line Loans and
Negotiated Rate Loans) under this Agreement shall be made by Domestic Lenders
simultaneously and proportionately to their respective Domestic Pro Rata
Shares. Promptly after receipt by Documentation Agent of a Notice of Borrowing
pursuant to subsection 2.1B (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof) requesting a
Domestic Loan (other than a Swing Line Loan or a Negotiated Rate Loan),
Documentation Agent shall notify each Domestic Lender of the proposed
borrowing. Each Domestic Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to
Documentation Agent, in Dollars and same day funds, at the Domestic Funding and
Payment Office not later than 12:00 noon (New York time) on the applicable
Funding Date.
(ii) Funding Canadian Loans Other Than Swing Line Loans.
All Canadian Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) under this Agreement shall be
made by Canadian Lenders (including, in the case of Canadian/U.S. Loans, U.S.
Affiliates, as applicable) simultaneously and proportionately to their
respective Canadian Pro Rata Shares. Promptly after receipt by Documentation
Agent of a Notice of Borrowing pursuant to subsection 2.1B (or telephonic
notice in lieu thereof) requesting a Canadian Loan (other than a Swing Line
Loan), Documentation Agent shall notify each Canadian Lender of the proposed
borrowing. Each Canadian Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to
Documentation Agent, in same day funds in the currency specified in the
applicable Notice of Borrowing, whether Dollars or Canadian Dollars, at the
Domestic Funding and Payment Office
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(in the case of any Canadian/U.S. Loans) or the Canadian Funding and Payment
Office (in the case of any Canadian Loans other than Canadian/U.S. Loans), not
later than 12:00 noon (New York time) on the applicable Funding Date.
(iii) Disbursement of Loan Proceeds by Documentation Agent.
Except as provided in subsection 2.1A(iii) with respect to Loans advanced to
refund Swing Line Loans and in subsection 3.3B with respect to Domestic Loans
used to reimburse any Issuing Lender for the amount of a drawing under a Letter
of Credit issued by it, upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent
specified in subsections 6.1 (in the case of Loans made on the Closing Date)
and 6.2 (in the case of all Loans), Documentation Agent shall make the proceeds
of such Loans available to the applicable Borrower on the applicable Funding
Date by causing an amount of same day funds in Dollars or Canadian Dollars, as
the case may be, equal to the proceeds of all such Loans received by
Documentation Agent from Lenders to be credited to an account of the applicable
Borrower at the Domestic Funding and Payment Office or Canadian Funding and
Payment Office or to be wired to such account with another financial
institution as such Borrower may specify in writing to Documentation Agent, as
applicable.
(iv) Documentation Agent May Advance Funds; Failure of
Lender to Fund Loan. Except with respect to Negotiated Rate Loans, unless
Documentation Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the Funding
Date for any Loans to be funded by such Lender that such Lender does not intend
to make available to Documentation Agent the amount of such Lender's Loan
requested on such Funding Date, Documentation Agent may assume that such Lender
has made such amount available to Documentation Agent on such Funding Date and
Documentation Agent may, in its sole discretion, but shall not be obligated to,
make available to the applicable Borrower a corresponding amount on such
Funding Date. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to
Documentation Agent by such Lender, Documentation Agent shall be entitled to
recover such corresponding amount on demand from such Lender together with
interest thereon, for each day from such Funding Date until the date such
amount is paid to Documentation Agent, at the customary rate set by
Documentation Agent for the correction of errors among banks in the relevant
currency for three Business Days and thereafter at the applicable Deemed
Floating Rate. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith
upon Documentation Agent's demand therefor, Documentation Agent shall promptly
notify the applicable Borrower and such Borrower shall immediately pay such
corresponding amount to Documentation Agent together with interest thereon, for
each day from such Funding Date until the date such amount is paid to
Documentation Agent, at the applicable Deemed Floating Rate. Nothing in this
subsection 2.1C shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to
fulfill its Domestic Commitment or Canadian Commitment hereunder or to
prejudice any rights that any Borrower may have against any Lender as a result
of any default by such Lender hereunder.
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No Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other
Lender in that other Lender's obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder nor
shall the Domestic Commitment or Canadian Commitment of any Lender be increased
or decreased as a result of a default by any other Lender in that other
Lender's obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder.
(v) Funding Swing Line Loans or Negotiated Rate Loans;
Disbursement of Proceeds. Promptly after receipt by Documentation Agent of a
Notice of Borrowing pursuant to subsection 2.1B (or telephonic notice in lieu
thereof) requesting a Swing Line Loan or a Negotiated Rate Loan, Documentation
Agent shall forward a copy of such notice to the Swing Line Lender or the
applicable Lender(s) specified therein. Upon satisfaction or waiver of the
conditions precedent specified in subsections 6.1 (in the case of Loans made on
the Closing Date) and 6.2 (in the case of all Loans), the Swing Line Lender or
the Lender funding any Negotiated Rate Loan shall make the proceeds of any
Swing Line Loan or Negotiated Rate Loan, as the case may be, available to the
applicable Borrower on the applicable Funding Date by causing an amount equal
to the proceeds of such Loan, in same day funds and in Dollars or Canadian
Dollars, as the case may be, to be credited to such account of the applicable
Borrower as may be agreed to by the applicable Borrower and Lender.
D. THE REGISTER.
(i) Documentation Agent shall maintain, at its address
referred to in subsection 13.8, a register for the recordation of the names and
addresses of Lenders, the Domestic Commitment, Canadian Commitment and Loans of
each Lender, and the Domestic Swing Line Commitment, Canadian Swing Line
Commitment and Swing Line Loans of Swing Line Lender from time to time (the
"REGISTER"). The Register shall be available for inspection by any Borrower or
any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice.
(ii) Documentation Agent shall record in the Register the
Domestic Commitment, Canadian Commitment and the Loans from time to time of
each Lender and the Domestic Swing Line Commitment and Canadian Swing Line
Commitment of Swing Line Lender and each repayment or prepayment in respect of
the principal amount of the Loans of each Lender. Any such recordation shall
be conclusive and binding on Borrowers and each Lender, absent manifest or
demonstrable error; provided that failure to make any such recordation, or any
error in such recordation, shall not affect any Borrower's Obligations in
respect of the applicable Loans.
(iii) Each Lender shall record on its internal records
(including, without limitation, any Note held by such Lender) the amount of
each Loan made by it and each payment in respect thereof. Any such recordation
shall be conclusive and binding on Borrowers and such Lender, absent manifest
or demonstrable error;
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provided that failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such
recordation, shall not affect any Borrower's Obligations in respect of the
applicable Loans; and provided, further that in the event of any inconsistency
between the Register and any Lender's records, the recordations in the Register
shall govern.
(iv) Borrowers, Documentation Agent and Lenders shall deem
and treat the Persons listed as Lenders in the Register as the holders and
owners of the corresponding Domestic Commitments, Canadian Commitments, Domestic
Swing Line Commitment, Canadian Swing Line Commitment and Loans listed therein
for all purposes hereof, and no assignment or transfer of any such Domestic
Commitment, Canadian Commitment, Domestic Swing Line Commitment, Canadian Swing
Line Commitment or Loan shall be effective, in each case unless and until an
Assignment Agreement effecting the assignment or transfer thereof shall have
been accepted by Documentation Agent and recorded in the Register as provided in
subsection 13.1B(ii). Prior to such recordation, all amounts owed with respect
to the applicable Domestic Commitment, Canadian Commitment, Domestic Swing Line
Commitment, Canadian Swing Line Commitment or Loan shall be owed to the Lender
listed in the Register as the owner thereof, and any request, authority or
consent of any Person who, at the time of making such request or giving such
authority or consent, is listed in the Register as a Lender shall be conclusive
and binding on any subsequent holder, assignee or transferee of the
corresponding Domestic Commitment, Canadian Commitment, Domestic Swing Line
Commitment, Canadian Swing Line Commitment or Loans.
(v) Company hereby designates Scotiabank to serve as
Company's agent solely for purposes of maintaining the Register as provided in
this subsection 2.1D, and Company hereby agrees that, to the extent Scotiabank
serves in such capacity, Scotiabank and its officers, directors, employees,
agents and affiliates shall constitute Indemnitees for all purposes under
subsection 13.3.
E. OPTIONAL NOTES. If so requested by any Lender by written
notice to any Borrower (with a copy to Documentation Agent) at least two
Business Days prior to the Closing Date or at any time thereafter, such
Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (and/or, if applicable and if
so specified in such notice, to any Person who is an assignee of such Lender
pursuant to subsection 13.1) on the Closing Date (or, if such notice is
delivered after the Closing Date, promptly after such Borrower's receipt of
such notice) a promissory note to evidence such Lender's Loans to such
Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit IV-A annexed hereto, in the case
of Domestic Loans and Canadian/U.S. Loans advanced to Company, Exhibit IV-B
annexed hereto, in the case of Canadian Loans advanced to Canada Safeway, or
Exhibit IV-C annexed hereto, in the case of Canadian Loans advanced to Lucerne,
in each case with appropriate insertions.
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Documentation Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the
owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until an Assignment Agreement
effecting the assignment or transfer thereof shall have been accepted by
Documentation Agent as provided in subsection 13.1B(ii). Any request,
authority or consent of any person or entity who, at the time of making such
request or giving such authority or consent, is the record holder of any Note
shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder, assignee or
transferee of that Note or of any Note or Notes issued in exchange therefor.
2.2 INTEREST ON THE LOANS.
A. RATE OF INTEREST. (i) Domestic Loans (other than Swing Line
Loans or Negotiated Rate Loans) shall bear interest on the unpaid principal
amount thereof from the date made through maturity (whether by acceleration or
otherwise) at a rate determined by reference to the Domestic Base Rate or the
Adjusted Eurodollar Rate. Canadian Loans denominated in Canadian Dollars
(other than Swing Line Loans) shall bear interest on the unpaid principal
amount thereof from the date made through maturity (whether by acceleration or
otherwise) at a rate determined by reference to the Canadian Prime Rate;
Canadian Loans denominated in Dollars (other than Swing Line Loans) shall bear
interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof from the date made through
maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate determined by
reference to the Canadian Base Rate or the Canadian Eurodollar Rate. Domestic
Swing Line Loans shall bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the
Domestic Base Rate; Canadian Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars shall bear
interest at a rate determined by reference to the Canadian Base Rate; and
Canadian Swing Line Loans denominated in Canadian Dollars shall bear interest
at a rate determined by reference to the Canadian Prime Rate. The applicable
basis for determining the rate of interest on Loans shall be selected by the
applicable Borrower at the time such Borrower submits a Notice of Borrowing
pursuant to subsection 2.1B or a Notice of Conversion/Continuation is given
pursuant to subsection 2.2D. If on any date a Loan is outstanding with respect
to which notice has not been delivered to Documentation Agent in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement specifying the basis for determining the rate
of interest, then for that day that Loan shall bear interest determined by
reference to the applicable Deemed Floating Rate.
(ii) Subject to the provisions of subsections 2.2E and 5.1,
Domestic Loans (other than Domestic Swing Line Loans or Negotiated Rate Loans)
shall bear interest as follows:
(a) if a Domestic Base Rate Loan, then at the Domestic Base
Rate per annum; or
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(b) if a Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loan, then at a rate per
annum equal to the sum of the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate for the
applicable Interest Period plus the Pricing Margin.
(iii) Subject to the provisions of subsections 2.2E and 5.1,
Canadian Loans (other than Canadian Swing Line Loans) denominated in Dollars
shall bear interest as follows:
(a) if a Canadian Base Rate Loan, then at the Canadian
Base Rate per annum; or
(b) if a Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loan, then at a rate per
annum equal to the sum of the Canadian Eurodollar Rate for the
applicable Interest Period plus the Pricing Margin.
(iv) Subject to the provisions of subsections 2.2E and 5.1,
Canadian Loans (other than Canadian Swing Line Loans) denominated in Canadian
Dollars shall bear interest at the Canadian Prime Rate per annum.
(v) Subject to the provisions of subsections 2.2E and 5.1,
Canadian Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars shall bear interest at a rate
per annum equal to the Canadian Base Rate minus the Facility Fee Percentage, as
in effect from time to time; Canadian Swing Line Loans denominated in Canadian
Dollars shall bear interest at a rate equal to the Canadian Prime Rate minus
the Facility Fee Percentage, as in effect from time to time; and Domestic Swing
Line Loans shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Domestic Base
Rate minus the Facility Fee Percentage, as in effect from time to time.
(vi) Subject to the provisions of subsections 2.2E and 5.1,
each Negotiated Rate Loan shall bear interest at the Negotiated Rate applicable
thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Company fails to deliver a
Pricing Level Determination Certificate or delivers an incorrect Pricing Level
Determination Certificate and as the result thereof the amount of interest paid
by Company for any period is less than it would have been if a correct Pricing
Level Determination Certificate had been timely delivered in accordance with
the provisions of subsection 8.1(iv), the amount of interest payable on the
next Quarterly Payment Date following the delivery of a correct Pricing Level
Determination Certificate (or the Commitment Termination Date, if no Quarterly
Payment Date will occur prior thereto) shall be increased by any additional
amount of interest that would have accrued during such period if the Pricing
Level had been correctly and timely determined.
B. INTEREST PERIODS. In connection with each Fixed Rate Loan, the
applicable Borrower may, pursuant to the applicable Notice of Borrowing or
Notice
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of Conversion/Continuation, as the case may be, select an interest period (each
an "INTEREST PERIOD") to be applicable to such Loan, which Interest Period
shall be, at Company's option, either a one, two, three or six month period or,
if permitted under clause (vii) of this subsection 2.2B, a twelve month period;
provided that:
(i) the initial Interest Period for any Fixed Rate Loan
shall commence on the Funding Date in respect of such Loan, in the case
of a Loan initially made as a Fixed Rate Loan, or on the date specified
in the applicable Notice of Conversion/Continuation, in the case of a
Loan converted to a Fixed Rate Loan;
(ii) in the case of immediately successive Interest Periods
applicable to a Fixed Rate Loan continued as such pursuant to a Notice
of Conversion/Continuation, each successive Interest Period shall
commence on the day on which the next preceding Interest Period
expires;
(iii) if an Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day
that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the
next succeeding Business Day; provided that, if any Interest Period
would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day but is a day
of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in such month,
such Interest Period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day;
(iv) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business
Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest
Period) shall, subject to clause (v) of this subsection 2.2B, end on
the last Business Day of a calendar month;
(v) no Interest Period with respect to any portion of the
Loans shall extend beyond the Commitment Termination Date;
(vi) there shall be no more than 15 Interest Periods
outstanding at any time;
(vii) no Fixed Rate Loan shall have an Interest Period of
twelve months unless Documentation Agent, after consultation with the
Lenders that will fund such Loan, has received notice from each such
Lender that said Lender has determined in good faith based on
prevailing conditions in the Eurodollar market, that Dollar deposits
are generally offered by such Lenders to first class banks in the
Eurodollar market for a comparable maturity (and Documentation Agent
shall notify Company of any notice it receives from any Lender to the
contrary); and
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(viii) in the event the applicable Borrower fails to specify
an Interest Period for any Fixed Rate Loan in the applicable Notice of
Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation, such Borrower shall be
deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month.
C. INTEREST PAYMENTS; PAYMENT CURRENCY. Subject to the provisions
of subsection 2.2E, interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on and to
each Interest Payment Date applicable to that Loan, upon any prepayment of that
Loan (to the extent accrued on the amount being prepaid) and at maturity
(including final maturity). Interest in respect of any Loan denominated in
Dollars shall accrue and be paid in Dollars; interest in respect to any Loan
denominated in Canadian Dollars shall accrue and be paid in Canadian Dollars.
D. CONVERSION OR CONTINUATION. Subject to the provisions of
subsection 2.6, each Borrower shall have the option (i) to continue all or any
part of its outstanding Fixed Rate Loans in an amount equal to
U.S./Cdn.$10,000,000 and integral multiples thereof or (ii) to convert all or
any part of its outstanding Loans in an amount equal to U.S./Cdn.$10,000,000
and integral multiples of U.S.$10,000,000 (in the case of Domestic Loans) or
U.S./Cdn.$1,000,000 (in the case of Canadian Loans) in excess thereof from
Loans bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to one basis to Loans
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to an alternative basis
provided (a) Domestic Loans may be continued as or converted into Domestic Base
Rate Loans or Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans only, Canadian Loans (other than
Canadian/U.S. Loans) denominated in Dollars may be continued as or converted
into Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans or Canadian Base Rate Loans only,
Canadian/U.S. Loans may be continued as or converted into Domestic Eurodollar
Rate Loans or Domestic Base Rate Loans only, Canadian Loans denominated in
Canadian Dollars may not be converted but shall at all times be Canadian Prime
Rate Loans, Swing Line Loans may not be converted but shall at all times bear
interest as provided in subsection 2.2A(v) and Negotiated Rate Loans may not be
converted or continued but shall at all times bear interest at the applicable
Negotiated Rate; (b) Floating Rate Loans may be converted into Fixed Rate Loans
at any time, but Fixed Rate Loans may be converted or continued only on the
expiration date of an Interest Period applicable thereto; (c) subject to the
provisions of the following clause (d), no Loan may be converted into a
Domestic Base Rate Loan or Canadian Base Rate Loan during the period from
December 24 of any year to and including January 7 of the immediately
succeeding year for the purpose of investing in securities bearing interest at
a rate determined by reference to any other basis for the purpose of arbitrage
or speculation; and (d) no Loan may be continued as or converted into a Fixed
Rate Loan at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
The applicable Borrower shall deliver a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation to Documentation Agent no later than 1:00 P.M. (New
York time) at least one Business Day in advance of the proposed conversion date
in the case of a conversion
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to a Floating Rate Loan and at least three Business Days in advance of the
proposed conversion/continuation date in the case of a conversion to, or a
continuation of, a Fixed Rate Loan. A Notice of Conversion/Continuation shall
specify (i) the Borrower, (ii) the proposed conversion/continuation date (which
shall be a Business Day), (iii) the amount and type of the Loan to be
converted/continued, (iv) the nature of the proposed conversion/continuation,
(v) in the case of a conversion to, or a continuation of, a Fixed Rate Loan,
the requested Interest Period, and (vi) in the case of a conversion to, or a
continuation of, a Fixed Rate Loan, that no Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing. In lieu of delivering the above-described Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, the applicable Borrower may give Documentation Agent
telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed conversion/continuation
under this subsection 2.2D; provided that such notice shall be promptly
confirmed in writing by delivery of a Notice of Conversion/Continuation to
Documentation Agent on or before the proposed conversion/continuation date.
Neither Documentation Agent nor any Lender shall incur any
liability to any Borrower in acting upon any telephonic notice referred to
above that Documentation Agent believes in good faith to have been given by a
duly authorized officer or other person authorized to act on behalf of a
Borrower or for otherwise acting in good faith under this subsection 2.2D, and
upon conversion or continuation of the applicable basis for determining the
interest rate with respect to any Loans in accordance with this Agreement
pursuant to any such telephonic notice the applicable Borrower shall have
effected a conversion or continuation, as the case may be, hereunder.
Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2.6B, 2.6C and
2.6G, a Notice of Conversion/Continuation for conversion to, or continuation
of, a Fixed Rate Loan (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof) shall be
irrevocable on and after the related Interest Rate Determination Date, and the
Borrower submitting any such Notice of Conversion/Continuation shall be bound
to effect a conversion or continuation in accordance therewith unless such
Borrower pays to Lenders such amounts as may be due under subsection 2.6D for
failure of a conversion to or continuation of any Fixed Rate Loan to occur on
the date specified therefor in the Notice of Conversion/Continuation (or
telephonic notice in lieu thereof).
E. POST-MATURITY INTEREST. Any principal payments on the Loans
not paid when due and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any interest
payments on the Loans not paid when due, in each case whether at stated
maturity, by notice of prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise, shall
thereafter bear interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding
under the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable Insolvency Laws) payable on
demand at a rate which is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise
payable under this Agreement with respect to the applicable Loans; provided
that, in the case of Fixed Rate Loans, upon the expiration of the Interest
Period in effect at the time any such increase in interest rate is
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effective, such Fixed Rate Loans shall thereupon become Floating Rate Loans and
shall thereafter bear interest payable upon demand at a rate which is 2% per
annum in excess of the applicable Deemed Floating Rate. Payment or acceptance
of the increased rates of interest provided for in this subsection 2.2E is not
a permitted alternative to timely payment and shall not constitute a waiver of
any Event of Default or otherwise prejudice or limit any rights or remedies of
any Agent or any Lender.
F. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. Interest on the Loans shall be
computed (i) in the case of Floating Rate Loans and Swing Line Loans, on the
basis of a 365-day or 366-day year, as the case may be, (ii) in the case of
Fixed Rate Loans, on the basis of a 360-day year, and (iii) in the case of any
Negotiated Rate Loans, on such basis as is agreed upon by Company and the
Lender advancing such Loan, in each case for the actual number of days elapsed
in the period during which it accrues. In computing interest on any Loan, the
date of the making of such Loan or the first day of an Interest Period
applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Floating Rate Loan being
converted from a Fixed Rate Loan, the date of conversion of such Fixed Rate
Loan to such Floating Rate Loan, as the case may be, shall be included, and the
date of payment of such Loan or the expiration date of an Interest Period
applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Floating Rate Loan being
converted to a Fixed Rate Loan, the date of conversion of such Floating Rate
Loan to such Fixed Rate Loan, as the case may be, shall be excluded; provided
that if a Loan is repaid on the same day on which it is made, one day's
interest shall be paid on that Loan.
G. CANADIAN INTEREST PROVISIONS. For purposes of disclosure
pursuant to the Interest Act (Canada), the parties hereto acknowledge that with
respect to any Loan to a Canadian Borrower which is expressed as a rate for a
period of less than one year, the yearly rate of interest to which any such
rate is equivalent is the rate for the applicable period divided by the number
of days in such period and multiplied by the actual number of days in the year.
2.3 FEES.
A. FACILITY FEES. Company agrees to pay to Documentation Agent,
for distribution to each Domestic Lender in proportion to that Lender's
Domestic Pro Rata Share, facility fees for the period from and including the
Closing Date to and excluding the Commitment Termination Date equal to the
average of the daily Domestic Commitments during each fiscal quarter of Company
multiplied by the Facility Fee Percentage, as in effect from time to time, and
Canada Safeway agrees to pay to Documentation Agent, for distribution to each
Canadian Lender (excluding any U.S. Affiliate) in proportion to that Lender's
Canadian Pro Rata Share, facility fees for the period from and including
Closing Date to and excluding the Commitment Termination Date equal to the
average of the daily Canadian Commitments during each fiscal quarter of Company
multiplied by the Facility Fee
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Percentage, as in effect from time to time. All such facility fees are to be
calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed
and to be payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date,
commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the
Commitment Termination Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Company fails to deliver a
Pricing Level Determination Certificate in accordance with the provisions of
subsection 8.1(iv) or delivers an incorrect Pricing Level Determination
Certificate, and as the result thereof, the amount of facility fees paid by
Company for any period is less than it would have been if a correct Pricing
Level Determination Certificate had been timely delivered in accordance with
the provisions of subsection 8.1(iv), the amount of facility fees payable on
the next Quarterly Payment date following the delivery of a correct Pricing
Level Determination Certificate (or the Commitment Termination Date, if no
Quarterly Payment Date will occur prior thereto) shall be increased by any
additional amount of facility fees that would have accrued during such period
if the Pricing Level had been correctly and timely determined.
B. CLOSING FEES. Company agrees to pay to Documentation Agent, on
the Closing Date, for distribution to each Lender, closing fees in an aggregate
amount sufficient to pay (a) to each Agent or Co-Agent a fee in an amount equal
to .04% of its Aggregate Commitment, (b) to each Lead Manager a fee in an
amount equal to .03% of its Aggregate Commitment, and (c) to each other Lender
a fee in an amount equal to .02% of its Aggregate Commitment, and Documentation
Agent shall, upon its receipt of such payment, distribute such fees in such
amounts to the Agents, Co-Agents, Lead Managers, and other Lenders.
C. OTHER FEES. Company agrees to pay to Documentation Agent and
Administrative Agent such other fees in the amounts and at the times separately
agreed upon between Company and Documentation Agent or Administrative Agent.
2.4 PREPAYMENTS AND REDUCTIONS IN COMMITMENTS; GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING
PAYMENTS.
A. PREPAYMENTS AND REDUCTIONS IN COMMITMENTS.
(i) Voluntary Prepayments. Each Borrower may, upon
written or telephonic notice delivered to Documentation Agent not later
than 12:00 noon (New York time) on any prepayment date, prepay the
Swing Line Loans in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of
U.S./Cdn.$1,000,000 and integral multiples of U.S./Cdn.$500,000 in
excess thereof. Each Borrower may upon not less than one Business
Day's prior written or telephonic notice, in the case of Floating Rate
Loans, and three Business Days' prior written or telephonic notice, in
the case of Fixed Rate Loans, in each case given to
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Documentation Agent by 12:00 noon (New York time) on the date required
and, if given by telephone, promptly confirmed in writing to
Documentation Agent (which original written or telephonic notice
Documentation Agent will promptly transmit by telecopy or telephone to
each Lender), at any time and from time to time prepay any Loans on any
Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of (a)
U.S.$50,000,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$10,000,000 in excess of
that amount, in the case of Domestic Loans, or (b) U.S./Cdn.$10,000,000
and integral multiples of U.S./Cdn.$1,000,000 in excess of that amount,
in the case of Canadian Loans; provided, however, that a Fixed Rate
Loan may only be prepaid prior to the expiration of the Interest Period
applicable thereto upon the applicable Borrower's payment of any
amounts that may, as a result of such prepayment, be due and payable to
Lenders pursuant to subsection 2.6D. Any Negotiated Rate Loan may be
prepaid only upon such terms and conditions as are agreed to by the
Lender funding such Negotiated Rate Loan. Notice of prepayment having
been given as aforesaid, the principal amount of the Loans specified in
such notice shall become due and payable on the prepayment date
specified therein. Any such voluntary prepayment shall be applied as
specified in subsection 2.4A(iv).
(ii) Voluntary Reductions of Commitments. Company may,
upon not less than three Business Days' prior written or telephonic
notice confirmed in writing to Documentation Agent (which original
written or telephonic notice Documentation Agent will promptly transmit
by telecopy or telephone to each Domestic Lender or Canadian Lender, as
the case may be), at any time and from time to time terminate in whole
or permanently reduce in part, without premium or penalty, the Domestic
Commitments or the Canadian Commitments in an amount up to the amount
by which the Domestic Commitments exceed the Total Utilization of
Domestic Commitments or the Canadian Commitments exceed the Total
Utilization of Canadian Commitments, respectively, at the time of such
proposed termination or reduction; provided that any such partial
reduction of the Domestic Commitments shall be in an aggregate minimum
amount of U.S.$50,000,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$10,000,000 in
excess of that amount and any such partial reduction of the Canadian
Commitments shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of U.S.$10,000,000
and integral multiples of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess of that amount.
Company's notice to Documentation Agent shall designate the date (which
shall be a Business Day) of such termination or reduction and the
amount of any partial reduction, and such termination or reduction of
the Domestic Commitments or Canadian Commitments shall be effective on
the date specified in Company's notice and shall reduce the Domestic
Commitment of each Domestic Lender or Canadian Commitment of each
Canadian Lender, as applicable, proportionately to its Domestic Pro
Rata Share or Canadian Pro Rata Share, respectively.
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(iii) Mandatory Reductions of Commitments and Mandatory
Prepayments.
(a) Reductions from Material Asset Sales. No later than
the third Business Day following the closing of any Material
Asset Sale, the Aggregate Commitments shall be permanently
reduced by an amount equal to the Net Consideration received,
or to be received, by Company and its Subsidiaries as the
result of such Material Asset Sale; provided however that the
Domestic Commitments shall not be reduced by the amount of any
Net Consideration allocable to any Canadian Subsidiary of
Company or to the assets or properties of any such Subsidiary
disposed of in connection with, or as part of, such Material
Asset Sale and provided further that if the Aggregate
Consideration received in relation to such Material Asset Sale
includes any promissory note, Company may postpone a portion of
reduction of the Aggregate Commitments required pursuant to
this subsection 2.4(iii)(a) in an amount at no time exceeding
the unpaid principal amount of such promissory note for not
more than one year after the closing of such Material Asset
Sale. Concurrently with any reduction of the Aggregate
Commitments pursuant to this subsection 2.4A(iii)(a), Company
shall deliver to Documentation Agent an Officers' Certificate
demonstrating in reasonable detail (1) the derivation of the
Net Consideration of the correlative Material Asset Sale from
the Aggregate Consideration thereof and (2) the portion of such
Net Consideration allocable to any Canadian Subsidiary of
Company or to any properties or assets of any such Subsidiary
disposed of as part of such Material Asset Sale, it being
agreed and understood that 35% of the Net Consideration
allocable to any disposition of Company's investment in Safeway
New Canada shall be deemed allocable to a Canadian Subsidiary
of the Company. In the event that Borrowers shall, at any time
after a reduction of the Aggregate Commitments pursuant to this
subsection 2.4A(iii)(a), determine that the reductions of the
Aggregate Commitments previously made in respect of such
Material Asset Sale were in an aggregate amount less than that
required by the terms of this subsection 2.4A(iii)(a), Company
shall deliver to Documentation Agent an Officers' Certificate
showing in reasonable detail the determination of any
additional amount by which the Aggregate Commitments should be
reduced, and the Aggregate Commitments shall be permanently
reduced, in the manner described above in an amount equal to
such additional amount. Any mandatory reductions of the
Aggregate Commitments pursuant to this subsection 2.4A(iii)(a)
shall be applied as follows: Net Consideration allocable to
the disposition of any Canadian Subsidiary of Company or the
properties or assets of any such Subsidiary shall be applied to
reduce the Canadian Commitments, and Net Consideration
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allocable to the disposition of any other Subsidiary of Company
or any other assets or properties of Company and its
Subsidiaries (other than any Canadian Subsidiary of Company)
shall be applied ratably to reduce the Domestic Commitments and
Canadian Commitments. Except as set forth above in relation to
Safeway New Canada, for the purposes of this subsection
2.4A(iii)(a), a "Canadian Subsidiary" of Company shall be a
Subsidiary of Company organized and located in Canada.
(b) Prepayments Due to Reductions or Restrictions of
Commitments. Borrowers shall from time to time prepay their
respective Loans (and in the case of any Canadian Borrower,
after repayment of such Canadian Borrower's outstanding Loans,
such Canadian Borrower's outstanding Acceptances) to the extent
necessary (1) so that the Total Utilization of Domestic
Commitments shall not at any time exceed the Domestic
Commitments and (2) so that the Total Utilization of Canadian
Commitments shall not at any time exceed the Canadian
Commitments; provided that if the Total Utilization of Canadian
Commitments at any time exceeds the Canadian Commitments solely
as a result of a change in the relative exchange rate for
Dollars and Canadian Dollars, Borrowers shall within five
Business Days of such change in such exchange rate prepay
Canadian Loans or, to the extent no Canadian Loans are
outstanding, Acceptances in an amount necessary so that the
Total Utilization of Canadian Commitments is equal to or less
than the Canadian Commitments. Any mandatory prepayments
pursuant to this subsection 2.4A(iii)(b) shall be applied as
specified in subsection 2.4A(iv).
(iv) Application of Prepayments to Swing Line Loans,
Floating Rate Loans and Fixed Rate Loans. Any prepayment by Company of
Domestic Loans shall be applied first to Domestic Swing Line Loans to
the full extent thereof, second to Domestic Base Rate Loans of Company
to the full extent thereof and third to Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans,
in each case in a manner which minimizes the amount of any payments
required to be made by Company pursuant to subsection 2.6D. Any
prepayment by Company of Canadian/U.S. Loans shall be applied first to
Canadian/U.S. Loans bearing interest at the Domestic Base Rate to the
full extent thereof and second to Canadian/U.S. Loans bearing interest
at the Domestic Eurodollar Rate, in each case in a manner which
minimizes the amount of any payments required to be made by Company
pursuant to subsection 2.6D. Any prepayment in any currency (whether
Dollars or Canadian Dollars) by Canada Safeway of Canadian Loans shall
be applied first to Canadian Swing Line Loans denominated in such
currency to the full extent thereof, second to Floating Rate Loans of
Canada Safeway denominated in such currency to the full extent thereof
and third to Fixed Rate Loans of Canada Safeway denominated in such
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currency, in each case in a manner which minimizes the amount of any
payments required to be made by Canada Safeway pursuant to subsection
2.6D. Any prepayment in any currency (whether Dollars or Canadian
Dollars) by Lucerne of Canadian Loans shall be applied first to
Floating Rate Loans of Lucerne denominated in such currency to the full
extent thereof and second to Fixed Rate Loans of Lucerne denominated in
such currency, in each case in a manner which minimizes the amount of
any payments required to be made by Lucerne pursuant to subsection
2.6D. Company shall, upon making any prepayment, specify whether such
prepayment is to be applied to Domestic Loans or Canadian Loans.
B. GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING PAYMENTS.
(i) Manner and Time of Payment. All payments by Company
of principal, interest, fees and other Obligations hereunder and under
the Notes issued by Company shall be made in Dollars in same day funds,
without defense, setoff or counterclaim, free of any restriction or
condition, and delivered to Documentation Agent not later than 12:00
noon (New York time) on the due date at the Domestic Funding and
Payment Office. All payments by each Canadian Borrower shall be in
Dollars except for payments in respect of the principal amount of, and
interest accrued in respect of, Loans denominated in Canadian Dollars
or Acceptances, which principal and interest shall be payable in
Canadian Dollars, and, in any event, shall be payable in same day
funds, without defense, setoff or counterclaim, free of any restriction
or condition, and delivered to Documentation Agent not later than 12:00
noon (New York time) on the due date at the Canadian Funding and
Payment Office. Funds received by Documentation Agent after that time
on such due date shall be deemed to have been paid by the applicable
Borrower on the next succeeding Business Day. Each Borrower hereby
authorizes Documentation Agent to charge its accounts with
Documentation Agent in order to cause timely payment to be made to
Documentation Agent of all principal, interest, fees and expenses due
hereunder (subject to sufficient funds being available in its accounts
for that purpose). Documentation Agent shall give the applicable
Borrower notice of any such charge as soon as practicable, whether
before or after making such charge.
(ii) Application of Payments to Principal and Interest.
All payments in respect of the principal amount of any Loan shall
include payment of accrued interest on the principal amount being
repaid or prepaid, and all such payments shall be applied to the
payment of interest before application to principal.
(iii) Apportionment of Payments. Aggregate principal and
interest payments shall be apportioned among all outstanding Loans or
Acceptances to
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which such payments relate, in each case proportionately to Lenders'
respective Domestic Pro Rata Shares or Canadian Pro Rata Shares, as
applicable, of such Loans or Acceptances. Documentation Agent shall
promptly distribute to each Domestic Lender, at its primary address set
forth below its name on the appropriate signature page hereof or at
such other address as such Lender may request, its Domestic Pro Rata
Share of all payments received by Documentation Agent in respect of
Domestic Loans (other than Swing Line Loans and Negotiated Rate Loans).
Documentation Agent shall promptly distribute to each Canadian Lender
(or in the case of payments relating to Canadian/U.S. Loans, any U.S.
Affiliate of such Canadian Lender, if any), at its primary address set
forth below its name on the appropriate signature page hereof or at
such other address as such Lender may request, its Canadian Pro Rata
Share of all payments received by Documentation Agent in respect of
Canadian Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) and Acceptances.
Additionally, Documentation Agent shall distribute to each Lender, at
its primary address set forth below its name on the appropriate
signature page hereof or at such other address as such Lender may
request, its Aggregate Pro Rata Share of the facility fees when
received by Documentation Agent pursuant to subsection 2.3.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection
2.4C(iii), if, pursuant to the provisions of subsection 2.6C, any
Notice of Conversion/Continuation is withdrawn as to any Affected
Lender or if any Affected Lender makes Floating Rate Loans in lieu of
its Pro Rata Share of any Fixed Rate Loans, Documentation Agent shall
give effect thereto in apportioning payments received thereafter.
(iv) Payments on Business Days. Whenever any payment to be
made hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day that is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding
Business Day and such extension of time shall be included in the
computation of the payment of interest hereunder or of the facility
fees hereunder, as the case may be.
(v) Notation of Payment. Each Lender agrees that before
disposing of any Note held by it, or any part thereof (other than by
granting participations therein), that Lender will make a notation
thereon of all Loans evidenced by that Note and all principal payments
previously made thereon and of the date to which interest thereon has
been paid; provided that the failure to make (or any error in the
making of) a notation of any Loan made under such Note shall not limit
or otherwise affect the obligations of any Borrower hereunder or under
such Note with respect to any Loan or any payments of principal or
interest on such Note.
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2.5 USE OF PROCEEDS.
A. LOANS. Proceeds of Loans advanced on the Closing Date shall be
applied by Borrowers to repay all amounts outstanding under the Existing Credit
Agreements. Any remaining proceeds of the Loans advanced on the Closing Date
and the proceeds of all Loans advanced thereafter may be used by Borrowers for
general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, the payment of fees
and expenses associated with the negotiation, preparation, execution and
syndication of this Agreement.
B. MARGIN REGULATIONS. No portion of the proceeds of any
borrowing under this Agreement shall be used by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in any manner that might cause the borrowing or the application of
such proceeds to violate Regulation G, Regulation U, Regulation T or Regulation
X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other
regulation of such Board or to violate the Exchange Act, in each case as in
effect on the date or dates of such borrowing and such use of proceeds.
2.6 SPECIAL PROVISIONS GOVERNING FIXED RATE LOANS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, the following provisions shall govern with respect to Fixed Rate
Loans as to the matters covered:
A. DETERMINATION OF APPLICABLE INTEREST RATE. As soon as
practicable after 10:00 A.M. (New York time) on each Interest Rate
Determination Date, Documentation Agent shall determine (which determination
shall, absent manifest or demonstrable error, be final, conclusive and binding
upon all parties) the interest rate that shall apply to the Fixed Rate Loans
for which an interest rate is then being determined for the applicable Interest
Period and shall promptly give notice thereof (in writing or by telephone
confirmed in writing) to the Borrower requesting such Fixed Rate Loans and the
Lenders having commitments hereunder to fund such Fixed Rate Loans.
B. INABILITY TO DETERMINE APPLICABLE INTEREST RATE. In the event
that Documentation Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be
final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto), on any Interest Rate
Determination Date with respect to any Fixed Rate Loans, that by reason of
circumstances affecting the interbank Eurodollar market adequate and fair means
do not exist for ascertaining the interest rate applicable to such Loans on the
basis provided for in the definition of Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or Canadian
Eurodollar Rate, as applicable, Documentation Agent shall on such date give
notice (by telecopy or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrowers and each
Lender of such determination, whereupon (i) no Loans may be made as, or
converted to, Domestic Eurodollar Rate
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Loans or Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans, as the case may be, until such time as
Documentation Agent notifies Borrowers and Lenders that the circumstances
giving rise to such notice no longer exist and (ii) any Notice of Borrowing or
Notice of Conversion/Continuation given by any Borrower with respect to the
Loans in respect of which such determination was made shall be deemed to be
rescinded by the applicable Borrower.
C. ILLEGALITY OR IMPRACTICABILITY OF FIXED RATE LOANS. In the
event that on any date any Lender shall have determined (which determination
shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto but shall be
made only after consultation with Company and Documentation Agent) that the
making, maintaining or continuation of its Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans or
Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans, as the case may be, (i) has become unlawful as
a result of compliance by such Lender in good faith with any law, treaty,
governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order (or would conflict with any
such treaty, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order not having the
force of law even though the failure to comply therewith would not be unlawful)
or (ii) has become impracticable, or would cause such Lender material hardship,
as a result of contingencies occurring after the date of this Agreement which
materially and adversely affect the interbank Eurodollar market or the position
of such Lender in that market, then, and in any such event, such Lender shall
be an "AFFECTED LENDER" and it shall on that day give notice (by telecopy or by
telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrowers and Documentation Agent of such
determination (which notice Documentation Agent shall promptly transmit to each
other Lender). Thereafter (a) the obligation of the Affected Lender to make
Loans as, or to convert Loans to, Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans or Canadian
Eurodollar Rate Loans, as the case may be, shall be suspended until such notice
shall be withdrawn by the Affected Lender, (b) to the extent such determination
by the Affected Lender relates to a Fixed Rate Loan then being requested by a
Borrower pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing or a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, the Affected Lender shall make such Loan as (or
convert such Loan to, as the case may be) a Floating Rate Loan bearing interest
at the applicable Deemed Floating Rate, (c) the Affected Lender's obligation to
maintain its outstanding Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans or Canadian Eurodollar
Rate Loans, as the case may be (the "AFFECTED LOANS"), shall be terminated at
the earlier to occur of the expiration of the Interest Period then in effect
with respect to the Affected Loans or when required by law, and (d) the
Affected Loans shall automatically convert into Floating Rate Loans bearing
interest at the applicable Deemed Floating Rate on the date of such
termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a determination by
an Affected Lender as described above relates to a Fixed Rate Loan then being
requested by a Borrower pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing or a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, such Borrower shall have the option, subject to the
provisions of subsection 2.6D, to rescind such Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion/Continuation as to all Lenders by giving notice (by telecopy or by
telephone confirmed in writing) to Documentation Agent of such rescission on
the date on which the Affected Lender
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gives notice of its determination as described above (which notice of
rescission Documentation Agent shall promptly transmit to each other Lender).
Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, nothing in this
subsection 2.6C shall affect the obligation of any Lender other than an
Affected Lender to make or maintain Loans as, or to convert Loans to, Fixed
Rate Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
D. COMPENSATION FOR BREAKAGE OR NON-COMMENCEMENT OF INTEREST
PERIODS. Company shall compensate each Lender, upon written request by that
Lender (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting such amounts),
for all reasonable losses, expenses and liabilities (including, without
limitation, any interest paid by that Lender to lenders of funds borrowed by it
to make or carry its Fixed Rate Loans and any loss, expense or liability
sustained by that Lender in connection with the liquidation or re- employment
of such funds) which that Lender may sustain: (i) if for any reason (other than
a default by that Lender) a borrowing of any Fixed Rate Loan does not occur on
a date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or a telephonic request for
borrowing, or a conversion to or continuation of any Fixed Rate Loan does not
occur on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation or a
telephonic request for conversion or continuation, (ii) if any prepayment or
other principal payment or any conversion of any of its Fixed Rate Loans occurs
on a date prior to the last day of an Interest Period applicable to that Loan,
(iii) if any prepayment of any of its Fixed Rate Loans is not made on any date
specified in a notice of prepayment given by a Borrower, or (iv) as a
consequence of any other default by a Borrower in the repayment of its Fixed
Rate Loans when required by the terms of this Agreement.
E. BOOKING OF FIXED RATE LOANS. Any Lender may make, carry or
transfer Fixed Rate Loans at, to, or for the account of any of its branch
offices or the office of an Affiliate of that Lender.
F. ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING FUNDING OF FIXED RATE LOANS.
Calculation of all amounts payable to a Lender under this subsection 2.6 and
under subsection 5.1A shall be made as though that Lender had actually funded
each of its relevant Fixed Rate Loans through the purchase of a Eurodollar
deposit bearing interest at the rate obtained pursuant to clause (i) of the
definition of Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or pursuant to the definition of
Canadian Eurodollar Rate, as applicable, in an amount equal to the amount of
such Fixed Rate Loan and having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest
Period and through the transfer of such Eurodollar deposit from an offshore
office of that Lender to an office of that Lender in the United States of
America or Canada, as applicable; provided, however, that each Lender may fund
each of its Fixed Rate Loans in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing
assumptions shall be utilized only for the purposes of calculating amounts
payable under this subsection 2.6 and under subsection 5.1A.
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G. FIXED RATE LOANS AFTER DEFAULT. After the occurrence of and
during the continuation of an Event of Default, (i) Borrowers may not elect to
have a Loan be made or maintained as, or converted to, a Fixed Rate Loan after
the expiration of any Interest Period then in effect for that Loan and (ii)
subject to the provisions of subsection 2.6D, any Notice of Borrowing or Notice
of Conversion/Continuation given by any Borrower with respect to a requested
borrowing or conversion/continuation that has not yet occurred shall be deemed
to be rescinded by such Borrower.
2.7 EXTENSION OF COMMITMENTS.
Subject to the provisions of the following paragraph of this
subsection 2.7, at any time not more than two years nor less than 90 days prior
to the Commitment Termination Date then in effect, Company may, at its option,
deliver to Administrative Agent, for distribution to each Lender within five
Business Days of Administrative Agent's receipt thereof, an Extension Request
signed by each Borrower and each Guarantor requesting an extension of the
Commitment Termination Date to a date one year after the Commitment Termination
Date which is then in effect. Each Lender may, in its sole discretion, consent
or not consent to any such Extension Request and, if such Lender so consents,
such Lender shall deliver its consent to such Extension Request to
Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify Company of such consent)
within 25 Business Days of the date of the Extension Request. Any Lender that
fails to consent to any Extension Request within such 25 day period shall be
deemed to have rejected such Extension Request. If Administrative Agent shall
have received, within such 25 day period, consents to such Extension Request
from Lenders having 80% or more of the aggregate Loan Exposure of all Lenders,
the Commitment Termination Date to be extended pursuant to such request shall,
with respect to those Lenders consenting to such request, be extended for one
year from the then current Commitment Termination Date. If any Lender rejects
an Extension Request but Lenders having 80% or more of the aggregate Loan
Exposure of all Lenders consent thereto, Company may, at any time prior to the
Commitment Termination Date (as in effect prior to giving effect to such
Extension Request), replace such rejecting Lender by causing such Lender to
assign, and each Lender agrees that, following its rejection of any Extension
Request and upon the written request of Company, it shall assign, its Loans,
Domestic Commitment, Canadian Commitment, Acceptances, and participations in
Letters of Credit, as the case may be, to another Lender or an Eligible
Assignee identified by Company (that, in either case, has agreed to the
Extension Request) in accordance with the provisions of subsection 13.1;
provided that no assignment fee shall be payable to Documentation Agent in
connection with such assignment. If Administrative Agent shall not have
received, within such 25 day period, consents to such Extension Request from
Lenders having 80% of the aggregate Loan Exposure of all Lenders, the
Commitment Termination Date requested to be extended by Borrowers shall not be
extended for any Lender (including, without limitation, any
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such consenting Lenders). Administrative Agent shall give Company and each
Lender prompt notice of any extension of the Commitment Termination Date.
Company may only request two annual extensions of the
Commitment Termination Date pursuant to this subsection 2.7, and the Commitment
Termination Date shall in no event be extended beyond May 24, 2002.
SECTION 3. LETTERS OF CREDIT
3.1 ISSUANCE OF LETTERS OF CREDIT AND LENDERS' PURCHASE OF PARTICIPATIONS
THEREIN.
A. LETTERS OF CREDIT. In addition to Company requesting that
Domestic Lenders make Domestic Loans pursuant to subsection 2.1A(i), Company
may request, in accordance with the provisions of this subsection 3.1, from
time to time during the period from the Closing Date to but excluding the tenth
Business Day prior to the Commitment Termination Date, that one or more
Domestic Lenders issue Letters of Credit for the account of Company for the
purposes specified in the definitions of Commercial Letters of Credit and
Standby Letters of Credit. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of Company
herein set forth, any one or more Domestic Lenders may, but (except as provided
in subsection 3.1B(ii)) shall not be obligated to, issue such Letters of Credit
in accordance with the provisions of this subsection 3.1; provided that Company
shall not request that any Domestic Lender issue (and no Domestic Lender shall
issue):
(i) any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such
issuance, the Total Utilization of Commitments would exceed the
Commitments then in effect;
(ii) any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such
issuance, the Letter of Credit Usage would exceed $400,000,000;
(iii) any Standby Letter of Credit having an expiration date
later than the earlier of (a) the fifth Business Day prior to the
Commitment Termination Date and (b) the date which is one year from the
date of issuance of such Standby Letter of Credit; provided that the
immediately preceding clause (b) shall not prevent any Issuing Lender
from agreeing that a Standby Letter of Credit will automatically be
extended for one or more successive periods not to exceed one year each
unless such Issuing Lender elects not to extend for any such additional
period; provided, further that, unless Requisite Lenders otherwise
consent, such Issuing Lender shall give notice that it will not extend
such Standby Letter of Credit if it has knowledge that an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing on the last day on which such
Issuing Lender may give notice that it will not extend such Standby
Letter of Credit;
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(iv) any Commercial Letter of Credit having an expiration
date (a) later than the earlier of (X) the date which is 30 days prior
to the Commitment Termination Date and (Y) the date which is 180 days
from the date of issuance of such Commercial Letter of Credit or (b)
that is otherwise unacceptable to the applicable Issuing Lender in its
reasonable discretion;
(v) any Commercial Letter of Credit if, after giving
effect to such issuance, the Letter of Credit Usage in respect of
Commercial Letters of Credit would exceed $100,000,000; or
(vi) any Letter of Credit denominated in a currency other
than Dollars or Canadian Dollars.
Company and Lenders agree that, as of the Closing Date, the
Letters of Credit issued and outstanding pursuant to the Existing Credit
Agreements and described on Schedule 3.1 annexed hereto, shall for all purposes
of this Agreement be deemed to have been issued under and pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement.
B. MECHANICS OF ISSUANCE.
(i) Notice of Issuance. Whenever Company desires the
issuance of a Letter of Credit, it shall deliver to the proposed
Issuing Lender (with a copy to Documentation Agent if Documentation
Agent is not the proposed Issuing Lender) a Notice of Issuance of
Letter of Credit substantially in the form of Exhibit III annexed
hereto no later than 12:00 noon (New York time) at least five Business
Days, or such shorter period as may be agreed to by any Issuing Lender
in any particular instance, in advance of the proposed date of
issuance. The Notice of Issuance of Letter of Credit shall specify (a)
the Domestic Lender requested to issue the Letter of Credit, (b)
whether such Letter of Credit is to be a Commercial Letter of Credit or
a Standby Letter of Credit, (c) the proposed date of issuance (which
shall be a Business Day), (d) the face amount of the Letter of Credit,
(e) whether such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in Dollars or
Canadian Dollars, (f) the expiration date of the Letter of Credit, (g)
the name and address of the beneficiary, and (h) a summary of the
purpose of such Letter of Credit. At least two Business Days prior to
the proposed date of issuance, Company shall specify to the Issuing
Lender the proposed text of the proposed Letter of Credit or the
proposed terms and conditions thereof, including a precise description
of any documents and the verbatim text of any certificates to be
presented by the beneficiary which, if presented by the beneficiary on
or before the expiration date of the Letter of Credit, would require
the Issuing Lender to make payment under the Letter of Credit; provided
that the Issuing Lender, in its reasonable judgment, may require
changes in the text of the proposed Letter of Credit or any such
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documents or certificates; and provided, further that no Letter of
Credit shall require payment against a conforming draft to be made
thereunder on the same business day (under the laws of the jurisdiction
in which the office of the Issuing Lender to which such draft is
required to be presented is located) that such draft is presented if
such presentation is made after 11:00 A.M. (in the time zone of such
office of the Issuing Lender) on such business day.
Company shall notify the applicable Issuing Lender (and
Documentation Agent, if Documentation Agent is not such Issuing Lender)
prior to the issuance of any Letter of Credit in the event that any of
the matters to which Company is required to certify in the applicable
Notice of Issuance of Letter of Credit is no longer true and correct as
of the proposed date of issuance of such Letter of Credit, and upon the
issuance of any Letter of Credit Company shall be deemed to have
re-certified, as of the date of such issuance, as to the matters to
which Company is required to certify in the applicable Notice of
Issuance of Letter of Credit.
(ii) Determination of Issuing Lender. Upon receipt by a
proposed Issuing Lender of a Notice of Issuance of Letter of Credit
pursuant to subsection 3.1B(i) requesting the issuance of a Letter of
Credit, (a) in the event Administrative Agent is the proposed Issuing
Lender, Administrative Agent shall be the Issuing Lender with respect
to such Letter of Credit, notwithstanding the fact that the Letter of
Credit Usage with respect to such Letter of Credit and with respect to
all other Letters of Credit issued by Administrative Agent, when
aggregated with Administrative Agent's outstanding Loans, may exceed
Administrative Agent's Domestic Commitment then in effect; and (b) in
the event any other Domestic Lender is the proposed Issuing Lender,
such Domestic Lender shall promptly notify Company and Documentation
Agent whether or not, in its sole discretion, it has elected to issue
such Letter of Credit, and (1) if such Domestic Lender so elects to
issue such Letter of Credit it shall be the Issuing Lender with respect
thereto, notwithstanding the fact that the Letter of Credit Usage with
respect to such Letter of Credit and with respect to all other Letters
of Credit issued by such Domestic Lender, when aggregated with such
Domestic Lender's outstanding Loans, may exceed such Domestic Lender's
Domestic Commitment then in effect and (2) if such Domestic Lender
fails to so promptly notify Company and Documentation Agent or declines
to issue such Letter of Credit, Company may request Administrative
Agent or another Domestic Lender to be the Issuing Lender with respect
to such Letter of Credit in accordance with the provisions of this
subsection 3.1B.
(iii) Issuance of Letter of Credit. Upon satisfaction or
waiver (in accordance with subsection 13.6) of the conditions set forth
in subsection 6.3,
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the Issuing Lender shall issue the requested Letter of Credit in
accordance with the Issuing Lender's standard operating procedures.
(iv) Notification to Domestic Lenders. Upon the issuance
of any Letter of Credit the applicable Issuing Lender shall promptly
notify Documentation Agent and each other Domestic Lender of such
issuance, which notice shall be accompanied by a copy of such Letter of
Credit. Promptly after receipt of such notice, Documentation Agent
shall notify each Domestic Lender of the amount of such Domestic
Lender's respective participation in such Letter of Credit, determined
in accordance with subsection 3.1C.
(v) Reports to Domestic Lenders. Within 15 days after the
end of each calendar quarter ending after the Closing Date, so long as
any Letter of Credit shall have been outstanding during such calendar
quarter, each Issuing Lender shall deliver to Documentation Agent for
distribution to each other Domestic Lender a report setting forth the
average for such calendar quarter of the daily maximum amount available
to be drawn under the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender
that were outstanding during such calendar quarter.
C. DOMESTIC LENDERS' PURCHASE OF PARTICIPATIONS IN LETTERS OF
CREDIT. Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Domestic
Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby agrees to, have irrevocably purchased
from the Issuing Lender a participation in such Letter of Credit and drawings
thereunder in an amount equal to such Domestic Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share
of the maximum amount which is or at any time may become available to be drawn
thereunder.
3.2 LETTER OF CREDIT FEES.
Company agrees to pay the following amounts to each Issuing
Lender with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it:
(i) with respect to each Standby Letter of Credit, (a) a
fronting fee equal to the greater of (X) $250 and (Y) 0.125% per annum
of the daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Standby
Letter of Credit and (b) a letter of credit fee equal to the Pricing
Margin, as in effect from time to time, per annum on the daily maximum
amount available to be drawn under such Standby Letter of Credit, in
each case payable in arrears on and to (but excluding) each Quarterly
Payment Date and computed on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual
number of days elapsed;
(ii) with respect to each Commercial Letter of Credit, such
fees and commissions as are mutually agreed to by the Issuing Lender
issuing such Commercial Letter of Credit and Company, payable at the
times and
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calculated in the manner required by such Issuing Lender, which fees
and commissions shall be no less than the amount which such Issuing
Lender requires for the issuance of a Commercial Letter of Credit of
similar tenor and denomination for the account of an account party with
a credit standing similar to Company; and
(iii) with respect to the amendment or transfer of each
Letter of Credit and each payment of a drawing made thereunder (without
duplication of the fees payable under clauses (i) and (ii) above),
documentary and processing charges in accordance with such Issuing
Lender's standard schedule for such charges in effect at the time of
such issuance, amendment, transfer or payment of drawing, as the case
may be.
Promptly upon receipt by such Issuing Lender of any amount described in clause
(i)(b) of this subsection 3.2, such Issuing Lender shall distribute to each
other Domestic Lender its Domestic Pro Rata Share of such amount.
3.3 DRAWINGS AND REIMBURSEMENT OF AMOUNTS DRAWN UNDER LETTERS OF CREDIT.
A. RESPONSIBILITY OF ISSUING LENDER WITH RESPECT TO DRAWINGS. In
determining whether to honor any drawing under any Letter of Credit by the
beneficiary thereof, the Issuing Lender shall be responsible only to use
reasonable care to determine that the documents and certificates required to be
delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered and that they comply
on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit.
B. REIMBURSEMENT BY COMPANY OF AMOUNTS DRAWN UNDER LETTERS OF
CREDIT. In the event an Issuing Lender has determined to honor a drawing under
a Letter of Credit issued by it, such Issuing Lender shall immediately notify
Company and Documentation Agent, and Company shall reimburse such Issuing
Lender on or before the Business Day immediately following the date on which
such drawing is honored (the "REIMBURSEMENT DATE") in an amount in Dollars
(which amount, in the case of a drawing under a Letter of Credit which is
denominated in Canadian Dollars, shall be calculated in Dollar Equivalents) and
in same day funds equal to the amount of such drawing; provided that, anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) unless Company
shall have notified Documentation Agent and such Issuing Lender prior to 11:00
A.M. (New York time) on the date of such drawing that Company intends to
reimburse such Issuing Lender for the amount of such drawing with funds other
than the proceeds of Loans, Company shall be deemed to have given a timely
Notice of Borrowing to Documentation Agent requesting Domestic Lenders to make
Loans that are Domestic Base Rate Loans on the Reimbursement Date in an amount
in Dollars (which amount, in the case of a drawing under a Letter of Credit
which is denominated in Canadian Dollars, shall be converted into Dollar
Equivalents) equal to the amount of such drawing and (ii)
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subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions specified in subsection
6.2B, Domestic Lenders shall, on the Reimbursement Date, make Domestic Base
Rate Loans in the amount of such drawing, the proceeds of which shall be
applied directly by Documentation Agent to reimburse such Issuing Lender for
the amount of such drawing; and provided, further that if for any reason
proceeds of Loans are not received by such Issuing Lender on the Reimbursement
Date in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing, Company shall reimburse
such Issuing Lender, on demand, in an amount in same day funds equal to the
excess of the amount of such drawing over the aggregate amount of such Loans,
if any, which are so received. Nothing in this subsection 3.3B shall be deemed
to relieve any Domestic Lender from its obligation to make Loans on the terms
and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and Company shall retain any and
all rights it may have against any Domestic Lender resulting from the failure
of such Domestic Lender to make such Loans under this subsection 3.3B.
C. PAYMENT BY DOMESTIC LENDERS OF UNREIMBURSED DRAWINGS UNDER
LETTERS OF CREDIT.
(i) Payment by Domestic Lenders. In the event that
Company shall fail for any reason to reimburse any Issuing Lender as
provided in subsection 3.3B in an amount (calculated in Dollar
Equivalents, in the case of a drawing under a Letter of Credit
denominated in Canadian Dollars) equal to the amount of any drawing
honored by such Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit issued by it,
such Issuing Lender shall promptly notify each other Domestic Lender of
the unreimbursed amount of such drawing and of such other Domestic
Lender's respective participation therein based on such Domestic
Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share. Each Domestic Lender shall make
available to such Issuing Lender an amount equal to its respective
participation, in Dollars and in same day funds, at the office of such
Issuing Lender specified in such notice, not later than 1:00 P.M. (New
York time) on the first business day (under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which such office of such Issuing Lender is located)
after the date notified by such Issuing Lender. In the event that any
Domestic Lender fails to make available to such Issuing Lender on such
business day the amount of such Domestic Lender's participation in such
Letter of Credit as provided in this subsection 3.3C, such Issuing
Lender shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such
Domestic Lender together with interest thereon at the rate customarily
used by such Issuing Lender for the correction of errors among banks
for three Business Days and thereafter at the Domestic Base Rate.
Nothing in this subsection 3.3C shall be deemed to prejudice the right
of any Domestic Lender to recover from any Issuing Lender any amounts
made available by such Domestic Lender to such Issuing Lender pursuant
to this subsection 3.3C in the event that it is determined by the final
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction that the payment with
respect to a Letter of Credit by such Issuing
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Lender in respect of which payment was made by such Domestic Lender
constituted gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such
Issuing Lender.
(ii) Distribution to Domestic Lenders of Reimbursements
Received From Company. In the event any Issuing Lender shall have been
reimbursed by other Domestic Lenders pursuant to subsection 3.3C(i) for
all or any portion of any drawing honored by such Issuing Lender under
a Letter of Credit issued by it, such Issuing Lender shall distribute
to each other Domestic Lender which has paid all amounts payable by it
under subsection 3.3C(i) with respect to such drawing such other
Domestic Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share of all payments subsequently
received by such Issuing Lender from Company in reimbursement of such
drawing when such payments are received. Any such distribution shall
be made to a Domestic Lender at its primary address set forth below its
name on the appropriate signature page hereof or at such other address
as such Domestic Lender may request.
D. INTEREST ON AMOUNTS DRAWN UNDER LETTERS OF CREDIT.
(i) Payment of Interest by Company. Company agrees to pay
to each Issuing Lender, with respect to drawings made under any Letters
of Credit issued by it, interest on the amount paid by such Issuing
Lender in respect of each such drawing from the date of such drawing to
but excluding the date such amount is reimbursed by Company (including
any such reimbursement out of the proceeds of Loans pursuant to
subsection 3.3B) at a rate equal to (a) for the period from the date of
such drawing to but excluding the Reimbursement Date, the rate then in
effect under this Agreement with respect to Domestic Base Rate Loans
and (b) thereafter, a rate which is 2% per annum in excess of the rate
of interest otherwise payable under this Agreement with respect to
Domestic Base Rate Loans. Interest payable pursuant to this subsection
3.3D(i) shall be computed on the basis of a 365-day or 366-day year, as
the case may be, for the actual number of days elapsed in the period
during which it accrues and shall be payable on demand or, if no demand
is made, on the date on which the related drawing under a Letter of
Credit is reimbursed in full.
(ii) Distribution of Interest Payments by Issuing Lender.
Promptly upon receipt by any Issuing Lender of any payment of interest
pursuant to subsection 3.3D(i) with respect to a drawing under a Letter
of Credit issued by it, (a) such Issuing Lender shall distribute to
each other Domestic Lender, out of the interest received by such
Issuing Lender in respect of the period from the date of such drawing
to but excluding the date on which such Issuing Lender is reimbursed
for the amount of such drawing (including any such reimbursement out of
the proceeds of Loans pursuant to subsection 3.3B), the
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amount that such other Domestic Lender would have been entitled to
receive in respect of the letter of credit fee that would have been
payable in respect of such Letter of Credit for such period pursuant to
subsection 3.2 if no drawing had been made under such Letter of Credit,
and (b) in the event such Issuing Lender shall have been reimbursed by
other Domestic Lenders pursuant to subsection 3.3C(i) for all or any
portion of such drawing, such Issuing Lender shall distribute to each
other Domestic Lender which has paid all amounts payable by it under
subsection 3.3C(i) with respect to such drawing such other Domestic
Lender's Domestic Pro Rata Share of any interest received by such
Issuing Lender in respect of that portion of such drawing so reimbursed
by other Domestic Lenders for the period from the date on which such
Issuing Lender was so reimbursed by other Domestic Lenders to and
including the date on which such portion of such drawing is reimbursed
by Company. Any such distribution shall be made to a Domestic Lender
at its primary address set forth below its name on the appropriate
signature page hereof or at such other address as such Domestic Lender
may request.
3.4 OBLIGATIONS ABSOLUTE.
The obligation of Company to reimburse each Issuing Lender for
drawings made under the Letters of Credit issued by it and to repay any Loans
made by Domestic Lenders pursuant to subsection 3.3B and the obligations of
Domestic Lenders under subsection 3.3C(i) shall be unconditional and
irrevocable and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement under all circumstances including, without limitation, the following
circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter
of Credit;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other
right which Company or any Domestic Lender may have at any time against
a beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Persons
for whom any such transferee may be acting), any Issuing Lender or
other Domestic Lender or any other Person or, in the case of a Domestic
Lender, against Company, whether in connection with this Agreement, the
transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transaction
(including any underlying transaction between Company or one of its
Subsidiaries and the beneficiary for which any Letter of Credit was
procured);
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document
presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent,
invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being
untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
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(iv) payment by the applicable Issuing Lender under any
Letter of Credit against presentation of a demand, draft or certificate
or other document which does not comply with the terms of such Letter
of Credit;
(v) any adverse change in the business, operations,
properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) of Company or
any of its Subsidiaries;
(vi) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document by any party thereto;
(vii) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever,
whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; or
(viii) the fact that an Event of Default or a Potential
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
provided, in each case, that payment by the applicable Issuing Lender under the
applicable Letter of Credit shall not have constituted gross negligence or
willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender under the circumstances in question
(as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction).
3.5 INDEMNIFICATION; NATURE OF ISSUING LENDERS' DUTIES.
A. INDEMNIFICATION. In addition to amounts payable as provided in
subsection 5.1, Company hereby agrees to protect, indemnify, pay and save
harmless each Issuing Lender from and against any and all claims, demands,
liabilities, damages, losses, costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable
fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel and reasonable allocated costs of
internal counsel) which such Issuing Lender may incur or be subject to as a
consequence, direct or indirect, of (i) the issuance of any Letter of Credit by
such Issuing Lender, other than as a result of (a) the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender as determined by a final judgment of
a court of competent jurisdiction or (b) subject to the following clause (ii),
the wrongful dishonor by such Issuing Lender of a proper demand for payment
made under any Letter of Credit issued by it or (ii) the failure of such
Issuing Lender to honor a drawing under any such Letter of Credit as a result
of any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future
de jure or de facto government or governmental authority (all such acts or
omissions herein called "GOVERNMENTAL ACTS").
B. NATURE OF ISSUING LENDERS' DUTIES. As between Company and any
Issuing Lender, Company assumes all risks of the acts and omissions of, or
misuse of the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender by, the
respective beneficiaries of such Letters of Credit. In furtherance and not in
limitation of the foregoing, such Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for:
(i) the form, validity, sufficiency,
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accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in
connection with the application for and issuance of any such Letter of Credit,
even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid,
insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged; (ii) the validity or
sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to
transfer or assign any such Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits
thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be
invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) failure of the beneficiary of any
such Letter of Credit to comply fully with any conditions required in order to
draw upon such Letter of Credit; (iv) errors, omissions, interruptions or
delays in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable, telegraph,
telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher; (v) errors in
interpretation of technical terms; (vi) any loss or delay in the transmission
or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under any such
Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; (vii) the misapplication by the
beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit of the proceeds of any drawing under
such Letter of Credit; or (viii) any consequences arising from causes beyond
the control of such Issuing Lender, including without limitation any
Governmental Acts, and none of the above shall affect or impair, or prevent the
vesting of, any of such Issuing Lender's rights or powers hereunder.
In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the
specific provisions set forth in the first paragraph of this subsection 3.5B,
any action taken or omitted by any Issuing Lender under or in connection with
the Letters of Credit issued by it or any documents and certificates delivered
thereunder, if taken or omitted in good faith and without gross negligence,
shall not put such Issuing Lender under any resulting liability to Company.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
subsection 3.5, Company shall retain any and all rights it may have against any
Issuing Lender for any liability arising solely out of (a) the gross negligence
or willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender, as determined by a final judgment
of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (b) the wrongful dishonor by such
Issuing Lender of a proper demand for payment made under any Letter of Credit
issued by it except where such dishonor results from Governmental Acts.
SECTION 4. ACCEPTANCES
4.1 ACCEPTANCE COMMITMENT.
In addition to requesting Canadian Loans pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(ii), Canadian Borrowers may request pursuant to this Section 4,
from time to time during the period from the Closing Date to but excluding the
Commitment Termination Date, that Canadian Lenders create bankers' acceptances
(each, an "ACCEPTANCE") by accepting Drafts from a Canadian Borrower in an
aggregate amount not exceeding such Canadian Lender's Canadian Pro Rata Share
of the aggregate
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amount of the Canadian Commitments to be used for the purposes identified in
subsection 4.11; provided Canadian Borrowers shall not request the creation and
purchase of any Acceptance if, after giving effect thereto, the Total
Utilization of Canadian Commitments would exceed the Canadian Commitments then
in effect, and no Canadian Lender shall have any obligation to create and
purchase any Acceptance if, after giving effect thereto, such the Total
Utilization of Canadian Commitments of such Canadian Lender would exceed its
Canadian Commitment.
Each Drawing shall be in an aggregate Face Amount of not less
than Cdn.$10,000,000 and in integral multiples of Cdn.$1,000,000 and shall
consist of the creation and purchase of Acceptances by Canadian Lenders on the
same day in accordance with subsection 4.4, ratably in accordance with their
respective Canadian Pro Rata Shares; provided that if apportionment of
Acceptances among the Canadian Lenders cannot be made on a pro rata basis in
even multiples of Cdn.$100,000, Documentation Agent shall round the allocations
among Canadian Lenders consistent with Documentation Agent's money market
practices.
4.2 DRAWING NOTICE.
Each Drawing shall be made on two Business Days prior written
notice specified in relation to Acceptances, given not later than 12:00 noon
(Toronto time), by the applicable Canadian Borrower to Documentation Agent,
which shall give each Canadian Lender prompt notice thereof and of such
Canadian Lender's ratable portion of aggregate Face Amount of the Drafts to be
accepted under the Drawing. Each such notice of a Drawing (a "DRAWING NOTICE")
shall be given in substantially the form of Exhibit XII annexed hereto or by
telephone confirmed promptly in writing, containing the same information as
would be contained in a Drawing Notice, and shall specify therein (i) the
Drawing Date; (ii) the aggregate Face Amount of Drafts to be accepted; (iii)
the maturity date for such Drafts (it being agreed and understood that no
Canadian Borrower shall request a maturity date for Drafts which would be
subsequent to the Commitment Termination Date); and (iv) whether the
Acceptances are to be delivered to or to the order of the applicable Borrower
or to be purchased by the Canadian Lenders.
Neither Documentation Agent nor any Canadian Lender shall incur
any liability to any Borrower in acting on the telephonic notice referred to
above which Documentation Agent or such Canadian Lender believes in good faith
to have been given by a duly authorized officer or other person authorized to
borrow on behalf of the applicable Canadian Borrower or for otherwise acting in
good faith under this Section 4, and upon the creation and purchase or delivery
of Acceptances pursuant to any such telephonic notice, the applicable Canadian
Borrower shall be liable with respect thereto as provided herein.
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Each Drawing Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the
applicable Canadian Borrower. Each Canadian Borrower shall indemnify each
Canadian Lender against any loss or expense incurred by such Canadian Lender as
a result of any failure by such Canadian Borrower to fulfill or honor before
the date specified for any Drawing, the applicable conditions set forth in this
Section 4 or subsection 6.4, if the Drawing, as a result of such failure, is
not made on such date.
4.3 FORM OF ACCEPTANCES.
Each Draft presented by a Canadian Borrower shall (i) be in an
integral multiple of Cdn.$100,000; (ii) be dated the date of the Drawing; (iii)
mature and be payable by such Canadian Borrower (in common with all other
Drafts presented in connection with such Drawing) on a Business Day which
occurs approximately 30, 60, 90, 120 or 180 days after the date thereof; (iv)
be substantially in the form of Exhibit XIV annexed hereto; and (iv) be
otherwise consistent with the provisions of this Agreement relating to the
amounts and maturity dates thereof. The acceptance endorsed by a Canadian
Lender on any Draft shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit XVI annexed
hereto or such other form as may be agreed by the applicable Canadian Borrower
and such Canadian Lender.
Each Canadian Borrower hereby renounces, and shall not claim,
any days of grace for the payment of any Acceptances.
4.4 ACCEPTANCE AND PURCHASE OR DELIVERY OF DRAFTS.
Not later than 11:00 A.M. (Toronto time) on an applicable
Drawing Date, each Canadian Lender shall complete one or more Drafts dated the
date of such Drawing, with the maturity date specified in the applicable
Drawing Notice, accept such Drafts, and following fulfillment of any applicable
conditions and as specified in the applicable Drawing Notice either (a)
purchase the Acceptances thereby created for the Drawing Purchase Price or (b)
deliver such Acceptances as provided below.
The applicable Canadian Borrower shall, not later than 10:30
A.M. (Toronto time) on the applicable Drawing Date, notify Documentation Agent
of such Borrower's delivery instructions for the Acceptances to be delivered to
it in accordance with the applicable Drawing Notice and pay to Documentation
Agent, for distribution to the Canadian Lenders in accordance with their
Canadian Pro Rata Shares, the Drawing Fees relating thereto. The Canadian
Lenders shall promptly deliver such Acceptances in accordance with such
instructions.
Canadian Borrowers shall pay Drawing Fees in respect of
Acceptances by deposit of the required funds to Documentation Agent at its
Canadian Funding and Payment Office. On receipt of those payments,
Documentation Agent will
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promptly thereafter cause those Drawing Fees to be distributed in like funds to
the applicable Canadian Lender for its account.
The failure of any Canadian Lender to create and purchase or
deliver Acceptances as part of any Drawing shall not relieve such Canadian
Lender of its obligation, if any, to create and purchase or deliver Acceptances
hereunder, but a Canadian Lender shall not be responsible for the failure of
any other Canadian Lender to create and purchase or deliver Acceptances on the
Drawing Date for any Drawing.
4.5 PAYMENT OF THE DRAWING PURCHASE PRICE.
Subject to subsection 4.2 and satisfaction of the conditions
set forth in subsection 6.4, each Canadian Lender shall, before 12:00 noon
(Toronto time) on the applicable Drawing Date, pay or cause to be paid the
Drawing Purchase Price in respect of any Acceptances to be purchased by such
Canadian Lender by depositing or causing to be deposited such amount to such
account maintained by Documentation Agent at its Canadian Funding and Payment
Office as shall have been notified to such Canadian Lender by Documentation
Agent, in Canadian Dollars in same day funds. Promptly upon receipt of such
funds, Documentation Agent shall make such funds available to the applicable
Canadian Borrower by debiting such account (or causing such account to be
debited), and (a) by crediting such Canadian Borrower's account, as specified
by such Canadian Borrower in writing to Documentation Agent prior thereto,
maintained by Documentation Agent at its Canadian Funding and Payment Office
(or causing such account to be credited) with like funds in the aggregate
amount of such funds or (b) by wiring such funds in such amount to the account
of such Canadian Borrower with another financial institution specified prior
thereto by such Canadian Borrower in writing to Documentation Agent.
Acceptances purchased by a Canadian Lender hereunder may be
held by it for its own account until maturity or sold by it at any time prior
thereto in any relevant market therefor in Canada, in such Canadian Lender's
sole discretion.
4.6 AVERAGE EFFECTIVE DISCOUNT RATE DETERMINATION.
Each Schedule I Reference Bank or Schedule II Reference Bank,
as the case may be, agrees to furnish to Documentation Agent timely information
for the purpose of determining each Average Effective Discount Rate. If any
one or more of the Schedule I Reference Banks or Schedule II Reference Banks
shall not furnish such information to Documentation Agent, Documentation Agent
shall determine such Average Effective Discount Rate on the basis of timely
information furnished by the remaining Schedule I Reference Bank(s) or Schedule
II Reference Bank(s), as applicable.
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Documentation Agent shall give prompt notice to Borrowers and
Canadian Lenders of each Average Effective Discount Rate determined by
Documentation Agent for an applicable Drawing Date and the applicable discount
rates, if any, furnished by each Schedule I Reference Bank or Schedule II
Reference Bank for determining any applicable Average Effective Discount Rate.
4.7 PAYMENT AT MATURITY.
Canadian Borrowers shall pay to Documentation Agent, and there
shall become due and payable, at 12:00 noon (Toronto time) on the maturity date
for each Acceptance an amount in Canadian Dollars in same day funds equal to
the Face Amount of such Acceptance. Canadian Borrowers shall make each payment
hereunder in respect of Acceptances by deposit of the required funds to
Documentation Agent at the Canadian Funding and Payment Office. Upon receipt
of such payment, Documentation Agent will promptly thereafter cause such
payment to be distributed in like funds in payment of Acceptances ratably
(based on the proportion that the aggregate Face Amount of Acceptances accepted
by any Canadian Lender maturing on the relevant date bears to the aggregate
Face Amount of Acceptances accepted by all Canadian Lenders maturing on such
date) to Canadian Lenders for their account. Such payment to Documentation
Agent shall satisfy the applicable Canadian Borrower's obligations under any
Acceptances to which it relates and each Canadian Lender that has accepted such
Acceptances shall thereafter be solely responsible for the payment of such
Acceptances.
If any Canadian Borrower fails to pay any Acceptance when due,
the unpaid amount due and payable in respect thereof shall be converted as of
such date, and without any necessity for such Canadian Borrower to give a
Notice of Borrowing in accordance with subsection 2.1B, to, and thereafter be
outstanding as, a Canadian Prime Rate Loan made by, Canadian Lenders in
accordance with their Canadian Pro Rata Shares and shall bear interest
calculated and payable as provided in subsection 2.2.
4.8 PRESIGNED DRAFT FORMS.
To enable the Canadian Lenders to complete Drafts and create
Acceptances in the manner specified in this subsection 4.8, each Canadian
Borrower shall supply each Canadian Lender with such number of Drafts as such
Canadian Lender may reasonably request, duly endorsed and executed on behalf of
such Canadian Borrower by any one or more of its authorized officers. Each
Canadian Lender shall exercise such care in the custody and safekeeping of
Drafts as it would exercise in the custody and safekeeping of similar property
owned by it. Each Canadian Lender will, upon request by any Canadian Borrower,
promptly advise such Canadian Borrower of the number and designations, if any,
of the uncompleted Drafts then held by it. The signatures of such officers may
be mechanically reproduced in
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facsimile, and Drafts and Acceptances bearing such facsimile signatures shall
be binding upon the applicable Canadian Borrower as if they had been manually
signed by such officers. Notwithstanding that any of the individuals whose
manual or facsimile signature appears on any Draft or Acceptance as one of such
officers may no longer hold office at the date thereof or at the date of its
acceptance by a Canadian Lender hereunder or at any time thereafter, any Draft
or Acceptance so signed shall be valid and binding upon the applicable Canadian
Borrower.
4.9 CIRCUMSTANCES MAKING ACCEPTANCES UNAVAILABLE.
If Documentation Agent determines in good faith, which
determination shall be final, conclusive and binding upon each Canadian
Borrower, and notifies each Canadian Borrower and each Canadian Lender that, by
reason of circumstances affecting the money market (i) there is no market for
Acceptances; or (ii) the demand for Acceptances is insufficient to allow the
sale or trading of the Acceptances created and purchased hereunder; then:
(a) the right of Canadian Borrowers to request a Drawing
shall be suspended until Documentation Agent determines that the
circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist and Documentation
Agent so notifies the Canadian Borrowers; and
(b) any Drawing Notice which is outstanding shall be
cancelled and the Drawing requested therein shall not be made.
Documentation Agent shall promptly notify Canadian Borrowers of
the suspension of their right to request a Drawing and of the termination of
any such suspension.
4.10 PREPAYMENTS.
Except as required or permitted by subsection 2.4A(iii) or
Section 10, no repayment of an Acceptance shall be made by any Canadian
Borrower to a Canadian Lender prior to the maturity date thereof. Any such
repayment, made as required by subsection 2.4A(iii) or Section 10, shall be
made (unless such repayment has been rescinded or otherwise is required to be
returned by such Canadian Lender to the Canadian Borrower for any reason) in
accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of subsection 4.7. Any
such payment by a Canadian Borrower to Documentation Agent shall satisfy such
Canadian Borrower's obligations under the Acceptance to which it relates and
any such Canadian Lender which has accepted such Acceptance shall thereafter be
solely responsible for the payment of such Acceptance and shall indemnify and
hold such Canadian Borrower harmless against any liabilities, costs or expenses
incurred by such Canadian Borrower as a result of
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any failure by such Canadian Lender to pay such Acceptance in accordance with
its terms.
4.11 USE OF PROCEEDS OF LOANS AND ACCEPTANCE FACILITY.
The proceeds of any Acceptance created under this Section 4
shall be used in the manner and for the purposes set forth in subsection 2.5A
with respect to the use of proceeds of Loans.
SECTION 5. INCREASED COSTS, TAXES, CAPITAL ADEQUACY, AND MITIGATION
5.1 INCREASED COSTS; TAXES; CAPITAL ADEQUACY.
A. COMPENSATION FOR INCREASED COSTS AND TAXES. Subject to the
provisions of subsection 5.1B, in the event that any Lender shall determine
(which determination shall, absent manifest or demonstrable error, be final and
conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto) that any law, treaty or
governmental rule, regulation or order, or any change therein or in the
interpretation, administration or application thereof (including the
introduction of any new law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order),
or any determination of a court or governmental authority, in each case that
becomes effective or is adopted after the date hereof, or compliance by such
Lender with any guideline, request or directive issued or made after the date
hereof by any central bank or other governmental or quasi-governmental
authority (whether or not having the force of law):
(i) subjects such Lender (or its applicable lending
office) to any additional Tax (other than any Excluded Tax) with
respect to, or changes the basis of taxation applicable to (except for
changes in the rate of any Excluded Tax), this Agreement or any of its
obligations hereunder (including, without limitation, its obligation to
make Loans, issue or participate in Letters of Credit, or accept Drafts
and purchase the Acceptances thereby created) or any payments to such
Lender (or its applicable lending office) of principal, interest, fees,
letter of credit commissions, the Face Amounts of any Acceptances, or
any other amount payable hereunder;
(ii) imposes, modifies or holds applicable any reserve
(including without limitation any marginal, emergency, supplemental,
special or other reserve), special deposit, compulsory loan, FDIC
insurance or similar requirement (including, without limitation, any
such requirement imposed under the Bank Act (Canada) with respect to
Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans, but excluding any such reserve or other
requirements that are reflected in the definition of Adjusted
Eurodollar Rate with respect to Domestic Eurodollar Rate Loans or that
are reflected in the definition of Canadian
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Eurodollar Rate with respect to Canadian Eurodollar Rate Loans) against
assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account
of, or advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any other
acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender (including, without
limitation, the Commitments, Loans, Letters of Credit or participations
in Letters of Credit and Acceptances of such Lender); or
(iii) imposes any other condition (other than with respect
to a Tax matter) on or affecting such Lender (or its applicable lending
office) or its obligations hereunder, its Loans, its Letters of Credit
and participations therein, its Acceptances or the interbank Eurodollar
market;
and the result of any of the foregoing is (1) to increase the cost to such
Lender of agreeing to make, making or maintaining Loans hereunder, (2) to
increase the cost to such Lender of agreeing to issue, issuing or maintaining
any Letter of Credit or agreeing to purchase, purchasing or maintaining any
participation therein, (3) to increase the cost to such Lender of agreeing to
accept Drafts and to purchase and maintain the Acceptances created thereby, or
(4) to reduce any amount received or receivable by such Lender (or its
applicable lending office) with respect to its Loans, Letters of Credit and
participations therein and its Acceptances; then, in any such case, Borrowers
shall promptly pay to such Lender, upon receipt of the statement referred to in
the next sentence, such additional amount or amounts (in the form of an
increased rate of, or a different method of calculating, interest or otherwise
as such Lender in its sole discretion shall determine) as may be necessary to
compensate such Lender for any such increased cost or reduction in amounts
received or receivable hereunder; provided that such Lender shall not be
entitled to avail itself of the benefits of this subsection 5.1A to the extent
that any such increased cost or reduction was incurred more than six months
prior to the time it gives notice to Borrowers unless such circumstances arose
or became applicable retrospectively, in which case no time limit shall apply
(provided such Lender has notified the applicable Borrower within six months
from the date such circumstance arose or became applicable). Such Lender shall
deliver to Borrowers (with a copy to Documentation Agent) a written statement,
setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for calculating the additional
amounts owed to such Lender under this subsection 5.1A, which statement shall
be conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest or
demonstrable error.
B. WITHHOLDING OF TAXES.
(i) Payments to Be Free and Clear. All sums payable by
any Borrower to any Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents shall be paid free and clear of and (except to the extent
required by law or resulting from a breach of the exemption
requirements specified in subsection 5.1B(iii) below or the fact that
the exemption forms delivered by such Lender
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pursuant to subsection 5.1B(iii) were not true and correct) without any
deduction or withholding on account of any Tax (other than any Excluded
Taxes relating to such Lender) imposed, levied, collected, withheld or
assessed by or within the United States of America or Canada or any
political subdivision in or of the United States of America or Canada
or any other jurisdiction from or to which a payment is made by or on
behalf of any Borrower or by any federation or organization of which
the United States of America or Canada or any such jurisdiction is a
member at the time of payment.
(ii) Grossing-up of Payments. If any Borrower is required
by law to make any deduction or withholding on account of any such Tax
(other than Excluded Taxes) from any sum paid or payable by such
Borrower to any Agent or any Lender under any of the Loan Documents:
(a) such Borrower shall notify Agents of any such
requirement or any change in any such requirement as soon as
such Borrower becomes aware of it;
(b) such Borrower shall pay any such Tax before the date
on which penalties attach thereto, such payment to be made (if
the liability to pay is imposed on such Borrower) for its own
account or (if that liability is imposed on any Agent or any
Lender, as the case may be) on behalf of and in the name of
such Agent or such Lender;
(c) the sum payable by such Borrower in respect of which
the relevant deduction, withholding or payment is required
shall be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that,
after the making of that deduction, withholding or payment,
such Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, receives on the
due date a net sum equal to what it would have received had no
such deduction, withholding or payment been required or made;
and
(d) within 30 days after paying any sum from which it is
required by law to make any deduction or withholding, and
within 30 days after the due date of payment of any Tax which
it is required by clause (b) above to pay, such Borrower shall
deliver to Agents evidence reasonably satisfactory to the other
affected parties of such deduction, withholding or payment and
of the remittance thereof to the relevant taxing or other
authority;
provided that no such additional amount shall be required to be paid to
any Lender under clause (c) above except to the extent that any change
after the date hereof (in the case of each Lender listed on the
signature pages hereof)
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or after the date of the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which such
Lender became a Lender (in the case of each other Lender) in any such
requirement for a deduction, withholding or payment as is mentioned
therein shall result in an increase in the rate of such deduction,
withholding or payment from that in effect at the date of this
Agreement or at the date of such Assignment Agreement, as the case may
be, in respect of payments to such Lender.
In the event any Borrower is required to pay any amount under
clause (b) or (c) above, such Borrower may do so under protest and may
contest the imposition or amount of any Tax giving rise to such
payment, and each Lender agrees, at such Borrower's cost and expense,
to cooperate with and assist such Borrower in any proceeding related to
any such contest.
(iii) Evidence of Exemption from Withholding Tax.
(a) Each Domestic Lender and each Canadian Lender that
makes Loans to Company, which in either case is organized under
the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States, any
state thereof or any political subdivision of either (for
purposes of this subsection 5.1B(iii), a "NON-US LENDER") shall
deliver to Documentation Agent for transmission to Company, on
or prior to the Closing Date (in the case of each Lender listed
on the signature pages hereof) or on the date of the Assignment
Agreement pursuant to which it becomes a such Lender (in the
case of each other Lender), and at such other times as may be
necessary in the determination of Company or Documentation
Agent (each in the reasonable exercise of its discretion), (1)
two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or
4224 (or any successor forms), properly completed and duly
executed by such Lender, together with any other certificate or
statement of exemption required under the Internal Revenue Code
or the regulations issued thereunder or otherwise to establish
that such Lender is not subject to deduction or withholding of
Taxes imposed by the United States, any State thereof or any
political subdivision of either with respect to any payments to
such Lender of principal, interest, fees or other amounts
payable under any of the Loan Documents or (2) if such Lender
is not a "bank" or other Person described in Section 881(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code and cannot deliver either Internal
Revenue Service Form 1001 or 4224 pursuant to clause (1) above,
a Certificate re Non-Bank Status together with two original
copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 (or any successor
form), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender,
together with any other certificate or statement of exemption
required under the Internal Revenue Code or the regulations
issued thereunder or otherwise to establish that such Lender is
not subject to deduction or withholding of Taxes imposed by the
United States, any state thereof or
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any political subdivision of either with respect to any payments
to such Lender of interest payable under any of the Loan
Documents.
Each Canadian Lender that is organized under the laws
of any jurisdiction other than Canada or any Province thereof or
is not resident in Canada agrees to deliver to Canadian
Borrowers and Documentation Agent upon request such
certificates, documents or other evidence as may be required
from time to time, properly completed and duly executed by such
Canadian Lender to establish the basis for any applicable
exemption from or reduction of Taxes with respect to any
payments to such Canadian Lender of principal, interest, fees,
commissions or any other amount payable under this Agreement or
the Canadian Loans.
(b) Each Lender required to deliver any forms,
certificates or other evidence with respect to United States
federal income tax withholding or Canadian income tax
withholding matters pursuant to subsection 5.1B(iii)(a) hereby
agrees, from time to time after the initial delivery by such
Lender of such forms, certificates or other evidence, whenever
a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such forms,
certificates or other evidence obsolete or inaccurate in any
material respect, such Lender shall (1) in the case of any
Domestic Lender or Canadian Lender advancing Loans to Company,
deliver to Documentation Agent for transmission to Company two
new original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or
4224, or a Certificate re Non-Bank Status and two original
copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8, as the case may
be, or in the case of any Canadian Lender,such certificates,
documents or other evidence as may be required from time to
time under the second paragraph of subsection 5.1B(iii)(a), in
each case properly completed and duly executed by such Lender,
together with any other certificate or statement of exemption
required in order to confirm or establish that such Lender is
not subject to deduction or withholding of United States or
Canadian (as applicable) federal income tax with respect to
payments to such Lender under the Loan Documents or (2)
immediately notify Documentation Agent and Company of its
inability to deliver any such forms, certificates or other
evidence.
(c) Borrowers shall not be required to pay any additional
amount to any Non-US Lender or Canadian Lender under clause (b)
or (c) of subsection 5.1B(ii) if such Lender shall have failed
to satisfy the requirements of subsection 5.1B(iii)(a);
provided that if such Lender shall have satisfied such
requirements on the Closing Date (in the case of each Lender
listed on the signature pages hereof) or on the date of
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the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which it became a Lender
(in the case of each other Lender), nothing in this subsection
5.1B(iii)(c) shall relieve any Borrower of its obligation to pay
any additional amounts pursuant to clause (b) or (c) of
subsection 5.1B(ii) in the event that, as a result of any change
in any applicable law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation
or order, or any change in the interpretation, administration or
application thereof, such Lender is no longer properly entitled
to deliver forms, certificates or other evidence at a subsequent
date establishing the fact that such Lender is not subject to
withholding as described in subsection 5.1B(iii)(a).
C. CAPITAL ADEQUACY ADJUSTMENT. If any Lender shall have
determined that the adoption, effectiveness, phase-in or applicability after
the date hereof of any law, rule or regulation (or any provision thereof)
regarding capital adequacy (excluding those published as of the Closing Date
but scheduled to take effect thereafter), or any change therein or in the
interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority, central
bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration
thereof, or compliance by any Lender (or its applicable lending office) with
any guideline, request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not
having the force of law) of any such governmental authority, central bank or
comparable agency, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return
on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a
consequence of, or with reference to, such Lender's Domestic Loans, Domestic
Commitment or Letters of Credit or participations therein or other obligations
hereunder with respect to the Domestic Loans or the Letters of Credit, in the
case of any Domestic Lender, or such Lender's Canadian Loans, Canadian
Commitment, or Acceptances or other obligations hereunder with respect to the
Canadian Loans, or Acceptances, in the case of an Canadian Lender, to a level
below that which such Lender or such controlling corporation could have
achieved but for such adoption, effectiveness, phase-in, applicability, change
or compliance (taking into consideration the policies of such Lender or such
controlling corporation with regard to capital adequacy), then from time to
time, within 15 Business Days after receipt by Company from such Lender of the
statement referred to in the next sentence, Company (in the case of any such
statement received from a Domestic Lender) or Borrowers (in the case of any
such statement receive from a Canadian Lender) shall pay to such Lender such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such controlling
corporation on an after-tax basis for such reduction; provided no Lender shall
be entitled to avail itself of the benefit of this subsection 5.1C to the
extent that any such reduction in return was incurred more than six months
prior to the time it first makes a demand therefor, unless the circumstance
giving rise to such reduced return arose or became applicable retrospectively,
in which case no time limit shall apply (provided that such Lender has notified
Borrowers within six months from the date such circumstances arose or became
applicable). Each Lender, upon determining in good faith that any additional
amounts will be payable pursuant to this subsection
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5.1C, will give prompt written notice thereof to Borrowers, which notice shall
set forth in reasonable detail the basis of the calculation of such additional
amounts, which statement shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties
hereto absent manifest or demonstrable error.
5.2 OBLIGATION OF LENDERS AND ISSUING LENDERS TO MITIGATE.
Each Lender and Issuing Lender agrees that, as promptly as
practicable after the officer of such Lender or Issuing Lender responsible for
administering the Loans, or Acceptances of such Lender or Letters of Credit of
such Issuing Lender, as the case may be, becomes aware of the occurrence of an
event or the existence of a condition that would cause such Lender to become an
Affected Lender or that would entitle such Lender or Issuing Lender to receive
payments under subsection 5.1 it will, to the extent not inconsistent with the
internal policies of such Lender or Issuing Lender and any applicable legal or
regulatory restrictions, use reasonable efforts (i) to make, issue, fund or
maintain the Commitment of such Lender or the affected Loans, Acceptances or
Letters of Credit of such Lender or Issuing Lender through another lending or
letter of credit office of such Lender or Issuing Lender, or (ii) take such
other measures as such Lender or Issuing Lender may deem reasonable, if as a
result thereof the circumstances which would cause such Lender to be an
Affected Lender would cease to exist or the additional amounts which would
otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender or Issuing Lender pursuant to
subsection 5.1 would be materially reduced and if, as determined by such Lender
or Issuing Lender in its sole discretion, the making, issuing, funding or
maintaining of such Commitment, Loans, Acceptances or Letters of Credit through
such other lending or letter of credit office or in accordance with such other
measures, as the case may be, would not otherwise materially adversely affect
such Commitment, Loans, Acceptances or Letters of Credit or the interests of
such Lender or Issuing Lender; provided that such Lender or Issuing Lender will
not be obligated to utilize such other lending or letter of credit office
pursuant to this subsection 5.2 unless Company (in the case of any Domestic
Lender) or each Borrower (in the case of any Canadian Lender) agrees to pay all
reasonable expenses incurred by such Lender or Issuing Lender as a result of
utilizing such other lending or letter of credit office as described in clause
(i) above. A certificate as to the amount of any such expenses payable by
Company or Borrowers pursuant to this subsection 5.2 (setting forth in
reasonable detail the basis for requesting such amount) submitted by such
Lender or Issuing Lender to Company (with a copy to Documentation Agent) shall
be conclusive absent manifest or demonstrable error.
5.3 REPLACEMENT OF LENDERS.
In the event any Borrower is required under the provisions of
subsection 2.6C or 5.1 to make payments to any Lender, Borrowers may, within
120 days after the date any notice or demand requiring such payment under
subsection 2.6C or 5.1 is
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given and so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
elect to terminate such Lender (and, if such Lender is a Canadian Lender having
a U.S. Affiliate, such U.S. Affiliate) as a party (or parties) to this
Agreement; provided that, concurrently with such termination, (i) each Borrower
shall pay that Lender (and any U.S. Affiliate of such Lender, if any), without
duplication, all principal, interest and fees and other amounts (including
without limitation, amounts, if any, owed under subsection 5.1) owed to such
Lender (and any such U.S. Affiliate) through such date of termination, (ii)
another Lender or Eligible Assignee shall agree, as of such date, to become a
Lender for all purposes under this Agreement (whether by assignment or
amendment, if necessary) and to assume all obligations of the Lender to be
terminated as of such date and (iii) all documents and supporting materials
necessary, in the judgment of Documentation Agent to evidence the substitution
of such Lender shall have been received and approved by Documentation Agent as
of such date.
SECTION 6. CONDITIONS TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
The obligations of Lenders to make Loans and/or to create
Acceptances and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder are subject to the
satisfaction of the following conditions.
6.1 CONDITIONS TO INITIAL LOANS.
The obligations of Lenders to make any Loans to be made on the
Closing Date are, in addition to the conditions precedent specified in
subsection 6.2, subject to prior or concurrent satisfaction of the following
conditions:
A. BORROWER DOCUMENTS. On or before the Closing Date, each
Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Lenders (or to Documentation
Agent for Lenders with sufficient originally executed copies, where
appropriate, for each Lender) the following, each, unless otherwise noted,
dated the Closing Date:
(i) Certified copies of its Articles or Certificate of
Incorporation, together with a good standing certificate from the
Secretary of State (or comparable official) of its jurisdiction of
incorporation, each dated a recent date prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) Copies of its Bylaws, certified as of the Closing Date
by its corporate secretary or an assistant secretary;
(iii) Resolutions of its Board of Directors approving and
authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, certified as of
the Closing Date by its corporate secretary or an assistant secretary
as being in full force and effect without modification or amendment;
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(iv) Signature and incumbency certificates of its officers
executing this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a
party;
(v) Executed originals of this Agreement, the Notes (duly
executed in accordance with subsection 2.1E, drawn to the order of each
Lender and with appropriate insertions) and the other Loan Documents to
which it is a party; and
(vi) Such other documents as Agents may reasonably request.
B. GUARANTOR DOCUMENTS. On or before the Closing Date, Safeway
New Canada and each of Company's Subsidiaries party to the Subsidiary Guaranty
as of the Closing Date, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Lenders (or
to Documentation Agent for Lenders with sufficient originally executed copies,
where appropriate, for each Lender) the following, each, unless otherwise
noted, dated the Closing Date:
(i) Certified copies of its Articles or Certificate of
Incorporation, together with a good standing certificate from the
Secretary of State (or comparable official) of its jurisdiction of
incorporation, each dated a recent date prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) Copies of its Bylaws, certified as of the Closing Date
by its corporate secretary or an assistant secretary;
(iii) Resolutions of its Board of Directors approving and
authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Safeway New
Canada Guaranty or the Subsidiary Guaranty, as the case may be,
certified as of the Closing Date by its corporate secretary or an
assistant secretary as being in full force and effect without
modification or amendment;
(iv) Signature and incumbency certificates of its officers
executing the Safeway New Canada Guaranty or the Subsidiary Guaranty,
as the case may be;
(v) Executed originals of the Safeway New Canada Guaranty
and the Subsidiary Guaranty; and
(vi) Such other documents as Agents may reasonably request.
C. OPINIONS OF COMPANY'S COUNSEL. Lenders and their respective
counsel shall have received (i) originally executed copies of one or more
favorable written opinions of Latham & Watkins, counsel for Company, Michael C.
Ross, Esq, General Counsel of Company, and Parlee McLaws, counsel for Canadian
Borrowers, each in
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form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent and its
counsel, dated as of the Closing Date and setting forth substantially the
matters in the opinions designated in Exhibits VI-A, VI-B and VI-C annexed
hereto and as to such other matters as Administrative Agent acting on behalf of
Lenders may reasonably request and (ii) evidence satisfactory to Administrative
Agent that Company has requested such counsel to deliver such opinions to
Lenders.
D. OPINIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S COUNSEL. Lenders shall have
received originally executed copies of one or more favorable written opinions
of O'Melveny & Myers, counsel to Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing
Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit VII annexed hereto and as to such
other matters as Administrative Agent acting on behalf of Lenders may
reasonably request.
E. FEES. Company shall have paid to Documentation Agent, for
distribution (as appropriate) to Agents, Co-Agent, Lead Managers and Lenders,
the fees payable on the Closing Date referred to in subsection 2.3.
F. REPAYMENT OF OBLIGATIONS UNDER EXISTING CREDIT AGREEMENTS. On
or before the Closing Date, Borrowers shall have paid in full all amounts
outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreements and shall have terminated all
commitments of the lenders thereunder. Without affecting the terms of the
Existing Credit Agreements which expressly survive the termination of the
Existing Credit Agreements, each Lender party to the Existing Credit Agreements
hereby waives any requirement of advance notice of termination required under
the Existing Credit Agreements and hereby agrees that the Existing Credit
Agreements and the commitments thereunder shall terminate simultaneously with
the satisfaction by Borrowers of the conditions to the funding of the initial
Loans set forth in this subsection 6.1.
G. RELEASE OF COLLATERAL SECURITY SUBORDINATED SECURITIES.
Provided that the collateral agent under the applicable collateral documents
executes and delivers releases evidencing the release of all collateral
securing the Existing Credit Agreements, on the Closing Date, all liens on
assets of Company and its Subsidiaries securing the Subordinated Securities
shall be released in accordance with the provisions of any indentures pursuant
to which such Subordinated Securities have been issued and are outstanding and
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
H. NO MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT. Since December 31, 1994, no event
shall have occurred, and no condition shall have developed and persist, that
could, in the reasonable opinion of each Lender have a Material Adverse Effect.
I. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Company shall have delivered
to Administrative Agent an Officers' Certificate, in form and substance
satisfactory to
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Administrative Agent, to the effect that the representations and warranties in
Section 7 hereof are true, correct and complete in all material respects on and
as of the Closing Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that
date.
J. NO DISRUPTION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS. From April 1, 1995 to the
Closing Date, there shall have occurred no disruption or adverse change in the
financial or capital markets which Agents, in their reasonable discretion, deem
material.
K. INTERCREDITOR ARRANGEMENTS. Domestic Lenders and Canadian
Lenders shall have entered into arrangements satisfactory to Agents and Lenders
relating to the sharing of payments received by Lenders upon the exercise of
remedies under the Guaranties and this Agreement.
L. COMPLETION OF PROCEEDINGS. All corporate and other proceedings
taken or to be taken in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby
and all documents incidental thereto not previously found acceptable by Agents,
acting on behalf of Lenders, and their counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory
in form and substance to Agents and such counsel, and Agents and such counsel
shall have received all such counterpart originals or certified copies of such
documents as Agents may reasonably request.
6.2 CONDITIONS TO ALL LOANS.
The obligations of Lenders to make Loans on each Funding Date
are subject to the following further conditions precedent:
A. Documentation Agent shall have received before that Funding
Date, in accordance with the provisions of subsection 2.1B, an originally
executed Notice of Borrowing, in each case signed by any executive officer or
vice president of Company (each such person being a "AUTHORIZED OFFICER").
B. As of that Funding Date:
(i) The representations and warranties contained herein
and in the other Loan Documents shall be true, correct and complete in
all material respects on and as of that Funding Date to the same extent
as though made on and as of that date, except to the extent that
changes in the facts and circumstances on which such representations
and warranties are based are required or permitted under this
Agreement;
(ii) No event shall have occurred and be continuing or
would result from the consummation of the borrowing contemplated by
such Notice of Borrowing that would constitute an Event of Default or a
Potential Event of Default;
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(iii) Borrowers shall have performed in all material
respects all agreements and satisfied all conditions which this
Agreement provides shall be performed or satisfied by it on or before
that Funding Date;
(iv) No order, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator
or governmental authority shall purport to enjoin or restrain Lenders
from making the Loans to be made on that Funding Date;
(v) The making of the Loans requested on such Funding Date
shall not violate any law including, without limitation, Regulation G,
Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System; and
(vi) There shall not be pending or, to the knowledge of
Borrowers, threatened, any action, suit, proceeding, governmental
investigation or arbitration against or affecting Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any property of Company or any of its Subsidiaries that
has not been disclosed by Company in writing pursuant to subsection 7.6
or 8.1(viii) prior to the making of the last preceding Loans (or, in
the case of the initial Loans, prior to the execution of this
Agreement), and there shall have occurred no development not so
disclosed in any such action, suit, proceeding, governmental
investigation or arbitration so disclosed, that, in either event, in
the opinion of Agents or of Requisite Lenders, would be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.3 CONDITIONS TO LETTERS OF CREDIT.
The issuance of any Letter of Credit hereunder (whether or not
the applicable Issuing Lender is obligated to issue such Letter of Credit) is
subject to the following conditions precedent:
A. On or before the date of issuance of the initial Letter of
Credit pursuant to this Agreement, the initial Loans shall have been made.
B. On or before the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit,
Documentation Agent shall have received, in accordance with the provisions of
subsection 3.1B(i), an originally executed Notice of Issuance of Letter of
Credit, in each case signed by an Authorized Officer, together with all other
information specified in subsection 3.1B(i) and such other documents,
agreements or information as the applicable Issuing Lender may reasonably
require in connection with the issuance of such Letter of Credit.
C. On the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit, all
conditions precedent described in subsection 6.2B shall be satisfied to the
same extent as if the
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issuance of such Letter of Credit were the making of a Loan and the date of
issuance of such Letter of Credit were a Funding Date.
6.4 CONDITIONS TO ACCEPTANCES.
The creation of any Acceptance hereunder is subject to the
following conditions precedent:
A. On or before the date of the initial creation of any Acceptance
pursuant to this Agreement, the initial Loans shall have been made.
B. On or before the date of the creation of any Acceptance,
Documentation Agent shall have received, in accordance with the provisions of
subsection 4.2, an originally executed Drawing Notice, in each case signed by
any executive officer or vice president of the applicable Canadian Borrower and
acknowledged by any Authorized Officer of Company.
C. On the date of the creation of any Acceptance, all conditions
precedent described in subsection 6.2B shall be satisfied to the same extent as
if the creation such Acceptance were the making of a Loan and the Drawing Date
were a Funding Date.
SECTION 7. COMPANY'S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
In order to induce Lenders to enter into this Agreement, to
make the Loans and/or create any Acceptance, to induce Issuing Lenders to issue
Letters of Credit and to induce other Domestic Lenders to purchase
participations therein, each Borrower represents and warrants to each Lender
(which representations and warranties in the case of any Canadian Borrower
shall be limited to such Canadian Borrower and its Subsidiaries and shall
exclude the representations and warranties set forth in subsection 7.9), on the
date of this Agreement, on each Funding Date, Drawing Date and on the date of
issuance of each Letter of Credit, that the following statements are true,
correct and complete:
7.1 ORGANIZATION, POWERS, QUALIFICATION, GOOD STANDING, BUSINESS AND
SUBSIDIARIES.
A. ORGANIZATION AND POWERS. Each of the Loan Parties is a
corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation. Each of the Loan Parties
has all requisite corporate power and authority to own and operate its
properties, to carry on its business as now conducted to enter into each Loan
Document to which it is a party and to carry out the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby.
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B. QUALIFICATION AND GOOD STANDING. Each Loan Party is qualified
to do business and in good standing in every jurisdiction where its assets are
located and wherever necessary to carry out its business and operations, except
in jurisdictions where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing has
not had and will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
C. SUBSIDIARIES. All of the Subsidiaries of Company as of the
Closing Date are identified in Schedule 7.1 annexed hereto. Schedule 7.1
annexed hereto (i) correctly sets forth, as of the Closing Date, the ownership
interest of Company and each of its Subsidiaries in each of the Subsidiaries of
Company identified therein and (ii) correctly identifies each Material
Subsidiary as of the Closing Date.
7.2 AUTHORIZATION OF BORROWING, ETC.
A. AUTHORIZATION OF BORROWING. The execution, delivery and
performance of each of the Loan Documents by each of the Loan Parties party
thereto have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part
of such Loan Parties.
B. NO CONFLICT. The execution, delivery and performance by each
of the Loan Parties of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents do not and
will not (i) violate any provision of any law or any governmental rule or
regulation applicable to any Loan Party, the Certificate or Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of any Loan Party or any order, judgment or decree of
any court or other agency of government binding on any Loan Party, (ii)
conflict with, result in a material breach of or constitute (with due notice or
lapse of time or both) a default under any Contractual Obligation of any Loan
Party, (iii) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon
any of the properties or assets of any Loan Party, or (iv) require any approval
of stockholders or any approval or consent of any Person under any Contractual
Obligation of any Loan Party, except for such approvals or consents which will
be obtained on or before the Closing Date and disclosed in writing to Lenders.
C. GOVERNMENTAL CONSENTS. The execution, delivery and performance
by each of the Loan Parties of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents do not
and will not require such Loan Party to make or obtain any registration with,
consent or approval of, or notice to, or other action to, with or by, any
United States federal, Canadian Federal, state, provincial or other
governmental authority or regulatory body.
D. BINDING OBLIGATION. Each of the Loan Documents has been duly
executed and delivered by each of the Loan Parties party thereto and is the
legally valid and binding obligation of each such Loan Party, enforceable
against each such Loan Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as
may be limited by bank-
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ruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or
limiting creditors' rights generally or by equitable principles relating to
enforceability.
E. VALID ISSUANCE OF COMPANY'S COMMON STOCK AND SUBORDINATED
SECURITIES.
(i) Company's Common Stock. The outstanding common stock
of Company is duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The
issuance and sale of all such outstanding common stock was either (a)
registered or qualified under applicable federal and state securities laws or
(b) exempt therefrom.
(ii) Subordinated Securities. The Subordinated Securities
are the legally valid and binding obligations of Company, enforceable against
Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to
or limiting creditors' rights generally or by equitable principles relating to
enforceability. The subordination provisions of the Subordinated Securities
are enforceable against the holders thereof, and the Loans, Acceptances and
Letters of Credit and all other monetary Obligations hereunder are and will be
within the definition of "Senior Indebtedness" included in such provisions.
The issuance and sale of the Subordinated Securities was registered or
qualified under applicable federal and state securities laws.
7.3 FINANCIAL CONDITION.
Company has heretofore delivered to Lenders, at Lenders'
request, the following financial statements and information: (i) the audited
consolidated balance sheet of Company and its Subsidiaries as at December 31,
1994 and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity
and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year then ended,
in each case as presented in Company's Annual Report on SEC Form 10-K for its
1994 fiscal year, and (ii) the unaudited consolidated condensed balance sheet
of Company and its Subsidiaries as at March 25, 1995 and the related unaudited
consolidated condensed statements of income and cash flows of Company and its
Subsidiaries for the fiscal quarter then ended, in each case as presented in
Company's Quarterly Report on SEC Form 10-Q for the first fiscal quarter of its
1995 fiscal year. All such statements were prepared in conformity with GAAP
and fairly present the financial position (on a consolidated basis) of the
entities described in such financial statements as at the respective dates
thereof and the results of operations and cash flows (on a consolidated basis)
of the entities described therein for each of the periods then ended, subject,
in the case of any such unaudited financial statements, to changes resulting
from audit and normal year-end adjustments.
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7.4 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE; NO RESTRICTED JUNIOR PAYMENTS.
Since December 31, 1994, no event or change has occurred that
has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (other than
Unrestricted Subsidiaries) has directly or indirectly declared, ordered, paid
or made, or set apart any sum or property for, any Restricted Junior Payment or
agreed to do so except as permitted by subsection 9.3.
7.5 LITIGATION; ADVERSE FACTS.
Except as set forth in Schedule 7.5 annexed hereto, there are
no actions, suits, proceedings, arbitrations or governmental investigations
(whether or not purportedly on behalf of Company or any of its Subsidiaries) at
law or in equity or before or by any federal, state, municipal or other
governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality,
domestic or foreign, pending or, to the knowledge of Company, threatened
against or affecting Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any property of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate,
would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of any applicable laws
that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) subject to or in default with respect to
any final judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, rules or regulations of any
court or any federal, state, municipal or other governmental department,
commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign,
that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
7.6 PAYMENT OF TAXES.
Except to the extent permitted by subsection 8.3, all material
tax returns and reports of Company and its Subsidiaries required to be filed by
any of them have been timely filed, and all material taxes, assessments, fees
and other governmental charges upon Company and its Subsidiaries and upon their
respective properties, assets, income, businesses and franchises which are due
and payable have been paid when due and payable. Company knows of no proposed
tax assessment against Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would, if
assessed, have a Material Adverse Effect which is not being actively contested
by Company or such Subsidiary in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
provided that such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall
be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made or provided therefor.
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7.7 GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION.
Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to
regulation under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, the Federal
Power Act, the Interstate Commerce Act or the Investment Company Act of 1940 or
under any other United States federal, Canadian federal, state or provincial
statute or regulation which may limit its ability to incur or guaranty
Indebtedness.
7.8 SECURITIES ACTIVITIES.
A. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged
principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of
extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock.
B. Following application of the proceeds of each Loan, not
more than 25% of the value of the assets (either of Company only or of Company
and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) subject to the provisions of
subsection 9.2 or 9.5 or subject to any restriction contained in any agreement
or instrument, between Company and any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender,
relating to Indebtedness and within the scope of subsection 10.2, will be
Margin Stock.
7.9 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS.
A. Company and each of its ERISA Affiliates are in compliance
in all material respects with all applicable provisions and requirements of
ERISA and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect
to each Employee Benefit Plan, and have performed all their material
obligations under each Employee Benefit Plan.
B. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to
occur.
C. Except to the extent required under Section 4980B of the
Internal Revenue Code or as disclosed in Company's financial statements, no
Employee Benefit Plan that is not a Multiemployer Plan provides health or
welfare benefits (through the purchase of insurance or otherwise) for any
retired or former employees of Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates.
D. As of the most recent valuation date for any Pension Plan,
the amount of unfunded benefit liabilities (as defined in Section 4001(a)(18)
of ERISA), individually or in the aggregate for all Pension Plans (excluding
for purposes of such computation any Pension Plans with respect to which assets
exceed benefit liabilities), does not exceed $50,000,000.
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7.10 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
Company and each of its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all
applicable Environmental Laws except where noncompliance would not reasonably
be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
7.11 DISCLOSURE.
No representation or warranty of Company or any of its
Subsidiaries contained in any Loan Document or in any other document,
certificate or written statement furnished to Lenders by or on behalf of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries for use in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, as of the date made, contained any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact (known to
Company, in the case of any document not furnished by it) necessary in order to
make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the
circumstances in which the same were made. Any projections and pro forma
financial information contained in such materials are based upon good faith
estimates and assumptions believed by Company to be reasonable at the time
made, it being recognized by Lenders that such projections as to future events
are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or
periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results.
There are no facts known to Company (other than matters of a general economic
nature) that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect and that have not been disclosed herein or
in such other documents, certificates and statements furnished to Lenders for
use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
7.12 SOLVENCY.
At the making of any Canadian Loan, or utilization of the
Acceptance Facility, by any Canadian Borrower, such Canadian Borrower will be
Solvent.
SECTION 8. BORROWERS' AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Each Borrower covenants and agrees (which covenants and
agreements, in the case of any Canadian Borrower, shall be limited to those
covenants and agreements that are within the control and discretion of such
Canadian Borrower and its Subsidiaries) that, so long as the Commitments
hereunder shall remain in effect and until payment in full of all of the Loans,
Acceptances and other Obligations and the cancellation or expiration of all
Letters of Credit, unless Requisite Lenders shall otherwise give prior written
consent, each Borrower shall perform, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to perform, all covenants in this Section 8.
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8.1 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND OTHER REPORTS.
Each Borrower shall maintain, and cause each of its
Subsidiaries to maintain, a system of accounting established and administered
in accordance with sound business practices to permit preparation of financial
statements in conformity with GAAP. Company shall deliver to Documentation
Agent and Lenders:
(i) Quarterly Financials: As soon as available and in any
event within 45 days after the close of each of the first three fiscal
quarters in each fiscal year of Company, to the extent prepared to
comply with SEC requirements, a copy of Company's report on SEC Form
10-Q filed with the SEC for such fiscal quarter, or, if no such Form
10-Q was filed by Company, the unaudited consolidated condensed balance
sheet of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal
quarter, the related unaudited consolidated condensed statements of
income of Company and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal quarter and for
the elapsed portion of the fiscal year ended as of the end of such
fiscal quarter and the related unaudited consolidated condensed
statement of cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for the elapsed
portion of the fiscal year ended as of the end of such fiscal quarter,
in each case setting forth the comparative consolidated figures for the
corresponding periods in the prior fiscal year of Company or, in the
case of such consolidated balance sheet, for the last day of the
corresponding fiscal quarter in the prior fiscal year of Company, all
of which shall be certified by the chief financial officer of Company
as fairly presenting the consolidated financial condition of Company
and its Subsidiaries at the respective dates indicated and the results
of their consolidated operations and cash flows for each of the periods
indicated, subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end
adjustments;
(ii) Year-End Financials: as soon as available and in any
event within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, to the extent
prepared to comply with SEC requirements, a copy of Company's report on
SEC Form 10-K filed with the SEC for such fiscal year, or, if no such
Form 10-K was filed by Company, the consolidated balance sheet of
Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and the
related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and
cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, in
each case setting forth the comparative figures for the previous Fiscal
Year and certified by independent certified public accountants of
recognized national standing selected by Company and satisfactory to
Agents, whose opinion shall be unqualified as to the scope of audit or
as to the ability of Company and its Subsidiaries to continue as a
going concern and shall state that such consolidated financial
statements fairly present the consolidated financial position of
Company and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results
of their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated in
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conformity with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with prior years
(except as otherwise disclosed in such financial statements) and that
the examination by such accountants in connection with such
consolidated financial statements has been made in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards;
(iii) Officers' and Compliance Certificates: together with
each delivery of financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries
pursuant to subdivisions (i) and (ii) above, (a) an Officers'
Certificate of Company stating that the signers have reviewed the terms
of this Agreement and have made, or caused to be made under their
supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and
condition of Company and its Subsidiaries during the accounting period
covered by such financial statements and that such review has not
disclosed the existence during or at the end of such accounting period,
and that the signers do not have knowledge of the existence as at the
date of such Officers' Certificate, of any condition or event that
constitutes an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default, or, if
any such condition or event existed or exists, specifying the nature
and period of existence thereof and what action Company has taken, is
taking and proposes to take with respect thereto; and (b) a Compliance
Certificate demonstrating in reasonable detail compliance during and at
the end of the applicable accounting periods with the restrictions
contained in subsections 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 and 9.6;
(iv) Pricing Level Determination Certificates: (a)
together with each delivery of financial statements of Company and its
Subsidiaries pursuant to subdivisions (i) and (ii) above, (b) within
one Business Day after any public release by S&P or Moody's lowering
its credit rating on any of Company's outstanding senior unsecured
Indebtedness, and (c) at such additional times as Company may elect, a
Pricing Level Determination Certificate;
(v) Accountants' Certification: together with each
delivery of consolidated financial statements of Company and its
Subsidiaries pursuant to subdivision (ii) above, a written statement by
the independent certified public accountants giving the report thereon
(a) stating that their audit has included a review of the terms of this
Agreement insofar as they relate to financial and accounting matters
and (b) stating whether, in connection with their audit examination,
any condition or event that constitutes an Event of Default or
Potential Event of Default has come to their attention and, if such a
condition or event has come to their attention, specifying the nature
and period of existence thereof; provided that such accountants shall
not be liable by reason of any failure to obtain knowledge of any such
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default that would not be
disclosed in the course of their audit;
(vi) SEC Filings and Earnings Releases: promptly upon
their becoming available, copies of (a) annual reports and proxy
statements sent or
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made available by Company to its security holders or by any Subsidiary
of Company to its security holders other than Company or another
Subsidiary of Company, (b) all reports and registration statements of
Company or its Subsidiaries filed with the SEC on SEC Forms S-2, S-3,
S-4 and 8-K, (c) all press releases concerning Company's earnings made
available generally by Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the public
and (d) such other filings with the SEC or any other regulatory agency
having jurisdiction over the affairs of Company and its Subsidiaries as
any Agent may reasonably request;
(vii) Events of Default, etc.: promptly upon any executive
officer, the vice president-treasurer or the vice president-corporate
accounting of any Borrower obtaining knowledge (a) of any condition or
event that constitutes an Event of Default or Potential Event of
Default, or becoming aware that any Lender has given any notice (other
than to any Agent) or taken any other action with respect to a claimed
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default, or (b) of the
occurrence of any event or change that has caused or evidences, either
in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, an
Officers' Certificate specifying the nature and period of existence of
such condition, event or change, or specifying the notice given or
action taken by any such Person and the nature of such claimed Event of
Default, Potential Event of Default, default, event or condition, and
what action such Borrower has taken, is taking and proposes to take
with respect thereto;
(viii) Litigation or Other Proceedings: promptly upon any
executive officer of any Borrower obtaining knowledge of (X) the
institution of, or non-frivolous threat of, any action, suit,
proceeding (whether administrative, judicial or otherwise),
governmental investigation or arbitration against or affecting Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or any property of Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (collectively, "PROCEEDINGS") not previously disclosed in
writing by any Borrower to Lenders or (Y) any material development in
any Proceeding that, if adversely determined, has a reasonable
possibility of giving rise to a Material Adverse Effect, written notice
thereof together with such other information as may be reasonably
available to Borrowers to enable Lenders and their counsel to evaluate
such matters; and
(ix) Other Information: with reasonable promptness, such
other information and data with respect to Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as from time to time may be reasonably requested by any
Lender.
8.2 CORPORATE EXISTENCE, ETC.
Except as permitted under subsection 9.5, each Borrower shall,
and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries)
to, at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence and all rights and
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franchises material to its business; provided that nothing in this subsection
8.2 shall prevent the withdrawal by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction where
such withdrawal would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
8.3 PAYMENT OF TAXES AND CLAIMS.
Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to, pay all material taxes, assessments and other governmental charges imposed
upon it or any of its properties or assets or in respect of any of its income,
businesses or franchises before any penalty accrues thereon, and all material
claims (including, without limitation, claims for labor, services, materials
and supplies) for sums that have become due and payable and that by law have or
may become a Lien upon any of its properties or assets, prior to the time when
any penalty or fine shall be incurred with respect thereto; provided that no
such charge or claim need be paid if being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted and if
such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required in
conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor.
8.4 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES; INSURANCE.
Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to, maintain or cause to be maintained in good repair, working order and
condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, all material properties used or
useful in the business of such Borrower and its Subsidiaries and from time to
time will make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals and
replacements thereof. Each Borrower shall maintain or cause to be maintained
insurance with respect to its properties and business and the properties and
businesses of its Subsidiaries against loss or damage of the kinds customarily
carried or maintained under similar circumstances by corporations of
established reputation engaged in similar businesses, such insurance to be
maintained with financially sound and reputable insurers or, to the extent
customary for such corporations engaged in similar businesses or consistent
with Company's past practice, as self-insurance.
8.5 INSPECTION.
Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to, permit any authorized representatives designated by any Lender to visit and
inspect any of the properties of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including
its and their financial and accounting records, and to make copies and take
extracts therefrom, and to discuss its and their affairs, finances and accounts
with its and their officers and independent public accountants (provided that
Company may, if it so chooses, be present at or participate in any such
discussion), all upon reasonable notice and at
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such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be
reasonably requested.
8.6 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS, ETC.
Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to, comply with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and
orders of any governmental authority, noncompliance with which would reasonably
be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
8.7 ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE.
Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to, exercise all due diligence in order to comply and cause the Facilities to
comply with all Environmental Laws to the extent that noncompliance would
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
8.8 MATERIAL SUBSIDIARIES.
Company shall cause any Person that becomes a Material
Subsidiary of Company, within twenty Business Days of such Person becoming such
a Material Subsidiary, to duly execute and deliver to Administrative Agent a
counterpart to the Subsidiary Guaranty together with such certificates and
documents as Company would have been required to deliver in relation to such
Person, as a Guarantor, pursuant to subsection 6.1B on the Closing Date;
provided any such certificates delivered pursuant to this subsection 8.8 shall
be dated the date of delivery rather than the Closing Date.
SECTION 9. BORROWERS' NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Each Borrower covenants and agrees (which covenants and
agreements, in the case of any Canadian Borrower, shall be limited to those
covenants and agreements that are within the control and discretion of such
Canadian Borrower and its Subsidiaries) that, so long as the Commitments
hereunder shall remain in effect and until payment in full of all of the Loans,
Acceptances and other Obligations and the cancellation or expiration of all
Letters of Credit, unless Requisite Lenders shall otherwise give prior written
consent, such Borrower shall perform, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to perform, all covenants in this Section 9.
9.1 INDEBTEDNESS.
Each Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to, directly or indirectly,
create, incur, assume or guaranty, or otherwise become directly or indirectly
liable with respect to, any Indebtedness, except:
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(i) Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries may become
liable with respect to the Obligations; and
(ii) Company and its Subsidiaries may become liable with
respect to additional Indebtedness; provided that, upon incurring such
Indebtedness, Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with the
covenants set forth in subsection 9.4; provided, further, that neither
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries that is not an Unrestricted
Subsidiary shall become, directly or indirectly, liable with respect to
any Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, whether as a primary
obligor, surety or guarantor or by way of any agreement to provide any
other form of financial assistance to, or maintain any element of the
financial condition of, such Unrestricted Subsidiary or become
obligated for any Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a
matter of law.
9.2 LIENS AND RELATED MATTERS.
A. PROHIBITION ON LIENS. Each Borrower shall not, and shall
not permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to,
directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on or
with respect to any property or asset of any kind (including any document or
instrument in respect of goods or accounts receivable) of such Borrower or any
such Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any income or
profits therefrom, or file or permit the filing of, or permit to remain in
effect, any financing statement or other similar notice of any Lien with
respect to any such property, asset, income or profits under the Uniform
Commercial Code of any State or under any similar recording or notice statute,
except:
(i) Permitted Encumbrances;
(ii) Liens existing as of the Closing Date securing
Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not exceeding the principal amount
of the Indebtedness secured by such Liens on the Closing Date;
(iii) Liens arising pursuant (a) to purchase money mortgages
securing Indebtedness representing the purchase price (or financing of
the purchase price within 180 days after the respective purchase) of
property or other assets acquired by Company or any of its Subsidiaries
(including, without limitation, Liens arising under Capital Leases) or
(b) mortgages or security agreements securing financing incurred to
refurbish, renovate or otherwise improve existing assets, provided, in
any event, that (1) any such Liens attach only to the assets so
purchased, refurbished, renovated or improved, and (2) the principal
amount of Indebtedness secured by any such Lien is neither greater than
100% nor less than 70% of the purchase price of the assets being
purchased or the fair
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market value of the assets being refurbished, renovated or improved
(determined in Company's reasonable judgment so as to give effect to
such refurbishment, renovation or improvement), as applicable;
(iv) Liens existing on specific tangible assets at the time
acquired (including by acquisition, merger or consolidation) by Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or on assets of a Person at the time such
Person first becomes a Subsidiary of Company, provided that (a) any
such Liens were not created at the time of or in contemplation of the
acquisition of such assets or Person by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (b) in the case of any such acquisition of a Person other
than Casa Ley, any such Lien attached only to specific tangible assets
of such Person and not assets of such Person generally, and (c) in
Company's reasonable judgment the Indebtedness secured by any such Lien
does not exceed 100% of the fair market value of the asset to which
such Lien attaches, determined at the time of the acquisition of such
asset or the time at which such Person first becomes a Subsidiary, as
the case may be;
(v) Liens securing extensions, renewals or refinancings of
any Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted under any of the preceding
clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this subsection 9.2 provided that
the principal amount of any such Indebtedness (a) is not increased over
the principal amount outstanding at the time of any such extension or
renewal and (b) is not secured by Liens on any additional assets,
except that all or any portion of the aggregate amount of the
Indebtedness described in such clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) may be
extended, renewed or refinanced in a single financing that does not
increase the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness but which
may provide for cross-collateralization with respect to property and
assets theretofore encumbered to secure all or any portion of the
Indebtedness being extended, renewed or refinanced; provided further
that the terms of any Indebtedness that so extends, renews or
refinances any such Indebtedness described in such clauses (i), (ii),
(iii) or (iv) shall not contain Financial Covenants or defaults that
are more restrictive than any Financial Covenants or defaults, if any,
applicable to the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or refinanced;
(vi) Liens on assets substituted for assets theretofore
encumbered pursuant to Liens permitted pursuant to the preceding
clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of this subsection 9.2 to secure
the Indebtedness or obligations theretofore secured provided that the
fair market value of such assets at the time such Liens are created, as
reasonably determined by Company, shall not exceed the fair market
value of such previously encumbered assets for which such assets have
been substituted;
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(vii) Liens on Company's and its Subsidiaries' accounts
receivable securing receivable securitizations and similar receivable
financing programs;
(viii) Liens on assets of Company's Subsidiaries securing
Indebtedness owed to Company or any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries;
provided that the holder of such secured Indebtedness may not transfer
any such secured Indebtedness to any Person other than Company or a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Company unless, upon giving effect to such
transfer, such Liens would be permitted under the provisions of this
subsection 9.2 (other than this clause (viii)); and
(ix) Other Liens securing Indebtedness in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $100,000,000 at any time outstanding.
B. EQUITABLE LIEN IN FAVOR OF LENDERS. If any Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries shall create or assume any Lien upon any of its properties or
assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than on the assets and
properties of Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Liens excepted by the provisions of
subsection 9.2A, it shall make or cause to be made effective provision whereby
the Obligations will be secured by such Lien equally and ratably with any and
all other Indebtedness secured thereby as long as any such Indebtedness shall
be so secured; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, this covenant
shall not be construed as a consent by Requisite Lenders to the creation or
assumption of any such Lien not permitted by the provisions of subsection 9.2A;
and provided further that the parties hereto do not intend by this subsection
9.2B to create an equitable mortgage or lien in favor of any Agent or Lender on
any real property, and no Agent or Lender shall have the right to foreclose on
any real property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to obtain payment of any
of the Obligations except pursuant to a written instrument accepted by
Administrative Agent and expressly providing for the remedy of foreclosure.
C. NO FURTHER NEGATIVE PLEDGES. Except with respect to specific
property encumbered to secure payment of particular Indebtedness or to be sold
pursuant to an executed agreement with respect to an asset sale or disposition,
neither Borrowers nor any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than
Unrestricted Subsidiaries) shall enter into any agreement prohibiting, or
imposing any conditions with respect to, the creation or assumption of any Lien
upon any of their respective properties or assets, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired.
D. NO RESTRICTIONS ON SUBSIDIARY DISTRIBUTIONS TO COMPANY OR OTHER
SUBSIDIARIES. Except as provided herein, each Borrower will not, and will not
permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to,
create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual
encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any such Subsidiary to
(i) pay dividends or make any other distributions on any of such Subsidiary's
capital stock owned by Company, such
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Borrower or any other Subsidiary of Company, (ii) repay or prepay any
Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to Company, such Borrower or any other
Subsidiary of Company, (iii) make loans or advances to Company, such Borrower
or any other Subsidiary of Company, or (iv) transfer any of its property or
assets to Company, such Borrower or any other Subsidiary of Company, except for
such restrictions or encumbrances existing by reason of (a) any restrictions
existing under any of the Loan Documents, the Subordinated Securities or any
other agreements or contracts in effect on the Closing Date, (b) any
restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary on the
Closing Date under any agreement in existence at the time such Subsidiary
becomes a Subsidiary of Company, (c) any restrictions with respect to a
Subsidiary of Company imposed pursuant to an agreement which has been entered
into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the capital
stock or assets of such Subsidiary, (d) any restrictions with respect to any
Subsidiary of Company all or substantially all of whose assets consist of
property encumbered by Liens permitted under subsection 9.2, (e) restrictions
imposed by applicable laws, (f) restrictions under leases of, or mortgages and
other agreements relating to Liens on, specified property or assets limiting or
prohibiting transfers of such property or assets (including, without
limitation, non-assignment clauses, due-on-sale clauses and clauses prohibiting
junior Liens), and (g) any restrictions existing under any agreement that
amends, refinances or replaces any agreement containing restrictions permitted
under the preceding clauses (a) through (f) provided that the terms and
conditions of any such agreement are no less favorable to Company and its
Subsidiaries than those under the agreement so amended, refinanced or replaced.
9.3 RESTRICTED JUNIOR PAYMENTS.
Each Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to, directly or indirectly,
declare, order, pay, make or set apart any sum for any Restricted Junior
Payment except:
(i) Company's Subsidiaries may make Restricted Junior
Payments to Company and Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of Company, excluding
Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
(ii) Company may make Restricted Junior Payments to pay
dividends or make distributions on its outstanding shares of capital
stock and to repurchase or redeem (a) shares of its capital stock, (b)
securities convertible into or providing rights to purchase shares of
its capital stock; provided that if such convertible securities
constitute Subordinated Indebtedness, such Restricted Junior Payments
shall be made solely in accordance with clause (iii) below, or (c)
securities issued by Persons whose assets consist solely of securities
described in the preceding clauses (a) and (b); provided that the
aggregate amount of all such Restricted Junior Payments made from and
after the Closing Date, shall not exceed the sum of $385,900,000 plus
50% of the
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cumulative sum of Consolidated Net Income (including any net loss) for
each fiscal quarter of Company ending after March 25, 1995;
(iii) Company may make Restricted Junior Payments in respect
of Subordinated Indebtedness provided that, at the time Company makes
any such Restricted Junior Payment, no Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing or would result therefrom; and
(iv) Company may repurchase its capital stock from senior
management officers or employees of Company or any of its Subsidiaries
pursuant to the terms of the subscription and option agreements under
which such officers or employees have purchased or will purchase such
stock as in effect from time to time.
9.4 FINANCIAL COVENANTS.
A. MINIMUM INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO. Borrowers shall not permit
the ratio of (i) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to (ii) Consolidated Interest
Expense, in each case for any four-fiscal quarter period ending as of the last
day of any fiscal quarter of Company, to be less than 2.00 to 1.00.
B. MAXIMUM LEVERAGE RATIO. Borrowers shall not permit the ratio
of (i) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of
Company occurring during any of the periods set forth below to (ii)
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the four- fiscal quarter period ending as of
the last day of any such fiscal quarter to exceed the correlative ratio
indicated below:
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January 1, 1997 and thereafter 3.50 to 1.00
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9.5 RESTRICTION ON FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; MATERIAL ASSET SALES.
Each Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
(other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to, (A) liquidate, wind-up or dissolve
itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or (B) enter into any
transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease, sub-lease,
transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of
transactions, all or any part of its business, property or fixed assets,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:
(i) any Canadian Borrower may be merged or amalgamated
with and into another Borrower or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved
into, or all or any part of its business property or assets may be
conveyed, sold, leased,
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transferred or otherwise disposed of, to another Borrower, and any
Subsidiary of Company (other than a Borrower) may be merged or
amalgamated with or into Company or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of
Company, or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved into, or all or any
part of its business, property or assets may be conveyed, sold, leased,
transferred or otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a series of
transactions, to Company or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Company;
provided that, in the case of such a merger, Company or such
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving
corporation; provided further that in the case of any such merger of a
Guarantor, a Borrower or a Guarantor will be the continuing or
surviving corporation;
(ii) subject to the provisions of subsections 9.2, 9.7 and
9.9, Company and its Subsidiaries may convey, lease, sublease,
transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its business,
property or fixed assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired in
transactions that do not constitute Material Asset Sales; provided that
if any Canadian Borrower would cease to be a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of
Company as the result of such conveyance, sale, transfer or other
disposition, Borrowers shall have taken such actions as are necessary
to terminate the Canadian Commitments as to such Canadian Borrower
prior to or at the time such conveyance, sale, transfer or disposition
becomes effective; and
(iii) Company and its Subsidiaries may make Material Asset
Sales; provided that (x) the Aggregate Consideration received for such
assets shall be in an amount at least equal to the fair market value
thereof, (y) the Aggregate Commitments are reduced as required by
subsection 2.4A(iii)(a) and (z) if any Canadian Borrower would cease to
be a Wholly- Owned Subsidiary of Company as the result of such Material
Asset Sale, Borrowers shall have taken such actions as are necessary to
terminate the Canadian Commitments as to such Canadian Borrower prior
to or at the time such Material Asset Sale becomes effective.
9.6 CONSOLIDATED CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.
Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries (other
than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to, make or incur Consolidated Capital
Expenditures in any Fiscal Year in an aggregate amount in excess of
$750,000,000 (the "MAXIMUM CONSOLIDATED CAPITAL EXPENDITURES AMOUNT"); provided
that the Maximum Consolidated Capital Expenditures Amount for any Fiscal Year
shall be increased by (i) 50% of the amount by which Consolidated Adjusted
EBITDA exceeded Consolidated Capital Expenditures in the immediately preceding
Fiscal Year plus (ii) an amount equal to 50% of the excess, if any, of
$750,000,000 over the actual amount of Consolidated Capital Expenditures for
such previous Fiscal Year, it being agreed
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and understood that the Maximum Consolidated Expenditures Amount for Company's
1995 Fiscal Year shall not be increased pursuant to this clause (ii).
9.7 TRANSACTIONS WITH SHAREHOLDERS AND AFFILIATES.
Each Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any
transaction (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or
exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any holder of 5%
or more of any class of common stock of Company or with any Affiliate of
Company or of any such holder, on terms that are less favorable to Company or
that Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that might be obtained at the
time from Persons who are not such a holder or Affiliate; provided that the
foregoing restriction shall not apply to (i) any transaction between Company
and any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries)
or between any of Company's Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries and any other such
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary); (ii)
reasonable and customary fees paid to members of the Boards of Directors of
Company and its Subsidiaries; (iii) except as restricted by clause (i),
transactions by Unrestricted Subsidiaries; (iv) transactions approved by a
majority of the disinterested directors of Company's or the applicable
Subsidiary's, as the case may be, board of directors; (v) purchases and sales
of goods from retailers and suppliers affiliated with KKR in the ordinary
course of business on terms not materially less favorable than generally
available from such retailers or suppliers; (vi) the payment of an annual fee
to KKR for rendering management and consulting services to Company and
reimbursement of expenses in connection therewith; (vii) transactions relating
to nonoperating properties transferred to PDA or another Person serving in a
similar function; (viii) transactions with banks relating to cash or automated
teller machines and cash advance services; and (ix) loans to officers of
Borrowers for business or personal purposes in an aggregate outstanding
principal amount not exceeding $20,000,000 at any time.
9.8 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS.
From and after the Closing Date, each Borrower shall not, and
shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries)
to, fundamentally or substantively alter the character of its business from
that conducted by Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as of such
date.
9.9 UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES
Company may from time to time deliver to Documentation Agent
and Administrative Agent an Officers' Certificate designating one or more of
its Subsidiaries (other than either Canadian Borrower) as Unrestricted
Subsidiaries; provided no Subsidiary shall be designated as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary if, upon
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giving effect to such designation, the aggregate Book Value of all assets of all
Unrestricted Subsidiaries would exceed 15% of the Book Value of the consolidated
assets of Company and its Subsidiaries or if doing so would cause an Event of
Default under subsection 9.4. Company will not, and will not permit its
Subsidiaries, including any Unrestricted Subsidiary, to enter into any contract,
agreement, financing or other arrangement that would provide the creditors of
any Unrestricted Subsidiary (including Persons with contingent claims against
any Unrestricted Subsidiary) with any recourse to or against Company or any of
its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) or any of their
respective assets or revenues. Any Officers' Certificate designating any
Unrestricted Subsidiaries shall show, in reasonable detail, the Book Value of
such Subsidiary's assets and the consolidated assets of Company and its
Subsidiaries, shall provide proforma financial statements demonstrating Company
will continue to be in compliance with subsection 9.4 upon giving effect to such
designation, and shall certify that Company and its Subsidiaries are not parties
to any contract or agreement that would provide any such creditors of such
Subsidiary with recourse to or against Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other
than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) and that no such creditor of such Subsidiary
would have recourse to or against Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than
Unrestricted Subsidiaries) as a matter of law. Any Person designated as an
Unrestricted Subsidiary in any such Officers' Certificate shall, without further
action, become an Unrestricted Subsidiary on the fifth Business Day after
Documentation Agent and Administrative Agent receive such Officers' Certificate.
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
(other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to convey, transfer, sell or otherwise
dispose of any of its assets or properties to any Unrestricted Subsidiary if,
after giving effect thereto, the aggregate Book Value of all assets of all
Unrestricted Subsidiaries would exceed 15% of the Book Value of all assets of
Company and its Subsidiaries.
Company may from time to time deliver to Documentation Agent and
Administrative Agent an Officers' Certificate changing the designation of an
Unrestricted Subsidiary so that such Subsidiary ceases to be an Unrestricted
Subsidiary, which change shall be effective on the third Business Day after
Documentation Agent and Administrative Agent receive such Officers' Certificate.
Upon effectiveness of such change, such formerly Unrestricted Subsidiary shall
be subject to the provisions of this Agreement applicable to all other
Subsidiaries of Company that are not Unrestricted Subsidiaries and such formerly
Unrestricted Subsidiary shall not maintain any contract or condition that is not
permitted hereunder for any Subsidiary of Company that is not an Unrestricted
Subsidiary regardless of when it first entered into such contract or permitted
such condition to exist.
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SECTION 10. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
If any of the following conditions or events ("EVENTS OF
DEFAULT") shall occur and be continuing:
10.1 FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENTS WHEN DUE.
Failure by any Borrower to pay any installment of principal of
any Loan when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration, by notice of
voluntary prepayment, by mandatory prepayment or otherwise; failure by Company
to pay when due any amount payable to an Issuing Lender in reimbursement of any
drawing under a Letter of Credit; failure by any Canadian Borrower to pay to the
amount of any Acceptance at maturity; or failure by any Borrower to pay any
interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount due under this Agreement
within five days after the date due; or
10.2 DEFAULT IN OTHER AGREEMENTS.
(i) Failure of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than
Unrestricted Subsidiaries) to pay when due any principal of or interest on any
items of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness referred to in subsection 10.1)
with an aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000 or more or beyond the end of
any grace period provided therefor; or (ii) breach or default by Company or any
of its Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) with respect to any
other material term of any Indebtedness with an aggregate principal amount of
$25,000,000 or any loan agreement, mortgage, indenture or other agreement
relating to such Indebtedness, if the effect of such breach or default is to
cause, or to permit the holder or holders of that Indebtedness (or a trustee on
behalf of such holder or holders) to cause, that Indebtedness to become or be
declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity (upon the giving or
receiving of notice, lapse of time, both, or otherwise); provided that
in the event that any non-payment described in clause (i) above or any breach or
default described in clause (ii) above is, prior to any acceleration of the
Obligations pursuant to this Section 10, cured or waived by the holders of such
Indebtedness without (a) any consent, waiver or other fee being paid to such
holders, (b) prepayments or theretofore unscheduled reductions of such
Indebtedness, (c) any additional collateral (or if such Indebtedness was
theretofore unsecured, any collateral) being encumbered to secure such
Indebtedness or any additional guaranties thereof (or if such Indebtedness was
not theretofore guarantied, any guaranty thereof), (d) any amendment to or
modification of the terms of such Indebtedness, except any such amendment or
modification as may be necessary to relax the provisions thereof to cure such
non-payment, breach or default, then such non-payment, breach or default shall
not constitute an Event of Default hereunder; or
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10.3 BREACH OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
Failure of any Borrower to perform or comply with any term or
condition contained in subsection 2.5, 8.1(vii) or 8.2 or Section 9 of this
Agreement; or
10.4 BREACH OF WARRANTY.
Any representation, warranty, certification or other statement
made by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any Loan Document or in any
statement or certificate at any time given by Company or any of its Subsidiaries
(or deemed to be given in connection with any borrowing hereunder) pursuant
hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall be false in any
material respect on the date as of which made; or
10.5 OTHER DEFAULTS UNDER LOAN DOCUMENTS.
Any Borrower shall default in the performance of or compliance
with any term contained in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents,
other than any such term referred to in any other subsection of this Section 10,
and such default shall not have been remedied or waived within 30 days after
receipt by such Borrower of notice from any Agent or any Lender of such default;
or
10.6 INVOLUNTARY BANKRUPTCY; APPOINTMENT OF RECEIVER, ETC.
(i) A court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a
decree or order for relief in respect of any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary
in an involuntary case under any Insolvency Laws which decree or order is not
stayed; or any other similar relief shall be granted under any applicable
Insolvency Laws; or (ii) an involuntary case shall be commenced against any
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary under any Insolvency Laws; or a decree or
order of a court having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, sequestrator, trustee, custodian or other officer having
similar powers over any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, or over all or a
substantial part of its property, shall have been entered; or there shall have
occurred the involuntary appointment of an interim receiver, trustee or other
custodian of any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary for all or a substantial
part of its property; or a warrant of attachment, execution or similar process
shall have been issued against any substantial part of the property of any
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, and any such event described in this clause
(ii) shall continue for 60 days unless dismissed, bonded or discharged; or
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10.7 VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTCY; APPOINTMENT OF RECEIVER, ETC.
(i) Any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall have an order
for relief entered with respect to it or commence a voluntary case under any
Insolvency Laws, or shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case, or to the conversion of an involuntary case to a voluntary
case, under any such laws, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking
possession by a receiver, trustee or other custodian for all or a substantial
part of its property; or any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall make any
assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (ii) any Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary shall be unable, or shall fail generally, or shall admit in writing
its inability, to pay its debts as such debts become due; or the Board of
Directors of any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (or any committee thereof)
shall adopt any resolution or otherwise authorize any action to approve any of
the actions referred to in clause (i) above or this clause (ii); or
10.8 JUDGMENTS AND ATTACHMENTS.
Any money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment or similar
process involving in the aggregate at any time an amount in excess of
$25,000,000 (not adequately covered by insurance as to which a solvent and
unaffiliated insurance company has acknowledged coverage) shall be entered or
filed against Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than an Unrestricted
Subsidiary or any of their respective assets and shall remain undischarged,
unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period of 60 days (or in any event later
than five days prior to the date of any proposed sale thereunder); or
10.9 DISSOLUTION.
Any order, judgment or decree shall be entered against any
Borrower or any Material Subsidiaries decreeing the dissolution or split up of
any Borrower or that Material Subsidiary (which dissolution, in the case of a
Canadian Borrower or Material Subsidiary is not permitted under subsection 9.5)
and such order shall remain undischarged or unstayed for a period in excess of
30 days; or
10.10 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS.
There shall occur any ERISA Event which individually results in
or might reasonably be expected to result in liability of Company or any of its
ERISA Affiliates in excess of $25,000,000 or, if taken together with all other
ERISA Events results in or might reasonably be expected to result in an
aggregate liability of Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates in excess of
$50,000,000 during the term of this Agreement; or there shall exist an amount of
unfunded benefit liabilities (as defined in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA),
individually or in the aggregate for all
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Pension Plans (excluding for purposes of such computation any Pension Plans with
respect to which assets exceed benefit liabilities), which exceeds $50,000,000;
or
10.11 INVALIDITY OF GUARANTY.
Any Guaranty for any reason, other than the satisfaction in full
of all the "Guarantied Obligations" as defined therein or any release required
under the provisions of subsection 11.6, ceases to be in full force and effect
or is declared to be null and void, or any Person obligated under any Guaranty
denies that it has any further liability under thereunder, or gives notice to
such effect; provided that this subsection shall not apply to the Canada
Safeway Guaranty and the Lucerne Guaranty where the same become ineffective as
the consequence of the amalgamation of Canada Safeway and Lucerne; or
10.12 CHANGE IN CONTROL.
Any Person or any two or more Persons (in either case, other
than KKR, KKR Associates, so long as KKR Associates remains under the control of
KKR, or a Person controlled by KKR or KKR Associates) acting in concert shall
have acquired beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Exchange Act), directly or
indirectly, of capital stock of Company (or other securities at the time
convertible into capital stock) representing 30% or more of the combined voting
power of all capital stock of Company entitled to vote in the election of
directors, other than capital stock having such power only by reason of the
happening of a contingency:
THEN (i) upon the occurrence of any Event of Default described in subsection
10.6 or 10.7, each of (a) the unpaid principal amount of and accrued interest on
the Loans, (b) an amount equal to the maximum amount that may at any time be
drawn under all Letters of Credit then outstanding (whether or not any
beneficiary under any such Letter of Credit shall have presented, or shall be
entitled at such time to present, the drafts or other documents or certificates
required to draw under such Letter of Credit), (c) an amount equal to the Face
Amount of all unmatured Acceptances, and (d) all other Obligations shall
automatically become immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or other requirements of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly
waived by Company, and the obligation of each Lender to make any Loan or create
or purchase any Acceptance, the obligation of Administrative Agent to issue any
Letter of Credit and the right of any Lender to issue any Letter of Credit
hereunder shall thereupon terminate, and (ii) upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of any other Event of Default, Documentation Agent shall, upon the
written request or with the written consent of Requisite Lenders, by written
notice to Company, declare all or any portion of the amounts described in
clauses (a) through (d) above to be, and the same shall forthwith become,
immediately due and payable, and the obligation of each Lender to make any Loan
or create or purchase any
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Acceptance, the obligation of Administrative Agent to issue any Letter of Credit
and the right of any Lender to issue any Letter of Credit hereunder shall
thereupon terminate; provided that the foregoing shall not affect in any
way the obligations of Lenders under subsection 2.1A(iii) or 3.3C(i).
Any amounts described in clauses (b) and (c) above, when
received by Administrative Agent or Documentation Agent, shall be held by
Administrative Agent in a collateral account over which Administrative Agent
shall have sole dominion and control upon terms that are customary to cash
collateral accounts maintained with Administrative Agent, as cash collateral for
the obligation of Company to reimburse drawings under Letters of Credit and the
obligations of the Canadian Borrower issuing such Acceptances to pay the amount
of such Acceptances at maturity, and upon any drawing under such a Letter of
Credit or the maturity of such an Acceptance, Administrative Agent shall apply
such amounts held pursuant to the terms of the collateral account agreement to
the payment thereof. Each Borrower hereby grants Administrative Agent a security
interest in any such collateral account and all funds on deposit therein.
Notwithstanding anything contained in the second preceding
paragraph, if at any time within 60 days after an acceleration of the Loans and
Acceptances pursuant to such paragraph Borrowers shall pay all arrears of
interest and all payments on account of principal which shall have become due
otherwise than as a result of such acceleration (with interest on principal and,
to the extent permitted by law, on overdue interest, at the rates specified in
this Agreement) and all Events of Default and Potential Events of Default (other
than non-payment of the principal of and accrued interest on the Loans, in each
case which is due and payable solely by virtue of acceleration) shall be
remedied or waived pursuant to subsection 13.6, then Requisite Lenders, by
written notice to Borrowers, may at their option rescind and annul such
acceleration and its consequences; but such action shall not affect any
subsequent Event of Default or Potential Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon. The provisions of this paragraph are intended merely to bind
Lenders to a decision which may be made at the election of Requisite Lenders and
are not intended to benefit Borrowers and do not grant Borrowers the right to
require Lenders to rescind or annul any acceleration hereunder, even if the
conditions set forth herein are met.
SECTION 11. AGENTS
11.1 APPOINTMENT.
BTCo is hereby appointed Administrative Agent and Scotiabank is
hereby appointed Documentation Agent for the purposes of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents and each Lender hereby authorizes each such Agent to act as
its agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan
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Documents. Each Agent agrees to act upon the express conditions contained in
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as applicable. The provisions of
this Section 11 are solely for the benefit of Agents and Lenders and Company
shall have no rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions
thereof. In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement, each Agent
shall act solely as an agent of Lenders and does not assume and shall not be
deemed to have assumed any obligation towards or relationship of agency or trust
with or for Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
The Borrowers and the Lenders hereby acknowledge and agree that
the Co-Agents and the Lead Managers, though nominally Co-Agents and Lead
Managers hereunder, are neither agents or fiduciaries of any Borrower or any
Lender, and the Co-Agents and Lead Managers shall have no rights, duties or
responsibilities hereunder or under the other Loan Documents except those
applicable to Lenders generally and except as set forth in subsection 13.1.
11.2 POWERS; GENERAL IMMUNITY.
A. DUTIES SPECIFIED. Each Lender irrevocably authorizes each Agent to
take such action on such Lender's behalf and to exercise such powers hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents as are specifically delegated to such Agent
by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. Each Agent shall have only those duties and responsibilities
that are expressly specified for such Agent in this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and it may perform such duties by or through its agents or employees.
No Agent shall have, by reason of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender; and nothing in
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is
intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon any Agent any obligations
in respect of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents except as
expressly set forth herein or therein.
B. NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR CERTAIN MATTERS. Agents shall not be
responsible to any Lender for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness,
validity, enforceability, collectibility or sufficiency of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document or for any representations, warranties, recitals or
statements made herein or therein or made in any written or oral statements or
in any financial or other statements, instruments, reports or certificates or
any other documents furnished or made by any Agent to Lenders or by or on behalf
of Company to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the Loan Documents and
the transactions contemplated thereby or for the financial condition or business
affairs of Company or any other Person liable for the payment of any
Obligations, nor shall any Agent be required to ascertain or inquire as to the
performance or observance of any of the terms, conditions, provisions, covenants
or agreements contained in any of the Loan Documents or as to the use of
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the proceeds of the Loans or the use of the Letters of Credit or as to the
existence or possible existence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of
Default.
C. EXCULPATORY PROVISIONS. Each Agent and its officers, directors,
employees or agents shall not be liable to Lenders for any action taken or
omitted by any Agent under or in connection with any of the Loan Documents
except to the extent caused by such Agent's gross negligence or willful
misconduct. If any Agent shall request instructions from Lenders with respect to
any act or action (including the failure to take an action) in connection with
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, such Agent shall be entitled
to refrain from such act or taking such action unless and until such Agent shall
have received instructions from Requisite Lenders or all Lenders, as applicable.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, (i) each Agent shall be
entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any
communication, instrument or document believed by such Agent in good faith to be
genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or
persons, and shall be entitled to rely and shall be protected in relying on
opinions and judgments of attorneys (who may be attorneys for Company and its
Subsidiaries), accountants, experts and other professional advisors selected by
it; and (ii) no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against either
Agent as a result of any Agent acting or (where so instructed) refraining from
acting under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in accordance
with the instructions of Requisite Lenders or all Lenders, as applicable. Each
Agent shall be entitled to refrain from exercising any power, discretion or
authority vested in it under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents
unless and until it has obtained the instructions of Requisite Lenders or all
Lenders, as applicable.
D. AGENT ENTITLED TO ACT AS LENDER. The agency hereby created shall in
no way impair or affect any of the rights and powers of, or impose any duties or
obligations upon, any Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender hereunder.
With respect to its participation in the Loans and the Letters of Credit, each
Agent shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and
may exercise the same as though it were not performing the duties and functions
delegated to it hereunder, and the term "Lender" or "Lenders" or any similar
term shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include each Agent
in its individual capacity. Each Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits
from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust,
financial advisory or other business with Company or any of its Affiliates as if
it were not performing the duties specified herein, and may accept fees and
other consideration from Company and its Subsidiaries for services in connection
with this Agreement and otherwise without having to account for the same to
Lenders.
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11.3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR APPRAISAL OF
CREDITWORTHINESS.
Each Lender represents and warrants that it has made its own
independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of Company and
its Subsidiaries in connection with the making of the Loans, the creation of
Acceptances and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder and that it has made
and shall continue to make its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of Company
and its Subsidiaries. Each Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility,
either initially or on a continuing basis, to make any such investigation or any
such appraisal on behalf of Lenders or to provide any Lender with any credit or
other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession
before the making of the Loans or at any time or times thereafter (except such
information as is, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, required to be
circulated by such Agent to Lenders), and each Agent shall not have any
responsibility with respect to the accuracy of or the completeness of any
information provided to Lenders.
11.4 RIGHT TO INDEMNITY.
Each Lender, in proportion to its Aggregate Pro Rata Share,
severally agrees to indemnify each Agent, to the extent that such Agent shall
not have been reimbursed by Borrowers, for and against any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses (including, without limitation, counsel fees and disbursements) or
disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred
by or asserted against such Agent in performing its duties hereunder or under
the other Loan Documents or otherwise in its capacity as Administrative Agent or
Documentation Agent, as the case may be, in any way relating to or arising out
of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; provided that no Lender
shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
resulting from such Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct. If any
indemnity furnished to an Agent for any purpose shall, in the opinion of such
Agent, be insufficient or become impaired, such Agent may call for additional
indemnity and cease, or not commence, to do the acts indemnified against until
such additional indemnity is furnished.
11.5 SUCCESSOR AGENT.
Each Agent may resign at any time by giving 30 days' prior
written notice thereof to Lenders and Company, and either or both Agents may be
removed at any time with or without cause by an instrument or concurrent
instruments in writing delivered to Company and Agents and signed by Requisite
Lenders. Upon any such notice of resignation or any such removal, Requisite
Lenders shall have the right, upon five Business Days' notice to Company, to
appoint a successor
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Administrative Agent or Documentation Agent, as applicable; provided
that if such successor shall not be a Co-Agent or a Lead Manager, such
appointment shall be subject to Company's consent, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative
Agent or Documentation Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent or
Documentation Agent, as applicable, that successor Agent shall thereupon succeed
to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
retiring or removed Agent and the retiring or removed Agent shall be discharged
from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring or
removed Agent's resignation or removal hereunder as Agent, the provisions of
this Section 11 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to
be taken by it while it was Agent under this Agreement.
11.6 COLLATERAL ACCOUNT AGREEMENT; GUARANTIES.
Each Lender hereby further authorizes Administrative Agent, on
behalf of and for the benefit of Lenders, to accept the Guaranties and, as
secured party on behalf of and for the benefit of Lenders, to enter into a
collateral account agreement as contemplated by Section 10 of this Agreement,
and agrees to be bound by the terms of such collateral account agreement.
Anything contained in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary notwithstanding,
each Lender agrees that no Lender shall have any right individually to realize
upon any of the collateral under any such collateral account agreement or to
enforce any Guaranty, it being understood and agreed that all rights and
remedies under any such Guaranties and any such collateral account agreement may
be exercised solely by Administrative Agent for the benefit of Lenders (or
Canadian Lenders, in the case of the Canadian Guaranty, the Lucerne Guaranty,
the Safeway New Canada Guaranty and the Canada Safeway Guaranty) in accordance
with the terms thereof. Except as set forth in the following paragraph,
Administrative Agent will not release any Guarantor from its obligations under
any Guaranty without the prior written consent of all Lenders.
Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the
contrary, Administrative Agent is hereby authorized and directed to release any
of Company's Subsidiaries from the Subsidiary Guaranty upon Administrative
Agent's receipt from Company of an Officer's Certificate, in form and substance
satisfactory to Administrative Agent, showing in reasonable detail that such
Subsidiary is not a Material Subsidiary or designating such Subsidiary an
Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions of subsection 9.9
provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the
time of such release. Additionally, Administrative Agent is hereby authorized
and directed to release any Subsidiary of Company from its obligations under any
Guaranty in connection with any sale or disposition of such Subsidiary by
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person other than Company or any of
its Subsidiaries provided that such sale is not prohibited hereunder and
that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at
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the time of such release. Administrative Agent shall, at Company's cost and
expense, execute any such documents or instruments as Company may reasonably
request to evidence any such release. Regardless of when Administrative Agent
delivers any such documents or instruments evidencing any such release, each
such release shall, in the case of any release described in the first sentence
of this paragraph, be effective as of the third Business Day after
Administrative Agent's receipt of the Officer's Certificate described therein
or, in the case of any release described in the second sentence of this
paragraph, as of the date any such sale or disposition is effective
provided that in either case no Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing on such date.
SECTION 12. COMPANY GUARANTY OF CANADIAN CREDIT FACILITIES
Company hereby unconditionally guaranties the due and punctual
payment of all obligations of each Canadian Borrower arising under this
Agreement, any Notes and any Acceptances in each case when due, whether by
required prepayment, declaration, demand or otherwise (including amounts which
would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section
362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a) or operation of any stay
under applicable Canadian law) (the "CANADIAN OBLIGATIONS"), and agrees to pay
any and all costs and expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel and
reasonable allocated costs of internal counsel) incurred by Agents and Canadian
Lenders in enforcing any rights under this guaranty. For purposes of this
Section 12, the obligations of Company under this Section 12, as they may be
amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, are referred to as its
"CANADIAN GUARANTY".
Company agrees that the Canadian Obligations may be extended or
renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and that
it will remain bound upon this Canadian Guaranty notwithstanding any extension,
renewal or other alteration of any such Canadian Obligation or any other
Obligation.
Company waives presentation of, demand of and protest of any
Canadian Obligation and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The
obligations of Company under this Canadian Guaranty shall be valid and
enforceable and shall not be subject to any limitation, impairment, or discharge
for any reason (other than payment in full of the Canadian Obligations) and
Company hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now or hereafter have in
any way relating thereto, including, without limitation, the occurrence of any
of the following, whether or not Company shall have had notice or knowledge of
any of them:
(a) the failure of any Canadian Lender or any other Lender to
assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any
Canadian Borrower, Company or any other Person under the provisions of
this Agreement, the Canadian Guaranty or any other Loan Document,
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(b) any extension or renewal of any provision of any thereof,
(c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of
the terms or provisions of this Agreement or any other Loan Document
(other than this Section 12, it being agreed and understood that any
waiver, amendment or modification of this Section 12 shall be limited
exactly as written and shall not, except as expressly written, affect
the obligations of Company under this Canadian Guaranty),
(d) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the
release of, any of the security held by any Canadian Lender for the
Canadian Obligations hereby guarantied or any of them or held by any
Lender or any other Person for any of the Obligations or any of them, or
(e) the failure of any Lender to exercise any right or remedy
against any other guarantor of the Canadian Obligations or the
Obligations.
Company further agrees that this Canadian Guaranty constitutes a
guaranty of payment when due and not of collection and waives any right to
require that any resort be had by any Lender to any of the security held for
payment of the Canadian Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or
credit on the books of any Lender in favor of Company, any Canadian Borrower or
any other Person.
The obligations of Company under this Canadian Guaranty shall
not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any
reason, including, without limitation, any claim of waiver, release, surrender,
alteration or compromise of any of the Canadian Obligations, and shall not be
subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination
whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any of
the Canadian Obligations, discharge of any Canadian Borrower from any of the
Canadian Obligations in a bankruptcy or similar proceeding, or otherwise.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of Company
under this Canadian Guaranty shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise
affected by the failure of any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to
enforce any remedy under this Agreement or any document or instrument executed
by any Canadian Borrower in connection therewith, by any waiver or modification
of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the
performance of the Canadian Obligations, or by any other act or thing or
omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner
or to any extent vary the risk of Company or which would otherwise operate as a
discharge of Company as a matter of law or equity.
Company further agrees that this Canadian Guaranty shall
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time
payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Canadian
Obligation is rescinded or must
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otherwise be restored by any Lender upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of any
Canadian Borrower, any other person or otherwise.
Company further agrees, in furtherance of the foregoing and not
in limitation of any other right which any Lender may have at law or in equity
against Company by virtue hereof, upon the failure of any Canadian Borrower to
pay any of the Canadian Obligations when and as the same shall become due,
whether by required prepayment, declaration, demand or otherwise (including
amounts which would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under
Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a) or operation of
any stay under applicable Canadian law), Company will forthwith pay, or cause to
be paid, in cash, to Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of Canadian
Lenders an amount equal to the sum of the unpaid principal amount of such
Canadian Obligations then due as aforesaid, accrued and unpaid interest on such
Canadian Obligations (including, without limitation, interest which, but for the
filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to Company, would accrue on such
Canadian Obligations) and all other Canadian Obligations then owed to Canadian
Lenders as aforesaid.
Upon payment by Company of any sum to the Administrative Agent
for the ratable benefit of Canadian Lenders as provided above so long as any of
the Canadian Obligations shall remain outstanding hereunder, all rights of
Company against any Canadian Borrower arising as a result thereof, by way of
right of subrogation or otherwise, shall in all respects be subordinate and
junior in right of payment to the prior indefeasible payment in full of all the
Canadian Obligations to Canadian Lenders.
This Canadian Guaranty shall be binding upon Company and its
successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and
assigns of Lenders and, in the event of any transfer and assignment of rights by
a Lender, the rights and privileges herein conferred upon Lenders shall
automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all
subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
Notwithstanding any provisions of subsection 5.1 to the
contrary, all sums payable by Company under this Canadian Guaranty shall be paid
free and clear of and (except to the extent required by law) without any
deduction or withholding on account of any Tax (other than any Excluded Tax)
imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or within the United States
of America or any political subdivision in or of the United States of America or
any other jurisdiction from or to which a payment is made by or on behalf of
Guarantor or by any federation or organization of which the United States of
America or any such jurisdiction is a member at the time of payment. If Company
is required by law to make any deduction or withholding on account of any such
Tax from any sum paid or payable by Company to any Agent or any Lender hereunder
with respect to any of the
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Canadian Obligations and such deduction or withholding would not have been
required if a Canadian Borrower were to have paid such Canadian Obligation,
Company agrees, as a separate obligation, to pay such additional amounts to such
Agent or Lender so that the sum payable by Company in respect of which the
relevant deduction, withholding or payment is required shall be increased to the
extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of that deduction, withholding
or payment, such Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, receives on the due
date of such payment on an after-tax basis a net sum equal to what it would have
received had no such deduction, withholding or payment been required or made.
SECTION 13. MISCELLANEOUS
13.1 ASSIGNMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS IN LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT.
A. GENERAL. Subject to the provisions of this subsection 13.1, each
Lender shall have the right at any time to (i) sell, assign or transfer to any
Eligible Assignee, or (ii) sell participations to any Person in, all or any part
of its Commitment or any Loan or Loans made by it or its Letters of Credit or
participations therein or any other interest herein or in any other Obligations
owed to it; provided that no such sale, assignment, transfer or participation
shall, without the consent of Company, require Company to file a registration
statement with the SEC or apply to qualify such sale, assignment, transfer or
participation under the securities laws of any state; provided, further that no
such sale, assignment or transfer described in clause (i) above shall be
effective unless and until an Assignment Agreement effecting such sale,
assignment or transfer shall have been accepted by Documentation Agent and
recorded in the Register as provided in subsection 13.1B(ii); and provided,
further that no such sale, assignment, transfer or participation of any Letter
of Credit or any participation therein may be made separately from a sale,
assignment, transfer or participation of a corresponding interest in the
Commitment and the Loans of the Lender effecting such sale, assignment, transfer
or participation. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection 13.1, no
Lender shall, as between Company and such Lender, be relieved of any of its
obligations hereunder as a result of any sale, assignment or transfer of, or any
granting of participations in, all or any part of its Commitment or the Loans,
the Letters of Credit or participations therein, or the other Obligations owed
to such Lender.
B. ASSIGNMENTS.
(i) Amounts and Terms of Assignments. Each Commitment,
Loan, Acceptance, Letter of Credit or participation therein, or other
Obligation may (a) be assigned in any amount to an Eligible Assignee
that is another Lender, or to an Affiliate of the assigning Lender or
another Lender, with the giving of notice to Company and each Agent or
(b) be assigned in an aggregate amount of not less than $10,000,000 (or
such lesser amount as shall constitute the
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Aggregate Commitment, Loans, Letters of Credit and participations
therein, Acceptances and other Obligations of the assigning Lender) to
any other Eligible Assignee upon notice to the Documentation Agent and
with the consent of Company and Administrative Agent (which consent of
Company and Administrative Agent shall not be unreasonably withheld);
provided that any such assignment in accordance with either
clause (a) or (b) shall effect an assignment of either (1) a
proportionate share of the Domestic Commitment of the assigning Lender
and all corresponding Loans and interests in Letters of Credit of the
assigning Lender or (2) except as set forth in the next paragraph of
this subsection, a proportionate share of the Canadian Commitment of the
assigning Lender and all corresponding Loans and Acceptances of the
Assigning Lender; and provided further that no
assignment of less than all of any Lender's Aggregate Commitment, and
all related Loans, Letters of Credit and participations therein,
Acceptances and other Obligations, shall result in the assigning Lender
having an Aggregate Commitment of less than $20,000,000, in the case of
any Lender other than any Agent, Co-Agent or Lead Manager, or
$50,000,000 (or such smaller amount as may be consented to by Company,
in its sole discretion), in the case of any Agent, Co-Agent or Lead
Manager. To the extent of any such assignment in accordance with the
preceding clause (a) or (b) of this subsection 13.1B, the assigning
Lender shall be relieved of its obligations with respect to its
Commitment, Loans, Letters of Credit or participations therein,
Acceptances or other Obligations or the portion thereof so assigned.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph of
this subsection, any Canadian Lender that is not resident in the United
States of America for withholding tax purposes shall have the option to
assign only its obligation to fund Canadian/U.S. Loans from time to time
upon its receipt of a Notice of Borrowing relating thereto, together
with all of its rights to receive payments of principal of and interest
on such Loans (including any such Canadian/U.S. Loans theretofore funded
and outstanding), to a U.S. Affiliate of such Canadian Lender (such an
assignment, a "CANADIAN/U.S. FUNDING ASSIGNMENT"); provided no
such assignment shall relieve such Canadian Lender of its obligation to
fund Loans (including Canadian/U.S. Loans) under subsection 2.1A(ii).
Any such assignment shall obligate the U.S. Affiliate of such Canadian
Lender to make such loans on behalf of such Canadian Lender, and Company
shall be an express and intended third-party beneficiary of any such
assignment and shall have such rights and remedies against a U.S.
Affiliate of any Canadian Lender with respect to the funding of any
Canadian/U.S. Loan as Company would have against such Canadian Lender
with respect to such Loan. If any Canadian Lender proposing to make an
assignment of its Canadian Commitments, Loans and Acceptances in
accordance with the first paragraph of this subsection 13.1B, has
theretofore entered into a Canadian/U.S. Funding Assignment with its
U.S. Affiliate, such
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Lender and its U.S. Affiliate shall jointly enter into such proposed
assignment so that the conditions set forth in clause (b) of the first
paragraph of this subsection 13.1B are satisfied as if such Canadian
Lender and its U.S. Affiliate were a single Lender.
The parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to
Documentation Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register,
an Assignment Agreement, together with a processing and recordation fee
of $2,500, and in each case with such forms, certificates or other
evidence, if any, with respect to United States federal income tax
withholding matters as the assignee under such Assignment Agreement may
be required to deliver to Documentation Agent pursuant to subsection
5.1B(iii)(a); provided that no such processing or recordation
fee shall be payable in connection with any Canadian/U.S. Funding
Assignment, any assignment described in clause (a) of subsection
13.1B(i) or any assignment undertaken pursuant to subsection 5.3. Upon
such execution, delivery, and acceptance and recordation, from and after
the effective date specified in such Assignment Agreement, (y) the
assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to
such Assignment Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a
Lender hereunder and (z) except as set forth with respect to
Canadian/U.S. Funding Assignments, the assigning Lender thereunder
shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been
assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, relinquish its
rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and,
in the case of an Assignment Agreement covering all or the remaining
portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this
Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto);
provided no assignment hereunder shall impair any rights the
assigning Lender may have under subsections 2.6D, 3.5A, 5.1, 13.2 or
13.3 with respect to matters arising prior to such assignment. The
Commitments hereunder shall be modified to reflect the Commitment of
such assignee and any remaining Commitment of such assigning Lender (it
being agreed that a Canadian/U.S. Funding Assignment shall not affect
the Commitment of any Lender) and new Notes shall, if requested by the
assignee in accordance with subsection 2.1E, be issued to the assignee,
substantially in the form of Exhibit IV-A, Exhibit IV-B
or Exhibit IV-C annexed hereto, as applicable, with appropriate
insertions.
(ii) Acceptance by Documentation Agent; Recordation in
Register. Upon its receipt of an Assignment Agreement executed by an
assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Affiliate of
the assigning Lender or an Eligible Assignee, together with (x) the
processing and recordation fee referred to in subsection 13.1B(i)
(except in the case of a Canadian/U.S. Funding Assignment, any
assignment described in clause (a) of subsection 13.1B(i) or any
assignment undertaken pursuant to subsection 5.3) and (y) any
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forms, certificates or other evidence with respect to United States
federal income tax withholding matters that such assignee may be
required to deliver to Documentation Agent pursuant to subsection
5.1B(iii)(a), Documentation Agent shall, if such Assignment Agreement
has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit
VIII hereto and if Administrative Agent and Company have consented
to the assignment evidenced thereby (in each case to the extent such
consent is required pursuant to subsection 13.1B(i)), (a) accept such
Assignment Agreement by executing a counterpart thereof as provided
therein (which acceptance shall evidence any required consent of
Documentation Agent to such assignment), (b) record the information
contained therein in the Register, and (c) give prompt notice thereof to
Company. Documentation Agent shall maintain a copy of each Assignment
Agreement delivered to and accepted by it as provided in this subsection
13.1B(ii).
C. PARTICIPATIONS. No Lead Manager, Co-Agent or Agent shall grant any
participation if, after giving effect thereto, the excess of the Aggregate
Commitment of such Lender over the amount of all participations granted therein
would be less than $25,000,000 unless Company otherwise consents to the granting
of such participation. The holder of any participation, other than an Affiliate
of the Lender granting such participation, shall not be entitled to require such
Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder except action directly
affecting (i) the extension of the scheduled final maturity date of any Loan
allocated to such participation or (ii) a reduction of the principal amount of
or the rate of interest payable on any Loan allocated to such participation or
any letter of credit fees, facility fees or Drawing Fees allocated to such
participation, and all amounts payable by Company hereunder (including without
limitation amounts payable to such Lender pursuant to subsections 2.6D and 5.1)
shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation. Company
and each Lender hereby acknowledge and agree that, solely for purposes of
subsections 13.4 and 13.5, (a) any participation will give rise to a direct
obligation of Company to the participant and (b) the participant shall be
considered to be a "Lender".
D. ASSIGNMENTS TO FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS. In addition to the assignments
and participations permitted under the foregoing provisions of this subsection
13.1, any Lender may assign and pledge all or any portion of its Loans, the
other Obligations owed to such Lender, and its Note to any Federal Reserve Bank
as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System and any operating circular issued by such Federal Reserve
Bank; provided that (i) no Lender shall, as between Company and such
Lender, be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder as a result of any such
assignment and pledge and (ii) in no event shall such Federal Reserve Bank be
considered to be a "Lender" or be entitled to require the assigning Lender to
take or omit to take any action hereunder.
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E. INFORMATION. Each Lender may furnish any information concerning
Company and its Subsidiaries in the possession of that Lender from time to time
to assignees and participants (including prospective assignees and
participants), subject to subsection 13.19.
13.2 EXPENSES.
Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be
consummated, Company agrees to pay promptly (i) all the actual and reasonable
costs and expenses of preparation of the Loan Documents; (ii) all the reasonable
costs of furnishing all opinions by counsel for Borrowers (including without
limitation any opinions requested by Lenders as to any legal matters arising
hereunder) and of Borrowers' performance of and compliance with all agreements
and conditions on its part to be performed or complied with under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents; (iii) the reasonable fees, expenses and
disbursements of counsel to Agents (including reasonable allocated costs of
internal counsel) in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution and
administration of the Loan Documents and the Loans and any consents, amendments,
waivers or other modifications hereto or thereto and any other documents or
matters requested by Borrowers; (iv) all other actual and reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by Administrative Agent in connection with the primary
syndication of the Commitments and the negotiation, preparation and execution of
the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; and (v)
after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, all
costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees (including allocated
costs of internal counsel) and costs of settlement, incurred by Agents,
Co-Agents, Lead Mangers and Lenders in enforcing any Obligations of or in
collecting any payments due from Borrowers hereunder or under the other Loan
Documents by reason of such Event of Default or in connection with any
refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided under this
Agreement in the nature of a "work-out" or pursuant to any insolvency or
bankruptcy proceedings.
13.3 INDEMNITY.
In addition to the payment of expenses pursuant to subsection
13.2, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated,
Company agrees to defend, indemnify, pay and hold harmless each Agent, Co-Agent,
Lead Manager and Lender, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and
affiliates of each Agent, Co-Agent, Lead Manager and Lender (collectively called
the "INDEMNITEES") from and against any and all other liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, claims, costs, expenses
and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including without limitation
the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for such Indemnitees (including
reasonable allocated costs of internal counsel) in connection with any
investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding commenced or threatened by
any Person, whether or not any such
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Indemnitee shall be designated as a party or a potential party thereto), whether
direct, indirect or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or
foreign laws, statutes, rules or regulations (including without limitation
securities and commercial laws, statutes, rules or regulations and Environmental
Laws), on common law or equitable cause or on contract or otherwise, that may be
imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against any such Indemnitee, in any manner
relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including without limitation
Lenders' agreement to make the Loans hereunder or the use or intended use of the
proceeds of any of the Loans or the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder or
the use or intended use of any of the Letters of Credit) or the statements
contained in the commitment letter delivered by any Lender to any Borrower with
respect thereto (collectively called the "INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES");
provided that Company shall not have any obligation to any Indemnitee
hereunder with respect to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such
Indemnified Liabilities arise solely from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of that Indemnitee as determined by a final judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction. To the extent that the undertaking to defend, indemnify,
pay and hold harmless set forth in the preceding sentence may be unenforceable
because it is violative of any law or public policy, Company shall contribute
the maximum portion that it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable law
to the payment and satisfaction of all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by the
Indemnitees or any of them.
13.4 SET-OFF
In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under
applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the
occurrence of any Event of Default each Lender is hereby authorized by each
Borrower at any time or from time to time, without notice to such Borrower or to
any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to set off and
to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including,
but not limited to, Indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether
matured or unmatured, but not including trust accounts) and any other
Indebtedness at any time held or owing by that Lender to or for the credit or
the account of such Borrower against and on account of the obligations and
liabilities of such Borrower to that Lender under this Agreement, any Letters of
Credit and participations therein and the other Loan Documents, including, but
not limited to, all claims of any nature or description arising out of or
connected with this Agreement, the Letters of Credit and participations therein
or any other Loan Document, irrespective of whether or not (i) that Lender shall
have made any demand hereunder or (ii) the principal of or the interest on the
Loans or any amounts in respect of the Letters of Credit or any other amounts
due hereunder shall have become due and payable pursuant to Section 10 and
although said obligations and liabilities, or any of them, may be contingent or
unmatured.
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13.5 RATABLE SHARING.
A. AMOUNTS OWED BY COMPANY. Lenders hereby agree among
themselves that if any of them shall, whether by voluntary payment, by
realization upon security, through the exercise of any right of set-off or
banker's lien, by counterclaim or cross action or by the enforcement of any
right under the Loan Documents or otherwise, or as adequate protection of a
deposit treated as cash collateral under applicable Insolvency Laws, receive
payment or reduction of a proportion of the aggregate amount of principal,
interest, amounts payable in respect of Letters of Credit, fees and other
amounts then due and owing to that Lender from Company (and not from any
Canadian Borrower) hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (collectively,
the "AGGREGATE AMOUNTS DUE FROM COMPANY" to such Lender) which is greater than
the proportion received by any other Lender in respect of the Aggregate Amounts
Due From Company to such other Lender, then the Lender receiving such
proportionately greater payment shall (i) notify Agents and each other Lender of
the receipt of such payment and (ii) apply a portion of such payment to purchase
participations (which it shall be deemed to have purchased from each seller of a
participation simultaneously upon the receipt by such seller of its portion of
such payment) in the Aggregate Amounts Due From Company to the other Lenders so
that all such recoveries of Aggregate Amounts Due From Company shall be shared
by all Lenders in proportion to the Aggregate Amounts Due From Company to them
(as calculated prior to such recovery); provided that if all or part of
such proportionately greater payment received by such purchasing Lender is
thereafter recovered from such Lender upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of
Company or otherwise, those purchases shall be rescinded and the purchase prices
paid for such participations shall be returned to such purchasing Lender ratably
to the extent of such recovery, but without interest. Company expressly consents
to the foregoing arrangement and agrees that any holder of a participation so
purchased may exercise any and all rights of banker's lien, set-off or
counterclaim with respect to any and all monies owing by Company to that holder
with respect thereto as fully as if that holder were owed the amount of the
participation held by that holder.
B. AMOUNTS OWED BY CANADIAN BORROWERS. Canadian Lenders hereby
agree among themselves that if any of them shall, whether by voluntary payment,
by realization upon security, through the exercise of any right of set-off or
banker's lien, by counterclaim or cross action or by the enforcement of any
right under the Loan Documents or otherwise, or as adequate protection of a
deposit treated as cash collateral under any applicable Insolvency Laws, receive
payment or reduction of a proportion of the aggregate amount of principal,
interest, amounts payable in respect of Acceptances, fees and other amounts then
due and owing to that Lender hereunder or under the other Loan Documents from
any Canadian Borrower (collectively, the "AGGREGATE AMOUNTS DUE FROM CANADIAN
BORROWERS" to such Lender) which is greater than the proportion received by any
other Canadian Lender in respect of the Aggregate Amounts Due From Canadian
Borrowers to such other Canadian Lender,
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then the Canadian Lender receiving such proportionately greater payment shall
(i) notify Agents and each other Canadian Lender of the receipt of such payment
and (ii) apply a portion of such payment to purchase participations (which it
shall be deemed to have purchased from each seller of a participation
simultaneously upon the receipt by such seller of its portion of such payment)
in the Aggregate Amounts Due From Canadian Borrowers to the other Lenders so
that all such recoveries of Aggregate Amounts Due From Canadian Borrowers shall
be shared by all Canadian Lenders in proportion to the Aggregate Amounts Due
From Canadian Borrowers to them (as calculated prior to such recovery);
provided that if all or part of such proportionately greater payment
received by such purchasing Lender is thereafter recovered from such Canadian
Lender upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of any Canadian Borrower or
otherwise, those purchases shall be rescinded and the purchase prices paid for
such participations shall be returned to such purchasing Lender ratably to the
extent of such recovery, but without interest. Each Canadian Borrower expressly
consents to the foregoing arrangement and agrees that any holder of a
participation so purchased may exercise any and all rights of banker's lien,
set-off or counterclaim with respect to any and all monies owing by such
Canadian Borrower to that holder with respect thereto as fully as if that holder
were owed the amount of the participation held by that holder.
13.6 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS.
No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement or of the Notes, or consent to any departure by any
Borrower therefrom, shall in any event be effective without the written
concurrence of Requisite Lenders; provided that any such amendment,
modification, termination, waiver or consent which: increases the amount of any
of the Commitments or reduces the principal amount of any of the Loans;
increases the maximum amount of Letters of Credit; changes any Lender's Canadian
Pro Rata Share, Domestic Pro Rata Share or Aggregate Pro Rata Share; changes in
any manner the definition of "Requisite Lenders"; changes in any manner any
provision of this Agreement which, by its terms, expressly requires the approval
or concurrence of all Lenders; postpones the scheduled final maturity date of
any of the Loans; postpones the date on which any interest or any fees are
payable (except in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of
Section 10); decreases the interest rate borne by any of the Loans (other than
any waiver of any increase in the interest rate applicable to any of the Loans
pursuant to subsection 2.2E) or the amount of any fees payable hereunder;
increases the maximum duration of Interest Periods permitted hereunder; reduces
the amount or postpones the due date of any amount payable in respect of, or
extends the required expiration date (relative to the Commitment Termination
Date) of, any Letter of Credit; changes in any manner the obligations of Lenders
relating to the purchase of participations in Letters of Credit; or changes in
any manner the provisions contained in subsection 10.1 or this subsection 13.6
shall be effective only if evidenced by a writing signed by or on behalf of all
Lenders. In addition, (i) any
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amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any of the provisions
contained in Section 6 shall be effective only if evidenced by a writing signed
by or on behalf of Agents and Requisite Lenders, (ii) no amendment,
modification, termination or waiver of any provision of any Note shall be
effective without the written concurrence of the Lender which is the holder of
that Note, (iii) no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any
provision relating to the Swing Line Loans (including, without limitation, the
provisions of subsection 2.1A(iii)) shall be effective without the written
concurrence of the Swing Line Lender, and (iv) no amendment, modification,
termination or waiver of any provision of Section 11 or of any other provision
of this Agreement which, by its terms, expressly requires the approval or
concurrence of Agents shall be effective without the written concurrence of each
Agent. Agents may, but shall have no obligation to, with the concurrence of any
Lender, execute amendments, modifications, waivers or consents on behalf of that
Lender. Any waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance
and for the specific purpose for which it was given. No notice to or demand on
any Borrower in any case shall entitle such Borrower to any other or further
notice or demand in similar or other circumstances. Any amendment, modification,
termination, waiver or consent effected in accordance with this subsection 13.6
shall be binding upon each Lender at the time outstanding, each future Lender
and, if signed by any Borrower, on such Borrower.
13.7 INDEPENDENCE OF COVENANTS.
All covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so
that if a particular action or condition is not permitted by any of such
covenants, the fact that it would be permitted by an exception to, or would
otherwise be within the limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the
occurrence of an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default if such action
is taken or condition exists.
13.8 NOTICES.
Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or
other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be in writing
and may be personally served, telexed or sent by telecopy or United States or
Canadian mail or courier service and shall be deemed to have been given when
delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt of telecopy or telex, or
three Business Days after depositing it in the United States or Canadian mail
with postage prepaid and properly addressed; provided that notices to
Agents shall not be effective until received. For the purposes hereof, the
address of each party hereto shall be as set forth under such party's name on
the signature pages hereof or (i) as to Borrowers and Agents, such other address
as shall be designated by any such Person in a written notice delivered to the
other parties hereto and (ii) as to each other party, such other address as
shall be designated by such party in a written notice delivered to Documentation
Agent.
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13.9 SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS.
A. All representations, warranties and agreements made herein
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the
Loans and the issuance of the Letters of Credit hereunder.
B. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or implied by law
to the contrary, the agreements of the applicable Borrower set forth in
subsections 2.6D, 3.5A, 5.1, 13.2 and 13.3 and the agreements of Lenders set
forth in subsections 11.2C, 11.4 and 13.5 shall survive the payment of the Loans
and Acceptances, the cancellation or expiration of the Letters of Credit, and
the termination of this Agreement.
13.10 FAILURE OR INDULGENCE NOT WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
No failure or delay on the part of any Agent or any Lender in
the exercise of any power, right or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan
Document shall impair such power, right or privilege or be construed to be a
waiver of any default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude other or further
exercise thereof or of any other power, right or privilege. All rights and
remedies existing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are
cumulative to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies otherwise available.
13.11 MARSHALLING; PAYMENTS SET ASIDE.
Neither Agents nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to
marshal any assets in favor of any Borrower or any other party or against or in
payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that any Borrower makes
a payment or payments to any Agent or Lender (or to any Agent for the benefit of
Lenders), or any Agent or Lender enforce any security interests or exercise its
rights of setoff, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such
enforcement or setoff or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared
to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside and/or required to be repaid to a
trustee, receiver or any other party under any bankruptcy law, any other state
or federal law, common law or any equitable cause, then, to the extent of such
recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied,
and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor or related thereto, shall be revived
and continued in full force and effect as if such payment or payments had not
been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
13.12 SEVERABILITY.
In case any provision in or obligation under this Agreement, the
Notes, the Acceptances or any Letter of Credit shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in
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any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other
jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
13.13 OBLIGATIONS SEVERAL; INDEPENDENT NATURE OF LENDERS' RIGHTS AND
BORROWERS' OBLIGATIONS.
(A) The obligations of Lenders hereunder are several and no
Lender shall be responsible for the obligations or Commitment of any other
Lender hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other Loan Document, and no
action taken by Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to
constitute Lenders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any
other kind of entity. The amounts payable at any time hereunder to each Lender
shall be a separate and independent debt, and each Lender shall be entitled to
protect and enforce its rights arising out of this Agreement and it shall not be
necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any
proceeding for such purpose.
(B) No Canadian Borrower shall have any obligation for
extensions of credit made to any other Borrower except as a result of the Canada
Safeway Guaranty or the Lucerne Guaranty, as applicable.
13.14 HEADINGS.
Section and subsection headings in this Agreement are included
herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this
Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.
13.15 APPLICABLE LAW.
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THE NEXT SUCCEEDING SENTENCE, THIS
AGREEMENT AND EACH NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES. MATTERS
PERTAINING TO DRAFTS AND ACCEPTANCES SHALL, TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE, BE
GOVERNED BY THE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ACT (CANADA).
13.16 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and
their respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the
parties hereto and the successors and assigns of Lenders (it being understood
that Lenders' rights of
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assignment are subject to subsection 13.1). No Borrower's rights or obligations
hereunder or any interest therein may be assigned or delegated by any Borrower
without the prior written consent of all Lenders.
13.17 CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS.
ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY BORROWER ARISING
OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR ANY
OBLIGATION MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS
AGREEMENT EACH BORROWER ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS
PROPERTIES, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE
AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND IRREVOCABLY
AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT, SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR SUCH OBLIGATION. Each Borrower hereby
agrees that service of all process in any such proceeding in any such court may
be made by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to such
Borrower at its address provided in subsection 13.8, such service being hereby
acknowledged by such Borrower to be sufficient for personal jurisdiction in any
action against such Borrower in any such court and to be otherwise effective and
binding service in every respect. Nothing herein shall affect the right to serve
process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right of any
Lender to bring proceedings against any Borrower in the courts of any other
jurisdiction.
13.18 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
EACH OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS
RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR
ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY DEALINGS
BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS LOAN TRANSACTION OR THE
LENDER/BORROWER RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED. The scope of this waiver
is intended to be all-encompassing of any and all disputes that may be filed in
any court and that relate to the subject matter of this transaction, including
without limitation contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty claims and all
other common law and statutory claims. Each party hereto acknowledges that this
waiver is a material inducement to enter into a business relationship, that each
has already relied on this waiver in entering into this Agreement, and that each
will continue to rely on this waiver in their related future dealings. Each
party hereto further warrants and represents that it has reviewed this waiver
with its legal counsel and that it knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury
trial rights following consultation with legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS
IRREVOCABLE
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AND MAY NOT BE MODIFIED ORALLY BUT MAY BE MODIFIED ONLY IN A WRITTEN INSTRUMENT,
SIGNED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS
SUBSECTION 13.18. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS,
RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENTS OR TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS OR AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE LOANS
MADE HEREUNDER. In the event of litigation, this Agreement may be filed as a
written consent to a trial by the court.
13.19 CONFIDENTIALITY.
Each Lender shall hold all non-public information obtained
pursuant to the requirements of this Agreement which has been identified as
confidential by Company in accordance with such Lender's customary procedures
for handling confidential information of this nature and in accordance with safe
and sound banking practices, it being understood and agreed by each Borrower
that in any event a Lender may make disclosures reasonably required by any bona
fide assignee, transferee or participant in connection with the contemplated
assignment or transfer by such Lender of any Loans or any participation therein,
as long as such Lenders informs such assignee, transferee or participant of the
existence and content of this subsection 13.19 and such Person agrees to be
bound hereby, or as required or requested by any governmental agency or
representative thereof or pursuant to legal process; provided that,
unless specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, each Lender
shall notify Company of any request by any governmental agency or representative
thereof (other than any such request in connection with any examination of the
financial condition of such Lender by such governmental agency) for disclosure
of any such non-public information prior to disclosure of such information; and
provided, further that in no event shall any Lender be obligated
or required to return any materials furnished by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
13.20 JUDGMENT CURRENCY.
(a) If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it
is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in any currency (the "ORIGINAL
CURRENCY") into another currency (the "OTHER CURRENCY"), the parties hereto
agree, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that the rate of exchange used
shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the
Documentation Agent could purchase the Original Currency with the Other Currency
on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which any such judgment, or
any relevant part thereof, is paid or otherwise satisfied.
(b) The obligations of each Borrower in respect of any sum due
from it to the Lenders hereunder shall, notwithstanding any judgment in such
Other
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Currency, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following
receipt by the Documentation Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Other
Currency the Documentation Agent may in accordance with normal banking
procedures purchase the Original Currency with the Other Currency; if the
Original Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the
Lenders in the Original Currency, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation
and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Lenders against such
loss, and if the amount of the Original Currency so purchased exceeds the sum
originally due to the Lenders in the Original Currency, the Lenders shall remit
such excess to such Borrower.
13.21 COUNTERPARTS; EFFECTIVENESS.
This Agreement and any amendments, waivers, consents or
supplements hereto or in connection herewith may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such
counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument;
signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached
to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to
the same document. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a
counterpart hereof by each of the parties hereto and receipt by Company and
Documentation Agent of written or telephonic notification of authorization of
delivery thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.
BORROWERS: SAFEWAY INC.
By: /s/
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Title: Group Vice President-Finance
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Notice Address:
Safeway Inc.
4th & Jackson Street
Oakland, California 94660
Telecopy: (510) 452-2306
Attention: Melissa Plaisance
CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED
By: /s/
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Title: Assistant Treasurer
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Notice Address:
Canada Safeway Limited
c/o Safeway Inc.
4th & Jackson Street
Oakland, California 94660
Telecopy: (510) 452-2306
Attention: Melissa Plaisance
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LUCERNE FOODS LTD.
By: /s/
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Title: Assistant Treasurer
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Notice Address:
Lucerne Foods Ltd.
c/o Safeway Inc.
4th & Jackson Street
Oakland, California 94660
Telecopy: (510) 452-2306
Attention: Melissa Plaisance
LENDERS: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as a Domestic Lender and as Administrative
Agent
By: /s/ Robert R. Telesca
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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Notice Address:
Bankers Trust Company
c/o BT Securities Corporation
300 South Grand Avenue, 41st Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 620-8484
Attention: Mr. Bob Kolb
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BT BANK OF CANADA, TORONTO,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: President & CEO
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By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
BT Bank of Canada
Royal Bank Plaza, North Tower
200 Bay Street, Suite 1700
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5J 2J2
Telecopy: (416) 865-9931
Attention: Mr. Robert Vogtle
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
as a Domestic Lender and a Canadian Lender and
as Documentation Agent
By: /s/
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Title: Officer
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Notice Address:
The Bank of Nova Scotia
101 California Street, 48th Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
Telecopy: (415) 397-0791
Attention: Mr. John Quick
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THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A.,
as a Domestic Lender and as Co-Agent
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, 5th Floor
New York, New York 10081
Telecopy: (212) 552-7075
Attention: Ms. Ellen Gertzog
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK OF CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
The Chase Manhattan Bank of Canada
150 King Street West
Suite 1600, Box 68
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5H 1J9
Telecopy: (416) 585-3370
Attention: Mr. Arun Bery
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CHEMICAL BANK,
as a Domestic Lender and as Co-Agent
By: /s/ William J. Caggiano
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Title: Managing Director
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Notice Address:
Chemical Bank
270 Park Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, New York 10017
Telecopy: (212) 972-0009
Attention: Mr. William J. Caggiano
CHEMICAL BANK OF CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Chemical Bank
100 Yonge Street, Suite 900
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5C 2W1
Telecopy: (416) 594-2240
Attention: Mr. Robert Webb
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CITICORP USA, INC.,
as a Domestic Lender and as Co-Agent
By: /s/ Barbara A. Cohen
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Citicorp USA
399 Park Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, New York 10043
Telecopy: (212) 793-7585
Attention: Mr. Bill Stengle
CITIBANK CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Citibank Canada
Cantera Tower #4210
400 3rd Avenue, SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2P 4H2
Telecopy: (403) 294-0601
Attention: Mr. Steve Baillie
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BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS
ASSOCIATION, as a Domestic Lender and as Lead
Manager
By: /s/ Steven F. Sterling
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Bank of America
SF Credit Products #3838
555 California Street, 41st Floor
San Francisco, California 94104
Telecopy: (415) 622-4585
Attention: Mr. Steve Sterling
BANK OF AMERICA CANADA, as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Bank of America
855 2nd Street, S.W., Suite 1900
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2P 4J7
Telecopy: (403) 232-8848
Attention: Mr. Douglas Linkletter
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BANK OF MONTREAL,
as a Domestic Lender and a Canadian Lender and
as Lead Manager
By: /s/
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Title: Managing Director
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Notice Address:
Bank of Montreal
601 South Figueroa Street, Suite 4900
Los Angeles, California 90017
Telecopy: (213) 239-0680
Attention: Mr. Brad Fox
CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
as a Domestic Lender and a Canadian Lender and
as Lead Manager
By: /s/
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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Notice Address:
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
300 South Grand Avenue, 27th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 617-1696
Attention: Mr. Paul Mohme
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CREDIT LYONNAIS LOS ANGELES BRANCH,
as a Domestic Lender and as Lead Manager
By: /s/ Thierry Vincent
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Title: Vice President
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
Credit Lyonnais
515 South Flower Street, Suite 2200
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 623-3437
Attention: Mr. Francois Coussot
CREDIT LYONNAIS CAYMAN ISLAND BRANCH,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Thierry Vincent
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Title: Authorized Signatory
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Notice Address:
Credit Lyonnais
515 South Flower Street, Suite 2200
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 623-3437
Attention: Mr. Francois Coussot
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CREDIT LYONNAIS CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Credit Lyonnais Canada
Suite 1670 Bow Valley Square I
202 Sixth Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2P 2R9
Telecopy: (403) 263-4095
Attention: Mr. Bob McCutcheon
UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON,
as a Domestic Lender and as Lead Manager
By: /s/ Janet Jordan
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
United States National Bank of Oregon
111 SW Oak Street, PL-4
Portland, Oregon 97204
Telecopy: (503) 275-5428
Attention: Ms. Janet Jordan
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THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED, SAN
FRANCISCO AGENCY, as a Domestic Lender and as
Lead Manager
By: /s/ Seigo Makino
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Title: Joint General Manager
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Notice Address:
The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited,
San Francisco Agency
101 California Street, Suite 4000
San Francisco, California 94111
Telecopy: (415) 788-7868
Attention: Mr. Gil Madrid
DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK (CANADA), as a Canadian
Lender
By: /s/ M. Takemoto
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Title: Vice President Planning and
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Corporate Banking
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (Canada)
Commerce Court West
P.O. Box 295, Suite 5025
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5L 1H9
Telecopy: (416) 365-7314
Attention: Mr. Robin Dunbar
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NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
a Domestic Lender and as Lead Manager
By: /s/
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Title: Senior Vice President
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Notice Address:
NationsBank
444 South Flower Street, Suite 1500
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 624-5815
Attention: Ms. Michele Shafroth
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,
as a Domestic Lender and a Canadian Lender and
as Lead Manager
By: /s/
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Title: Senior Manager
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Notice Address:
Royal Bank of Canada
600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 800
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 955-5350
Attention: Mr. Bernard J. Belliveau
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THE SUMITOMO BANK, LIMITED, SAN FRANCISCO
BRANCH, as a Domestic Lender and as Lead
Manager
By: /s/
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Title: General Manager
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Notice Address:
The Sumitomo Bank, Limited, San Francisco Branch
555 California Street, Suite 3350
San Francisco, California 94104
Telecopy: (415) 397-1475
Attention: Mr. Azar Shakeri
THE SUMITOMO BANK OF CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Senior Vice President
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By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
The Sumitomo Bank of Canada
Ernst and Young Tower, Suite 1400
Toronto Dominion Centre
P.O. Box 172
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5K 1H6
Telecopy: (416) 367-3565
Attention: Mr. Alfred Lee
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UNION BANK,
as a Domestic Lender and as Lead Manager
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
Union Bank
350 California Street, 11th Floor
San Francisco, California 94104
Telecopy: (415) 705-7085
Attention: Ms. Cecilia Valente
THE BANK OF TOKYO CANADA, VANCOUVER OFFICE,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
The Bank of Tokyo Canada, Vancouver Office
2410 Park Place, 666 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6C 3L1
Telecopy: (604) 691-7311
Attention: Mr. Ivan J. Hopkins
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ABN AMRO BANK N.V.,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Dianne D. Waggoner
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Title: Group Vice President
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By: /s/
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Title: Senior Vice President
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Notice Address:
ABN AMRO Bank, N.V.
San Francisco International Branch
101 California Street, Suite 4550
San Francisco, California 94111
Telecopy: (415) 362-3524
Attention: Ms. Dianne Waggoner
ABN AMRO BANK CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/ Christopher Duggan
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Title: Vice President
-----------------------------------
By: /s/ P. K. Chan
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Title: Manager, Credit Dept.
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Notice Address:
ABN AMRO Bank Canada
2500-650 W. Georgia St.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6B 4N8
Telecopy: (604) 682-2936
Attention: Pat Jones
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BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Judith A. Dowling
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Title: Vice President
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By: /s/ William A. La Horran
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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Notice Address:
Banque Nationale de Paris
180 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California 94104
Telecopy: (415) 296-8954
Attention: Ms. Katherine Wolfe
BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS (CANADA),
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Credit Manager
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By: /s/ Tom W. Currie
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Title: Vice President Corporate Banking
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Notice Address:
Banque Nationale de Paris
36 Toronto Street, Suite 750
Toronto, Ontario M5C 2C5
Telecopy: (416) 947-3541
Attention: Ms. Angela Edwards
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THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/
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Title: General Manager
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Notice Address:
The Fuji Bank
601 California Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, California 94108
Telecopy: (415) 362-4613
Attention: Ms. Suzanne Stitt
FUJI BANK CANADA,
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/ John E. Bailey
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Title: Senior Vice President
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Notice Address:
Fuji Bank Canada
BCE Place
Canada Trust Tower, Suite 2800
P.O. Box 609
161 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5J 2S1
Telecopy: (416) 865-9618
Attention: Mr. William Saunders
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THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED,
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY, as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Deputy General Manager
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Notice Address:
Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited
555 California Street, Suite 3110
San Francisco, California 94104
Telecopy: (415) 982-1917
Attention: Ms. Jeanette O'Donnell
THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN (CANADA),
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Executive Vice President &
-----------------------------------
General Manager
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
Industrial Bank of Japan
650 West Georgia Street, Suite 2420
P.O. Box 11539
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6B 4N7
Telecopy: (604) 688-7079
Attention: Mr. Robert MacKinnon
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THE SAKURA BANK, LIMITED, SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Ken-ichi Sato
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Title: General Manager
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Notice Address:
The Sakura Bank, Limited
345 California Street, Suite 1100
San Francisco, California 94104
Telecopy: (415) 765-0860
Attention: Ms. Sandy Bertram
SAKURA BANK (CANADA),
as a Canadian Lender
By: /s/
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Title: Executive Vice President
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Notice Address:
Sakura Bank
3131 Three Bentall Centre
595 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V7X 1L4
Telecopy: (604) 688-3593
Attention: Mr. Jim Gallagher
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Joan D. Winstein
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Title: Vice President
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
The First National Bank of Chicago
One First National Plaza
Chicago, Illinois 60670
Telecopy: (312) 732-4840
Attention: Ms. Marilyn Fisher
FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Adolph F. Chang
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Title: Vice President
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Notice Address:
First Hawaiian Bank
1132 Bishop Street, 19th Floor
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Telecopy: (808) 525-6372
Attention: Mr. Adolph Chang
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Robert Louk
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Title: Vice President
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
10990 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 1700
Los Angeles, California 90024
Telecopy: (310) 996-8667
Attention: Mr. Bob Louk
THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED,
LOS ANGELES AGENCY, as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/
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Title:
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Notice Address:
The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited
444 South Flower Street, Suite 3700
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 622-6908
Attention: Mr. Danielle Egerer
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THE MITSUI TRUST & BANKING CO., LTD., LOS
ANGELES AGENCY, as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Ken Takahashi
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Title: General Manager & Agent
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
The Mitsui Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
611 West 6th Street, Suite 3800
Los Angeles, California 90017
Telecopy: (213) 688-7962
Attention: Mr. Bill Claybaugh
THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK, LTD., LOS ANGELES
AGENCY, as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Bernardo E. Correa-Henschke
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Title: Vice President & Manager
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
The Nippon Credit Bank, Ltd.,
Los Angeles Agency
550 South Hope Street, Suite 2500
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telecopy: (213) 892-0111
Attention: Ms. Helen Rhee
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SOCIETE GENERALE,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ J. Blaine Shaum
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Title: Regional Manager
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
Societe Generale
2029 Century Park East, Suite 2900
Los Angeles, California 90067
Telecopy: (310) 203-0539
Attention: Safeway Account Officer
THE TOKAI BANK, LTD., LOS ANGELES AGENCY,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Masahiko Saito
-----------------------------------
Title: Asst. General Manager
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Notice Address:
The Tokai Bank, Ltd., Los Angeles Agency
534 West 6th Street
Los Angeles, California 90014
Telecopy: (213) 892-2818
Attention: Mr. Poebus Hon
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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as a Domestic Lender
By: /s/ Alan W. Barkley
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Title: Vice President
-----------------------------------
Notice Address:
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
420 Montgomery Street, 9th Floor
San Francisco, California 94163
Telecopy: (415) 421-1352
Attention: Mr. Alan W. Barkley
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SCHEDULE 2.1
LENDERS, COMMITMENTS AND PRO RATA SHARES
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DOMESTIC DOMESTIC PRO CANADIAN CANADAIN PRO AGGREGATE PRO
LENDER COMMITMENT RATA SHARE COMMITMENT RATA SHARE RATA SHARE
- ------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY $60,000,000 8.000000% 0 0% 5.217392%
BT BANK OF CANADA, TORONTO 0 0% $20,000,000 5.000000% 1.739130%
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $40,000,000 5.333333% $40,000,000 10.000000% 6.956522%
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK $30,000,000 4.000000% 0 0% 2.608696%
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
OF CANADA 0 0% $30,000,000 7.500000% 2.608696%
CHEMICAL BANK $30,000,000 4.000000% 0 0% 2.608696%
CHEMICAL BANK OF CANADA 0 0% $30,000,000 7.500000% 2.608696%
CITICORP USA, INC. $30,000,000 4.000000% 0 0% 2.608696%
CITIBANK CANADA 0 0% $30,000,000 7.500000% 2.608696%
BANK OF AMERICA NT&SA $25,000,000 3.333333% 0 0% 2.173913%
BANK OF AMERICA CANADA 0 0% $25,000,000 6.250000% 2.173913%
BANK OF MONTREAL $25,000,000 3.333333% $25,000,000 6.250000% 4.347826%
CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK
OF COMMERCE $25,000,000 3.333333% $25,000,000 6.250000% 4.347826%
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $25,000,000 3.333333% $25,000,000 6.250000% 4.347826%
THE SUMITOMO BANK, LIMITED $25,000,000 3.333333% 0 0% 2.173913%
THE SUMITOMO BANK OF CANADA 0 0% $25,000,000 6.250000% 2.173913%
THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK,
LIMITED $30,000,000 4.000000% 0 0% 2.608696%
DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK
(CANADA) 0 0% $20,000,000 5.000000% 1.739130%
UNION BANK $30,000,000 4.000000% 0 0% 2.608696%
THE BANK OF TOKYO CANADA 0 0% $20,000,000 5.000000% 1.739130%
CREDIT LYONNAIS $25,000,000 3.333333% 0 0% 2.173913%
CREDIT LYONNAIS CANADA 0 0% $25,000,000 6.250000% 2.173913%
NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, N.A. $40,000,000 5.333333% 0 0% 3.478261%
U.S. NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON $40,000,000 5.333333% 0 0% 3.478261%
THE SAKURA BANK, LIMITED $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
SAKURA BANK (CANADA) 0 0% $10,000,000 2.500000% 0.869566%
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. $15,000,000 2.000000% 0 0% 1.304348%
ABN AMRO BANK CANADA 0 0% $15,000,000 3.750000% 1.304348%
BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS
(CANADA) 0 0% $10,000,000 2.500000% 0.869566%
THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
FUJI BANK CANADA 0 0% $10,000,000 2.500000% 0.869566%
INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LTD. $15,000,000 2.000000% 0 0% 1.304348%
INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN CANADA 0 0% $15,000,000 3.750000% 1.304348%
THE BANK OF NEW YORK $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF CHICAGO $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF
JAPAN, LIMITED $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
THE MITSUI TRUST & BANKING
CO., LTD. $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK, LTD. $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
SOCIETE GENERALE $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
THE TOKAI BANK, LTD. $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. $20,000,000 2.666667% 0 0% 1.739130%
TOTAL $750,000,000 100.000000% $400,000,000 100.000000% 100.000000%
</TABLE>
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SCHEDULE 3.1
SAFEWAY INC.
LETTERS OF CREDIT
AS OF 05/16/95
A. ISSUED BY BANKERS TRUST CO. (UNDER THE BANK CREDIT AGREEMENT)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXPIRATION
L/C NO. AMOUNT DATE BENEFICIARY
- ------- ------ ---- -----------
<S> <C> <C> <C>
S-00818 11,750,358 01/29/96 PRUDENTIAL
S-03539 10,936,037 04/05/96 STATE STREET BANK
S-08045 13,713,472 11/02/95 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08271 2,062,192 02/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08272 2,617,397 03/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08273 1,639,178 02/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08883 2,955,808 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08884 2,855,342 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08885 2,030,466 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-08901 1,057,534 10/15/95 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09037 1,485,836 03/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09038 2,220,822 03/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09120 4,468,082 03/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09121 2,289,562 03/02/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09188 2,606,822 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09189 2,405,260 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXPIRATION
L/C NO. AMOUNT DATE BENEFICIARY
- ------- ------ ---- -----------
<S> <C> <C> <C>
S-09190 2,844,137 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09262 2,675,562 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09288 2,543,370 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09289 5,033,863 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09290 2,437,616 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09291 3,912,876 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09440 1,258,466 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09441 2,078,055 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
S-09810 3,082,712 06/01/96 BANK AMERICA NAT'L TRUST
TOTAL $92,960,825
===========
</TABLE>
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SCHEDULE 7.1
SAFEWAY INC.
SCHEDULE OF SUBSIDIARIES (Note 1)
Safeway Inc.
SUBSIDIARIES OF SAFEWAY INC.
(Tier I subsidiaries):
*Safeway U.S. Holdings, Inc.
*Safeway Canada Holdings, Inc.
Safeway Australia Holdings, Inc.
Safeway Netherlands Antilles Finance Corp.
Salvage, Inc.
Oakland Property Brokerage, Inc.
Glencourt, Inc.
Safeway International DISC, Inc.
Safeway Foreign Sales, Inc.
Milford Insurance Ltd.
Pak 'N Save, Inc.
SUBSIDIARIES OF TIER I SUBSIDIARIES
(Tier II subsidiaries):
Subsidiaries of Safeway U.S. Holdings, Inc.:
Safeway Trucking, Inc.
Photo Acquisition I, Inc.
Photo Acquisition II, Inc.
Safeway Southern California, Inc.
*Safeway Denver, Inc.
Safeway Richmond, Inc.
*Safeway Dallas, Inc.
Safeway Supply, Inc.
Safeway Corporate, Inc.
Safeway Stores 42, Inc.
Safeway Stores 43, Inc.
Safeway Stores 64, Inc.
Safeway Claim Services, Inc.
Safeway Stores, Incorporated
Safeway Warehouse, Inc.
Property Development Associates (80% owned)
<PAGE> 166
SCHEDULE 7.1
SAFEWAY INC.
SCHEDULE OF SUBSIDIARIES (Note 1)
Subsidiaries of Safeway Canada Holdings, Inc.:
*Safeway New Canada, Inc.
*Material Subsidiary
Note 1. All listed subsidiaries are wholly owned by Safeway Inc. or its
subsidiaries, except where otherwise noted.
(Continued)
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SCHEDULE 7.1
SAFEWAY INC.
SCHEDULE OF SUBSIDIARIES (Note 1)
SUBSIDIARIES OF TIER II SUBSIDIARIES
(Tier III subsidiaries):
Subsidiaries of Safeway Southern California, Inc.
Safeway Stores 18, Inc.
Safeway Stores 26, Inc.
Safeway Stores 28, Inc.
Safeway Stores 31, Inc.
Subsidiaries of Safeway Denver, Inc.
Safeway Stores 44, Inc.
Safeway Stores 45, Inc.
Safeway Stores 46, Inc.
Safeway Stores 47, Inc.
Safeway Stores 48, Inc.
Safeway Stores 49, Inc.
Safeway Stores 50, Inc.
Subsidiaries of Safeway Richmond, Inc.
Safeway Stores 58, Inc.
Safeway Stores 59, Inc.
Subsidiaries of Safeway Corporate, Inc.
Safeway Stores 67, Inc.
Safeway Stores 68, Inc.
Safeway Stores 69, Inc.
Safeway Stores 70, Inc.
Subsidiaries of Safeway Supply, Inc.
Safeway Stores 71, Inc.
Safeway Stores 72, Inc.
Safeway Stores 73, Inc.
Safeway Stores 74, Inc.
Safeway Stores 75, Inc.
Safeway Stores 76, Inc.
Safeway Stores 77, Inc.
<PAGE> 168
SCHEDULE 7.1
SAFEWAY INC.
SCHEDULE OF SUBSIDIARIES (Note 1)
Consolidated Procurement Services, Inc.
Southern Missouri Charcoal Company
Note 1. All listed subsidiaries are wholly owned by Safeway Inc. or its
subsidiaries, except where otherwise noted.
(Continued)
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SCHEDULE 7.1
SAFEWAY INC.
SCHEDULE OF SUBSIDIARIES (Note 1)
Subsidiaries of Safeway Dallas, Inc.
Safeway Stores 78, Inc.
Safeway Stores 79, Inc.
Safeway Stores 80, Inc.
Safeway Stores 81, Inc.
Safeway Stores 82, Inc.
Safeway Stores 85, Inc.
Safeway Stores 86, Inc.
Safeway Stores 87, Inc.
Safeway Stores 88, Inc.
Safeway Stores 89, Inc.
Safeway Stores 90, Inc.
Safeway Stores 91, Inc.
Safeway Stores 92, Inc.
Safeway Stores 96, Inc.
Safeway Stores 97, Inc.
Safeway Stores 98, Inc.
Subsidiaries of Photo Acquisition I, Inc.
Everett Realty Advisors, Inc.
SUBSIDIARIES OF TIER II SUBSIDIARIES (Non-tier Subsidiaries):
Subsidiary of Safeway New Canada, Inc.:
Canada Safeway Limited and its subsidiaries:
Safeway International Finance Corp. of Canada Ltd.
Lucerne Foods Ltd.
SUBSIDIARIES OF TIER III SUBSIDIARIES (Tier IV Subsidiaries):
Subsidiary of Safeway Stores 58, Inc.:
Safelease, Inc.
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SCHEDULE 7.1
SAFEWAY INC.
SCHEDULE OF SUBSIDIARIES (Note 1)
Ten companies are not listed as they are maintained solely for the purpose of
holding licenses.
Note 1. All listed subsidiaries are wholly owned by Safeway Inc. or its
subsidiaries, except where otherwise noted.
<PAGE> 171
SAFEWAY, INC.
SCHEDULE 7.5
LEGAL MATTERS
In July 1988, there was a major fire at the Company's dry grocery warehouse in
Richmond, California. Through January 27, 1995, approximately 125,000 claims
for personal injury and property damage arising from the fire had been settled
for an aggregate amount of approximately $119 million. The Company's loss as a
result of the fire damage to its property and settlement of the above claims was
substantially covered by insurance.
As of January 27, 1995, there were still pending approximately 2,600 claims
against the Company for personal injury (including punitive damages) and
approximately 2,500 separate claims against the Company for property damage
arising from the smoke, ash and embers generated by the fire. A substantial
percentage of these claims have been asserted in lawsuits against the Company
filed in the Superior Court for Alameda County, California. Although no persons
died or were injured in the fire itself, the claims include wrongful death
actions based on the grounds that pre-existing health conditions were aggravated
by smoke, ash or embers from the fire. There can be no assurance that the
pending claims will be settled or otherwise disposed of for amounts and on terms
comparable to those settled to date. The Company's excess insurance carrier
asserted that its liability policy does not cover third-party claims against the
Company arising from the fire because of the policy's pollution exclusion and
notice provisions in the exclusion. In 1994, a panel of arbitrators in London
rendered a decision in Safeway's favor, ruling that Safeway is entitled to be
indemnified by the carrier under the policy.
In February 1988, the Company sold its Kansas City Division to a company formed
by Morgan, Lewis, Githen & Ahn Fund I and financed principally by the Prudential
Insurance Company of America. In January 1993, the buyer (Food Barn Stores,
Inc.) filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the U. S. Bankruptcy Code,
and the plan of reorganization was confirmed in July 1994. In January 1995,
Food Barn filed suit against the Company and others in the U. S. Bankruptcy
Court for the Western District of Missouri. In its complaint, Food Barn alleges
that (i) the 1988 transaction was a fraudulent conveyance under New York law and
(ii) the Company defrauded Food Barn and fraudulently induced it to enter into
the February 1988 transaction. Food Barn seeks compensatory damages estimated
to approximate $216 million plus interest, and $100 million in punitive damages.
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Exhibit 11.1
SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Computation of Earnings Per Common Share
and Common Share Equivalent
(In millions, except per-share amounts)
(Unaudited)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
12 WEEKS ENDED
--------------------------------------
JUNE 17, 1995 JUNE 18, 1994
------------------ -----------------
FULLY FULLY
DILUTED PRIMARY DILUTED PRIMARY
------- ------- ------- -------
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Income before extraordinary loss $ 68.7 $ 68.7 $ 58.9 $ 58.9
Extraordinary loss - - (7.4) (7.4)
------ ------ ------ ------
Net income $ 68.7 $ 68.7 $ 51.5 $ 51.5
====== ====== ====== ======
Weighted average common shares outstanding 105.9 105.8 102.9 102.6
Common share equivalents 14.4 14.4 19.0 19.0
------ ------ ------ ------
Weighted average common shares and common
share equivalents 120.3 120.2 121.9 121.6
====== ====== ====== ======
Earnings per common share and common
share equivalent:
Income before extraordinary loss $ 0.57 $ 0.57 $ 0.48 $ 0.48
Extraordinary loss - - (0.06) (0.06)
------ ------ ------ ------
Net income $ 0.57 $ 0.57 $ 0.42 $ 0.42
====== ====== ====== ======
Calculation of common share equivalents:
Options and warrants to purchase common shares 22.2 22.3 28.2 28.5
Common shares assumed purchased with potential
proceeds (7.8) (7.9) (9.2) (9.5)
------ ------ ------ ------
Common share equivalents 14.4 14.4 19.0 19.0
====== ====== ====== ======
Calculation of common shares assumed purchased with
potential proceeds:
Potential proceeds from exercise of options and
warrants to purchase common shares $285.2 $284.3 $230.8 $231.2
Common stock price used under the treasury
stock method $36.50 $35.78 $25.13 $24.46
------ ------ ------ ------
Common shares assumed purchased with
potential proceeds 7.8 7.9 9.2 9.5
====== ====== ====== ======
</TABLE>
(Continued)
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SAFEWAY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Exhibit 11.1
Computation of Earnings Per Common Share
and Common Share Equivalent (Continued)
(In millions, except per-share amounts)
(Unaudited)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
24 WEEKS ENDED
-------------------------------------
JUNE 17, 1995 JUNE 18, 1994
----------------- -----------------
FULLY FULLY
DILUTED PRIMARY DILUTED PRIMARY
------- ------- ------- -------
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Income before extraordinary loss $130.7 $130.7 $100.8 $100.8
Extraordinary loss - - (7.4) (7.4)
------ ------ ------ ------
Net income $130.7 $130.7 $ 93.4 $ 93.4
====== ====== ====== ======
Weighted average common shares outstanding 105.9 105.5 102.9 102.1
Common share equivalents 15.0 15.1 19.0 19.2
------ ------ ------ ------
Weighted average common shares and common
share equivalents 120.9 120.6 121.9 121.3
====== ====== ====== ======
Earnings per common share and common
share equivalent:
Income before extraordinary loss $ 1.08 $ 1.08 $ 0.83 $ 0.83
Extraordinary loss - - (0.06) (0.06)
------ ------ ------ ------
Net income $ 1.08 $ 1.08 $ 0.77 $ 0.77
====== ====== ====== ======
Calculation of common share equivalents:
Options and warrants to purchase common shares 22.8 23.3 28.1 28.9
Common shares assumed purchased with potential
proceeds (7.8) (8.2) (9.1) (9.7)
------ ------ ------ ------
Common share equivalents 15.0 15.1 19.0 19.2
====== ====== ====== ======
Calculation of common shares assumed purchased with
potential proceeds:
Potential proceeds from exercise of options and
warrants to purchase common shares $285.8 $284.4 $229.6 $228.6
Common stock price used under the treasury
stock method $36.50 $34.75 $25.13 $23.53
------ ------ ------ ------
Common shares assumed purchased with
potential proceeds 7.8 8.2 9.1 9.7
====== ====== ====== ======
</TABLE>
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SAFEWAY INC. Exhibit 12.1
COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
(dollars in millions)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
24 Weeks Fiscal Year
------------------ ---------------------------------------------------
June 17, June 18,
1995 1994 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
-------- -------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Income before income taxes, extraordinary loss $231.3 $176.9 $424.1 $216.3 $197.4 $166.2 $194.7
and cumulative effect of accounting changes
Add interest expense 96.7 108.5 221.7 265.5 290.4 355.4 384.1
Add interest on rental expense(a) 40.0 40.2 86.6 88.0 88.0 83.0 82.0
Less equity in earnings of unconsolidated
affiliates (7.8) (18.4) (27.3) (33.5) (39.1) (45.8) (25.5)
Less gain on common stock offering by
unconsolidated affiliate - - - - - (27.4) -
Add minority interest in subsidiary 1.7 1.3 3.0 3.5 1.7 1.3 1.4
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Earnings $361.9 $308.5 $708.1 $539.8 $538.4 $532.7 $636.7
====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ======
Interest expense $ 96.7 $108.5 $221.7 $265.5 $290.4 $355.4 $384.1
Add capitalized interest 2.0 1.3 2.9 4.2 8.0 10.6 3.3
Add interest on rental expense(a) 40.0 40.2 86.6 88.0 88.0 83.0 82.0
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Fixed charges $138.7 $150.0 $311.2 $357.7 $386.4 $449.0 $469.4
====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ======
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges 2.61 2.06 2.28 1.51(b) 1.39 1.19(c) 1.36
====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ======
</TABLE>
(a) Based on a 10% discount factor on the estimated present value of future
operating lease payments.
(b) Safeway's ratio of earnings to fixed charges during 1993 was adversely
affected by a $54.9 million charge to operating and administrative
expenses for severance payments made to retail employees in the Alberta,
Canada division as part of a voluntary employee buyout. Excluding this
charge, the ratio of earnings to fixed charges for 1993 would have been
1.66.
(c) Safeway's ratio of earnings to fixed charges for 1991 was adversely
affected by a $115 million charge to operating profit in connection with
the bankruptcy of AppleTree Markets, Inc. ("AppleTree"). The $115
million charge was an estimate of the eventual net lease and related
cash payments which Safeway expected to make over a period of up to 16
years in connection with any liability Safeway may have on the leases
assigned to AppleTree as part of the sale of the Company's former
Houston division. Excluding this charge, the ratio of earnings to fixed
charges for 1991 would have been 1.44.
22
<TABLE> <S> <C>
<ARTICLE> 5
<LEGEND>
THIS SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM (A) THE
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS AND THE CONDOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
ON PAGES 3 THROUGH 5 OF THE COMPANY'S FORM 10-Q FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED
JUNE 17, 1995 AND IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH (B)
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
</LEGEND>
<MULTIPLIER> 1,000
<S> <C>
<PERIOD-TYPE> 6-MOS
<FISCAL-YEAR-END> DEC-30-1995
<PERIOD-START> JAN-1-1995
<PERIOD-END> JUN-17-1995
<CASH> 28,200
<SECURITIES> 0
<RECEIVABLES> 159,600
<ALLOWANCES> 0
<INVENTORY> 1,087,500
<CURRENT-ASSETS> 1,383,000
<PP&E> 4,498,200
<DEPRECIATION> 1,980,100
<TOTAL-ASSETS> 4,969,700
<CURRENT-LIABILITIES> 1,796,300
<BONDS> 1,962,300
<COMMON> 1,100
0
0
<OTHER-SE> 662,000
<TOTAL-LIABILITY-AND-EQUITY> 4,969,700
<SALES> 7,385,700
<TOTAL-REVENUES> 7,385,700
<CGS> 5,382,700
<TOTAL-COSTS> 5,382,700
<OTHER-EXPENSES> 0
<LOSS-PROVISION> 0
<INTEREST-EXPENSE> 96,700
<INCOME-PRETAX> 231,300
<INCOME-TAX> 100,600
<INCOME-CONTINUING> 130,700
<DISCONTINUED> 0
<EXTRAORDINARY> 0
<CHANGES> 0
<NET-INCOME> 130,700
<EPS-PRIMARY> 1.08
<EPS-DILUTED> 1.08
</TABLE>
