TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Section 9.01.  Appointment and Authorization of Administrative Agent	60
Section 9.02.  Rights and Powers of Administrative Agent as a Lender	60
Section 9.03.  Limited Duties and Responsibilities of Administrative Agent	60
Section 9.04.  Authority of Administrative Agent to Rely on Certain Writings, Statements and Advice	60
Section 9.05.  Sub-Agents and Related Parties	61
Section 9.06.  Resignation; Successor Administrative Agent	61
Section 9.07.  Credit Decisions by Lenders	61
Section 9.08.  Administrative Agent’s Fee	61
Section 9.09.  Other Agents	62

Section 10.01.  Organization; Powers	62
Section 10.02.  Authorization	62
Section 10.03.  Enforceability	62
Section 10.04.  Taxes	62

Section 11.01.  The Guaranty	63
Section 11.02.  Guaranty Unconditional	63
Section 11.03.  Discharge Only Upon Payment in Full; Reinstatement in Certain Circumstances	64
Section 11.04.  Waiver by the Company	64
Section 11.05.  Subrogation	64
Section 11.06.  Stay of Acceleration	64
Section 11.07.  Continuing Guaranty	64

Section 12.01.  Notices	64
Section 12.02.  Waivers; Amendments	66
Section 12.03.  Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver	68
Section 12.04.  Successors and Assigns	69
Section 12.05.  Survival	73
Section 12.06.  Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness	74
Section 12.07.  Severability	74
Section 12.08.  Right of Set-off	74

 

 

Section 12.09.  Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process	75
Section 12.10.  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL	75
Section 12.11.  Judgment Currency	76
Section 12.12.  Headings	76
Section 12.13.  Confidentiality	76
Section 12.14.  USA Patriot Act Notification	77
Section 12.15.  No Fiduciary Duty	77
Section 12.16.  Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-in of EEA Financial Institutions	78

 

 

 

SCHEDULES
Schedule 2.01A	–	Commitments
Schedule 2.01B	–	Swingline Commitments
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A	–	Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit B-1	–	Form of Opinion of Company’s External Counsel
Exhibit B-2	–	Form of Opinion of Company’s Internal Counsel
Exhibit B-3A	–	Form of Opinion of Original Subsidiary Borrowers’ Counsel (United Kingdom)
Exhibit B-3B	–	Form of Opinion of Original Subsidiary Borrowers’ Counsel (Netherlands)
Exhibit C	–	Form of Opinion of Eligible Subsidiary’s Counsel
Exhibit D	–	Form of Election to Participate
Exhibit E	–	Form of Election to Terminate
Exhibit F	–	Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit G	–	Form of Commitment Increase Supplement
Exhibit H	–	Form of New Lender Supplement

 

364-DAY CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of September 5, 2017 among CUMMINS INC., the SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS referred to herein, the LENDERS party hereto, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Swingline Lender and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., CITIBANK, N.A., HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and ING BANK N.V., DUBLIN BRANCH, as Swingline Lenders (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”).

 

The parties hereto agree as follows:

 

 

 

“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

 

“ABR Margin” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21.

 

 “Adjusted LIBO Rate” means (a) with respect to any Euro-Currency Borrowing denominated in Dollars for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to (i) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (ii) the Statutory Reserve Rate and (b) with respect to any Euro-Currency Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period.

 

“Administrative Agent” means JPMCB and its Affiliates, as applicable, in each case in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, provided that the rights of the Administrative Agent under Article 8, Section 12.02 and Section 12.04 shall be exercised solely by JPMCB (or its successors) in its capacity as Administrative Agent.

 

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

 

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

 

“Agents” means the Administrative Agent and each Syndication Agent.

 

“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest Period on such day (or if such day is not a Euro-Dollar Business Day, on the immediately preceding Euro-Dollar Business Day) plus 1%, provided that for the purpose of this definition, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the LIBO Screen Rate (or if the LIBO Screen Rate is not available for such one month Interest Period, the Interpolated Rate) at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day.  Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.

 

 

“Alternative Currency” means Euro or Pound Sterling.

 

“Alternative Currency Loan” means a Loan that is made in an Alternative Currency pursuant to the applicable Borrowing Request (or request pursuant to Section 2.04).  Any Loan made in the currency of a Participating Member State before the date on which such Participating Member State adopts the Euro as its currency (the “Entry Date”) and still outstanding on the Entry Date shall be prepaid on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto on the Entry Date.

 

“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to Credit Parties or their respective subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

 

“Applicable Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, (a) in the case of its ABR Loans, its Domestic Lending Office, (b) in the case of its Euro-Currency Loans, its Euro-Currency Lending Office and (c) in the case of its Swingline Loans, its Swingline Lending Office.

 

“Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the total Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment; provided that in the case of Section 2.23 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Applicable Percentage” shall mean the percentage of the total Commitments (disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) represented by such Lender’s Commitment.  If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments and to any Lender’s status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination.

 

“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any ABR Loan or Euro-Currency Loan, or with respect to the commitment fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable ABR Margin or Euro-Currency Margin or the Commitment Fee Rate, respectively, in each case as determined for such day in accordance with Section 2.21.

 

“Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04.

 

“Approved Jurisdiction” means (i) the United States, (ii) England and Wales in the United Kingdom, (iii) the Netherlands and (iv) any other jurisdiction approved for this purpose by each of the Lenders.

 

“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of each party whose consent is required by Section 12.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent and the Company.

 

 

 “Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Commitment Termination Date and the date of termination of the Commitments in whole.

 

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

 

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

 

“Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, such Person becomes the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment, provided that, for avoidance of doubt, a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of (i) any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof or (ii) in the case of a solvent person, the precautionary appointment of an administrator, guardian, custodian or other similar official by a Governmental Authority under or based on the law of the country where such Person is subject to home jurisdiction supervision if applicable law requires that such appointment not be publicly disclosed, in any such case, where such action does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any obligations of such Person hereunder.

 

“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.

 

“BofA” means Bank of America, N.A., a national banking association.

 

“Borrower” means the Company or any Subsidiary Borrower, as the context may require, and their respective successors, and “Borrowers” means all of the foregoing.  When used in relation to any Loan, references to “the Borrower” are to the particular Borrower to which such Loan is or is to be made.

 

“Borrowing” means (a) Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Euro-Currency Loans, denominated in the same currency and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, (b) a Swingline Loan, or (c) from and after the Term Loan Conversion Date, any Revolving Loans converted into Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.09(a) of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Euro-Currency Loans, denominated in the same currency and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

 

 

“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.

 

“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP as in effect on the date of this Agreement (without giving effect to the phase-in of the effectiveness of any amendments to GAAP that have been adopted as of the date of this Agreement), and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date of this Agreement (without giving effect to the phase-in of the effectiveness of any amendments to GAAP that have been adopted as of the date of this Agreement).

 

“Change in Control” means that (a) any Person or group of persons within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of 30% or more of the outstanding common stock of the Company or (b) individuals who constitute the Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the board of directors of the Company (which, for the purpose of this definition, shall be deemed not to mean any committee of the board of directors of the Company).

 

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

 

“Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans.

 

“CLO” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04.

 

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

 

“Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate Dollar Amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.25 and (c) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 12.04.  The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01A, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable.  The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Commitments is $1,000,000,000.

 

 

“Commitment Fee Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21.

 

“Commitment Increase” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25(a).

 

“Commitment Increase Supplement” means a supplement to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G attached hereto.

 

“Commitment Termination Date” means September 4, 2018.

 

“Company” means Cummins Inc., an Indiana corporation.

 

“Consolidated” means, as applied to any financial or accounting term with respect to any Person, such term determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP for such Person and all consolidated subsidiaries thereof.

 

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) consolidated interest expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period, (iv) any unusual and/or non-recurring losses, costs, expenses and charges for such period and any other non-cash losses, costs, expenses and charges for such period, (v) any loss for such period of any joint venture accounted for on the equity method (except to the extent the Company or a Subsidiary actually made an investment in such joint venture during such period to offset such loss) and (vi) Consolidated EBITDA Addbacks in an aggregate amount not to exceed $300,000,000 during any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, and minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income, (i) any unusual and non-recurring gains for such period and (ii) any income of any such joint venture for such period, except to the extent that dividends or other distributions were actually paid by such joint venture to the Company or a Subsidiary during such period, all determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.  For the purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period, if during such period the applicable Person or any of its subsidiaries shall have consummated a Specified Transaction (as defined below), Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Specified Transaction occurred on the first day of such period.  For purposes hereof, “Specified Transaction” means any transaction or series of related transactions resulting in (a) the acquisition or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of a Person, or of any business or division of a Person, (b) the acquisition or disposition of in excess of 50% of the Equity Interests of any Person or (c) a merger or consolidation or any other combination with another Person (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries).

 

 

“Consolidated EBITDA Addbacks” means (a) fees, costs, expenses, reserves and charges relating to restructurings, including business organization expenses, costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities, retention charges and recruiting, relocation, severance and signing bonuses and expenses, (b) fees, costs, expenses and charges for such period in connection with (i) any issuance or incurrence of indebtedness or equity, (ii) any acquisition or investment and (iii) any divestiture and (c) losses, costs and expenses arising from or in connection with discontinued operations or casualty events.

 

 “Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net earnings (loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, computed and Consolidated in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Consolidated Subsidiary” means, at any date, any Subsidiary or other entity the accounts of which would be Consolidated with those of the Company in its Consolidated financial statements if such statements were prepared as of such date.

 

“Continuing Director” means any member of the board of directors of the Company who is (i) a director of the Company on the date of this Agreement, (ii) nominated by the board of directors of the Company or (iii) appointed or otherwise approved by directors referred to in clauses (i) and (ii).

 

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

 

“Credit Party” means the Company and each other Borrower.

 

“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

 

“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Domestic Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans, (ii) fund all or any portion of its participations in Swingline Loans or (iii) pay over to any Lender Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s reasonable determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Company or the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with all or any portion of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s reasonable determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Domestic Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent or the Company, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Swingline Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon the Administrative Agent’s or the Company’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it, or (d) has become (or has a Parent that has become) the subject of a Bankruptcy Event and/or a Bail-In Action.

 

 

“Disqualified Institution” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04.

 

“Dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.

 

“Dollar Amount” means, at any time:

 

 

 

“Dollar-Denominated Loan” means a Loan that is made in Dollars.

 

“Dollar-Denominated Revolving Borrowing” means a Revolving Borrowing denominated in Dollars.

 

“Domestic Business Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized by law to close.

 

“Domestic Lending Office” means, as to each Lender, its office located at its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Domestic Lending Office) or such other office as such Lender may hereafter designate as its Domestic Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Administrative Agent.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 12.02).

 

 

“Election to Participate” means an Election to Participate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

 

“Election to Terminate” means an Election to Terminate substantially in the form of Exhibit E.

 

“Eligible Subsidiary” means any Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiary organized under the laws of an Approved Jurisdiction (i) as to which an Election to Participate shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and (ii) as to which an Election to Terminate with respect to such Election to Participate shall not have been delivered to the Administrative Agent.  Each such Election to Participate and Election to Terminate shall be duly executed on behalf of such Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiary and the Company in such number of copies as the Administrative Agent may request.  If at any time a Subsidiary theretofore designated as an Eligible Subsidiary no longer qualifies as a Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiary, the Company shall cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent an Election to Terminate terminating the status of such Subsidiary as an Eligible Subsidiary.  The delivery of an Election to Terminate shall not affect any obligation of an Eligible Subsidiary theretofore incurred or the Company’s guarantee thereof.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice to the Lenders of the receipt of any Election to Participate or Election to Terminate.

 

“Environmental Laws” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, or the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material.

 

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

 

“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest.

 

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

 

“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Company, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.

 

 

“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived), (b) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan, (c) the incurrence by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan, (d) the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, (e) the incurrence by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (f) the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, “insolvent” within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in “endangered” or in “critical” status within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA; (g) a determination that any Plan is or is reasonably expected to be in “at risk” status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (h) the conditions contained in Section 303(k)(1)(A) of ERISA for imposition of a lien shall have been met with respect to any Plan; (i) the cessation of operations at a facility of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; or (j) a Foreign Plan Event.

 

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

 

“Euro” means the single currency of the Participating Member States.

 

“Euro-Currency”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate (except pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of “Alternate Base Rate”).

 

“Euro-Currency Business Day” means a Euro-Dollar Business Day; provided that (a) when used in connection with an Alternative Currency Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, the term “Euro-Currency Business Day” shall exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in deposits in the applicable currency in the London interbank market and (b) when used in connection with any Loan denominated in Euro, the term “Euro-Currency Business Day” shall exclude any day on which the TARGET2 payment system is not open for the settlement of payment in Euro.

 

“Euro-Currency Lending Office” means, as to each Lender, its office, branch or affiliate located at its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Euro-Currency Lending Office) or such other office, branch or affiliate of such Lender as it may hereafter designate as its Euro-Currency Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Administrative Agent; provided that any Lender may from time to time by notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent designate separate Euro-Currency Lending Offices for its Loans in different currencies and/or to different Borrowers, in which case all references herein to the Euro-Currency Lending Office of such Lender shall be deemed to refer to any or all of such offices, as the context may require.

 

 

“Euro-Currency Loan” means a Euro-Dollar Loan or an Alternative Currency Loan.

 

“Euro-Currency Margin” means the applicable rate determined in accordance with Section 2.21.

 

“Euro-Dollar”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing made in Dollars, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate (except pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of “Alternate Base Rate”).

 

“Euro-Dollar Business Day” means any Domestic Business Day on which commercial banks are open for international business (including dealings in Dollar deposits) in London.

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article 8.

 

“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower under any Loan Document, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States or by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its Applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America, or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a) above, (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Company under Section 2.19(b)), any withholding tax that (i) is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new Applicable Lending Office), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new Applicable Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from any Borrower with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.16(a) or (ii) is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.16(e), (f) and (g), and (d) Taxes resulting from FATCA.

 

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.

 

“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions, as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate, provided that if the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

 

“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer.

 

 “Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States.

 

“Foreign Plan” shall mean any benefit plan maintained or contributed to by the Company or any Subsidiary that, under applicable law other than the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, is required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle other than a trust or funding vehicle maintained exclusively by a Governmental Authority.

 

“Foreign Plan Event” shall mean, with respect to any Foreign Plan, (a) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable law, or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from a Governmental Authority; (b) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable law, on or before the due date for such contributions or payments; (c) the receipt of a notice by a Governmental Authority relating to the intention to terminate any such Foreign Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar official to administer any such Foreign Plan, or alleging the insolvency of any such Foreign Plan; (d) the incurrence of any liability by the Company or any Subsidiary under applicable law on account of the complete or partial termination of such Foreign Plan or the complete or partial withdrawal of any participating employer therein; or (e) the occurrence of any transaction that is prohibited under any applicable law and that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any liability by the Company or any Subsidiary, or the imposition on the Company or any Subsidiary of any fine, excise tax or penalty resulting from any noncompliance with any applicable law.

 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as described in Section 1.04.

 

“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation, any supranational body or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government, including any applicable supranational bodies (such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

 

“Guarantee” of or by any Person means, without duplication, any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment of such Indebtedness, (b) to purchase property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness of the payment of such Indebtedness or (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness; provided, however, that, the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.  It is understood and agreed that the amount of any Guarantee of or by any Person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) the amount of Indebtedness in respect of which such Guarantee exists and (b) the maximum amount for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee.

 

 

“Hazardous Materials”  means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

“Increase Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25(a).

 

“Increasing Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25(b).

 

“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property or assets purchased by such Person, (e) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services, (f) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed, (g) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (i) all obligations of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances and (j) net obligations under Swap Agreements.  The Indebtedness of any Person shall also include the Indebtedness of any partnership in which such Person is a general partner, except to the extent that recourse against such general partner (as a general partner) has been contractually waived or limited.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Indebtedness”, in respect of the Company and its Subsidiaries, shall not include (i) deferred compensation and employee benefit obligations for officers and employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) trade and similar payables and accrued expenses or liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business, (iii) any customary earnout or holdback in connection with an acquisition not prohibited by this Agreement, (iv) any obligations in respect of customer advances held in the ordinary course of business, (v) performance bonds, performance guarantees or similar obligations (or contingent reimbursement obligations in respect of bank guarantees or letters of credit in lieu thereof) entered into in the ordinary course of business or (vi) any Indebtedness that has been discharged and/or defeased, provided that funds in an amount equal to all such Indebtedness (including interest and any other amounts required to be paid to the holders thereof in order to give effect to such discharge and/or defeasance) have been irrevocably deposited with a trustee for the benefit of the relevant holders of such Indebtedness.  If any Indebtedness is limited to recourse against a particular asset or assets of a Person, the amount of the corresponding Indebtedness shall be equal to the lesser of the amount of such Indebtedness and the fair market value of such asset or assets, as determined by the Company in good faith, at the date for determination of the amount of such Indebtedness.  For all purposes of this Agreement, the amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be calculated without duplication of guaranty obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary in respect thereof.

 

 

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower under this Agreement.

 

“Information Memorandum” means the confidential information memorandum dated July 2017 relating to the Company and the Transactions.

 

“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.

 

“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December, (b) with respect to any Euro-Currency Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Euro-Currency Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period and (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.

 

“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Euro-Currency Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the same day of the next week (herein, a “weekly period”) or on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three, or six months, or (subject to the availability to each Lender of matching deposits for such periods in the London interbank market) twelve months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided that: (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Euro-Currency Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Euro-Currency Business Day unless (except in the case of a weekly period) such next succeeding Euro-Currency Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Euro-Currency Business Day; and (b) any Interest Period (other than a weekly period) pertaining to a Euro-Currency Borrowing that commences on the last Euro-Currency Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Euro-Currency Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period.  For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter, other than for purposes of Section 4.02, shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

 

“Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent demonstrable error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available for the applicable currency) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period; and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that LIBO Screen Rate is available for the applicable currency) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.

 

 

“JPMCB” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association.

 

“Lender Party” means the Administrative Agent, any Swingline Lender or any other Lender.

 

“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01A and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lenders.

 

“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Euro-Currency Borrowing for any Interest Period, the LIBO Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Euro-Currency Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (or, in the case of a Swingline Borrowing, on the date of commencement of such Interest Period), as the rate for deposits in Dollars or the relevant Alternative Currency with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period; provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available for such Interest Period for such currency at such time (an “Impacted Interest Period”) but rates are then available on the Screen for other periods for such currency, then the LIBO Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate.

 

“LIBO Screen Rate” means, for any day and time, with respect to any Euro-Currency Borrowing for any Interest Period, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for Dollars for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on such day and time on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters Screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or Screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion), provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in or on such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset, but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any operating lease.

 

“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, any amendment thereto, each Election to Participate and any promissory notes issued to any Lender hereunder.

 

“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement.

 

“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, operations or financial condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Company to perform any of its material obligations under the Loan Documents or (c) the validity or enforceability of, or the rights of or remedies available to the Lenders under, the Loan Documents; provided, however, that events, circumstances, changes, effects or conditions with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries disclosed in any Form 10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to September 5, 2017 shall not constitute a “Material Adverse Effect” to the extent so disclosed.

 

 

“Maturity Date” means the Commitment Termination Date, unless a Term Loan Election has been made and the Term Loan Conversion Date has occurred, in which case “Maturity Date” means the first anniversary of the Commitment Termination Date.

 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

 

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or with respect to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has any liability.

 

“New Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25(b).

 

“New Lender Supplement” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.25(c).

 

“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

 

“NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Euro-Currency Business Day, for the immediately preceding Euro-Currency Business Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Euro-Currency Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate quoted for such day for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day received by the Administrative Agent from a federal funds broker unaffiliated with the Administrative Agent of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

 

“Original Subsidiary Borrower” means each of Cummins Ltd., a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, Cummins Power Generation Ltd., a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, Cummins Generator Technologies Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, CMI Global Equity Holdings C.V., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the Netherlands, Cummins Global Financing LP, a limited partnership organized under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, Cummins EMEA Holdings Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, Cummins International Holdings Cooperatief U.A., a company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, CIFC Worldwide Partner C.V., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the Netherlands, Power Group International (Overseas Holdings) Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, CMI UK Financing LP, a limited partnership organized under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, CMI UK Finance LP, a limited partnership organized under the laws of England and Wales in the United Kingdom, CMI Africa Holdings B.V., a company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, and CMI Global Equity Holdings B.V., a company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands.  The Company may, by delivery to the Administrative Agent of an Election to Terminate, terminate the status of any of the above-listed Subsidiaries as an Original Subsidiary Borrower.  The delivery of an Election to Terminate shall not affect any obligation of an Original Subsidiary Borrower theretofore incurred or the Company’s guarantee thereof.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice to the Lenders of the receipt of any such Election to Terminate.

 

 

“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document.

 

“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Euro-Currency borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Euro-Dollar Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate (from and after such date as the NYFRB shall commence to publish such composite rate).

 

“Parent” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person as to which such Lender is, directly or indirectly, a subsidiary.

 

“Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.04.

 

“Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04(c).

 

“Participating Member States” means those members of the European Union from time to time which adopt a single, shared currency.

 

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.

 

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

 

“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA, and in respect of which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

 

“Pound Sterling” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

 

“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMCB as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City.  Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.

 

“Priority Indebtedness” shall mean, at any time, without duplication, (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Company then outstanding which Indebtedness is secured by Liens on property and assets of the Company or any Subsidiary (other than Indebtedness secured by Liens described in (a) through (l) of Section 6.01), and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Indebtedness of all Subsidiaries (other than (x) Indebtedness hereunder, (y) Indebtedness of Subsidiaries payable to the Company or any Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiary and (z) any unsecured Guarantee of Indebtedness issued by the Company; provided that such Subsidiary shall also have guaranteed the obligations hereunder on or prior to the date on which such Guarantee is given).

 

 

“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.04.

 

“Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board, as the same is from time to time in effect, and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

 

“Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board, as from time to time in effect, and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

 

“Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board, as from time to time in effect, and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

 

“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

 

“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments at such time or, from and after the Term Loan Conversion Date, Lenders holding Loans representing more than 50% of the aggregate outstanding Dollar Amount of the Loans at such time (exclusive in each case of the Commitment(s), Revolving Credit Exposure(s) and Loan(s), as applicable, of Defaulting Lenders).

 

“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding Dollar Amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans and the aggregate Dollar Amount of its Swingline Exposure at such time.

 

“Revolving Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.03.

 

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.

 

“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions.

 

“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or Canada and (b) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clause (a).

 

 

“Sanctions” means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Canada or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.

 

“Screen” means (a) with respect to Dollar-Denominated Loans, the Reuters “LIBOR01” screen displaying the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration and (b) with respect to Alternative Currency Loans, the Reuters screen selected by the Administrative Agent that displays rates for interbank deposits in the appropriate Alternative Currency or, in the case of either (a) or (b), any successor or substitute screen provided by Reuters, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such screen, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion (and consistent with any such determination by the Administrative Agent generally under substantially similar credit facilities for which it acts as administrative agent) for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to deposits in the London interbank market.

 

“Securitization Financing” means, at any date, the aggregate amount of financing raised through securitization transactions by the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries and outstanding at such date to the extent the same do not give rise to Indebtedness of the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary.

 

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary (which term, as used in this definition, includes such Subsidiary’s subsidiaries) which meets any of the following conditions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Spot Rate” means, for any Alternative Currency on any day, the average of the Administrative Agent’s spot buying and selling rates for the exchange of such Alternative Currency and Dollars as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) on such day.

 

“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D).  Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to Regulation D.  Euro-Currency Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under Regulation D or any comparable regulation.  The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

 

“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (herein referred to as the “parent”), any corporation, association or other business entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the ordinary voting power are, at the time any determination is being made, owned, controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

 

“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company.

 

“Subsidiary Borrower” means each Original Subsidiary Borrower and each Eligible Subsidiary, and “Subsidiary Borrowers” means all or any combination of the foregoing as the context may require.

 

“Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company or the Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.

 

“Swingline Commitment” means as to any Lender (i) the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01B hereof or (ii) if such Lender has entered into an Assignment and Assumption, the amount set forth for such Lender as its Swingline commitment in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12.04(b)(iv).

 

“Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate Dollar Amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time.  The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be the sum of (a) its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at such time related to Swingline Loans other than any Swingline Loans made by such Lender in its capacity as a Swingline Lender and (b), if such Lender shall be a Swingline Lender, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans made by such Lender outstanding at such time (to the extent that the other Lenders shall not have funded their participations in such Swingline Loans).

 

 

“Swingline Lender” means each of BofA, Citibank, N.A. or any of its affiliates, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., ING Bank N.V., Dublin Branch and JPMCB in its capacity as lender of Swingline Loans hereunder.

 

“Swingline Lending Office” means, as to each Swingline Lender, its office located at its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Swingline Lending Office) or such other office as such Swingline Lender may hereafter designate as its Swingline Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Administrative Agent.

 

“Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.

 

“Syndication Agent” means each of BofA, Citibank, N.A., HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and ING Bank N.V., Dublin Branch in its capacity as syndication agent in respect of this Agreement.

 

“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

 

“Term Loan” means a Revolving Loan converted into a term loan under Section 2.09(a).

 

“Term Loan Conversion Date” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 2.09(a).

 

“Term Loan Election” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 2.09(a).

 

 “Total Debt” means the Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, Consolidated in accordance with GAAP; provided that the term “Total Debt” shall in any event exclude (i) contingent obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of letters of credit, unless such letter of credit supports other Indebtedness of any Person other than the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (ii) net obligations under Swap Agreements.

 

“Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by the Credit Parties of the Loan Documents and the borrowing of Loans hereunder.

 

“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.

 

“United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America, including the States thereof and the District of Columbia, but excluding its territories and possessions.

 

“Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiary” means any Consolidated Subsidiary all of the shares of capital stock or other ownership interests of which (except directors’ qualifying shares) are at the time owned by the Company or one or more Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiaries.

 

 

“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

 

“Withholding Agent” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(a).

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)  Subject to Section 2.13, each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Euro-Currency Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith.  Each Lender at its option may make any Euro-Currency Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

(c)  At the time that any Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be (1) in the case of a Dollar-Denominated Revolving Borrowing, in an aggregate Dollar Amount that is not less than $10,000,000 and an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and (2) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency, in an aggregate amount in such Alternative Currency that is not less than 10,000,000 units of such Alternative Currency and an integral multiple of 1,000,000 units of such Alternative Currency; provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments.  Each Swingline Loan shall be in a Dollar Amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000, or, in the case of a Swingline Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, in an amount in such Alternative Currency that is an integral multiple of 100,000 units of such Alternative Currency and not less than 500,000 units of such Alternative Currency.  Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of ten Euro-Currency Borrowings outstanding.

 

(d)   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If no election as to the Type of Revolving Borrowing denominated in Dollars is specified, then the requested Revolving Borrowing shall be a Euro-Dollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of one month’s duration.  If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Euro-Currency Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.  Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

 

 

(b)  To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the applicable Swingline Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such request by telephone (confirmed by facsimile or electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable Swingline Lender), (i) in the case of an Alternative Currency Borrowing or a Euro-Dollar Borrowing, at its London office no later than 12:00 (noon) London time on the date of the proposed Swingline Loan (provided that the Borrower shall confirm such request by facsimile (or electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable Swingline Lender) no later than 12 (noon) London time on the date of the proposed Swingline Loan), and (ii) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Loan.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Domestic Business Day in the case of Dollar-Denominated Loans or a Euro-Currency Business Day in the case of an Alternative Currency Loan), currency and amount of the requested Swingline Loan and the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which the funds are to be disbursed.  Each Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan to be made by it available to the Borrower by means of a credit to the account designated by the Borrower for such purpose by (i) 4:00 p.m. London time, in the case of Alternative Currency Loans and (ii) 4:00 p.m., New York City time, in the case of Dollar-Denominated Loans, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.

 

 

(c)  Any Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than (i) 10:00 a.m., London time, on any Euro-Currency Business Day, in the case of Alternative Currency Loans or (ii) 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Domestic Business Day, in the case of Dollar-Denominated Loans, require the Lenders to acquire participations on such Euro-Currency Business Day or Domestic Business Day (as applicable) in all or a portion of its Swingline Loans outstanding.  Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Lenders will participate.  Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans.  Each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans.  Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.  Each Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to such Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to such Swingline Lender.  Any amounts received by such Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by such Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to such Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to such Swingline Lender or to the Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason.  The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request.

 

Each Lender may, at its option, make any Loan available to any Borrower not organized in the United States by causing any foreign or domestic branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of such Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

(b)  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount.  In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Effective Rate (if such amount was distributed in Dollars) or the rate per annum at which one‑day deposits in the relevant currency are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in the London interbank market (if such amount was distributed in an Alternative Currency).

 

 

(b)  To make an election pursuant to Section 2.07(a) in respect of a Revolving Borrowing or a Term Loan Borrowing, the applicable Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Revolving Borrowing Request for a Revolving Borrowing would be required under Section 2.03 if such Borrower were requesting a Dollar-Denominated Loan of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election.  Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the applicable Borrower.

 

 

(c)  Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information:

 

 

 

 

 

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Euro-Dollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the applicable Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

 

(d)  Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

 

(e)  If the applicable Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Euro-Dollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing, as the case may be, shall be continued as a Euro-Dollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of one month’s duration.  Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the applicable Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Euro-Dollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Euro-Dollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

 

(f)  Each Revolving Loan that is an Alternative Currency Loan shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in the applicable Borrowing Request.  Thereafter, the applicable Borrower may elect to continue such Revolving Borrowing or, if applicable from and after the Term Loan Conversion Date, any Term Loan Borrowing and may elect Interest Periods therefor, by notifying the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time and at the office that a Revolving Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if such Borrower were requesting an Alternative Currency Loan to be made on the effective date of such election.  The applicable Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Revolving Borrowing or, if applicable, Term Loan Borrowing (each in a minimum Dollar Amount of $10,000,000), in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising any such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.  Promptly following receipt of such Interest Election Request the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.  If the applicable Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to an Alternative Currency Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or any Interest Election Request fails to specify an Interest Period, then unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, such Borrower shall be deemed to have elected a subsequent Interest Period of one month’s duration.

 

 

 

(b)  The Company may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $10,000,000 and (ii) the Company shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 2.10, the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders would exceed the total Commitments.

 

(c)  The Company shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least five Domestic Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof.  Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof.  Each notice delivered by the Company pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Commitments delivered by the Company may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Company (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.  Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent.  Each reduction of the Commitments under this Section 2.08 shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments.

 

 

(a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan on the Maturity Date, and (ii) to each Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each of its Swingline Loans on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date which is 15 Domestic Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made. The Company may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent given not fewer than 10 Domestic Business Days prior to the Commitment Termination Date, elect (such election, the “Term Loan Election”), effective as of the Commitment Termination Date (the “Term Loan Conversion Date”), to convert all or a ratable portion of the Revolving Loans outstanding on the Term Loan Conversion Date into Term Loans which the applicable Borrower shall repay in full ratably to the Lenders on the first anniversary of the Commitment Termination Date; provided that the Term Loan Election may not be exercised unless the conditions set forth in Section 4.04 are satisfied on the Term Loan Conversion Date.  The conversion notice delivered by the Company shall specify: (x) the Type of the Term Loan Borrowing effective on the Term Loan Conversion Date and (y) in the case of a Euro-Currency Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto.  In the event that less than all of the Revolving Loans outstanding on the Commitment Termination Date are converted into Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.09(a), any outstanding Revolving Loans not so converted shall be repaid in full on the Commitment Termination Date. The aggregate Commitment will terminate on the Commitment Termination Date and all commitment fees pursuant to Section 2.11(a) shall cease to accrue on the Commitment Termination Date.  All Revolving Loans converted into Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.09(a) shall continue to constitute Loans following the Term Loan Conversion Date except that the Borrowers may not thereafter reborrow pursuant to Section 2.01 after all or any portion of such Loans have been prepaid pursuant to Section 2.10 on or after the Commitment Termination Date.

 

 

(b)  Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.

 

(c)  The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the currency and amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the applicable Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.

 

(d)  The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

(e)  Any Lender may request that Loans made by it to any Borrower be evidenced by a promissory note.  In such event, such Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender and its registered assigns and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.  Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 12.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein and its registered assigns.

 

 

(b)  The applicable Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the applicable Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Euro-Dollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Euro-Dollar Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an Alternative Currency Borrowing, to its London office not later than 11:00 a.m. London time three Euro-Currency Business Days before the date of prepayment, (iii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Revolving Borrowing or ABR Term Loan Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Domestic Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iv) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time (London time if such Swingline Loan is denominated in Alternative Currencies or made to a Borrower other than the Company), on the date of prepayment.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.08.  Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Revolving Borrowing or a Term Loan Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof.  Each partial prepayment of any Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Revolving Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02.  Each prepayment under this Section 2.10 shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing.  Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12.

 

 

 

(b)  All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders entitled thereto.  Fees paid in accordance with this Section 2.11 shall not be refundable under any circumstances.

 

 

(b)  The Loans comprising each Euro-Currency Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.

 

(c)  The Loans comprising each Swingline Borrowing shall bear interest, at the election of the applicable Borrower, at (x) solely in the case of Swingline Loans denominated in Dollars, the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate, (y) the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would be applicable to Euro-Currency Loans in the applicable currency with a one-month Interest Period commencing on the date such loan is made, plus the Applicable Rate, or (z) prior to any funding by the Lenders of their participations therein pursuant to Section 2.04(c), at such other rate as shall from time to time be agreed between the applicable Swingline Lender and the applicable Borrower.

 

 

(d)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by any Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of or interest on any Loan, 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.

 

(e)  Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan, on the Maturity Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Euro-Dollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

 

(f)  All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that (i) interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year) and (ii) interest computed with respect to Loans denominated in Pound Sterling shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days, and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).  The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

 

(a)  the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for deposits in the relevant currency for such Interest Period; or

 

(b)  the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate applicable to Euro-Currency Borrowings in the relevant currency for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

 

 

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Company and the Lenders by telephone or facsimile as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Company and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist (which the Administrative Agent shall do promptly after becoming aware thereof), (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing to, or continuation of any Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing as, a Euro-Currency Borrowing of the affected currency shall be ineffective and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Euro-Currency Borrowing in the affected currency, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing in an equal Dollar Amount.

 

 

 

 

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) of making or maintaining any Euro-Currency Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Swingline Loan or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Company will pay (or will cause the relevant Borrower to pay) to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

 

(b)  If any Lender determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Swingline Loans held by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Company will pay (or will cause the relevant Borrower to pay) to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

 

(c)  If a Change in Law shall subject any Lender to any Taxes (other than Indemnified Taxes and Excluded Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations hereunder, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto, and the result shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Company will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

 

 

(d)  A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section and the calculation of such amount or amounts in reasonable detail shall be delivered to the Company and shall be conclusive absent clearly demonstrable error; provided that such Lender shall not be required to disclose any information to the extent prohibited by law or regulation.  The Company or the relevant Borrower, as the case may be, shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate free of clearly demonstrable error within 15 days after receipt thereof. In requesting any compensation pursuant to this Section, each Lender will use good faith efforts to treat the applicable Borrower in substantially the same manner as such Lender treats other similarly situated borrowers under similar circumstances.

 

(e)  Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation, as the case may be; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 2.14 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 90 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s claim to receive compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 90-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

 

 

 

 

(b)  In addition, each Credit Party shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

(c)  The relevant Credit Party shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of such Credit Party under the Loan Documents (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided that the relevant Credit Party shall not be obligated to indemnify the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, pursuant to this Section in respect of penalties, interest or similar liabilities arising therefrom or with respect thereto to the extent such penalties, interest or similar liabilities are attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the relevant Credit Party by a Lender or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent clearly demonstrable error.

 

(d)  As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by any Credit Party to a Governmental Authority, such Credit Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

 

(e)  Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Company (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate.  In addition, any Lender, if requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to any withholding (including backup withholding) or information reporting requirements.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.16(f), (g), (h) and (i) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

 

(f)  Without limiting the foregoing, at the times indicated herein, each Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, provide the Company and the Administrative Agent with duly and accurately executed originals of Internal Revenue Service form W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, W-8IMY (accompanied by a form W-8ECI, W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E or W-9 and other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable) or W-8ECI (in each case accompanied by any statements which may be required under applicable Treasury regulations), as appropriate, or any successor form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement (i) without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income Taxes or (ii) subject to a reduced rate of United States federal withholding Tax.  Such forms shall be provided (x) on or prior to the date of the Lender’s execution and delivery of this Agreement in the case of each Lender listed on the signature pages hereof, and on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Lender in the case of each other Lender, and (y) on or before the date that such form expires or becomes obsolete or after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form so delivered by the Lender.

 

(g)  Any Lender that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), duly and accurately executed originals of Internal Revenue Service form W-9 certifying, to the extent such Lender is legally entitled to do so, that such Lender is not subject to U.S. federal backup withholding Tax.  For the avoidance of doubt, such Tax is an “Excluded Tax”.

 

 

(h)  If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Company or the Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA, to determine that such Lender has or has not complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.  Solely for the purposes of this Section 2.18(h), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement, whether or not included in the definition of FATCA.

 

(i)  Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

 

(j)  If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Borrower or with respect to which any Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.16, it shall pay over such refund to such Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by such Borrower under this Section 2.16 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses with respect to such refund of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that such Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.

 

(k)  Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the applicable Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the such Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 12.04(c) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (k).

 

(l)  Each party’s obligations under this Section 2.16 shall survive any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations under this Agreement.

 

 

 

 

(b)  If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal then due to such parties.

 

 

(c)  If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set‑off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Revolving Loans or participations in Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Revolving Loans and participations in Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Revolving Loans and participations in Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Revolving Loans and participations in Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by any Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply).  Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.

 

(d)  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Company or the applicable Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders that a Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders, the amount due.  In such event, if such Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate (if such distribution was made in Dollars) or (ii) the rate per annum at which one‑day deposits in the relevant currency are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in the London interbank market (if such distribution was made in an Alternative Currency).

 

(e)  If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(c), 2.06(b), 2.18(d) or 12.03(c), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion and notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender under this Agreement for the benefit of the Administrative Agent or any Swingline Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations to it under such Section until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid, and/or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender under any such Section, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.

 

 

 

(a)  If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14 or 2.17, or if any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different Applicable Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14, 2.16 or 2.17, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender.  The Company hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

 

(b)  If any Lender or Participant of any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14 or 2.17, or if any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender, any Participant of any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender (or a Participant) pursuant to Section 2.16, or if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or invokes Section 2.22, or if any Lender shall reject a requested additional Approved Jurisdiction or refuse to consent to any waiver, amendment or other modification that would otherwise require such Lender’s consent but to which the Required Lenders have consented, or if the credit (or similar) rating of any Lender (or any Parent thereof) by one or more of S&P or Moody’s or any other nationally recognized statistical rating organization shall at any time be lower than BBB/Baa2 (or the equivalent), or if, as to any Lender, such Lender (or Parent thereof) shall at any time have no credit (or similar) rating in effect by at least one such organization, or if any Lender is a Disqualified Institution at the time it becomes a Lender or any Lender assigns or participates all or any portion of its Loans and/or Commitments to a Disqualified Institution in violation of Section 12.04, without the written consent of the Borrower, then the Company may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 12.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Company shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, conditioned or delayed, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and funded participations in Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Company or the relevant Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or 2.17 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.16, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments.

 

 

 

(b)  If, other than as a result of fluctuations in currency exchange rates, after giving effect to any such determination of a Dollar Amount, the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders exceed the aggregate amount of the Commitments or if at any time, solely as a result of fluctuations in currency exchange rates, the aggregate Dollar Amount of Loans exceeds 105% of the aggregate amount of the Commitment, the Borrowers shall within five Euro-Currency Business Days prepay outstanding Loans (as selected by the Company and notified to the Lenders through the Administrative Agent not less than three Euro-Currency Business Days prior to the date of prepayment) or take other action to the extent necessary to eliminate any such excess.

 

 

The “Euro-Currency Margin” at any date is a rate per annum equal to the then applicable rate set forth in the “Pricing Grid” below under the column headed “Euro-Currency Margin.”

 

The “ABR Margin” at any date is a rate per annum equal to the then applicable rate set forth in the “Pricing Grid” below under the column headed “ABR Margin.”

 

The “Commitment Fee Rate” at any date is a rate per annum equal to the then applicable rate set forth in the “Pricing Grid” below under the column headed “Commitment Fee.”

 

 

 

 

For purposes of the foregoing table, the following terms have the following meanings, subject to the further provisions of this Section:

 

“Level I Pricing” applies at any date if, at such date, the Company’s senior unsecured long-term debt is rated AA or higher by S&P and Aa2 or higher by Moody’s.

 

“Level II Pricing” applies at any date if, at such date (i) no better Pricing Level applies and (ii) the Company’s senior unsecured long-term debt is rated AA- by S&P and Aa3 by Moody’s.

 

“Level III Pricing” applies at any date if, at such date (i) no better Pricing Level applies and (ii) the Company’s senior unsecured long-term debt is rated A+ by S&P and A1 by Moody’s.

 

“Level IV Pricing” applies at any date if, at such date, (i) no better Pricing Level applies and (ii) the Company’s senior unsecured long-term debt is rated A by S&P and A2 by Moody’s.

 

“Level V Pricing” applies at any date if, at such date, no other Pricing Level applies.

 

“Pricing Level” refers to the determination of which of Level I, Level II, Level III, Level IV or Level V Pricing applies at any date.  A “better” Pricing Level is one with a lower roman numeral.

 

“Rating Agency” means S&P or Moody’s (and their successors).

 

In determining the applicable Pricing Level: (a) if ratings are available from the two Rating Agencies but are not equivalent, then (i) if the ratings differential is one ratings level, the Pricing Level shall be that applicable to the higher of the two ratings and (ii) if the ratings differential is two rating levels or more, the Pricing Level shall be that which would be applicable to a rating which is one rating level below the higher of the two ratings, (b) if a rating from only one Rating Agency is available, then the Pricing Level shall be that applicable to such rating and (c) if ratings are not available from either of the two Rating Agencies, then Level V Pricing shall apply.

 

The credit ratings to be utilized for purposes of this Section are those assigned by S&P or Moody’s to the senior unsecured long-term debt securities of the Company without third-party credit enhancement, and any rating assigned to any other debt security of the Company shall be disregarded; provided that if no such rating is available from any one or more of the two Rating Agencies, the ratings used for purposes of determining the Pricing Level with respect to each such Rating Agency shall be the corporate family rating assigned by such Rating Agency to the Company.  The rating in effect at any date is that in effect at the close of business on such date.  If the rating system of any Rating Agency shall change, or if any Rating Agency shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Company and the Administrative Agent shall negotiate in good faith to amend this Section to reflect such changed rating system or the nonavailability of ratings from such Rating Agency and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Pricing Level shall be determined by reference to the rating most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation.

 

 

 

(b)  If it is unlawful for any Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) to make or maintain Loans to any Subsidiary Borrower and such Lender shall so notify the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the other Lenders and the Company, whereupon until such Lender notifies the Company and the Administrative Agent that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist (which such Lender shall do promptly after becoming aware thereof), the obligation of such Lender to make or maintain Loans to such Subsidiary Borrower shall be suspended.  If such notice is given, each Loan of such Lender then outstanding to such Subsidiary Borrower shall be prepaid either (i) in the case of a Euro-Currency Loan, on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Loan to such day or (ii) immediately if clause (i) does not apply.

 

(c)  If so requested by the Administrative Agent and the Company, and provided that it may lawfully do so, any Lender whose Alternative Currency Loans have been prepaid pursuant to clause (a) of this Section or whose Loans to a Subsidiary Borrower have been prepaid pursuant to clause (b) of this Section shall purchase participations in the related Loans of the other Lenders, and such other adjustments shall be made, including without limitation Loans to the Company in an equivalent Dollar Amount in the event that participations in such related Loans may not lawfully be purchased by such Lenders, as may be required so that the credit exposure of the Lenders with respect to the Loans is shared on a basis proportionate to the Commitments of the Lenders.

 

 

(d)  Before giving any notice to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section, such Lender shall designate a different Applicable Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for giving such notice and will not, in the judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.

 

 

(a)  fees shall cease to accrue on the unused portion of the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.11(a);

 

(b)  if any Swingline Exposure exists with respect to a Lender at the time such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:

 

 

 

(c)  so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lenders shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan, unless the Defaulting Lender’s then outstanding Swingline Exposure after giving effect thereto will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or prepaid, reduced, terminated and/or cash collateralized in accordance with Section 2.23(b), and participating interests in any newly made Swingline Loan shall be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.23(b)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein).

 

If a Swingline Lender has a good faith belief that any Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its funding obligations under one or more other agreements in which such Lender commits to extend credit, no Swingline Lender shall be required to fund any Swingline Loan, unless the Swingline Lenders shall have entered into arrangements with the Borrower or such Lender, reasonably satisfactory to the Swingline Lenders, to defease any risk to the Swingline Lenders in respect of such Lender hereunder relating to Swingline Exposure.

 

In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Swingline Lenders reasonably determine that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Swingline Exposure of the Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Loans of the other Lenders (other than Swingline Loans) as the Administrative Agent shall determine is necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.

 

 

 

 

(a)  Provided that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company may from time to time, at any time prior to the Commitment Termination Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent, request that the aggregate amount of the Commitments be increased by an amount of $10,000,000 or an integral multiple thereof (each a “Commitment Increase”) to be effective as of a date that is not later than 90 days prior to the Commitment Termination Date (an “Increase Date”) as specified in the related notice to the Administrative Agent; provided, however that in no event shall the aggregate amount of the Commitments at any time exceed $1,500,000,000; provided, further that each Commitment Increase shall rank pari passu with, and shall be on terms identical to (excluding upfront fees, which need not be on terms identical to), the existing Commitments in effect immediately prior to giving effect to such Commitment Increase.

 

(b)  In its notice to the Administrative Agent regarding a Commitment Increase, the Company shall specify the amount of such Commitment Increase, each existing Lender (each an “Increasing Lender”) and each additional lender (each a “New Lender”) (each of which additional lenders shall be a bank, financial institution or other entity reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Swingline Lender) that is willing to provide an additional or new Commitment in respect thereof, the amount of each Increasing Lender’s additional Commitment in respect thereof (if any), the amount of each New Lender’s new Commitment in respect thereof (if any) and the related Increase Date.  It is understood and agreed that no Lender shall have any obligation whatsoever to agree to any increase in its Commitment.

 

(c)  Any Increasing Lender that elects to increase its Commitment shall execute a Commitment Increase Supplement, whereupon such Increasing Lender’s Commitment shall increase by the amount set forth therein effective on the Increase Date specified therein.  Any New Lender that elects to become a “Lender” under this Agreement shall execute a new lender supplement substantially in the form of Exhibit H (a “New Lender Supplement”), whereupon such New Lender shall become a Lender, with a Commitment in the amount set forth therein that is effective on the Increase Date specified therein, for all purposes and to the same extent as if originally a Lender party hereto and shall be bound by and entitled to the benefits of this Agreement.

 

(d)  No increase in the Commitments (or in the Commitment of any Lender) shall become effective under this paragraph unless, on the applicable Increase Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(e)  Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, on each Increase Date, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions of this Section 2.25, each Borrower shall prepay all then outstanding Loans made to it, which prepayment shall be accompanied by payment of all accrued interest on the amount prepaid and any amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.15 in connection therewith, and, to the extent it determines to do so, reborrow Loans from all the Lenders (after giving effect to the new and/or increased Commitments becoming effective on such date).  Any prepayment and reborrowing pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be effected, to the maximum extent practicable, through the netting of amounts payable between the relevant Borrower and the respective Lenders with a view toward minimizing breakage costs and transfers of funds.

 

 

The Company and each Original Subsidiary Borrower represents and warrants as of the Effective Date (and as of each subsequent date required under Section 4.02) to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)  Since December 31, 2016, there has been no material adverse change in the business, assets, property or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as whole.

 

 

 

(b)  Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of any law, rule or regulation (including, without limitation, the Trading with the Enemy Act of the United States of America (as amended), any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (as amended) and the Patriot Act), or in default with respect to any judgment, writ, injunction or decree of any Governmental Authority, where such violation or default could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a)  The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include facsimile transmission or e-mail of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement.

 

(b)  The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective Date) of Foley & Lardner LLP, special New York counsel for the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1, Sharon Barner, internal counsel to the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2, Joseph Rigler, internal counsel to the Original Subsidiary Borrowers organized under the laws of the United Kingdom, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-3A and Joseph Rigler, internal counsel to the Original Subsidiary Borrowers organized under the laws of the Netherlands, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-3B, in each case covering such other matters relating to the Credit Parties, the Loan Documents or the Transactions as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.  The Company and each Original Subsidiary Borrower hereby requests such counsel to deliver such opinions.

 

 

(c)  The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of the Borrowers, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Borrowers, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.

 

(d)  The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by the President, a Vice President or a Financial Officer of the Company, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02.

 

(e)  The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced reasonably in advance of the Effective Date, reimbursement or payment of all out‑of‑pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrowers under the Loan Documents.

 

(f)  The Lenders shall have received all documentation and other information reasonably requested by such Lender in writing at least ten days prior to the Effective Date in order to allow it to comply with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations with respect to each Credit Party.

 

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.

 

 

(a)  The representations and warranties of each Credit Party set forth in each Loan Document to which it is party (other than those set forth in Section 3.05(b) and Section 3.06(a)(ii) but including, for the avoidance, the representation and warranty in Section 3.01(a) as to the good standing of CMI UK Finance LP) shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in which case, in all respects) on and as of the date of such Borrowing, except to the extent any such representation and warranty expressly relates to an earlier date in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date (except to the extent such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in which case, in all respects).

 

(b)  At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

(c)  Receipt by the Administrative Agent of a Borrowing Request in accordance with Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, as applicable.

 

Each Loan shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section.

 

 

 

(a)  Receipt by the Administrative Agent of an opinion of counsel for such Eligible Subsidiary reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, substantially to the effect of Exhibit C hereto and covering such other matters relating to the transactions contemplated hereby as the Required Lenders may reasonably require.

 

(b)  Receipt by the Administrative Agent of all documents which it may reasonably request relating to the existence of such Eligible Subsidiary, the corporate authority for and the validity of the Election to Participate of such Eligible Subsidiary and this Agreement of such Eligible Subsidiary, and any other matters relevant thereto, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(c)  Receipt by each Lender not less than five Euro-Currency Business Days prior to the date of such Borrowing or issuance of all documentation and other information reasonably requested in writing by such Lender in order to allow it to comply with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations with respect to such Eligible Subsidiary.

 

(d)  Receipt by the Administrative Agent of a Borrowing Request in accordance with Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, as applicable.

 

 

(a)  The representations and warranties of each Credit Party set forth in each Loan Document to which it is a party (other than those set forth in Section 3.05(b) and Section 3.06(a)(ii)) shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in which case, in all respects) on and as of the Term Loan Conversion Date, except to the extent any such representation and warranty expressly relates to an earlier date in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date (except to the extent such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in which case, in all respects).

 

(b)   At the time of the conversion of the Revolving Loans (or applicable portion thereof) into Term Loans on the Term Loan Conversion Date and immediately after giving effect to such conversion, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

(c)  The Administrative Agent shall have received for the ratable account of the Lenders a fee equal to 0.50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans converted to Term Loans on the Term Loan Conversion Date.

 

 

 

Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, the Company covenants and agrees with the Lenders that it will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries or Significant Subsidiaries, as appropriate, to:

 

 

(b)  Do or cause to be done all things necessary to (i) obtain, preserve, renew, extend and keep in full force and effect the rights, licenses, permits, franchises, authorizations, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names (as applicable) material to the conduct of its business, (ii) comply in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority, whether now in effect or hereafter enacted, and (iii) at all times maintain and preserve all property material to the conduct of such business and keep such property in good repair, working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and from time to time make, or cause to be made, all needful and proper repairs, renewals, additions, improvements and replacements thereto necessary in order that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times, except in the case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above, to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 

 

 

 

(a)  within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, its Consolidated balance sheet and related Consolidated statements of earnings, cash flows and shareholders’ equity, showing the financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal year and their results of operations and cash flows for such year, all audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing and accompanied by an opinion of such accountants (which shall not be qualified in any material respect except with the consent of the Required Lenders) to the effect that such Consolidated financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (except with respect to consistency as otherwise indicated therein), provided that if the independent auditor’s report with respect to such consolidated financial statements is a combined report (that is, one report containing both an opinion on such consolidated financial statements and an opinion on internal controls over financial reporting), then such report may include a qualification or limitation relating to the Company’s system of internal controls over financial reporting due to the exclusion of any acquired business from the management report on internal controls over financial reporting made pursuant to Item 308 of Regulation S-K of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to the extent such exclusion is permitted under provisions published by the Securities and Exchange Commission; provided further, if applicable, the independent auditor’s report may contain references to independent audits performed by other independent public accountants of recognized national standing as contemplated by AU Section 543, Part of Audit Performed by Other Independent Auditors, or any successor standard under GAAP.

 

(b)  within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, its Consolidated balance sheet and related Consolidated statements of earnings and cash flows showing the financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal quarter and their results of operations for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year and their cash flows for the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (except with respect to consistency as otherwise indicated therein), subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;

 

(c)  concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under paragraph (a) or (b) above, a certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto, of a Financial Officer (i) certifying that no Default has occurred or, if a Default has occurred, specifying the nature and extent thereof and any corrective action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto and (ii) setting forth computations in reasonable detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent demonstrating compliance with the covenants contained in Section 7.01;

 

 

(d)  promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by it with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of or all the functions of such Commission, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed to its shareholders generally, as the case may be; and

 

(e)  promptly, from time to time, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of the Company or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent, at the request of any Lender, may reasonably request.

 

Information required to be delivered pursuant to paragraphs 5.04(a), 5.04(b) or 5.04(d) above shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which (x) such information has been posted on the Internet by the Securities and Exchange Commission at https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm (or any successor website) or (y) the Company provides notice to the Administrative Agent that such information has been posted on the Company’s website on the Internet at www.cummins.com or at another website identified in such notice and accessible by the Lenders without charge; provided that (i) such notice may be included in a certificate delivered pursuant to paragraph 5.04(c) and (ii) the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of the information referred to in paragraphs 5.04(a) or 5.04(b) to any Lender which requests such delivery.

 

 

(a)  any Default of which an executive officer of the Company has knowledge, specifying the nature and extent thereof and the corrective action (if any) proposed to be taken with respect thereto;

 

(b)  the filing or commencement of, or any written threat or notice of intention of any Person to file or commence, any action, suit or proceeding, whether at law or in equity or by or before any Governmental Authority, against the Company or any Affiliate thereof as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(c)  the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events which have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(d)  any development that has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect; and

 

(e)  any change, following the effectiveness thereof, in the Company’s senior unsecured debt rating from S&P or Moody’s or in its corporate credit rating from S&P.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full, the Company covenants and agrees with the Lenders that it will not, and will not cause or permit any of its Subsidiaries to:

 

 

(a)  Liens imposed by law for taxes, assessments, governmental charges or levies that are not yet due or are being contested by proper action and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are established;

 

(b)  carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 30 days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.03;

 

(c)  pledges and deposits and other Liens made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;

 

(d)  Liens (including deposits) to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

 

(e)  easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere materially with the ordinary conduct of business of the Company or any Subsidiary;

 

(f)  any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition and (ii) such Lien does not apply to any other property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary;

 

(g)  Liens (including deposits) in connection with self-insurance;

 

(h)  judgment or other similar Liens in connection with legal proceedings in an aggregate principal amount (net of amounts for which relevant insurance providers have delivered written acknowledgements of coverage) not to exceed $300,000,000; provided that the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed and the claims secured thereby are being actively contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(i)  Liens arising in connection with advances or progress payments under government contracts;

 

 

(j)  Liens on assets of Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness payable to the Company or any Wholly-Owned Consolidated Subsidiary;

 

(k)  Liens on cash and cash equivalents deposited to discharge and/or defease Indebtedness in accordance with the terms thereof;

 

(l)   [Reserved]

 

(m)  Liens securing Indebtedness other than Indebtedness described in paragraphs (a) through (l) above, to the extent and only to the extent that the aggregate amount of Priority Indebtedness shall not exceed 12.5% of the Consolidated assets of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as reflected in the annual or quarterly report then most recently filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, determined at the time such Liens are granted and at the time of any subsequent incurrence of Indebtedness secured thereby;

 

(n)  Liens arising from leases, subleases or licenses granted to others which do not interfere in any material respect with the business of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries;

 

(o)  Liens in respect of an agreement to dispose of any asset, to the extent such disposal is permitted by this Agreement;

 

(p)  Liens arising under any retention of title arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business or over goods or documents of title to goods arising in the ordinary course of documentary credit transactions;

 

(q)  Liens arising due to any cash pooling, netting or composite accounting arrangements between any one or more of the Company and any of the Subsidiaries or between any one or more of such entities and one or more banks or other financial institutions where any such entity maintains deposits;

 

(r)  customary rights of set off, revocation, refund or chargeback or similar rights under deposit disbursement, concentration account agreements or under the Uniform Commercial Code (or comparable foreign law) or arising by operation of law of banks or other financial institutions where the Company or any of the Subsidiaries maintains deposit, disbursement or concentration accounts in the ordinary course of business;

 

(s)  the replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted by clause (f) above upon or in the same assets subject thereto or the replacement, extension or renewal (to the extent the amount thereof is not increased) of the Indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby; and

 

(t)  Liens on proceeds of any of the assets permitted to be the subject of any Lien or assignment permitted by this Section 6.01.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If any of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur:

 

(a)  any representation or warranty made, or deemed made, in or pursuant to the Loan Documents, or any representation, warranty, statement or information contained in any written report, certificate, financial statement or other instrument furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party in connection with or pursuant to the Loan Documents, shall prove to have been false or misleading in any material respect when so made, deemed made or furnished;

 

(b)  default shall be made in the payment of any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or pursuant to any provision of the Loan Documents or otherwise;

 

(c)  default shall be made in the payment of any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in (b) above) due under the Loan Documents, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of five Domestic Business Days;

 

(d)  default shall be made in the due observance or performance by the Company or any Subsidiary of any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.05(a), Section 5.07, Article 6 or Article 7 and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of five Domestic Business Days after the earlier of (i) a Financial Officer of the Company becoming aware thereof and (ii) notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or any Lender to the Company;

 

 

(e)  default shall be made in the due observance or performance by the Company or any Subsidiary of any covenant, condition or agreement contained in the Loan Documents (other than those specified in (b), (c) or (d) above) and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of ten Domestic Business Days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or any Lender to the Company;

 

(f)  the Company or any Subsidiary shall (i) fail to pay any of its Indebtedness (excluding Indebtedness owing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) in excess of $125,000,000 in the aggregate when due and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument relating to such Indebtedness or (ii) fail to observe or perform any term, covenant or condition on its part to be observed or performed under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Indebtedness, when required to be observed or performed, and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such failure is to accelerate, or permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Indebtedness or such Indebtedness has been accelerated and such acceleration has not been rescinded; or any amount of Indebtedness in excess of $125,000,000 shall be required to be prepaid, defeased, purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment and other than secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary transfer of assets securing such Indebtedness), prior to the stated maturity thereof; provided that none of the following shall give rise to an Event of Default: (i) Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of assets securing such Indebtedness and (ii) mandatory prepayments or offers to purchase of Indebtedness in accordance with the documentation governing such Indebtedness by reason of the receipt of net cash proceeds of (A) other Indebtedness, (B) dispositions (including, without limitation, as the result of casualty events and governmental takings) or (C) equity issuances, or by reason of the generation of excess cash flow in an amount equal to a percentage thereof;

 

(g)  an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction seeking (i) relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or of a substantial part of the property or assets of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any other Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or for a substantial part of the property or assets of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or (iii) the winding-up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary; and such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days, or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;

 

(h)  the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking relief under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any other Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or the filing of any petition described in (g) above, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or for a substantial part of the property or assets of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (vi) admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due or (vii) take any action for the purpose of authorizing any of the foregoing;

 

 

(i)  one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $125,000,000 shall be rendered against the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed; provided, however, that any such judgment shall not be included in the calculation of the aggregate amount of judgments under this clause (i) if and for so long as (A) the amount of such judgment is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance between the defendant and the insurer covering payment thereof and (B) such insurer, which shall be rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of, and has not disputed the claim made for payment of, the amount of such judgment;

 

(j)  a Change in Control shall occur;

 

(k)  the provisions of Article 11 shall cease to constitute valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company for any reason, or any Credit Party shall have so asserted in writing; or

 

(l)  an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to any Borrower described in paragraph (g) or (h) above), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Company, take either or both of the following actions at the same or different times: (i) terminate forthwith the Commitments and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the principal of the Loans, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued fees and all other liabilities of any Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each Borrower, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding; and upon the occurrence of any event described in paragraph (g) or (h) above with respect to any Borrower, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of all Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued fees and all other liabilities of the Borrowers accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each Borrower, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each Eligible Subsidiary shall be deemed by the execution and delivery of its Election to Participate to have represented and warranted as of the date thereof that:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a)  any extension, renewal, settlement, compromise, waiver or release in respect of any obligation of any Borrower or any other Person under any Loan Document or by operation of law or otherwise (except to the extent the foregoing expressly releases the Company’s obligations under this Article 11);

 

(b)  any modification or amendment of or supplement to any Loan Document (other than any modification, amendment or supplement of this Article 11 effected in accordance with Section 12.02);

 

(c)  any release, impairment, non-perfection or invalidity of any direct or indirect security for any obligation of any Borrower or any other Person under any Loan Document;

 

(d)  any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of any Borrower or any other Person or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting any Borrower or any other Person or its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of any Borrower or any other Person contained in any Loan Document;

 

(e)  the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights which the Company may have at any time against any other Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or with any unrelated transactions; provided that nothing herein shall prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim;

 

(f)  any invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against any Borrower or any other Person for any reason of any Loan Document, or any provision of applicable law or regulation purporting to prohibit the payment by any Borrower of the principal of or interest on any Loan or any other amount payable by it under any Loan Document; or

 

(g)  any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind by any Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions of this paragraph, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to the Company’s obligations hereunder (in each case other than payment in full of the obligations guaranteed hereunder).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)  Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article 2 unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender.  The Administrative Agent or the Company may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

 

(c)  Any party hereto may change its address or facsimile number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.  All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt if received during the recipient’s normal business hours.

 

 

(b)  No Loan Document nor any provision thereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Company and the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall:

 

 

 

 

 

(c)  Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, as to any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modifications otherwise approved in accordance with this Section, it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent or approval of any Lender that, upon giving effect to such amendment, amendment and restatement or other modification, would have no Commitment or outstanding Loans so long as such Lender receives payment in full of the principal of and interest accrued on each Loan made by, and all other amounts owing to, such Lender or accrued for the account of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents at the time such amendment, amendment and restatement or other modification becomes effective.  For the avoidance of doubt, and notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent or approval of any Lender to effectuate, pursuant to Section 2.09(a), the conversion of any Revolving Loans into Term Loans and therewith extend the Maturity Date for such Term Loans to the first anniversary of the Commitment Termination Date.

 

(d)  Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, if the Administrative Agent and the Company acting together identify any ambiguity, omission, mistake, typographical error or other defect in any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, then the Administrative Agent and the Company shall be permitted to amend, modify or supplement such provision to cure such ambiguity, omission, mistake, typographical error or other defect, and such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement, so long as, in each case, the Lenders shall have received at least ten Domestic Business Days’ prior written notice thereof and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within ten Domestic Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment.

 

 

 

(b)  The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, relating to (i) the execution or delivery of the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the performance by the parties thereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated thereby, (ii) any Loan or the use of the proceeds therefrom or (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from (i) the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any of its Affiliates or representatives, (ii) from the material breach in bad faith by such Indemnitee of its express obligations under the Loan Documents or (iii) a dispute solely among Indemnitees (other than a dispute involving a claim against an Indemnitee in its capacity as an arranger or agent in respect of the Agreement, and in any such event described in this clause (iii) solely to the extent that the underlying dispute does not arise as a result of any action, inaction, representation or misrepresentation of, or information provided, or that was failed to be provided, by or on behalf of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries).

 

(c)  To the extent that the Company fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent or any Swingline Lender under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent or such Swingline Lender, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or such Swingline Lender in its capacity as such.

 

 

(d)  To the extent permitted by applicable law, each Credit Party shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof.

 

(e)  All amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.

 

 

(b)  (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the purposes of this Section 12.04(b), the terms “Approved Fund”, “CLO” and “Disqualified Institution” have the following meanings:

 

“Approved Fund” means (a) a CLO and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund which invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.

 

“CLO” means any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and is administered or managed by a Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender.

 

“Disqualified Institution” means Persons (or Affiliates of Persons) that are reasonably determined by the Company to be competitors of the Company or its Subsidiaries and which have been specifically identified by name by the Company to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in writing prior to the Effective Date; provided that, the Company, by notice to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders after the Effective Date, shall be permitted to supplement or modify the list of Disqualified Institutions from time to time in writing, identifying by name additional such competitors (or Affiliates thereof) that shall be Disqualified Institutions and each such supplement shall become effective five (5) Domestic Business Days after the Administrative Agent has posted such supplement to all Lenders (including through electronic communications), but which shall not apply retroactively to disqualify any Persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation interest in the Loans (but solely with respect to such Loans).  It is understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent shall have no responsibility, liability or duty, to ascertain, inquire, monitor or enforce whether any Lender or potential Lender is a Disqualified Institution.

 

 

 

 

 

(c)  (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of any Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Swingline Lender, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (C) each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (D) in the case of any sale of a participation to a Disqualified Institution, the Borrower shall have provided its prior written consent thereto.  Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in paragraph (i) of the first proviso to Section 12.02(b) that affects such Participant.  Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and Section 2.17 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section.  To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 12.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.18(c) as though it were a Lender.  Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of each Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations or, if different, under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code.  The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent clearly demonstrable error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.

 

 

 

(d)  Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

 

(e)  The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

 

(f)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 12.04, or elsewhere in this Agreement, the consent of the Company shall be required (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) for an assignment to an assignee that is an EEA Financial Institution unless an Event of Default under paragraph (b), (c), (g) or (h) of Article 8 has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)  Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court.  Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.  Nothing in any Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document against any Credit Party or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

 

(c)  Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section.  Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

 

(d)  Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 12.01; provided that each Subsidiary Borrower irrevocably appoints the Company as agent of process and consents to service of process to the Company in the manner provided for notices in Section 12.01.  Nothing in any Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)  The Credit Parties further acknowledge and agree, and acknowledges its subsidiaries’ understanding, that each Lender Party and each agent, joint bookrunner and joint lead arranger in respect of this Agreement is a full service securities or banking firm engaged in securities trading and brokerage activities as well as providing investment banking and other financial services.  In the ordinary course of business, any Lender Party, agent, joint bookrunner or joint lead arranger in respect of this Agreement may provide investment banking and other financial services to, and/or acquire, hold or sell, for its own accounts and the accounts of customers, equity, debt and other securities and financial instruments (including bank loans and other obligations) of, any Credit Party and other companies with which any Credit Party may have commercial or other relationships.  With respect to any securities and/or financial instruments so held by any Lender Party or any such agent, joint bookrunner or joint lead arranger or any of its customers, all rights in respect of such securities and financial instruments, including any voting rights, will be exercised by the holder of the rights, in its sole discretion.

 

 

(c)  In addition, the Credit Parties acknowledge and agree, and acknowledge their subsidiaries’ understanding, that each Lender Party and its Affiliates may be providing debt financing, equity capital or other services (including financial advisory services) to other companies in respect of which any Credit Party may have conflicting interests regarding the transactions described herein and otherwise.  No Lender Party nor its Affiliates will use confidential information obtained from any Credit Party, its Affiliates and/or its representatives by virtue of the Transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or their other relationships with any Credit Party in connection with the performance by such Lender Party or its Affiliates of services for other companies, and no Lender Party nor its Affiliates will furnish any such information to other companies.  The Credit Parties also acknowledge that no Lender Party has any obligation to use in connection with the Transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, or to furnish to any Credit Party, confidential information obtained from other companies.

 

 

(a)  the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and

 

(b)  the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

 

 

 

 

To the extent not prohibited by applicable law, rule or regulation, each Lender shall notify the Company and the Administrative Agent if it has become the subject of a Bail-In Action (or any case or other proceeding in which a Bail-In Action could reasonably be expected to be asserted against such Lender).

 

[Signature pages follow]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

CUMMINS INC.

 

 

By:  /s/ Donald G. Jackson  

Title: Vice President – Treasurer

 

CUMMINS LTD.

 

 

Title: Director

 

 

CUMMINS POWER GENERATION LTD.

 

 

Title: Director

 

 

CUMMINS GENERATOR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Title: Director

 

CMI GLOBAL EQUITY HOLDINGS C.V.

 

By:

CUMMINS INTERNATIONAL FINANCE LLC, its general partner, and CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 2 LLC, its limited partner

 

By:     /s/ Donald G. Jackson  

Name: Donald G. Jackson

Title: Manager

 

 

CUMMINS GLOBAL FINANCING LP

 

By:

CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 3 LLC, its general partner, and CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 1 LLC, its limited partner

 

Name: Terren B. Magid

Title: Manager

 

 

CUMMINS EMEA HOLDINGS LIMITED

 

 

Title: Director

 

 

CUMMINS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS

COOPERATIEF U.A.

 

 

Name: Robbert Frassino

Title: Director A

 

Name: Joseph Rigler 

Title: Director B

 

 

CIFC WORLDWIDE PARTNER C.V.

 

By:

CUMMINS GLOBAL FINANCING LP, its general partner

By:

CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 3 LLC, its general partner, and CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 1 LLC, its limited partner

      Name: Terren B. Magid

      Title: Manager

 

POWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL

(OVERSEAS HOLDINGS) LIMITED

 

 

Name: Joseph Rigler 

Title: Director

 

CMI UK FINANCING LP

 

By:

CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 4 LLC, its limited partner, and CUMMINS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LLC, its general partner

 

   Name: Terren B. Magid

         Title: Manager

 

 

CMI UK FINANCE LP

 

By:

CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 3 LLC, its general partner, and CMI INTERNATIONAL FINANCE PARTNER 1 LLC, a limited partner

 

   Name: Terren B. Magid

         Title: Manager

CMI UK FINANCE LP

 

By:

CUMMINS CV MEMBER LLC, a limited partner

 

   Name: Mark J. Sifferlen

         Title: Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

CMI AFRICA HOLDINGS B.V.

 

 

Name: Robbert Frassino

Title: Director A

 

Name: Joseph Rigler 

Title: Director B

 

CMI GLOBAL EQUITY HOLDINGS B.V.

 

 

Name: Robbert Frassino

Title: Managing Director A

 

Name: Joseph Rigler 

Title: Managing Director B

 

 

 

	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, a Swingline Lender and a Lender
	By:	/s/ Robert P. Kellas
		Name: Robert P. Kellas Title: Executive Director
	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Swingline Lender and a Lender,
	By:	/s/ Brian Lukehart
		Name: Brian Lukehart Title: Director
	CITIBANK, N.A., as a Swingline Lender and a Lender,
	By:	/s/ Richard Rivera
		Name: Richard Rivera Title: Vice President
	HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Swingline Lender and a Lender,
	By:	/s/ Matthew McLaurin
		Name: Matthew McLaurin Title: Director

 

	ING BANK N.V., DUBLIN BRANCH, as a Swingline Lender and a Lender,
	By:	/s/ Sean Hassett
		Name: Sean Hassett Title: Director
	By:	/s/ Stephen Farrelly
		Name: Stephen Farrelly Title: Vice President
	THE BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD., as a Lender
	By:	/s/ Thomas Danielson
		Name: Thomas Danielson Title: Authorized Signatory
	CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, as a Lender
	By:	/s/ Gordon Yip
		Name: Gordon Yip Title: Director
	By:	/s/ Jill Wong
		Name: Jill Wong Title: Director
	GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as a Lender
	By:	/s/ Ryan Durkin
		Name: Ryan Durkin Title: Authorized Signatory

 

 

[Signature Page to 364-Day Credit Agreement (Cummins 2017)]

 

 

 

	MIZUHO BANK, LTD., as a Lender
	By:	/s/ Donna DeMagistris
		Name: Donna DeMagistris Title: Authorized Signatory
	STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, as a Lender
	By:	/s/ Daniel Mattern
		Name: Daniel Mattern Title: Associate Director

 

 

	Commitment	Percentage of Total Commitment
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.	$120,000,000.00	12.0%
Bank of America, N.A.	$120,000,000.00	12.0%
Citibank, N.A.	$120,000,000.00	12.0%
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.	$120,000,000.00	12.0%
ING Bank N.V., Dublin Branch	$120,000,000.00	12.0%
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.	$80,000,000.00	8.0%
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank	$80,000,000.00	8.0%
Goldman Sachs Bank USA	$80,000,000.00	8.0%
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.	$80,000,000.00	8.0%
Standard Chartered Bank	$80,000,000.00	8.0%
Total	$1,000,000,000.00	100.0%

	Swingline Commitment	Percentage of Total Swingline Commitment
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.	$30,000,000.00	20.0%
Bank of America, N.A.	$30,000,000.00	20.0%
Citibank, N.A.	$30,000,000.00	20.0%
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.	$30,000,000.00	20.0%
ING Bank N.V., Dublin Branch	$30,000,000.00	20.0%
Total	$150,000,000.00	100.0%

1.	Assignor:	______________________________
2.	Assignee:	______________________________   [and is an Affiliate/Approved Fund of [identify Lender]1]
3.	Borrower(s):	Cummins Inc., Cummins Ltd., Cummins Power Generation Ltd., Cummins Generator Technologies Limited, CMI Global Equity Holdings C.V., Cummins Global Financing LP, Cummins EMEA Holdings Limited, Cummins International Holdings Cooperatief U.A., CIFC Worldwide Partner C.V., Power Group International (Overseas Holdings) Limited, CMI UK Financing LP, CMI UK Finance LP, CMI Africa Holdings B.V., and CMI Global Equity Holdings B.V.

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4.	Administrative Agent:	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement
5.	Credit Agreement:	The 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as of September 5, 2017 among Cummins Inc., Cummins Ltd., Cummins Power Generation Ltd., Cummins Generator Technologies Limited, CMI Global Equity Holdings C.V., Cummins Global Financing LP, Cummins EMEA Holdings Limited, Cummins International Holdings Cooperatief U.A., CIFC Worldwide Partner C.V., Power Group International (Overseas Holdings) Limited, CMI UK Financing LP, CMI UK Finance LP, CMI Africa Holdings B.V., CMI Global Equity Holdings B.V., the Eligible Subsidiaries referred to therein, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Swingline Lender, Bank of America, N.A., as Swingline Lender, ING Bank N.V., Dublin Branch, as Swingline Lender, Citibank, N.A., as Swingline Lender, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Swingline Lender and the other agents parties thereto
6.	Assigned Interest:

Aggregate Amount of Commitment/Loans for all Lenders	Amount of Commitment/Loans Assigned	Percentage Assigned of Commitment/Loans2
$	$	%
$	$	%
$	$	%

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	ASSIGNOR
	[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
	By:
		Name: Title:

	ASSIGNEE
	[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
	By:
		Name: Title:

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	Very truly yours,   [NAME OF ELIGIBLE SUBSIDIARY]
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

	CUMMINS INC.
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. as Administrative Agent
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

	Very truly yours,
	[NAME OF ELIGIBLE SUBSIDIARY/ORIGINAL SUBSIDIARY BORROWER]
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

	CUMMINS INC.
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as                    Administrative Agent
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

1.      Leverage Ratio (Section 7.01)
TOTAL DEBT (1)	= $
SECURITIZATION FINANCING (2)	= $
Consolidated Net Income	$
plus consolidated interest expense	+ $
plus consolidated income tax expense	+ $
plus all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization	+ $
plus any unusual and/or non-recurring losses, costs, expenses and charges and any non-cash losses, costs, expenses and charges	+ $
plus loss of any joint venture accounted for on the equity method (except to the extent the Company or a Subsidiary actually made an investment in such joint venture to offset such loss)	+ $
plus Consolidated EBITDA Addbacks6 in an aggregate amount not to exceed $300,000,000 during any period of four fiscal quarters	+ $
minus any unusual and non-recurring gains	-  $
minus income from joint ventures, except to the extent dividends or distributions were actually paid by such joint venture	-  $
CONSOLIDATED EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters ended on such date (3) 7	= $

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