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EU-DOCS\26536722.3
THIS AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is
dated 19 December 2019.
BETWEEN
(1) PROSUS N.V. (the “Company”); and
(2) J.P. MORGAN EUROPE LIMITED as agent of the other Finance Parties (the
“Agent”).
We refer to the facility agreement dated 22 October 2019 between, among others, the
Company, the Agent and the Coordinating Bookrunner (as amended pursuant to an
amendment letter dated 7 November 2019 and amendment agreements dated 28 November
2019 and 8 December 2019 and as further amended, supplemented and restated from time to
time, the “Facility Agreement”).
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Save as defined in this Agreement, words and expressions defined in the Facility
Agreement shall have the same meaning when used in this Agreement.
1.2 In this Agreement:
“Amended Facility Agreement” means the Facility Agreement as amended and
restated by paragraph 3 (Amendments) of this Agreement in the form set out in
Schedule 1 (Amended Facility Agreement).
“Effective Date” means the date of this Agreement.
1.3 Clause 1.2 (Construction) of the Facility Agreement will apply as if incorporated in
this Agreement in full and as if references in that clause to “this Agreement” are
references to this Agreement.
2. BACKGROUND
2.1 The Company has requested an increase to the Cash Bridge of £50,000,000.
2.2 For the purposes of Clause 35 (Amendments and Waivers) of the Facility Agreement,
each Lender has consented to the request to increase the Cash Bridge.
3. AMENDMENTS
The Facility Agreement shall be amended and restated on the terms set out in
Schedule 1 (Amended Facility Agreement) with immediate effect from the Effective
Date.
4. FINANCE DOCUMENT
This Agreement is a Finance Document.
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5. COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the
same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this
Agreement. Delivery of a counterpart of this Agreement by email attachment or
telecopy shall be an effective mode of delivery.
6. MISCELLANEOUS
Clauses 33 (Partial Invalidity) and 34 (Remedies and Waivers) of the Facility
Agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement as though all
references to “this Agreement” in that clause were references to this Agreement.
7. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
7.1 This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection
with it are governed by English law.
7.2 The courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising
out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute regarding the
existence, validity or termination of this Agreement or any non-contractual obligation
arising out of or in connection with it).
THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this
Agreement.
EU-DOCS\26536722.3
Schedule 1
Amended Facility Agreement
Allen & Overy LLP
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£5,200,000,000
FACILITY AGREEMENT
PROSUS N.V.
as Company
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC
BANCA IMI S.P.A. LONDON BRANCH
BNP PARIBAS FORTIS SA/NV
CITIBANK, N.A., LONDON BRANCH
DEUTSCHE BANK LUXEMBOURG S.A.
MORGAN STANLEY BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
as Mandated Lead Arrangers
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NAMED IN THIS AGREEMENT
and
J.P. MORGAN EUROPE LIMITED
as Agent
originally dated 22 October 2019 as amended and restated on 7 November 2019, 28 November 2019, 8
December 2019 and 19 December 2019
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CONTENTS
Clause Page
1. Definitions and Interpretation ................................................................................................................ 1
2. The Facility .......................................................................................................................................... 23
3. Purpose ................................................................................................................................................ 25
4. Conditions of Utilisation ..................................................................................................................... 25
5. Utilisation ............................................................................................................................................ 27
6. Alternative Currencies ......................................................................................................................... 28
7. Repayment and Extension Option ....................................................................................................... 29
8. Prepayment and Cancellation .............................................................................................................. 30
9. Interest ................................................................................................................................................. 39
10. Interest Periods .................................................................................................................................... 40
11. Changes to the Calculation of Interest ................................................................................................. 40
12. Fees ...................................................................................................................................................... 42
13. Tax Gross-up and Indemnities ............................................................................................................. 42
14. Increased Costs .................................................................................................................................... 46
15. Other Indemnities ................................................................................................................................ 48
16. Mitigation by the Lenders ................................................................................................................... 50
17. Costs and Expenses ............................................................................................................................. 50
18. Representations ................................................................................................................................... 50
19. Information Undertakings ................................................................................................................... 53
20. Financial Covenants ............................................................................................................................ 56
21. General Undertakings .......................................................................................................................... 60
22. Events of Default ................................................................................................................................. 66
23. Disclosure of Information .................................................................................................................... 69
24. Changes to the Lenders ....................................................................................................................... 71
25. Changes to the Company ..................................................................................................................... 76
26. Role of the Agent and the Coordinating Bookrunner .......................................................................... 76
27. Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties ........................................................................................ 82
28. Sharing among the Finance Parties ..................................................................................................... 82
29. Payment Mechanics ............................................................................................................................. 83
30. Set-off .................................................................................................................................................. 87
31. Notices ................................................................................................................................................. 87
32. Calculations and Certificates ............................................................................................................... 89
33. Partial Invalidity .................................................................................................................................. 89
34. Remedies and Waivers ........................................................................................................................ 89
35. Amendments and Waivers ................................................................................................................... 89
36. Confidentiality of Funding Rates ........................................................................................................ 94
37. Counterparts ........................................................................................................................................ 95
38. Governing Law .................................................................................................................................... 95
39. Enforcement ........................................................................................................................................ 95
40. Contractual recognition of bail-in........................................................................................................ 95
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Schedule
1. The Original Lenders ........................................................................................................................... 98
2. Conditions Precedent ........................................................................................................................... 99
Part 1 Conditions Precedent to Signing ...................................................................................... 99 Part 2 Conditions Precedent to Utilisation ............................................................................... 101
3. Requests ............................................................................................................................................. 102
Part 1 Utilisation Request ......................................................................................................... 102 Part 2 Selection Notice ............................................................................................................. 104
4. Form of Transfer Certificate .............................................................................................................. 105
5. Form of Compliance Certificate ........................................................................................................ 107
6. Existing Security ............................................................................................................................... 108
7. Timetables ......................................................................................................................................... 110
8. Material Subsidiaries ......................................................................................................................... 111
9. Confidentiality Undertaking .............................................................................................................. 112
10. Increase Confirmation ....................................................................................................................... 118
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THIS AGREEMENT is dated 22 October 2019 as amended and restated on 7 November 2019, 28
November 2019, 8 December 2019 and 19 December 2019 and made
BETWEEN:
(1) PROSUS N.V. (a public limited liability company (naamloze vennootschap) incorporated under the
laws of the Netherlands, having its official seat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands having its office at
Taurusavenue 105, 2132 LS Hoofddorp, the Netherlands and registered with the Dutch Trade
Register of the Chamber of Commerce under number 34099856) (the Company);
(2) THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 (The Original Lenders) as
Lenders (the Original Lenders);
(3) J.P. MORGAN EUROPE LIMITED as agent of the other Finance Parties (the Agent);
(4) J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC as coordinating bookrunner and mandated lead arranger
(the Coordinating Bookrunner); and
(5) BANCA IMI S.P.A. LONDON BRANCH, BNP PARIBAS FORTIS SA/NV, CITIBANK, N.A.,
LONDON BRANCH, DEUTSCHE BANK LUXEMBOURG S.A. and MORGAN STANLEY
BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (together with the Coordinating Bookrunner, the
Mandated Lead Arrangers).
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1 Definitions
In this Agreement:
Acceptable Bank means: (a) a Lender; or (b) a commercial bank or trust company which has a
rating of Baa2 or higher by Moody's or BBB or higher by Standard & Poor's or Fitch, or a
comparable rating from a nationally recognised credit rating agency; or (c) any other commercial
bank or trust company which has been approved as an Acceptable Bank by the Majority Lenders.
Acceptance Condition means, in relation to an Offer, a condition such that the Offer may not be
declared unconditional as to acceptances until Bidco has received acceptances (or acquired Target
Shares) in respect of a certain percentage or number of Target Shares.
Acquisition means the acquisition of Target Shares by Bidco pursuant to a Scheme or Offer and, if
applicable, a Squeeze-Out.
Acquisition Documents means the Scheme Circular and/or the Offer Document and any other
document designated as an Acquisition Document by the Company and the Agent.
Affiliate means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that
person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company.
Agent's Spot Rate of Exchange means:
(a) the Agent's spot rate of exchange; or
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(b) (if the Agent does not have an available spot rate of exchange) any other publicly available
spot rate of exchange selected by the Agent (acting reasonably),
for the purchase of the relevant currency with the Base Currency in the London foreign exchange
market at or about 11.00 a.m. on a particular day.
Announcement means the press release made by or on behalf of the Bidco announcing a firm
intention to implement a Scheme or, as the case may be, make an Offer, in each case in accordance
with Rule 2.7 of the City Code.
Anti-Corruption Laws means laws, rules and regulations concerning or relating to bribery,
corruption or money laundering.
Authorisation means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing,
notarisation or registration.
Availability Period means the period from and including the date of this Agreement to and
including:
(a) for a Certain Funds Utilisation, the last day of the Certain Funds Period; and
(b) for any other Utilisation, 31 July 2020.
Available Commitment means a Lender's Commitment minus:
(a) the Base Currency Amount of its participation in any outstanding Loans; and
(b) in relation to any proposed Utilisation, the Base Currency Amount of its participation in
other Loans that are due to be made on or before the proposed Utilisation Date.
Available Facility means the aggregate for the time being of each Lender's Available Commitment.
Base Currency means sterling.
Base Currency Amount means, in relation to a Loan, the amount specified in the Utilisation
Request delivered by the Company for that Loan (or, if the amount requested is not denominated in
the Base Currency, that amount converted into the Base Currency at the Agent's Spot Rate of
Exchange on the date which is three Business Days before the Utilisation Date or, if later, on the
date the Agent receives the Utilisation Request) adjusted to reflect any repayment or prepayment of
the Loan.
Bidco means MIH Food Delivery Holdings B.V. or any other member of the Group on whose behalf
the Announcement is made.
Break Costs means the amount (if any) by which:
(a) the interest (excluding any Margin) which a Lender should have received for the period from
the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Loan or Unpaid Sum to the last
day of the current Interest Period in respect of that Loan or Unpaid Sum, had the principal
amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day of that Interest Period;
exceeds:
(b) the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the
principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the
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Relevant Interbank Market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt or
recovery and ending on the last day of the current Interest Period.
Cash Bridge has the meaning given in Clause 2.1(b)(i) (The Facility).
Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general
business in London and Amsterdam and:
(a) (in relation to any date for payment or purchase of the Base Currency or an Optional
Currency) the principal financial centre of the country of that currency; or
(b) (in relation to any date for payment or purchase of euro) any TARGET Day.
Certain Funds Period means from the date of this Agreement to and including the date that is the
earlier of:
(a) if the Acquisition is intended to be completed pursuant to a Scheme, the earlier of:
(i) the date upon which the Scheme lapses (including, subject to exhausting any rights
of appeal, if the relevant court refuses to sanction the Scheme) or is withdrawn,
unless on or prior to such date the Company has (as soon as reasonably practicable)
notified the Agent that Bidco proposes to make an Offer;
(ii) the date falling 30 days after the Scheme Effective Date; or
(iii) if the Company has notified the Agent that Bidco proposes to make an Offer in
accordance with sub-paragraph (i) above, close of business on the date 20 Business
Days after such notification if the Announcement with respect to that Offer has not
been made by then;
(b) if the Acquisition is intended to be completed pursuant to an Offer, the earlier of:
(i) the date upon which the Offer lapses or is withdrawn, unless on or prior to such date
the Company has (as soon as reasonably practicable) notified the Agent that Bidco
proposes to effect the Acquisition by way of a Scheme;
(ii) the date falling 30 days after Bidco has acquired 100% of the Target Shares; or
(iii) if the Company has notified the Agent that Bidco proposes to effect the Acquisition
by way of a Scheme in accordance with sub-paragraph (i) above, close of business
on the date 20 Business Days after such notification if the Announcement with
respect to that Scheme has not been made by then;
(c) 23:59 (London time) on 24 October 2019 if an Announcement has not been made by then;
(d) the date on which the Company has notified the Agent that Bidco has determined not to
proceed with the Acquisition (which notification shall be provided as soon as reasonably
practicable after making such determinations and with the approval of the Financial
Adviser); and
(e) 31 July 2020.
Certain Funds Utilisation means a Utilisation made or to be made under the Facility for any of the
purposes listed in Clause 3.1(a) to (c) (Purpose).
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City Code means the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.
Closing Date means the date of first Utilisation.
Closing Fee Letter means the fee letter dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the
Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Company.
Code means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Commitment means:
(a) in relation to an Original Lender, the amount in the Base Currency set out opposite its name
under the heading "Commitment" in Schedule 1 (The Original Lenders) and the amount of
any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement or assumed by it in accordance
with Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality); and
(b) in relation to any other Lender, the amount in the Base Currency of any Commitment
transferred to it under this Agreement or assumed by it in accordance with Clause 2.3
(Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality),
to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.
Committed Currency means the Base Currency, euro and dollars.
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Form of
Compliance Certificate).
Confidentiality Undertaking means a confidentiality undertaking substantially in the form set out
in Schedule 9 (Confidentiality Undertaking) or in any other form agreed between the Company and
the Agent.
Consolidated Entity EBITDA means, by reference to a particular accounting period, the aggregate
of:
(a) the consolidated operating profits of a person and its Subsidiaries (including the results from
discontinued operations) before finance costs and tax for that accounting period;
(b) plus or minus that person's and its Subsidiaries' share of the profits or losses of associates for
that period (after finance costs and tax) and that person's and its Subsidiaries' share of the
profits or losses of any joint ventures;
adjusted by:
(i) taking no account of any material items which represent gains or losses arising on:
(A) restructurings of the activities of that person and reversals of any provisions for the
costs of restructuring;
(B) disposals of non-current assets;
(C) the disposal of assets associated with discontinued operations; and
(D) any other agreed items.
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(ii) taking no account of any unrealised gains or losses on any derivative instrument which is
reported through the income statement;
(iii) taking no account of any income or charge attributable to a post-employment benefit scheme
other than current service costs and any past service costs and curtailments and settlements
attributable to the scheme; and
(iv) taking no account of any expense referable to equity-settled share based compensation of
employees; but
(v) after adding back any depreciation and amortisation and taking no account of any charge for
impairment or any reversal of any previous impairment charge made in that period.
Consumer Finance Financing means any securitisation, sale, discounting arrangement or other
financing of receivables, financial assets or both undertaken by any member or members of the
Group which provide consumer finance, provided that:
(a) recourse to any member of the Group in respect of all such arrangements or financings is
limited to:
(i) Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH and/or any member or members of the Group which
provide consumer finance using financial technology as a core part of its business
and which constitutes at least half of its business by one or more metrics (Fintech
Group Member);
(ii) any Special Purpose Vehicle; and/or
(iii) any other member of the Group consented to by the Majority Lenders for this
purpose; and
(b) the aggregate principal amount of any Financial Indebtedness outstanding under all such
arrangements or financings at any time shall not exceed 10% of Gross Assets.
Cooperation Agreement means the cooperation agreement (if any) entered into between, among
others, Bidco and the Target in respect of the Acquisition.
Court Order means the Order of the High Court sanctioning the Scheme.
Debt Take-Out Bridge has the meaning given in Clause 2.1(b)(ii) (The Facility).
Default means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance specified in Clause 22 (Events of
Default) which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any
determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an
Event of Default, provided that for the avoidance of doubt any such event or circumstance which
requires the satisfaction of a condition as to materiality before it becomes an Event of Default shall
not be a Default unless that condition is satisfied.
Defaulting Lender means any Lender:
(a) which has failed to make its participation in a Loan available or has notified the Agent that it
will not make its participation in a Loan available by the Utilisation Date of that Loan in
accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation);
(b) which has otherwise rescinded or repudiated a Finance Document; or
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(c) with respect to which an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing,
unless, in the case of paragraph (a) above:
(i) its failure to pay is caused by:
(A) a Disruption Event; or
(B) administrative or technical error; and
payment is made within three Business Days of its due date; or
(ii) the Lender is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment
in question.
Disruption Event means either or both of:
(a) a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial
markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in
connection with the Facility (or otherwise in order for the transactions contemplated by the
Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the
control of, any of the Parties; or
(b) the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or
systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party preventing that, or
any other Party:
(i) from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or
(ii) from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the terms of the Finance
Documents,
and which (in either such case) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the Party
whose operations are disrupted.
Dutch Civil Code means the Burgerlijk Wetboek.
Dutch FSA means the Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht), including any and
all subordinated decrees and regulations issued pursuant thereto, as amended from time to time.
Equity Finance Arrangement means any margin loan arrangement, stock loan, repo, mandatory
convertible or exchange bonds or note arrangement or other similar equity finance arrangement
entered into in relation to Marketable Securities by any member of the Group and:
(a) the Security or Quasi-Security created or granted by any member of the Group in relation to
which is limited to:
(i) the Marketable Securities subject to such arrangement from time to time; and
(ii) any bank, share and/or custody accounts to be used solely in connection with that
arrangement; and
(b) recourse to any member of the Group in respect of which is limited to:
(i) one or more Special Purpose Vehicles;
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(ii) the relevant member or members of the Group that hold the Marketable Securities
and only to the extent of such Marketable Securities which are subject to Security or
Quasi-Security as part of that Equity Finance Arrangement or which has been
contractually committed to become subject to Security or Quasi-Security, in each
case as part of that Equity Finance Arrangement (and for the avoidance of doubt, no
other Marketable Securities or other assets of that member of the Group).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this paragraph (b)(ii) shall not restrict members of
the Group that hold the Marketable Securities, in its capacity as holder of the
Marketable Securities, from providing representations, warranties or assurances or
assuming obligations under the relevant Equity Finance Arrangement, in each case,
that are customary for an Equity Finance Arrangement of that sort, so long as such
provision or assumption does not result in the relevant members of the Group
assuming any obligation to repay or prepay that Equity Finance Arrangement or
provide any guarantee or other credit support for the same, or does not otherwise
give rise to any recourse to the relevant member or members of the Group; and
(iii) any other member of the Group consented to by the Majority Lenders for
these purposes.
EURIBOR means, in relation to any Loan in euro:
(a) the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time for euro and for a period equal in length
to the Interest Period of that Loan; or
(b) as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 11.1 (Unavailability of Screen Rate),
and if, in either case, any such rate is below zero, EURIBOR will be deemed to be zero.
EUR Loan means a Loan denominated in Euro.
Event of Default means any event or circumstance specified as such in Clause 22 (Events of
Default).
Existing Revolving Facility means the revolving facility agreement originally dated 18 November
2013 (as amended, amended and restated, replaced and/or refinanced from time to time) between,
among others, Myriad International Holdings B.V. as Borrower, Naspers Limited as Guarantor and
Citibank Europe plc, UK Branch as Agent.
Facility means the term loan facility made available under this Agreement as described in Clause 2
(The Facility).
Facility Office means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Agent in writing on or before
the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five Business Days' written
notice) as the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.
Fallback Interest Period means one month.
FATCA means:
(a) sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance;
(b) any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or
relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction,
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which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of any law or regulation referred to in
paragraph (a) above; or
(c) any agreement pursuant to the implementation of any treaty, law or regulation referred to in
paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or
any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.
FATCA Application Date means:
(a) in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code
(which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the
US), 1 July 2014; or
(b) in relation to a "passthru payment" described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling
within paragraph (a) above, the first date from which such payment may become subject to a
deduction or withholding required by FATCA.
FATCA Deduction means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document
required by FATCA.
FATCA Exempt Party means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA
Deduction.
Fee Letter means:
(a) the Closing Fee Letter; and
(b) any other letter or letters dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Agent
and the Company (or the Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Company) setting out any of the
fees payable in respect of this Agreement.
Final Maturity Date means:
(a) in relation to the Cash Bridge, the earlier of:
(i) the later of (x) the date falling three Months after the Closing Date and (y) the last
day of the Certain Funds Period; and
(ii) the date falling 12 Months after the Signing Date; and
(b) in relation to the Debt Take-Out Bridge, subject to Clause 7.2 (Extension Option), the date
falling 12 Months after the earlier of:
(i) the Closing Date; and
(ii) the date falling six Months after the Signing Date.
Finance Document means this Agreement, any Fee Letter, the Mandate Letter and any other
document designated as such by the Agent and the Company.
Finance Party means the Agent, the Coordinating Bookrunner, a Mandated Lead Arranger or a
Lender.
Financial Adviser means the person appointed as financial adviser to the Bidco for the purposes of
Rule 24.8 of the City Code.
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Financial Indebtedness means any indebtedness for or in respect of:
(a) moneys borrowed;
(b) any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility or dematerialised
equivalent;
(c) any amount raised pursuant to any note purchase facility or the issue of bonds, notes,
debentures, loan stock or any similar instrument but not Trade Instruments;
(d) the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract which would, in
accordance with GAAP as in force and applied to the Original Financial Statements, be
treated as a finance or capital lease;
(e) receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold or
discounted on a non-recourse basis);
(f) any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase
agreement) entered into primarily for the purpose of raising finance;
(g) any derivative transaction entered into in connection with protection against or benefit from
fluctuation in any rate or price (and, when calculating the value of any derivative transaction,
only the marked to market value shall be taken into account);
(h) any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, indemnity, bond, standby or
documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution;
and
(i) the amount of any liability in respect of any guarantee or indemnity for any of the items
referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h) above.
Fintech Group Member has, subject to Clause 21.5(b) (Change of business), the meaning given to
that term in the definition of Consumer Finance Financing.
Fourth Amendment and Restatement Agreement means the amendment and restatement
agreement in relation to this Agreement dated 19 December 2019 between the Company and the
Agent.
Fourth Effective Date has the meaning given to the term “Effective Date” in the Fourth
Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
Funding Rate means any individual rate notified by a Lender to the Agent pursuant to paragraph
(a)(ii) of Clause 11.3 (Cost of Funds).
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the Netherlands or IFRS.
Gross Assets has the meaning given to that term in 8.3(a) (Prepayment – disposals).
Group means the Company and its Subsidiaries for the time being.
High Court means the Companies Court in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of
England and Wales.
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Historic Screen Rate means, in relation to any Loan, the most recent applicable Screen Rate for the
currency of that Loan and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan and which is
as of a day which is no more than three days before the Quotation Day.
Holding Company of any other person, means a person in respect of which that other person is a
Subsidiary.
IBOR means, in relation to any Loan in euro, EURIBOR, and in every other case, LIBOR.
IFRS means international accounting standards within the meaning of the IAS Regulation
1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements.
Impaired Agent means the Agent at any time when:
(a) it has failed to make (or has notified a Party that it will not make) a payment required to be
made by it under the Finance Documents by the due date for payment;
(b) the Agent otherwise rescinds or repudiates a Finance Document;
(c) (if the Agent is also a Lender) it is a Defaulting Lender under paragraph (a) or (b) of the
definition of Defaulting Lender; or
(d) an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Agent;
unless, in the case of paragraph (a) above:
(i) its failure to pay is caused by:
(A) administrative or technical error; or
(B) a Disruption Event; and
payment is made within three Business Days of its due date; or
(ii) the Agent is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment
in question.
Increase Confirmation means a confirmation substantially in the form set out in Schedule 10
(Increase Confirmation).
Increase Lender has the meaning given to that term in Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender
or illegality).
Information Memorandum means the information memorandum prepared by the Company dated
28 October 2019 and distributed by the Coordinating Bookrunner to the Mandated Lead Arrangers.
Insolvency Event in relation to a Finance Party means that the Finance Party:
(a) is dissolved (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger);
(b) becomes insolvent or is unable to pay its debts or fails or admits in writing its inability
generally to pay its debts as they become due;
(c) makes a general assignment, arrangement or composition with or for the benefit of
its creditors;
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(d) institutes or has instituted against it, by a regulator, supervisor or any similar official with
primary insolvency, rehabilitative or regulatory jurisdiction over it in the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organisation or the jurisdiction of its head or home office, a proceeding
seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or the commencement of business rescue
proceedings or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law
affecting creditors' rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up or liquidation or the
commencement of business rescue proceedings by it or such regulator, supervisor or similar
official, notwithstanding that this paragraph (d) will not apply in respect of any Undisclosed
Administration;
(e) has instituted against it a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or the
commencement of business rescue proceedings or any other relief under any bankruptcy or
insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors' rights, or a petition is presented for
its winding-up or liquidation or the commencement of business rescue proceedings, and, in
the case of any such proceeding or petition instituted or presented against it, such proceeding
or petition is instituted or presented by a person or entity not described in paragraph (d)
above and:
(i) results in a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy, the commencement of business
rescue proceedings or the entry of an order for relief or the making of an order for its
winding-up or liquidation or the commencement of business rescue proceedings; or
(ii) is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained in each case within 30 days of the
institution or presentation thereof;
(f) has exercised in respect of it one or more of the stabilisation powers pursuant to Part 1 of the
Banking Act 2009 and/or has instituted against it a bank insolvency proceeding pursuant to
Part 2 of the Banking Act 2009 or a bank administration proceeding pursuant to Part 3 of the
Banking Act 2009 (or any similar power or action is taken in any other jurisdiction in which
it operates);
(g) has a resolution passed for its winding-up, official management or liquidation (other than
pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger) or to authorise the commencement of
business rescue proceedings;
(h) seeks or becomes subject to the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator,
conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian, business rescue practitioner or other similar official
for it or for all or substantially all its assets, notwithstanding that this paragraph (h) will not
apply in respect of any Undisclosed Administration;
(i) has a secured party take possession of all or substantially all its assets or has a distress,
execution, attachment, sequestration or other legal process levied, enforced or sued on or
against all or substantially all its assets and such secured party maintains possession, or any
such process is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained, in each case within 30 days
thereafter;
(j) causes or is subject to any event with respect to it which, under the applicable laws of any
jurisdiction, has an analogous effect to any of the events specified in paragraphs (a) to (i)
above; or
(k) takes any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence
in, any of the foregoing acts.
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Interest Period means, in relation to a Loan, each period determined in accordance with Clause 10
(Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum, each period determined in accordance with
Clause 9.3 (Default interest).
Interpolated Historic Screen Rate means, in relation to any Loan, the rate (rounded to the same
number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a
linear basis between:
(a) the most recent applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is
available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and
(b) the most recent applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is
available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,
each for the currency of that Loan and each of which is as of a day which is no more than three days
before the Quotation Day.
Interpolated Screen Rate means, in relation to any Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of
decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a linear basis
between:
(a) the applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available)
which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and
(b) the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available)
which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,
each as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for the currency of that Loan.
Legal Reservations means:
(a) the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of the court,
the limitation on enforcement by laws relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation,
reorganisation, court schemes, moratoria, administration and other laws generally affecting
the rights of creditors and similar principles, rights, defences and limitations under the laws
of any applicable jurisdiction;
(b) the time barring of claims under any applicable limitation laws, the possibility that a court
may strike out provisions of a contract as being invalid for reasons of oppression, undue
influence or similar reasons, the possibility that an undertaking to assume liability for or to
indemnify a person against non-payment of stamp duty may be void, defences of set-off or
counterclaim and similar principles, rights, defences and limitations under the laws of any
applicable jurisdiction; and
(c) any other general principles, reservations or qualifications, in each case as to matters of law,
as set out in any legal opinion delivered to the Agent under any provision of or otherwise in
connection with any Finance Document.
Lender means:
(a) the Original Lenders; and
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(b) any bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in
accordance with Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality) or Clause 24
(Changes to the Lenders),
which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
LIBOR means, in relation to any Loan:
(a) the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time for the currency of that Loan and for a
period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan; or
(b) as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 11.1 (Unavailability of Screen Rate),
and if, in either case, any such rate is below zero, LIBOR will be deemed to be zero.
LMA means the Loan Market Association.
Loan means a loan made or to be made under the Facility or the principal amount outstanding for
the time being of that loan.
London Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for
general business in London.
Major Default means any of the Events of Default listed below, in each case, to the extent it is
continuing (being unremedied or unwaived) in relation to the Company (and excluding, for the
avoidance of doubt, any other member of the Group or any member of the Target Group or any
obligation to procure performance by any other member of the Group or any member of the Target
Group or any other person):
(a) Clause 22.1 (Non-payment) but only insofar as it relates to failure to pay principal, or
interest under the Finance Documents or fees specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Closing
Fee Letter;
(b) Clause 22.3 (Other obligations) only insofar as it relates to a breach of any undertaking set
out in Clauses 21.3 (Negative pledge), 21.4 (Merger) and 21.11 (Acquisition Undertaking)
(other than paragraphs (d) and (e));
(c) Clause 22.4 (Misrepresentation) only insofar as it relates to a breach of any Major
Representation;
(d) paragraph (a) of Clause 22.6 (Insolvency) provided that, to the extent such Event of Default
has arisen as a result of a commencement of negotiations with any class of creditors (but not
creditors generally), the circumstances giving rise to such Event of Default have a Material
Adverse Effect;
(e) paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 22.7 (Insolvency proceedings) provided that, for the
purposes of Clause 22.7(a)(ii) (Insolvency proceedings), to the extent that such Event of
Default has arisen as a result of a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with
any class of creditors (but not creditors generally), the circumstances giving rise to such
Event of Default have a Material Adverse Effect;
(f) paragraph (c) of Clause 22.7 (Insolvency proceedings) provided that, for the purposes of this
definition only, the words “and such enforcement has a Material Adverse Effect” shall be
deemed to be inserted;
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(g) Clause 22.9 (Unlawfulness) and Clause 22.10(a) (Repudiation) insofar as such unlawfulness
or repudiation (as applicable) is materially adverse to the interest of the Lenders as a whole;
and
(h) Clause 22.11 (Effectiveness of Finance Documents).
Major Representation means a representation or warranty with respect to the Company only (and
excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any other member of the Group or any member of the Target
Group or any other person or any obligation to procure performance by any other member of the
Group or any member of the Target Group or any other person) under any of Clause 18.1 (Status),
Clause 18.2 (Binding obligations), paragraph (a) of Clause 18.3 (Non-conflict with other obligations)
insofar as the conflict is materially adverse to the interest of the Lenders as a whole, paragraph (b) of
Clause 18.3 (Non-conflict with other obligations), Clause 18.4 (Power and authority) or Clause 18.5
(Validity and admissibility in evidence).
Majority Lenders means:
(a) if there are no Loans then outstanding, a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate
more than 66⅔% of the Total Commitments (or, if the Total Commitments have been
reduced to zero, aggregated more than 66⅔% of the Total Commitments immediately prior
to the reduction); or
(b) at any other time, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loans then outstanding
aggregate more than 66⅔% of all the Loans then outstanding.
Mandate Letter means the letter dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the
Company and the Mandated Lead Arrangers relating to the appointment of the arrangers and
underwriters of the Facility.
Margin means:
(a) from the date of this Agreement until (but excluding) the date falling three Months from the
Closing Date (the First Margin Date), 0.60% per annum for EUR Loans or 0.80% per
annum for Non-EUR Loans;
(b) from (and including) the First Margin Date until (but excluding) the date falling three
Months from the First Margin Date (the Second Margin Date), 0.80% per annum for EUR
Loans or 1.00% per annum for Non-EUR Loans;
(c) from (and including) the Second Margin Date until (but excluding) the date falling three
Months from the Second Margin Date (the Third Margin Date), 1.00% per annum for EUR
Loans or 1.20% per annum for Non-EUR Loans;
(d) from (and including) the Third Margin Date until (but excluding) the date falling three
Months from the Third Margin Date (the Fourth Margin Date), 1.20% per annum for EUR
Loans or 1.40% per annum for Non-EUR Loans;
(e) from (and including) the Fourth Margin Date until (but excluding) the date falling three
Months from the Fourth Margin Date (the Fifth Margin Date), 1.40% per annum for EUR
Loans or 1.60% per annum for Non-EUR Loans;
(f) from (and including) the Fifth Margin Date until (but excluding) the date falling three
Months from the Fifth Margin Date (the Sixth Margin Date), 1.60% per annum for EUR
Loans or 1.80% per annum for Non-EUR Loans;
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(g) from (and including) the Sixth Margin Date until (but excluding) the date falling three
Months from the Sixth Margin Date (the Seventh Margin Date), 1.80% per annum for EUR
Loans or 2.00% per annum for Non-EUR Loans; and
(h) from (and including) the Seventh Margin Date, 2.00% per annum for EUR Loans or 2.20%
per annum for Non-EUR Loans.
Market Purchases means the purchase by Bidco (or any other member of the Group) of any Target
Shares other than pursuant to an Offer or a Scheme.
Marketable Securities has the meaning given to that term in Clause 8.3(a) (Prepayment –
disposals).
Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on:
(a) the business, financial condition, operations or assets of the Group (taken as a whole);
(b) the ability of the Company to perform its payment obligations under the Finance
Documents; or
(c) the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document.
Material Company means the Company or a Material Subsidiary.
Material Subsidiary means:
(a) as at the date of this Agreement, those subsidiaries listed in Schedule 8 (Material
Subsidiaries); or
(b) at any other time, a Subsidiary of the Company (other than any Special Purpose Vehicle or
any member of the Group to which any Equity Finance Arrangement or Consumer Finance
Financing has recourse) if the Consolidated Entity EBITDA of that Subsidiary then equals or
exceeds 5% of the Consolidated Entity EBITDA of the Company.
For this purpose:
(i) subject to paragraph (ii) below:
(A) the contribution of a Subsidiary of the Company will be determined from its
financial statements which were consolidated into the latest audited consolidated
financial statements of the Company; and
(B) the financial condition of the Group will be determined from the latest audited
consolidated financial statements of the Company;
(ii) if a Subsidiary of the Company becomes a member of the Group after the date on which the
latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company were prepared:
(A) the contribution of a Subsidiary will be determined from its latest financial
statements; and
(B) the financial condition of the Group will be determined from the latest audited
consolidated financial statements of the Company but adjusted to take into account
any subsequent acquisition or disposal of a business or a company (including that
Subsidiary);
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(iii) the contribution of a Subsidiary will, if it has Subsidiaries, be determined from its
consolidated financial statements;
(iv) if a Material Subsidiary disposes of all or substantially all of its assets to another member of
the Group, it will immediately cease to be a Material Subsidiary and that other member of
the Group (if it is not already a Material Subsidiary) will immediately become a Material
Subsidiary;
(v) a Subsidiary of the Company (if it is not already a Material Subsidiary) will become a
Material Subsidiary on completion of any other intra-Group transfer or reorganisation if it
would have been a Material Subsidiary had the intra-group transfer or reorganisation
occurred on the date of the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company;
and
(vi) except as specifically mentioned in paragraph (iv) above, a member of the Group will
remain a Material Subsidiary until the next audited consolidated financial statements of the
Company show otherwise under paragraph (a) above.
Minimum Acceptance Condition means, in relation to an Offer, an Acceptance Condition of not
less than 50 per cent. of the ordinary shares in the capital of the Target plus one ordinary share
(taking account of all ordinary shares which are unconditionally allotted or issued by the Target
before the offer becomes or is declared unconditional as to acceptances).
Month means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically
corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that:
(a) (subject to paragraph (c) below) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day,
that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is
to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(b) if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to
end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
(c) if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period
shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is
to end.
The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period.
Non-EUR Loan means a Loan denominated in a currency other than Euro.
Offer means an offer by Bidco in accordance with the City Code to acquire all of the Target Shares
not already held by it at the date of the offer (within the meaning of Section 975 of the Companies
Act 2006).
Offer Document means the offer document dispatched to shareholders of the Target setting out the
terms and conditions of an Offer.
Optional Currency means a currency (other than a Committed Currency) which complies with the
conditions set out in Clause 4.3 (Conditions relating to Optional Currencies).
Original Financial Statements means the annual combined carve-out financial statements of the
Group for the 12 month period ending on 31 March 2019, as included in the prospectus published by
the Company for its initial equity listing on Euronext Amsterdam on 11 September 2019.
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Panel means The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers.
Participating Member State means any member state of the European Union that has the euro as
its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and
Monetary Union.
Party means a party to this Agreement.
Professional Lender means:
(a) until the interpretation of the term public (as referred to in Article 4.1(1) of the Capital
Requirements Regulation (EU/575/2013)) has been published by the competent authority, a
Lender whose initial participation in the outstanding Loans amounts to at least EUR100,000
or its equivalent in the relevant currency; and
(b) after the interpretation of the term public has been published by the competent authority,
any person who does not form part of the public within the meaning of the Capital
Requirements Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013.
Quotation Day means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined:
(a) (if the currency is dollar) two London Business Days before the first day of that period;
(b) (if the currency is euro) two TARGET Days (which are also London Business Days) before
the first day of that period; or
(c) (for any other currency) two London Business Days before the first day of that period,
unless market practice differs in the Relevant Interbank Market for a currency, in which case the
Quotation Day for that currency will be determined by the Agent in accordance with market practice
in the Relevant Interbank Market (and if quotations for that currency and period would normally be
given by leading banks in the Relevant Interbank Market on more than one day, the Quotation Day
will be the last of those days).
RCF Lender means a lender under the Existing Revolving Facility.
Refinancing Indebtedness means indebtedness that is incurred to refund, refinance, replace,
exchange, renew, repay or extend (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism)
any indebtedness existing on the date of this Agreement (other than indebtedness incurred under this
Agreement) or incurred in compliance with this Agreement including indebtedness that refinances
Refinancing Indebtedness.
Relevant Interbank Market means, in relation to euro, the European interbank market and, in
relation to any other currency, the London interbank market.
Repeating Representations means each of the representations set out in Clauses 18.1. (Status) to
18.6 (Governing law and enforcement) (inclusive), Clause 18.12 (Sanctions) and Clause 18.13 (Anti-
corruption).
Representative means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or
custodian.
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Sale and Leaseback Transaction means a transaction pursuant to which an asset is sold, transferred
or otherwise disposed of by a member of the Group to another person on terms such that any
member of the Group will or subsequently may lease or acquire rights in or to the asset or the asset.
Sanctioned Country means a country or territory that is the target of country-wide or territory-wide
Sanctions.
Sanctioned Person means a person listed on a Sanctions List.
Sanctions means:
(a) United Nations sanctions imposed pursuant to any United Nations Security Council
Resolution;
(b) United States sanctions administered or enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of
the United States Department of the Treasury or the United States Department of State;
(c) EU restrictive measures implemented pursuant to any EU Council or Commission
Regulation or Decision adopted pursuant to a Common Position in furtherance of the EU's
Common Foreign and Security Policy; and
(d) UK sanctions (i) enacted by statutory instrument pursuant to the United Nations Act 1946 or
the European Communities Act 1972; and/or (ii) administered or enforced by Her Majesty's
Treasury of the United Kingdom.
Sanctions List means any of the lists of specifically designated nationals or designated persons or
entities maintained and made public by:
(a) the United Nations Security Council;
(b) the United States government and administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of
the United States Department of the Treasury or the United States Department of State
including the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons list and the list of
"Foreign Sanctions Evaders" in each case maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets
Control of the United States Department of the Treasury;
(c) the European Union; or
(d) Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom including the Consolidated List of Financial
Sanctions targets.
Scheme means a scheme of arrangement effected pursuant to Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006
under which the Target Shares will be transferred and Bidco will become the holder of such
transferred Target Shares.
Scheme Circular means a circular dispatched by the Target to holders of the Target Shares setting
out the terms and conditions of a Scheme.
Scheme Effective Date means the date on which the Court Order sanctioning the Scheme is duly
delivered on behalf of the Target to the Registrar.
Screen Rate means:
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(a) in relation to LIBOR, the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark
Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate)
for the relevant currency and period displayed (before any correction, recalculation or
republication by the administrator) on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Thomson Reuters
screen (or any replacement Thomson Reuters page which displays that rate); and
(b) in relation to EURIBOR, the euro interbank offered rate administered by the European
Money Markets Institute (or any other person which takes over the administration of that
rate) for the relevant period displayed (before any correction, recalculation or republication
by the administrator) on page EURIBOR01 of the Thomson Reuters screen (or any
replacement Thomson Reuters page which displays that rate),
or, in each case, on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate
from time to time in place of Thomson Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the
Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the
Company.
Security means a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other security interest securing any obligation of
any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.
Selection Notice means a notice substantially in the form set out in Part 2 of Schedule 3 (Requests)
given in accordance with Clause 10 (Interest Periods).
Signing Date means 22 October 2019.
Special Purpose Vehicle means any Subsidiary of the Company which is a single purpose limited
liability company (including, for the avoidance of doubt, a limited partnership) established or
existing solely to implement or participate in an Equity Finance Arrangement or Consumer Finance
Financing on behalf of a Fintech Group Member.
Specified Time means a time determined in accordance with Schedule 7 (Timetables).
Squeeze-Out means an acquisition of the shares in the Target pursuant to the procedures contained
in sections 979 to 981 of the Companies Act 2006.
Subsidiary means an entity of which a person has direct or indirect control or owns directly or
indirectly more than 50% of the voting capital or similar right of ownership and control for this
purpose means the power to direct the management and the policies of the entity whether through the
ownership of voting capital, by contract or otherwise.
Target means Just Eat plc.
TARGET Day means any day on which TARGET2 is open for the settlement of payments in euro.
Target Group means the Target and its Subsidiaries.
Target Shares means the ordinary shares of the Target.
TARGET2 means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer payment system which utilises a single shared platform and which was launched on
19 November 2007.
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Tax means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including
any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of
the same).
Total Commitments means the aggregate of the Commitments being £5,200,000,000 at the Fourth
Effective Date.
Trade Instruments means any performance bonds, advance payment bonds or documentary letters
of credit issued in respect of obligations of a member of the Group arising in the ordinary course
of trading.
Transaction Costs means all fees, commissions, costs and expenses, stamp, registration and other
Taxes and advisory or financing fees incurred by any member of the Group to any person in
connection with the Transaction Documents and/or the negotiation, preparation, execution,
notarisation and registration of the Transaction Documents and/or the Acquisition and/or the
financing of the Acquisition or the payment of costs, fees and other expenses incurred in connection
with the refinancing of Target indebtedness (including, without limitation, related broken funding
costs and prepayment premiums if any).
Transaction Documents means the Finance Documents and the Acquisition Documents.
Transfer Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Form of
Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Company.
Transfer Date means, in relation to a transfer, the later of:
(a) the proposed Transfer Date specified in the Transfer Certificate; and
(b) the date on which the Agent executes the Transfer Certificate.
Transferring Lender has the meaning given to that term in Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders).
Undisclosed Administration means, in relation to a Finance Party, the appointment of an
administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official
by a supervisory authority or regulator under or based on the law in the country where such Finance
Party is subject to home jurisdiction supervision if applicable law requires that such appointment is
not to be publicly disclosed.
Unpaid Sum means any sum due and payable but unpaid by the Company under the Finance
Documents.
Utilisation means a utilisation of the Facility.
Utilisation Date means the date of a Utilisation, being the date on which a Loan is to be made.
Utilisation Request means a notice substantially in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3
(Utilisation Request).
VAT means value added tax as provided for in relevant legislation in the jurisdiction of any Lender
or Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax
or any other legislation in a member state implementing Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
1.2 Construction
(a) Unless a contrary indication appears, any reference in this Agreement to:
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(i) the Agent, the Coordinating Bookrunner, any Finance Party, any Lender, the Company
or any Party shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and
permitted transferees;
(ii) assets includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description;
(iii) a Finance Document or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance
Document or other agreement or instrument as amended, novated, supplemented, extended
or restated;
(iv) indebtedness includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the
payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;
(v) a person includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency
of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium or partnership (whether or not
having separate legal personality);
(vi) a regulation includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or
not having the force of law but if not having the force of law being one with which it is the
general established practice of the person or persons to whom such regulation, rule, official
directive, request or guidance applies to comply) of any governmental, intergovernmental or
supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or
organisation;
(vii) a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted;
(viii) a time of day is a reference to London time;
(ix) US$ or dollar means the lawful currency of the United States of America for the time being;
(x) EUR or euro means the single currency of the Participating Member States;
(xi) £, GBP or sterling means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom for the time being;
and
(xii) operating lease, finance lease or capital lease shall be construed in accordance with GAAP
as in force on 31 December 2018.
(b) Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only.
(c) Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice
given under or in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance
Document or notice as in this Agreement.
(d) A Default (including an Event of Default) is continuing if it has not been remedied or waived.
1.3 Third party rights
(a) Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document a person who is not a Party has no
right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the Third Parties Act) to enforce or to
enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding any term of any Finance Document the consent of any person who is not a Party is
not required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time.
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1.4 Dutch terms
In this Agreement, where it relates to a Dutch person or the context so requires, a reference to:
(a) The Netherlands means the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Dutch
means in or of the Netherlands;
(b) works council means each works council (ondernemingsraad) or central or group works
council (centrale of groeps ondernemingsraad) having jurisdiction over that person;
(c) a necessary action to authorise where applicable, includes without limitation:
(i) any action required to comply with the Works Councils Act of the Netherlands (Wet
op de ondernemingsraden); and
(ii) obtaining an unconditional positive advice (advies) from the competent works
council(s);
(d) a security interest or security includes any mortgage (hypotheek), pledge (pandrecht),
retention of title arrangement (eigendomsvoorbehoud), privilege (voorrecht), right of
retention (recht van retentie), right to reclaim goods (recht van reclame), and, in general,
any right in rem (beperkt recht), created for the purpose of granting security
(goederenrechtelijk zekerheidsrecht);
(e) a winding-up, administration or dissolution includes a Dutch entity being declared
bankrupt (failliet verklaard) or dissolved (ontbonden);
(f) a moratorium includes surseance van betaling and a moratorium is declared or occurs
includes surseance verleend;
(g) any step or procedure taken in connection with insolvency proceedings includes a Dutch
entity having filed a notice under Section 36 of the Tax Collection Act of the Netherlands
(Invorderingswet 1990) or Section 60 of the Social Insurance Financing Act of the
Netherlands (Wet Financiering Sociale Verzekeringen) in conjunction with Section 36 of the
Tax Collection Act of the Netherlands (Invorderingswet 1990);
(h) a liquidator includes a curator or a beoogd curator;
(i) an administrator includes a bewindvoerder;
(j) an attachment includes a beslag;
(k) gross negligence means grove schuld; and
(l) wilful misconduct means opzet.
1.5 Personal Liability
No personal liability shall attach to any director, officer, employee or other individual signing a
certificate or other document on behalf of a member of the Group which proves to be incorrect in
any way, unless that individual acted fraudulently or negligently in giving that certificate or other
document, in which case any liability will be determined in accordance with applicable law.
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2. THE FACILITY
2.1 The Facility
(a) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Company a multicurrency
term loan facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total Commitments.
(b) The Facility is divided into the following tranches:
(i) a tranche in an amount equal to £800,000,000 (the Cash Bridge); and
(ii) a tranche in an amount equal to £4,400,000,000 (the Debt Take-Out Bridge).
2.2 Finance Parties' rights and obligations
(a) The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a
Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations
of any other Party under the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations
of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents.
(b) The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate
and independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from
the Company is a separate and independent debt in respect of which a Finance Party shall be entitled
to enforce its rights in accordance with paragraph (c) below. The rights of each Finance Party
include any debt owing to that Finance Party under the Finance Documents and, for the avoidance of
doubt, any part of a Loan or any other amount owed by the Company which relates to a Finance
Party's participation in the Facility or its role under a Finance Document (including any such amount
payable to the Agent on its behalf) is a debt owing to that Finance Party by the Company.
(c) A Finance Party may, except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, separately enforce
its rights under or in connection with the Finance Documents.
2.3 Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality
(a) The Company may by giving three Business Days' prior notice to the Agent after the effective date
of a cancellation of:
(i) the Available Commitments of a Defaulting Lender in accordance with Clause 8.8 (Right of
cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender): or
(ii) the Commitments of a Lender in accordance with Clause 8.1 (Illegality) or Clause 8.7 (Right
of repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender),
request that the Total Commitments after taking into account the aggregate reduction in Total
Commitments described in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above, be increased (and the Total
Commitments under the Facility shall be so increased) in an aggregate amount in the Base Currency
of up to the amount of the Available Commitments or Commitments cancelled (as described in
subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above) as follows:
(iii) the increased Commitments will be assumed by one or more Lenders or other banks,
financial institutions, trusts, funds or other entities (other than a member of the Group)
(each an Increase Lender) selected by the Company and each of which confirms its
willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of a Lender corresponding to that
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part of the increased Commitments which it is to assume, as if it had been an Original
Lender in respect of those Commitments;
(iv) the Company and any Increase Lender shall assume the same obligations towards one
another and/or acquire the same rights against one another as the Company and the Increase
Lender would have assumed and/or acquired had the Increase Lender been an Original
Lender in respect of that part of the increased Commitments which it is to assume;
(v) each Increase Lender shall become a Party as a "Lender" and any Increase Lender and each
of the other Finance Parties shall assume the same obligations towards one another and
acquire the same rights against one another as that Increase Lender and those Finance Parties
would have assumed and/or acquired had the Increase Lender been an Original Lender in
respect of that part of the increased Commitments which it is to assume;
(vi) the Commitments of the other Lenders shall continue in full force and effect; and
(vii) any increase in the Total Commitments shall take effect on the later of (A) the date specified
by the Company in the notice referred to in this paragraph (a) or, (B) the date on which the
conditions set out in paragraph (c) below are satisfied.
(b) The Agent shall, subject to paragraph (c) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it
of a duly completed Increase Confirmation appearing on its face to comply with the terms of
this Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Increase
Confirmation.
(c) An increase in the Total Commitments will only be effective on:
(i) the execution by the Agent of an Increase Confirmation from the relevant Increase Lender;
and
(ii) in relation to an Increase Lender which is not a Lender immediately prior to the relevant
increase the performance by the Agent of all necessary "know your customer" or other
similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the assumption of the
increased Commitments by that Increase Lender, the completion of which the Agent shall
promptly notify to the Company and the Increase Lender.
(d) Each Increase Lender, by executing the Increase Confirmation, confirms (for the avoidance of doubt)
that the Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been
approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or
prior to the date on which the increase becomes effective in accordance with this Agreement.
(e) The Increase Lender shall, on the date upon which it assumes the increased Commitment, pay to the
Agent (for its own account) a fee of £3,000.
(f) Neither the Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to find an Increase Lender and in no
event shall any Lender whose Commitment is replaced by an Increase Lender be required to pay or
surrender any of the fees received by such Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents.
(g) Clause 24.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Transferring Lenders) shall apply mutatis mutandis in
this Clause 2.3 in relation to an Increase Lender as if references in that clause to:
(i) a Transferring Lender were references to all the Lenders immediately prior to the relevant
increase;
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(ii) the New Lender were references to that Increase Lender; and
(iii) a re transfer and re assignment were references to respectively a transfer and an
assignment.
3. PURPOSE
3.1 Purpose
The Company shall apply all amounts borrowed under the Facility towards:
(a) any amounts payable under or in connection with the Acquisition (including any adjustments
or interest payments, howsoever structured, in connection with the Acquisition, any payment
in relation to Squeeze-Out and any Market Purchases);
(b) making intra-group loan(s) to Bidco in connection with the Acquisition (including any
adjustments or interest payments, howsoever structured, in connection with the Acquisition,
any payment in relation to Squeeze-Out and any Market Purchases);
(c) the payment of Transaction Costs;
(d) the repayment, purchase or other discharge of indebtedness of the Target Group (together
with any broken funding costs, redemption premia and other fees, costs and/or expenses
payable in connection with that redemption or discharge) and the payment of any earn-out
liability of the Target Group which becomes due and payable as a result of the Acquisition;
and
(e) refinancing or reimbursing the Company for any amounts paid by the Company to fund all
or part of the Acquisition out of its own resources.
3.2 Monitoring
No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to
this Agreement.
4. CONDITIONS OF UTILISATION
4.1 Initial conditions precedent
(a) The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) in relation to
any Utilisation if on or before the Utilisation Date for that Utilisation, the Agent has received (and/or
waived receipt of) all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (Conditions
Precedent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (acting reasonably) and has received
(and/or waived receipt of) all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2
(Conditions Precedent). The Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders promptly upon being
so satisfied.
(b) Other than to the extent that the Majority Lenders notify the Agent in writing to the contrary before
the Agent gives the notification described in paragraph (a) above, the Lenders authorise (but do not
require) the Agent to give that notification. The Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or
losses whatsoever as a result of giving any such notification.
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4.2 Further conditions precedent
The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) in relation to a
Utilisation other than one to which Clause 4.5 (Utilisations during the Certain Funds Period) applies,
if on the date of the Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:
(a) no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan; and
(b) the Repeating Representations to be made by the Company are true in all material respects.
4.3 Conditions relating to Optional Currencies
(a) A currency, other than a Committed Currency, will constitute an Optional Currency in relation to a
Loan if:
(i) it is readily available in the amount required and freely convertible into the Base Currency in
the Relevant Interbank Market on the Quotation Day and the Utilisation Date for that Loan;
and
(ii) it has been approved by the Agent (acting in its own right as Agent and on the instructions of
all the Lenders) on or prior to receipt by the Agent of the relevant Utilisation Request or
Selection Notice for that Loan.
(b) If the Agent has received a written request from the Company for a currency to be approved under
subparagraph (a)(ii) above, the Agent will confirm to the Company by the Specified Time:
(i) whether or not the Lenders have granted their approval; and
(ii) if approval has been granted, the minimum amount (and, if required, integral multiples) for
any Utilisation in that currency.
4.4 Maximum number of Loans
(a) The Company may not deliver a Utilisation Request if as a result of the proposed Utilisation more
than ten Loans would be outstanding.
(b) The Company may not request that a Loan be divided if, as a result of the proposed division, ten or
more Loans would be outstanding.
4.5 Utilisations during the Certain Funds Period
(a) Subject to Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent), during the relevant Certain Funds Period, a
Lender will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) in relation to the
relevant Certain Funds Utilisation if on the proposed Utilisation Date:
(i) no Major Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Certain Funds Utilisation;
(ii) none of the Major Representations are untrue in any material respect; and
(iii) none of the circumstances described in Clause 8.1 (Illegality) has occurred in relation to that
Lender.
(b) During the Certain Funds Period (save in circumstances where, pursuant to paragraph (a) above, a
Lender is not obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation)) no Finance Party shall be
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entitled in respect of a Certain Funds Utilisation (and the corresponding Commitments to which it
relates) to:
(i) cancel any Commitment;
(ii) exercise any right of set-off or counterclaim, rescission, termination or cancellation in
respect of the Finance Documents or the Facility or exercise any similar right or remedy or
take any action or make or enforce any claim under or in respect of any Finance Document;
(iii) refuse to participate in the making of any Certain Funds Utilisation;
(iv) cancel, accelerate or cause repayment or prepayment of any amounts owing under the
Finance Documents; or
(v) take any other action or make or enforce any claim to the extent that such action, claim or
enforcement would directly or indirectly prevent or limit the making of any Certain Funds
Utilisation or which would restrict any Certain Funds Utilisation being made which is or
would otherwise be permitted during the Certain Funds Period,
provided that immediately upon the expiry of the Certain Funds Period all such rights, remedies and
entitlements shall be available to the Finance Parties, notwithstanding that they may not have been
used or available for use during the Certain Fund Period.
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, during the Certain Funds Period, except if a Major Default is continuing,
if a Default, Event of Default or other breach of this Agreement occurs (including a breach of any
financial covenant set out in Clause 20 (Financial Covenants) has occurred, unless such Default,
Event of Default or breach of this Agreement is or results in a Major Default continuing (or a Major
Default would result from the proposed Certain Funds Utilisation), each Lender must make available
its portion of any Certain Funds Utilisation requested if the other conditions set out in this
Agreement have been met.
5. UTILISATION
5.1 Delivery of a Utilisation Request
The Company may utilise the Facility by delivery to the Agent of a duly completed Utilisation
Request not later than the Specified Time, provided that a Utilisation Request for the Facility may be
delivered one Business Day prior to the proposed Utilisation Date during the Certain Funds Period.
5.2 Completion of a Utilisation Request
(a) Each Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed
unless:
(i) the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within an Availability Period;
(ii) the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with Clause 5.3 (Currency and amount);
and
(iii) the proposed Interest Period complies with Clause 10 (Interest Periods).
(b) Only one Loan may be requested in each Utilisation Request.
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5.3 Currency and amount
(a) The currency specified in a Utilisation Request must be a Committed Currency or an Optional
Currency. The currency of the Loan for any Utilisation made or to be made during the Certain Funds
Period must be in sterling unless the Financial Adviser otherwise agrees.
(b) The amount of the proposed Loan must be:
(i) if the currency selected is the Base Currency, a minimum of £10,000,000 or, if less, the
Available Facility; or
(ii) if the currency selected is dollars, a minimum of US$10,000,000 or, if less, the Available
Facility; or
(iii) if the currency selected is euro, a minimum of EUR15,000,000 or, if less, the Available
Facility; or
(iv) if the currency selected is an Optional Currency, the minimum amount (and, if required,
integral multiple) specified by the Agent pursuant to subparagraph (b)(ii) of Clause 4.3
(Conditions relating to Optional Currencies) or, if less, the Available Facility,
and in any event such that its Base Currency Amount is less than or equal to the Available Facility.
5.4 Lenders' participation
(a) If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender shall make its participation in
each Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office.
(b) The amount of each Lender's participation in each Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its
Available Commitment to the Available Facility immediately prior to making the Loan.
(c) The Agent shall notify each Lender of the amount, the currency and the Base Currency Amount of
each Loan and the amount of its participation in that Loan, in each case by the Specified Time.
5.5 Cancellation of Commitment
The Commitment of each Lender which, at that time, is unutilised, shall be immediately cancelled at
the end of its Availability Period.
5.6 Allocation between the Cash Bridge and the Debt Take-Out Bridge
(a) If any Utilisation is made at a time when any undrawn Commitments for the Cash Bridge and the
Debt Take-Out Bridge are available where the Company certifies that the sole purpose of such
Utilisation is to fund Market Purchases, such Utilisation shall be deemed to be a utilisation of the
Debt Take-Out Bridge only.
(b) If any other Utilisation is made at a time when any undrawn Commitments for the Cash Bridge and
the Debt Take-Out Bridge are available, such Utilisation shall be made between the Cash Bridge and
the Debt Take-Out Bridge pro rata to the available undrawn Commitments under each tranche.
6. ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES
6.1 Selection of currency
The Company shall select the currency of a Loan in a Utilisation Request.
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6.2 Unavailability of an Optional Currency
If before the Specified Time:
(a) a Lender notifies the Agent that the Optional Currency requested is not readily available to it
in the amount required; or
(b) a Lender notifies the Agent that participating in a Loan in the proposed Optional Currency
would contravene a law or regulation applicable to it,
the Agent will give notice to the Company to that effect by the Specified Time. In this event, any
Lender that gives notice pursuant to this Clause 6.2 will be required to participate in the Loan in the
Base Currency (in an amount equal to that Lender's proportion of the Base Currency Amount) and its
participation will be treated as a separate Loan denominated in the Base Currency during that
Interest Period.
6.3 Participations in a Loan
Each Lender's participation in a Loan will be determined in accordance with paragraph (b) of Clause
5.4 (Lenders' participation).
7. REPAYMENT AND EXTENSION OPTION
7.1 Repayment of Loans
(a) Subject to Clause 7.2 (Extension Option), the Company must repay each Loan on the applicable
Final Maturity Date.
(b) The Company may not reborrow any part of the Facility which is repaid.
7.2 Extension Option
(a) Initial Extension Option
(i) The Company may, by notice to the Agent (the Initial Extension Request) not more than
60 days and not less than 30 days before the original Final Maturity Date of the Debt Take-
Out Bridge (the First Anniversary), request that the Final Maturity Date of the Debt Take-
Out Bridge be extended for a further period of six Months.
(ii) The Agent must forward a copy of the Initial Extension Request to each of the Lenders as
soon as practicable after receipt thereof.
(iii) Following delivery of the Initial Extension Request to the Agent, provided that, on the date
of the Initial Extension Request and the First Anniversary, no Event of Default is continuing
or would result from the requested extension, the Final Maturity Date will be automatically
extended to the date falling six months after the original Final Maturity Date of the Debt
Take-Out Bridge (the First Extended Termination Date).
(iv) The Company shall, within five Business Days after the First Anniversary, pay to the Agent
(for the account of each Lender whose Loans remain outstanding) a fee in an amount equal
to:
(A) (if the aggregate amount of the Commitments being extended is 50 per cent. or less
of the Total Commitments as at the date of this Agreement) 0.15 per cent. of the
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aggregate amount of Loans outstanding as at close of business on the First
Anniversary; or
(B) (if the aggregate amount of the Commitments being extended is more than 50 per
cent. of the Total Commitments as at the date of this Agreement) 0.175 per cent. of
the aggregate amount of Loans outstanding as at close of business on the First
Anniversary.
(b) Second Extension Option
(i) The Company may, by notice to the Agent (the Second Extension Request) no more than
60 days and not less than 30 days before the First Extended Termination Date, request that
the Final Maturity Date of the Debt Take-Out Bridge be extended for a further period of six
Months.
(ii) The Agent must forward a copy of the Second Extension Request to each of the Lenders as
soon as practicable after receipt thereof.
(iii) Following delivery of the Second Extension Request to the Agent, provided that, on the date
of the Second Extension Request and the First Extended Termination Date, no Event of
Default is continuing or would result from the requested extension, the Final Maturity Date
of the Debt Take-Out Bridge will be automatically extended to the date falling six months
after the First Extended Termination Date.
(iv) The Company shall, within five Business Days after the First Extended Termination Date,
pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender whose Loans remain outstanding) a fee in
an amount equal to:
(A) (if the aggregate amount of the Commitments being extended is 50 per cent. or less
of the Total Commitments as at the date of this Agreement) 0.15 per cent. of the
aggregate amount of such Loans outstanding as at close of business on the First
Extended Termination Date; or
(B) (if the aggregate amount of the Commitments being extended is more than 50 per
cent. of the Total Commitments as at the date of this Agreement) 0.20 per cent. of
the aggregate amount of Loans outstanding as at close of business on the First
Extended Termination Date.
8. PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
8.1 Illegality
If it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender to perform any of its obligations as
contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain its participation in any Loan or it becomes
unlawful for any Affiliate of a Lender for that Lender to do so:
(a) that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;
(b) upon the Agent notifying the Company, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately
cancelled;
(c) the Company shall either:
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(i) if the Lender so requires, repay that Lender's participation in the Loans made to it on
the last day of the Interest Period for each Loan occurring after the Agent has
notified the Company or, if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notice
delivered to the Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace
period permitted by law); or
(ii) replace that Lender in accordance with paragraph (b) of Clause 8.7 (Right of
repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender) on or before the date
applicable under subparagraph (i) in relation to each Loan.
8.2 Change of control
(a) If any person or group of persons acting in concert gains control of the Company (other than Naspers
Beleggings (RF) Limited and Keeromstraat 30 Beleggings (RF) Limited):
(i) the Company shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;
(ii) a Lender shall not be obliged to fund a Utilisation; and
(iii) if a Lender so requires and notifies the Agent within 30 days of the date on which the Agent
notifies the Lenders of the event (for the purposes of this 30 days, excluding the date on
which the Agent notifies the Lenders), the Agent shall, by not less than 15 days' notice to the
Company, cancel the Commitment of that Lender and declare the participation of that
Lender in all outstanding Loans, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts
accrued under the Finance Documents immediately due and payable, whereupon the
Commitment of that Lender will be cancelled and all such outstanding amounts will become
immediately due and payable.
(b) For the purpose of paragraph (a) above control means the power to direct the management and
policies of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting capital, by contract or otherwise.
(c) For the purpose of paragraph (a) above acting in concert means acting together pursuant to an
agreement or understanding (whether formal or informal).
8.3 Prepayment – disposals
(a) In this subclause:
Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction means any of the following:
(i) any disposal of any Marketable Securities whether pursuant to an Equity Finance
Arrangement or otherwise; or
(ii) the granting of Security or Quasi-Security in relation to any Marketable Securities and/or
contractually committing to provide Security or Quasi-Security in relation to any Marketable
Securities pursuant to an Equity Finance Arrangement,
in each case, for the purposes of funding any acquisition of, or merger with, any entity, business or
assets by any member of the Group and related costs and expenses and Taxes but will not include
any of the same which the Majority Lenders agree should not be treated as an Acquisition Related
Marketable Securities Transaction.
Available Marketable Securities Basket means, at any time that the same falls to be determined, a
number of shares equal to:
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(i) 755,382,270 Tencent Shares (being 25.5 per cent. of the Tencent Shares beneficially owned
by the Group as at the date of this Agreement) as the same may be sub-divided, split, re-
denominated or consolidated (the "Relevant Tencent Marketable Securities").
less
(ii) the Relevant Tencent Marketable Securities and any equivalent number thereof calculated in
accordance with paragraphs (A) to (C) below and which have been disposed of or subject to
any Security or Quasi-Security pursuant to Acquisition Related Marketable Securities
Transactions or a Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transactions since the date
of this Agreement,
provided that:
(A) where the Marketable Securities which are subject to an Acquisition Related Marketable
Securities Transaction or a Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction are
not Tencent Shares, then the equivalent number of Tencent Shares will be calculated for the
purposes of paragraph (ii) above as follows:
A ________
B
where:
A = the higher of (1) the Market Value at the time the relevant transaction occurs and
(2) the proceeds received by the Group in respect of, in each case the Marketable
Securities the subject of the Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction
or Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction; and
B = the closing price of Tencent Shares at the date such Acquisition Related Marketable
Securities Transaction or Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities
Transaction occurs,
rounded downwards to the nearest whole number;
(B) there will be no double counting for the purposes of calculating the Available Marketable
Securities Basket; this will mean, amongst other things, that:
(1) where Security or Quasi-Security is granted over any Marketable Securities and/or
contractually committed to be provided, in each case as part of any Equity Finance
Arrangement, and those or other Marketable Securities are subsequently disposed of
to prepay or repay that Equity Finance Arrangement in whole or in part, only the
Marketable Securities over which Security or Quasi-Security is granted or
contractually committed to be provided as part of that Equity Finance Arrangement
will reduce the Available Marketable Securities Basket and the subsequent disposal
will be ignored;
(2) where Security is granted over Marketable Securities into which mandatorily
convertible or exchangeable bonds or notes may be converted, only the Marketable
Securities over which such Security is granted will reduce the Available Marketable
Securities Basket and not any subsequent exchange or conversion of the mandatory
convertible or exchangeable bonds or notes which will be ignored; and
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(3) in respect of any Equity Finance Arrangement, the Marketable Securities subject to
the same shall no longer be deducted for the purposes of calculating the Available
Marketable Securities Basket to the extent the Marketable Securities are
unconditionally redelivered to the relevant member of the Group pursuant to that
Equity Finance Arrangement;
(C) to the extent that any Security, Quasi-Security or contractual commitment to grant Security
or Quasi-Security over any Marketable Securities as part of an Acquisition Related
Marketable Securities Transaction or a Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities
Transaction is released, discharged or terminated, and such Marketable Securities have not
been disposed of or made subject to any other Acquisition Related Marketable Securities
Transaction or Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction, the relevant
Marketable Securities (or their equivalent in Tencent Shares, as the case may be) shall no
longer be deducted from the Relevant Tencent Marketable Securities for the purposes of
calculating the Available Marketable Securities Basket under paragraph (ii) of that
definition.
Gross Assets means, at any time, the sum value of the total non-current assets and the total current
assets of the Group, in each case, as shown in the then most recent audited consolidated financial
statements of the Company for a financial year (including Marketable Securities calculated at
book value);
Market Value means, at any time, (i) in respect of Marketable Securities that at such time are
owned by a member of the Group, the average of the closing prices of the Marketable Securities on
the primary stock exchange on which the Marketable Securities are listed on the previous thirty
trading days; or (ii) in respect of Marketable Securities that by such time have been disposed of by a
member of the Group, the proceeds of the disposal;
Marketable Securities means investments by the Group in publicly listed associates, members of
the Group or any other entities;
net proceeds means any amount received by a member of the Group as consideration for a relevant
disposal to a person which is not a member of the Group, including the amount of any intercompany
loan repaid or prepaid to continuing members of the Group less all Taxes and reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by any member of the Group in connection with the relevant disposal; and
relevant disposal means a disposal of any asset or business (whether by way of a share or asset sale
or any merger or demerger) other than a disposal:
(i) made in the ordinary course of trading;
(ii) to another member of the Group;
(iii) of assets in exchange for other assets comparable or superior;
(iv) of obsolete, surplus or redundant vehicles, plant and equipment for cash;
(v) made pursuant to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or other similar transaction provided
that the ratio of pro forma Consolidated Total Net Borrowing as at the date of the relevant
transaction (after taking into account the Financial Indebtedness incurred pursuant to such
Sale and Leaseback Transaction or other similar transaction) to Adjusted Consolidated
EBITDA for the Measurement Period ending immediately before such Sale and Leaseback
Transaction or other similar transaction would not have exceeded 2.75 to 1.00 for that
calculation;
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(vi) which is the expenditure of cash not otherwise restricted by this Agreement;
(vii) which is a disposal of any Consolidated Eligible Cash and Cash Equivalents made in the
ordinary course of the Group's treasury or cash management arrangements;
(viii) which is the payment of any lawful dividend or distribution by any member of the Group;
(ix) of assets where the proceeds (combined with any related disposal) are less than
US$5,000,000 (or its equivalent in any currency);
(x) made as part of any Consumer Finance Financing;
(xi) of Marketable Securities by any member of the Group as part of any Acquisition Related
Marketable Securities Transaction to the extent that the number of Marketable Securities
subject to the same does not exceed the then applicable Available Marketable
Securities Basket;
(xii) of Marketable Securities by any member of the Group that is not an Acquisition Related
Marketable Securities Transaction and does not fall within any of the other paragraphs of
this definition (a Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction) to the
extent that the Marketable Securities subject to the same neither exceed:
(A) (when aggregated with any other Marketable Securities subject to a Non-Acquisition
Related Marketable Securities Transaction which has been undertaken in the same
financial year) Marketable Securities representing 5% of the aggregate Market
Value at the time of such disposal of the Marketable Securities beneficially owned
by members of the Group at the end of the Company’s previous financial year; nor
(B) the Available Marketable Securities Basket at that time,
and for these purposes in order to determine whether there is any excess to count towards the
threshold in Clause 8.3(f) below, the Market Value of the Available Marketable Securities
Basket at that time will be used and only the amount by which the Market Value of the
Marketable Securities subject to the Non-Acquisition Related Marketable Securities
Transaction at that time exceeds the lower of (x) the Market Value of the Available
Marketable Securities Basket at that time and (y) the amount referred to in paragraph (A)
above will represent the excess; or
(xiii) which involves the grant of Security or Quasi-Security by any member of the Group in
respect of assets (other than Marketable Securities) to the extent permitted under Clause
21.3(d)(i) to Clause 21.3(d)(xvi); or
(xiv) which the Majority Lenders otherwise agree need not give rise to a prepayment.
Tencent Shares means shares in the capital of Tencent Holdings Ltd.
(b) Nothing in this Clause 8.3 will restrict the Group's ability to exceed the limits contained in this
Clause, provided that, to the extent any such limits are exceeded and the threshold contemplated in
paragraph (f) is met, the Facility will be prepaid to the extent required by this Clause 8.3 when the
transaction which has had this result is completed.
(c) The net cash proceeds of any Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction falling within
paragraph (i) of the definition of Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction shall be
deposited in a separate account held by a member of the Group for application only in or towards
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funding any acquisitions or mergers or repaying or unwinding the Equity Finance Arrangement to
which they relate. If the funds are to be used for any other purpose, the funds may only be
withdrawn from the separate account with the consent of the Majority Lenders.
(d) Any disposals of Marketable Securities pursuant to an Acquisition Related Marketable Securities
Transaction or a Non Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction in excess of the
Available Marketable Securities Basket must be for cash and will contribute towards the threshold
contemplated in paragraph (f), unless the Majority Lenders otherwise agree.
(e) An Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction and any Non-Acquisition Related
Marketable Securities Transaction which involves the grant of Security or Quasi-Security or
contractual commitment to grant Security or Quasi-Security, in each case by any member of the
Group, will be a relevant disposal of Marketable Securities and will be taken into account to
determine the Available Marketable Securities Basket for the purposes of paragraph (xi) or (xii) of
the definition of relevant disposal in this Clause 8.3, as applicable, with the Marketable Securities
subject to the same being deemed for the purposes of this Clause 8.3 to be equal to the Marketable
Securities the subject of that Security, Quasi-Security or contractual commitment to grant Security or
Quasi-Security.
(f) If at any time during each financial year of the Company the aggregate amount of the net proceeds of
relevant disposals by members of the Group during that financial year is more than an amount equal
to 8% of Gross Assets, the Company must procure that an amount at least equal to the excess be
applied towards prepayment of the Loans and, where paragraph (h) applies, cancellation of
the Facility.
(g) Any prepayment under this sub-clause must be made on or before (i) the last day of the Interest
Period of the Loan or (ii) if Clause 8.9(f) (Restrictions) applies, the last day of the first Interest
Period for any Loan ending after the end of the Certain Funds Period (in each case) to be prepaid in
which the relevant disposal (a Relevant Disposal) triggering a prepayment requirement under
paragraph (f) above occurred but if the Relevant Disposal occurs within three Business Days of the
last day of that Interest Period (the Relevant Interest Period), any prepayment under this sub-clause
shall be made (A) on the earlier of (I) on or before the last day of the immediately following Interest
Period of that Loan or (II) the last day of the Interest Period of any other Loan which falls after the
Relevant Interest Period or (B) if Clause 8.9(f) (Restrictions) applies, the last day of the first Interest
Period for any Loan ending after the end of the Certain Funds Period.
(h) If the amount to be applied in prepaying the Loans is more than the amount of Loans (if any) then
outstanding, the Total Commitments will be automatically cancelled in an amount equal to the
excess in accordance with Clause 8.11 (Application of prepayments and cancellations).
(i) If there is more than one Loan outstanding, any prepayment under paragraph (f) must be applied to
the Loans in chronological order according to the maturity date of the Loans.
(j) The Company must give the Agent three Business Days' notice of any prepayment under paragraph
(f) and/or any cancellation under paragraph (h) and include in that notice a calculation of the amount
prepaid or cancelled, as the case may be.
(k) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Clause 8.3, no prepayment shall be required pursuant to
this Clause 8.3 (Prepayment – disposals) to the extent that the Company is required by any
contractual provision binding on the Group on the Signing Date to prepay or cancel any other
indebtedness or commitments of any member of the Group that is outstanding on the Signing Date
with or by reference to the proceeds from the Relevant Disposal.
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8.4 Prepayment – debt proceeds
(a) In this Clause 8.4:
Debt Issue means:
(i) the issue by the Company or by any Subsidiary of the Company (to the extent guaranteed by
the Company) of any bond or other debt securities (including any convertible or
exchangeable debt securities) with a maturity of more than one year to any person that is not
a member of the Group; or
(ii) the borrowing by the Company or by any Subsidiary of the Company (to the extent
guaranteed by the Company) of any loan with a maturity of more than one year from any
person that is not a member of the Group under any syndicated term loan facility entered
into after the date of this Agreement,
but excludes:
(i) any Consumer Finance Financing;
(ii) any Refinancing Indebtedness provided that the aggregate principal amount of all
such Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed US$1,000,000,000;
(iii) any such indebtedness raised for the purposes of the Group’s day to day operations
provided that the aggregate principal amount does not exceed US$250,000,000; and
(iv) any other financing approved by the Majority Lenders.
Net Debt Proceeds means the cash or cash equivalent proceeds of any Debt Issue received by the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, after deducting:
(i) all fees and transaction costs and expenses incurred by the Group in connection with the
raising of that Debt Issue; and
(ii) any Taxes paid or reasonably estimated by the Company to be payable by the Group as a
result of that raising of the Debt Issue.
(b) The Company shall notify the Agent promptly on receipt of any Net Debt Proceeds by any member
of the Group and, on the last day of the then current Interest Period for any Loan (or, if Clause 8.9(f)
(Restrictions) applies, the last day of the first Interest Period for any Loan ending after the end of the
Certain Funds Period), shall apply an amount equal to those Net Debt Proceeds in prepayment of the
outstanding Loans and, where paragraph (c) applies, cancellation of the Facility.
(c) If the amount to be applied in prepaying the Loans is more than the amount of Loans (if any) then
outstanding, the Total Commitments will be automatically cancelled in an amount equal to the
excess in accordance with Clause 8.11 (Application of prepayments and cancellations).
8.5 Voluntary cancellation
The Company may, if it gives the Agent not less than ten days (or such shorter period as the
Majority Lenders may agree) prior written notice, cancel the whole or any part of the Available
Facility (being a minimum amount of £40,000,000 or the balance of the Available Facility).
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8.6 Voluntary prepayment of Loans
The Company may, if it gives the Agent not less than ten days (or such shorter period as the
Majority Lenders may agree) prior written notice, prepay the whole or any part of any Loan (but, if
in part, being an amount that reduces the amount of the Loan by a minimum amount of £40,000,000
or if less the balance of outstanding Loans).
8.7 Right of repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender
(a) If:
(i) any sum payable to any Lender by the Company is required to be increased under paragraph
(c) of Clause 13.2 (Tax gross-up); or
(ii) any Lender claims indemnification from the Company under Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) or
Clause 14.1 (Increased costs),
the Company may, whilst the circumstance giving rise to the requirement for that increase or
indemnification continues, give the Agent notice of cancellation of the Commitment of that Lender
and its intention to procure the repayment of that Lender's participation in the Loans or replace that
Lender in accordance with paragraph (b) below.
(b) The Company may (in consultation with the Agent), in the circumstances set out in paragraph (a)
above or pursuant to Clause 8.1(c)(ii) (Illegality), replace the Transferring Lender (as defined in
Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders)) with one or more other persons (which need not be a Lender)
which have agreed to purchase all or part of the Commitment and Loans of that Transferring Lender
pursuant to an assignment or transfer in accordance with the provisions of Clause 24 (Changes to the
Lenders), on condition that:
(i) each assignment or transfer under this paragraph (b) shall be arranged by the Company (with
such reasonable assistance from the relevant Lender exiting the Facility as the Company
may reasonably request);
(ii) where undrawn amounts are still available under the Facility, the New Lender (as defined in
Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders)) has a credit rating of either A-1 or higher by S&P or
Fitch or P-1 by Moodys or is otherwise acceptable to the Majority Lenders (acting
reasonably); and
(iii) no Transferring Lender shall be obliged to make any assignment or transfer pursuant to this
paragraph (b) unless and until it has received payment from the New Lender (as defined in
Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders)) or New Lenders in an aggregate amount equal to the
outstanding principal amount of the Loans owing to the Transferring Lender, together with
accrued and unpaid interest and fees (including, without limitation, any Break Costs to the
date of payment) and all other amounts payable to the Transferring Lender under this
Agreement.
(c) On receipt of a notice of cancellation referred to in paragraph (a) above, the Commitment of that
Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.
(d) On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Company has given notice under
paragraph (a) above (or, if earlier, the date specified by the Company in that notice), the Company
shall repay that Lender's participation in that Loan together with all interest and other amounts
accrued under the Finance Documents to that Lender.
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(e) Paragraphs (a) and (b) above do not in any way limit the obligations of any Finance Party under
Clause 16 (Mitigation by the Lenders).
8.8 Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender
(a) If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the Company may, at any time whilst the Lender
continues to be a Defaulting Lender, give the Agent 15 Business Days' notice of cancellation of the
Available Commitment of that Lender and, if it so wishes, of its intention to repay that Lender's
participation in the Loans.
(b) On the notice referred to in paragraph (a) above becoming effective, the Available Commitment of
the Defaulting Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.
(c) The Agent shall as soon as practicable after receipt of a notice referred to in paragraph (a) above,
notify all the Lenders.
(d) On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Company has given notice of
cancellation and repayment under paragraph (a) above, the Company shall repay the Defaulting
Lender's participation in any outstanding Loan, together with interest accrued up to the date of
repayment. The Company may only repay an amount of a Defaulting Lender's participation in any
outstanding Loan on the last day of an Interest Period.
8.9 Restrictions
(a) Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this Clause 8 shall be irrevocable
and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon
which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or
prepayment.
(b) Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount
prepaid and, subject to any Break Costs, without premium or penalty. The Company must pay any
such Break Costs to the Agent for the account of the Lenders.
(c) Without prejudice to Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality), the Company may
not re-borrow any part of the Facility which is prepaid pursuant to this Clause 8.
(d) Subject to Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality), no amount of the Total
Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated.
(e) If the Agent receives a notice under this Clause 8 it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to
either the Company or the affected Lender, as appropriate.
(f) Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document, the Company shall not be required to
cancel any undrawn Commitments in accordance with Clause 8.3 (Prepayment – disposals) or 8.4
(Prepayment – debt proceeds) until after the end of the Certain Funds Period unless otherwise agreed
by the Financial Adviser. Upon receipt of any amount which would otherwise be required to be
applied in cancellation of any undrawn Commitment, the Company shall approach the Financial
Adviser to make such a determination.
8.10 Effect of repayment and prepayment on Commitments
If all or part of any Lender's participation in a Utilisation under the Facility is repaid or prepaid, an
amount of that Lender's Commitment (equal to the Base Currency Amount of the amount of the
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participation which is repaid or prepaid) in respect of the Facility will be deemed to be cancelled on
the date of repayment or prepayment.
8.11 Application of prepayments and cancellations
Any prepayment of a Loan pursuant to Clause 8.3 (Prepayment – disposals), Clause 8.4 (Prepayment
– debt proceeds) or Clause 0 (
(a) Voluntary prepayment of Loans) shall be applied pro rata to each Lender's participation in that Loan.
(b) Any cancellation of Commitments pursuant to Clause 8.3 (Prepayment – disposals) or 8.5
(Voluntary cancellation) shall:
(i) be applied (i) firstly, towards cancellation of the Cash Bridge and (ii) secondly, towards
cancellation of the Debt Take-Out Bridge; and
(ii) reduce the Commitments of the Lenders under the Cash Bridge or the Debt Take-Out Bridge
(as the case may be) rateably.
(c) Any cancellation of Commitments pursuant to Clause 8.4 (Prepayment – debt proceeds) shall:
(i) be applied (A) firstly, towards cancellation of the Debt Take-Out Bridge and (B) secondly,
towards cancellation of the Cash Bridge; and
(ii) reduce the Commitments of the Lenders under the Cash Bridge or the Debt Take-Out Bridge
(as the case may be) rateably.
9. INTEREST
9.1 Calculation of interest
The rate of interest on each Loan for each Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is
the aggregate of the applicable:
(a) Margin; and
(b) IBOR.
9.2 Payment of interest
The Company shall pay accrued interest on the last day of each Interest Period (and, if any Interest
Period is longer than six Months, then the interest will be paid on the dates falling at six-Monthly
intervals after the first day of the Interest Period).
9.3 Default interest
(a) If the Company fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date,
interest shall accrue on the overdue amount from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both
before and after judgment) at a rate which, subject to paragraph (b) below, is 1% higher than the rate
which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of non-payment,
constituted a Loan in the currency of the overdue amount for successive Interest Periods, each of a
duration selected by the Agent (acting reasonably). Any interest accruing under this Clause 9.3 shall
be immediately payable by the Company on demand by the Agent.
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(b) If any overdue amount consists of all or part of a Loan which became due on a day which was not
the last day of an Interest Period relating to that Loan:
(i) the first Interest Period for that overdue amount shall have a duration equal to the unexpired
portion of the current Interest Period relating to that Loan; and
(ii) the rate of interest applying to the overdue amount during that first Interest Period shall be
1% higher than the rate which would have applied if the overdue amount had not
become due.
(c) Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an overdue amount will be compounded with the overdue
amount at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that overdue amount but will remain
immediately due and payable.
9.4 Notification of rates of interest
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Company of the determination of a rate of
interest under this Agreement.
10. INTEREST PERIODS
10.1 Selection of Interest Periods
(a) The Company may select an Interest Period for a Loan in the Utilisation Request for that Loan or (if
the Loan has already been borrowed) in a Selection Notice.
(b) Each Selection Notice for a Loan is irrevocable and must be delivered to the Agent by the Company
to which that Loan was made not later than the Specified Time.
(c) If the Company fails to deliver a Selection Notice to the Agent in accordance with paragraph (b)
above, the relevant Interest Period will be three Months.
(d) Subject to this Clause 10, the Company may select an Interest Period of one, two, three or six
Months or any other period agreed between the Company and the Agent (acting on the instructions
of all the Lenders).
(e) Any Interest Period for a Loan which extends beyond the applicable Final Maturity Date shall be
shortened so that it ends on the applicable Final Maturity Date.
(f) Each Interest Period for a Loan shall start on the Utilisation Date or (for a Loan already made) on the
last day of its preceding Interest Period.
10.2 Non-Business Days
If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period
will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar Month (if there is one) or the preceding
Business Day (if there is not).
11. CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF INTEREST
11.1 Unavailability of Screen Rate
(a) Interpolated Screen Rate
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If no Screen Rate is available for IBOR for the Interest Period of a Loan, the applicable IBOR shall
be the Interpolated Screen Rate for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan.
(b) Shortened Interest Period
If no Screen Rate is available for IBOR for:
(i) the currency of a Loan; or
(ii) the Interest Period of a Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Screen Rate,
the Interest Period of that Loan shall (if it is longer than the applicable Fallback Interest Period) be
shortened to the applicable Fallback Interest Period and the applicable IBOR for that shortened
Interest Period shall be determined pursuant to the relevant definition.
(c) Shortened Interest Period and Historic Screen Rate
If the Interest Period of a Loan is, after giving effect to paragraph (b) above, either the applicable
Fallback Interest Period or shorter than the applicable Fallback Interest Period and, in either case, no
Screen Rate is available for IBOR for:
(i) the currency of that Loan; or
(ii) the Interest Period of that Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Screen
Rate,
the applicable IBOR shall be the Historic Screen Rate for that Loan.
(d) Shortened Interest Period and Interpolated Historic Screen Rate
If paragraph (c) above applies but no Historic Screen Rate is available for the Interest Period of the
Loan, the applicable IBOR shall be the Interpolated Historic Screen Rate for a period equal in length
to the Interest Period of that Loan.
(e) Cost of Funds
If paragraph (d) above applies but it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Historic Screen Rate,
there shall be no IBOR for that Loan and Clause 11.3 (Cost of Funds) shall apply to that Loan for
that Interest Period.
11.2 Market disruption
If before close of business in London on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period the Agent
receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders (whose participations in a Loan exceed 35% of that
Loan) that the cost to it of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it may
reasonably select would be in excess of IBOR then Clause 11.3 (Cost of Funds) shall apply to that
Loan for the relevant Interest Period.
11.3 Cost of Funds
(a) If this Clause 11.3 applies, the rate of interest on each Lender's participation in the relevant Loan for
the relevant Interest Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of:
(i) the Margin; and
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(ii) the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by close
of business on the date falling two Business Days after the Quotation Day (or, if earlier, on
the date falling three Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in
respect of that Interest Period), to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the
cost to the relevant Lender of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it
may reasonably select.
(b) If this Clause 11.3 applies and the Agent or the Company so requires, the Agent and the Company
shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than 30 days) with a view to agreeing an
alternative basis for determining the rate of interest.
(c) Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of all the
Lenders and the Company, be binding on all Parties.
(d) If this Clause 11.3 applies by reason of Clause 11.2 (Market disruption) and:
(i) a Lender's Funding Rate is less than IBOR; or
(ii) a Lender does not supply a quotation by the time specified in paragraph (a)(ii) above,
the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in that Loan for that Interest Period shall be
deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, to be IBOR.
11.4 Notification to Company
If Clause 11.3 (Cost of Funds) applies, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable, notify the Company.
11.5 Break Costs
(a) The Company shall, within three Business Days of demand by a Finance Party, pay to that Finance
Party its Break Costs attributable to all or any part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by the
Company on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum.
(b) Each Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand by the Agent, provide a
certificate confirming the amount of its Break Costs for any Interest Period in which they accrue.
12. FEES
12.1 Transaction fees
The Company shall pay to the Finance Parties fees in the amounts and at the times agreed in the
Fee Letters.
12.2 Deduction from Utilisations
The Company hereby authorises the Agent to deduct from any Utilisation the amount of any fees
that, on the Utilisation Date, are outstanding and owed by the Company to the Finance Parties under
paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Closing Fee Letter.
13. TAX GROSS-UP AND INDEMNITIES
13.1 Definitions
(a) In this Agreement:
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Protected Party means a Finance Party which is or will be subject to any liability, or required to
make any payment, for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum
deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document.
Tax Credit means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of any Tax.
Tax Deduction means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a
Finance Document, other than a FATCA Deduction.
Tax Payment means either the increase in a payment made by the Company to a Finance Party
under Clause 13.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity).
(b) Unless a contrary indication appears, in this Clause 13 a reference to "determines" or "determined"
means a determination made in the absolute discretion of the person making the determination.
13.2 Tax gross-up
(a) The Company shall make all payments to be made by it without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax
Deduction is required by law.
(b) The Company shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a Tax Deduction (or that there
is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Agent accordingly. Similarly, a
Lender shall notify the Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender.
If the Agent receives such notification from a Lender it shall notify the Company.
(c) If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Company, the amount of the payment due
from the Company shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves
an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.
(d) If the Company is required to make a Tax Deduction, the Company shall make that Tax Deduction
and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the
minimum amount required by law.
(e) Within 30 days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that
Tax Deduction, the Company shall deliver to the Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment
an original receipt (or certified copy thereof), or if unavailable evidence reasonably satisfactory to
that Finance Party that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment
paid to the relevant taxing authority.
13.3 Tax indemnity
(a) The Company shall (within three Business Days of demand by the Agent) pay to a Protected Party
an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Protected Party determines will be or has
been (directly or indirectly) suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a
Finance Document.
(b) Paragraph (a) above shall not apply:
(i) with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party:
(A) under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if
different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party is treated as
resident for tax purposes;
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(B) under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party's Facility Office is
located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction; or
(C) under the laws of the Netherlands to the extent such Tax becomes payable by reason
of a Finance Party having a substantial interest (aanmerkelijk belang) in the
Company within the meaning of the Netherlands income tax act 2001 (Wet
inkomstenbelasting 2001),
if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable
(but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by that Finance Party; or
(ii) to the extent a loss, liability or cost:
(A) is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 13.2 (Tax gross-up); or
(B) relates to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party.
(c) A Protected Party making, or intending to make a claim under paragraph (a) above shall promptly
notify the Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the
Agent shall notify the Company.
(d) A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from the Company under this Clause 13.3, notify
the Agent.
13.4 Tax Credit
If the Company makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that:
(a) a Tax Credit is attributable either to an increased payment of which that Tax Payment forms
part, or to that Tax Payment; and
(b) that Finance Party has obtained, utilised and fully retained that Tax Credit on an affiliated
group basis,
the Finance Party shall pay an amount to the Company which that Finance Party determines will
leave it (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax
Payment not been required to be made by the Company.
13.5 Stamp taxes
The Company shall pay and, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party
against any cost, loss or liability that Finance Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration
and other similar Taxes payable in respect of any Finance Document.
13.6 Value added tax
(a) All amounts set out, or expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any Party to a Finance
Party which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for any supply for VAT purposes shall
be deemed to be exclusive of any VAT which is chargeable on such supply, and accordingly, subject
to paragraph (b) below, if VAT is chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to any Party
under a Finance Document, that Party shall pay to the Finance Party (in addition to and at the same
time as paying the consideration) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (and such Finance
Party shall promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to such Party).
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(b) If VAT is chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party (the Supplier) to any other Finance
Party (the Recipient) under a Finance Document, and any Party other than the Recipient (the
Relevant Party) is required by the terms of any Finance Document to pay an amount equal to the
consideration for such supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to reimburse the Recipient
in respect of that consideration):
(i) (where the Supplier is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the
VAT) the Relevant Party shall also pay to the Supplier (in addition to and at the same time
as paying such amount) an amount equal to the amount of such VAT. The Recipient must
(where this paragraph (i) applies) promptly pay to the Relevant Party an amount equal to any
credit or repayment the Recipient receives from the relevant tax authority which the
Recipient reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on that supply; and
(ii) (where the Recipient is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the
VAT) the Relevant Party must promptly, following demand from the Recipient, pay to the
Recipient an amount equal to the VAT chargeable on that supply but only to the extent that
the Recipient reasonably determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the
relevant tax authority in respect of that VAT.
(c) Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse a Finance Party for any costs or
expenses, that Party shall also at the same time pay and indemnify the Finance Party against all VAT
incurred by the Finance Party in respect of the costs or expenses to the extent that the Finance Party
reasonably determines that neither it nor any other member of the group of which it is a member for
VAT purposes is entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of the
VAT.
(d) Any reference in this Clause 13.6 to any Party shall, at any time when such Party is treated as a
member of a group or unity (or fiscal unity) for VAT purposes, include (where appropriate and
unless the context otherwise requires) a reference to the person who is treated at that time as making
the supply or, where appropriate, as receiving the supply, under VAT grouping rules provided for in
Article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC (or as implemented by the relevant member state of the
European Union) or any other similar provision in any jurisdiction which is not a member state of
the European Union, so that a reference to a Party shall be construed as a reference to that Party or
the relevant group or unity (or fiscal unity) of which that Party is a member for VAT purposes at the
relevant time or the relevant representative member (or head) of such group or unity (or fiscal unity)
at the relevant time (as the case may be).
13.7 FATCA Deduction
(a) Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment
required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall be required to increase any
payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the
recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction.
(b) Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that
there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction) notify the Party to whom it is
making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Company, the Agent and the other
Finance Parties.
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13.8 FATCA Information
(a) Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten Business Days of a reasonable request by
another Party:
(i) confirm to that other Party whether it is:
(A) a FATCA Exempt Party; or
(B) not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
(ii) supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its
status under FATCA (including its applicable "passthru payment percentage" or other
information required under the US Treasury Regulations or other official guidance including
intergovernmental agreements) as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of
that other Party's compliance with FATCA.
(b) If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to Clause 13.8(a)(i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt
Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party,
that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly.
(c) Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything which would or might in its
reasonable opinion constitute a breach of:
(i) any law or regulation;
(ii) any fiduciary duty; or
(iii) any duty of confidentiality.
(d) If a Party fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested
in accordance with paragraph (a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c)
above applies), then:
(i) if that Party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party then
such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents as if it is not a
FATCA Exempt Party; and
(ii) if that Party failed to confirm its applicable "passthru payment percentage" then such Party
shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made thereunder)
as if its applicable "passthru payment percentage" is 100%,
until (in each case) such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms,
documentation or other information.
14. INCREASED COSTS
14.1 Increased costs
(a) Subject to Clause 14.3 (Exceptions), the Company shall, within three Business Days of a demand by
the Agent, pay for the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred by that
Finance Party or any of its Affiliates:
(i) as a result of the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or
application of) any law or regulation;
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(ii) as a result of compliance with any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;
or
(iii) attributable to the implementation or application of, or compliance with, Basel III or
CRD IV or any other law or regulation which implements Basel III or CRD IV (whether
such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, Finance Party
or any of such Finance Party's Affiliates).
(b) In this Agreement:
Increased Costs means:
(i) a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance Party's (or its Affiliate's)
overall capital;
(ii) an additional or increased cost; or
(iii) a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document,
which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to the extent that it is
attributable to that Finance Party having entered into its Commitment or funding or performing its
obligations under any Finance Document;
Basel III means:
(i) the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in
"Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems",
"Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and
monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital
buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each
as amended, supplemented or restated;
(ii) the rules for global systemically important banks contained in "Global systemically
important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement –
Rules text" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011,
as amended, supplemented or restated; and
(iii) any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision relating to "Basel III"; and
CRD IV means:
(i) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June
2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending
Regulation (EU) No 648/2012; and
(ii) Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on
access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions
and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC
and 2006/49/EC.
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14.2 Increased cost claims
(a) A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 14.1 (Increased costs) shall notify the
Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall promptly notify the
Company.
(b) Each Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Agent, provide a certificate
confirming the amount of its Increased Costs.
14.3 Exceptions
(a) Clause 14.1 (Increased costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is:
(i) attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by the Company;
(ii) attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party;
(iii) compensated for by Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) (or would have been compensated for
under Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) but was not so compensated solely because any of the
exclusions in paragraph (b) of Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) applied);
(iv) attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or
regulation; or
(v) attributable to the implementation or application of, or compliance with, Basel III or CRD
IV or any other law or regulation which implements Basel III or CRD IV (whether such
implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, Finance Party or
any of such Finance Party's Affiliates) unless the relevant Finance Party confirms to the
Agent and the Company that it or its Affiliates are seeking to recover such Increased Costs
to a similar extent from its or its Affiliates' similar borrowers generally (where the facilities
extended to such borrowers include a right for the Finance Party or its Affiliates to recover
such costs).
(b) In this Clause 14.3, a reference to a Tax Deduction has the same meaning given to the term in
Clause 13.1 (Definitions).
15. OTHER INDEMNITIES
15.1 Currency indemnity
(a) If any sum due from the Company under the Finance Documents (a Sum), or any order, judgment or
award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be converted from the currency (the First
Currency) in which that Sum is payable into another currency (the Second Currency) for the
purpose of:
(i) making or filing a claim or proof against the Company;
(ii) obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration
proceedings,
the Company shall as an independent obligation, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify
each Finance Party to whom that Sum is due against any cost, loss or liability arising out of or as a
result of the conversion including any discrepancy between (A) the rate of exchange used to convert
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that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (B) the rate or rates of exchange
available to that person at the time of its receipt of that Sum.
(b) The Company waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance
Documents in a currency or currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.
15.2 Other indemnities
(a) The Company shall, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against
any cost, loss or liability incurred by that Finance Party as a result of:
(i) the occurrence of any Event of Default;
(ii) a failure by the Company to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date,
including without limitation, any cost, loss or liability arising as a result of Clause 28
(Sharing among the Finance Parties);
(iii) funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in a Loan requested by the
Company in a Utilisation Request but not made by reason of the operation of any one or
more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by
that Lender alone); or
(iv) a Loan (or part of a Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment
given by the Company.
(b) The Company shall promptly indemnify each Finance Party, each Affiliate of a Finance Party and
each officer or employee of a Finance Party or its Affiliate, against any cost, loss or liability incurred
by that Finance Party or its Affiliate (or officer or employee of that Finance Party or Affiliate) in
connection with or arising out of the Acquisition or the funding of the Acquisition (including but not
limited to those incurred in connection with any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings
or regulatory enquiry concerning the Acquisition). The Company shall not be responsible for or have
any liability to anyone under this paragraph (b) for any loss or liability that is caused by the gross
negligence or wilful misconduct of that Finance Party or its Affiliate (or employee or officer of that
Finance Party or Affiliate). Any Affiliate or any officer or employee of a Finance Party or its
Affiliate may rely on this paragraph (b) subject to Clause 1.3 (Third party rights) and the provisions
of the Third Parties Act.
15.3 Indemnity to the Agent
The Company shall promptly indemnify the Agent against any cost, loss or liability incurred by the
Agent (acting reasonably) as a result of:
(a) investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default;
(b) acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it reasonably believes to be
genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; or
(c) instructing lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or
experts as permitted under this Agreement.
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16. MITIGATION BY THE LENDERS
16.1 Mitigation
(a) Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Company, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any
circumstances which arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or
pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of Clause 8.1 (Illegality), Clause 13 (Tax Gross-up and
Indemnities) or Clause 14 (Increased Costs) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and
obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office.
(b) Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of the Company under the Finance
Documents.
16.2 Limitation of liability
(a) The Company shall indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by
that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under Clause 16.1 (Mitigation).
(b) A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 16.1 (Mitigation) if, in the opinion of
that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it.
17. COSTS AND EXPENSES
17.1 Transaction expenses
The Company shall promptly following demand pay the Agent and the Coordinating Bookrunner the
amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by any of them in
connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and syndication of:
(a) this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement; and
(b) any other Finance Documents executed after the date of this Agreement,
in each case, subject to any cap on legal fees agreed from time to time between the Company and the
Agent. Any demand for reimbursement of costs and expenses by the Agent must be accompanied by
reasonably supporting evidence thereof.
17.2 Amendment costs
If (a) the Company requests an amendment, waiver or consent or (b) an amendment is required
pursuant to Clause 29.10 (Change of currency), the Company shall, within ten Business Days of
demand, reimburse (or procure the reimbursement of) the Agent for the amount of all costs and
expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by the Agent in responding to, evaluating,
negotiating or complying with that request or requirement.
17.3 Enforcement costs
The Company shall, within three Business Days of demand, pay to each Finance Party the amount of
all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by that Finance Party in connection with the
enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document.
18. REPRESENTATIONS
The Company makes the representations and warranties set out in this Clause 18 to each Finance
Party on the date of this Agreement (other than the representations and warranties set out in Clause
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18.14 (No misleading information), which shall be made only on the date of approval by the
Company of the final form of the Information Memorandum in connection with general syndication
of the Facility).
18.1 Status
(a) It is a corporation, duly incorporated and validly existing under the law of its jurisdiction of
incorporation.
(b) It and each of its Subsidiaries (to the extent such Subsidiary is a Material Subsidiary) has the power
to own its assets and carry on its business in all material respects as it is being conducted.
18.2 Binding obligations
The obligations expressed to be assumed by it in each Finance Document are, subject to the Legal
Reservations, legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations.
18.3 Non-conflict with other obligations
The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance
Documents do not and will not conflict with:
(a) any law or regulation applicable to it;
(b) its or any of its Subsidiaries' (to the extent such Subsidiary is a Material Subsidiary)
constitutional documents; or
(c) any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or any of
its Subsidiaries' assets in a manner or to an extent which has a Material Adverse Effect.
18.4 Power and authority
It has the power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary action to authorise its
entry into, performance and delivery of, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and the
transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents.
18.5 Validity and admissibility in evidence
Subject to the Legal Reservations, all Authorisations required:
(a) to enable it lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations in the
Finance Documents to which it is a party; and
(b) to make the Finance Documents to which it is a party admissible in evidence in its
jurisdiction of incorporation,
have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect.
18.6 Governing law and enforcement
Subject to the Legal Reservations:
(a) the choice of English law as the governing law of the Finance Documents will be recognised
and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation; and
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(b) any judgment obtained in England in relation to a Finance Document will be recognised and
enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation.
18.7 Deduction of Tax
It is not required to make any deduction for or on account of Tax from any payment it may make
under any Finance Document.
18.8 No filing or stamp taxes
Under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation it is not necessary that the Finance Documents be
filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp,
registration or similar tax be paid on or in relation to the Finance Documents or the transactions
contemplated by the Finance Documents.
18.9 No default
(a) No Event of Default is continuing or will result from the making of any Utilisation.
(b) No other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default under any other agreement
or instrument, other than a default under any Equity Finance Arrangement or Consumer Finance
Financing, which is binding on it or any of its Subsidiaries or to which its (or any of its Subsidiaries')
assets are subject which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
18.10 Pari passu ranking
Its payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with the claims of all
its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by
law applying to companies generally.
18.11 No proceedings
No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings of or before any court, arbitral body or
agency (including, but not limited to, investigative proceedings) which are reasonably likely to be
adversely determined and which, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect have (to the best of its knowledge and belief) been started against it or any
of its Subsidiaries.
18.12 Sanctions
(a) No member of the Group is, and, as far as the Company is aware, no director or officer of any
member of the Group is, a Sanctioned Person.
(b) The Company is not incorporated nor has its principal place of business, in a Sanctioned Country.
(c) No member of the Group is owned or controlled by any person that is a Sanctioned Person.
(d) The Company has instituted and maintains policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve
compliance by each member of the Group with applicable Sanctions.
(e) In relation to each Lender that notifies the Agent to this effect (each a Restricted Bank), the
representations made in this Clause 18.12 shall only apply for the benefit of that Restricted Bank to
the extent that this Clause 18.12 would not result in any violation of or liability under EU Regulation
(EC) 2271/96 or Section 7 German Foreign Trade Regulation (AWV) (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung)
or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation. In connection with any amendment, waiver,
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determination or direction relating to any part of this Clause 18.12 of which a Restricted Bank does
not have the benefit, the participation in any Loan or Commitment of that Restricted Bank will be
excluded for the purpose of determining whether the consent of the Majority Lenders has been
obtained or whether the determination or direction by the Majority Lenders has been made.
18.13 Anti-corruption
(a) The Company has instituted and maintains policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve
compliance by each member of the Group with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws.
(b) Each member of the Group has conducted its business in compliance with applicable
Anti-Corruption Laws where failure to do so has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
18.14 No misleading information
Except as disclosed to the Agent or the Coordinating Bookrunner in writing prior to the date of the
Information Memorandum, to the knowledge of the Company (in respect of information on the
Target Group on the basis of the information provided to it by the Target Group and its and the
Target Group’s advisors, which has not been independently verified by the Company):
(a) as at the date of the Information Memorandum, all factual information (taken as a whole)
contained in the Information Memorandum was correct in all material respects as at the date
of the Information Memorandum or (as the case may be) as at the date the information was
expressed to be given; and
(b) as at the date of the Information Memorandum, no material event or circumstance had
occurred prior to the date of the Information Memorandum and the Information
Memorandum did not omit to disclose any matter where failure to disclose or take into
account such event or circumstance would have resulted in the material factual information
contained in the Information Memorandum (taken as a whole) being untrue or misleading in
any material respect as at the date of the Information Memorandum.
18.15 Repetition
The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by the Company by reference to the facts and
circumstances then existing on the date of each Utilisation Request and the first day of each Interest
Period.
19. INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS
The undertakings in this Clause 19 remain in force from the date of this Agreement for so long as
any amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.
19.1 Financial statements
The Company shall supply to the Agent in sufficient copies for all the Lenders:
(a) as soon as the same become available, but in any event within 150 days after the end of each
of its financial years, its audited consolidated financial statements for that financial year; and
(b) as soon as the same become available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each
first half of each of its financial years, its unaudited consolidated financial statements for
that financial half year.
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19.2 Compliance Certificate
(a) The Company shall supply to the Agent, with each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to
paragraph (a) or (b) of Clause 19.1 (Financial statements), a Compliance Certificate setting out:
(i) in reasonable detail, computations as to compliance with Clause 20 (Financial Covenants);
and
(ii) an update on any Consumer Finance Financings and Equity Finance Arrangements and
outstanding amounts thereunder,
in each case, as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up.
(b) Each Compliance Certificate shall be signed by two directors of the Company of which one must be
the Chief Financial Officer of the Group.
19.3 Requirements as to financial statements
(a) Each set of financial statements delivered by the Company pursuant to Clause 19.1 (Financial
statements) shall be certified by a director of the relevant company as fairly representing its financial
condition as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up.
(b) The Company shall procure that each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to Clause 19.1
(Financial statements) is prepared using GAAP.
(c) The Company shall procure that each set of its financial statements delivered pursuant to Clause 19.1
(Financial statements) is prepared using GAAP, accounting practices and financial reference periods
consistent with those applied in the preparation of the Original Financial Statements unless, in
relation to any set of financial statements, it notifies the Agent that there has been a change in
GAAP, the accounting practices or reference periods and delivers to the Agent:
(i) a description of any change necessary for those financial statements to reflect the GAAP,
accounting practices and reference periods upon which the Original Financial Statements
were prepared; and
(ii) sufficient information, in form and substance as may be reasonably required by the Agent, to
enable the Lenders to determine whether Clause 20 (Financial Covenants) has been
complied with and make an accurate comparison between the financial position indicated in
those financial statements and the Original Financial Statements.
Any reference in this Agreement to those financial statements shall be construed as a reference to
those financial statements as adjusted to reflect the basis upon which the Original Financial
Statements were prepared.
19.4 Information: miscellaneous
The Company shall supply to the Agent (in sufficient copies for all the Lenders, if the Agent so
requests):
(a) all documents dispatched by the Company to its creditors generally at the same time as they
are dispatched;
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(b) promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any litigation, arbitration or
administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or pending against any member of
the Group, and which might, if adversely determined, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) promptly upon request by the Agent, such further information as the Agent is required to
request (and which is not otherwise publicly available) as result of any banking supervisory
laws and regulations applicable to the Agent; and
(d) subject to any confidentiality obligations owed to a person other than a member of the
Group, promptly, such further information regarding the financial condition, business and
operations of any member of the Group as any Finance Party (through the Agent) may
reasonably request.
19.5 Notification of default
(a) The Company shall notify the Agent of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it)
promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence.
(b) Promptly upon a request by the Agent, the Company shall supply to the Agent a certificate signed by
two of its directors or senior officers on its behalf certifying that no Default is continuing (or if a
Default is continuing, specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it).
19.6 Use of websites
(a) The Company may satisfy its obligation under this Agreement to deliver any information in relation
to those Lenders (the Website Lenders) who accept this method of communication by posting this
information onto an electronic website designated by the Company and the Agent (the Designated
Website) if:
(i) the Agent expressly agrees (after consultation with each of the Lenders) that it will accept
communication of the information by this method;
(ii) both the Company and the Agent are aware of the address of and any relevant password
specifications for the Designated Website; and
(iii) the information is in a format previously agreed between the Company and the Agent.
If any Lender (a Paper Form Lender) does not agree to the delivery of information electronically
then the Agent shall notify the Company accordingly and the Company shall supply the information
to the Agent (in sufficient copies for each Paper Form Lender) in paper form. In any event the
Company shall supply the Agent with at least one copy in paper form of any information required to
be provided by it.
(b) The Agent shall supply each Website Lender with the address of and any relevant password
specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Company and
the Agent.
(c) The Company shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Agent if:
(i) the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;
(ii) the password specifications for the Designated Website change;
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(iii) any new information which is required to be provided under this Agreement is posted onto
the Designated Website;
(iv) any existing information which has been provided under this Agreement and posted onto the
Designated Website is amended; or
(v) the Company becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto
the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.
If the Company notifies the Agent under subparagraph (c)(i) or subparagraph (c)(v) above, all
information to be provided by the Company under this Agreement after the date of that notice shall
be supplied in paper form.
(d) Any Website Lender may request, through the Agent, one paper copy of any information required to
be provided under this Agreement which is posted onto the Designated Website by the Company.
The Company shall comply with any such request within ten Business Days.
19.7 "Know your customer" checks
(a) If:
(i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application
of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;
(ii) any change in the status of the Company after the date of this Agreement; or
(iii) a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer,
obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of subparagraph (iii) above, any prospective new
Lender) to comply with "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in circumstances
where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Company shall promptly upon the
request of the Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other
evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any
Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in subparagraph (iii) above, on behalf of any
prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent, such Lender or, in the case of the event described in
subparagraph (iii) above, any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied
with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and
regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
(b) Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of the Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such
documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself) in order for the
Agent to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other
similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in
the Finance Documents.
20. FINANCIAL COVENANTS
20.1 Definitions
In this Clause:
Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA means, in relation to a person and a Measurement Period,
Consolidated EBITDA of that person for the period adjusted by:
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(a) including the operating profit before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and impairment
charges (EBITDA) of a member of the Group or attributable to a business or assets acquired
during the Measurement Period for that part of the Measurement Period when it was not a
member of the Group and/or the business or assets were not owned by a member of the
Group; and
(b) excluding the EBITDA attributable to any member of the Group or to any business or assets
sold during that Measurement Period; and
(c) taking account of any charge attributable to satellite leases, transponder leases and operating
leases to which members of the Group are a party.
Consolidated EBIT means, in relation to a person and a Measurement Period, the aggregate of:
(a) the consolidated operating profits of the Group (including the results from discontinued
operations) before finance costs and tax for that Measurement Period;
(b) plus or minus the Group's share of the profits or losses of associates for that period (after
finance costs and tax) and the Group's share of the profits or losses of any joint ventures;
adjusted by:
(i) taking no account of any material items which represent gains or losses arising on:
(A) restructurings of the activities of a person and reversals of any provisions for the
costs of restructuring;
(B) disposals of non-current assets;
(C) the disposal of assets associated with discontinued operations;
(D) any other agreed items.
(ii) taking no account of any unrealised gains or losses on any derivative instrument which is
reported through the income statement;
(iii) taking no account of any income or charge attributable to a post-employment benefit scheme
other than the current service costs and any past service costs and curtailments and
settlements attributable to the scheme; and
(iv) taking no account of any expense referable to equity-settled share-based compensation of
employees or to any retention share option scheme.
Consolidated EBITDA means, in relation to a person and a Measurement Period, Consolidated
EBIT for that Measurement Period after adding back any depreciation and amortisation and taking
no account of any charge for impairment or any reversal of any previous impairment charge made in
the period.
Consolidated Eligible Cash and Cash Equivalents means, in relation to a person at any time:
(a) cash in hand or on deposit;
(b) certificates of deposit, maturing within one year after the relevant date of calculation, issued
by an Acceptable Bank;
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(c) any investment in marketable obligations issued or guaranteed by the government of the
United States of America, the UK or any member state of the European Economic Area or
by an instrumentality or agency of any of them having an equivalent credit rating which:
(i) matures within one year after the date of the relevant calculation; and
(ii) is not convertible to any other security;
(d) open market commercial paper not convertible to any other security:
(i) for which a recognised trading market exists;
(ii) issued in the United States of America, the UK or any member of the European
Economic Area;
(iii) which matures within one year after the relevant date of calculation; and
(iv) which has a credit rating of either A-1 by S&P or Fitch or P-1 by Moody's, or, if no
rating is available in respect of the commercial paper, the issuer of which has, in
respect of its long-term unsecured and non-credit enhanced debt obligations, an
equivalent rating;
(e) sterling bills of exchange eligible for rediscount at the Bank of England and accepted by an
Acceptable Bank (or any dematerialised equivalent);
(f) investments accessible within 30 days in money market funds which:
(i) have a credit rating of either A-1 or higher by S&P or Fitch or P-1 or higher by
Moody's; and
(ii) invest substantially all their assets in securities of the types described in paragraphs
(b) to (e) above; or
(g) any other debt, security or investment approved by the Majority Lenders,
in each case, to which any member of the Group is beneficially entitled at that time .
Consolidated Finance Costs means, in relation to a person and a Measurement Period, all finance
costs (whether paid, payable or added to principal and including any amount payable by a member of
the Group under any hedging agreement entered into to hedge interest payable by any member of the
Group) incurred by the Group during that period calculated on a consolidated basis but:
(a) taking no account of dividends on preference shares;
(b) excluding any amortisation of fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the
raising of Financial Indebtedness;
(c) excluding any capitalised finance costs and other non-cash finance costs during the relevant
Measurement Period; and
(d) excluding any finance costs incurred by the Group in respect of any operating leases.
Consolidated Interest Receivable means in relation to a person, all interest and other financing
charges (including any amount payable to any member of the Group under any hedging agreement
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entered into to hedge interest payable by any member of the Group) received or receivable by the
Group during a Measurement Period calculated on a consolidated basis.
Consolidated Net Finance Costs means, in relation to a person and a Measurement Period,
Consolidated Finance Costs for that Measurement Period less Consolidated Interest Receivable for
that Measurement Period calculated on a consolidated basis, but adjusted as follows:
(a) taking no account of any unrealised gains or losses on any derivative instrument (other than
any derivative instrument which is accounted for on a hedge accounting basis) which is
reported through the income statement; and
(b) taking no account of any interest cost or expected return on scheme assets in relation to any
post-employment benefit scheme.
Consolidated Total Borrowings means, in relation to a person, in respect of the Group, at any time,
the aggregate of the following liabilities calculated at the nominal, principal or other amount at
which the liabilities would be carried in a consolidated balance sheet of that person drawn up at that
time (or in the case of any guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance referred to in paragraph (i)
below, the maximum liability under the relevant instrument):
(a) any moneys borrowed;
(b) any redeemable preference shares;
(c) any acceptance under any acceptance credit (including any dematerialised equivalent);
(d) any bond, note, debenture, loan stock or other similar instrument;
(e) any indebtedness under a finance or capital lease;
(f) any moneys owing in connection with the sale or discounting of receivables (except to the
extent that there is no recourse);
(g) any indebtedness arising from any deferred payment agreements arranged primarily as a
method of raising finance or financing the acquisition of an asset;
(h) any indebtedness arising in connection with any other transaction (including any forward
sale or purchase agreement) which has the commercial effect of a borrowing; and
(i) any indebtedness of any person of a type referred to in the above paragraphs which is the
subject of a guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss given by a
member of the Group,
in each case excluding:
(i) any indebtedness owed to other members of the Group; and
(ii) any indebtedness relating to satellite leases, transponder leases and operating leases of any
members of the Group.
Consolidated Total Net Borrowings means at any time Consolidated Total Borrowings less
Consolidated Eligible Cash and Cash Equivalents.
Measurement Period means a period of 12 Months ending on the last day of a financial year or
financial half-year of the Company.
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20.2 Interpretation
(a) Except as provided to the contrary in this Agreement, an accounting term used in this Clause is to be
construed in accordance with the principles applied in connection with the Original Financial
Statements.
(b) Any amount in a currency other than dollar is to be taken into account at its dollar equivalent
calculated on the basis of:
(i) the Agent's Spot Rate of Exchange for the purchase of the relevant currency in the London
foreign exchange market with dollar at or about 11am on the day the relevant amount falls to
be calculated; or
(ii) if the amount is to be calculated on the last day of a financial period of the Company, the
relevant rates of exchange used by the Company in, or in connection with, its financial
statements for that period.
(c) No item must be credited or deducted more than once in any calculation under this Clause.
20.3 Leverage
(a) The Company must ensure that Consolidated Total Net Borrowings do not, at the end of each
Measurement Period, exceed 2.75 times Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA for that Measurement
Period.
(b) For the purpose of the financial covenants in paragraph (a) above, any contribution of any Equity
Finance Arrangement or Consumer Finance Financing and any member of the Group to which the
same has recourse (including any Marketable Securities then subject to Security or Quasi-Security or
contractually committed to be provided as Security, in each case as part of such Equity Finance
Arrangement) shall not be taken into account when determining Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA or
Consolidated Total Net Borrowings.
20.4 Interest cover
(a) Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Company must ensure that the ratio of its Adjusted Consolidated
EBITDA to its Consolidated Net Finance Costs is not, at the end of each Measurement Period, less
than 4.5:1.
(b) For the purpose of the financial covenant in paragraph (a) above:
(i) any contribution of any Equity Finance Arrangement and any member of the Group to
which the same has recourse (including any Marketable Securities then subject to Security or
Quasi-Security or contractually committed to be provided as Security, in each case as part of
such Equity Finance Arrangement) shall be taken into account when determining Adjusted
Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Net Finance Costs; and
(ii) any contribution of any Consumer Finance Financing and any member of the Group to
which the same has recourse shall not be taken into account when determining Adjusted
Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Net Finance Costs.
21. GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
The undertakings in this Clause 21 remain in force from the date of this Agreement for so long as
any amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.
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21.1 Authorisations
The Company shall promptly obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full
force and effect any Authorisation required under any law or regulation of its jurisdiction of
incorporation to enable it to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents.
21.2 Compliance with laws
The Company shall comply in all respects with all laws to which it may be subject, if failure so to
comply would materially impair its ability to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents.
21.3 Negative pledge
(a) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Company shall not (and shall ensure that no other member of the
Group will) create or permit to subsist any Security over any of its assets.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Company shall not (and shall ensure that no other member of the
Group will):
(i) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms whereby they are or may be
leased to or re-acquired by the Company or any other member of the Group;
(ii) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms;
(iii) enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may
be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts; or
(iv) enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect,
in circumstances where the arrangement or transaction is entered into primarily as a method of
raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset.
(c) In this Clause Quasi-Security means a transaction described in paragraph (b) above.
(d) Paragraphs (a) and (b) above do not apply to:
(i) any Security listed in Schedule 6 (Existing Security) except to the extent the principal
amount secured by that Security exceeds the amount stated in that Schedule;
(ii) any netting or set-off arrangement or Security entered into by any member of the Group in
the ordinary course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit
balances or any netting or set-off arrangements under any derivative transaction;
(iii) any lien arising by operation of law and in the ordinary course of trading;
(iv) any Security or Quasi-Security over or affecting any asset acquired by a member of the
Group after the date of this Agreement if:
(A) the Security or Quasi-Security was not created in contemplation of the acquisition of
that asset by a member of the Group; and
(B) the principal amount secured has not been increased in contemplation of, or since
the acquisition of that asset by a member of the Group;
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(v) any Security over or affecting any asset of any company which becomes a member of the
Group after the date of this Agreement, where the Security or Quasi-Security is created prior
to the date on which that company becomes a member of the Group, if:
(A) the Security or Quasi-Security was not created in contemplation of the acquisition of
that company; and
(B) the principal amount secured has not increased in contemplation of or since the
acquisition of that company;
(vi) any Security entered into pursuant to any Finance Document;
(vii) any security interest arising under clause 24 of the general terms and conditions (algemene
bankvoorwaarden) of any member of the Dutch Bankers' Association (Nederlandse
Vereniging van Banken) or any similar term applied by a financial institution in any
jurisdiction pursuant to its general terms and conditions;
(viii) any Security or Quasi-Security arising under any retention of title, hire purchase or
conditional sale arrangement, hiring arrangements or arrangements having a similar effect in
respect of goods supplied to a member of the Group in the ordinary course of business;
(ix) any Security or Quasi-Security arising as a consequence of any finance or capital lease;
(x) any Security in substitution for any Security permitted under subparagraphs (iv), (v), (vi), or
(viii) where the Financial Indebtedness secured is refinancing the Financial Indebtedness
secured by the Security being substituted;
(xi) any Security over or affecting any goods or documents of title to goods arising in the
ordinary course of trade finance incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(xii) any Security or Quasi-Security approved by the Majority Lenders;
(xiii) any Security or Quasi-Security arising from a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or similar
transaction entered into after the date of this Agreement where:
(A) the ratio of pro forma Consolidated Total Net Borrowings as at the date of the
relevant transaction (after taking into account the Financial Indebtedness incurred
pursuant to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction or other similar transaction) to
Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA for the Measurement Period ending immediately
before such Sale and Leaseback Transaction or other similar transaction would not
have exceeded 2.75 to 1.00 for that calculation; and
(B) the value of the assets secured (calculated at the date that Sale and Leaseback
Transaction is entered into) does not exceed in aggregate US$300,000,000 (or its
equivalent in any other currency or currencies) during the term of the Facility;
(xiv) any Security or Quasi-Security granted as part of any Consumer Finance Financing;
(xv) any Security or Quasi-Security granted or contractually committed to be provided in each
case in connection with any Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction or Non-
Acquisition Related Marketable Securities Transaction, in each case to the extent the same
has been or is being treated as a disposal of the Marketable Securities that are the subject of
the same for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (xi) or (xii) of the definition of “relevant
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disposal” (as applicable) and if applicable paragraph (f), in each case of Clause 8.3
(Prepayment – disposals); or
(xvi) any Security or Quasi-Security securing indebtedness the principal amount of which (when
aggregated with the principal amount of any other indebtedness which has the benefit of
Security or Quasi-Security given by any member of the Group other than any permitted
under subparagraphs (i) to (xv) does not exceed US$700,000,000 (or its equivalent in any
other currency or currencies).
21.4 Merger
(a) The Company shall not enter into any amalgamation, merger or consolidation other than where such
amalgamation, merger or consolidation is with another member of the Group and the Company is the
surviving entity and the Repeating Representations in Clause 18.1 (Status) to 18.4 (Power and
authority) (inclusive) would be true if made immediately after the amalgamation, merger or
consolidation.
(b) The Company shall not enter into any demerger which would reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on its ability to perform its payment obligations under the Finance
Documents, subject always to Clause 8.3 (Prepayment – disposals).
(c) The Company shall procure that no Material Company (other than the Company, to which Clause
21.4(a) applies) shall themselves enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger or corporate
reconstruction which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
21.5 Change of business
(a) The Company shall procure that no substantial change is made to the general nature of the business
of the Group taken as a whole from that carried on at the date of this Agreement.
(b) Each Fintech Group Member will only be treated as a Fintech Group Member for so long as it
provides consumer finance using financial technology as a core part of its business and which
constitutes at least half of its business by one or more metrics.
21.6 Pari Passu ranking
The Company must ensure that its payment obligations under the Finance Documents at all times
rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured payment obligations, except
for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.
21.7 Insurance
The Company shall ensure that the Group maintains insurances in relation to its business and assets
with insurance companies to such an extent and against such risks (including with regard to whether
such insurance is available on commercially reasonable terms) as companies engaged in a similar
business normally insure.
21.8 Access
While an Event of Default is continuing or (to the extent that the agent under the Existing Revolving
Facility has been granted access as a result of a “Default” (as defined in the Existing Revolving
Facility) only), a Default is continuing, the Company will procure that the Agent and any officers,
employees and agents of the Agent are given access to the books and records of any member of the
Group, during normal business hours and upon reasonable notice.
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21.9 Sanctions
(a) The Company shall not (and shall ensure that no member of the Group will), directly or knowingly
indirectly, (i) use any proceeds from the Facility, or (ii) lend, contribute or otherwise make available
such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or any other person (each a Relevant
Transaction) to fund any activities or business of or with any person where, at the time of such
funding, such Relevant Transaction would be in violation of applicable Sanctions.
(b) The Company shall not (and shall ensure that no member of the Group will), directly or knowingly
indirectly, fund all or part of any repayment or prepayment of the Facility out of proceeds derived
from any action or status which is prohibited by, or would cause any Finance Party or member of the
Group to be in breach of, applicable Sanctions.
(c) Notwithstanding the above, in relation to each Lender that notifies the Agent to this effect (each a
Restricted Bank), the undertakings made in this Clause 21.9 shall only apply for the benefit of that
Restricted Bank to the extent that this Clause 21.9 would not result in any violation of, conflict with
or liability under EU Regulation (EC) 2271/96 or section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation
(Aussenwirtschaftsverordnung) or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation. In
connection with any amendment, waiver, determination or direction relating to any part of this
Clause 21.9 of which a Restricted Bank does not have the benefit, the participation in any Loan or
Commitment of that Restricted Bank will be excluded for the purpose of determining whether the
consent of the Majority Lenders has been obtained or whether the determination or direction by the
Majority Lenders has been made.
21.10 Anti-Corruption Laws
The Company will not (and shall ensure that no other member of the Group will), directly or
knowingly indirectly, use the proceeds of the Facility for any purpose which, at the time of such use,
would be in breach of any applicable Anti-Corruption Laws.
21.11 Acquisition Undertaking
(a) The Company shall comply at all times in all material respects with the City Code (subject to any
waiver or dispensation granted by the Panel) and all applicable laws or regulations relating to the
Acquisition, save where non-compliance would not be materially prejudicial to the interests of the
Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents.
(b) The Company shall not amend or waive any material term of the Announcement, any Scheme
Circular or, as the case may be, Offer Document, in a manner or to the extent that would be
materially prejudicial to the interests of the Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents,
other than any amendment or waiver:
(i) made with the consent of the Coordinating Bookrunner (acting reasonably);
(ii) required by the Panel or the High Court or reasonably determined by the Company (acting
on the advice of its legal advisers) as being necessary or desirable to comply with the
requirements of the City Code, the Panel or the High Court or any other relevant regulatory
body or applicable law or regulation;
(iii) which does not relate to a condition to the Acquisition which the Company reasonably
considers that it would be entitled, in accordance with Rule 13.5(a) of the City Code, to
invoke so as to cause the Acquisition not to proceed, to lapse or to be withdrawn;
(iv) increasing the price to be paid for the Target Shares;
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(v) extending the period in which holders of Target Shares may accept the terms of the Scheme
or, as the case may be, the Offer (including by reason of the adjournment of any meeting or
court hearing); or
(vi) subject to paragraph (c) below, of a condition, or a declaration that a condition is or has been
satisfied, in each case as may be required to enable the Scheme to be approved by the High
Court or to become effective or, as the case may be, the Offer to become or be declared
wholly unconditional,
For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that:
(A) Bidco has issued a Scheme Circular or announced that it intends to implement the
Acquisition by way of a Scheme, nothing in this paragraph shall prevent Bidco from
subsequently proceeding with an Offer, provided that the terms and conditions
contained in the relevant Offer Document include an Acceptance Condition of no
lower than the Minimum Acceptance Condition; and
(B) Bidco has issued an Offer Document or announced that it intends to implement the
Acquisition by way of an Offer, nothing in this paragraph shall prevent Bidco from
subsequently proceeding with a Scheme.
(c) The Company shall not without the consent of the Lenders (acting reasonably) save as required by
the Panel, the High Court or any other applicable law, regulation or regulatory body or by any
applicable court declare, accept, treat as satisfied or waive any condition of the Scheme or the Offer
where the Company (acting on the advice of its legal advisers) considers it is not actually satisfied or
has not been complied with to the extent that doing so would be materially prejudicial to the interests
of the Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents provided that the consent of the
Lenders shall not be required to waive a condition to the Acquisition where such waiver does not
relate to a condition which the Company reasonably considers that it would be entitled, in
accordance with Rule 13.5(a) of the City Code, to invoke so as to cause the Offer or Scheme not to
proceed, to lapse or to be withdrawn.
(d) The Company shall provide the Agent with such information as it may reasonably request regarding
the status and progress of the Acquisition (including, the current level of acceptances in respect of
any Offer) (in each case subject to any confidentiality, regulatory or other restrictions relating to the
supply of such information).
(e) If the Scheme or the Offer, as applicable, lapses or is withdrawn (without the Company subsequently
switching to an Offer or a Scheme, as applicable), the Company shall promptly notify the Agent.
(f) The Company shall not take any action which would require it to make a mandatory offer pursuant
to Rule 9 of the City Code without the consent of the Coordinating Bookrunner (acting reasonably).
(g) Each undertaking in this Clause 21.11 shall include an undertaking by the Company to procure that
Bidco (and each other member of the Group) complies with such undertaking.
(h) Where the consent of the Coordinating Bookrunner is required under this Clause 21.11, it shall not
be unreasonable for the Coordinating Bookrunner to withhold or condition their consent where the
Coordinating Bookrunner has consulted with the Majority Lenders in relation to the relevant matter
and the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) have not consented to the relevant matter.
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22. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Each of the events or circumstances set out in this Clause 22 is an Event of Default (save for Clause
22.13 (Acceleration)).
22.1 Non-payment
The Company does not pay on the due date any amount payable pursuant to a Finance Document at
the place and in the currency in which it is expressed to be payable unless:
(a) its failure to pay is caused by:
(i) administrative or technical error; or
(ii) a Disruption Event; and
(b) payment is made within three Business Days of its due date.
22.2 Financial covenants
Any requirement of Clause 20 (Financial Covenants) is not satisfied.
22.3 Other obligations
(a) The Company does not comply with any provision of the Finance Documents (other than those
referred to in Clause 22.1 (Non-payment) and Clause 22.2 (Financial covenants)).
(b) No Event of Default under paragraph (a) above will occur if the failure to comply is capable of
remedy and is remedied within 15 Business Days of the Agent giving notice to the Company or the
Company becoming aware of the failure to comply.
22.4 Misrepresentation
Any representation or statement made or deemed to be made by the Company in the Finance
Documents or any other document delivered by or on behalf of the Company under or in connection
with any Finance Document is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect
when made or deemed to be made unless the underlying circumstances (if capable of remedy) are
remedied within 15 Business Days of the Agent giving notice to the Company or the Company
becoming aware of the failure to comply.
22.5 Cross default
(a) Any Financial Indebtedness of any member of the Group is not paid when due nor within any
originally applicable grace period.
(b) Any Financial Indebtedness of any member of the Group is declared to be or otherwise becomes due
and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).
(c) If any amount is outstanding under the Existing Revolving Facility and only to the extent that the
following clauses in the Existing Revolving Facility (or any equivalent clauses in any replacement or
refinancing Existing Revolving Facility) have not been amended to be consistent with the equivalent
clauses in this Agreement:
(i) clause 21.3(a)(ii) (Leverage) of the Existing Revolving Facility;
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(ii) clause 22.4(a)(ii)(B) and (b)(ii) (Merger) of the Existing Revolving Facility;
(iii) clause 22.6 (Acquisitions) of the Existing Revolving Facility;
(iv) clause 23.5(c) and (d) (Cross default) of the Existing Revolving Facility; and
(v) clause 22.12(a) (Material adverse change) of the Existing Revolving Facility,
any RCF Lender becomes entitled to declare any Financial Indebtedness of the Company under the
Existing Revolving Facility due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of
default (however described).
(d) No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 22.5 if:
(i) the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness for Financial Indebtedness falling within
paragraphs (a) to (c) above is less than US$75,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other
currency or currencies); or
(ii) the Financial Indebtedness for Financial Indebtedness falling within paragraphs (a) to (c)
above arises under an Equity Finance Arrangement or Consumer Finance Financing.
22.6 Insolvency
(a) A Material Company is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due, suspends making
payments on any of its debts or, by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, commences
negotiations with its creditors generally (or any class of them) with a view to rescheduling any of its
indebtedness.
(b) The value of the assets of the Company is less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and
prospective liabilities).
(c) A moratorium is declared in respect of any indebtedness of any Material Company.
22.7 Insolvency proceedings
(a) Any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken (other than actions which
are frivolous or vexatious and in any event is discharged or discontinued within 21 days) in relation
to:
(i) the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution,
administration, or voluntary arrangement or scheme of arrangement of any Material
Company other than on a solvent basis;
(ii) a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with its creditors generally (or any
class of them); or
(iii) the appointment of a liquidator (other than in respect of a solvent liquidation of a Material
Subsidiary), receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager, business
rescue practitioner or other similar officer in respect of any Material Company or all or a
material part of its assets,
or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction and in the case of legal proceedings
brought other than by the Material Company itself or its directors, those proceedings are not stayed,
discharged or dismissed within 21 days of commencement.
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(b) The appointment of a liquidator (other than in respect of a solvent liquidation of a Material
Subsidiary), receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager, business rescue
practitioner or other similar officer in respect of any Material Company or all or a material part of
its assets.
(c) The enforcement of any Security over any assets of any member of the Group having an aggregate
value of at least US$75,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies).
22.8 Creditors' process
(a) Subject to paragraph (b) below, any expropriation, attachment, sequestration, distress or execution
affects any asset or assets of a member of the Group having an aggregate value of at least
US$75,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies) and is not discharged within
ten Business Days.
(b) A Dutch executory attachment (executorial beslag) affects any asset of a member of the Group,
having an aggregate value of at least US$75,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or
currencies) and is not discharged within ten Business Days.
22.9 Unlawfulness
It is or becomes unlawful for the Company to perform any of its obligations under the Finance
Documents.
22.10 Repudiation
The Company:
(a) repudiates a Finance Document; or
(b) evidences an intention to repudiate a Finance Document.
22.11 Effectiveness of Finance Documents
Subject to the Legal Reservations, any obligations of the Company under any Finance Document are
not or cease to be legal, valid and binding and the cessation individually or cumulatively is
materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders under the Finance Documents taken as a whole.
22.12 Material adverse change
Any other event or series of events occurs which has or is reasonably likely to have a material
adverse effect on:
(a) the ability of the Company to perform its payment obligations under the Finance
Documents; or
(b) the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document.
22.13 Acceleration
On and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing the Agent may,
and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Company:
(a) cancel the Total Commitments whereupon they shall immediately be cancelled;
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(b) declare that all or part of the Loans, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts
accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable,
whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable; and/or
(c) declare that all or part of the Loans be payable on demand, whereupon they
shall immediately become payable on demand by the Agent on the instructions of the
Majority Lenders.
22.14 Clean-up Period
(a) Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement, during the period (the Clean-up Period)
commencing, in respect of the Acquisition, from the date of this Agreement and expiring 120 days
after the first Utilisation Date if any matter or circumstance that exists in respect of any member of
the Target Group which would constitute a breach of a representation, undertaking or any other term
or condition or a Default or an Event of Default (a Relevant Default) then subject to paragraph (b)
below, during the Clean-up Period that Relevant Default shall not constitute a breach of a
representation, undertaking or any other term or condition or a Default or an Event of Default and
the Agent shall not be entitled to give any notice under Clause 22.13 (Acceleration) with respect to
that Relevant Default until (if that Relevant Default is then continuing) the date immediately after
the end of the Clean-up Period.
(b) Paragraph (a) above shall not apply with respect to any Relevant Default to the extent that it:
(i) has, or is reasonably expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) has been procured by or approved by the Company (provided that knowledge of the
Relevant Default does not equate to procurement or approval by the Company);
(iii) is not capable of being cured or, if the Company is aware of the relevant circumstances at the
time, reasonable steps are not being used to cure the same; or
(iv) is continuing at the end of the Clean-up Period (and, for the avoidance of doubt, if the
Relevant Default is continuing at the end of the Clean-up Period, the Lenders shall then be
entitled to exercise any available rights in relation to that continuing Relevant Default).
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, paragraph (a) above shall not restrict the Agent’s right to give any notice
under Clause 22.13 (Acceleration) with respect to any Default or Event of Default which is not a
Relevant Default.
(d) Promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence, the Company shall notify the Agent of any
Relevant Default that is continuing at the end of a Clean-up Period (together with the related event or
circumstance and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it).
23. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
23.1 Confidential Information
Each Finance Party must keep confidential any information supplied to it by or on behalf of the
Company in connection with the Finance Documents (the Information). However, a Finance Party
is entitled to disclose information:
(a) which is publicly available, other than as a result of a breach by that Finance Party of
this Clause;
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(b) in connection with any legal or arbitration proceedings;
(c) if required to do so under any law or regulation;
(d) to a governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority;
(e) to its or its Affiliate's professional advisers;
(f) to any rating agency;
(g) to the extent allowed under Clause 23.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) and Clause
23.3 (Disclosure to numbering service providers); or
(h) with the agreement of the Company.
23.2 Disclosure of Confidential Information
(a) A Finance Party may disclose to an Affiliate, or any person (a third party) with (or through) whom
that Finance Party enters into (or may enter into) directly or indirectly, any kind of transfer,
participation or hedge agreement in relation to this Agreement or any other transaction under which
payments are to be made by reference to this Agreement or the Company:
(i) a copy of any Finance Document; and
(ii) any information which that Finance Party has acquired under or in connection with any
Finance Document.
(b) However, before a third party may receive any confidential information under paragraph (a), it must
enter into a Confidentiality Undertaking.
(c) A Finance Party may disclose to any person appointed by that Finance Party or by a person to whom
paragraph (a) above applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or
more of the Finance Documents including without limitation, in relation to the trading of
participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Information as may be required to be
disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services referred to in this paragraph
(c) if the service provider to whom the Information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality
agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With
Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking
agreed between the Company and the relevant Finance Party.
23.3 Disclosure to numbering service providers
(a) Any Finance Party may disclose to any national or international numbering service provider
appointed by that Finance Party to provide identification numbering services in respect of this
Agreement, the Facility and/or the Company the following information:
(i) name of the Company;
(ii) country of domicile of the Company;
(iii) place of incorporation of the Company;
(iv) date of this Agreement;
(v) Clause 38 (Governing Law);
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(vi) the names of the Agent and the Mandated Lead Arrangers;
(vii) date of each amendment and restatement of this Agreement;
(viii) amount of Total Commitments;
(ix) currencies of the Facility;
(x) type of Facility;
(xi) ranking of Facility;
(xii) Final Maturity Date for the Debt Take-Out Bridge and the Cash Bridge;
(xiii) changes to any of the Information previously supplied pursuant to subparagraphs (i) to (xii)
above; and
(xiv) such other information agreed between such Finance Party and the Company;
(xv) to enable such numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering
identification services.
(b) The Parties acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the
Facility and/or the Company by a numbering service provider and the Information associated with
each such number may be disclosed to users of its services in accordance with the standard terms and
conditions of that numbering service provider.
(c) The Agent shall notify the Company and the other Finance Parties of:
(i) the name of any numbering service provider appointed by the Agent in respect of this
Agreement, the Facility and/or the Company; and
(ii) the number or, as the case may be, numbers assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or
the Company by such numbering service provider.
23.4 Entire agreement
This Clause supersedes any previous confidentiality undertaking given by a Finance Party in
connection with this Agreement prior to it becoming a Party.
24. CHANGES TO THE LENDERS
24.1 Assignments and transfers by the Lenders
Subject to this Clause 24, a Lender (the Transferring Lender) may:
(a) assign any of its rights; or
(b) transfer by novation any of its rights and obligations,
under any Finance Document to another bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity
which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in
loans, securities or other financial assets (the New Lender).
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24.2 Conditions of assignment or transfer
(a) A Transferring Lender must obtain the Company's consent before it may make an assignment or
transfer in accordance with Clause 24.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders) unless the
assignment or transfer is:
(i) to another Lender; or
(ii) to an Affiliate of a Lender where:
(A) such Affiliate has a credit rating from an internationally recognised credit rating
agency which is comparable to or higher than the credit rating of the relevant
Transferring Lender from an internationally recognised credit rating agency; or
(B) such Affiliate has a credit rating of Baa2 or higher from Moody's or BBB or higher
by Standard & Poor's or Fitch or a comparable rating from an internationally
recognised credit rating agency; or
(iii) made at a time when an Event of Default is continuing.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, during the Certain Funds Period, the consent of the Company
must be obtained before a Transferring Lender may make any assignment or transfer in accordance
with Clause 24.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders) unless the assignment or transfer is
made at a time when a Major Default is continuing. The Company shall not be required to give its
consent under this paragraph unless it has obtained the consent of the Financial Adviser.
(c) The consent of the Company to an assignment or transfer under paragraph (a) above must not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company will be deemed to have given its consent five
Business Days after the Transferring Lender has requested it unless consent is expressly refused by
the Company within that time.
(d) An assignment or transfer of part of a Commitment must be in a minimum amount of at least
£1,000,000.
(e) An assignment will only be effective on:
(i) receipt by the Agent of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent) that the New Lender will assume the same obligations to the other
Finance Parties as it would have been under if it was an Original Lender; and
(ii) performance by the Agent of all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks
under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to such assignment to a New Lender, the
completion of which the Agent shall promptly notify to the Transferring Lender and the New
Lender.
(f) A transfer will only be effective if the procedure set out in Clause 24.5 (Procedure for transfer) is
complied with.
(g) If:
(i) a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents or
changes its Facility Office; and
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(ii) as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs,
the Company would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting
through its new Facility Office under Clause 13 (Tax Gross-up and Indemnities) or Clause
14 (Increased Costs),
then the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office is only entitled to receive
payment under those Clauses to the same extent as the Transferring Lender or Lender acting through
its previous Facility Office would have been if the assignment, transfer or change had not occurred.
(h) If, on the date of an assignment or transfer, it is a requirement of Dutch law that each Lender must be
a Professional Lender on the date the assignment or transfer becomes effective, the New Lender
must make the representation set out in paragraph 5 of the form of Transfer Certificate set out in
Schedule 4 (Form of Transfer Certificate).
24.3 Assignment or transfer fee
The New Lender shall, on the date upon which an assignment or transfer takes effect, pay to the
Agent (for its own account) a fee of £3,000.
24.4 Limitation of responsibility of Transferring Lenders
(a) Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, a Transferring Lender makes no representation or warranty
and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:
(i) the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents or
any other documents;
(ii) the financial condition of the Company;
(iii) the performance and observance by the Company of its obligations under the Finance
Documents or any other documents; or
(iv) the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any
Finance Document or any other document,
and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.
(b) Each New Lender confirms to the Transferring Lender and the other Finance Parties that it:
(i) has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of
the financial condition and affairs of the Company and its related entities in connection with
its participation in this Agreement and has not relied exclusively on any information
provided to it by the Transferring Lender in connection with any Finance Document; and
(ii) will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Company
and its related entities whilst any amount is or may be outstanding under the Finance
Documents or any Commitment is in force.
(c) Nothing in any Finance Document obliges a Transferring Lender to:
(i) accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or
transferred under this Clause 24; or
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(ii) support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the
non-performance by the Company of its obligations under the Finance Documents or
otherwise.
24.5 Procedure for transfer
(a) Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 24.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) a transfer is
effected in accordance with paragraph (c) below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly
completed Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Transferring Lender and the New Lender. The
Agent shall, subject to paragraph (b) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a
duly completed Transfer Certificate appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this
Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Transfer
Certificate.
(b) The Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Transferring
Lender and the New Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your
customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer
to such New Lender.
(c) Subject to Clause 24.9 (Pro rata interest settlement), on the Transfer Date:
(i) to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Transferring Lender seeks to transfer by
novation its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents each of the Company and
the Transferring Lender shall be released from further obligations towards one another under
the Finance Documents and their respective rights against one another under the Finance
Documents shall be cancelled (being the Discharged Rights and Obligations);
(ii) the Company and the New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or
acquire rights against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations
only insofar as the Company and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in
place of the Company and the Transferring Lender;
(iii) the Parties other than the Transferring Lender shall acquire the same rights and assume the
same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the
New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired or assumed
by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Transferring Lender and the other
Parties shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance
Documents; and
(iv) The New Lender shall become a Party as a Lender.
24.6 Copy of Transfer Certificate to Company
The Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has executed a Transfer Certificate or an
Increase Confirmation, send to the Company a copy of that Transfer Certificate or that Increase
Confirmation.
24.7 Disclosure of information
Any Lender may disclose to any of its Affiliates and any other person:
(a) to (or through) whom that Lender assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer)
all or any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement;
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(b) with (or through) whom that Lender enters into (or may potentially enter into) any
sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be
made by reference to, this Agreement or the Company and which is a Professional Lender;
or
(c) to whom, and to the extent that, information is required to be disclosed by any applicable
law or regulation,
any information about the Company, the Group and the Finance Documents as that Lender shall
consider appropriate if, in relation to paragraphs (a) and (b) above, the person to whom the
information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking. Any Lender may also
disclose the size and term of the Facility and the names of the obligors under each to any investor or
potential investor in a securitisation (or similar transaction having a broadly similar economic effect)
of that Lender's rights or obligations under the Finance Documents.
24.8 Security over Lenders' rights
In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 24, each Lender may without
consulting with or obtaining consent from the Company, at any time charge, assign or otherwise
create Security in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under
any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation;
(a) any charge, assignment or other Security to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central
bank; and
(b) in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security granted
to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities
issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities,
except that no such charge, assignment or Security shall:
(i) release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the
beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security for the Lender as a party to any of
the Finance Documents; or
(ii) require any payments to be made by the Company other than or in excess of, or grant to any
person any more extensive rights than, those require to be made or granted to the relevant
Lender under the Finance Documents.
24.9 Pro rata interest settlement
(a) Unless the Agent advises otherwise, in respect of any transfer pursuant to Clause 24.5 (Procedure for
transfer) or any assignment pursuant to Clause 24.2(e), the Transfer Date of which, in each case, is
not on the last day of an Interest Period:
(i) any interest or fees in respect of the relevant participation which are expressed to accrue by
reference to the lapse of time shall continue to accrue in favour of the Transferring Lender
up to but excluding the Transfer Date (Accrued Amounts) and shall become due and
payable to the Transferring Lender (without further interest accruing on them) on the last
day of the current Interest Period (or, if the Interest Period is longer than six Months, on the
next of the dates which falls at six Monthly intervals after the first day of that Interest
Period); and
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(ii) the rights assigned or transferred by the Transferring Lender will not include the right to the
Accrued Amounts so that, for the avoidance of doubt:
(A) when the Accrued Amounts become payable, those Accrued Amounts will be
payable for the account of the Transferring Lender; and
(B) the amount payable to the New Lender on that date will be the amount which would,
but for the application of this Clause 24.9, have been payable to it on that date, but
after deduction of the Accrued Amounts.
(b) In this Clause 24.9 references to "Interest Period" shall be construed to include a reference to any
other period for accrual of fees.
25. CHANGES TO THE COMPANY
The Company may not assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the
Finance Documents without the prior written consent of all the Lenders.
26. ROLE OF THE AGENT AND THE COORDINATING BOOKRUNNER
26.1 Appointment of the Agent
(a) Each other Finance Party appoints the Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the
Finance Documents.
(b) Each other Finance Party authorises the Agent to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and
discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents
together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions.
(c) Each of the Coordinating Bookrunner and the Lenders hereby exempts the Agent from the
restrictions pursuant to section 181 Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions
applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law, in each case to the extent legally possible to
such Finance Party. A Finance Party which cannot grant such exemption shall notify the Agent
accordingly and, upon request of the Agent, either act in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and/or any other Finance Document as required pursuant to this Agreement and/or such
other Finance Document or grant a special power of attorney to a party acting on its behalf, in a
manner that is not prohibited pursuant to section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches
Gesetzbuch) and/or any other applicable laws.
26.2 Duties of the Agent
(a) The Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is
delivered to the Agent for that Party by any other Party.
(b) Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Agent is not obliged to
review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another
Party.
(c) If the Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and
stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the Finance Parties.
(d) If the Agent is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee
payable to a Finance Party (other than the Agent or the Coordinating Bookrunner) under this
Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.
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(e) The Agent's duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.
26.3 Role of the Coordinating Bookrunner
Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, the Coordinating Bookrunner has no
obligations of any kind to any other Party under or in connection with any Finance Document.
26.4 No fiduciary duties
(a) Nothing in this Agreement constitutes the Agent or any Coordinating Bookrunner as a trustee or
fiduciary of any other person.
(b) Neither the Agent nor the Coordinating Bookrunner shall be bound to account to any Lender for any
sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.
26.5 Business with the Group
The Agent and any Coordinating Bookrunner may accept deposits from, lend money to and
generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with any member of the Group.
26.6 Rights and discretions of the Agent
(a) The Agent may rely on:
(i) any representation, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and
appropriately authorised; and
(ii) any statement made by a director, authorised signatory or employee of any person regarding
any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within his knowledge or within his
power to verify.
(b) The Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the
Lenders) that:
(i) no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under Clause
22.1 (Non-payment)); and
(ii) any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority Lenders has not
been exercised.
(c) The Agent may engage, pay for and rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants,
surveyors or other experts.
(d) The Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents through its personnel and agents.
(e) The Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as
agent under this Agreement.
(f) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (e) above, the Company may request from the
Agent, and the Agent shall promptly supply to the Company, any relevant information in its
possession as Agent about a Lender:
(i) which has failed to make, or which has notified the Agent that it will not make, its
participation in a Loan available by the Utilisation Date of that Loan in accordance with
Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) unless the failure to pay is caused by an administrative or
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technical error, or a Disruption Event and payment is made within three Business Days of its
due date;
(ii) which has notified the Agent that it has rescinded or repudiated, or of its intention to rescind
or repudiate a Finance Document; or
(iii) in respect of which the Agent has been notified by that Lender of an Insolvency Event which
is continuing in respect of it,
to enable the Company to determine whether or not the Lender is a Defaulting Lender.
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, no Coordinating
Bookrunner is obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion
constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality.
(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Agent may
refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its reasonable opinion be
contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to the United States of
America (or any jurisdiction forming a part of it) and England and Wales) or any directive or
regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything
which is, in its reasonable opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation.
26.7 Majority Lenders' instructions
(a) Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, the Agent shall (i) exercise any right,
power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by
the Majority Lenders (or, if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, refrain from exercising any right,
power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent) and (ii) not be liable for any act (or omission) if
it acts (or refrains from taking any action) in accordance with an instruction of the Majority Lenders.
(b) Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given by the Majority
Lenders will be binding on all the Finance Parties.
(c) The Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if
appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received such security as it may require for any cost, loss or
liability (together with any associated VAT) which it may incur in complying with the instructions.
(d) In the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders, (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) the Agent
may act (or refrain from taking action) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Lenders.
(e) The Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Lender's
consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document.
26.8 Responsibility for documentation
Neither the Agent nor the Coordinating Bookrunner are:
(a) responsible for the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information (whether
oral or written) supplied by the Agent, any Coordinating Bookrunner, the Company or any
other person given in or in connection with any Finance Document; or
(b) responsible for the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any
Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or
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executed in anticipation of or in connection with any Finance Document or the Information
Memorandum.
26.9 Exclusion of liability
(a) Without limiting paragraph (b) below (and without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (e) of
Clause 29.11 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.)), the Agent will not be liable (including, without
limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) for any action taken by it
under or in connection with any Finance Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or
wilful misconduct.
(b) No Party (other than the Agent) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of
the Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Agent or in respect of any act or omission
of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any Finance Document and any officer,
employee or agent of the Agent may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.3 (Third party rights)
and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.
(c) The Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with
an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Agent if the Agent has taken all
necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating
procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Agent for that purpose.
(d) Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Agent or the Coordinating Bookrunner to carry out any
"know your customer" or other checks in relation to any person on behalf of any Lender and each
Lender confirms to the Agent and the Coordinating Bookrunner that it is solely responsible for any
such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such
checks made by the Agent or the Coordinating Bookrunner.
26.10 Lenders' indemnity to the Agent
Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments
are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero)
indemnify the Agent, within three Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability
(including, without limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) incurred
by the Agent (otherwise than by reason of the Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct) (or, in
the case of any cost, loss or liability pursuant to Clause 29.11 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.)
notwithstanding the Agent's negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability
whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Agent) in acting as Agent under the
Finance Documents (unless the Agent has been reimbursed by the Company pursuant to a Finance
Document).
26.11 Resignation of the Agent
(a) The Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates acting through an office in the United
Kingdom or the European Union as successor by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the
Company.
(b) Alternatively the Agent may resign by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Company,
in which case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Company) may appoint a successor
Agent.
(c) If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Agent in accordance with paragraph (b)
above within 30 days after notice of resignation was given, the Agent (after consultation with the
Company) may appoint a successor Agent (acting through an office in the United Kingdom).
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(d) The retiring Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Agent such documents and
records and provide such assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes
of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents.
(e) The Agent's resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor.
(f) Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further
obligation in respect of the Finance Documents but shall remain entitled to the benefit of this Clause
26. Its successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst
themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.
(g) After consultation with the Company, the Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Agent, require it to
resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above. In this event, the Agent shall resign in accordance
with paragraph (b) above.
(h) The Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above (and, to the extent applicable, shall
use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) above) if on or
after the date which is three months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any
payment to the Agent under the Finance Documents, either:
(i) the Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 13.8 (FATCA Information) and the
Company or a Lender reasonably believes that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to
be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;
(ii) the information supplied by the Agent pursuant to Clause 13.8 (FATCA Information)
indicates that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or
after that FATCA Application Date; or
(iii) the Agent notifies the Company and the Lenders that the Agent will not be (or will have
ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;
and (in each case) the Company or a Lender reasonably believes that a Party will be required to
make a FATCA Deduction that would not be required if the Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party,
and the Company or that Lender, by notice to the Agent, requires it to resign.
26.12 Replacement of the Agent
(a) After consultation with the Company, the Majority Lenders may, by giving 30 days' notice to the
Agent (or, at any time the Agent is an Impaired Agent, by giving any shorter notice determined by
the Majority Lenders) replace the Agent by appointing a successor Agent.
(b) The retiring Agent shall (at its own cost if it is an Impaired Agent and otherwise at the expense of
the Lenders) make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such
assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its
functions as Agent under the Finance Documents.
(c) The appointment of the successor Agent shall take effect on the date specified in the notice from the
Majority Lenders to the retiring Agent. As from this date, the retiring Agent shall be discharged
from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other than its obligations under
paragraph (b) above) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of Clause 15.3 (Indemnity to the Agent)
and this Clause 26 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Agent shall cease to accrue
from (and shall be payable on) that date).
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(d) Any successor Agent and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations
amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.
26.13 Confidentiality
(a) In acting as agent for the Finance Parties, the Agent shall be regarded as acting through its agency
division which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions or departments.
(b) If information is received by another division or department of the Agent, it may be treated as
confidential to that division or department and the Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it.
26.14 Relationship with the Lenders
Subject to Clause 24.9 (Pro rata interest settlement), the Agent may treat each Lender as a Lender,
entitled to payments under this Agreement and acting through its Facility Office unless it has
received not less than five Business Days prior notice from that Lender to the contrary in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement.
26.15 Credit appraisal by the Lenders
Without affecting the responsibility of the Company for information supplied by it or on its behalf in
connection with any Finance Document, each Lender confirms to the Agent and the Coordinating
Bookrunner that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own
independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with any Finance
Document including but not limited to:
(a) the financial condition, status and nature of each member of the Group;
(b) the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document and
any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in
anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document;
(c) whether that Lender has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any
Party or any of its respective assets under or in connection with any Finance Document, the
transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement
or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with
any Finance Document; and
(d) the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of the Information Memorandum and any other
information provided by the Agent, any Party or by any other person under or in connection
with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or
any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in
anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document.
26.16 Deduction from amounts payable by the Agent
If any Party owes an amount to the Agent under the Finance Documents the Agent may, after giving
notice to that Party, deduct an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party
which the Agent would otherwise be obliged to make under the Finance Documents and apply the
amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed. For the purposes of the Finance
Documents that Party shall be regarded as having received any amount so deducted.
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27. CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES
No provision of this Agreement will:
(a) interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in
whatever manner it thinks fit;
(b) oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment
available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or
(c) oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise)
or any computations in respect of Tax.
28. SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES
28.1 Payments to Finance Parties
If a Finance Party (a Recovering Finance Party) receives or recovers any amount from the
Company other than in accordance with Clause 29 (Payment Mechanics) and applies that amount to
a payment due under the Finance Documents then:
(a) the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days, notify details of the receipt
or recovery, to the Agent;
(b) the Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the
Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or
made by the Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 29 (Payment Mechanics),
without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Agent in relation to the
receipt, recovery or distribution; and
(c) the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days of demand by the Agent,
pay to the Agent an amount (the Sharing Payment) equal to such receipt or recovery less
any amount which the Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as
its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 29.6 (Partial payments).
28.2 Redistribution of payments
The Agent shall treat the Sharing Payment as if it had been paid by the Company and distribute it
between the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) in accordance with Clause
29.6 (Partial payments).
28.3 Recovering Finance Party's rights
(a) On a distribution by the Agent under Clause 28.2 (Redistribution of payments), the Recovering
Finance Party will be subrogated to the rights of the Finance Parties which have shared in the
redistribution.
(b) If and to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party is not able to rely on its rights under paragraph
(a) above, the Company shall be liable to the Recovering Finance Party for a debt equal to the
Sharing Payment which is immediately due and payable.
28.4 Reversal of redistribution
If any part of the Sharing Payment received or recovered by a Recovering Finance Party becomes
repayable and is repaid by that Recovering Finance Party, then:
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(a) each Finance Party which has received a share of the relevant Sharing Payment pursuant to
Clause 28.2 (Redistribution of payments) shall, upon request of the Agent, pay to the Agent
for account of that Recovering Finance Party an amount equal to the appropriate part of its
share of the Sharing Payment (together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that
Recovering Finance Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which
that Recovering Finance Party is required to pay); and
(b) that Recovering Finance Party's rights of subrogation in respect of any reimbursement shall
be cancelled and the Company will be liable to the reimbursing Finance Party for the amount
so reimbursed.
28.5 Exceptions
(a) This Clause 28 shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after
making any payment pursuant to this Clause, have a valid and enforceable claim against the
Company.
(b) A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which
the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration
proceedings, if:
(i) it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and
(ii) that other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration
proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable having received notice and
did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings.
29. PAYMENT MECHANICS
29.1 Payments to the Agent
(a) On each date on which the Company or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance
Document, the Company or Lender shall make the same available to the Agent (unless a contrary
indication appears in a Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds
specified by the Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant
currency in the place of payment.
(b) Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the country of that
currency (or, in relation to euro, in a principal financial centre in such Participating Member State or
London, as specified by the Agent) with such bank as the Agent, in each case, specifies.
29.2 Distributions by the Agent
Each payment received by the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to
Clause 29.3 (Distributions to the Company) and Clause 29.4 (Clawback) be made available by the
Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive payment in accordance with
this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the account of its Facility Office), to such account as
that Party may notify to the Agent by not less than five Business Days' notice with a bank in the
principal financial centre of the country of that currency.
29.3 Distributions to the Company
The Agent may (with the consent of the Company or in accordance with Clause 30 (Set-off)) apply
any amount received by it for the Company in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency
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and funds of receipt) of any amount due from the Company under the Finance Documents or in or
towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.
29.4 Clawback
(a) Where a sum is to be paid to the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the Agent is
not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party (or to enter into or perform any related exchange
contract) until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum.
(b) If the Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Agent had not
actually received that amount, then the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related
exchange contract) was paid by the Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Agent together
with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Agent, calculated
by the Agent to reflect its cost of funds.
(c) If the Agent is willing to make available amounts for the account of the Company before receiving
funds from the Lenders then if and to the extent that the Agent does so but it proves to be the case
that it does not then receive funds from a Lender in respect of a sum which it paid to the Company:
(i) the Agent shall notify the Company of that Lender's identity and the Company to whom that
sum was made available shall on demand refund it to the Agent; and
(ii) the Lender by whom those funds should have been made available or, if that Lender fails to
do so, the Company to whom that sum was made available, shall on demand pay to the
Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any
funding cost incurred by it as a result of paying out that sum before receiving those funds
from that Lender.
29.5 Impaired Agent
(a) If, at any time, the Agent becomes an Impaired Agent, the Company or a Lender which is required to
make a payment under the Finance Documents to the Agent in accordance with Clause 29.1
(Payments to the Agent) may instead either pay that amount direct to the required recipient or pay
that amount to an interest-bearing account held with an Acceptable Bank and in relation to which no
Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing, in the name of the Company or the Lender making
the payment (the Paying Party) and designated as a trust account for the benefit of the Party or
Parties beneficially entitled to that payment under the Finance Documents (the Recipient Party or
Recipient Parties). In each case such payments must be made on the due date for payment under
the Finance Documents.
(b) All interest accrued on the amount standing to the credit of the trust account shall be for the benefit
of the beneficiaries of that trust account pro rata to their respective entitlements.
(c) A Party which has made a payment in accordance with this Clause 29.5 shall be discharged of the
relevant payment obligation under the Finance Documents and shall not take any credit risk with
respect to the amounts standing to the credit of the trust account.
(d) Promptly upon the appointment of a successor Agent in accordance with Clause 26.12 (Replacement
of the Agent), each Party which has made a payment to a trust account in accordance with this
Clause 29.5 shall give all requisite instructions to the bank with whom the trust account is held to
transfer the amount (together with any accrued interest) to the successor Agent for distribution in
accordance with Clause 29.2 (Distributions by the Agent).
(e) A Paying Party shall, promptly upon request by a Recipient Party and to the extent:
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(i) that it has not given an instruction pursuant to paragraph (d) above; and
(ii) that it has been provided with the necessary information by that Recipient Party,
give all requisite instructions to the bank with whom the trust account is held to transfer the relevant
amount (together with any accrued interest) to that Recipient Party.
29.6 Partial payments
(a) If the Agent receives a payment for application against amounts due in respect of any Finance
Documents that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by the Company
under the Finance Documents, the Agent shall apply that payment towards the obligations of the
Company under the Finance Documents in the following order:
(i) first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Agent
under the Finance Documents;
(ii) secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but
unpaid under this Agreement;
(iii) thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under this
Agreement; and
(iv) fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance
Documents.
(b) The Agent shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the order set out in subparagraphs
(a)(ii) to (iv) above.
(c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) above will override any appropriation made by the Company.
29.7 No set-off by the Company
All payments to be made by the Company under the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be
made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.
29.8 Business Days
(a) Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next
Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is
not).
(b) During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this
Agreement interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable on the original due
date.
29.9 Currency of account
(a) Subject to paragraphs (b) to (e) below, sterling is the currency of account and payment for any sum
due from the Company under any Finance Document.
(b) A repayment of a Loan or Unpaid Sum or a part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum shall be made in the
currency in which that Loan or Unpaid Sum is denominated, pursuant to this Agreement, on its due
date.
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(c) Each payment of interest shall be made in the currency in which the sum in respect of which the
interest is payable was denominated, pursuant to this Agreement, when that interest accrued.
(d) Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the
costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.
(e) Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than sterling shall be paid in that other
currency.
29.10 Change of currency
(a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, if more than one currency or currency unit are at the same time
recognised by the central bank of any country as the lawful currency of that country, then:
(i) any reference in the Finance Documents to, and any obligations arising under the Finance
Documents in, the currency of that country shall be translated into, or paid in, the currency
or currency unit of that country designated by the Agent (after consultation with the
Company); and
(ii) any translation from one currency or currency unit to another shall be at the official rate of
exchange recognised by the central bank for the conversion of that currency or currency unit
into the other, rounded up or down by the Agent (acting reasonably).
(b) If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will, to the extent the Agent (acting
reasonably and after consultation with the Company) specifies to be necessary, be amended to
comply with any generally accepted conventions and market practice in the Relevant Interbank
Market and otherwise to reflect the change in currency.
29.11 Disruption to Payment Systems etc.
If either the Agent determines (in its discretion) that a Disruption Event has occurred or the Agent is
notified by the Company that a Disruption Event has occurred:
(a) the Agent may, and shall if requested to do so by the Company, consult with the Company
with a view to agreeing with the Company such changes to the operation or administration
of the Facility as the Agent may deem necessary in the circumstances;
(b) the Agent shall not be obliged to consult with the Company in relation to any changes
mentioned in paragraph (a) above if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the
circumstances and, in any event, shall have no obligation to agree to such changes;
(c) the Agent may consult with the Finance Parties in relation to any changes mentioned in
paragraph (a) above but shall not be obliged to do so if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to
do so in the circumstances;
(d) any such changes agreed upon by the Agent and the Company shall (whether or not it is
finally determined that a Disruption Event has occurred) be binding upon the Parties as an
amendment to (or, as the case may be, waiver of) the terms of the Finance Documents
notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 35 (Amendments and Waivers);
(e) the Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses whatsoever (including, without
limitation for negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but
not including any claim based on the fraud of the Agent) arising as a result of its taking, or
failing to take, any actions pursuant to or in connection with this Clause 29.11; and
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(f) the Agent shall notify the Finance Parties of all changes agreed pursuant to paragraph (d)
above.
30. SET-OFF
A Finance Party may (if an Event of Default if continuing) set off any matured obligation due from
the Company under the Finance Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that Finance Party)
against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to the Company, regardless of the place
of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different
currencies, the Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual
course of business for the purpose of the set-off. Each Finance Party shall notify the Company in
writing as soon as reasonably practicable after it has exercised any right of set-off against the
Company. For the purpose of this clause the term Finance Party includes each of the relevant
Finance Party's Holding Companies and Subsidiaries and each Subsidiary of each of the relevant
Finance Party's Holding Companies.
31. NOTICES
31.1 Communications in writing
Any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made
in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by fax or letter.
31.2 Addresses
The address and fax number (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the
communication is to be made) of each Party for any communication or document to be made or
delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents is:
(a) in the case of the Company, that identified with its name on the signature pages below;
(b) in the case of each Lender, that notified in writing to the Agent on or prior to the date on
which it becomes a Party; and
(c) in the case of the Agent, that identified with its name on the signature pages below,
or any substitute address or fax number or department or officer as the Party may notify to the Agent
(or the Agent may notify to the other Parties, if a change is made by the Agent) by not less than five
Business Days' notice.
31.3 Delivery
(a) Any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection
with the Finance Documents will only be effective:
(i) if by way of fax, when received in legible form; or
(ii) if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five Business Days after
being deposited in the post postage prepaid in an envelope addressed to it at that address;
and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under
Clause 31.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer.
(b) Any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Agent will be effective only when
actually received by the Agent and then only if it is expressly marked for the attention of the
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department or officer identified with the Agent's signature below (or any substitute department or
officer as the Agent shall specify for this purpose).
(c) All notices from or to the Company shall be sent through the Agent.
31.4 Notification of address and fax number
Promptly upon receipt of notification of an address or fax number or change of address or fax
number pursuant to Clause 31.2 (Addresses) or changing its own address or fax number, the Agent
shall notify the other Parties.
31.5 Communication when Agent is Impaired Agent
If the Agent is an Impaired Agent, the Parties may, instead of communicating with each other
through the Agent, communicate with each other directly and (while the Agent is an Impaired
Agent) all the provisions of the Finance Documents which require communications to be made or
notices to be given to or by the Agent shall be varied so that communications may be made and
notices given to or by the relevant Parties directly. This provision shall not operate after a
replacement Agent has been appointed.
31.6 Electronic communication
(a) Any communication to be made between the Agent and a Lender and/or between the Company and
the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or
other electronic means, if the Agent and the relevant Lender:
(i) agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of
communication;
(ii) notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information
required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and
(iii) notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by
them.
(b) Any electronic communication made between the Agent and a Lender will be effective only when
actually received in readable form and in the case of any electronic communication made by a
Lender to the Agent only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this
purpose.
31.7 English language
(a) Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document must be in English.
(b) All other documents provided under or in connection with any Finance Document must be:
(i) in English; or
(ii) if not in English, and if so required by the Agent, accompanied by a certified English
translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a
constitutional, statutory or other official document.
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32. CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES
32.1 Accounts
In any litigation or arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document,
the entries made in the accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie evidence of the
matters to which they relate.
32.2 Certificates and Determinations
Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under any Finance
Document is, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates.
32.3 Day count convention
Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and
is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and in relation to sterling a year of
365 days and in relation to dollar or any other currency, a year of 360 days or, in any case where the
practice in the Relevant Interbank Market differs, in accordance with that market practice.
33. PARTIAL INVALIDITY
If, at any time, any provision of the Finance Documents is or becomes illegal, invalid or
unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or
enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such
provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.
34. REMEDIES AND WAIVERS
No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Finance Party, any right or
remedy under the Finance Documents shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other
right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and not
exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
35. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
35.1 Required consents
(a) Subject to Clause 35.2 (Exceptions) any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived
only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the Company and any such amendment or waiver
will be binding on all Parties.
(b) The Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this
Clause.
35.2 Exceptions
(a) An amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which relates to:
(i) the definition of Majority Lenders in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);
(ii) an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents;
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(iii) a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest,
fees or commission payable;
(iv) a change in currency of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents;
(v) an increase in or an extension of any Commitment, an extension of any Availability Period
or any requirement that a cancellation of Commitments reduces the Commitments of the
Lenders rateably under the Facility;
(vi) any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders; or
(vii) Clause 2.2 (Finance Parties' rights and obligations), Clause 8.1 (Illegality), Clause 8.2
(Change of control), Clause 8.11 (Application of prepayments and cancellations), Clause 24
(Changes to the Lenders), this Clause 35, Clause 38 (Governing Law) or Clause 39.1
(Jurisdiction),
shall not be made without the prior consent of all the Lenders.
(b) For the avoidance of doubt, an amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which relates
to Clause 8.3 (Prepayment – disposals) may be made with the consent of the Majority Lenders and
the Company and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Parties unless such
amendment or waiver relates to a liability to make payment which has already arisen under Clause
8.3 (Prepayment – disposals) and requires the prior consent of all Lenders pursuant to paragraph (a)
above.
(c) An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent or the Coordinating
Bookrunner may not be effected without the consent of the Agent or the Coordinating Bookrunner.
35.3 Disenfranchisement of Defaulting Lenders
(a) For so long as a Defaulting Lender has any Available Commitment, in ascertaining the Majority
Lenders or whether any given percentage (including, for the avoidance of doubt, unanimity) of the
Total Commitments has been obtained to approve any request for a consent, waiver, amendment or
other vote under the Finance Documents, that Defaulting Lender's Commitments will be reduced by
the amount of its Available Commitments.
(b) For the purposes of this Clause, the Agent may assume that the following Lenders are Defaulting
Lenders:
(i) any Lender which has notified the Agent that it has become a Defaulting Lender;
(ii) any Lender in relation to which it is aware that any of the events or circumstances referred to
in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of Defaulting Lender has occurred,
unless it has received notice to the contrary from the Lender concerned (together with any supporting
evidence reasonably requested by the Agent) or the Agent is otherwise aware that the Lender has
ceased to be a Defaulting Lender.
35.4 Replacement of a Defaulting Lender
(a) The Company may, at any time a Lender has become and continues to be a Defaulting Lender, by
giving no less than ten Business Days' prior written notice to the Agent and such Lender:
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(i) replace such Lender by requiring such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer pursuant to
Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations under
this Agreement;
(ii) require such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 24 (Changes to
the Lenders) all (and not part only) of the undrawn Commitment of the Lender; or
(iii) require such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 24 (Changes to
the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations in respect of the Facility,
to a Lender or other bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity (a Replacement Lender)
selected by the Company, and which (unless the Agent is as an Impaired Agent) is acceptable to the
Agent (acting reasonably) and, which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the
obligations or all the relevant obligations of the transferring Lender (including the assumption of the
transferring Lender's participations or unfunded participations (as the case may be) on the same basis
as the transferring Lender).
(b) Any transfer of rights and obligations of a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Clause shall be subject
to the following conditions:
(i) the Company shall have no right to replace the Agent;
(ii) neither the Agent nor the Defaulting Lender shall have any obligation to the Company to
find a Replacement Lender;
(iii) the transfer must take place no later than ten Business Days after the notice referred to in
paragraph (a) above and subject to the Agent being satisfied that it has complied with all
necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and
regulations in relation to that transfer to the Replacement Lender; and
(iv) in no event shall the Defaulting Lender be required to pay or surrender to the Replacement
Lender any of the fees received by the Defaulting Lender pursuant to the Finance
Documents; and
(v) the Defaulting Lender shall only be obliged to transfer its rights and obligations pursuant to
paragraph (a) above once it is satisfied that it has complied with all necessary "know your
customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to that
transfer to the Replacement Lender.
35.5 Replacement of Screen Rate
(a) Subject to Clause 35.2 (Exceptions), if a Screen Rate Replacement Event has occurred in relation to
any Screen Rate for a currency which can be selected for a Loan, any amendment or waiver which
relates to:
(i) providing for the use of a Replacement Benchmark in relation to that currency in place of
that Screen Rate; and
(ii)
(A) aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement
Benchmark;
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(B) enabling that Replacement Benchmark to be used for the calculation of interest
under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes
required to enable that Replacement Benchmark to be used for the purposes of this
Agreement);
(C) implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Benchmark;
(D) providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that
Replacement Benchmark; or
(E) adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any
transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of
that Replacement Benchmark (and if any adjustment or method for calculating any
adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the
Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that
designation, nomination or recommendation),
may be made with the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders) and the Company.
(b) If any Lender fails to respond to a request for an amendment or waiver described in paragraph (a)
above within 15 Business Days (or such longer time period in relation to any request which the
Company and the Agent may agree) of that request being made:
(i) its Commitment(s) shall not be included for the purpose of calculating the Total
Commitments under the relevant Facility when ascertaining whether any relevant percentage
of Total Commitments has been obtained to approve that request; and
(ii) its status as a Lender shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining whether the
agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve that request.
(c) In July 2017, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority announced that, after the end of 2021, it would
no longer persuade or compel any LIBOR panel bank, being a bank which contributes submissions
to ICE LIBOR, to provide quotations to the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (together with
any successor to the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited, the “IBA”) for the purposes of the
IBA administering LIBOR after 2021 (the FCA Announcement). As a result, it is possible that,
LIBOR may no longer be available or deemed an appropriate reference rate upon which to determine
the interest rate on Loans. In light of this eventuality, public and private sector industry initiatives
are currently underway to identify new or alternative reference rates to be used in place of LIBOR.
The Parties acknowledge that the circumstances described above are of a type which could give rise
to a Screen Rate Replacement Event.
(d) In this Clause 35.5 (Replacement of Screen Rate):
Relevant Nominating Body means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory
authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or
constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board.
Replacement Benchmark means a benchmark rate which is:
(a) formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Screen Rate by:
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(i) the administrator of that Screen Rate (provided that the market or economic reality
that such benchmark rate measures is the same as that measured by that Screen
Rate); or
(ii) any Relevant Nominating Body,
and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or
recommended under both paragraphs, the "Replacement Benchmark" will be the
replacement under paragraph (ii) above;
(b) in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Company, generally accepted in the
international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor
to a Screen Rate; or
(c) in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Company, an appropriate successor to a
Screen Rate.
Screen Rate Replacement Event means, in relation to a Screen Rate:
(a) the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Screen Rate has, in the opinion
of the Majority Lenders and the Company materially changed;
(b)
(i)
(A) the administrator of that Screen Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such
administrator is insolvent; or
(B) information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however
described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar
administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the
administrator of that Screen Rate is insolvent,
provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to
continue to provide that Screen Rate;
(ii) the administrator of that Screen Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will
cease, to provide that Screen Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there
is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Screen Rate;
(iii) the supervisor of the administrator of that Screen Rate publicly announces that such
Screen Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or
(iv) the administrator of that Screen Rate or its supervisor announces that that Screen
Rate may no longer be used; or
(c) in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Company, that Screen Rate is otherwise no
longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement.
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36. CONFIDENTIALITY OF FUNDING RATES
36.1 Confidentiality and disclosure
(a) The Agent agrees to keep each Funding Rate confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the
extent permitted by paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) below.
(b) The Agent may disclose any Funding Rate to any person appointed by it to provide administration
services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents to the extent necessary to enable such
service provider to provide those services if the service provider to whom that information is to be
given has entered into a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master
Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other
form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Agent and the relevant Lender.
(c) The Agent may disclose any Funding Rate to:
(i) any of its Affiliates and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional
advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives if any person to whom that Funding Rate is
to be given pursuant to this paragraph (i) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and
that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to
so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality
of that Funding Rate or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to
it;
(ii) any person to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of
competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority
or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law
or regulation if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing
of its confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall
be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Agent, it is not practicable to do so in
the circumstances;
(iii) any person to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the
purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or
disputes if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing of its
confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be
no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Agent, it is not practicable to do so in
the circumstances; and
(iv) any person with the consent of the relevant Lender.
(d) The Agent's obligations in this Clause 36 (Confidentiality of Funding Rates) relating to Funding
Rates are without prejudice to its obligations to make notifications under Clause 9.4 (Notification of
rates of interest) provided that the Agent shall not include the details of any individual Funding Rate
as part of any such notification.
36.2 Related obligations
(a) The Agent acknowledges that each Funding Rate is or may be price-sensitive information and that its
use may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to
insider dealing and market abuse and the Agent undertakes not to use any Funding Rate for any
unlawful purpose.
(b) The Agent agrees (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the relevant Lender:
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(i) of the circumstances of any disclosure made pursuant to paragraph (c)(ii) of Clause 36.1
(Confidentiality and disclosure) except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons
referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory
function; and
(ii) upon becoming aware that any information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 36
(Confidentiality of Funding Rates).
37. COUNTERPARTS
Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same
effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.
38. GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are
governed by English law.
39. ENFORCEMENT
39.1 Jurisdiction
(a) The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of this
Agreement or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) (a
Dispute).
(b) The Parties agree that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle
Disputes and accordingly no Party will argue to the contrary.
(c) This Clause 39.1 is for the benefit of the Finance Parties only. As a result, no Finance Party shall be
prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other courts with jurisdiction. To the
extent allowed by law, the Finance Parties may take concurrent proceedings in any number of
jurisdictions.
39.2 Service of process
Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law:
(a) the Company irrevocably appoints MIH Internet (UK) Limited, a company incorporated in
England and Wales with registration number 08649750 (at the address of its registered office
for the time being) as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before
the English courts in connection with any Finance Document;
(b) the Company agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Company of the process will
not invalidate the proceedings concerned; and
(c) if the process agent ceases to exist for any reason and a replacement process agent is not
appointed by the Company within three Business Days, the Agent may appoint a
replacement process agent for Company at the expense of the Company.
40. CONTRACTUAL RECOGNITION OF BAIL-IN
(a) Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or
understanding between the Parties, each Party acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any
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Party to any other Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be subject to Bail-
In Action by the relevant Resolution Authority and acknowledges and accepts to be bound by the
effect of:
(i) any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):
(A) a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due
(including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability;
(B) a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of
ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and
(C) a cancellation of any such liability; and
(ii) a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.
(b) In this Clause 40:
Article 55 BRRD means Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the
recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms.
Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
Bail-In Legislation means in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which
at any time implements, Article 55 BRRD, the relevant implementing law or regulation as described
in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time.
EEA Member Country means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and
Norway.
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule means the document described as such and published by the Loan
Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time.
Resolution Authority means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and
Conversion Powers.
UK Bail-In Legislation means (to the extent that the United Kingdom is not an EEA Member
Country which has implemented, or implements, Article 55 BRRD) Part I of the United Kingdom
Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the
resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their
affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
Write-down and Conversion Powers means:
(a) in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from
time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU
Bail-In Legislation Schedule
(b) in relation to any UK Bail-In Legislation:
(i) any powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares
issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or
affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce,
modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or
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instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into
shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that
any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised
under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers
under that UK Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those
powers; and
(ii) any similar or analogous powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation.
THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 1
THE ORIGINAL LENDERS
Lender Cash Bridge
Commitment (£)
Debt Take-Out Bridge
Commitment (£)
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.,
London Branch
800,000,000 744,000,000
BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV 744,000,000
Citibank, N.A., London Branch 372,000,000
Citibank, N.A., Jersey Branch 372,000,000
Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. 744,000,000
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding,
Inc.
744,000,000
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.a., Filiale
Frankfurt am Main
680,000,000
Total 800,000,000 4,400,000,000
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SCHEDULE 2
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
PART 1
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO SIGNING
1. Corporate documentation
(a) A copy of the constitutional documents of the Company (being the deed of incorporation (akte van
oprichting) the articles of association (statuten) and an up-to-date extract from the Dutch Trade
Register of the Chamber of Commerce).
(b) A copy of a resolution of the board of directors of the Company:
(i) approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement and resolving
that it execute this Agreement;
(ii) authorising a specified person or persons to execute this Agreement on its behalf;
(iii) authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all
documents and notices to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with this
Agreement; and
(iv) including a confirmation that it does not have a works council (ondernemingsraad) having
jurisdiction over the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolutions referred to in paragraph (b)
above.
(d) A certificate of the Company (signed by a director) confirming that borrowing the Total
Commitments would not cause any borrowing or similar limit binding on the Company to be
exceeded.
(e) A certificate of an authorised signatory of the Company certifying that each copy document
specified in this Schedule and relating to it is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a
date no earlier than the date of this Agreement.
2. Legal opinions
(a) A legal opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP, legal advisers to the Agent in England, addressed to the
Finance Parties and substantially in the form distributed to the Coordinating Bookrunner prior to
signing this Agreement.
(b) A legal opinion of Loyens & Loeff N.V., legal advisors to the Agent in the Netherlands, addressed to
the Finance Parties and substantially in the form distributed to the Coordinating Bookrunner prior to
signing this Agreement.
3. Other documents and evidence
(a) The Original Financial Statements.
(b) Duly executed copies of the Fee Letters and the Mandate Letter.
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(c) Evidence that any process agent referred to in Clause 39.2 (Service of process), has accepted its
appointment.
(d) A near final draft of the Announcement (it being understood that Bidco may make any changes to
the draft Announcement which (i) are not materially prejudicial to the interests of the Lenders taken
as a whole under the Finance Documents or (ii) are approved by the Lenders (acting reasonably)).
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PART 2
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO UTILISATION
A copy of (i) the Scheme Circular or (ii) as the case may be, the Offer Document dispatched to shareholders
of the Target by or on behalf of Bidco and the Cooperation Agreement (if any), in either case in a form
containing terms and conditions consistent in all material respects with those contemplated by the
Announcement (and, in the case of an Offer, including an Acceptance Condition no lower than the Minimum
Acceptance Condition) together with any amendments or other changes which would be permitted under
Clause 21.11 (Acquisition Undertaking).
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SCHEDULE 3
REQUESTS
PART 1
UTILISATION REQUEST
From: []
To: [] as Agent
Dated:
Dear Sir or Madam,
[] – Facility Agreement
dated _____________ (the Agreement)
1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Utilisation Request. Terms defined in the Agreement have the
same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless given a different meaning in this Utilisation
Request.
2. We wish to borrow a Loan on the following terms:
Proposed Utilisation Date: [ ] (or, if that is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day)
Currency of Loan [ ]
Amount: [ ]1 or, if less, the Available Facility
Interest Period: [ ]
3. We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) is satisfied on
the date of this Utilisation Request.
4. The proceeds of this Loan should be credited to [account].
5. This Utilisation Request is irrevocable.
Yours faithfully
................................................................
1 WARNING: PLEASE SEEK DUTCH LEGAL ADVICE (I) UNTIL THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY PUBLISHES ITS
INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM "PUBLIC" (AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 4.1(1) OF THE CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
REGULATION (EU/575/2013)), IF THE SHARE OF A LENDER IN ANY UTILISATION REQUESTED BY A DUTCH COMPANY IS LESS THAN EUR100,000 (OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN ANOTHER CURRENCY) AND (II) AS SOON AS THE COMPETENT
AUTHORITY PUBLISHES ITS INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM "PUBLIC", IF THE LENDER IS CONSIDERED TO BE PART
OF THE PUBLIC ON THE BASIS OF SUCH INTERPRETATION.
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authorised signatory for
[]
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PART 2
SELECTION NOTICE
From: []
To: [] as Agent
Dated:
Dear Sir or Madam,
[] – Facility Agreement dated _____________ (the Agreement)
1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Selection Notice. Terms defined in the Agreement have the
same meaning in this Selection Notice unless given a different meaning in this Selection Notice.
2. We refer to the following Loan[s] in [identify currency] with an Interest Period ending on [ ].1
3. [We request that the above Loan[s] be divided into [ ] Loans with the following Interest
Periods:]2
or
[We request that the next Interest Period for the above Loan[s] is [ ]].3
4. This Selection Notice is irrevocable.
Yours faithfully
authorised signatory for
the Company
NOTE:
1. Insert details of all Loans in the same currency which have an Interest Period ending on the same
date.
2. Use this option if division of Loans is requested.
3. Use this option if sub-division is not required.
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SCHEDULE 4
FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
To: [] as Agent
From: [The Transferring Lender] (the Transferring Lender) and [The New Lender] (the New Lender)
Dated:
[] – Facility Agreement dated _____________ (the Agreement)
1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Transfer Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the
same meaning in this Transfer Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Transfer
Certificate.
2. We refer to Clause 24.5 (Procedure for transfer):
(a) The Transferring Lender and the New Lender agree to the Transferring Lender transferring
to the New Lender by novation, and in accordance with Clause 24.5 (Procedure for transfer),
all of the Transferring Lender's rights and obligations under the Agreement and the other
Finance Documents which relate to that portion of the Transferring Lender's Commitment(s)
and participations in Loans under the Agreement as specified in the Schedule.
(b) The proposed Transfer Date is [ ].
(c) The Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New
Lender for the purposes of Clause 31.2 (Addresses) are set out in the Schedule.
3. The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Transferring Lender's obligations set
out in paragraph (c) of Clause 24.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Transferring Lenders).
4. The New Lender expressly confirms that it [can/cannot] exempt the Agent from the restrictions
pursuant to section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions
applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law as provided for in Clause 26.1 (Appointment of
the Agent).
5. [On the Transfer Date, the New Lender declares and represents to the Transferring Lender, the other
Finance Parties and the Company that:
(a) it is a Professional Lender; and
(b) it acknowledges that as a consequence it has not benefited from the (creditor) protection
under the Dutch FSA for non-Professional Lenders.]
[4/5]. This Transfer Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same effect
as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Transfer Certificate.
[5/6]. This Transfer Certificate and any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with it
are governed by English law.
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THE SCHEDULE
Commitment/rights and obligations to be transferred
[insert relevant details]
[Facility Office address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments,]
[Transferring Lender] [New Lender]2
By: By:
This Transfer Certificate is accepted by the Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed as [ ].
[AGENT]
By:
2 WARNING: PLEASE SEEK DUTCH LEGAL ADVICE (I) UNTIL THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY PUBLISHES ITS
INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM "PUBLIC" (AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 4.1(1) OF THE CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
REGULATION (EU/575/2013)), IF ANY AMOUNT LENT TO A DUTCH COMPANY IS TO BE [TRANSFERRED]/[ASSIGNED] WHICH IS LESS THAN EUR100,000 (OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN ANOTHER CURRENCY) AND (II) AS SOON AS THE
COMPETENT AUTHORITY PUBLISHES ITS INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM "PUBLIC", IF THE NEW LENDER IS
CONSIDERED TO BE PART OF THE PUBLIC ON THE BASIS OF THAT INTERPRETATION.
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SCHEDULE 5
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To: [] as Agent
From: []
Dated:
Dear Sir or Madam,
[] – Facility Agreement dated _____________ (the Agreement)
1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Compliance Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have
the same meaning in this Compliance Certificate unless given a different meaning in this
Compliance Certificate.
2. We confirm that: [Insert details of covenants to be certified]
3. [Insert update on any Consumer Finance Financings and Equity Finance Arrangements and
outstanding amounts thereunder.]
4. [We confirm that no Default is continuing.]
Signed: ................................................... ...................................................
Director [Director (Chief Financial Officer)]
of of
[] []
If this statement cannot be made, the certificate should identify any Default that is continuing and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy
it.
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SCHEDULE 6
EXISTING SECURITY
Name of Subsidiary Security Total Principal Amount of
Indebtedness Secured
Dante International S.A. Security over receivables,
inventory and cash
EUR10,000,000 bank overdraft
facilities
Dante International S.A. Security over receivables,
inventory
EUR68,200,000 guarantee
facilities, LC’s, non-cash credit
lines
Dante International S.A. Security over receivables,
inventory
RON11,400,000 bank overdraft
Dante International S.A. Security over equipment and bank
accounts held with Lenders
EUR10,000,000
eMAG Logistica.SRL Mortgage over property EUR43,800,000
eMAG Logistica.SRL Security over VAT receivables RON8,400,000
PayU Brasil Intermediacao de
Negocios Ltda
Security over credit card
receivables
40,000,000 Brazilian real
PayU Spolka Akcyjna Assets of the company Bank guarantee facility
PLN15,000,000
MIH Finance v.o.f.;
the Company.;
MIH e-commerce CZ s.r.o.;
PayU Spolka Akcyjna;
Dante International S.A.;
Fashion Days Group AG;
MIH B2C Eastern Europe B.V.;
MIH PayU B.V.;
OLX Portugal S.A.;
PayU Global B.V.;
Online Latin American Payments
Mexico S de RL de CV
OLX Global B.V.;
Grupa OLX Sp.z o.o;
OLX Corporate Sp.z o.o;
OLX Online Services SRL;
Avito Holding AB;
iFood Holdings B.V.;
India Used Car Group B.V.;
Letgo Global B.V.;
Letgo USA B.V.;
Movile Mobile Commerce
Dutch law pledges over bank
accounts of the Subsidiaries
named in the previous column
held with Bank Mendes Gans
N.V.. The Dutch law pledges
have been given as part of Prosus
N.V.'s and its Subsidiaries' cash
pooling arrangements with Bank
Mendes Gans N.V. entered into in
the ordinary course of their
banking arrangements.
Not applicable – there is no fixed
principal amount of indebtedness
secured as the Dutch law pledges
have been given as security for
any debit balances from time to
time showing in the bank accounts
of the Subsidiaries named in the
first column held with Bank
Mendes Gans N.V.
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Holdings S.L.; OLX B.V.;
OLX India B.V.;
Wavy Global Holdings B.V.;
and
any other Subsidiary of Prosus
B.V. who accedes to the cash
pooling arrangements with Bank
Mendes Gans N.V.
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SCHEDULE 7
TIMETABLES
Loans in sterling Loans in euro Loans in dollars Loans in other
currencies
Company notifies the Agent of a currency
request other than a Committed Currency in
accordance with Clause 4.3 (Conditions
relating to Optional Currencies) and 6.1
(Selection of currency)
N/A N/A N/A 11am (London time)
three Business Days
before the Quotation
Day
Delivery of a duly completed Utilisation
Request (Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation
Request)
11am (London time) one
Business Day before the
Quotation Day
11am (London time) one
Business Day before the
Quotation Day
11am (London time) one
Business Days before
the Quotation Day
11am (London time) one
Business Days before
the Quotation Day
Agent determines (in relation to a Utilisation)
the Base Currency Amount of the Loan, if
required under Clause 5.4 (Lenders'
participation) and notifies the Lenders of the
Loan in accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders'
participation)
promptly promptly promptly promptly
Agent receives a notification from a Lender
under Clause 6.2 (Unavailability of an
Optional Currency)
N/A N/A N/A Close of Business one
Business Day prior to
the Quotation Day
Agent gives notice in accordance with Clause
6.2 (Unavailability of an Optional Currency)
N/A N/A N/A 12pm (London time) on
the Quotation Day
LIBOR or EURIBOR is fixed Quotation Day as of
11am London time in
respect of LIBOR
Quotation Day as of
11am Brussels time in
respect of EURIBOR
Quotation Day as of
11am London time in
respect of LIBOR
Quotation Day as of
11am London time in
respect of LIBOR
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SCHEDULE 8
MATERIAL SUBSIDIARIES
MIH TC Holdings Limited
MIH Services FZ LLC
KEH eCommerce LLC
Avito AB
Avito Holding AB
Grupa OLX Sp.z o.o.
OLX Global B.V.
Dante International S.A.
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SCHEDULE 9
CONFIDENTIALITY UNDERTAKING
[] – Facility Agreement dated _____________ (the Agreement)
THIS CONFIDENTIALITY UNDERTAKING is dated [ ] and made
BETWEEN:
(1) [ ]; and
(2) [ ].
Either party (in this capacity the Purchaser) may from time to time consider acquiring an interest
from the other party (in this capacity the Seller) in the Agreement which, subject to the Agreement,
may be by way of novation, assignment, the entering into, whether directly or indirectly, of a sub-
participation or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by
reference to one or more relevant Finance Documents and/or the Company or by way of investing in
or otherwise financing, directly or indirectly, any such novation, assignment, sub-participation or
other transaction (each an Acquisition). In consideration of the Seller agreeing to make available to
the Purchaser certain information in relation to each Acquisition it is agreed as follows:
1. CONFIDENTIALITY UNDERTAKING
The Purchaser undertakes in relation to each Acquisition made or which may be made by it (a) to
keep all Confidential Information which the Seller supplies to the Purchaser in relation to that
Acquisition confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by paragraph 2
below and to ensure that all Confidential Information which the Seller supplies to the Purchaser in
relation to that Acquisition is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply
to the Purchaser's own confidential information and (b) until that Acquisition is completed, to use the
Confidential Information which the Seller supplies to the Purchaser in relation to that Acquisition
only for the Permitted Purpose.3
2. PERMITTED DISCLOSURE
The Purchaser may disclose in relation to each Acquisition made or which may be made by it:
(a) to any of its Affiliates and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional
advisers and auditors such Confidential Information as the Purchaser shall consider
appropriate if any person to whom such Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to
this paragraph (a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of
such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be
no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to
maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of
confidentiality in relation to such Confidential Information;
3 Please note that the Permitted Purpose ceases to apply to Confidential Information supplied to the Purchaser in relation to an Acquisition
on completion of that Acquisition. However, if that Acquisition does not complete, the prospective purchaser is not permitted to use such
Confidential Information for any purpose other than the Permitted Purpose.
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(b) subject to the requirements of the Agreement, to any person:
(i) to (or through) whom the Purchaser assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or
transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations which it may acquire under the
Agreement such Confidential Information which the Seller supplies to the Purchaser
in relation to that Acquisition as the Purchaser shall consider appropriate if the
person to whom such Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this
subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) has delivered a letter to the Purchaser in
equivalent form to this undertaking;
(ii) with (or through) whom the Purchaser enters into (or may potentially enter into) any
sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to
be made or may be made by reference to the Agreement or the Company such
Confidential Information which the Seller supplies to the Purchaser in relation to
that Acquisition as the Purchaser shall consider appropriate if the person to whom
such Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this subparagraph (ii) of
paragraph (b) has delivered a letter to the Purchaser in equivalent form to this
undertaking;
(iii) to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any governmental,
banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any
relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation such
Confidential Information which the Seller supplies to the Purchaser in relation to
that Acquisition as the Purchaser shall consider appropriate; and
(c) notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b) above, Confidential Information to such persons to
whom, and on the same terms as, a Finance Party is permitted to disclose such Confidential
Information under the Agreement to which that Acquisition relates, as if such permissions
were set out in full in this undertaking for the purposes of that Acquisition and as if
references in those permissions to Finance Party were references to the Purchaser for the
purposes of that Acquisition.
3. NOTIFICATION OF DISCLOSURE
The Purchaser agrees in relation to each Acquisition made or which may be made by it (to the extent
permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Seller:
(a) of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to
subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) above except where such disclosure is made to any of the
persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or
regulatory function; and
(b) upon becoming aware that Confidential Information relating to that Acquisition has been
disclosed in breach of this undertaking.
4. RETURN OF COPIES
If the Purchaser does not enter into an Acquisition and the Seller so requests in writing, the
Purchaser shall return all Confidential Information supplied to the Purchaser by the Seller in relation
to that Acquisition and destroy or permanently erase (to the extent technically practicable) all copies
of such Confidential Information made by the Purchaser and use all reasonable endeavours to ensure
that anyone to whom the Purchaser has supplied any such Confidential Information destroys or
permanently erases (to the extent technically practicable) such Confidential Information and any
copies made by them, in each case save to the extent that the Purchaser or the recipients are required
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to retain any such Confidential Information by any applicable law, rule or regulation or by any
competent judicial, governmental, supervisory or regulatory body or in accordance with internal
policy, or where the Confidential Information has been disclosed under subparagraph (iii) of
paragraph (b) above.
5. CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS
The obligations in this undertaking are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain
binding on the Purchaser in relation to each Acquisition made or which may be made by it until (a) if
the Purchaser acquires an interest in the Agreement to which that Acquisition relates by way of
novation, the date on which the Purchaser acquires such an interest; (b) if the Purchaser enters into
that Acquisition other than by way of novation, the date falling [12] months after termination of that
Acquisition; or (c) in any other case [12] months after the date on which Confidential Information in
relation to that Acquisition was supplied to the Purchaser by the Seller.
6. NO REPRESENTATION; CONSEQUENCES OF BREACH, ETC
The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that, in relation to each Acquisition made or which may be
made by it:
(a) neither the Seller, nor any member of the relevant Group nor any of the Seller's or the
relevant Group's respective officers, employees or advisers (each a Relevant Person) (i)
make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to, or assume any responsibility
for, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any of the Confidential Information supplied
by the Seller to the Purchaser in relation to that Acquisition or any other information
supplied by the Seller to the Purchaser in relation to that Acquisition or the assumptions on
which it is based or (ii) shall be under any obligation to update or correct any inaccuracy in
the Confidential Information supplied by the Seller to the Purchaser in relation to that
Acquisition or any other information supplied by the Seller to the Purchaser in relation to
that Acquisition or be otherwise liable to the Purchaser or any other person in respect of the
Confidential Information supplied by the Seller to the Purchaser in relation to that
Acquisition or any such information; and
(b) the Seller or members of the relevant Group may be irreparably harmed by the breach of the
terms of this undertaking and damages may not be an adequate remedy; each Relevant
Person may be granted an injunction or specific performance for any threatened or actual
breach of the provisions of this undertaking by the Purchaser.
7. ENTIRE AGREEMENT: NO WAIVER; AMENDMENTS, ETC
(a) This undertaking constitutes the entire agreement between the Seller and the Purchaser in relation to
the Purchaser's obligations regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous
agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.
(b) No failure or delay in exercising any right or remedy under this undertaking will operate as a waiver
thereof nor will any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy preclude any further exercise
thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy under this undertaking.
(c) The terms of this undertaking and the Purchaser's obligations under this undertaking may only be
amended or modified by written agreement between the parties.
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8. INSIDE INFORMATION
The Purchaser acknowledges that some or all of the Confidential Information is or may be
price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by
applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and the
Purchaser undertakes not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.
9. NATURE OF UNDERTAKINGS
The undertakings given by the Purchaser in this undertaking are given to the Seller and are also
given for the benefit of the relevant Company and each other member of the relevant Group.
10. [STANDSTILL
You acknowledge and agree that neither you nor any member of your Participant Group:
(a) hold any shares in the Target or are otherwise interested in shares carrying voting rights in
the Target;
(b) will:
(i) acquire or offer to acquire, or cause any other person to acquire or to offer to
acquire, any shares in the Target or other interests in shares carrying voting rights in
the Target until the end of the offer period (as defined in the City Code) (the Offer
Period); or
(ii) enter into an agreement or arrangement (whether or not legally binding) that would
result in the acquisition of shares in the Target or other interests in shares carrying
voting rights in the Target until the end of the Offer Period,
provided that nothing in this paragraph 1.10(b) shall prevent the acquisition of shares in the
Target or other interests in shares carrying voting rights in the Target:
(i) carried out in a client-serving capacity by any part of the trading operations of any
member of your Participant Group that is a recognised intermediary within the
meaning of the City Code; or
(ii) with the consent of the Panel, by you or any member of your Participant Group as
security for a loan in the normal course of business.]/ OR
11. [INFORMATION BARRIERS
You acknowledge and agree that:
(a) you have established information barriers between you and those members of your
Participant Group which are responsible for:
(i) making decisions in relation to your or their participation in the Facility; and
(ii) trading, or making investment decisions in relation to, equity investments,
and that those information barriers comply with the minimum standards for effective
information barriers identified in Practice Statement No. 25 ("Debt Syndication During
Offer Periods") published by the Panel Executive on 17 June 2009 (the Information
Barriers); and
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(b) you will maintain the Information Barriers, and ensure that the Confidential Information
may not be accessed by any member of your Participant Group who holds or may acquire
shares in the Target or who is or may be otherwise interested in shares carrying voting rights
in the Target, until the end of the offer period (as defined in the City Code).]4
12. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
(a) Subject to this paragraph 10 and to paragraphs 6 and 9, a person who is not a party to this
undertaking has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the Third Parties
Act) to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this undertaking.
(b) The Relevant Persons may enjoy the benefit of the terms of paragraphs 6 and 9 subject to and in
accordance with this paragraph 10 and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.
(c) Notwithstanding any provisions of this undertaking, the parties to this undertaking do not require the
consent of any Relevant Person to rescind or vary this undertaking at any time.
13. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
(a) This undertaking and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it
(including any non-contractual obligations arising out of the negotiation of any Acquisition) are
governed by English law.
(b) The courts of England have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in
connection with this undertaking (including a dispute relating to any non-contractual obligation
arising out of or in connection with either this undertaking or the negotiation of any Acquisition).
14. DEFINITIONS
In this undertaking terms defined in the relevant Agreement (as defined below) shall, unless the
context otherwise requires, have the same meaning and:
Confidential Information means, in relation to each Acquisition, all information relating to the
Company, the Group, the relevant Finance Documents, [the/a] relevant Facility and/or that
Acquisition which is received by the Purchaser in relation to the relevant Finance Documents or
[the/a] relevant Facility from the Seller or any of its affiliates or advisers, in whatever form, and
includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing
or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes
information that:
(a) is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by the
Purchaser of this undertaking; or
(b) is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by the Seller or its
advisers; or
(c) is known by the Purchaser before the date the information is disclosed to the Purchaser by
the Seller or any of its affiliates or advisers or is lawfully obtained by the Purchaser after that
date, from a source which is, as far as the Purchaser is aware, unconnected with the relevant
4 One of these options must be included if the Confidential Information is to be provided prior to the end of the Offer Period. The first
option is intended for use where the potential lender/participant or any of its affiliates does not hold shares in the Target and is not otherwise interested in shares carrying voting rights in the offeree company. The second option is intended for use where the potential
lender/participant or any of its affiliates holds or may hold shares in the Target or is otherwise interested or may become interested in
shares carrying voting rights in the Target.
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Group and which, in either case, as far as the Purchaser is aware, has not been obtained in
breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality.
Group means, in relation to each Acquisition, the relevant Company and its subsidiaries for the time
being (as such term is defined in the Companies Act 2006).
Participant Group means you, each of your holding companies and subsidiaries and each
subsidiary of each of your holding companies (as each such term is defined in the Companies Act
2006).
Permitted Purpose means, in relation to each Acquisition, considering and evaluating whether to
enter into that Acquisition.
This undertaking has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this undertaking.
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SCHEDULE 10
INCREASE CONFIRMATION
To: [] as Agent, and [] as the Company
From: [the Increase Lender] (the Increase Lender)
Dated:
[] – Facility Agreement dated _____________ (the Agreement)
1. We refer to the Agreement. This is an Increase Confirmation. Terms defined in the Agreement have
the same meaning when used in this Increase Confirmation unless given a different meaning in this
Increase Confirmation.
2. We refer to Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality).
3. The Increase Lender agrees to assume and will assume all of the obligations corresponding to the
Commitment specified in the Schedule (the Relevant Commitment) as if it was an Original Lender
under the Agreement.
4. The proposed date on which the increase in relation to the Increase Lender and the Relevant
Commitment is to take effect (the Increase Date) is [ ].
5. On the Increase Date, the Increase Lender becomes party to the Finance Documents as a Lender.
6. The Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices to the Increase Lender
for the purposes of Clause 31.2 (Addresses) are set out in the Schedule.
7. The Increase Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Lenders' obligations referred to
in paragraph (g) of Clause 2.3 (Increase after Defaulting Lender or illegality).
8. The Increase Lender expressly confirms that it [can/cannot] exempt the Agent from the restrictions
pursuant to section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions
applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law as provided for in Clause 26.1 (Appointment of
the Agent).
9. The Increase Lender confirms that it is not a Defaulting Lender.
10. The Increase Lender confirms that it is a Professional Lender.
11. This Increase Confirmation may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same
effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Increase Confirmation.
12. This Increase Confirmation and any non contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with
it governed by English law.
13. This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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THE SCHEDULE
Relevant Commitment/rights and obligations to be assumed by the Increase Lender
[insert relevant details]
[Facility office address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments]
[Increase Lender]
By:
This Increase Confirmation is accepted as an Increase Confirmation for the purposes of the Agreement by
the Agent and the Increase Date is confirmed as [ ].
Agent
By:
[Signature Page to the Facility Agreement]
SIGNATORIES
[Signature pages to the Facility Agreement are not included]