EX-10.5 6 tm2018985d2_ex10-5.htm EXHIBIT 10.5

 

Exhibit 10.5

 

  Dated   6   May  2020  

 

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.
as Borrower

 

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE
as Facility Agent

 

BNP PARIBAS, HSBC FRANCE AND SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

as Mandated Lead Arrangers

 

and

 

THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN

as Lenders

 

FOURTH AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT

relating to a credit agreement in respect of the financing of the acquisition of m.v. Harmony of the Seas (ex hull no. A34)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

Clause Page
   
1   Definitions 1
   
2   Amendments to Principal Agreement 2
   
3   Representations and warranties 2
   
4   Conditions 3
   
5   Fees, Costs and expenses 3
   
6   Miscellaneous and notices 4
   
Schedule 1 The Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders 5
   
Schedule 2 Conditions Precedent 8
   
Schedule 3 Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement 9
   
Schedule 4 Form of Deferred Tranche Effective Date certificate 10

 

 

 

 

THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT is dated 6 May 2020 and made BETWEEN:

 

(1)ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD. as Borrower;

 

(2)SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE as Facility Agent;

 

(3)BNP PARIBAS, HSBC FRANCE AND SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE as Mandated Lead Arrangers; and

 

(4)THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 herein as Lenders.

 

WHEREAS:

 

(A)This Agreement is supplemental to a credit agreement dated 9 July 2013 (as amended and restated by amendment and restatement agreements dated 15 April 2014 and 15 January 2016, as further amended by an amendment agreement dated 27 June 2016 and as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 15 August 2019, the Principal Agreement) in respect of the financing of the acquisition of m.v. Harmony of the Seas (ex hull no. A34) and made between, amongst others, the Borrower, the Facility Agent, the Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders and subject to the conditions of which each of the Lenders agreed to advance (and have advanced) its respective Commitment of an aggregate amount not exceeding the Maximum Loan Amount (the Loan).

 

(B)The Borrower has by a consent request letter dated 16 April 2020 relating to the "Cruise Debt Holiday Principles" (the Principles) requested that the Principles be reflected in the Principal Agreement and that accordingly the Principal Agreement be amended and restated on the basis set out in this Agreement to include (i) certain matters contemplated by the Principles and (ii) in addition certain other matters requested by the Borrower in order for the Principal Agreement to reflect certain changes that were agreed in connection with the amended Bank of Nova Scotia Agreement (as defined in the consent request letter).

 

(C)The Lenders have agreed to the matters requested in the letter referred to in recital (B) above, including the deferral of any scheduled repayments of principal of the Loan arising during the Deferral Period, on the basis set out in the Facility Agreement (as such terms are defined below).

 

NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

 

1Definitions

 

1.1Defined expressions

 

Words and expressions defined in the Principal Agreement and, with effect from the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, the Facility Agreement shall unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise defined herein, have the same meanings when used in this Agreement.

 

1.2Definitions

 

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

 

Deferral Period means the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 (inclusive).

 

Deferred Tranche Effective Date means the date specified as the “Deferred Tranche Effective Date” in the certificate signed by the Facility Agent in accordance with clause 4.3, which

  

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confirmation the Facility Agent shall be under no obligation to give if a Default or a Mandatory Prepayment Event shall have occurred for which relief is not provided in the Principles.

 

Facility Agreement means the Principal Agreement as amended, supplemented and restated by this Agreement.

 

Information Package has the meaning given to such term in the form of the amended and restated Facility Agreement set out in Schedule 3.

 

Party means each of the parties to this Agreement.

 

1.3Principal Agreement

 

References in the Principal Agreement to “this Agreement” shall, with effect from the Deferred Tranche Effective Date and unless the context otherwise requires, be references to the Principal Agreement as amended by this Agreement and words such as “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder”, “hereafter”, “hereby” and “hereto”, where they appear in the Principal Agreement, shall be construed accordingly.

 

1.4Headings

 

Clause headings and the table of contents are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement.

 

1.5Designation as a Finance Document

 

This Agreement is designated as a Finance Document.

 

2Amendments to Principal Agreement

 

2.1Amendments to Principal Agreement

 

The Principal Agreement shall, with effect on and from the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, be (and it is hereby) amended and restated so as to read in accordance with the form of the amended and restated Facility Agreement set out in Schedule 3 and (as so amended) will continue to be binding upon each Party hereto in accordance with its terms as so amended and restated.

 

2.2Continued force and effect

 

Save as amended by this Agreement, the provisions of the Principal Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and each of the Principal Agreement and this Agreement shall be read and construed as one instrument.

 

3Representations and warranties

 

The Borrower represents and warrants that each of the representations contained in section 7 of the Facility Agreement (excluding those in clause 7.11) shall be deemed repeated by the Borrower (by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing) at the date of this Agreement and at the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining, as if references to the Finance Documents include this Agreement.

 

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4  Conditions

 

4.1  Documents and evidence

 

The agreement of the Parties referred to in clause 2 shall be subject to the receipt by the Facility Agent or its duly authorised representative of the documents and evidence specified in Schedule 2, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent.

 

4.2  General conditions precedent

 

The agreement of the Parties referred to in clause 2 shall be subject to the further conditions that on the Deferred Tranche Effective Date:

 

(a)the representations and warranties of Borrower contained in clause 3 are true and correct in all material respects (except for such representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or non-existence of a material adverse effect which shall be accurate in all respects) on and as of each such time as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such time; and

 

(b)no Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the amendment of the Principal Agreement pursuant to this Agreement.

 

4.3  Deferred Tranche Effective Date certificate

 

Upon fulfilment or waiver of the conditions in this clause 4, the Facility Agent shall sign a certificate in the form set out in Schedule 4 confirming that the Deferred Tranche Effective Date has occurred and such certificate shall be binding on all Parties.

 

5  Fees, Costs and expenses

 

5.1  Fee Letters

 

The Borrower agrees to pay to the Facility Agent and the Lenders the fees in the amount and at the time agreed in the Fee Letters entered into in connection with this Agreement.

 

5.2  Out-of-pocket cost and expenses

 

The Borrower agrees to pay on demand, on an after-tax basis, all costs and expenses in connection with:

 

(a)the preparation, execution and delivery of; and

 

(b)the administration, modification and amendment of,

 

this Agreement and all other documents to be delivered hereunder or thereunder, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of Norton Rose Fulbright LLP as the legal adviser to the Lenders and the Facility Agent.

 

5.3  BpiFAE Premium

 

The Borrower shall (as contemplated by section 3.4.2 of the Principles) pay any additional BpiFAE Premium payable in respect of the matters contemplated by this Agreement and the Principles in the agreed amount prior to the first advance (or deemed advance) of the Deferred Tranche in accordance with Recital (D) and clause 3.7 of the Facility Agreement, it being agreed that if the Borrower does not make such payment in accordance with this clause 5.3, a Mandatory Prepayment Event shall occur under clause 11.1(p) of the Facility Agreement, which will result in the cancellation of the Commitments in respect of the Deferred Tranche and the

 

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immediate cessation of any waiver granted in connection with the matters contemplated by the Principles and the Facility Agreement.

 

5.4  Value Added Tax

 

All fees and expenses payable pursuant to this clause 5 shall be paid together with value added tax or any similar tax (if any) properly chargeable thereon.

 

5.5  Stamp and other duties

 

The Borrower agrees to pay on demand all stamp, documentary, registration or other like duties or taxes (including any duties or taxes payable by a Party) imposed on or in connection with this Agreement and shall indemnify the other Parties against any liability arising by reason of any delay or omission by the Borrower to pay such duties or taxes.

 

6  Miscellaneous and notices

 

6.1  The provisions of clauses 1.3 (Third Party Rights), 13.4 (Notices), 13.9 (Execution in Counterparts) and 13.14 (Law and Jurisdiction) of the Facility Agreement shall apply to this Agreement as if they are set out in full and as if (a) references to each Party are references to each party to this Agreement and (b) references to the Facility Agreement include this Agreement.

 

6.2  The Parties acknowledge and agree that they may execute this Agreement and any variation or amendment to the same, by electronic instrument. The Parties agree that the electronic signatures appearing on the document shall have the same effect as handwritten signatures and the use of an electronic signature on this Agreement shall have the same validity and legal effect as the use of a signature affixed by hand and is made with the intention of authenticating this Agreement, and evidencing the Parties’ intention to be bound by the terms and conditions contained herein. For the purposes of using an electronic signature, the Parties authorise each other to conduct the lawful processing of personal data of the signers for contract performance and their legitimate interests including contract management.

 

IN WITNESS whereof the parties to this Agreement have caused this Agreement to be duly executed on the date first above written.

 

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Schedule 1

 

The Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders

 

Name Facility Office and contact details Commitment (%)
     
BNP Paribas Front Office (for credit matters)   18.75%
  37 place du Marché Saint Honoré    
  75001 Paris    
  France    
     
  Attention: Leopoldine de Honnaville    
    Alexandre de Vathaire    
     
  Phone: +33 1 42 98 20 12    
    +33 1 42 98 00 29    
     
  Email:    
    leopoldine.dehonnaville@bnpparibas.com    
    alexandre.devathaire@bnpparibas.com    
     
  Middle Office (for administrative matters)    
  Millénaire 4, 35 Rue de la Gare    
  75019 – Paris,    
  CVA05A1 – France    
     
  Attention: M. Thierry Anezo    
    Estelle Farny    
  Phone: +33 1 43 16 81 57    
    +33 1 40 14 59 84    
     
  Email:    
    thierry.anezo@bnpparibas.com  
    estelle.farny@bnpparibas.com    
     
  Back Office (for operational matters)    
  Millénaire 4, 35 Rue de la Gare    
  75019 – Paris,    
  CVA06A3 – France    
     
  Fax: +33 (0) 1 40 14 27 40    
     
  Email:      
    paris.cib.boci.ca.3@bnpparibas.com

 

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Name Facility Office and contact details Commitment (%)
     
Société Générale 189 rue d’Aubervilliers   31.25%
  75886 PARIS Cedex 18    
  France    
     
  Attention: Muriel Baumann    
    Edouard Rutin    
     
  Tel: +33 (0)1 58 98 22 76  
    +33 (0)1 57 29 37 79    
     
  Fax: +33 (0)1 46 92 45 97    
     
  Email : muriel.baumann@sgcib.com    
    edouard.rutin@sgcib.com    
    par-oper-fin-smo-ext@sgcib.com    
     
  and    
     
  Attention: Catherine Ferreira    
     
  Tel : +33 (0)1 42 14 48 45    
     
  Fax: +33 (0)1 70 71 95 63    
  Email: catherine.ferreira@sgcib.com    
    par-oper-caf-dmt6@sgcib.com  
       
HSBC France HSBC France – Global Banking Agency     37.50%
  Operations (GBAO) Transaction Manager  
  Unit    
  103 avenue des Champs Elysées    
  75008 Paris    
  France    
     
  Attention: Florencia Thomas    
    Alexandra Penda    
     
  Fax No: +33 1 40 70 28 80    
  Tel No: +33 1 49 52 22 60 /    
    +33 1 41 02 67 50    
     
  Email: florencia.thomas@hsbc.fr    
    alexandra.penda@hsbc.fr    
     
  Copy to:    
  HSBC France    
  103 avenue des Champs Elysées    
  75008 Paris    
  France    
     
  Attention: Julie Bellais / Céline Karsenty    
     
  Tel No: +33 1 40 70 28 59 /    
    +33 1 40 70 22 97    
     
  Email:   
    julie.bellais@hsbc.fr    
    celine.karsenty@hsbc.fr  
     

 

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Name Facility Office and contact details Commitment (%)
     
Natixis 68-76 Quai de la Rappée 75012 PARIS       12.50%
     
  Thibault LANTOINE  
  (Thibault.lantoine@natixis.com), Tatiana  
  JELICIC (tatiana.jelicic@natixis.com) &  
  Frédéric MARECHAUX (  
  frederic.marechaux@natixis.com)      
     
  Lise AZAIZ-BOISBOUVIER (lise.azaiz-  
  boisbouvier@natixis.com ), Catherine  
  MEDAGLIA  
  (catherine.medaglia@natixis.com ) et  
  Benoit DAUGA  
  (benoit.dauga@natixis.com )      

 

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Schedule 2

Conditions Precedent

 

1  Borrower

 

1.1  A certificate of the Borrower’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary as to the incumbency and signatures of those of its officers authorised to act with respect to this Agreement and as to the truth and completeness of the attached resolutions of its Board of Directors then in full force and effect authorising the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

 

1.2  A Certificate of Good Standing issued by the relevant Liberian authorities in respect of the Borrower.

 

2  Legal opinions

 

The Facility Agent shall have received opinions, addressed to the Facility Agent and each Lender from:

 

2.1  Watson Farley & Williams LLP, counsel to the Borrower, as to Liberian law; and

 

2.2  Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, counsel to the Facility Agent,

 

or, where applicable, a written approval in principle (which can be given by email) by any of the above counsel of the arrangements contemplated by this Agreement and a confirmation that a formal legal opinion will follow promptly after the Deferred Tranche Effective Date.

 

3  Principles

 

3.1  Final approval of the Principles (including deferral of the instalments of principal of the Loan due to be repaid during the Deferral Period) by BpiFAE.

 

3.2  Evidence that the Borrower has submitted the Information Package (including information related to crisis-related liquidity measures) to the Facility Agent (for providing to BpiFAE), as a basis for the BpiFAE to assess the adequacy of the Borrower´s crisis-related liquidity measures with regard to utilisation of the Deferred Tranche in accordance with the terms of the Principal Agreement as amended and restated by this Agreement.

 

3.3  A letter from the Borrower, signed by its Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer, containing a commitment to publish on an annual basis until the repayment of the Deferred Tranche in full, a publically available environmental plan that includes (a) an annual measure (in accordance with other public methodology, including IMO methodology) of the greenhouse gas emissions of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including the emissions of their respective vessels) for the two years preceding the date of the relevant publication and (b) the Borrower’s strategy to reduce the group’s greenhouse emissions, including details of specific measures implemented (or to be implemented) in order to achieve such reduction.

 

4  Other documents and evidence

 

4.1  Evidence that any process agent appointed pursuant to clause 6.1 of this Agreement has accepted its appointment.

 

4.2  Execution of the Fee Letters in respect of the Principles and evidence that any amounts payable in respect of the same and any documented costs and expenses due from the Borrower under clause 5 of this Agreement have been paid or will be paid promptly when due or on being demanded.

 

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Schedule 3

Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement

 

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Dated 9 July 2013

as amended and restated by Amendment and Restatement n° 1 dated 15 April 2014

and

as amended and restated by Amendment and Restatement n° 2 dated 15 January 2016

and

as amended by Amendment Agreement no ° 1 dated 27 June 2016

and

as amended and restated by Amendment and Restatement n° 3 dated 15 August 2019

and

as amended and restated by Amendment and Restatement n° 4 dated 6 May 2020

 

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.

as Borrower

 

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

as Facility Agent

 

 

BNP PARIBAS

HSBC FRANCE

and

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

as Mandated Lead Arrangers

 

and

 

THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

from time to time party hereto

as Lenders

 

 

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

 

in respect of

one (1) Passenger Cruise Vessel

‘Harmony of the Seas’

(ex Hull No. A34)

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

    Page
       
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 1
  1.1 Defined Terms 1
  1.2 Interpretation 23
  1.3 Third Party Rights 25
  1.4 Accounting and Financial Determinations. 25
       
2. THE FACILITY AND COMMITMENTS 26
       
  2.1 The Facility 26
  2.2 Purpose 26
  2.3 Commitments of the Lenders 27
  2.4 Voluntary Cancellation 27
  2.5 Cancellation due to Lender Illegality 28
  2.6 Delayed Delivery 28
  2.7 Automatic Cancellation 29
  2.8 Cancellation for Non–Exercise Premium 29
  2.9 Construction Contract 30
  2.10 Independence of Borrower’s Obligations 30
  2.11 Finance Parties’ Rights and Obligations 30
       
3. DISBURSEMENT PROCEDURES; BORROWER’S PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS 30
       
  3.1 Availability of Facility 30
  3.2 Delivery of a Drawing Request 31
  3.3 Completion of a Drawing Request 31
  3.4 Currency and Amount of Disbursement 31
  3.5 Disbursement 31
  3.6 Borrower’s Payment Instructions 32
  3.7 Deemed Advance of Deferred Tranche 32
       
4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 32
       
  4.1 Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness. 32
  4.2 Conditions Precedent to Disbursement 34
  4.3 Additional Conditions Precedent to Disbursement 37
  4.4 Form of Conditions Precedent 37
  4.5 Facility Agent’s Responsibility. 38
  4.6 Waiver 38
  4.7 Deferred Tranche Conditions Precedent 39
       
5. REPAYMENTS, PREPAYMENTS, INTEREST AND FEES 40
       
  5.1 Repayments 40
  5.2 Prepayment 42
  5.3 Interest Provisions 43
  5.4 Commitment Fee 45

 

 

 

 

5.5Other Fees 46
5.6Calculation Basis 46
5.7Currency 46
   
6.EURIBOR-RELATED PROVISIONS; FUNDING LOSSES; INCREASED CAPITAL COSTS; TAXES; RESERVE COSTS; PAYMENTS; ETC. 46
    
6.1EURIBOR Determination; Replacement Reference Banks 46
6.2EURIBOR Lending Unlawful. 47
6.3Market Disruption in respect of a Funded Loan Portion 47
6.4Market Disruption in respect of an Unfunded Loan Portion 47
6.5Increased Loan Costs, etc. 49
6.6Funding Losses 51
6.7Increased Capital Costs 54
6.8Taxes 55
6.9Reserve Costs 58
6.10Payments 59
6.11No Double Counting 61
6.12Cancellation of Commitment or Prepayment of Affected Lender 61
6.13Funding Entity 61
6.14Sharing of Payments 61
6.15No Borrower Set-off 63
6.16Finance Party Set-off 63
6.17Use of Proceeds 63
     
7.REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 65
      
7.1Organisation, etc. 65
7.2Due Authorisation, Non-Contravention, etc. 66
7.3Government Approval, Regulation, etc. 66
7.4Compliance with Laws 66
7.5Sanctions 67
7.6Validity, etc. 67
7.7No Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event 67
7.8Litigation 68
7.9The Purchased Vessel 68
7.10Obligations rank pari passu; Liens 68
7.11Withholding, etc. 68
7.12No Filing, etc. Required 69
7.13No Immunity 69
7.14Investment Company Act 69
7.15Regulation U 69
7.16Accuracy of Information 69
7.17Construction Contract 70
7.18No Winding-up 70
7.19Repetition 70
   
8.AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS 70
      
8.1Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc. 71

 

 

 

 

8.2Government Approvals and Other Consents 73

 

 

 

 

  8.3 Compliance with Laws, etc. 73
  8.4 The Purchased Vessel 74
  8.5 Insurance 75
  8.6 Books and Records 76
  8.7 Cessation of Business 76
  8.8 BpiFAE Insurance Policy Requirements 76
  8.9 Further Assurances. 76
       
9. NEGATIVE COVENANTS 77
       
  9.1 Business Activities 77
  9.2 Indebtedness 77
  9.3 Liens 78
  9.4 Financial Condition 80
  9.5 Investments 81
  9.6 Consolidation, Merger, etc. 81
  9.7 Asset Dispositions, etc. 82
  9.8 Use of Proceeds 82
  9.9 Construction Contract 82
       
10. EVENTS OF DEFAULT 82
       
  10.1 Listing of Events of Default 82
  10.2 Action if Bankruptcy. 86
  10.3 Action if Other Event of Default 86
       
11. MANDATORY PREPAYMENT EVENTS 86
       
  11.1 Listing of Mandatory Prepayment Events 86
  11.2 Mandatory Prepayment 91
       
12. THE FACILITY AGENT, MANDATED LEAD ARRANGERS AND DOCUMENTATION BANK 92
       
  12.1 Appointment and Duties 92
  12.2 Indemnity 93
  12.3 Funding Reliance, etc. 93
  12.4 Exculpation 94
  12.5 Successor/Replacement. 95
  12.6 Loans by the Facility Agent 96
  12.7 Credit Decisions 97
  12.8 Copies, etc. 97
  12.9 The Facility Agent’s Rights 97
  12.10 The Facility Agent’s Duties 98
  12.11 Employment of Agents 98
  12.12 Distribution of Payments 98
  12.13 Reimbursement 99
  12.14 Instructions 99
  12.15 Payments 99
  12.16 “Know your customer” Checks 100

 

 

 

 

  12.17 No Fiduciary Relationship 100
  12.18 The Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Documentation Bank 100
       
13. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 100
       
  13.1 Waivers and Amendments 100
  13.2 Exercise of Remedies 102
  13.3 Mitigation, Borrower Challenges, etc. 103
  13.4 Notices 104
  13.5 Payment of Costs and Expenses 107
  13.6 Indemnification 108
  13.7 Survival 110
  13.8 Severability 111
  13.9 Execution in Counterparts. 111
  13.10 Successors and Assigns 111
  13.11 Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations 111
  13.12 Other Transactions 119
  13.13 BpiFAE Premium 119
  13.14 Law and Jurisdiction 120
  13.15 Confidentiality 121

  

Schedule A The Original Lenders and Commitments A-1

 

Schedule B Repayment Schedule B-1

 

Schedule C Form of Drawing Request C-1

 

Schedule D Form of Lender Transfer Certificate D-1

 

Schedule E Form of Lender Assignment Agreement E-1

 

Schedule F The Principles F-1

 

Schedule G Information Package G-1

 

Schedule H Silversea Liens and Indebtedness H-1

 

 

 

 

 

THIS FACILITY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated 9 July 2013, as amended and restated on 15 April 2014 and 15 January 2016, as further amended on 27 June 2016, as further amended and restated on 15 August 2019 and as further amended and restated on 6 May 2020, and made between:

 

(1)ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD., a Liberian corporation registered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia under number C-38863, whose registered office is at 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, and whose principal office is at 1050 Caribbean Way, Miami, Florida 33132, United States of America (the “Borrower”);

 

(2)SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, a French société anonyme with its registered office at 29 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France, registered with the Paris trade and companies register under number 552 120 222, acting in its capacity as facility agent for and on behalf of the Finance Parties (the “Facility Agent”);

 

(3)BNP PARIBAS, a French société anonyme with its registered office at 16, boulevard des Italiens, 75009 Paris, France, registered with the Paris trade and companies register under number 662 042 449;

 

(4)HSBC FRANCE, a French société anonyme with its registered office at 103, avenue des Champs Elysées, 75008 Paris, France, registered with the Paris trade and companies register under number 775 670 284 RCS Paris; and

 

(5)SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, a French société anonyme with its registered office at 29 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France, registered with the Paris trade and companies register under number 552 120 222,

 

(each a “Mandated Lead Arranger” and collectively, the “Mandated Lead Arrangers”); and

 

(6)THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule A (The Original Lenders and Commitments) as lenders (the “Original Lenders”).

 

WHEREAS,

 

(A)The Borrower and the Builder have entered into the Construction Contract pursuant to which the Builder has agreed to design, construct, equip, complete, sell and deliver to the Borrower the Purchased Vessel.

 

(B)The Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set out herein, a Euro term loan facility in an amount of up to sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Cash Contract Price of the Purchased Vessel (as adjusted from time to time in accordance with the Construction Contract to reflect, among other adjustments, Change Orders, utilisation of the NYC Allowance and the applicability of the Non-Exercise Premium) and up to one hundred per cent.

 

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  (100%) of the BpiFAE Premium, in an aggregate amount not to exceed the Maximum Loan Amount.

 

(C)Subject to the terms and conditions set out herein, the Loan proceeds (but for this purpose, excluding any deemed advance of the Deferred Tranche) will be provided to (i) the Builder for the purpose of paying a portion of the Cash Contract Price in connection with the Borrower’s purchase of the Purchased Vessel, (ii) the Borrower for the purpose of reimbursing it for Borrower-Paid Change Orders and the amounts expended by it in respect of the Non-Yard Costs and (iii) BpiFAE for the purpose of paying the BpiFAE Premium.

 

(D)The Lenders have also (but without increasing the Maximum Loan Amount and/or the Commitment of each Lender) agreed to make available to the Borrower, upon the terms and conditions contained herein, a Euro loan facility in the amount equal to the aggregate of the principal portion of the repayment installments of the Loan payable on the Repayment Dates (as defined below) falling during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period (as defined below) (the “Deferred Tranche Maximum Loan Amount”). An advance under the Deferred Tranche (as defined below) will be available for the purpose of paying the principal portion of the repayment installment due on each Repayment Date falling during such Advanced Loan Deferral Period. Each advance of the Deferred Tranche will be automatic and notional only, effected by means of a book entry to finance the repayment installment then due.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

1.DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

 

1.1Defined Terms

 

The following terms (whether or not in bold type) when used in this Agreement, including its recitals and Schedules, shall, when capitalised, except where the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:

 

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)” means at any date the Borrower’s accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) on such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

Advanced Loan Deferral Period” means the period between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021 (inclusive).

 

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly, is controlling, controlled by or is under common control with such Person, including such Person’s Subsidiaries.

 

Amendment Agreement No.1” means the amendment agreement in respect of this

 

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Agreement dated 27 June 2016 between amongst others, the Borrower and the Facility Agent, pursuant to which certain amendments were made to this Agreement.

 

Amendment and Restatement No.1” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of this Agreement dated 15 April 2014 between the Borrower, the Facility Agent, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers and the Lenders.

 

Amendment and Restatement No.2” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of this Agreement dated 15 January 2016 between the Borrower, the Facility Agent, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers and the Lenders.

 

Amendment and Restatement No.3” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of this Agreement dated 15 August 2019 between the Borrower, the Facility Agent, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers and the Lenders.

 

Amendment and Restatement No.4” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of this Agreement dated May 2020 between the Borrower, the Facility Agent, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers and the Lenders, pursuant to which this Agreement was amended in connection with, amongst other things, the Principles.

 

Annex VI” means Annex VI of the Protocol of 1997 (as subsequently amended from time to time) to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (Marpol), as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto.

 

Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

 

Applicable Jurisdiction” means the jurisdiction or jurisdictions under which the Borrower is organised, domiciled or resident or from which any of its business activities is conducted or in which any of its properties is located and which has jurisdiction over the subject matter being addressed.

 

Applicable Spot Rate” means the spot rate for any Euros, as calculated by the Borrower and delivered pursuant to Clause 5.1(c) by referencing the last available Euros to Dollars exchange rate quoted on Bloomberg page “€ Currency HP” or its successor page.

 

Approved Appraiser” means any of the following: Barry Rogliano Salles, Paris, H Clarkson & Co. Ltd., London, R.S. Platou Shipbrokers, Norway, or Fearnley AS, Norway.

 

Authorised Officer” means those officers of the Borrower authorised to act with respect to the Finance Documents (including any Drawing Request) and whose signatures and incumbency shall have been certified to the Facility Agent by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower.

 

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Available Commitment” means in relation to any Lender, at any time and save as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Commitment of such Lender (but for this purpose, excluding any Commitment of a Lender in respect of the Deferred Tranche) at such time as reduced by any cancellation, reduction or transfer of such Commitment pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, provided that such amount shall not be less than zero (0).

 

B34 Facility Amendment Date” means 20 March 2018, being the effective date of the third supplemental amendment dated 16 March 2018 to (among other things) a credit facility supported by BpiFAE (pertaining to Hull No. B34) reflecting the alignment of certain provisions and covenants with Borrower’s revolving credit facility refinanced on 12 October 2017.

 

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

 

Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; and (b) in relation to any state other than such an EEA Member Country or (to the extent that the United Kingdom is not such an EEA Member Country) the United Kingdom, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers contained in that law or regulation.

 

Borrower-Paid Change Orders” means any Change Orders to the extent paid for by the Borrower to the Builder prior to the Disbursement Date in accordance with the second sentence of article V(6) of the Construction Contract.

 

BpiFAE” means BpiFrance Assurance Export, the French export credit agency, a French société par action simplifiée à associé unique with its registered office at 27-31, avenue du Général Leclerc, 94710 Maisons-Alfort Cedex, France, registered at the trade and companies registry of Créteil under number 815 276 308 and includes its successors in title or any other person succeeding to BpiFrance Assurance Export in the role as export credit agency of the Republic of France to manage and provide under its control, on its behalf and in its name the public export guarantees as provided by article L 432-1 of the French insurance code.

 

BpiFAE Insurance Policy” means the insurance policy in respect of the Facility (including the Loan) issued by BpiFAE on 7 October 2013 for the benefit of the Lenders as approved and executed by the Facility Agent and the Lenders as at the date of the policy's issuance, as amended by BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.1 and BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2.

 

BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.1” means the amendment to the BpiFAE

 

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Insurance Policy dated 7 May 2014 and issued by BpiFAE following the signature of Amendment and Restatement No.1.

 

BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2” means the amendment to the BpiFAE Insurance Policy to be issued by BpiFAE on or prior to the first deemed drawdown of the Deferred Tranche in accordance with Clause 4.7 (Deferred Tranche Conditions Precedent).

 

BpiFAE Premium” means the premium due to BpiFAE pursuant to the BpiFAE Insurance Policy in the amount set forth in Clause 2.2(a)(ii), payable by the Borrower to the Facility Agent (for the account of BpiFAE).

 

Builder” means Chantiers de l’Atlantique S.A. (formerly STX France S.A.), a French société anonyme with its registered office at Avenue Bourdelle, 44600 Saint-Nazaire, France, registered with the Saint-Nazaire trade and companies register under number 439 067 612.

 

Business Day” means (a) in relation to any date for the payment or purchase of Euros and/or USD, any day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in New York City, London and Paris and which is also a TARGET Day and (b) for all other purposes, any day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in New York City, London and Paris.

 

Capital Lease Obligations” means obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as a capitalised lease.

 

Capitalisation” means, at any date, the sum of (a) Net Debt on such date, plus (b) Stockholders’ Equity on such date.

 

Capitalised Lease Liabilities” means the principal portion of all monetary obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as a capitalised lease, and, for purposes of this Agreement, the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalised amount thereof, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

Cash Contract Price” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Construction Contract.

 

Cash Equivalents” means all amounts other than cash that are included in the “cash and cash equivalents” shown on the Borrower’s balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

Change of Control” means an event or series of events by which:

 

(a)any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as in effect on the execution date of this Agreement, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other

 

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fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as in effect on the execution date of this Agreement, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an “option right”)), directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right); or

 

(b)during any period of 24 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Borrower cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board or equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body.

 

Change Order” has the meaning ascribed to such term in article V(1) of the Construction Contract.

 

CIRR” means the OECD Commercial Interest Reference Rate applicable to the Facility of two point twenty per cent. (2.20%) per annum.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, reformed or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

Commitment” means:

 

(a)in relation to any Original Lender, the amount set forth opposite its name in the relevant column of Schedule A (The Original Lenders and Commitments) and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement;

 

(b)in relation to any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement; and

 

(c)in relation to each Lender, the amount of its Commitment in respect of the Deferred Tranche (as set out in Schedule 1 to Amendment and Restatement No.4), but the liability of each Lender in respect of which shall not, on the basis of the arrangements set out in this Agreement, increase the total commitments of such Lender.

 

Commitment Fee” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Clause 5.4 (Commitment Fee).

 

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Commitments Termination Date” means

 

(a)in respect of the Loan other than the Deferred Tranche, the earliest of:

 

(i)the Disbursement Date (after the Loan as requested in the Drawing Request has been disbursed in accordance with this Agreement);
   
(ii)the Effective Delivery Date;
   
(iii)the date on which all Commitments are cancelled in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
   
(iv)the date on which the Construction Contract is cancelled or terminated in accordance with its terms; and
   
(v)the Longstop Date; and

 

(b)in respect of the Deferred Tranche, 31 March 2021.

 

Construction Contract” means the Contract for Construction and Sale of m.v. ‘Harmony of the Seas’ (ex Hull No. A34) dated 27 December 2012 between the Builder and the Borrower as buyer with respect to the Purchased Vessel, as amended by Addendum No. 1 dated 31 July 2013 between the Builder and the Borrower.

 

Construction Financing” means the financing provided or to be provided to the Builder with respect to the construction of the Purchased Vessel, as arranged by HSBC France and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers with Société Générale as facility agent and as refinanced by the Funding Entity.

 

Covered Taxes” means any Taxes other than (a) franchise taxes and taxes imposed on or measured by any Lender’s or the Funding Entity’s (as applicable) net income or receipts of such Lender or the Funding Entity (as applicable) and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income taxes or taxes on receipts, in each case by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender or the Funding Entity (as applicable) is organised or any political subdivision thereof or the jurisdiction of such Lender’s Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof or any other jurisdiction, except in each case to the extent that such taxes are imposed solely as a result of the Borrower’s activities in any such jurisdiction, and (b) any taxes imposed under FATCA.

 

CP Banks” means the Mandated Lead Arrangers and, if a transfer or assignment is made to Natixis pursuant to Clause 13.11(a)(iv), Natixis.

 

“Debt Incurrence” means any incurrence of indebtedness for borrowed money by the Borrower, whether pursuant to a public offering or a Rule 144A or other private placement of debt securities (including debt securities convertible into equity securities) or an incurrence of loans under any loan or credit facility, or any issuance of bonds, other than:

 

(a)any indebtedness incurred by the Borrower between 1 April 2020 and 31 December 2021 (or such later date as may, with the prior consent of BpiFAE, be agreed between

 

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the Borrower and the Lenders) for the purpose of providing crisis and/or recovery-related funding in connection with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic;

 

(b)any indebtedness incurred in order to finance any capital expenditure of the Borrower in respect of which the Borrower is already committed but, as of the date of the Amendment and Restatement No.4, the Borrower has yet to obtain financing for (which, in each case, will be listed in the Information Package submitted to the Facility Agent (for providing to BpiFAE) prior to the Deferred Tranche Effective Date);

 

(c)indebtedness incurred for the sole purpose of refinancing a maturity payment under any existing loan or credit facility or issued bonds of the Borrower which, in each case, will be listed in the Information Package submitted to the Facility Agent (for providing to BpiFAE) prior to the Deferred Tranche Effective Date;

 

(d)indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in order to meet capital expenditure costs in an aggregate amount not greater than €5,000,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) per annum;

 

(e)indebtedness provided by banks or other financial institutions under the Borrower's senior unsecured revolving credit facilities in an aggregate amount not greater than the commitments thereunder as in effect on the Deferred Tranche Effective Date plus the amount of any existing uncommitted incremental facilities (i.e. any unused accordion) on such facilities; and

 

(f)vessel financings and amendments thereto in respect of vessels for which shipbuilding contracts have been executed on or prior to the Deferred Tranche Effective Date (provided, however, that a refinancing of a vessel financing shall not be included in the carve-out hereunder).

 

There shall be a presumption that any indebtedness incurred by the Borrower between 1 April 2020 and 31 December 2021 shall be for the purpose of providing crisis and/or recovery-related funding unless the intended use of proceeds from such indebtedness are specifically identified to be used for an alternative purpose. In the event there is any question as to whether funding qualifies as "crisis and/or recovery-related", BpiFAE, the Facility Agent and the Borrower shall negotiate a resolution in good faith for a maximum period of fifteen (15) Business Days.

 

Default” means any Event of Default or circumstance which would, with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice or both, become an Event of Default.

 

Deferred Costs Percentage” means 0.25% per annum or such other percentage as may be agreed by the Facility Agent and the Borrower prior to the Deferred Tranche Effective Date.

 

Deferred Tranche” means the advances deemed to be made by the Lenders under this Agreement from time to time during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed the Deferred Tranche Maximum Loan Amount or, as the case may be,

 

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the aggregate outstanding amount of such advances from time to time.

 

Deferred Tranche Effective Date” has the meaning given to it in Amendment and Restatement No.4.

 

Deferred Tranche Maximum Loan Amount” has the meaning given to it in Recital (D).

 

Delivery Installment” means the final Installment described in article II(3)(e) of the Construction Contract.

 

Designated Cruise Brand” means any cruise brand in which the Borrower owns an equity interest as of the Deferred Tranche Effective Date (other than a cruise brand wholly owned by the Borrower) and a “Designated Person” shall mean any person other than the Borrower who holds at least 30% of the outstanding equity of a Designated Cruise Brand.

 

Disbursement Date” means the date on which the Loan (but for this purpose excluding the Deferred Tranche) is to be made under this Agreement, which shall be the Effective Delivery Date.

 

Documentation Bank” means BNP Paribas, but which role is, as at the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, no longer applicable for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents.

 

Dollars”, “USD” and the sign “$” mean the lawful currency of the United States.

 

Drawing Request” means the loan drawing request duly executed by an Authorised Officer, substantially in the form of Schedule C (Form of Drawing Request).

 

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

 

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

 

Effective Delivery Date” means the date on which the Purchased Vessel is delivered to, and accepted by, the Borrower under the Construction Contract.

 

Eligible Portion” means the portion of the Cash Contract Price (or any portion thereof, as applicable) to be paid to the Builder under the Construction Contract that is attributable to goods and services purchased by the Borrower which are of:

 

(a)French origin; or

 

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(b)foreign origin (i.e., originating from countries other than France and Liberia and including transport and insurances of any nature),

 

in either case which are eligible for financing under the limits and under the conditions determined by the French Authorities and which have been approved for financing by the French Authorities.

 

Environmental Approval” means any permit, licence, approval, ruling, certification, exemption or other authorisation required under applicable Environmental Laws.

 

Environmental Laws” means all applicable federal, state, local or foreign statutes, laws, ordinances, codes, rules and regulations (including consent decrees and administrative orders) relating to the protection of the environment.

 

EONIA” means (a) the overnight money market rate, expressed as an annual percentage, determined by the European Central Bank on the basis of the information provided to it by the main market operators in relation to the transactions concluded on the relevant TARGET Day, as displayed, under the aegis of the Banking Federation of the European Union (EBF), on the Reuter page “RIC” or “EONIA” screen (or on any other page or screen replacing them) at 11.00 am (Brussels time) on the following TARGET Day or (b) if the rate provided in paragraph (a) is not available for that period, the arithmetic mean (rounded upward to four (4) decimal places) of the rates as supplied to the Facility Agent at its request quoted by the References Banks as being the overnight money market rate on commercial paper offered to leading banks in the European interbank market on the TARGET Day in question.

 

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities) but excluding any debt securities convertible into such Equity Interests.

 

Equity Issuance” means any issuance of Equity Interests by the Borrower, whether pursuant to a public offering or a Rule 144A or other private placement, other than:

 

(a)issuances pursuant to employee and/or director stock plans in the ordinary course and consistent with past practice;

 

(b)employee and/or director compensation plans in the ordinary course and consistent with past practice;

 

(c)issuances between 1 April 2020 and 31 December 2021 (or such later date as may, with the prior consent of BpiFAE, be agreed between the Borrower and the Lenders) for the purpose of providing crisis and recovery-related funding; and

 

(d)shares of the Borrower’s common stock issued by the Borrower to a Designated Person

 

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  solely to satisfy existing earn-out obligations and/or to acquire outstanding equity securities of a Designated Cruise Brand that is named or identified in the BpiFAE Insurance Policy (or any amendment of it) held by such Designated Person.

 

There shall be a presumption that equity issued by the Borrower between 1 April 2020 and 31 December 2021 shall be for the purpose of providing crisis and recovery-related funding unless the intended use of proceeds from such issuance is specifically identified to be used for an alternative purpose. In the event there is any question as to whether funding qualifies as "crisis and/or recovery-related", BpiFAE, the Facility Agent and the Borrower shall negotiate a resolution in good faith for a maximum period of fifteen (15) Business Days.

 

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

 

EURIBOR” means, for any period:

 

(a)the applicable Screen Rate; or

 

(b)if no Screen Rate is available for that period, the arithmetic mean (rounded upward to four (4) decimal places) of the rates as supplied to the Facility Agent at its request quoted by the References Banks to leading banks in the European interbank market,

 

in each case as of 11:00 a.m. (Paris time) on the Quotation Date for the offering of deposits in Euros for a period comparable to such period, provided that, if such period is:

 

(i)shorter than one (1) month, the reference period shall be one (1) month; and
   
(ii)longer than one (1) month and does not correspond to an exact number of months, the relevant rate shall be determined by using a linear interpolation of EURIBOR according to usual practice in the international monetary market,

 

and, if any such rate is below zero (0), EURIBOR shall be deemed to be zero (0).

 

Euro Equivalent” means any USD amount converted into a corresponding EUR amount using the average rate of currency hedges entered into by the Borrower for payment of the Cash Contract Price, as properly documented in the Drawing Request to the reasonable satisfaction of the Facility Agent.

 

Euros”, “EUR” and the sign “” mean the single currency of the Participating Member States.

 

Event of Default” means any of the events or circumstances specified as such in Clause 10.1 (Listing of Events of Default).

 

Existing Principal Subsidiaries” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a Principal Subsidiary on the date of this Agreement.

 

Facility” means the term loan facility granted to the Borrower by the Lenders pursuant

 

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to Clause 2.1 (The Facility).

 

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 U.S. and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph (a) above; or

 

(c)any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. 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 U.S.), 1 January 2014; and

 

(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 to this Agreement that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.

 

Fee Letter” means any fee letter entered into between the Borrower and the Facility Agent as referred to in Clause 5.5 (Other Fees), and including the fee letters entered into in connection with Amendment and Restatement No.4.

 

Final Maturity Date” means (a) in respect of the Loan (other than the Deferred Tranche) the date that is twelve (12) years after the Starting Date of Repayment, namely 12 May 2028 and (b) in respect of the Deferred Tranche, 12 November 2024.

 

Finance Documents” means this Agreement, Amendment Agreement No.1, the Amendment and Restatement No.1, the Amendment and Restatement No.2, the Amendment and Restatement No.3, the Amendment and Restatement No.4, each of the Fee Letters, the Drawing Request and any other document designated as such in writing by the Facility Agent and the Borrower.

 

Finance Parties” means the Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Facility Agent and the Lenders.

 

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Fiscal Quarter” means any quarter of a Fiscal Year.

 

Fiscal Year” means any annual fiscal reporting period of the Borrower.

 

Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, as of the end of any Fiscal Quarter, the ratio computed for the period of four (4) consecutive Fiscal Quarters ending on the close of such Fiscal Quarter of:

 

(a)net cash from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP) for such period, as shown in the Borrower’s consolidated statement of cash flow for such period, to

 

(b)the sum of:

 

(i)dividends actually paid by the Borrower during such period (including, without limitation, dividends in respect of preferred stock of the Borrower); plus
   
(ii)scheduled payments of principal of all debt less New Financings (determined in accordance with GAAP, but in any event including Capitalised Lease Liabilities) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period.

 

Fixed Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the aggregate of (a) the CIRR and (b) the Fixed Rate Margin.

 

Fixed Rate Margin” means (a) zero point forty per cent. (0.40%) per annum if disbursement of the Loan occurs on or before the Margin Step-Up Date and (b) zero point fifty per cent. (0.50%) per annum if disbursement of the Loan occurs after the Margin Step-Up Date.

 

Floating Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the aggregate of (a) EURIBOR and (b) the Floating Rate Margin.

 

Floating Rate Margin” means (a) one point fifteen per cent. (1.15%) per annum if disbursement of the Loan occurs on or before the Margin Step-Up Date and at all times in respect of any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche and (b) one point twenty five per cent. (1.25%) per annum if disbursement of the Loan (excluding the Deferred Tranche) occurs after the Margin Step-Up Date.

 

French Authorities” means the Direction Générale du Trésor of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, any successors thereto, or any other governmental authority in or of France involved in the provision, management or regulation of the terms, conditions and issuance of export credits including, among others, such entities to whom authority in respect of the extension or administration of export financing matters have been delegated, such as BpiFAE and Natixis DAI.

 

F.R.S. Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any successor thereto.

 

Funded Loan Portion” means all or any portion of the Loan (and for this purpose

 

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including, from the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, the Deferred Tranche) in respect of which the Funding Entity has funded one or more of the Lenders pursuant to the Funding Agreement and which is outstanding.

 

Funding Agents” means the Funding Coordination Agent and the Funding Paying Agent.

 

Funding Agreement” means the funding agreement entered into on or about the date of this Agreement between the Funding Entity, the Funding Agents and the Lenders in their capacities as borrowers thereunder, as amended by the Funding Agreement Amendment No.1 and the Funding Agreement Amendment No.2.

 

Funding Agreement Amendment No.1” means the amendment to the Funding Agreement entered into on or about the date of the Amendment and Restatement No.1 between the Funding Entity, the Funding Agents and the Lenders in their capacities as borrowers thereunder.

 

Funding Agreement Amendment No.2” means the amendment to the Funding Agreement entered into on or about the date of the Amendment and Restatement No.4 between the Funding Entity, the Funding Agents and the Lenders in their capacities as borrowers thereunder.

 

Funding Coordination Agent” means HSBC France or any successor or assign of HSBC France in such capacity as permitted under the Funding Agreement.

 

Funding Date” means the date on which the Funding Entity makes available the drawing under the Funding Agreement to Société Générale (in its capacity as Funding Paying Agent).

 

Funding Entity” means the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, a special establishment created by French law dated 28 April 1816 and having its offices at 56, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France, or any successor or assign thereof as permitted under the Funding Agreement.

 

Funding Losses” means any amounts payable by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 6.6 (Funding Losses).

 

Funding Paying Agent” means Société Générale or any successor or assign of Société Générale in such capacity as permitted under the Funding Agreement.

 

Funds Flow Agreement” means the funds flow agreement (convention portant sur des flux des paiements), dated 31 July 2013, between the Funding Entity, the Funding Paying Agent, the Facility Agent, the Borrower, the Builder, the agent under the Construction Financing, the paying agent under the refinancing of the Construction Financing and the funding entity under the refinancing of the Construction Financing, as amended by the Funds Flow Amendment.

 

Funds Flow Amendment” means the amendment to the Funds Flow Agreement dated 15 April 2014 entered into between the parties to the Funds Flow Agreement and the USD Facility Agent on behalf of the USD Facility Finance Parties.

 

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GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time.

 

Government-related Obligations” means obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower under, or Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower to satisfy obligations under, any governmental requirement imposed by any Applicable Jurisdiction that must be complied with to enable the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to continue their business in such Applicable Jurisdiction, excluding, in any event, any taxes imposed on the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower.

 

Hedging Instruments” means options, caps, floors, collars, swaps, forwards, futures and any other agreements, options or instruments substantially similar thereto or any series or combination thereof used to hedge interest, foreign currency and commodity exposures.

 

IFRS” means international accounting standards within the meaning of the IAS Regulation 1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements.

 

Indebtedness” means, for any Person:

 

(a)obligations created, issued or incurred by such Person for borrowed money (whether by loan, the issuance and sale of debt securities or the sale of property to another Person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise, to repurchase such property from such Person);

 

(b)obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase or acquisition price of property or services, other than (i) trade accounts payable (other than for borrowed money) arising, and accrued expenses incurred, in the ordinary course of business so long as such trade accounts payable are payable within one hundred eighty (180) days of the date the respective goods are delivered or the respective services are rendered and (ii) any purchase price adjustment, earnout or deferred payment of a similar nature incurred in connection with an acquisition (but only to the extent that no payment has at the time accrued pursuant to such purchase price adjustment, earnout or deferred payment obligation);

 

(c)Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on the property of such Person, whether or not the respective indebtedness so secured has been assumed by such Person;

 

(d)obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit or similar instruments issued or accepted by banks and other financial institutions for the account of such Person;

 

(e)Capitalised Lease Liabilities of such Person;

 

(f)guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, up to the amount of Indebtedness so guaranteed;

 

(g)obligations of such Person in respect of surety bonds and similar obligations; and

 

(h)liabilities arising under Hedging Instruments.

 

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Information Package” means the general test scheme/information package in connection with the application for a debt holiday in the form of Schedule G (Information Package) submitted or to be submitted (as the case may be) by the Borrower in order to obtain the benefit of the measures provided for in the Principles for the purpose of this Agreement and certain of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

Initial Basic Cash Contract Price” has the meaning ascribed to such term in article II(2) of the Construction Contract.

 

Installments” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Construction Contract.

 

Interest Period” means the period starting on (and including) the relevant Starting Date of Repayment and ending on (but not including) the first Repayment Date following such date (as the same may be adjusted pursuant to Clause 6.10(d)), and subsequently each succeeding period starting on (and including) the immediately preceding Repayment Date (as the same may be adjusted pursuant to Clause 6.10(d)) and ending on (but not including) the next Repayment Date (as the same may be adjusted pursuant to Clause 6.10(d)).

 

Investment Grade” means, with respect to Moody’s, a Senior Debt Rating of Baa3 or better and, with respect to S&P, a Senior Debt Rating of BBB- or better.

 

Lender” means:

 

(a)any Original Lender; and

 

(b)any New Lender which has become a party hereto in accordance with Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations),

 

which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

Lender Assignment Agreement” means any Lender Assignment Agreement substantially in the form of Schedule E (Form of Lender Assignment Agreement).

 

Lender Transfer Certificate” means any Lender Transfer Certificate substantially in the form of Schedule D (Form of Lender Transfer Certificate).

 

Lending Office” means, relative to any Lender, the office or offices notified by such Lender to the Facility Agent and the Borrower in writing on or before the date on which it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five (5) Business Days’ written) notice as the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

Lien” means any security interest, mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or otherwise), charge against or interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation or other priority or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.

 

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Lien Basket Amount” is defined in Section 9.3(d).

 

Loan” means at any time the aggregate principal amount of the Facility disbursed to the Borrower and/or another Person at the request of the Borrower under this Agreement in an aggregate amount not to exceed the Maximum Loan Amount (and including for this purpose, the Deferred Tranche Maximum Loan Amount) or, as the case may be, the aggregate principal amount of such disbursement outstanding.

 

Longstop Date” means the two hundred and seventieth (270th) day following the Original Scheduled Delivery Date, being 24 January 2017.

 

Mandatory Prepayment Event” means any of the events or circumstances specified as such in Clause 11.1 (Listing of Mandatory Prepayment Events).

 

Margin” means (a) if the interest rate applicable to the Loan is calculated by reference to the CIRR, the Fixed Rate Margin and (b) in respect of any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche, or where the interest rate applicable to the Loan is otherwise calculated by reference to EURIBOR, the Floating Rate Margin.

 

Margin Step-Up Date” means the one hundred and eightieth (180th) day following the Original Scheduled Delivery Date, being 26 October 2016.

 

Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the rights and remedies of any Finance Party under this Agreement or (c) the ability of the Borrower to perform its payment Obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents.

 

Material Litigation” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Clause 7.8 (Litigation).

 

Maximum Loan Amount” means the aggregate of the Original Lenders’ Commitments, being seven hundred thirteen million seven hundred eighty thousand seven hundred and twelve Euros (EUR 713,780,712), and which for this purpose shall include the Commitments in respect of the Deferred Tranche.

 

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

 

Mortgage” means the first priority ship mortgage to be granted by the Borrower in connection with the Construction Financing.

 

Natixis” means Natixis, a French société anonyme with its registered office at 30, avenue Pierre Mendès France, 75013 Paris, France, registered with the Paris Commercial and Companies Registry under number 542 044 524 RCS Paris.

 

Natixis DAI” means Natixis DAI Direction des Activités Institutionnelles.

 

Net Debt” means, at any time, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all debt

 

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(including, without limitation, Capitalised Lease Liabilities) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP) less the sum of (without duplication);

 

(a)all cash on hand of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; plus

 

(b)all Cash Equivalents.

 

Net Debt to Capitalisation Ratio” means, as at any date, the ratio of (a) Net Debt on such date to (b) Capitalisation on such date.

 

New Financings” means proceeds from:

 

(a)borrowed money (whether by loan or issuance and sale of debt securities), including drawings under this Agreement and any revolving credit facilities of the Borrower, and

 

(b)the issuance and sale of equity securities.

 

New Lender” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations).

 

Non-Exercise Premium” has the meaning ascribed to such term in article II(2) of the Construction Contract.

 

Non-Yard Costs” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Construction Contract.

 

 

NYC Allowance” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Construction Contract.

 

Obligations” means all obligations (payment or otherwise) of the Borrower arising under or in connection with this Agreement and the other Finance Documents.

 

Organic Document” means, relative to the Borrower, its articles of incorporation (inclusive of any articles of amendment to its articles of incorporation) and its by-laws.

 

Original Scheduled Delivery Date” means 29 April 2016.

 

Other Vessel” means a passenger cruise vessel (other than the Purchased Vessel) owned by the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries.

 

Participating Member State” means any member of the European Community that at the relevant time has adopted the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.

 

Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, firm, association, trust, government, governmental agency or any other entity, whether acting in an individual, fiduciary or other capacity.

 

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Poseidon Principles” means the financial industry framework for assessing and disclosing the climate alignment of ship finance portfolios published in June 2019 as the same may be amended or replaced to reflect changes in applicable law or regulation or the introduction of or changes to mandatory requirements of the International Maritime Organisation from time to time.

 

Principal Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that owns a Vessel (while it owns such Vessel).

 

Principles” means the document titled "Cruise Debt Holiday Principles" and dated 6 April 2020 in the form of Schedule F (The Principles), which document sets out certain key principles and parameters relating to, amongst other things, the temporary suspension of repayments of principal in connection with certain qualifying Loan Agreements (as defined therein) and being applicable to BpiFAE-covered loan agreements such as this Agreement.

 

Purchased Vessel” means the passenger cruise vessel, ‘Harmony of the Seas’, bearing Builder’s hull number A34 constructed or to be constructed pursuant to the Construction Contract.

 

Quotation Date” means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined, two (2) TARGET Days before the first day of that period.

 

Reference Banks” means BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale or such other banks as may be appointed by the Facility Agent with the consent of the Borrower (such consent not being unreasonably withheld).

 

Repayment Date” means (a) in relation to the Loan (excluding the Deferred Tranche) each of the dates specified in Part A of Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) and (b) in relation to the Deferred Tranche, each of the dates specified in Part B of Schedule B (Repayment Schedule), in each case as such Schedule B was substituted on the Deferred Tranche Effective Date.

 

Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders that in the aggregate, hold more than sixty six point sixty six per cent. (66.66%) of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loan or, if no such principal amount is then outstanding, Lenders that in the aggregate have more than sixty six point sixty six per cent. (66.66%) of the Commitments.

 

Resolution Authority” means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.

 

Restricted Payments” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property (other than Equity Interests), with respect to any Equity Interests in the Borrower, or any share buy-back program or other payment (whether in cash, securities or other property (other than Equity Interests)), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests in the Borrower.

 

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The

 

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McGraw-Hill Financial Inc.

 

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

 

Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

 

Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, or any person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons, or (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country.

 

Scheduled Delivery Date” means, at any time, the Original Scheduled Delivery Date or such other date which, at such time, is the date specified for delivery of the Purchased Vessel under the Construction Contract, as the same may be modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract.

 

Screen Rate” means the euro interbank offered rate administered by the Banking Federation of the European Union (or any other Person which takes over the administration of that rate) for the relevant period displayed on page EURIBOR01 of the Reuters screen (or any replacement Reuters page which displays that rate) or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrower.

 

SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any successor thereto.

 

Statement of Compliance” means a Statement of Compliance related to fuel oil consumption pursuant to regulations 6.6 and 6.7 of Annex VI.

 

Starting Date of Repayment” means (a) in respect of the Loan (but for this purpose excluding the Deferred Tranche) the Disbursement Date or, if the Disbursement Date is different from the Funding Date due to the Loan being made within five (5) Business Days of the Funding Date as contemplated by Clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery), the Funding Date and (b) in respect of the relevant portion of the Deferred Tranche, the date upon which such portion of the Deferred Tranche was deemed to be advanced pursuant to Clause 3.7 (and being the date of the relevant Repayment Date falling during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period).

 

Stockholders’ Equity” means, as at any date, the Borrower’s stockholders’ equity on

 

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such date, excluding Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), determined in accordance with GAAP, provided that any non-cash charge to Stockholders’ Equity resulting (directly or indirectly) from a change after the date hereof in GAAP or in the interpretation thereof shall be disregarded in the computation of Stockholders’ Equity such that the amount of any reduction thereof resulting from such change shall be added back to Stockholders’ Equity.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any entity of which more than fifty per cent. (50%) of the outstanding voting capital or similar right of ownership is, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person, by such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person, or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person.

 

TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET2 is open for the settlement of payments in Euros.

 

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.

 

Tax” and “tax” means all present or future taxes (of any nature and however termed), levies, fiscal charges, imposts, duties, fees, assessments, surcharges or other charges of whatever nature and however arising which are now or at any time hereafter imposed, assessed, charged, levied, collected, demanded, withheld or claimed by any government or taxing authority, together with all interest thereon and penalties or similar liabilities with respect thereto, and “Taxes”, “taxes”, “taxing” and “taxation” shall be construed accordingly.

 

Transaction Documents” means, collectively, the Finance Documents, the Funds Flow Agreement, the Funds Flow Amendment, the Funding Agreement, the Funding Agreement Amendment No.1, the Funding Agreement Amendment No.2 and the Construction Contract.

 

Transfer Date” means, in relation to a valid transfer or a valid assignment by a Lender pursuant to Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations), the later of:

 

(a)the proposed “Transfer Date” specified in the relevant Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, as applicable; and

 

(b)the date on which the Facility Agent executes the relevant Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, as applicable.

 

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 of Directive 2014/59/EU) 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).

 

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United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America, its fifty States and the District of Columbia.

 

USD Facility” means the USD facility under the USD Facility Agreement.

 

USD Facility Agent” means Société Générale in its capacity as facility agent for the USD Facility Finance Parties (as such role was transferred to it by MUFG Bank, Ltd. (previously known as The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.) on 30 January 2020).

 

USD Facility Agreement” means the facility agreement dated 15 April 2014, as amended by the USD Facility Amendment No.1, USD Facility Amendment No. 2 and USD Facility Amendment No.3, originally between the Borrower, the USD Facility Agent, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as documentation bank, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Banco Santander, S.A. and KfW Ipex-Bank GmbH as mandated lead arrangers and the USD Facility Lenders.

 

USD Facility Amendment and Restatement No.1” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of the USD Facility Agreement dated 15 January 2016 between the Borrower, the USD Facility Agent, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as documentation bank, The Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Banco Santander, S.A. and KfW Ipex-Bank GmbH as mandated lead arrangers and the USD Facility Lenders.

 

USD Facility Amendment and Restatement No. 2” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of the USD Facility Agreement dated 15 August 2019 between the Borrower, the USD Facility Agent, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as documentation bank, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Banco Santander, S.A. and KfW Ipex-Bank GmbH as mandated lead arrangers and the USD Facility Lenders.

 

USD Facility Amendment and Restatement No. 3” means the amendment and restatement agreement in respect of the USD Facility Agreement dated May 2020 between the Borrower, the USD Facility Agent, Banco Santander, S.A. and KfW Ipex-Bank GmbH as mandated lead arrangers and the USD Facility Lenders, pursuant to which the USD Facility Agreement was amended in connection with, amongst other things, the Principles.

 

USD Facility Amendment No. 1” means the amendment agreement in respect of the USD Facility Agreement dated 27 June 2016 between the Borrower, the USD Facility Agent, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as documentation bank, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Banco Santander, S.A. and KfW Ipex-Bank GmbH as mandated lead arrangers and the USD Facility Lenders.

 

USD Facility Finance Parties” means the parties to the USD Facility Agreement (other than the Borrower).

 

USD Facility Lenders” means the Persons who are from time to time lenders under the USD Facility Agreement.

 

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VAT” means:

 

(a)any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and

 

(b)any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in paragraph (a) above, or imposed elsewhere.

 

Vessel” means the Purchased Vessel and any Other Vessel.

 

Unfunded Loan Portion” means all or any portion of the Loan (including, from the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, the Deferred Tranche) in respect of which one or more of the Lenders no longer has funds from the Funding Entity pursuant to the Funding Agreement.

 

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

 

1.2Interpretation

 

(a)Unless a contrary indication appears, any references in this Agreement to:

 

(i)(or to any specified provision of) this Agreement or any other agreement or document shall be construed as references to this Agreement or that other agreement or document or that provision as in force for the time being and as amended, supplemented, modified, varied or novated from time to time;

 

(ii)Clauses, paragraphs and Schedules are to be construed as references to the clauses and paragraphs of, and schedules to, this Agreement and references to this Agreement include its Schedules;

 

(iii)any Person (including any party hereto or to any other agreement) shall, where the context permits, include such Person’s successors, permitted transferees and permitted assigns;

 

(iv)any law, enactment or other statutory provision shall be deemed to include

 

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    references to such law, enactment or other statutory provision as re-enacted, amended, extended, consolidated or replaced and any orders, decrees, proclamations, regulations, instruments or other subordinate legislation made thereunder;

 

(v)assets” include present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description;

 

(vi)continuing” and “continuation” mean, in relation to a Default, an Event of Default or a Mandatory Prepayment Event, where such event has not been remedied or waived or the circumstances giving rise to such event have not ceased to exist;

 

(vii)control” mean the possession by one Person, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of another Person, whether through the ownership of voting shares, by contract or otherwise, and references to “controlling” and “controlled by” shall be construed accordingly;

 

(viii)day” or “days” (rather than “Business Day” or “Business Days”) mean calendar day(s);

 

(ix)faute lourde or dol” shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of France and the published case law of the French courts;

 

(x)gross negligence or “wilful misconduct” shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of England;

 

(xi)hereof”, “herein”, “hereto” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import mean this Agreement as a whole and not any particular part hereof; and

 

(xii)include”, “includes”, “including” and other words of similar import mean without limitation.

 

(b)Unless a contrary indication appears therein, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement.

 

(c)Unless a contrary indication appears herein or in any other Finance Document:

 

(i)words (including terms used to refer to any of the relevant parties) importing the plural shall include the singular and vice versa; and

 

(ii)words importing any gender shall be construed as including every gender.

 

(d)Clause, paragraph and Schedule headings herein are for ease of reference only.

 

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1.3Third Party Rights

 

(a)Unless expressly provided to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Finance Document, a Person who is not a party hereto or thereto (as the case may be) has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term hereof or thereof (as the case may be).

 

(b)Unless expressly provided to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the consent of any person who is not a party hereto or thereto (as the case may be) is not required to rescind or vary this Agreement or such other Finance Document (as the case may be) at any time.

 

1.4Accounting and Financial Determinations

 

Unless otherwise specified, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations and computations hereunder or thereunder (including under Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition)) shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder or thereunder shall be prepared, in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (or, if not consistently applied, accompanied by details of the inconsistencies); provided that if the Borrower elects to apply or is required to apply IFRS accounting principles in lieu of GAAP, upon any such election and notice to the Facility Agent, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS (except as otherwise provided in this Agreement); provided further that if, as a result of (a) any change in GAAP or IFRS or in the interpretation thereof or (b) the application by the Borrower of IFRS in lieu of GAAP, in each case, after the date of any financial statements referred to in Clause 8.1 (Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.), there is a change in the manner of determining any of the items referred to herein or thereunder that are to be determined by reference to GAAP, and the effect of such change would (in the reasonable opinion of the Borrower or the Facility Agent) be such as to affect the basis or efficacy of the financial covenants contained in Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) in ascertaining the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the Borrower notifies the Facility Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate such change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), then such item shall for the purposes of Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) continue to be determined in accordance with GAAP relating thereto as if GAAP were applied immediately prior to such change in GAAP or in the interpretation thereof until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all obligations of any person that are or would be characterized as operating lease obligations in accordance with GAAP on the B34 Facility Amendment Date (whether or not such operating lease obligations were in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as operating lease obligations for the purposes of this Agreement regardless of any change in GAAP following the B34 Facility Amendment Date that would otherwise require such obligations to be recharacterized (on a prospective or retroactive basis or otherwise) as capital leases.

 

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2.THE FACILITY AND COMMITMENTS

 

2.1The Facility

 

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Borrower a term loan credit facility in Euros in a maximum aggregate amount equal to the Maximum Loan Amount.

 

2.2Purpose

 

(a)Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Facility shall be used by the Borrower as follows:

 

(i)to partially finance (or, in the case of those portions of the Loan to be disbursed directly to the Borrower in accordance with the terms hereof, refinance) the purchase of the Purchased Vessel by paying an aggregate maximum of sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Eligible Portion of the Cash Contract Price of the Purchased Vessel, limited to the aggregate of up to:

 

(A)sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Eligible Portion of the Initial Basic Cash Contract Price of the Purchased Vessel (which price is, for purposes of this Clause, capped at nine hundred twenty three million five hundred thousand Euros (EUR 923,500,000)), to the Builder;

 

(B)sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Eligible Portion of the Non-Exercise Premium, if any (which premium (if any) is, for purposes of this Clause, capped at twenty million Euros (EUR 20,000,000)), to the Builder;

 

(C)sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Eligible Portion of the aggregate cost of Change Orders effected in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract (which aggregate cost is, for purposes of this Clause, capped at forty six million one hundred and seventy five thousand Euros (EUR 46,175,000)), to (and in such order of priority):

 

(I)first, with respect to all Change Orders other than Borrower-Paid Change Orders, the Builder; and

 

(II)secondly, with respect to any Borrower-Paid Change Orders, the Borrower; and

 

(D)sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Eligible Portion of the NYC Allowance which has been utilised in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract (which allowance is, for purposes of this Clause, capped at one hundred million Euros (EUR 100,000,000)), to the Borrower; provided that any portion of the NYC Allowance attributable to Non-Yard Costs that have been invoiced in accordance with the Construction Contract in USD shall have been converted into

 

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    the applicable Euro Equivalent; and

 

(ii)to pay one hundred per cent. (100%) of the BpiFAE Premium to the Facility Agent for the account of BpiFAE in accordance with Clause 13.13 (BpiFAE Premium) in an amount of up to sixteen million three hundred eighty eight seven hundred and twelve Euros (EUR 16,388,712).

 

(b)No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(c)The Deferred Tranche shall be deemed to be made available for the purpose set out in Recital (D) and, accordingly, the other provisions of this Clause 2.2 (Purpose) shall not apply to the proceeds of the Deferred Tranche.

 

2.3Commitments of the Lenders

 

(a)On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement (including Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent)), each Lender severally agrees to make its participation in the Loan (other than in respect of the Deferred Tranche) available to the Facility Agent, without any set-off, counterclaim or deduction, on the Disbursement Date through such Lender’s Lending Office.

 

(b)The amount of each Lender’s participation in the Loan (excluding the Deferred Tranche) will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Commitment to the available Facility, but in no case shall a Lender be obliged to lend more than its Commitment.

 

(c)The Facility Agent shall notify each Lender of the amount of the Loan and the amount of its participation in the Loan not later than 1:00 p.m. (Paris time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed Disbursement Date.

 

(d)Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set out in Clause 4.7 (Deferred Tranche Conditions Precedent), each Lender shall be deemed to have made available its Commitment in respect of the relevant portion of the Deferred Tranche (as set out in Schedule 1 of Amendment and Restatement No.4) on the relevant Repayment Date falling during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period and, accordingly, the remaining provisions of this clause 2.3, and of Clauses 2.4 to 2.8 (inclusive), shall not apply in respect of the deemed advances of the Deferred Tranche. The Commitments in respect of the Deferred Tranche shall automatically terminate on the date referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of the Commitments Termination Date.

 

2.4Voluntary Cancellation

 

(a)At any time prior to the tenth (10th) Business Day before the Scheduled Delivery Date, subject to the Borrower paying any due and unpaid fees (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Finance Parties’ legal fees required hereunder, the

 

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 Commitment Fee and any fees under the Fee Letters), and provided that the Borrower provides evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent and the Funding Entity that it has the adequate financial resources available to it to pay all sums contractually due to the Builder at the delivery of the Purchased Vessel, the Borrower may, without liability for any Funding Losses, premium or penalties, provide written notice to the Facility Agent (of which the Facility Agent shall notify BpiFAE and the Funding Entity) that the Borrower elects to cancel all or part of the available Facility, and such cancellation shall become effective on the earlier of the tenth (10th) Business Day after such notice has been provided to the Facility Agent and the Scheduled Delivery Date.

 

(b)Any cancellation under this Clause 2.4 (Voluntary Cancellation) shall (i) reduce the Commitments of the Lenders ratably (provided that, if the Borrower cancels up to twenty per cent. (20%) of the Facility in accordance with paragraph (a) above within four (4) months of the date of this Agreement (or such longer period as the Facility Agent, acting on the instructions of the Mandated Lead Arrangers, acting reasonably, may agree prior to the expiration of such four (4) month period) for purposes of creating a separate USD facility to be used for purposes of financing the acquisition of the Purchased Vessel, then Natixis shall maintain its participation percentage in the Loan as originally transferred or assigned to it pursuant to Clause 13.11(a)(iv)) and (ii) be irrevocable.

 

(c)The Borrower shall notify the Facility Agent in writing of any cancellation of the available USD Facility and shall not cancel all or part of the available USD Facility without providing evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent and the Funding Entity that it has the adequate financial resources available to it to pay all sums contractually due to the Builder at the delivery of the Purchased Vessel.

 

2.5Cancellation due to Lender Illegality

 

(a)If, prior to the Disbursement Date, it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for any Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement, any other Finance Document and/or the Funding Agreement, then such Lender shall promptly notify the Facility Agent upon becoming aware of such event and the Facility Agent shall then notify the Borrower.

 

(b)Upon the Borrower being so notified, the Commitments of such affected Lender shall be cancelled.

 

2.6Delayed Delivery

 

(a)If, after the Borrower has provided a Drawing Request, the delivery of the Purchased Vessel is delayed beyond the date contemplated by such Drawing Request, such Drawing Request shall remain valid for five (5) Business Days. At 3:00 p.m. (Paris time) on the (5th) such Business Day (the “Request Withdrawal Time”), if the Loan has not been made (and therefore the Disbursement Date has not occurred), the Drawing Request shall be deemed withdrawn (except for the Borrower’s election

 

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 of the interest rate applicable to the Loan as set forth in the initial Drawing Request). After the Request Withdrawal Time, the Borrower shall be permitted to submit another Drawing Request upon ascertaining the revised delivery schedule for the Purchased Vessel, and the Borrower shall be permitted to repeat the process described in this Clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery) as necessary (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the disbursement of the Loan be made after the Commitments Termination Date).

 

(b)The Borrower shall pay during any such delays (other than a delay where the Loan is made prior to the Request Withdrawal Time, in which case interest shall accrue on the Loan in accordance with Clause 5.3 (Interest Provisions)) an amount equal to interest calculated at the rate equal to the difference (if positive) between (i) the Floating Rate and (ii) EONIA for the period from (and including) the proposed Disbursement Date specified in the delayed Drawing Request until (and excluding) the earlier of the Commitments Termination Date and, if relevant, the date on which the delayed Drawing Request is deemed withdrawn pursuant to paragraph (a) above.

 

(c)During any such delays, the Borrower shall diligently keep the Facility Agent informed as to the progress of the Purchased Vessel’s construction and finalisation and the expected timing of its delivery.

 

2.7Automatic Cancellation

 

(a)If, prior to receipt by the Facility Agent of the Drawing Notice, it becomes illegal for the Funding Entity to perform its obligations under the Funding Agreement in respect of any Lender, then the Available Commitments of that Lender shall be automatically cancelled without liability for the Borrower for any Funding Losses, premium or penalties.

 

(b)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, all Available Commitments shall be automatically cancelled and terminated on the Commitments Termination Date. So long as the Borrower has either not served a Drawing Request or has borrowed the full amount requested in its Drawing Request, any such cancellation and termination of the Available Commitments shall not itself result in liability for the Borrower for any Funding Losses, premium or penalties.

 

2.8Cancellation for Non–Exercise Premium

 

(a)The Commitments shall be automatically reduced by an amount equal to sixty four per cent. (64%) of the Non-Exercise Premium (as such premium is capped pursuant to Clause 2.2(a)(i)(B)) if the Non-Exercise Premium does not become payable in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract. Any reduction shall take effect on the date on which the Non-Exercise Premium ceases to be payable in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract.

 

(b)Any cancellation under this Clause 2.8 (Cancellation for Non-Exercise Premium) shall (i) reduce the Commitments of the Lenders ratably and (ii) be irrevocable.

 

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2.9Construction Contract

 

The parties to this Agreement acknowledge that, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Finance Documents or any other documents executed in connection herewith or therewith, none of the Finance Parties shall have any responsibility or liability whatsoever regarding any performance or non-performance by any party to the Construction Contract and that (other than in their capacity as a finance party under the Construction Financing pursuant to the documents executed by them in connection therewith) no Finance Party shall have any right or obligation to intervene in any dispute in connection with or arising out of such performance or non- performance and any such dispute shall not entitle the Borrower or any of its Affiliates to any claim towards any Finance Party.

 

2.10Independence of Borrower’s Obligations

 

The Borrower acknowledges that its obligations under this Agreement, including its obligation to repay the Loan, are independent of the Construction Contract, and this Agreement and the performance by the Borrower of its obligations hereunder shall not be invalidated, suspended or limited in any way by any termination, rescission, cancellation, invalidation, non-performance or non-completion of the Construction Contract or any other contract, agreement or arrangement relating thereto (other than the Finance Documents) or any dispute or claim between the Borrower and/or the Builder and/or any suppliers and/or any other third parties under or in connection with the Construction Contract, or any defence thereto, or any insolvency proceedings relating to the Builder or any other Person.

 

2.11Finance 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 Borrower shall be a separate and independent debt.

 

(c)A Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents, separately enforce its rights under the Finance Documents.

 

3.DISBURSEMENT PROCEDURES; BORROWER’S PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS

 

3.1Availability of Facility

 

(a)Subject to clause 3.7, the Facility shall be made available to the Borrower in one (1) disbursement.

 

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(b)Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, the Facility shall be available for drawing by the Borrower on any Business Day on or prior to the Commitments Termination Date.

 

3.2Delivery of a Drawing Request

 

The Borrower may utilise the Facility by delivery of a duly completed Drawing Request to the Facility Agent at or before 10:00 a.m. (Paris) time, not less than seven (7) Business Days in advance of the Scheduled Delivery Date of the Purchased Vessel. The Facility Agent shall promptly notify each Lender and the Funding Entity of any Drawing Request by forwarding a copy thereof to each Lender and the Funding Entity, together with its attachments.

 

3.3Completion of a Drawing Request

 

(a)Subject to Clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery), a Drawing Request is irrevocable.

 

(b)A Drawing Request will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

 

(i)it is signed and delivered by an Authorised Officer;

 

(ii)the currency and amount of the requested disbursement comply with Clause 3.4 (Currency and Amount of Disbursement); and

 

(iii)all supporting documentation described therein is provided to the Facility Agent together with such Drawing Request.

 

3.4Currency and Amount of Disbursement

 

(a)The currency of the disbursement requested in the Drawing Request shall be Euros.

 

(b)The amount of the Loan shall be the amount specified in the Drawing Request.

 

(c)The Drawing Request shall not request a disbursement for more than the aggregate of the Available Commitments.

 

3.5Disbursement

 

(a)Without prejudice to the Lenders’ obligations under Clause 2.3 (Commitments of the Lenders), the Loan shall, on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, be made on the Business Day specified in the Drawing Request. To the extent that funds are received by the Facility Agent from the Lenders pursuant to Clause 2.3 (Commitments of the Lenders), the Facility Agent shall, without any set-off, counterclaim or deduction and subject to Clause 12.3 (Funding Reliance, etc.), make such funds available to the Borrower on the Business Day specified in the Drawing Request by wire transfer of same day funds to the account or accounts the Borrower shall have specified in its Drawing Request.

 

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(b)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Lender and the Facility Agent may fulfill its obligation to make or continue the Loan hereunder by causing the Funding Entity to fund the Loan to the Facility Agent, and the Loan shall nonetheless be deemed to have been made by the Facility Agent on behalf of the Lenders and to be held by the Lenders, and the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loan shall nevertheless be to the Lenders.

 

3.6Borrower’s Payment Instructions

 

The Lenders shall not be obliged to make the Facility available except in the apportionments set out in Clause 2.2 (Purpose). Accordingly, the Borrower hereby irrevocably instructs the Facility Agent, upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent) and subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, to disburse the proceeds of the Loan in accordance with the apportionment set out in Clause 2.2 (Purpose).

 

3.7Deemed Advance of Deferred Tranche

 

Any advance under the Deferred Tranche shall be automatically made available in the manner contemplated by Recital (D) and, accordingly, other than this Clause 3.7, the other provisions of Clause 3 shall not apply to a deemed advance of any part of the Deferred Tranche, and all references to Loan and/or the Facility in the remainder of this Clause 3 shall be deemed to exclude the Deferred Tranche.

 

4.CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

4.1Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness

 

The entry into force of this Agreement is subject to the condition that, on or prior to the date hereof, the Facility Agent shall have confirmed in writing to the Borrower and the other Finance Parties that it has received (or waived in writing) the following documents and evidence, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent:

 

(a)Resolutions, etc.

 

(i)a certificate of the Borrower’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary as to the incumbency of the Borrower’s Authorised Officers (including a specimen of each such Authorised Officer’s signature) and as to the truth and completeness and continuing force and effect of the attached:

 

(A)resolutions of the Borrower’s Board of Directors authorising the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each other Finance Document (including for the avoidance of doubt any Drawing Request); and

 

(B)Organic Documents of the Borrower,

 

upon which certificate the Lenders may conclusively rely until they shall have received a further certificate of

 

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the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Borrower canceling or amending such prior certificate; and

 

(ii)a Certificate of Good Standing issued by the relevant Liberian authorities in respect of the Borrower;

 

(b)Finance Documents

 

this Agreement and each Fee Letter, in each case duly executed by each of the parties hereto and thereto;

 

(c)Opinions of Counsel

 

opinions, addressed to:

 

(i)the Facility Agent, each Original Lender, each Mandated Lead Arranger, the Documentation Bank and the Funding Entity, from:

 

(A)Watson Farley & Williams LLP, counsel to the Borrower, as to Liberian law; and

 

(B)White & Case LLP, counsel to the Lenders, as to English law; and

 

(ii)the Facility Agent, each Original Lender, each Mandated Lead Arranger and the Documentation Bank, from White & Case LLP, United States tax counsel to the Lenders, as to the U.S. tax treatment and the U.S. tax consequences for the Lenders of the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents,

 

each of which shall also be in form and substance satisfactory to the Mandated Lead Arrangers;

 

(d)Process Agent Appointment

 

evidence that the Borrower’s process agent described in Clause 13.14(d) has accepted its appointment;

 

(e)Funding Agreement

 

an original of the Funding Agreement duly executed by each of the parties thereto, and evidence that the Funding Agreement is in full force and effect;

 

(f)Funding Entity’s Security

 

an original of each acknowledgement, consent or other agreement of the Borrower (in each case duly executed by an Authorised Officer) with respect to any delegation, pledge or assignment by the Lenders of their rights under the Finance Documents in favour of the Funding Entity, in each case in the form agreed with the Borrower prior to the execution of this Agreement; and

 

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(g)Funds Flow Agreement

 

the substantially agreed form of the Funds Flow Agreement.

 

4.2Conditions Precedent to Disbursement

 

The obligations of the Lenders to fund the Loan (excluding the Deferred Tranche) and of the Facility Agent to disburse the Loan on the Disbursement Date are subject to the Facility Agent’s receipt (or waiver in writing), prior to or concurrently with the disbursement of the Loan, of the following documents, information, evidence and confirmations, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent:

 

(a)Resolutions, etc.

 

(i)a certificate of the Borrower’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary as to the continuing truth, completeness, force and effect of the documents described in Clause 4.1(a)(i), upon which certificate the Lenders may conclusively rely until they shall have received a further certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Borrower canceling or amending such prior certificates; and

 

(ii)a Certificate of Good Standing issued by the relevant Liberian authorities in respect of the Borrower;

 

(b)Drawing Requests

 

(i)a Drawing Request satisfying the requirements of Clause 3.3 (Completion of a Drawing Request); and

 

(ii)the drawing request under the USD Facility Agreement.

 

(c)Opinions of Counsel

 

opinions, addressed to the Facility Agent, each Lender, each Mandated Lead Arranger, the Documentation Bank and the Funding Entity, from:

 

(i)Watson Farley & Williams LLP, counsel to the Borrower, updating the opinion as to Liberian law provided under Clause 4.1(c)(i);

 

(ii)White & Case LLP, counsel to the Lenders, as to English law (if required); and

 

(iii)any other counsel the opinion of which the Lenders’ external legal counsel reasonably advises,

 

each of which shall also be in form and substance satisfactory to the CP Banks;

 

(d)Fees, Expenses, etc.

 

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evidence that the Facility Agent shall have received all duly invoiced fees that the Borrower shall have agreed in writing to pay to the Facility Agent (whether for its own account or for the account of any of the other Finance Parties, including under any Fee Letter) that are due and payable as of the Disbursement Date and all invoiced and documented expenses of the Finance Parties (including the agreed fees and expenses of counsel to the Finance Parties) required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 13.5 (Payment of Costs and Expenses) or that the Borrower has otherwise agreed in writing to pay to the Finance Parties, in each case on or prior to the Disbursement Date;

 

(e)Representations and Warranties, no Default, no Mandatory Prepayment Event, etc.

 

confirmation that, both before and after giving effect to the disbursement of the Loan, the following statements shall be true and correct:

 

(i)the representations and warranties set forth in Clause 7 (Representations and Warranties) (other than Clause 7.10(b) (Obligations rank pari passu; Liens), Clause 7.11 (Withholding, etc.) and Clause 7.17 (Construction Contract) are true and correct in all material respects (except for any such representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or the non-existence of a Material Adverse Effect, which are true and correct in all respects), in each case by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing; and

 

(ii)no Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event, and no event which (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice or both) will become a Mandatory Prepayment Event, has occurred and is continuing or is reasonably likely to occur upon the disbursement of the Loan;

 

(f)Construction Contract

 

(i)originals of:

 

(A)a certificate signed by an Authorised Officer, certifying as true and complete an attached copy of the Construction Contract duly signed by the Borrower and the Builder;

 

(B)a certificate of an Authorised Officer and an authorised officer of the Builder, specifying the date on which the Construction Contract entered into force and confirming that it remains in full force and effect in accordance with its terms and has not been suspended, repudiated, invalidated, terminated or cancelled (in whole or in part);

 

(C)a written confirmation by the Builder, countersigned by the Borrower, of the aggregate amount of the Non-Yard Costs accounted by the Builder;

 

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(D)a written confirmation by the Builder, countersigned by the Borrower, of the aggregate amount of the signed Change Orders; and

 

(E)a power of attorney or other signing authorities for the Builder’s authorised officers who are signing any documentation on its behalf; and

 

(ii)a copy of the protocol of delivery and acceptance under the Construction Contract, duly signed by the Borrower and the Builder and certified as true by the Borrower;

 

(g)Commercial Invoice and Proof of Past Payments

 

(i)an original duly executed invoice from the Builder containing a breakdown of the Delivery Installment, with details of the payments already made to the Builder under, or of the financed portion of:

 

(A)the Basic Cash Contract Price;

 

(B)the Non-Exercise Premium (if any);

 

(C)the aggregate amount of the Change Orders payable to the Builder, or reimbursable to the Borrower (Borrower-Paid Change Orders); and

 

(D)the aggregate amount of the utilised NYC Allowance to be reimbursed to the Borrower;

 

(ii)copies of credit advices or bank statements from the Builder’s bank, duly certified as true by the Builder, evidencing that all Installments (other than the Delivery Installment) and all other amounts required to be paid under the Construction Contract have been paid by the Borrower to the Builder, and received by the Builder, in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract; and

 

(iii)evidence establishing the average rate of currency hedges entered into by the Borrower for payment in Dollars of the Non-Yard Costs; and

 

(h)No Liens

 

evidence that no Lien, other than the Mortgage, is recorded over the Purchased Vessel.

 

(i)Delivery Installment

 

confirmation by the facility agent under the Construction Financing of receipt of the funds corresponding to 20% of the Delivery Installment.

 

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4.3Additional Conditions Precedent to Disbursement

 

The obligations of the Lenders to fund the Loan (excluding the Deferred Tranche) and of the Facility Agent to disburse the Loan on the Disbursement Date are subject to the Facility Agent being satisfied that:

 

(a)BpiFAE Insurance Policy

 

the BpiFAE Insurance Policy is in full force and effect (subject only to the full payment of the BpiFAE Premium) and has not been suspended, repudiated, terminated, invalidated or cancelled (in whole or in part), which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the CP Banks;

 

(b)Funding Agreement

 

(i)the Funding Agreement has not been repudiated, terminated or cancelled, in whole or in part, provided that this condition shall not apply if such repudiation, termination or cancellation (as the case may be) is due to the gross negligence or wilful misconduct under the Funding Agreement of one or more Finance Parties; and

 

(ii)the Funding Entity has disbursed all funds under the Funding Agreement that are required for the Lenders to make the Loan under this Agreement; and

 

(c)BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment

 

the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment is in form and substance satisfactory to the CP Banks and is approved and executed by and between BpiFAE, the Facility Agent and the Lenders.

 

4.4Form of Conditions Precedent

 

(a)For purposes of the entry into force of this Agreement, each of the documents and evidence described in Clause 4.1 (Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness) shall be received by the Facility Agent in original, hard copy or electronic copy format; provided that (i) only originals of the duly executed Funding Agreement and each of the documents described in Clause 4.1(f) (Funding Entity’s Security) shall be acceptable to the Facility Agent and (ii) the parties agree to use reasonable efforts to ensure that any other documents and/or evidence accepted by the Facility Agent in hard copy or electronic copy format shall be replaced by originals thereof promptly following the date of this Agreement.

 

(b)For purposes of the funding and disbursement of the Loan, each of the documents and evidence described in Clause 4.2 (Conditions Precedent to Disbursement) shall be received by the Facility Agent in original, hard copy or electronic copy format; provided that:

 

(i)whereas a hard copy or electronic copy of the duly executed Drawing Request

 

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and all supporting documentation described therein shall be acceptable to the Facility Agent for purposes of Clause 3.2 (Delivery of a Drawing Request), the Borrower shall deliver originals thereof to the Facility Agent prior to the disbursement of the Loan;

 

(ii)only originals of the certificates, confirmations and power of attorney described in Clause 4.2(f)(i) (Construction Contract) and the invoice described in Clause 4.2(g)(i) (Invoice and Proof of Past Payments) shall be acceptable to the Facility Agent for purposes of satisfying such conditions; and

 

(iii)the parties agree to use reasonable efforts to ensure that any other documents and/or evidence accepted by the Facility Agent in copy or electronic format shall be replaced by originals thereof promptly following the Disbursement Date.

 

4.5Facility Agent’s Responsibility

 

(a)The Facility Agent shall provide the Borrower with an original of any document executed by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 4.1(f) (Funding Entity’s Security), in each case duly executed by all parties thereto.

 

(b)The Facility Agent’s responsibility for examination of the documents presented pursuant to this Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent) shall be limited to establishing that they appear on their face to comply with the documents specified above within the meaning of article 14a of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (2007 Revision) of the International Chamber of Commerce (Publication nr. 600). For the avoidance of doubt, documents which appear on their face to be inconsistent with one another shall not be considered to be in order.

 

(c)The Facility Agent shall not be liable for any delay in the making of the Loan occasioned by any request which it may make for information or documentation referred to in this Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent) or by any reasonable request it may make for clarification in case of material discrepancies or material missing information in relation to the documents referred to in this Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent).

 

(d)With respect to the conditions precedent set forth in Clause 4.2(e) (Representations and Warranties, no Default, no Mandatory Prepayment Event, etc.) to (h) (No Liens), the Facility Agent may (but is not required to) rely on information provided by the Borrower, including the information set forth in the Drawing Request.

 

(e)Paragraphs (b) and (d) above apply as between the Finance Parties only and do not affect or change in any way the rights and obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents and do not, directly or indirectly, result in any increased or additional cost or liability to the Borrower.

 

4.6Waiver

 

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The conditions specified in this Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent) are solely for the benefit of the Lenders and may be waived on their behalf in whole or in part and with or without conditions by the Facility Agent (upon instructions from all Lenders in the case of Clause 4.1 (Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness) and instructions from the Required Lenders in all other cases) with, to the extent required as determined by the Facility Agent, the consent of BpiFAE and the Funding Entity, provided that any waiver of or in respect of the conditions specified in Clause 4.1(e) (Funding Agreement) or Clause 4.1(g) (Funds Flow Agreement) shall be subject to the prior written consent of the Borrower.

 

4.7Deferred Tranche Conditions Precedent

 

The Deferred Tranche shall only be advanced pursuant to Clause 3.7 (Deemed Advance of Deferred Tranche) and Recital (D) if prior to the date of the first such advance, the Facility Agent shall have received (in a form and substance satisfactory to it):

 

(a)the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2 duly signed and issued in respect of the Deferred Tranche either (i) in an original with ‘wet-ink’ signature(s) or (ii) if the execution of an original of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2 is not practicable at the relevant time (having regard to the logistical difficulties caused by COVID-19), electronically signed and initialled, together with written confirmation from BpiFAE confirming that (A) Bpifrance Assurance Export agrees that this manner of signature is acceptable and (B) by this signing process the parties shall be bound by the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2, and in each case, BpiFAE shall not have, prior to any deemed advance of the Deferred Tranche, delivered to the Facility Agent any notice seeking the cancellation, suspension or termination of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2 or the suspension of the deemed advance of the Deferred Tranche under this Agreement;

 

(b)an opinion from Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, counsel to the Facility Agent and the Lenders, on matters relating to the conformity of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2 issued by BpiFAE in accordance with paragraph (a) above with the arrangements relating to the Deferred Tranche set out in this Agreement;

 

(c)written confirmation from BpiFAE that the Borrower has paid any additional BpiFAE Premium then due and payable in respect of the issuance of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy Amendment No.2 referred to in paragraph a) above (and as contemplated by Clause 5.3 of Amendment and Restatement No.4);

 

(d)written confirmation from the Borrower that no Mandatory Prepayment Event under Clauses 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) or 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles) has occurred and is continuing;

 

(e)an executed copy of the Funding Agreement Amendment No.2, together with evidence that the Funding Agreement (as amended) is in full force and effect; and

 

(f)an executed copy of each acknowledgement, consent or other agreement of the

 

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Borrower (in each case duly executed by an Authorised Officer or an attorney in fact or other authorised signatory of the Borrower) with respect to any delegation, pledge or assignment by the Lenders of their rights under the Finance Documents in favour of the Funding Entity in connection with the Funding Agreement Amendment No.2, in each case in the form agreed with the Borrower prior to the execution of Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 4.

 

5.REPAYMENTS, PREPAYMENTS, INTEREST AND FEES

 

5.1Repayments

 

(a)Subject to paragraph (b) below (which it is acknowledged that as of the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, did not apply), the Borrower shall repay (i) the Loan (but for this purpose excluding the Deferred Tranche) in the installments and on the dates set out in Part A of Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) and (ii) the Deferred Tranche, in the installments and on the dates set out in Part B of Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) (in each case as such Schedule B was substituted on the Deferred Tranche Effective Date).
(b)(i) Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) has been prepared as at the date of this Agreement on the assumptions that:

 

(A)the Disbursement Date will be the Original Scheduled Delivery Date;

 

(B)the principal amount of the Loan advanced under this Agreement will be the Maximum Loan Amount; and

 

(C)the Loan will not be prepaid in whole or in part.

 

(ii)If any of these assumptions proves to be incorrect then, as soon as reasonably practicable, the Facility Agent shall, in consultation with the Borrower and the Funding Entity, prepare a substitute Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) on the same basis as the existing Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) but reflecting the correct Disbursement Date, amount of the Loan advanced or, as the case may be, principal amount of the Loan outstanding after any such prepayment.

 

(iii)The Facility Agent shall provide the Lenders, the Borrower and the Funding Entity with a copy of the substitute Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) promptly following its preparation and in any event at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the first or, as applicable, next Repayment Date.

 

(iv)Upon the receipt by the Lenders and the Borrower of the substitute Schedule B (Repayment Schedule), subject to there being no manifest error therein, such substitute schedule will replace the existing Schedule B (Repayment Schedule) and all repayments of the Loan will, subject to the further application of clause (i) above, be made in accordance with the substitute Schedule B (Repayment Schedule).

 

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(c)
(i)If with respect to any date on which an amount of principal and/or interest is due and payable by the Borrower under this Agreement (the “EUR Amount”) and an amount of principal and/or interest is due and payable by the Borrower under the USD Facility Agreement (the “USD Amount”), the Borrower becomes aware that it will be making a payment that is not sufficient to pay in full both the EUR Amount and the USD Amount (a “Short Payment”), the Borrower shall inform the Facility Agent and the USD Facility Agent thereof in advance in writing and shall share the Short Payment such that each of the Facility Agent and the USD Facility Agent receives the payment to be made to it under each of the Agreement and the USD Facility Agreement on a pro rata and pari-passu basis as provided in paragraph (ii) below.

 

(ii)Such pro rata and pari-passu payment shall be made by reference to the then outstanding principal amount of the Loan and the then outstanding principal amount of the loan under the USD Facility Agreement (after converting the same into EUR at the Applicable Spot Rate on that date).

 

(iii)The Borrower only (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not the Finance Parties or the USD Finance Parties) shall be responsible for the ongoing monitoring of the pro- rata and pari-passu payment share so that any Short Payment is made on a pro rata and pari-passu basis between the Lenders and the USD Facility Lenders. If the Borrower fails to comply with the provisions of this Clause 5.1(c), no Finance Party shall be required to repay to the Borrower or to any USD Facility Finance Party any amount received from the Borrower as payment for the EUR Amount or the USD Amount, as the case may be.

 

(iv)On the date on which the Borrower makes a Short Payment it shall provide reasonable written details to each of the Facility Agent and the USD Facility Agent of (A) the then outstanding principal amount of the Loan and the then outstanding principal amount of the loan under the USD Facility Agreement (converted into EUR at the Applicable Spot Rate on that date) and (B) how it calculated the apportionment of the Short Payment, including a screen shot of the Applicable Spot Rate.

 

(v)The provisions of this Clause 5.1(c) are not to be regarded as a waiver by any Finance Party of any failure by the Borrower to pay in full any EUR Amount on the relevant due date and the compliance by the Borrower with the provisions of this Clause 5.1(c) will not in any way preclude the application of the provisions of Clause 10.1(a) (Non-Payment of Obligations) if the full amount of the relevant payment is not made within the applicable remedy period.

 

(d)No amounts repaid by the Borrower under this Agreement may be reborrowed by the Borrower.

 

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(e)Upon the occurrence of the Starting Date of Repayment (but for this purpose excluding the Starting Date of Repayment in respect of any part of the Deferred Tranche) in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Facility Agent shall notify such date to the Borrower and the USD Facility Agent.

 

5.2Prepayment

 

(a)The Borrower:

 

(i)may, from time to time on any Business Day, make a voluntary prepayment, in whole or in part, of the outstanding principal amount of the Loan; provided that:

 

(A)any such voluntary prepayment shall require:

 

(I)           if the Loan is accruing interest at the Fixed Rate, at least forty five (45) days’ prior written notice to the Facility Agent; and

 

(II)         if the Loan is accruing interest at the Floating Rate, at least fifteen (15) days’ prior written notice to the Facility Agent,

 

each of which notice shall be irrevocable and shall be promptly forwarded by the Facility Agent to the Lenders and (if the Funding Agreement is then in effect) the Funding Entity and the Funding Agents and (if the Fixed Rate applies) Natixis DAI; and

 

(B)any such voluntary partial prepayment shall be in a minimum amount of five million Euros (EUR 5,000,000) (or the remaining amount of the Loan) and a multiple of one million Euros (EUR 1,000,000) and shall (except as provided in the BpiFAE Insurance Policy) be applied against the outstanding repayment installments of the Loan set out in Schedule B (Repayment Schedule), in the inverse order of the maturity thereof, save that where there is an outstanding amount of the Deferred Tranche, any such prepayment shall first be applied against the Deferred Tranche and either in inverse order of maturity or ratably across the remaining installments of the Deferred Tranche (as the Borrower shall designate in writing); and

 

(ii)shall, immediately upon any acceleration of the repayment of the installments of the Loan pursuant to Clause 10.2 (Action if Bankruptcy) or Clause 10.3 (Action if Other Event of Default) or the mandatory prepayment of the Loan pursuant to Clause 11.2 (Mandatory Prepayment), repay the Loan or, in the case of a Mandatory Prepayment Event arising pursuant to Clauses 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) or 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles), repay the Deferred Tranche, together with all accrued and unpaid interest on the Loan or the Deferred Tranche (as applicable) and, other than in the case of a Mandatory Prepayment Event arising pursuant to Clauses 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) or 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles), all other Obligations payable to the Finance

 

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Parties.

 

(b)Each prepayment of the Loan (including any prepayment of the Deferred Tranche) made in accordance with this Clause 5.2 (Prepayment) shall be subject to the payment of any Funding Losses but otherwise without any premium or penalty, provided that no Funding Losses shall be payable in connection with any such prepayment if the Floating Rate applies and such prepayment is made on the last day of an Interest Period.

 

(c)No amounts prepaid by the Borrower pursuant to this Clause 5.2 (Prepayment) may be reborrowed by the Borrower.

 

5.3Interest Provisions

 

Interest on the outstanding principal amount of the Loan shall accrue and be payable in accordance with this Clause 5.3 (Interest Provisions).

 

(a)Rates

 

(i)The Loan (but for this purpose excluding any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche) shall accrue interest from the Starting Date of Repayment to the date of repayment or prepayment of the Loan in full to the Lenders at the rate (which shall be the Fixed Rate or the Floating Rate) elected by the Borrower pursuant to paragraph (b) below, provided that, with respect to any period from (and including) the proposed Disbursement Date specified in a Drawing Request that is delayed pursuant to Clause 2.6(a) until (and excluding) the Disbursement Date, the Loan (excluding, from the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche) shall accrue interest at a rate equal to the difference (if positive) between (i) the Fixed Rate or the Floating Rate, as applicable (as elected by the Borrower pursuant to paragraph (b) below), and (ii) EONIA for such period.

 

(ii)The drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche shall accrue interest from the first Repayment Date to fall during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period (or, in the case of a further advance in respect of the Deferred Tranche after the first advance and in respect of that further advance, from the relevant Repayment Date in respect of the Loan to which that further advance of the Deferred Tranche relates) to the date of repayment or prepayment of the Deferred Tranche in full to the Lenders at the Floating Rate. The first deemed advance and the second deemed advance in respect of the Deferred Tranche shall be consolidated at, and run concurrently from, the time of the making of the second advance and interest on the advances in respect of the Deferred Tranche shall be payable on each Repayment Date.

 

(iii)Interest accrued on the Loan and the drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche shall, subject to paragraph (d) below, be payable semi-annually in arrears on

 

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the Repayment Dates set out in the relevant part of Schedule B (Repayment Schedule). The Loan (including any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche) shall bear interest on a day-to-day basis during each Interest Period at the interest rate determined hereunder as being applicable to the Loan.

 

(b)Election of Interest Rate

 

(i)The Borrower shall elect to pay interest on the Loan at the Fixed Rate or the Floating Rate, after which such elected interest rate shall apply to the Loan.

 

(ii)Such election shall be made in the initial Drawing Request provided by the Borrower and, regardless of the application of Clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery) (if applicable), such election shall be irrevocable.

 

(iii)It is agreed that this paragraph (b) shall not apply to the Deferred Tranche, and that any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche shall accrue interest at the Floating Rate notwithstanding the absence of any election pursuant to this paragraph (b).

 

(c)Post-Maturity Rates

 

After the date on which any principal amount of the Loan is due and payable (whether on any Repayment Date, upon acceleration or otherwise), or after any other monetary Obligation of the Borrower shall have become due and payable (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Commitment Fee or any fee payable under any Fee Letter), the Borrower shall pay on first demand, but only to the extent permitted by relevant and applicable law, interest (after as well as before judgment) on such amounts for each day during the period of such default at a rate per annum equal to:

 

(i)with respect to any Funded Loan Portion, the sum of the Fixed Rate or Floating Rate, as applicable, plus two per cent. (2.0%) per annum; and

 

(ii)with respect to any other monetary Obligation, the sum of EONIA plus three point fifteen per cent. (3.15%) per annum.

 

(d)Interest Payment Dates

 

(i)Without prejudice to paragraph (c) above or clause (ii) below, interest accrued on the Loan shall be payable, without duplication, on:

 

(A)each Repayment Date;

 

(B)the date of any prepayment, in whole or in part, of principal outstanding on the Loan (but only on the principal so prepaid); and

 

(C)with respect to any portion of the Loan the repayment of which is accelerated pursuant to Clause 10.2 (Action if Bankruptcy) or Clause

 

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  10.3 (Action if Other Event of Default), immediately upon such acceleration.

 

(ii)Interest accrued on the Loan or any other monetary Obligation arising under or in connection with this Agreement after the date such amount is due and payable (whether upon acceleration or otherwise) shall be payable upon demand.

 

5.4Commitment Fee

 

(a)Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Facility Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee (the “Commitment Fee”) on the daily Available Commitment of each Lender equal to:

 

(i)zero point fifteen per cent. (0.15%) per annum for the period commencing on (and including) the date hereof and ending on (but excluding) the earlier of the date falling two (2) years prior to the Original Scheduled Delivery Date (the “First Calculation Period End Date”, being 29 April 2014) and the Commitments Termination Date;

 

(ii)if the Commitments Termination Date has not occurred prior to the First Calculation Period End Date, zero point twenty five per cent. (0.25%) per annum for the period commencing on (and including) the First Calculation Period End Date and ending on (but excluding) the earlier of the date falling one (1) year prior to the Original Scheduled Delivery Date (the “Second Calculation Period End Date”, being 29 April 2015) and the Commitments Termination Date; and

 

(iii)if the Commitments Termination Date has not occurred prior to the Second Calculation Period End Date, zero point thirty per cent. (0.30%) per annum for the period commencing on (and including) the Second Calculation Period End Date and ending on (but excluding) the Commitments Termination Date.

 

(b)The Commitment Fee shall be payable by the Borrower to the Facility Agent for the account of each Lender in arrear as from the date of this Agreement on (i) the date falling six (6) months after the date hereof, (ii) the last day of each six (6) month period thereafter ending prior to the Commitments Termination Date and (iii) the Commitments Termination Date.

 

(c)The other provisions of this Clause 5.4 shall not (but without prejudice to any Commitment Fee that has been paid by the Borrower to the Lenders prior to the Deferred Tranche Effective Date) apply to any Lender’s Commitment in respect of the Deferred Tranche, in respect of which the Borrower agrees to pay to the Facility Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee on the basis, and at the times, set out in a Fee Letter to be entered into on or about the date of Amendment and Restatement No.4.

 

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5.5Other Fees

 

The Borrower agrees to pay to the Facility Agent the fees set forth in the Fee Letters on the dates and in the amounts set forth therein.

 

5.6Calculation Basis

 

All interest and fees under the Finance Documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Commitment Fee and any fee payable under any Fee Letter, and excluding any “flat” fees) shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year comprised of three hundred and sixty (360) days.

 

5.7Currency

 

All payments by the Borrower under the Finance Documents shall be made in Euros. The Borrower 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.

 

6.EURIBOR-RELATED PROVISIONS; FUNDING LOSSES; INCREASED CAPITAL COSTS; TAXES; RESERVE COSTS; PAYMENTS; ETC.

 

6.1EURIBOR Determination; Replacement Reference Banks

 

(a)Where the Floating Rate applies in respect of any Funded Loan Portion (including any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche), the determination of EURIBOR made by the Funding Entity pursuant to the Funding Agreement as notified to the Borrower by the Facility Agent shall be applicable for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

(b)In respect of any Unfunded Loan Portion, the Facility Agent shall obtain from each Reference Bank timely information for the purpose of determining EURIBOR in the event that EURIBOR is to be determined pursuant to paragraph (b) of the definition thereof. If any one or more of the Reference Banks shall fail to furnish in a timely manner such information to the Facility Agent, the Facility Agent shall determine EURIBOR on the basis of the information furnished by the remaining Reference Banks. If a Reference Bank ceases for any reason to be able and willing to act as such, the Facility Agent shall, at the direction of the Required Lenders and after consultation with the Borrower and the Lenders (and, if the Funding Agreement is then in effect, subject to the Funding Entity’s approval), appoint a replacement for such Reference Bank reasonably acceptable to the Borrower, and such replaced Reference Bank shall cease to be a Reference Bank hereunder. The Facility Agent shall furnish to the Borrower and to the Lenders each determination of EURIBOR made by reference to quotations of interest rates furnished by Reference Banks.

 

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6.2EURIBOR Lending Unlawful

 

If, after the date hereof, the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law makes it unlawful, or any central bank or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over any Lender or the Funding Entity asserts that it is unlawful for such Lender or the Funding Entity to make, continue or maintain the Loan (including the Deferred Tranche), its participation therein or the refinancing under the Funding Agreement (as applicable) bearing interest at a rate based on EURIBOR, then the obligation of such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, to make, continue or maintain its participation in the Loan or the refinancing under the Funding Agreement (as applicable) shall, upon notice thereof to the Borrower, the Facility Agent and each other Lender (in the case of the Funding Entity, either directly or through the Funding Agents), forthwith be suspended until the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist, provided that such Lender’s obligation to make, continue and maintain its participation in the Loan hereunder shall be automatically converted into an obligation to make, continue and maintain its participation in the Loan bearing interest at a rate to be negotiated between such Lender and the Borrower (and, if the Funding Agreement is then in effect, approved by the Funding Entity) that is the equivalent of the sum of EURIBOR for the relevant Interest Period plus the Floating Rate Margin.

 

6.3Market Disruption in respect of a Funded Loan Portion

 

(a)The provisions of paragraph (b) below shall apply in respect of any Funded Loan Portion (including in respect of any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche) to which the Floating Rate applies.

 

(b)If the Funding Entity makes a claim pursuant to clause 13 (Modifications du Calcul des Intérêts) of the Funding Agreement, the Facility Agent shall promptly deliver the details of such claim to the Borrower and the Borrower shall pay promptly to the Facility Agent for onward payment to the Funding Entity the amount so claimed by the Funding Entity.

 

(c)Save for the claims of the Funding Entity referred to in paragraph (b) above, the Lenders shall not be entitled to make any claim for market disruption for Funded Loan Portions.

 

(d)The Facility Agent shall use reasonable efforts to obtain from the Funding Entity the relevant supporting details, and solely if such details are provided by the Funding Entity shall they be provided to the Borrower.

 

6.4Market Disruption in respect of an Unfunded Loan Portion

 

(a)The provisions of paragraph (b) below shall apply in respect of any Unfunded Loan Portion (including in respect of any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche) to which the Floating Rate applies.

 

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(b)If:

 

(i)at or about noon (Paris time) on the Quotation Date for the relevant Interest Period, the Screen Rate is not available and none or only one of the Reference Banks supplies a rate to the Facility Agent to determine EURIBOR (for the purposes of paragraph (b) of such definition) for Euros for the relevant Interest Period; or

 

(ii)before close of business in Paris, France on the Quotation Date for the relevant Interest Period, the Facility Agent receives a duly evidenced notification from one or more Lenders whose aggregate participations in the Unfunded Loan Portion exceed forty two point five per cent. (42.5%) of the Loan (excluding the participation of any Lender who is participating in the Unfunded Loan Portion by reason of its funding under the Funding Agreement having been suspended, repudiated, terminated or cancelled, in whole or in part, due to its gross negligence or wilful misconduct (an “excluded Lender”) and subject to the respective participations of the other Lenders participating in the Unfunded Loan Portion being notionally and proportionally increased to account for such disqualification of the excluded Lender’s participation) that the cost to them of obtaining matching deposits in the European interbank market for the relevant Interest Period would be in excess of EURIBOR,

 

then in any such case the Facility Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to the Borrower and each of the Lenders together with copies of each of the notices and evidence provided to the Facility Agent pursuant to clause 6.4(b)(i) and/or 6.4(b)(ii) above (hereinafter called a “Market Disruption Notice”).

 

(c)Upon the issuance of a Market Disruption Notice pursuant to paragraph (b)(i) above, the rate of interest on any affected Lender’s participation in the Unfunded Loan Portion for the relevant Interest Period shall (after consultation with the Facility Agent and the other Lenders) be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of the Floating Rate Margin and the rate notified to the Facility Agent and the Borrower by such Lender as soon as practicable and in any event before the close of business in France on the second (2nd) Business Day after the Quotation Date, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in the Unfunded Loan Portion for the relevant Interest Period from whatever source it may reasonably select, the details of which shall be stated in that Lender’s notice; and

 

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(d)Upon the issuance of a Market Disruption Notice pursuant to paragraph (b)(ii) above, the rate of interest on each affected Lender’s participation in the Unfunded Loan Portion for the relevant Interest Period shall (after consultation with the Facility Agent and the other Lenders) be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of the Floating Rate Margin and a rate that is the weighted average (in proportion to each affected Lender’s participation in the Unfunded Loan Portion) of the rates notified to the Facility Agent and the Borrower by each of the affected Lenders as soon as practicable and in any event before the close of business in France on the second (2nd) Business Day after the Quotation Date to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in the Unfunded Loan Portion for the relevant Interest Period from whatever source it may reasonably select, the details of which shall be stated in that Lender’s notice.

 

(e)If a Market Disruption Notice has been issued and the Borrower so requires, the Facility Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith for a period of not more than fifteen (15) Business Days with a view to agreeing upon a mutually satisfactory interest rate and interest period (or interest periods) to be substituted for those which would otherwise have applied under this Agreement. Any such agreed and approved interest rate and interest period (or interest periods) shall, with the prior consent of the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all parties hereto. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that no substitute basis is agreed upon pursuant to this paragraph (e) by the end of the fifteen (15) Business Day period, then the rate of interest for the Unfunded Loan Portion shall continue to be the rate otherwise determined in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

(f)In the event that the circumstances described in paragraph (a) above shall extend beyond the end of the relevant Interest Period or any other interest period agreed pursuant to paragraph (d) above or shall occur in respect of any other Interest Period or other interest period, as the case may be, the procedures described in paragraphs (b), (c) and/or (e) above, as applicable, shall apply and shall be repeated as often as may be necessary and in respect of each Interest Period or other interest period affected by such circumstances.

 

6.5Increased Loan Costs, etc.

 

(a)If, after the date hereof, a change in any applicable treaty, law, regulation or regulatory requirement or in the interpretation thereof or in its application to the Borrower, or the compliance by any Lender or the Funding Entity with any applicable direction, request, requirement or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental or other authority, including any agency of the European Union or similar monetary or multinational authority, insofar as it may be changed or imposed after the date hereof, shall:

 

(i)subject any Lender or the Funding Entity to any tax with respect to its participation in the Loan or any part thereof or the refinancing under the Funding Agreement or any part thereof (as applicable) imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof (other than taxation on overall net income and, to the extent such taxes are described in Clause 6.8 (Taxes), withholding taxes); or

 

(ii)change the basis of taxation to any Lender or the Funding Entity (other than a change in taxation on the overall net income of such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be) of payments of principal or interest or any other payment due or to become due pursuant to this Agreement, the

 

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  other Finance Documents and/or the Funding Agreement, as applicable; or
   
(iii)impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve or capital adequacy requirements (other than the increased capital costs described in Clause 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs) and the reserve costs described in Clause 6.9 (Reserve Costs)) or other banking or monetary controls or requirements which affect the manner in which a Lender or the Funding Entity shall allocate its capital resources to its obligations hereunder or under the Funding Agreement or require the making of any special deposits against or in respect of any assets or liabilities of, deposits with or for the account of, or loans by, such Lender or the Funding Entity (provided that such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, shall, unless prohibited by law, allocate its capital resources to its obligations hereunder or under the Funding Agreement, as applicable, in a manner which is consistent with its present treatment of the allocation of its capital resources); or

 

(iv)impose on any Lender or the Funding Entity any other condition affecting its participation in the Loan or the refinancing under the Funding Agreement (as applicable) or any part thereof,

 

and the result of any of the foregoing is either (A) to increase the cost to such Lender or the Funding Entity of making or maintaining its participation in the Loan or any part thereof or the refinancing under the Funding Agreement or any part thereof (as applicable), (B) to reduce the amount of any payment received by such Lender or the Funding Entity or its effective return hereunder or under the Funding Agreement (as applicable) or on its capital or (C) to cause such Lender or the Funding Entity to make any payment or to forego any return based on any amount received or receivable by such Lender hereunder or the Funding Entity under the Funding Agreement, as applicable, then, in any such case, if such increase or reduction in the opinion of such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, materially affects the interests of such Lender or the Funding Entity, as applicable:

 

(I)solely with respect to the Lenders, such Lender shall notify the Facility Agent who shall then notify the Borrower of the occurrence of such event;

 

(II)solely with respect to the Funding Entity, the Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower of the occurrence of such event; and

 

(III)in any such case, the Borrower shall forthwith upon such demand pay to the Facility Agent for the account of such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, such amount as is necessary to compensate such Lender or the Funding Entity for such additional cost or such reduction and ancillary expenses, including taxes, incurred as a result of such adjustment.

 

(b)Any notice provided pursuant to paragraph (a)(I) or (II) above shall (i) describe in reasonable detail the event leading to such additional cost, together with the approximate date of the effectiveness thereof and (ii) set forth the amount of such

 

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additional cost and, with respect to the Funding Entity, shall be accompanied by a copy of any relevant notice and supporting documentation provided by the Funding Entity (and received by the Facility Agent, directly or through the Funding Agents) under clause 16.2 (Réclamations) of the Funding Agreement. If the Facility Agent (directly or through the Funding Agents) has not received such relevant notice and/or supporting documentation from the Funding Entity in accordance with the Funding Agreement, the Facility Agent (directly or through the Funding Agents) shall request the same from the Funding Entity for purposes of this paragraph (b).

 

(c)Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Funding Entity to demand compensation pursuant to this Clause 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.) shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Funding Entity’s, as applicable, right to demand such compensation.

 

6.6Funding Losses

 

(a)The Borrower shall pay:

 

(i)all losses or expenses incurred by the Lenders in respect of an Unfunded Loan Portion; and

 

(ii)all losses or expenses incurred by the Funding Entity in respect of its funding of a Funded Loan Portion (including all coûts de rupture as such term is defined in the Funding Agreement),

 

in each such case which are incurred directly by reason of the liquidation or redeployment (at not less than a market rate) of deposits or other funds acquired or contracted to be acquired by such Lender or the Funding Entity or in un-winding, breaking, terminating, closing out, cancelling, substituting or replacing or modifying any such deposits; and

 

(iii)where the Fixed Rate applies, all losses and expenses pursuant to any hedging agreement or other swap or similar arrangements entered into for the purposes of or in connection with making, continuing to make or maintaining any portion of the principal amount of the Loan or pursuant to or in connection with the CIRR,

 

in any such case in the maximum amount specified in paragraph (c) below (“Funding Losses”) and in each case which are incurred by any Lender or the Funding Entity as a direct result of any of the following events (each a “Funding Losses Event”):

 

(A)any total or partial cancellation of the Commitments by or attributable to the Borrower if such cancellation is made or occurs later than the date on which the Borrower issues the Drawing Request (which has not been withdrawn pursuant to Clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery));

 

(B)after the date on which the Borrower issues the Drawing Request, any failure

 

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  of the Loan to be made in accordance with the Drawing Request, other than (I) if the Loan is made within five (5) Business Days of the Funding Date as contemplated by Clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery) or (II) to the extent attributable to the relevant Lender’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct or the Funding Entity’s faute lourde or dol (as applicable);
   
(C)any prepayment by the Borrower of all or any part of the Loan for any reason whatsoever (whether voluntary, involuntary or mandatory, including following the acceleration of the Loan), except for:

 

(I)where the Floating Rate applies, any prepayment made on an Interest Payment Date; and

 

(II)irrespective of whether the Floating Rate or the Fixed Rate applies, any mandatory prepayment attributable solely to the fact that (I) the Funding Agreement is no longer in effect or (II) the BpiFAE Insurance Policy is no longer in full force and effect, is terminated or cancelled or is no longer valid, or it is suspended for more than six (6) months, in each case where the same is due to the faute lourde or dol of the relevant Lender;

 

(D)any payment not being made on its due date, including following acceleration of the Loan; or

 

(E)any prepayment not being made after a notice of prepayment has been provided to the Facility Agent pursuant to Clause 5.2 (Prepayment) or any other clause of this Agreement.
   
(b)The Borrower shall make payment of all Funding Losses, on the later of the seventh (7th) Business Day after its receipt of a written notice of a Funding Losses Event from the Facility Agent (a “Funding Losses Notice”) and the effective date of the relevant Funding Losses Event, to the Facility Agent for the account of the Funding Entity and/or the relevant Lender, as applicable.

 

(c)The amount of the Funding Losses payable by the Borrower shall be:

 

(i)in respect of any Funded Loan Portion and the Funding Entity, the amount notified to the Funding Coordination Agent under clause 13.3(b) of the Funding Agreement and duly justified in accordance with clause 8.8(b) of the Funding Agreement, and, for the avoidance of doubt, no Funding Losses shall be payable to the Funding Entity (whether the Borrower has elected the Floating Rate or the Fixed Rate) in the case of a prepayment of the Loan on an Interest Payment Date;

 

(ii)in respect of any Unfunded Loan Portion and a Lender, the amount by which:

 

(A)interest calculated by applying the Floating Rate (whether the Borrower has elected the Floating Rate or the Fixed Rate) to the

 

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amount of such Lender’s participation in the Unfunded Loan Portion received or recovered by it (or which such Lender was entitled to have received or recovered under this Agreement, as the case may be) as a result of a Funding Losses Event which would be payable by the Borrower under this Agreement if (I) such Funding Losses Event had not occurred and (II) where the Fixed Rate applies, the Borrower had elected the Floating Rate, for the period starting on the date of such Lender’s receipt or recovery of such amount (or the date on which such Lender was entitled to receive or recover such amount, as the case may be) and ending on the last day of the applicable Interest Period (the “Relevant Period”)

 

exceeds

 

(B)the amount which such Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the amount received or recovered by it (or which it was entitled to have received or recovered, as the case may be) on deposit with a leading bank in the European interbank market for the Relevant Period; and

 

(iii)where the Fixed Rate applies, since the Lenders commit themselves irrevocably to the French Authorities in charge of monitoring the CIRR mechanism, any prepayment (whether voluntary, involuntary or mandatory, including following the acceleration of the Loan) will be subject to the mandatory payment by the Borrower of the amount calculated in liaison with the French Authorities two (2) Business Days prior to the prepayment date by taking into account the differential (the “Rate Differential”) between the CIRR and the prevailing market yield (currently ISDAFIX) for each installment to be prepaid and applying such Rate Differential to the remaining residual period of such installment and discounting to the net present value as described below. Each of these Rate Differentials will be applied to the corresponding installment to be prepaid during the period starting on the date on which such prepayment is required to be made and ending on the original Repayment Date (as adjusted following any previous prepayments) for such installment and

 

(A)the net present value of each corresponding amount resulting from the above calculation will be determined at the corresponding market yield; and

 

(B)if the cumulated amount of such present values is negative, no amount shall be due to the Borrower or from the Borrower.

 

(d)Any Funding Losses Notice with respect to Funding Losses suffered by a Finance Party shall include calculations in reasonable detail of the relevant amounts and set forth the relevant loss and expense.

 

(e)If the Funding Entity suffers any Funding Losses, the Facility Agent shall, or

 

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  shall procure that the Funding Agents shall, use reasonable efforts to obtain from the Funding Entity the reasonable details of the calculations of such Funding Losses and the related documentation required to be provided by the Funding Entity under clauses 13.3(b) and 8.8(b) of the Funding Agreement. Solely if such details are provided by the Funding Entity shall they be provided to the Borrower together with the relevant Funding Losses Notice.
   
(f)The Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower, in writing, of the amount of the Funding Losses due from the Borrower by sending a Funding Losses Notice to the Borrower as soon as is reasonably practicable after the occurrence of the relevant Funding Losses Event and after it has received notice of the amount of Funding Losses calculated by the Funding Entity, the relevant Lender or the French Authorities, as applicable.

 

6.7Increased Capital Costs

 

(a)If, after the date hereof any change in, or the introduction, adoption, effectiveness, interpretation, reinterpretation or phase-in of, any law or regulation, directive, guideline, decision or request (whether or not having the force of law) of any court, central bank, regulator or other governmental authority increases the amount of capital required to be maintained by any Lender or the Funding Entity or any Person controlling such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, and the rate of return on its or such controlling Person’s capital as a consequence of its Commitment or the Loan made by such Lender or the refinancing by the Funding Entity under the Funding Agreement, as applicable, is reduced to a level below that which such Lender, the Funding Entity or such controlling Person would have achieved but for the occurrence of any such change in circumstance, then, in any such case upon notice from time to time by the Facility Agent to the Borrower, the Borrower shall immediately pay directly to such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender, the Funding Entity or such controlling Person, as applicable, for such reduction in rate of return.

 

(b)Any notice pursuant to paragraph (a) above shall (i) describe in reasonable detail the capital adequacy requirements which have been imposed, together with the approximate date of the effectiveness thereof and (ii) set forth the amount of such lowered return, and, with respect to the Funding Entity, shall be accompanied by a copy of any relevant notice and supporting documentation provided by the Funding Entity (and received by the Facility Agent, directly or through the Funding Agents) under clause 16.2 (Réclamations) of the Funding Agreement. If the Facility Agent (directly or through the Funding Agents) has not received such relevant notice and/or supporting documentation from the Funding Entity in accordance with the Funding Agreement, the Facility Agent (directly or through the Funding Agents) shall request the same from the Funding Entity for purposes of this paragraph (b).

 

(c)In determining such amount, such Lender or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, may use any method of averaging and attribution that it shall, subject to paragraph

 

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  (b) above, deem applicable.
   
(d)Each Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a different Lending Office if the making of such a designation would avoid such reduction in such rate of return and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.

 

(e)Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Funding Entity to demand compensation pursuant to this Clause 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs) shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Funding Entity’s, as applicable, right to demand such compensation.

 

6.8Taxes

 

(a)All payments by the Borrower of principal of, and interest on, the Loan and all other amounts payable hereunder and any other Finance Documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, under any Fee Letters) shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Covered Taxes.

 

(b)In the event that any withholding or deduction from any payment to be made by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Finance Document is required in respect of any Covered Taxes pursuant to any applicable law, rule or regulation, then the Borrower will:

 

(i)pay directly to the relevant authority the full amount required to be so withheld or deducted;

 

(ii)promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days) forward to the Facility Agent an official receipt or other documentation satisfactory to the Facility Agent evidencing such payment to such authority; and

 

(iii)pay to the Facility Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Funding Entity (as applicable) such additional amount or amounts as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by each Lender and/or the Funding Entity (as applicable) will equal the full amount such Lender and/or the Funding Entity (as applicable) would have received had no such withholding or deduction been required.

 

(c)If any Covered Taxes are directly asserted against the Facility Agent, any Lender or the Funding Entity with respect to any payment received or paid by the Facility Agent, such Lender or the Funding Entity hereunder or under any other Finance Document, the Facility Agent, such Lender or the Funding Entity (as applicable) may pay such Covered Taxes and the Borrower will, promptly after (and in any event within five (5) Business Days of) demand, pay such additional amounts (including any penalties, interest or expenses) as is necessary in order that the net amount received by such Person after the payment of such Covered Taxes (including any

 

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  Covered Taxes on such additional amount) shall equal the amount such Person would have received had no such Covered Taxes been asserted.
   
(d)If the Borrower fails to pay any Covered Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Facility Agent for the account of the respective Lenders or the Funding Entity (as applicable) the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Borrower shall indemnify the Lenders and the Funding Entity (as applicable) for any incremental withholding Covered Taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by any Lender or the Funding Entity as a result of any such failure (so long as such amount did not become payable as a result of the failure of such Lender or the Funding Entity, as applicable, to provide timely notice to the Borrower (directly or through the Facility Agent) of the assertion of a liability related to the payment of Covered Taxes). For purposes of this Clause 6.8 (Taxes), a distribution hereunder by the Facility Agent or any Lender to or for the account of any Lender shall be deemed a payment by the Borrower.

 

(e)For the avoidance of doubt with respect to paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) above, the underlying payments to be made by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Finance Document to or for the account of the Funding Entity are the relevant amounts expressed to be payable to or for the benefit of the Funding Entity in this Agreement or in the other Finance Documents, as applicable (including any such expression achieved by the specific incorporation by reference herein of the provisions of the Funding Agreement).

 

(f)If any Lender is entitled to any refund, credit, deduction or other reduction in tax by reason of any payment made by the Borrower in respect of any Covered Tax under this Clause 6.8 (Taxes) or by reason of any payment made on account of Tax by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), such Lender shall in its absolute discretion use reasonable efforts to obtain such refund, credit, deduction or other reduction and, promptly after receipt thereof, will pay to the Borrower such amount (plus any interest received by such Lender in connection with such refund, credit, deduction or reduction) as is equal to the net after-tax value to such Lender of such part of such refund, credit, deduction or reduction as such Lender reasonably determines is allocable to such Covered Tax or such payment (less out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Lender), provided that no Lender shall be obligated to disclose to the Borrower any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations.

 

(g)Each Lender agrees with the Borrower and the Facility Agent that it will:

 

(i)in the case of a Lender organised under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States:

 

(A)provide to the Facility Agent and the Borrower an appropriately executed copy of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI certifying that any payments made to or for the benefit of such Lender are effectively connected with a trade or business in the United States (or

 

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  alternatively, an Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming the benefits of a tax treaty, but only if the applicable treaty described in such form provides for a complete exemption from U.S. federal income tax withholding), or any successor form, on or prior to the date hereof (or, in the case of any New Lender, on or prior to the date of the relevant assignment), in each case attached to an Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY, if appropriate;
   
(B)notify the Facility Agent and the Borrower if the certifications made on any form provided pursuant to clause (A) above are no longer accurate and true in all material respects; and

 

(C)provide such other tax forms or other documents as shall be prescribed by applicable law, if any, or as otherwise reasonably requested, to demonstrate, to the extent applicable, that payments to such Lender hereunder and under the other Finance Documents are exempt from withholding under FATCA; and

 

(ii)in all cases, provide such forms, certificates or other documents, as and when reasonably requested by the Borrower, necessary to claim any applicable exemption from, or reduction of, Covered Taxes or any payments made to or for benefit of such Lender, provided that the Lender is legally able to deliver such forms, certificates or other documents.

 

(h)For any period with respect to which a Lender (or New Lender) has failed to provide the Borrower with the applicable forms described in paragraph (g) above (other than if such failure is due to a change in law occurring after the date on which a form originally was required to be provided (which, in the case of an New Lender, would be the date on which the original assignor was required to provide such form) or if such form otherwise is not required hereunder) such Lender (or New Lender) shall not be entitled to the benefits of this Clause 6.8 (Taxes) with respect to Covered Taxes imposed by reason of such failure.

 

(i)Without prejudice to the foregoing, all consideration expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any party thereto to a Finance Party shall be deemed to be exclusive of any VAT. If VAT is chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to another party in connection with a Finance Document, that party shall pay to such Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying the consideration) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (subject to such Finance Party having provided an appropriate VAT invoice to such party) or, where applicable, directly account for such VAT at the appropriate rate under the reverse charge procedure provided for by article 56 of the European Directive 2006/112/EC and any relevant Tax provision of the jurisdiction in which such party receives such supply.

 

(j)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 such Finance Party against all VAT incurred by such Finance Party in respect of the costs

 

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  or expenses to the extent that such 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 of full VAT incurred. In case such Finance Party is entitled to benefit from partial recovery of VAT incurred, it shall be indemnified and held harmless by the reimbursing party against the portion of VAT that it or any other member of the group of which it is a member for VAT purposes has not recovered or for which it has not benefited from a credit.
   
(k)Each party to this Agreement shall, within ten (10) Business Days of a reasonable request by another party hereto:

 

(i)confirm to that other party whether it is:

 

(A)a FATCA Exempt Party; or

 

(B)not a FATCA Exempt Party; and

 

(ii)with effect from 2014, 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 U.S. 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.

 

(l)If any party to this Agreement confirms to another party hereto pursuant to paragraph (k)(i)(A) 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.

 

(m)If a party to this Agreement fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph (k) above, 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 one hundred per cent. (100%),

 

until (in each case) such time as the party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.

 

6.9Reserve Costs

 

(a)Without in any way limiting the Borrower’s obligations under Clause 6.5

 

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(Increased Loan Costs, etc.), the Borrower shall, on and after the Deferred Tranche Effective Date, if applicable, pay to the Facility Agent for the account of each Lender on the last day of each Interest Period in which there remains an amount of the Deferred Tranche outstanding, and so long as the relevant Lending Office of such Lender is required to maintain reserves against “Eurocurrency liabilities” under Regulation D of the F.R.S. Board, upon notice from such Lender, an additional amount equal to the product of the following for the Deferred Tranche for each day during such Interest Period:

 

(i)the principal amount of the Deferred Tranche outstanding on such day; and

 

(ii)the remainder of (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the rate (expressed as a decimal) at which interest accrues on the Deferred Tranche for such Interest Period as provided in this Agreement (less, if applicable, the Floating Rate Margin) and the denominator of which is one (1) minus any increase after the Deferred Tranche Effective Date in the effective rate (expressed as a decimal) at which such reserve requirements are imposed on such Lender minus (ii) such numerator; and

 

(iii)1/360.

 

(b)Such notice shall (i) describe in reasonable detail the reserve requirement that has been imposed, together with the approximate date of the effectiveness thereof and (ii) set forth the applicable reserve percentage.

 

6.10Payments

 

(a)Unless otherwise expressly provided, all payments by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall be made by the Borrower to the Facility Agent for the pro rata account of the Lenders entitled to receive such payment. All such payments required to be made to the Facility Agent shall be made not later than 3:00 p.m. (Paris time) on the date due, in same day or immediately available funds, to such account as the Facility Agent shall specify from time to time by notice to the Borrower. Funds received after that time shall be deemed to have been received by the Lenders on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

(b)The Facility Agent shall promptly (but in any event on the same Business Day that the same are received or, as contemplated in paragraph (a) above, deemed received) remit in same day funds to each Lender or such Lender’s designee its share, if any, of such payments received by the Facility Agent for the account of such Lender without any set- off, deduction or counterclaim.

 

(c)If the Facility Agent receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by the Borrower under the Finance Documents, the Facility Agent shall apply that payment towards the Borrower’s obligations under the Finance Documents in the following order:

 

(i)first, in or towards payment of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the

 

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  Facility Agent under the Finance Documents;
   
(ii)secondly, in or towards payment pro rata among the relevant Finance Parties of any fees, costs, expenses or commission due but unpaid under this Agreement or the other Finance Documents;
   
(iii)thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata among the relevant Finance Parties of any accrued interest due but unpaid under Clause 5.3(c) (Post-Maturity Rates);
   
(iv)fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata among the relevant Finance Parties of any other accrued interest and Deferred Costs due but unpaid under this Agreement;
   
(v)fifthly, in or towards payment pro rata among the Lenders of any principal due but unpaid under this Agreement; and
   
(vi)sixthly, in or towards payment pro rata among the relevant Finance Parties of any other sum due to the Finance Parties but unpaid under the Finance Documents,

 

in each case in the inverse order of the maturity thereof, provided that the Facility Agent shall, if so directed by the Required Lenders, vary the order set out in clauses (ii) to (iv) above and, provided further that any such appropriation will override any appropriation made by the Borrower.

 

(d)Whenever any payment to be made under any Finance Document shall otherwise be due on a day which is not a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (except that, if such next succeeding Business Day does not fall in the same calendar month as the original payment due date, then the relevant payment shall be made on the last Business Day in the calendar month of the original payment due date) and any such extension of time shall be included in computing interest and fees, if any, in connection with such payment. If any payment date under a Finance Document is altered by the application of this paragraph (d), the subsequent payment date shall not be altered unless that subsequent payment date also requires alteration pursuant to the preceding sentence.

 

(e)For any payment of principal, interest or Commitment Fees to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement, the Borrower shall procure that the Facility Agent receives (i) a SWIFT advice in the form of an MT 199 of such payment from the Borrower’s payment bank on or before the second (2nd) Business Day prior to the payment date and (ii) a written confirmation in the form of an MT 103 that such payment has been made from the Borrower’s payment bank by no later than 3:00 p.m. (Paris time) on the payment date.

 

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6.11No Double Counting

 

Any payment required to be made by the Borrower pursuant to any of Clauses 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8(c), (d), (i) or (j) (Taxes) or 6.9 (Reserve Costs) shall be calculated without double-counting under any other such Clauses or the payment under any other provision of this Agreement, and on the basis that the Borrower shall not be liable to make any payment pursuant to any such Clause to the extent that such amount has been compensated under Clause 6.8 (Taxes) or would have been so compensated but for any exclusions applicable thereunder, is attributable to a Lender’s failure to satisfy its obligations under Clause 6.8(g) (Taxes) or is attributable to a Lender’s breach by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or the Funding Entity’s breach by its faute lourde or dol, as the case may be, of any applicable treaty, law, regulation or regulatory requirement.

 

6.12Cancellation of Commitment or Prepayment of Affected Lender

 

If the Borrower shall be required to make any payment to any Lender pursuant to Clauses 6.4 (Market Disruption in respect of an Unfunded Loan Portion), 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8 (Taxes) or 6.9 (Reserve Costs), the Borrower shall be entitled at any time (so long as no Default and/or Mandatory Prepayment Event shall have occurred and be continuing) within one hundred and eighty (180) days after receipt of notice from such Lender of such required payment to cancel or prepay the affected portion of such Lender’s Commitment or participation in the Loan (as applicable), together with (in the case of prepayment) any accrued interest thereon through the date of such prepayment. Any such prepayment shall include a prepayment of principal and interest in respect of the relevant Lender’s Commitment in relation to the Deferred Tranche.

 

6.13Funding Entity

 

If Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is succeeded or otherwise replaced by another Person in its capacity as Funding Entity or assigns its role as Funding Entity to another Person, then, provided that no Default is continuing at the time of such succession, replacement or assignment, the Borrower’s obligations under Clauses 6.3 (Market Disruption in respect of a Funded Loan Portion), 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8 (Taxes) and 6.9 (Reserve Costs) or under any other provisions of the Finance Documents shall be no greater than had no such succession, replacement or assignment occurred.

 

6.14Sharing of Payments

 

(a)If a Lender (a “Recovering Party”) receives or recovers any amount from the Borrower other than in accordance with Clause 6.10(a) (a “Recovered Amount”) and applies that amount to a payment due under the Finance Documents then:

 

(i)the Recovering Party shall, within three (3) Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery to the Facility Agent;

 

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(ii)the Facility Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or made by the Facility Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 6.10 (Payments), without taking account of any tax which would be imposed on the Facility Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and

 

(iii)the Recovering Party shall, within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent, pay to the Facility Agent an amount (the “Sharing Payment”) equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount which the Facility Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 6.10 (Payments).

 

(b)The Facility Agent shall treat the Sharing Payment as if it had been paid by the Borrower and distribute it between the Lenders (other than the Recovering Party) (the “Sharing Parties”) in accordance with Clause 6.10 (Payments) towards the obligations of the Borrower to the Sharing Parties.

 

(c)On a distribution by the Facility Agent under paragraph (b) above of a payment received by a Recovering Party from the Borrower, as between the Borrower and the Recovering Party, an amount of the Recovered Amount equal to the Sharing Payment will be treated as not having been paid by the Borrower.

 

(d)If any part of the Sharing Payment received or recovered by a Recovering Party becomes repayable and is repaid by that Recovering Party to the Borrower, then:

 

(i)each Sharing Party shall, upon request of the Facility Agent, pay to the Facility Agent for the account of that Recovering 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 Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that Recovering Party is required to pay) (the “Redistributed Amount”); and

 

(ii)as between the Borrower and each relevant Sharing Party, an amount equal to the relevant Redistributed Amount will be treated as not having been paid by the Borrower.

 

(e)This Clause 6.14 (Sharing of Payments) shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this Clause 6.14 (Sharing of Payments), have a valid and enforceable claim against the Borrower.

 

(f)A Recovering Party is not obliged to share with any other Lenders any amount which the Recovering Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if:

 

(i)it notified that other Lender of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and

 

(ii)that other Lender had an opportunity to participate in those legal or

 

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arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable after having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings.

 

6.15No Borrower Set-off

 

All payments required to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall be made without set-off, deduction or counterclaim.

 

6.16Finance Party Set-off

 

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event and while it is continuing, each Finance Party shall have, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the right to appropriate and apply to the payment of the Obligations then due and owing to it any and all balances, credits, deposits, accounts or monies of the Borrower then or thereafter maintained with such Finance Party (collectively, the “Borrower Amounts”); provided that any such appropriation and application shall be subject to the provisions of Clause 6.14 (Sharing of Payments). If any Borrower Amount is in a different currency than the Obligations, the relevant Finance Party may convert such Borrower Amount at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off. Each Finance Party agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Facility Agent (unless such Finance Party is the Facility Agent) after any such set-off and application made by such Finance Party; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Finance Party under this Clause 6.16 (Finance Party Set-off) are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of set-off under applicable law or otherwise) which such Finance Party may have.

 

6.17Use of Proceeds

 

(a)The proceeds of the Loan shall be applied in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Purpose).

 

(b)Without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, no proceeds of the Loan will be used to acquire any equity security of a class which is registered pursuant to section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any “margin stock”, as defined in F.R.S. Board Regulation U.

 

6.18Deferred Costs

 

Independently of any other obligation to pay costs, expenses or interest under or in connection with this Agreement, the Borrower shall as a separate obligation, also pay to the Facility Agent (for distribution to each Lender) deferred costs in respect of any drawn portion of the Deferred Tranche at the Deferred Costs Percentage for each Interest Period during which any part of the Deferred Tranche remains outstanding. Whilst not an interest liability, such deferred costs shall be charged from and including the first day of the applicable Interest Period in which an amount of the Deferred Tranche is outstanding to (but not including) the last day of such Interest Period, and will be payable semi-annually in arrears on each Repayment Date. Any deferred costs payable in accordance with this Clause 6.18 shall be

 

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calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year comprised of 360 days.

 

6.19Unavailability of Screen Rate

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Finance Document, if the Facility Agent determines (which determination shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive) or the Borrower or the Required Lenders notify the Facility Agent (with, in the case of the Required Lenders, a copy to Borrower) that the Borrower or the Required Lenders (as applicable) have determined that:

 

(a)adequate and reasonable means would not exist for ascertaining (should the Floating Rate apply) the Screen Rate for the relevant Interest Period including, without limitation, because the Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary; or

 

(b)the administrator of the Screen Rate or a governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Facility Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the Screen Rate shall no longer be made available or used for determining the interest rate of loans (such specific date, the “Scheduled Unavailability Date”); or

 

(c)syndicated loans currently being executed, or existing syndicated loans that include language similar to that contained in this Clause 6.19, are being executed and/or amended (as applicable) to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the Screen Rate,

 

then, reasonably promptly after such determination by the Facility Agent or receipt by the Facility Agent of such notice, as applicable, or if the Borrower otherwise requests, the Facility Agent and the Borrower may amend this Agreement to replace the Screen Rate with an alternate benchmark rate (including any mathematical or other adjustments to the benchmark (if any) incorporated therein), giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar Euro denominated syndicated credit facilities for such alternative benchmarks (any such proposed rate, a “Euro Successor Rate”), and also together with any proposed Euro Successor Rate Conforming Changes (as defined below) and any such amendment shall become effective at 5:00 P.M. (London time) on the fifth (5) Business Day after the Facility Agent shall have posted such proposed amendment to all Lenders and the Borrower unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Facility Agent written notice that such Required Lenders do not accept such amendment. Such Euro Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Facility Agent, such Euro Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Facility Agent.

 

If no Euro Successor Rate has been determined and the circumstances under paragraph (a) above exist or the Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred (as applicable), the Facility Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to fund or maintain the relevant portion of the

 

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Loan (including the Deferred Tranche) at the Screen Rate (to the extent of the affected part of the Loan, the Deferred Tranche or Interest Periods) shall be suspended and the Borrower shall pay interest on such part of the Loan at a rate equal to the sum of the Floating Rate Margin and the weighted average of the cost to the Lenders of funding the respective portions of the affected part of the Loan (as notified to the Facility Agent and the Borrower no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the start of the relevant Interest Period). Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of any part of the Loan (to the extent of the affected part of the Loan, the Deferred Tranche or Interest Periods).

 

Notwithstanding anything else herein, any definition of Euro Successor Rate shall provide that in no event shall such Euro Successor Rate be less than zero for purposes of this Agreement.

 

For the purposes of this Agreement, “Euro Successor Rate Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any proposed Euro Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Floating Rate, Screen Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other administrative matters as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Facility Agent in consultation with the Borrower, to reflect the adoption of such Euro Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Facility Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Facility Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such Euro Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Facility Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).

 

7.REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

To induce the Finance Parties to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loan hereunder, the Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Finance Parties as set forth in this Clause 7 (Representations and Warranties).

 

7.1Organisation, etc.

 

The Borrower:

 

(a)is a corporation validly organised and existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation;

 

(b)is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction where the nature of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and

 

(c)has full power and authority, has taken all corporate action and holds all governmental and creditors’ licenses, permits, consents and other approvals necessary

 

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to enter into each Finance Document to which it is a party and to perform the Obligations.

 

7.2Due Authorisation, Non-Contravention, etc.

 

The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement and each other Finance Document are within the Borrower’s corporate powers, have been duly authorised by all necessary corporate action and do not:

 

(a)contravene the Borrower’s Organic Documents;

 

(b)contravene any law or governmental regulation of any Applicable Jurisdiction, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(c)contravene any court decree or order binding on the Borrower or any of its property, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(d)contravene any contractual restriction binding on the Borrower or any of its property, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or

 

(e)result in, or require the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any of the Borrower’s properties, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

7.3Government Approval, Regulation, etc.

 

(a)No authorisation or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or other Person is required for the due execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower of this Agreement or any other Finance Document (except for authorisations or approvals not required to be obtained on or prior to the Disbursement Date or that have been obtained or actions not required to be taken on or prior to the Disbursement Date or that have been taken).

 

(b)The Borrower holds all governmental licenses, permits and other approvals (including Environmental Approvals) required to conduct its business as conducted by it on the date of this Agreement and on the Disbursement Date, except to the extent the failure to hold any such licenses, permits or other approvals would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

7.4Compliance with Laws

 

The Borrower is in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, except (other than as described in paragraph (a) or (b) below) to the extent that the failure to so comply does not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, which compliance includes:

 

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(a)the maintenance and preservation of the Borrower’s corporate existence (subject to the provisions of Clause 9.6 (Consolidation, Merger, etc.));

 

(b)the maintenance of its qualification as a foreign corporation in the State of Florida, United States;

 

(c)the payment, before the same become delinquent, of all taxes, assessments and governmental charges imposed upon it or upon its property, except to the extent being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(d)compliance with all anti-money laundering and anti-corrupt practices laws and regulations applicable to the Borrower, including by not making or causing to be made any offer, gift or payment, consideration or benefit of any kind to anyone, either directly or indirectly, as an inducement or reward for the award or execution of this Agreement, the Construction Contract or any of the other Transaction Documents to which the Borrower is a party or the performance of any of the transactions contemplated hereby and/or thereby to the extent the same would be in contravention of such applicable laws and regulations; and

 

(e)compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws.

 

7.5Sanctions

 

The Borrower has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, their respective officers, employees, directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, in all material respects and are not knowingly engaged in any activity that would reasonably be expected to result in Borrower being designated as a Sanctioned Person. None of (a) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or to the knowledge of the Borrower or such Subsidiary any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of the Borrower, any agent of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person.

 

7.6Validity, etc.

 

Each Transaction Document to which the Borrower is a party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability hereof or thereof (as the case may be) may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles.

 

7.7No Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event

 

No Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event has occurred and is continuing.

 

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7.8Litigation

 

There is no action, suit, litigation, investigation or proceeding (including arbitration and administrative proceedings) pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against the Borrower that (a) except as set forth in filings made by the Borrower with the SEC, in the Borrower’s reasonable opinion might reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the business, operations or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (collectively, “Material Litigation”) or (b) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of the Finance Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

7.9The Purchased Vessel

 

Immediately following the delivery of the Purchased Vessel to the Borrower or one of the Borrower’s wholly-owned Subsidiaries as assignee, transferee or novatee under the Construction Contract, the Purchased Vessel will be:

 

(a)legally and beneficially owned by the Borrower or one of the Borrower’s wholly-owned Subsidiaries;

 

(b)registered in the name of the Borrower or one of the Borrower’s wholly-owned Subsidiaries under the Bahamian flag or such other flag reasonably acceptable to the Lenders and BpiFAE;

 

(c)classed as required by Clause 8.4(b);

 

(d)free of all recorded Liens;

 

(e)insured against loss or damage in compliance with Clause 8.5 (Insurance), and

 

(f)exclusively operated by or chartered to the Borrower or one of the Borrower’s wholly- owned Subsidiaries.

 

7.10Obligations rank pari passu; Liens

 

(a)The Obligations rank at least pari passu in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower, other than Indebtedness mandatorily preferred as a matter of law.

 

(b)As at the date of this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement which permit or restrict the granting of Liens are not less favorable than the provisions permitting or restricting the granting of Liens in any other agreement entered into by the Borrower with any other person providing financing or credit to the Borrower.

 

7.11Withholding, etc.

 

As at the date of this Agreement, no payment to be made by the Borrower under this

 

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Agreement or any other Finance Document is subject to any withholding or similar tax imposed by any Applicable Jurisdiction.

 

7.12No Filing, etc. Required

 

No filing, recording or registration and no payment of any stamp, registration or similar tax is necessary under the laws of any Applicable Jurisdiction to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement or the other

Finance Documents (except for filings, recordings, registrations or payments not required to be made prior to the Disbursement Date or that have been made).

 

7.13No Immunity

 

The Borrower is subject to civil and commercial law with respect to the Obligations. Neither the Borrower nor any of its properties or revenues is entitled to any right of immunity in any Applicable Jurisdiction from suit, court jurisdiction, judgment, attachment (whether before or after judgment), set-off or execution of a judgment or from any other legal process or remedy relating to the Obligations (to the extent such suit, court jurisdiction, judgment, attachment, set- off, execution, legal process or remedy would otherwise be permitted or exist).

 

7.14Investment Company Act

 

The Borrower is not an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, in each case within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

7.15Regulation U

 

The Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock, and no proceeds of the Loan will be used for a purpose which violates, or would be inconsistent with, F.R.S. Board Regulation U. Terms for which meanings are provided in F.R.S. Board Regulation U or any regulations substituted therefor, as from time to time in effect, are used in this Clause 7.15 (Regulation U) with such meanings.

 

7.16Accuracy of Information

 

(a)The financial and other information (other than financial projections or other forward looking information) furnished to the Facility Agent and the Lenders in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower by its chief financial officer, treasurer or corporate controller in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents is, when taken as a whole, to the best knowledge and belief of the Borrower, true and correct and contains no misstatement of a fact of a material nature.

 

(b)All financial projections, if any, that have been furnished to the Facility Agent and the Lenders in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower by its chief financial officer,

 

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    treasurer or corporate controller in connection with this Agreement and the other Finance Documents have been prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made (it being understood that such projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Borrower’s control, and that no assurance can be given that the projections will be realised).

 

(c)All financial and other information furnished to the Facility Agent and the Lenders in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower by its chief financial officer, treasurer or corporate controller after the date of this Agreement shall have been prepared by the Borrower in good faith.

 

7.17Construction Contract

 

The Construction Contract is not suspended, repudiated, invalidated, terminated or cancelled (in whole or in part) and is otherwise in full force and effect and there are (to the best knowledge and belief of the Borrower) no circumstances which entitle any party to the Construction Contract to terminate the Construction Contract and there is no action, suit, litigation, investigation or proceeding (including arbitration and administrative proceedings) pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in connection with the Construction Contract.

 

7.18No Winding-up

 

The Borrower has not taken any corporate action, nor have any other steps been taken or legal proceedings been started or (to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge and belief) threatened against it, for its bankruptcy, postponement of bankruptcy, financial restructuring, suspension of payments, a moratorium of any of its Indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administration, re-organisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise), a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any of its creditors or for the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, compulsory manager, conservator, custodian, trustee or similar officer of it or all or a material part of its assets or revenues, except, in respect of any such action, steps or proceedings started or threatened against the Borrower, to the extent that the same would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

7.19Repetition

 

The representations and warranties set forth in this Clause 7 (Representations and Warranties) are made by the Borrower on the date of this Agreement, and each such representation and warranty (other than as set forth in Clause 7.10(b) (Obligations rank pari passu; Liens), Clause 7.11 (Withholding, etc.) and Clause 7.17 (Construction Contract)) is deemed to be made and given again by the Borrower on the date of the Drawing Request, the Disbursement Date and on the date of each deemed advance of the Deferred Tranche by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing.

 

8.AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

 

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The Borrower agrees with the Facility Agent and each Lender that, from the date hereof (or, in the case of Clauses 8.2(b) (Government Approvals and Other Consents), 8.4 (The Purchased Vessel) and 8.5 (Insurance), from the Disbursement Date) until all Obligations have been paid in full, the Borrower will perform the obligations set forth in this Clause 8 (Affirmative Covenants).

 

8.1Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.

 

The Borrower will furnish, or will cause to be furnished, to the Facility Agent (with sufficient copies for distribution to each Lender) the following financial statements, reports, notices and information:

 

(a)as soon as available and in any event within sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three (3) Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, a copy of the Borrower’s report on Form 10-Q (or any successor form) as filed by the Borrower with the SEC for such Fiscal Quarter, containing unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for such Fiscal Quarter (including a balance sheet and profit and loss statement) prepared in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments;

 

(b)as soon as available and in any event within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Borrower, a copy of the Borrower’s annual report on Form 10-K (or any successor form) as filed by the Borrower with the SEC for such Fiscal Year, containing audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for such Fiscal Year prepared in accordance with GAAP (including a balance sheet and profit and loss statement) and audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or another firm of independent public accountants of similar standing;

 

(c)together with each of the statements delivered pursuant to the foregoing paragraph (a) or (b), a certificate, executed by the chief financial officer, the treasurer or the corporate controller of the Borrower, showing, as of the last day of the relevant Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year, compliance with the covenants set forth in Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) (in reasonable detail and with appropriate calculations and computations in all respects reasonably satisfactory to the Facility Agent);

 

(d)as soon as possible after the occurrence of a Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event, a statement of the chief financial officer of the Borrower setting forth details of such Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event (as the case may be) and, if it is continuing, the actions which the Borrower has taken and/or proposes to take with respect thereto;

 

(e)as soon as practicable after the occurrence thereof, notice of any written amendment to or written modification of the Construction Contract that relates to (i) the amount of the Initial Basic Cash Contract Price, (ii) the date on which the Purchased Vessel is to be delivered or (iii) a decrease in the dimensions or capacity of the Purchased Vessel in terms of the number of passengers and/or staterooms by two per

 

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    cent. (2%) or more;

 

(f)as soon as available and in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each calendar year, written confirmation of the then current amount of the Basic Cash Contract Price, the cumulated amount of effective Change Orders and utilised NYC Allowance;

 

(g)as soon as the Borrower becomes aware thereof, notice of any suspension, repudiation, invalidation, termination or cancellation (in whole or in part) of the Construction Contract or any failure of the Construction Contract to otherwise be in full force and effect or any circumstances which entitle any party to the Construction Contract to terminate the Construction Contract or any action, suit, litigation, investigation or proceeding (including arbitration and administrative proceedings) pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in connection with the Construction Contract.

 

(h)as soon as reasonably practicable after the Borrower becomes aware thereof, notice of any Material Litigation, except to the extent that such Material Litigation is disclosed by the Borrower in its filings with the SEC;

 

(i)promptly after the sending or filing thereof, copies of all reports which the Borrower sends to all holders of each security issued by the Borrower, and all registration statements which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries files with the SEC or any national securities exchange;

 

(j)such other information regarding the condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower or any of its Principal Subsidiaries as any Lender and/or the Funding Entity (through the Facility Agent or the Funding Agents (as applicable)) may from time to time reasonably request;

 

(k)such other documentation and information as is requested by the Facility Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender and/or the Funding Entity) in order for the Facility Agent (or such Lender and/or the Funding Entity, as the case may be) to carry out and be satisfied that it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” and other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations (including all applicable anti-money laundering and anti-corrupt practices laws and regulations) in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the other Finance Documents and the Funding Agreement;

 

(l)such other documentation and information that BpiFAE may from time to time request;

 

(m)as soon as the Borrower becomes aware thereof, notice (with a copy to BpiFAE) of any matter that has, or may, result in a breach of Clause 8.10 (Performance of Building Contract Obligations);

 

(n)during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period, as soon as available and in any event no later than five (5) days after the end of each monthly period starting on 1 April 2020, a written

 

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    report (in a form satisfactory to BpiFAE) containing cash-flow projections for the period from the date of the relevant report until 31 March 2022;

 

(o)during the period commencing upon the expiry of the Advanced Loan Deferral Period and ending on the date the Deferred Tranche is repaid in full, as soon as available and in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarterly period starting with the quarterly period commencing on 1 April 2021 and ending on 30 June 2021, a written report (in a form satisfactory to BpiFAE) containing cash-flow projections for the 24 months succeeding the date of the relevant quarterly report; and

 

(p)on one occasion during each calendar year from the start of the Advanced Loan Deferral Period until the Deferred Tranche has been repaid in full, the environmental plan of the Borrower as required to be published pursuant to the letter of the Borrower dated 27 April 2020 and which is referred to in the Amendment and Restatement No.4,

 

provided that information required to be furnished to the Facility Agent under paragraphs (a), (b), (h) and (p) of this Clause 8.1 (Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.) shall be deemed furnished to the Facility Agent when available free of charge on the Borrower’s website at http://www.rclinvestor.com or the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov; and provided further that the Facility Agent or the Funding Agents (as applicable) may disclose to BpiFAE and the Funding Entity the documentation and information received by or available to them pursuant to this Clause 8.1 (Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.) and any other documentation and information concerning the Borrower that BpiFAE may request from time to time or that the Funding Entity may reasonably request from time to time in connection with the Funding Agreement (subject, in all cases with respect to the Funding Entity, to the Funding Entity’s agreement to keep such information confidential on terms equivalent to those in Clause 13.15 (Confidentiality)).

 

8.2Government Approvals and Other Consents

 

The Borrower will obtain and maintain (or cause to be obtained and maintained) all such governmental licenses, authorisations, consents, permits and approvals (including Environmental Approvals) as may be required for:

 

(a)the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents; and

 

(b)the operation of the Purchased Vessel in compliance with all applicable laws, except to the extent that the failure to obtain and/or maintain (or cause to be obtained and/or maintained) such governmental licenses, authorisations, consents, permits and approvals as may be required for the operation of the Purchased Vessel in compliance with all applicable laws does not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

8.3Compliance with Laws, etc.

 

(a)The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply in all material

 

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respects with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, except (other than as described in paragraph (i) or (ii) below) to the extent that the failure to so comply would not have a Material Adverse Effect, which compliance shall in any case include:

 

(i)the maintenance and preservation of the Borrower’s corporate existence (subject to the provisions of Clause 9.6 (Consolidation, Merger, etc.));

 

(ii)the maintenance of its qualification as a foreign corporation in the State of Florida, United States;

 

(iii)the payment, before the same become delinquent, of all taxes, assessments and governmental charges imposed upon it or upon its property, except to the extent being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(iv)compliance with all anti-money laundering and anti-corrupt practices laws and regulations applicable to the Borrower, including by not making or causing to be made any offer, gift or payment, consideration or benefit of any kind to anyone, either directly or indirectly, as an inducement or reward for the performance of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Construction Contract or any of the other Transaction Documents to which the Borrower is a party to the extent the same would be in contravention of such applicable laws; and

 

(v)compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws.

 

(b)The Borrower will maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

 

8.4The Purchased Vessel

 

The Borrower will:

 

(a)cause the Purchased Vessel to be exclusively operated by or chartered to the Borrower or one of the Borrower’s wholly owned Subsidiaries, provided that the Borrower or such Subsidiary may charter (or sub-charter, as the case may be) out the Purchased Vessel (i) to entities other than the Borrower and the Borrower’s wholly owned Subsidiaries and (ii) on a time charter with a stated duration not in excess of one (1) year;

 

(b)cause the Purchased Vessel to be kept in such condition as will entitle her to classification by a classification society of recognised standing;

 

(c)promptly upon delivery of the Purchased Vessel, provide the following to the Facility Agent with respect to the Purchased Vessel:

 

(i)evidence as to the ownership of the Purchased Vessel by the Borrower or one

 

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    of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries;

 

(ii)evidence that the Purchased Vessel is registered under the Bahamian flag or such other flag reasonably acceptable to the Lenders and BpiFAE; and

 

(iii)a copy of the Builder’s duly executed invoice for the Delivery Installment marked “Paid” and certified as a true and complete copy by an Authorised Officer;

 

(d)within seven (7) days after delivery of the Purchased Vessel, provide the following to the Facility Agent with respect to the Purchased Vessel:

 

(i)evidence of the class of the Purchased Vessel; and

 

(ii)evidence as to all required insurance being in effect with respect to the Purchased Vessel in compliance with Clause 8.5 (Insurance); and

 

(e)on or before the later of (i) 31 July and (ii) 30 days after its own receipt of a Statement of Compliance in each calendar year, supply, or procure the supply, to the Facility Agent (for distribution to BpiFAE and the Lenders) (in each case at the cost of the Borrower) of all information necessary in order for any Lender to comply with its obligations under the Poseidon Principles in respect of the preceding year, including, without limitation, all ship fuel oil consumption data required to be collected and reported in accordance with Regulation 22A of Annex VI (as collated and reported to the Purchased Vessel’s flag state using the verification report submitted to that flag state) and any Statement of Compliance, in each case relating to the Purchased Vessel for the preceding calendar year, provided always that such information shall be confidential information for the purposes of Clause 13.15 (Confidentiality) and, accordingly, no Lender shall publicly disclose such information with the identity of the Purchased Vessel or the Borrower (or, if applicable, the Borrower’s wholly owned Subsidiary that then owns the Purchased Vessel) without the prior written consent of the Borrower (it being expressly agreed however that, in accordance with the Poseidon Principles, such information will form part of the information published regarding the relevant Lender’s portfolio climate alignment).

 

8.5Insurance

 

The Borrower, will or will cause one or more of its Subsidiaries to, maintain or cause to be maintained with responsible insurance companies insurance with respect to the Purchased Vessel against such casualties, third-party liabilities and contingencies and in such amounts, in each case, as is customary for other businesses of similar size in the passenger cruise line industry (provided that in no event will the Borrower or any Subsidiary be required to obtain any business interruption, loss of hire or delay in delivery insurance) and will, upon request of the Facility Agent, furnish to the Facility Agent (with sufficient copies for distribution to each Lender) at reasonable intervals a certificate of a senior officer of the Borrower setting forth the nature and extent of all insurance maintained or caused to be maintained by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and certifying as to

 

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compliance with this Clause 8.5 (Insurance).

 

8.6Books and Records

 

The Borrower will keep books and records that accurately reflect all of its business affairs and transactions and permit the Facility Agent and each Lender or any of their respective representatives, at reasonable times and upon reasonable prior notice and intervals, to visit each of its offices, to discuss its financial matters with its officers and to examine any of its books or other corporate records.

 

8.7Cessation of Business

 

The Borrower will ensure that its principal business is and continues to be the operation of cruise vessels.

 

8.8BpiFAE Insurance Policy Requirements

 

The Borrower shall, on the reasonable request of the Facility Agent, provide such other information as required under or in connection with the BpiFAE Insurance Policy as necessary to enable the Facility Agent to obtain the full support of BpiFAE pursuant to the BpiFAE Insurance Policy. The Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent the amount of all reasonable costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Facility Agent in connection with complying with a request by BpiFAE for any additional information necessary or desirable in connection with the BpiFAE Insurance Policy; provided that the Borrower is consulted before the Facility Agent incurs any such cost or expense (it being understood and agreed that such consultation shall not constitute grounds for the Borrower to not comply with the first sentence of this Clause 8.8 (BpiFAE Insurance Policy Requirements)).

 

8.9Further Assurances

 

The Borrower shall, upon any reasonable request by the Facility Agent, timely execute and deliver (or procure that any other entity that is to survive any merger with the Borrower as contemplated by Clause 9.6(b)(ii) timely executes and delivers) to the Facility Agent any documents provided to the Borrower and reasonably required to be executed and delivered by the Borrower in order to maintain the Funding Entity’s security with respect to the Funding Agreement, provided that any such documents shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Borrower (it being agreed that any such documents that are in substantially the same form as those signed by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 4.1(f) (Funding Entity’s Security) shall be acceptable to the Borrower).

 

8.10Performance of Building Contract Obligations

 

The Borrower shall (and shall procure that each of its Subsidiaries shall) comply with its contractual commitments under and in respect of (i) each shipbuilding contract in existence as at the Deferred Tranche Effective Date (or which comes into existence at any time in which an amount of the Deferred Tranche remains outstanding) entered into with the Builder and (ii) any option agreements or similar binding contractual commitments (whether in respect of a firm order of a vessel or otherwise) in existence at the Deferred Tranche Effective Date (or which comes into existence at any time in which an

 

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amount of the Deferred Tranche remains outstanding) entered into by the Borrower (or its Subsidiary) and the Builder in connection with the potential entry into a shipbuilding contract at a future point in time (it being agreed that such obligation shall not require the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary (as applicable) to exercise any option or other contractual right thereunder), save that this Clause 8.10 shall be subject to any change of any such shipbuilding contract, option agreement, contract or other related document if such change has, in consultation with BpiFAE, been agreed between the Borrower or, as the case may be, relevant Subsidiary and the Builder.

 

9.NEGATIVE COVENANTS

 

The Borrower agrees with the Facility Agent and each Lender that, from the date hereof until all Obligations have been paid and performed in full, the Borrower will perform the obligations set forth in this Clause 9 (Negative Covenants).

 

9.1Business Activities

 

The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any principal business activity other than those engaged in by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the date of this Agreement and other business activities reasonably related, ancillary or complementary thereto or that are reasonable extensions thereof.

 

9.2Indebtedness

 

The Borrower will not permit any of the Existing Principal Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist or otherwise become or be liable in respect of any Indebtedness, other than, without duplication, the following:

 

(a)Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted under paragraphs (c) to (p) of Clause 9.3 (Liens);

 

(b)Indebtedness owing to the Borrower or any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower;

 

(c)Indebtedness incurred to finance, refinance or refund the cost (including the cost of construction) of assets acquired after the date hereof;

 

(d)Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount, together with (but without duplication of) Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted under paragraph (d) of Clause 9.3 (Liens), at any one time outstanding and not exceeding (determined at the time of creation of any such Lien or the incurrence by any Existing Principal Subsidiary of such Indebtedness, as applicable) ten per cent. (10%) of the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole as determined in accordance with GAAP as at the last day of the most recent ended Fiscal Quarter;

 

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(e)[Intentionally Omitted];

 

(f)obligations in respect of Hedging Instruments entered into for the purpose of managing interest rate, foreign currency exchange or commodity exposure risk and not for speculative purposes; and

 

(g)Indebtedness of Silversea Cruise Holding Ltd. and its Subsidiaries (“Silversea”) identified in Section 1 of Schedule H (Silversea Liens and Indebtedness) hereto.

 

9.3Liens

 

The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, revenues or assets (including the Purchased Vessel), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:

 

(a)Liens on the Purchased Vessel under the Mortgage;

 

(b)[Intentionally Omitted];

 

(c)Liens on assets (including shares of capital stock of corporations and assets owned by any corporation that becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower after the date of this Agreement) acquired after the date hereof (whether by purchase, construction or otherwise) by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than (i) an Existing Principal Subsidiary or (ii) any other Principal Subsidiary which, at any time, after three (3) months after the acquisition of a Vessel, owns such Vessel free of any mortgage Lien), which Liens were created solely for the purpose of securing Indebtedness representing, or incurred to finance, refinance or refund, the cost (including the cost of construction) of such assets, so long as (A) the acquisition of such assets is not otherwise prohibited by the terms of this Agreement and (B) each such Lien is created within three (3) months after the acquisition of the relevant assets;

 

(d)in addition to other Liens permitted under this Clause 9.3 (Liens), Liens securing Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount, together with (but without duplication of) Indebtedness permitted under paragraph (d) of Clause 9.2 (Indebtedness), at any one time outstanding and not exceeding the greater of (determined at the time of creation of such Lien or the incurrence by any Existing Principal Subsidiary of such indebtedness, as applicable) ten per cent. (10%) of the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (the “Lien Basket Amount”) taken as a whole as determined in accordance with GAAP as at the last day of the most recent ended Fiscal Quarter; provided, however that, if, at any time, the Senior Debt Rating of the Borrower is less than Investment Grade as given by both Moody’s and S&P, the Lien Basket Amount shall be the greater of (i) five per cent. (5%) of the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole as determined in accordance with GAAP as at the last day of the most recent ended Fiscal Quarter and (ii) $735,000,000;

 

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(e)Liens on assets acquired after the date hereof by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than assets (i) acquired by any Subsidiary that is an Existing Principal Subsidiary or (ii) acquired by any other Principal Subsidiary which, at any time, owns a Vessel free of any mortgage Lien) so long as (A) the acquisition of such assets is not otherwise prohibited by the terms of this Agreement and (B) each of such Liens existed on such assets before the time of its acquisition and was not created by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in anticipation thereof;

 

(f)Liens on any asset of any corporation that becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a corporation that also becomes a Subsidiary of an Existing Principal Subsidiary) after the date hereof so long as (i) the acquisition or creation of such corporation by the Borrower is not otherwise prohibited by the terms of this Agreement and (ii) such Liens are in existence at the time such corporation becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower and were not created by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in anticipation thereof;

 

(g)Liens securing Government-related Obligations;

 

(h)Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or levies not at the time delinquent or thereafter payable without penalty or being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(i)Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen and landlords incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not overdue by more than 60 days or being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(j)Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other forms of governmental insurance or benefits;

 

(k)Liens for current crew’s wages and salvage;

 

(l)Liens arising by operation of law as the result of the furnishing of necessaries for the Purchased Vessel or any Other Vessel so long as the same are discharged in the ordinary course of business or are being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(m)Liens on the Purchased Vessel and/or any Other Vessel that:

 

(i)secure obligations covered (or reasonably expected to be covered) by insurance;

 

(ii)were incurred in the course of or incidental to trading the Purchased Vessel and/or such Other Vessels (as applicable) in connection with repairs or other work to the Purchased Vessel and/or such Other Vessels (as applicable); or

 

(iii)were incurred in connection with work to the Purchased Vessel and/or such Other Vessels (as applicable) that is required to be performed pursuant to applicable law, rule, regulation or order,

 

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    provided that, in each case described in this paragraph (m), such Liens are either (A) discharged in the ordinary course of business or (B) being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(n)normal and customary rights of set-off upon deposits of cash or other Liens originating solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to bankers’ liens, rights of set-off or similar rights in favor of banks or other depository institutions;

 

(o)Liens in respect of rights of set-off, recoupment and holdback in favor of credit card processors securing obligations in connection with credit card processing services incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(p)Liens on cash or Cash Equivalents or marketable securities securing obligations in respect of Hedging Instruments permitted under Clause 9.2(f) or securing letters of credit that support such obligations;

 

(q)deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business and deposits securing liabilities to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements;

 

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

 

(s)licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases granted to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; and

 

(t)Liens on any property of Silversea identified in Section 2 of Schedule H (Silversea Liens and Indebtedness) hereto.

 

9.4Financial Condition

 

The Borrower will not permit:

 

(a)the Net Debt to Capitalisation Ratio, as at the end of any Fiscal Quarter, to be greater than 0.625 to 1;

 

(b)the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio to be less than 1.25 to 1 as at the last day of any Fiscal Quarter; or
   
 (c)in addition, if, at any time, the Senior Debt Rating of the Borrower is less than Investment Grade as given by both Moody’s and S&P, the Borrower will not permit

 

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Stockholders' Equity to be less than, as at the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, the sum of (i) four billion one hundred and fifty million Dollars ($4,150,000,000) plus (ii) fifty per cent. (50%) of the consolidated net income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period commencing on 1 January 2007 and ending on the last day of the Fiscal Quarter most recently ended (treated for these purposes as a single accounting period, but in any event excluding any Fiscal Quarters for which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries have a consolidated net loss).

 

9.5[Intentionally omitted.]

 

9.6Consolidation, Merger, etc.

 

The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, liquidate or dissolve, consolidate with, or merge into or with, any other Person, except:

 

(a)any such Subsidiary may (i) liquidate or dissolve voluntarily into, and may merge with and into, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, and the assets or stock (or other ownership interests) of any Subsidiary of the Borrower may be purchased or otherwise acquired by the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower or (ii) merge with and into another Person in connection with a sale or other disposition permitted by Clause 9.7 (Asset Dispositions, etc.); and

 

(b)so long as no Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event has occurred and is continuing or would occur after giving effect thereto, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may merge into any other Person, or any other Person may merge into the Borrower or any such Subsidiary, or the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may purchase or otherwise acquire all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, in each case so long as:

 

(i)after giving effect thereto, the Stockholders’ Equity of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is at least equal to ninety per cent. (90%) of such Stockholders’ Equity immediately prior thereto; and

 

(ii)in the case of a merger involving the Borrower where the Borrower is not the surviving entity:

 

(A)the surviving entity shall have assumed in writing, delivered to the Facility Agent, all of the Borrower’s obligations hereunder and under the other Finance Documents;

 

(B)the Borrower shall have provided such documentation and information as is requested by the Facility Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender and/or, if the Funding Agreement is then in effect, the Funding Entity) in order for the Facility Agent (or such Lender and/or the Funding Entity, as the case may be) to carry out and be satisfied that it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” and other

 

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    similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations (including all applicable anti-money laundering and anti-corrupt practices laws and regulations) in connection with the surviving entity; and

  

(C)BpiFAE shall have consented to the merger.

 

9.7Asset Dispositions, etc.

 

The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, contribute or otherwise convey, or grant options, warrants or other rights with respect to all or substantially all of the assets of (a) the Borrower or (b) the Subsidiaries of the Borrower, taken as a whole except sales of assets between or among the Borrower and Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

 

9.8Use of Proceeds

 

The Borrower will not request any Loan, and the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Loan (a) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, or (b) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, in violation of Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.

 

9.9Construction Contract

 

The Borrower will not amend or modify any term or condition of the Construction Contract that relates to (a) the type, size or capacity of the Purchased Vessel or its ability to comply with applicable laws (including Environmental Laws), (b) the Cash Contract Price, any element thereof or the way in which the Cash Contract Price or any element thereof is determined or (c) the delivery date of the Purchased Vessel or the way in which such delivery date is determined, in any such case in a manner which, in the reasonable opinion of the Lenders after consultation with BpiFAE and (if the Funding Agreement is then in effect) the Funding Entity, has or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except where such amendment or modification (i) shall have been consented to by the Required Lenders after consultation with BpiFAE and (if the Funding Agreement is then in effect) the Funding Entity or (ii) relates to a decrease in the dimensions or capacity of the Purchased Vessel in terms of the number of passengers and/or staterooms by less two per cent. (2%).

 

10.EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

10.1Listing of Events of Default

 

Each of the following events or occurrences described in this Clause 10.1 (Listing of Events of Default) shall constitute an “Event of Default”.

 

(a)Non-Payment of Obligations

 

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The Borrower shall default in the payment when due of any payment Obligation, unless:

 

(i)in the case of any default in the payment of any principal amount of the Loan, such default is caused by an administrative or technical error and the payment is made within five (5) Business Days of its due date;

 

 

(ii)in the case of any default in the payment of any interest on the Loan or deferred costs payable pursuant to Clause 6.18 (Deferred Costs) in respect of the Deferred Tranche, payment is made within five (5) Business Days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Facility Agent; and

 

(iii)in the case of any default in the payment of any other amounts under any Finance Document, payment is made within ten (10) Business Days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Facility Agent.

 

(b)Breach of Warranty

 

Any representation or warranty of the Borrower made or deemed to be made hereunder (including in any documents delivered pursuant to Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent)) is or shall be incorrect in any material respect when made.

 

(c)Non-Performance of Certain Covenants and Obligations

 

(i)The Borrower shall default in the due performance and observance of any other agreement contained herein or in any other Finance Document (other than the covenants set forth in Clauses 8.1(m) to 8.1(p) (Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.), Clause 8.4(e) (The Purchased Vessel), Clause 8.10 (Performance of Building Contract Obligations) and Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) and the obligations referred to in paragraph (a) above) and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Facility Agent or any Lender (or, if (a) such default is capable of being remedied within thirty (30) days (commencing on the first day following such five-day period) and (b) the Borrower is actively seeking to remedy the same during such period, such default shall continue unremedied for at least thirty five (35) days after such notice to the Borrower).

 

(ii)The Borrower shall default in the due performance and observance of its obligations under Clause 5.1(c), it being provided that if the default consists of a payment default, the remedy periods provided in Clause 10.1(a) (Non-Payment of Obligations) shall apply.

 

(d)Default on Other Indebtedness

 

(i)The Borrower or any of its Principal Subsidiaries shall fail to pay:

 

(A)any Indebtedness under the USD Facility Agreement; or

 

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(B)any Indebtedness that is outstanding in a principal amount of at least one hundred million Dollars ($100,000,000) (or the equivalent in any other currency) in the aggregate (but excluding the Indebtedness hereunder or with respect to Hedging Instruments),

 

(hereinafter called the “Relevant Indebtedness”) when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument relating to such Relevant Indebtedness;

 

(ii)any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any agreement or instrument evidencing, securing or relating to any Relevant Indebtedness and shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such event or condition is to cause or permit the holder or holders of such Relevant Indebtedness to cause such Relevant Indebtedness to become due and payable prior to its scheduled maturity (other than as a result of any sale or other disposition of any property or assets under the terms of such Indebtedness);

 

(iii)any such Relevant Indebtedness shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid or redeemed (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption or by voluntary agreement), purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Relevant Indebtedness is required to be made, in each case prior to the scheduled maturity thereof (other than as a result of any sale or other disposition of any property or assets under the terms of such Relevant Indebtedness); or

 

(iv)the occurrence under any Hedging Instrument of an Early Termination Date (as defined in such Hedging Instrument) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Hedging Instrument as to which the Borrower is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Hedging Instrument) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined) as to which the Borrower is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the termination value with respect to any such Hedging Instrument owed by the Borrower as a result thereof is greater than $100,000,000 and the Borrower fails to pay such termination value when due after applicable grace periods. For purposes of determining Indebtedness for any Hedging Instrument, the principal amount of the obligations under any such instrument at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or any Principal Subsidiary would be required to pay if such instrument were terminated at such time,

 

provided that (1) any required prepayment or right to require prepayment triggered by terms that are certified by the Borrower to be unique to, but customary in, ship financings shall not constitute an Event of Default under this paragraph 10.1(d) so long as any required prepayment is made when due and (2) any breach of financial

 

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covenants equivalent to those set out in Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) under or in relation to any other BpiFAE-backed facility agreement to which the Borrower is a party shall not, to the extent that such breach occurs during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period (but without prejudice to the rights of the Lenders in respect of any further breach that may occur following the expiry of the Advanced Loan Deferral Period), constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement provided that no Mandatory Prepayment Event has occurred under Clause 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) or Clause 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles).

 

(e)Bankruptcy, Insolvency, etc.

 

The Borrower or any of the Principal Subsidiaries (or any of the Borrower’s other Subsidiaries to the extent that the relevant event described below would have a Material Adverse Effect), or, in the case of clause (ii) below, the Borrower only, shall:

 

(i)generally fail to pay, or admit in writing its inability to pay, its debts as they become due or permit

 

(ii)enter into a binding settlement with all, or which is enforceable against each, of its creditors with respect to its Indebtedness;

 

(iii)apply for, consent to, or acquiesce in, the appointment of a trustee, receiver, sequestrator or other custodian for it or any of its property, or make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors;

 

(iv)in the absence of such application, consent or acquiescence, suffer to exist the appointment of a trustee, receiver, sequestrator or other custodian for it or for a substantial part of its property, and such trustee, receiver, sequestrator or other custodian shall not be discharged within sixty (60) days, provided that in the case of such an event in respect of the Borrower, the Borrower hereby expressly authorises the Facility Agent and each Lender to appear in any court conducting any relevant proceeding during such sixty (60)-day period to preserve, protect and defend their respective rights under the Finance Documents;

 

(v)suffer to exist the commencement of any bankruptcy, reorganisation, debt arrangement or other case or proceeding under any bankruptcy or insolvency law, or any dissolution, winding up or liquidation proceeding, in respect of the Borrower or any of such Subsidiaries, and, if any such case or proceeding is not commenced by the Borrower or such Subsidiary, such case or proceeding shall be consented to or acquiesced in by the Borrower or such Subsidiary or shall result in the entry of an order for relief or shall remain for sixty (60) days undismissed, provided that the Borrower hereby expressly authorises the Facility Agent and each Lender to appear in any court conducting any such case or proceeding during such sixty (60)-day period to preserve, protect and defend their respective rights under the Finance Documents; or

 

(vi)take any corporate action authorising, or in furtherance of, any of the foregoing.

 

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(f)Cessation of Business

 

The Borrower ceases to carry on all or substantially all of its business.

 

(g)Execution or Distress

 

Any execution, expropriation, attachment, sequestration or distress is levied against, or an encumbrancer takes possession of, all or a substantial part of the assets of the Borrower (a “Distress Event”) and such Distress Event continues for a period of thirty (30) Business Days, unless, upon the expiry of any such thirty (30) Business Day period if such Distress Event is still continuing, the Borrower demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Facility Agent that it is diligently and in good faith contesting such Distress Event by appropriate proceedings and that such Distress Event does not and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

10.2Action if Bankruptcy

 

If any Event of Default described in clauses (ii) to (v) of Clause 10.1(e) (Bankruptcy, Insolvency, etc.) shall occur with respect to the Borrower, the Commitments (if not theretofore terminated) shall automatically terminate and the outstanding principal amount of the Loan and all other Obligations shall automatically be and become immediately due and payable, without notice or demand.

 

10.3Action if Other Event of Default

 

If any Event of Default (other than any Event of Default described in clauses (ii) to (v) of Clause 10.1(e) (Bankruptcy, Insolvency, etc.) with respect to the Borrower) shall occur for any reason, whether voluntary or involuntary, and be continuing, the Facility Agent, upon the direction of the Required Lenders, shall by notice to the Borrower declare the outstanding principal amount of the Loan and all other Obligations to be immediately due and payable and/or the Commitments (if not theretofore terminated) to be terminated, whereupon the full unpaid amount of the Loan and all other Obligations shall be and become immediately due and payable, without further notice, demand or presentment.

 

11.MANDATORY PREPAYMENT EVENTS

 

11.1Listing of Mandatory Prepayment Events

 

Each of the following events or occurrences described in this Clause 11.1 (Listing of Mandatory Prepayment Events) shall constitute a “Mandatory Prepayment Event”.

 

(a)Change of Control

 

There occurs any Change of Control.

 

(b)[Intentionally Omitted]

 

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(c)Unenforceability

 

Any Finance Document shall cease to be the legally valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Borrower (in each case, other than with respect to provisions of any Finance Document (a) identified as unenforceable in any opinion of the Borrower’s counsel provided pursuant to Clause 4 (Conditions Precedent) or (b) that a court of competent jurisdiction has determined are not material) and such event shall continue unremedied for fifteen (15) days after notice thereof has been given to the Borrower by the Facility Agent.

 

(d)Approvals

 

Any material license, consent, authorisation, registration or approval at any time necessary to enable the Borrower or any Principal Subsidiary to conduct its business in a given jurisdiction shall be revoked, withdrawn or otherwise cease to be in full force and effect unless the same would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)Non-Performance of Certain Covenants and Obligations

 

The Borrower shall default in the due performance and observance of any of the covenants set forth in Clause 6.17 (Use of Proceeds) or Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition), provided that any such default in respect of Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) that occurs during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period (but without prejudice to the rights of the Lenders in respect of any further breach that may occur following the expiry of the Advanced Loan Deferral Period) shall not (as long as no Event of Default under any of Clauses 10.1(e) to 10.1(g) (inclusive) has occurred and is continuing, or no Mandatory Prepayment Event under Clause 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) or Clause 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles) has occurred, in each case during the Advanced Loan Deferral Period) constitute a Mandatory Prepayment Event.

 

(f)Judgments

 

Any judgment or order for the payment of money in excess of one hundred million Dollars ($100,000,000) shall be rendered against the Borrower or any of the Principal Subsidiaries by a court of competent jurisdiction and the Borrower or such Principal Subsidiary shall have failed to satisfy such judgment and either:

 

(i)enforcement proceedings in respect of any material assets of the Borrower or such Principal Subsidiary shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order and shall not have been stayed or enjoined within five (5) Business Days after the commencement of such enforcement proceedings; or

 

(ii)there shall be any period of thirty (30) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect.

 

(g)Condemnation, etc.

 

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The Purchased Vessel shall be condemned or otherwise taken under colour of law or requisitioned and the same shall continue unremedied for at least twenty (20) days, unless such condemnation or other taking would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(h)Total Loss

 

The Purchased Vessel is or becomes a Total Loss and a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the occurrence of the Total Loss has elapsed. For purposes of this paragraph (h):

 

(i)Total Loss” means:

 

(A)the actual total loss of the Purchased Vessel;

 

(B)the constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Purchased Vessel;

 

(C)any expropriation, confiscation, requisition, appropriation, forfeiture or acquisition of the Purchased Vessel, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any Person or Persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority (excluding a requisition for hire not involving a requisition of title); or

 

(D)any arrest, capture, seizure, confiscation, restraint, disappearance or detention of the Purchased Vessel (including any hijacking or theft) other than as described in clause (C) above,

 

unless, in the case of clause (C) or (D) above, the Purchased Vessel is redelivered to the Borrower’s full control, possession and enjoyment before the date on which prepayment is required to be made under Clause 11.2 (Mandatory Prepayment); and

 

(ii)a Total Loss shall be deemed to have occurred:

 

(A)in the case of a Total Loss under clause (A) of the definition thereof, at 1:00 p.m. (Paris time) on the date of the actual loss of the Purchased Vessel or, if that is not known, on the date on which the Purchased Vessel was last heard from;

 

(B)in the case of a Total Loss under clause (B) of the definition thereof, on the earlier of (I) the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers and (II) the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Borrower with the Purchased Vessel’s insurers in which such insurers agree to treat the Purchased Vessel as a total loss; and

 

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(C)in the case of a Total Loss under clause (C) or (D) of the definition thereof, at 1:00 p.m. (Paris time) on the date on which the relevant event is expressed to take effect by the Person making the same.

 

(i)Arrest

 

The Purchased Vessel shall be arrested and the same shall continue unremedied for at least twenty (20) days, unless such arrest would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(j)Sale of the Purchased Vessel

 

The Purchased Vessel is sold to a company which is not the Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than for the purpose of a lease back to the Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower) or any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower that owns the Purchased Vessel ceases to be a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower while it owns the Purchased Vessel.

 

(k)Funding Agreement

 

The Funding Agreement is no longer in full force and effect or has been suspended, repudiated, terminated, cancelled, repaid, prepaid or accelerated in respect of any Lender (such Lender being an “affected Lender” for the purposes of Clause 11.2 (Mandatory Prepayment)), except where the same is due to a Lender’s voluntary repayment or prepayment thereof or due to the faute lourde or dol under the Funding Agreement of any Finance Party or a breach or an event of default thereunder which is attributable solely to a Finance Party (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the underlying cause for which is not attributable to the fault of the Borrower).

 

(l)BpiFAE Insurance Policy

 

The BpiFAE Insurance Policy is no longer in full force and effect, is terminated or cancelled or is no longer valid, or it is suspended for more than six (6) months, to the extent that the same results in a Lender being obligated to make a mandatory prepayment of its borrowing under the Funding Agreement pursuant to clause 8.6 (Remboursement anticipé obligatoire en cas de résiliation, annulation ou suspension de la Police d’Assurance BpiFAE DGP) thereof (such Lender being an “affected Lender” for the purposes of Clause 11.2 (Mandatory Prepayment)).

 

(m)Illegality for Lenders

 

It becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for any Lender (such Lender being an “affected Lender” for the purposes of this Clause 11.1(m) and Clause 11.2 (Mandatory Prepayment)) to perform its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement, any other Finance Document and/or the Funding Agreement (an “Illegality Event”) and no later than the close of business on the last day of the Option Period related to the giving of any Illegality Notice by an affected Lender

 

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pursuant to the paragraph below, either: (x) the Borrower has not elected to take an action specified in sub-clause (1) or (2) below, (y) if the Borrower has elected to act as set forth in clause (1) below, the Borrower has failed to take the action required in respect of such election or (z) if the Borrower has elected to act as set forth in sub-clause (2) below, the affected Lender’s participation in the Loan has not been transferred to one or more Affiliates, other Lenders or financial institutions.

 

Upon the occurrence of an Illegality Event, the affected Lender may give written notice (the “Illegality Notice”) to the Borrower and the Facility Agent of such event, including reasonable details of the relevant circumstances. If an affected Lender delivers an Illegality Notice, the Borrower and the affected Lender shall discuss in good faith (but without obligation) what steps may be open to the relevant Lender to mitigate or remove such circumstances in accordance with the provisions of Clause 13.3(a), but, if they are unable to agree such steps within the Option Period or if the Borrower so elects, the Borrower shall have the right, exercisable at any time during the Option Period, either:

 

(1)to prepay the affected Lender’s participation in the Loan in full on or before the expiry of the Option Period, together with all unpaid interest and fees thereon accrued to but excluding the date of such prepayment, or

 

(2)to exercise its rights in accordance with the terms and conditions of Clause 13.11(g) (Borrower’s Lender Replacement Rights).

 

For the purpose of this Clause “Option Period” means the occurrence of the first of the two following dates: the last day of the Interest Period occurring after the delivery of the Illegality Notice or, if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the Illegality Notice (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law).

 

(n)Illegality for the Funding Entity

 

It becomes illegal for the Funding Entity to perform its obligations under the Funding Agreement with respect to any Lender (such Lender being an “affected Lender” for the purposes of Clause 11.2 (Mandatory Prepayment)).

 

(o)Dividend or New Debt

 

(i)The Borrower declares, pays or makes or agrees to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except for (A) dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity Interests payable solely in additional shares of its Equity Interests or options to purchase Equity Interests and (B) Restricted Payments pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other benefit plans (including with respect to performance shares issued in the ordinary course of business) for present or former officers, directors, consultants or employees of the Borrower in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

 

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(ii)the Borrower completes a Debt Incurrence;

 

(iii)the Borrower completes an Equity Issuance; or

 

(iv)the Borrower makes any payment of any kind under any shareholder loan other than any payments made pursuant to that certain $2,200,000,000 Term Loan Agreement, dated as of 23 March 2020, among the Borrower and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., BOFA Securities, Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral agent,

 

or in any case resolves to do so.

 

(p)Breach of Principles

 

The Borrower shall default in the due performance and observance of the Principles, including, without limitation, a breach of the covenants set out in Clauses 8.1(m) to 8.1(p) (Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.), Clause 8.4(e) (The Purchased Vessel) and Clause 8.10 (Performance of Building Contract Obligations), and, if capable of remedy, such default shall continue unremedied for a period of ten (10) days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Facility Agent, provided that, if the default does not otherwise constitute a Default or a Mandatory Prepayment Event under another section of this Agreement, the Borrower, the Facility Agent and BpiFAE shall seek to negotiate a resolution in good faith for a maximum period of fifteen (15) days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Facility Agent.

 

11.2Mandatory Prepayment

 

(a)If any Mandatory Prepayment Event shall occur and be continuing, the Facility Agent, upon the direction of the Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower and without prejudice to the Borrower’s obligations in Clause 6.6 (Funding Losses), require the Borrower to prepay in full on the date of such notice:

 

(i)the Loan or (A) in the case of Clauses 11.1(k) (Funding Agreement), 11.1(l) (BpiFAE Insurance Policy), 11.1(m) (Illegality for Lenders) and 11.1(n) (Illegality for the Funding Entity), each affected Lender’s participation in the Loan (as applicable) or (B) in the case of Clauses 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) and 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles), any drawn amount of the Deferred Tranche;

 

(ii)all accrued and unpaid interest on the Loan or (A) in the case of Clauses 11.1(k) (Funding Agreement), 11.1(l) (BpiFAE Insurance Policy), 11.1(m) (Illegality for Lenders) and 11.1(n) (Illegality for the Funding Entity), each affected Lender’s participation in the Loan (as applicable) or (B) in the case of Clauses 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) and 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles), in respect of any drawn amount of the Deferred Tranche; and

 

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(iii)all other Obligations payable to the Lenders or (in the case of Clauses 11.1(k) (Funding Agreement), 11.1(l) (BpiFAE Insurance Policy), 11.1(m) (Illegality for Lenders) and 11.1(n) (Illegality for the Funding Entity)) each affected Lender (as applicable) and the Funding Entity,

 

and, in such event, the Borrower agrees to so pay all such amounts.

 

(b)In addition to any prepayment made pursuant to paragraph (a) above, in the case of a Mandatory Prepayment Event arising under Clause 11.1(o) (Dividend or New Debt) or Clause 11.1(p) (Breach of Principles), the Facility Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower (i) require that any part of the Deferred Tranche that has not been advanced as at the time of such Mandatory Prepayment Event be automatically cancelled and, on the Repayment Date on which that portion of the Deferred Tranche would have otherwise been advanced, the Borrower shall continue to be obliged to make the relevant repayment of the Loan (and thus no deemed advance in respect of the Deferred Tranche shall occur) and (ii) immediately terminate the waiver contained in Clause 11.1(e) (Non-Performance of Certain Covenants and Obligations) relating to the occurrence of any Mandatory Prepayment Event in respect of Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition), such that any breach of Clause 9.4 (Financial Condition) in existence as at the date of the notice from the Facility Agent referred to above or any breach occurring at any time after such notice, shall constitute a Mandatory Prepayment Event with all attendant consequences.

 

12.THE FACILITY AGENT, MANDATED LEAD ARRANGERS AND DOCUMENTATION BANK

 

12.1Appointment and Duties

 

(a)Each Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent) hereby appoints Société Générale, as Facility Agent, as its agent under and for purposes of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which the Facility Agent is a party.

 

(b)

Each Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent) irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to sign the Funds Flow Agreement and the relevant Fee Letters on behalf of such Finance Party and to act on behalf of such Finance Party under and in respect of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party, including by giving the payment instructions set forth in the Funds Flow Agreement, and, in the absence of other written instructions from the Required Lenders received from time to time by the Facility Agent (with respect to which the Facility Agent agrees that it will comply, except as otherwise provided in this Clause 12 (The Facility Agent, Mandated Lead Arrangers and Documentation Bank), as otherwise advised by counsel or as otherwise instructed by any French Authority, it being understood and agreed that any instructions provided by a French Authority shall prevail), to exercise such powers hereunder and thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Facility Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as may be reasonably incidental thereto.

 

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(c)The Facility Agent shall not be obliged to act on the instructions of any Finance Party or the Required Lenders if to do so would, in the opinion of the Facility Agent, be contrary to any provision of this Agreement, any other Transaction Document to which the Facility Agent is a party or the BpiFAE Insurance Policy or to any law or the conflicting instructions of any French Authority, or would expose the Facility Agent to any actual or potential liability to any third party.

 

(d)The Facility Agent’s duties under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.

 

12.2Indemnity

 

Without prejudice to the Borrower’s indemnity obligations hereunder, each Lender hereby indemnifies (which indemnity shall survive any termination of this Agreement) the Facility Agent, pro rata according to such Lender’s Commitment, from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that be incurred by or asserted or awarded against, the Facility Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document or any action taken or omitted by the Facility Agent under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses which have resulted from the Facility Agent’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse the Facility Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by the Facility Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, to the extent that the Facility Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrower. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any such indemnified costs, this Clause 12.2 (Indemnity) applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by the Facility Agent, any Lender or any third party. The Facility Agent shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any other Transaction Document, or to prosecute or defend any suit in respect of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, unless it is expressly required to do so under this Agreement or is indemnified hereunder to its satisfaction. If any indemnity in favor of the Facility Agent shall be or become, in the Facility Agent’s determination, inadequate, the Facility Agent may call for additional indemnification from the Lenders and cease to do the acts indemnified against hereunder until such additional indemnity is given.

 

12.3Funding Reliance, etc.

 

Each Lender shall notify the Facility Agent by 10:00 a.m. (Paris time), one (1) day prior to the advance of the Loan if it is not able to fund the following day. Unless the Facility Agent shall have been notified by telephone, confirmed in writing, by any Lender by 10:00 a.m. (Paris time), on the day prior to the advance of the Loan that such Lender will not make available the amount which would constitute its percentage (based upon its Commitment)

 

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of the Loan on the date specified therefor, the Facility Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to the Facility Agent and, in reliance upon such assumption, may, but shall not be obliged to, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have made such amount available to the Facility Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay the Facility Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date the Facility Agent made such amount available to the Borrower to the date such amount is repaid to the Facility Agent, at the interest rate applicable at the time to the Loan without premium or penalty.

 

12.4Exculpation

 

The Facility Agent shall not be liable to any other Finance Party for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or in connection herewith or therewith, except for the Facility Agent’s own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. No director, officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent shall be liable to any Finance Party other than the Facility Agent for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or in connection herewith or therewith. Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, the Facility Agent:

 

(a)may consult with legal counsel (including counsel for the Borrower), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it and in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts;
   
(b)makes no warranty or representation to any other Finance Party and shall not be responsible to any other Finance Party for any statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with this Agreement;

 

(c)shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance, observance or satisfaction of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement on the part of the Borrower or the existence at any time of any Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of the Borrower;

 

(d)shall not be responsible to any other Finance Party for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto;

 

(e)shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement by action upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by facsimile or electronic mail) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties; and

 

(f)shall have no responsibility to the Borrower or any other Finance Party on account of:

 

(i)the failure of another Finance Party or the Borrower to perform any of its

 

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    obligations under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or of the Funding Entity to perform any of its obligations under the Funding Agreement;

 

(ii)the financial condition of the Borrower;

 

(iii)the completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties made in or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or in or pursuant to any document delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document; or

 

(iv)the negotiation, execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or of any document executed or delivered pursuant to or in connection with any Transaction Document.

 

12.5Successor/Replacement

 

(a)Subject in all respects to the terms of the Funding Agreement, the Facility Agent may resign or be replaced as such at any time upon at least two (2) Business Days’ prior notice to the Borrower and all Lenders, and a successor Facility Agent (which shall also have become, previously or simultaneously, the successor Funding Paying Agent under the Funding Agreement if the Funding Agreement is then in effect) shall be appointed with the approval or at the request of the Funding Entity; provided that no such approval by the Funding Entity is required to be obtained if HSBC France is the successor Facility Agent or, for the avoidance of doubt, if the Funding Agreement is no longer in full force and effect.

 

(b)Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of a proposed successor Facility Agent under paragraph (a) above, the Borrower shall, as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within two (2) Business Days, advise the existing Facility Agent in writing whether the Borrower approves or objects to such proposed successor Facility Agent; provided that, if the Borrower fails to so advise the Facility Agent in writing within such two (2) Business Days, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have approved of such proposed successor Facility Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower’s approval is not required for HSBC France to become the successor Facility Agent, and the Borrower shall otherwise only have an approval right with respect to the first proposed successor Facility Agent (other than HSBC France) notified to the Borrower. If the Borrower objects to such first proposed successor Facility Agent (other than HSBC France) notified to the Borrower, then such proposed successor Facility Agent shall not become the successor Facility Agent hereunder (unless the Borrower, after consultation with the existing Facility Agent (which consultation shall not be required of the Borrower), agrees to the contrary).

 

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(c)Any successor Facility Agent hereunder shall be entitled to receive from the resigning or otherwise replaced Facility Agent such documents of transfer and assignment as such successor Facility Agent or (if the Funding Agreement is then in effect) the Funding Entity may request, and shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all rights, powers, privileges and duties of the resigning or otherwise replaced Facility Agent, and the resigning or otherwise replaced Facility Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement.

 

(d)After any resigning or otherwise replaced Facility Agent’s resignation or replacement hereunder as the Facility Agent, the provisions of:

 

(i)this Clause 12 (The Facility Agent, Mandated Lead Arrangers and Documentation Bank) shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Facility Agent under this Agreement; and

 

(ii)Clause 13.5 (Payment of Costs and Expenses) and Clause 13.6 (Indemnification) shall continue to inure to its benefit.

 

(e)The Facility Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (a) above (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Facility Agent pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) above) if, on or after the date which is three (3) months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents, either:

 

(i)the Facility Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 6.8(k) and a Lender reasonably believes that the Facility 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 Facility Agent pursuant to Clause 6.8(k) or (l) indicates that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; or

 

(iii)the Facility Agent notifies the Lenders and the Borrower that the Facility 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) a Lender reasonably believes that a party hereto will be required to make a FATCA Deduction that would not be required if the Facility Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party and that Lender, by notice to the Facility Agent, requires it to resign.

 

12.6Loans by the Facility Agent

 

The Facility Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower as if the Facility Agent were not the Facility Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the other Finance Parties. The Facility Agent shall have no duty to

 

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disclose information obtained or received by it or any of its Affiliates relating to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries to the extent such information was obtained or received in any capacity other than as the Facility Agent.

 

12.7Credit Decisions

 

Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently of the Facility Agent and each other Finance Party, and based on such Lender’s review of the financial information of the Borrower, this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and such other documents, information and investigations as such Lender has deemed appropriate, made its own credit decision to extend its Commitment or otherwise participate in the Loan. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently of the Facility Agent and each other Finance Party, and based on such other documents, information and investigations as it shall deem appropriate at any time, continue to make its own credit decisions as to exercising or not exercising from time to time any rights and privileges available to it under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.

 

12.8Copies, etc.

 

The Facility Agent shall give prompt notice to each Lender and (for as long as the Funding Agreement is in effect) the Funding Entity of each notice or request required or permitted to be given to the Facility Agent by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement (unless concurrently delivered to the Lenders and/or the Funding Entity, as applicable, by the Borrower). The Facility Agent will distribute to each Lender and (for as long as the Funding Agreement is in effect) the Funding Entity each document or instrument received for its account and copies of all other communications received by the Facility Agent from the Borrower for distribution to the Lenders and/or the Funding Entity, as the case may be, by the Facility Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

12.9The Facility Agent’s Rights

 

The Facility Agent may (a) assume that all representations or warranties made or deemed repeated by the Borrower in or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document are true and complete, unless, in its capacity as the Facility Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; (b) assume that no Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event has occurred unless, in its capacity as Facility Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; (c) rely on any document or notice believed by it to be genuine; (d) rely as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any legal or other professional advisers selected or approved by it; (e) rely as to any factual matters which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of the Borrower on a certificate or other document signed by or on behalf of the Borrower; and (f) refrain from exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy unless and until instructed to exercise that right, power, discretion or remedy and as to the manner of such exercise by the Lenders (or, where applicable, by the Required Lenders) and unless and until it has received from the Lenders any payment which it may require on account of, or any security which it may require for, any costs, claims, expenses (including legal and other professional fees) and liabilities which it considers it may incur or sustain

 

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in complying with those instructions.

 

12.10The Facility Agent’s Duties

 

(a)The Facility Agent shall (i) if requested in writing to do so by a Lender, make enquiry and advise the Lenders as to the performance or observance of any of the provisions of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document by the Borrower and/or as to the existence of a Default, Event of Default and/or Mandatory Prepayment Event and (ii) inform the Lenders promptly of any Default, Event of Default and/or Mandatory Prepayment Event of which the Facility Agent has actual knowledge.

 

(b)The Facility Agent shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of the falsehood or incompleteness of any representation or warranty made or deemed repeated by the Borrower or actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Default unless a Lender, or the Borrower, shall have given written notice thereof to the Facility Agent in its capacity as the Facility Agent. Any information acquired by the Facility Agent other than specifically in its capacity as the Facility Agent shall not be deemed to be information acquired by the Facility Agent in its capacity as the Facility Agent.

 

(c)The Facility Agent may, without any liability to account to the Lenders, generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with the Borrower or with the Borrower’s subsidiaries or associated companies or with a Lender as if it were not the Facility Agent.

 

12.11Employment of Agents

 

In performing its duties and exercising its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to this Agreement, the Facility Agent shall be entitled to:

 

(a)employ and pay agents to do anything which the Facility Agent is empowered to do under or pursuant to this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents (including the receipt of money and documents and the payment of money); provided that, unless otherwise provided herein, including Clause 13.5 (Payment of Costs and Expenses), the employment of such agents shall be for the Facility Agent’s account; and

 

(b)to act or refrain from taking action in reliance on the opinion of, or advice or information obtained from, any lawyer, banker, broker, accountant, valuer or any other Person believed by the Facility Agent in good faith to be competent to give such opinion, advice or information.

 

12.12Distribution of Payments

 

The Facility Agent shall pay promptly to the order of each Lender (or, if the Funding Agreement is in effect, directly to the Funding Entity on behalf of such Lender in accordance with the Funding Agreement) such Lender’s pro rata share of every sum of money received by the Facility Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the other Finance

 

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Documents (with the exception of any amounts which, by the terms of this Agreement or any Fee Letter, as the case may be, are payable to the Facility Agent for its own account or specifically for the account of one or more Lenders) and until so paid such amount shall be held by the Facility Agent on trust absolutely for such Lender.

 

12.13Reimbursement

 

The Facility Agent shall have no liability to pay any sum to a Lender (or to the Funding Entity on behalf of such Lender) until it has itself received payment of that sum. If, however, the Facility Agent does pay any sum to a Lender (or to the Funding Entity on behalf of such Lender) on account of any amount prospectively due to such Lender (or to the Funding Entity on behalf of that Lender) pursuant to Clause 12.12 (Distribution of Payments) before it has itself received payment of that amount, and the Facility Agent does not in fact receive payment within five (5) Business Days after the date on which that payment was required to be made by the terms of this Agreement or the other Finance Documents, as applicable, then that Lender will, on demand by the Facility Agent and without prejudice to the Borrower’s obligations hereunder, to the extent not prohibited by the Funding Agreement, refund to the Facility Agent an amount equal to the amount received by it (or paid to the Funding Entity on its behalf), together with an amount sufficient to reimburse the Facility Agent for any amount which the Facility Agent may certify that it has been required to pay by way of interest on money borrowed to fund the amount in question during the period beginning on the date on which that amount was required to be paid by the terms of this Agreement or the other Finance Documents, as applicable, and ending on the date on which the Facility Agent receives reimbursement.

 

12.14Instructions

 

Where the Facility Agent is authorised or directed to act or refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Lenders or of the Required Lenders, each of the Lenders shall provide the Facility Agent with instructions within three (3) Business Days of the Facility Agent’s request (which request may be made orally or in writing). If a Lender does not provide the Facility Agent with instructions within that period, that Lender shall be bound by the decision of the Facility Agent. Nothing in this Clause 12.14 (Instructions) shall limit the right of the Facility Agent to take, or refrain from taking, any action without obtaining the instructions of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, if the Facility Agent in its discretion considers it necessary or appropriate to take, or refrain from taking, such action in order to preserve the rights of the Lenders under or in connection with this Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents. In that event, the Facility Agent will notify the Lenders of the action taken by it as soon as reasonably practicable, and the Lenders agree to ratify any action taken by the Facility Agent pursuant to this Clause 12.14 (Instructions).

 

12.15Payments

 

All amounts payable to a Lender under this Clause 12 (The Facility Agent, Mandated Lead Arrangers and Documentation Bank) shall be paid to such account at such bank as that Lender may from time to time direct in writing to the Facility Agent.

 

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12.16“Know your customer” Checks

 

Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of the Facility Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Facility Agent (for itself) in order for the Facility Agent to carry out and be satisfied that it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” and other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

 

12.17No Fiduciary Relationship

 

Except as provided in Clause 12.12 (Distribution of Payments), the Facility Agent shall not have any fiduciary relationship with or be deemed to be a trustee of or for any other Person and nothing contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall constitute a partnership between any two or more Lenders or between the Facility Agent and any other Person.

 

12.18The Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Documentation Bank

 

Except as specifically provided herein, none of the Mandated Lead Arrangers or the Documentation Bank has any obligations of any kind to any Person under or in connection with any Transaction Document.

 

13.MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

13.1Waivers and Amendments

 

(a)The provisions of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents may from time to time be amended, modified or waived, if such amendment, modification or waiver is in writing and consented to by the Borrower and the Required Lenders; provided that no such amendment, modification or waiver which would:

 

(i)contravene or be in breach of the terms of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy or the arrangements with Natixis DAI relating to the CIRR (if the Fixed Rate applies) or of the Funding Agreement shall be effective unless consented to by, as applicable, BpiFAE, Natixis DAI and/or the Funding Entity;

 

(ii)modify any requirement hereunder that any particular action be taken by all the Lenders or by the Required Lenders shall be effective unless consented to by each Lender;

 

(iii)modify this Clause 13.1 (Waivers and Amendments) or change the definition of “Required Lenders” shall be effective without the consent of each Lender;

 

(iv)increase the Commitment of any Lender shall be effective without the consent of such Lender;

 

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(v)reduce any fees described in Clause 5 (Repayment, Prepayments, Interest and Fees) payable to any Lender shall be effective without the consent of such Lender;

 

(vi)extend the Longstop Date shall be effective without the consent of each Lender;

 

(vii)extend the due date for, or reduce the amount of, any scheduled payment, repayment or prepayment of principal of or interest on the Loan or any other payment Obligation (or reduce the principal amount of or rate of interest on the Loan or any other payment Obligation) owed to any Lender shall be effective without the consent of such Lender;

 

(viii)modify the currency in which any payment is to be made under any Finance Document shall be effective without the consent of each Finance Party who is to receive such payment; or

 

(ix)affect adversely the interests, rights or obligations of the Facility Agent in its capacity as such shall be effective without consent of the Facility Agent.

 

(b)The Borrower agrees to pay to the Facility Agent for its own account a fee in the amount of fifteen thousand Euros (EUR 15,000) for each waiver of or amendment (i) required to be made to the Finance Documents during the term of the Loan to correspond to changes to the Construction Contract, (ii) requested by the Borrower or (iii) required due to the occurrence of a Default.

 

(c)The Borrower agrees to pay to the Funding Coordination Agent for its own account (or to the Facility Agent for the account of the Funding Coordination Agent) a fee in the amount of fifteen thousand Euros (EUR 15,000) for each waiver of or amendment required to be made to the Funding Agreement during the term of the Loan to correspond to (i) changes to the Construction Contract or (ii) waivers of or amendments to the Finance Documents requested by the Borrower and/or required due to the occurrence of a Default.

 

(d)Neither the Borrower’s rights nor its obligations under the Finance Documents shall be changed, directly or indirectly, as a result of any amendment, supplement, modification, variance or novation of the Funding Agreement or the BpiFAE Insurance Policy, except any amendments, supplements, modifications, variances or novations, as the case may be, which occur (i) with the Borrower’s consent, (ii) at the Borrower’s request or (iii) in order to conform to amendments, supplements, modifications, variances or novations effected in respect of the Finance Documents in accordance with their terms.

 

(e)The Borrower agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent, it shall not:

 

(i)agree to any change (A) to the definition of “Repayment Date” under the USD Facility Agreement, (B) to the definition of “Business Day” under the USD Facility Agreement (but only to the extent the same would result in a

 

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change in the definition of “Repayment Date” under the USD Facility Agreement) or (C) that will result in a change of the payment dates of any amount of scheduled payments of principal or interest under clause 5.1(a) (as may be varied pursuant to clause 5.1(c)(ii)) or clause 5.3(d(i)(A)) of the USD Facility Agreement;

 

(ii)agree to any change to the provisions of clause 7 (Representations and Warranties), clause 8 (Affirmative Covenants) and/or clause 9 (Negative Covenants) of the USD Facility Agreement but only to the extent those provisions are, as at the date of the Amendment and Restatement No.1, substantially the same in their terms, scope and effect as, respectively, the provisions of Clause 7 (Representations and Warranties), Clause 8 (Affirmative Covenants) and Clause 9 (Negative Covenants);

 

(iii)agree to any change to the provisions of clause 10.1 (Listing of Events of Default) of the USD Facility Agreement but, with regards to clauses 10.1(a) (Non-Payment of Obligations), 10.1(b) (Breach of Warranty) and/or 10.1(c) (Non-Performance of Certain Covenants and Obligations) of the USD Facility Agreement, only to the extent the same concern breaches of or defaults under those provisions of the USD Facility Agreement which are, as at the date of the Amendment and Restatement No.1, substantially the same in their terms, scope and effect as the provisions of Clauses 10.1(a) (Non-Payment of Obligations), 10.1(b) (Breach of Warranty) and/or 10.1(c) (Non-Performance of Certain Covenants and Obligations);

 

(iv)agree to any change to the provisions of clause 11.1 (Listing of Mandatory Prepayment Events) of the USD Facility Agreement but only to the extent those provisions are, as at the date of the Amendment and Restatement No.1, substantially the same in their terms, scope and effect as the provisions of Clause 11.1 (Listing of Mandatory Prepayment Events); and/or

 

(v)agree to any change to the obligations to make pari-passu and pro-rata payments under the Facility and the USD Facility as provided under Clause 5.1(c) and under clause 5.1 (c) of the USD Facility Agreement.

 

13.2Exercise of Remedies

 

No failure or delay on the part of the Facility Agent or any Lender in exercising any power or right under this Agreement or any other Finance Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power or right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other power or right. No notice to or demand on the Borrower in any case shall entitle it to any notice or demand in similar or other circumstances. No waiver or approval by the Facility Agent or any Lender under this Agreement or any other Finance Document shall, except as may be otherwise stated in such waiver or approval, be applicable to subsequent transactions. No waiver or approval hereunder shall require any similar or dissimilar waiver or approval thereafter to be granted hereunder.

 

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13.3Mitigation, Borrower Challenges, etc.

 

(a)Each Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policies and legal and regulatory restrictions and the terms of the Funding Agreement, the BpiFAE Insurance Policy and (if the Fixed Rate applies) the arrangements with Natixis DAI relating to the CIRR), in consultation with the Borrower, to avoid any circumstances which arise and which would result in any Commitments becoming cancellable or amounts becoming payable or prepayable pursuant to Clauses 2.5 (Cancellation due to Lender Illegality), 2.7 (Automatic Cancellation), 6.4 (Market Disruption in respect of an Unfunded Loan Portion), 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8(c), (d), (i) or (j) (Taxes), 6.9 (Reserve Costs), 11.1(m) (Illegality for Lenders) and/or 11.1(n) (Illegality for the Funding Entity), including using reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policies and legal and regulatory restrictions and the terms of the Funding Agreement (if it then maintains a Funded Loan Portion), the BpiFAE Insurance Policy and (if the Fixed Rate applies) the arrangements with Natixis DAI relating to the CIRR) to designate a different Lending Office, if such efforts would avoid such Commitments becoming cancellable or such amounts becoming payable or prepayable, provided that, in each such case, such efforts shall not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be prejudicial or otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender and/or its Affiliates.

 

(b)If the Borrower (acting reasonably) disagrees with any of:

 

(i)the Funding Entity’s determination of EURIBOR in accordance with Clause 6.1(a);

 

(ii)a claim by the Funding Entity under Clause 6.3(b);

 

(iii)the notice or calculations of the Funding Entity provided pursuant to Clauses 6.5(b) or 6.7(b); or

 

(iv)the details, calculations or supporting documentation in respect of Funding Losses of the Funding Entity provided pursuant to Clause 6.6(c) or (e),

 

then the Borrower shall promptly notify the Facility Agent thereof in writing with reasonable details of the Borrower’s position and the Facility Agent shall, subject to the terms of the Funding Agreement, use reasonable efforts to present the Borrower’s position and such details to the Funding Entity and shall revert to the Borrower with details of any responses from the Funding Entity. Until such time as the Funding Entity shall revise its determination or withdraw its claim (as applicable), the Funding Entity’s

initial determination shall apply and any claimed amount shall be payable by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of the relevant aforementioned Clauses.

 

(c)For the avoidance of doubt, the Facility Agent shall not be required to take or omit to take any action pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) above if it would put the Facility

 

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Agent in default under the Funding Agreement and/or the Funds Flow Agreement.

 

(d)The Lenders shall not exercise any voluntary cancellation or voluntary prepayment rights under the Funding Agreement without the prior written consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

13.4Notices

 

(a)All notices and other communications provided to any party hereto under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents shall be in writing, by facsimile or by electronic mail, shall be in the English language (or, if not in the English language, and if so required by the Facility Agent, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation thereof will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document) and shall be addressed, delivered or transmitted to such party at its following address, facsimile number or electronic mail address:

 

(i)in the case of the Borrower:

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

1050 Caribbean Way

Miami, Florida 33132-2096 U.S.A.

 

  Attention: Antje Gibson, Vice President and
  Treasurer Tel: +1 305 539 6440
  Fax: +1 305 539 0562
  Email: agibson@rccl.com

 

(ii)in the case of the Facility Agent (and all notices and communications addressed to any Lender or Mandated Lead Arranger from any party other than the Facility Agent shall be delivered to the Facility Agent for forwarding to such Lender or Mandated Lead Arranger, as applicable):

 

Société Générale

189 rue d’Aubervilliers

75886 PARIS Cedex 18

France

 

Attention:Muriel Baumann / Edouard Rutin
Tel:+33 (0)1 58 98 22 76 / +33 1 57 29 37 79
Fax:+33 (0)1 46 92 45 97
Email:muriel.baumann@sgcib.com
  edouard.rutin@sgcib.com
  par-oper-fin-smo-ext@sgcib.com

 

and

 

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Attention:Catherine Ferreira
Tel:+33 (0)1 42 14 48 45
Fax:+33 (0)1 70 71 95 63
Email:catherine.ferreira@sgcib.com
  par-oper-caf-dmt6@sgcib.com

 

(iii)in the case of the Documentation Bank:

 

BNP Paribas

Millénaire 4, 35 Rue de la Gare

75019 – Paris,

CVA05A1 – France

 Attention:M. Thierry Anezo / Estelle Farny
 Tel:+33 1 43 16 81 57 / +33 1 40 14 59 84
Email:Thierry.anezo@bnpparibas.com
  Estelle.farny@bnpparibas.com

 

(iv)in the case of each of the Mandated Lead Arrangers and Original Lenders, that identified with its name below:

 

(A)BNP Paribas:

 

BNP Paribas

Millénaire 4, 35 Rue de la Gare

75019 – Paris,

CVA05A1 – France

 

  Attention: M. Thierry Anezo / Estelle Farny
  Tel: +33 1 43 16 81 57 / +33 1 40 14 59 84
  Email: Thierry.anezo@bnpparibas.com
    Estelle.farny@bnpparibas.com

 

(B)HSBC France:

 

HSBC France

109, avenue des Champs-Elysées 75419 PARIS Cedex 08

France

 

Attention:Florencia Thomas / Alexandra Penda
Tel:+33 (0)1 49 52 22 60 / +33 (0)1 41 02 67 50
Fax:+33 (0)1 40 70 28 80
Email:florencia.thomas@hsbc.fr / alexandra.penda@hsbc.fr

 

(C)Société Générale:

 

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Société Générale

189 rue d’Aubervilliers

75886 PARIS Cedex 18

France

 

Attention:Muriel Baumann / Edouard Rutin
Tel:+33 (0)1 58 98 22 76 / +33 1 57 29 37 79
Fax:+33 (0)1 46 92 45 97
Email:muriel.baumann@sgcib.com
  edouard.rutin@sgcib.com
  par-oper-fin-smo-ext@sgcib.com
 and 
   
 Attention:Catherine Ferreira
 Tel:+33 (0)1 42 14 48 45
 Fax:+33 (0)1 70 71 95 63
 Email:catherine.ferreira@sgcib.com
  par-oper-caf-dmt6@sgcib.com

 

or, in the case of any Lender that is not an Original Lender, as set forth in the applicable Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, or, in any case, at such other address, facsimile number or electronic mail address as may be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties.

 

(b)Any notice:

 

(i)if mailed and properly addressed with postage prepaid or if properly addressed and sent by pre-paid courier service, shall be deemed given when received;

 

(ii)if transmitted by facsimile, shall be deemed given when transmitted provided it is received in legible form; and

 

(iii)subject to paragraph (c) below, if transmitted by electronic mail, shall be deemed given upon acknowledgment of receipt by the recipient in readable form (it being agreed that any electronic mail so acknowledged after 5:00 p.m. in the location of receipt shall be deemed to have been given on the following day).
   
(c)Any communication to be made between any two parties under or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means to the extent that those two parties agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication and if those two parties:

 

(i)notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information

 

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(ii)notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them by not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice.

 

(d)Subject to Clause 4.4 (Form of Conditions Precedent) and the proviso in Clause 8.1 (Financial Information, Reports, Notices, etc.), the Borrower may provide to the Facility Agent all information, documents and other materials that it furnishes to the Facility Agent hereunder, including all notices, requests, financial statements, financial and other reports, certificates and other materials, by transmitting the same to the Facility Agent in an electronic/soft medium in a format acceptable to the Facility Agent, promptly followed by an original thereof (unless the Facility Agent agrees otherwise); provided that any such items requested pursuant to Clause 8.1(j) or (k) shall be in a format acceptable to the Borrower and the Facility Agent and any such items requested pursuant to Clause 8.1(l) shall be in a format acceptable to BpiFAE.

 

13.5Payment of Costs and Expenses

 

(a)The Borrower agrees to pay on demand all reasonable and documented fees and expenses of the Finance Parties (including the reasonable and documented fees and out-of-pocket expenses of external counsel to the Finance Parties and of local counsel, if any, who may be retained by counsel to the Finance Parties; provided that the Borrower shall only be required to pay the fees of one collective counsel to the Finance Parties per relevant jurisdiction) in connection with (i) structuring the transactions contemplated hereby and

(ii) the negotiation, preparation, review, printing and execution of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, in each case whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated.

 

(b)In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay the following:

 

(i)the documented fees and out-of-pocket expenses of the Funding Entity for which the Finance Parties are responsible (directly or through the CDC Funding Agents) under clause 19 (Frais) of the Funding Agreement to the extent that they arise as a result of (A) any amendments, waivers, consents, supplements or other modifications to the Funding Agreement as may from time to time hereafter be (I) consented to, or requested, by the Borrower, (II) required to correspond to changes to the Construction Contract or waivers of or amendments to the Finance Documents and/or (III) required due to the occurrence of a Default that is continuing and/or (B) a Default that is continuing; and

 

(ii)the documented fees and out-of-pocket expenses of external counsel to the Finance Parties and of local counsel, if any, who may be retained by counsel to the Finance Parties (provided that, except after acceleration of the

 

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    Obligations pursuant to Clause 10.3 (Action if Other Event of Default), the Borrower shall only be required to pay the fees of one collective counsel to the Finance Parties per relevant jurisdiction) in connection with (A) any amendments, waivers, consents, supplements or other modifications to this Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents as may from time to time hereafter be requested or required, (B) the Finance Parties monitoring the transactions contemplated hereby or preserving their rights under the Finance Documents and (C) the Finance Parties exercising remedies or otherwise enforcing their rights under the Finance Documents, in each case whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated.

 

(c)The Borrower further agrees to pay, and to keep the Finance Parties harmless from all liability for, any stamp, recording, documentary or other similar taxes arising from the execution, delivery or enforcement of this Agreement or the borrowing hereunder.

 

(d)Without prejudice to paragraph (b) above, the Borrower agrees to reimburse the Finance Parties upon demand for all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Finance Parties in connection with (a) the negotiation of any restructuring or “work-out”, whether or not consummated, of any Obligations and (b) the enforcement of any Obligations.

 

13.6Indemnification

 

(a)The Borrower hereby indemnifies and holds harmless each Finance Party, the Funding Agents and each of their respective Affiliates and their (and their Affiliates’) respective officers, advisors, directors and employees (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel, which must be reasonable so long as no Event of Default is continuing), joint or several, that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party (including in connection with any investigation, litigation or proceeding or the preparation of a defence in connection therewith), in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of this Agreement, the other Finance Documents, the Funding Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Loans (collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), except (i) to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct or is a claim, damage, loss, liability or expense which would have been compensated under other provisions of the Finance Documents but for any exclusions applicable thereunder and (ii) with respect to claims, damages, losses, liability or expenses arising solely under the Funds Flow Agreement, to the extent the same are not attributable to the Borrower’s breach of the terms thereof.

 

(b)In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Clause 13.6 (Indemnification) applies, such indemnity shall be effective

 

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    whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by the Borrower, any of its directors, security holders or creditors, an Indemnified Party or any other Person or an Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto.

 

(c)Each Indemnified Party shall:

 

(i)furnish the Borrower with prompt notice of any action, suit or other claim covered by this Clause 13.6 (Indemnification);

 

(ii)not agree to any settlement or compromise of any such action, suit or claim without the Borrower’s prior consent;

 

(iii)cooperate fully in the Borrower’s defence of any such action, suit or other claim (provided that the Borrower shall reimburse such Indemnified Party for its out-of- pocket expenses incurred pursuant hereto, which must be reasonable so long as no Event of Default is continuing); and

 

(iv)at the Borrower’s request, permit the Borrower to assume control of the defence of any such claim, other than regulatory, supervisory or similar investigations, provided that:

 

(A)the Borrower acknowledges in writing its obligations to indemnify such Indemnified Party in accordance with the terms herein in connection with such claims;

 

(B)the Borrower shall keep such Indemnified Party fully informed with respect to the conduct of the defence of such claim;

 

(C)the Borrower shall consult in good faith with such Indemnified Party (from time to time and before taking any material decision) about the conduct of the defence of such claim;

 

(D)the Borrower shall conduct the defence of such claim properly and diligently taking into account its own interests and those of such Indemnified Party;

 

(E)the Borrower shall employ counsel reasonably acceptable to such Indemnified Party and at the Borrower’s expense; and

 

(F)the Borrower shall not enter into a settlement with respect to such claim unless either:

 

    (I)          such settlement involves only the payment of a monetary sum, does not include any performance by or an admission of liability or responsibility on the part of such Indemnified Party and contains a provision unconditionally releasing such Indemnified Party and each other Indemnified Party from, and holding all such Persons harmless against, all

 

 

 

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liability in respect of claims by any releasing party; or

 

(II)such Indemnified Party provides written consent to such settlement (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

(d)Notwithstanding the Borrower’s election to assume the defence of an action, suit or other claim pursuant to paragraph (c) above, the Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel and to participate in the defence of such action, suit or claim and the Borrower shall bear the fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if:

 

(i)the use of counsel chosen by the Borrower to represent such Indemnified Party would present such counsel with an actual or potential conflict of interest;

 

(ii)the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the Borrower and such Indemnified Party and such Indemnified Party shall have concluded that there may be legal defences available to it which are different from or additional to those available to the Borrower and determined that it is necessary to employ separate counsel in order to pursue such defences (in which case the Borrower shall not have the right to assume the defence of such action on such Indemnified Party’s behalf);

 

(iii)the Borrower shall not have employed counsel reasonably acceptable to such Indemnified Party to represent such Indemnified Party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action; or

 

(iv)the Borrower authorises such Indemnified Party to employ separate counsel at the Borrower’s expense.

 

(e)If any sum due from the Borrower 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 Borrower;

 

(ii)obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings;

 

the Borrower shall as an independent obligation, within three (3) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Indemnified 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 that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (B) the rate or rates of exchange available to that Indemnified Party at the time of its receipt of that Sum.

 

13.7Survival

 

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The obligations of the Borrower under Clauses 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8 (Taxes), 6.9 (Reserve Costs), 13.5 (Payment of Costs and Expenses) and 13.6 (Indemnification) and the obligations of the Lenders under Clause 12.2 (Indemnity), shall in each case survive any termination of this Agreement and the payment in full of all Obligations. The representations and warranties made by the Borrower in this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

 

13.8Severability

 

Any provision of any Finance Document which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such provision and such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions of such Finance Document or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

13.9Execution in Counterparts

 

This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which shall constitute together but one and the same agreement.

 

13.10Successors and Assigns

 

This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns; provided that:

 

(a)except to the extent permitted by Clause 9.6 (Consolidation, Merger, etc.), the Borrower may not assign or transfer its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent, each Lender, BpiFAE and (for as long as the Funding Agreement is in effect) the Funding Entity; and

 

(b)the rights of sale, assignment and transfer of the Lenders are subject to Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations).

 

13.11Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations

 

Each Lender may transfer by novation all or any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents or assign all or any such rights or sell participations in its portion of any part of the Loan or grant security over its rights under the Finance Documents to one or more other Persons in accordance with this Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations).

 

(a)Transfers and Assignments

 

(i)Any Lender, upon prior notice to BpiFAE and with the prior written consent of the Funding Entity (if the Funding Agreement is then in effect and if the

 

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    transferee or assignee requires the benefit thereof), Natixis DAI (if the Loan is accruing interest at the Fixed Rate) and the Borrower (the consent of the Borrower not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), may at any time (and from time to time) transfer by novation all or any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents or assign all or any of its rights under the Finance Documents to any Person (including BpiFAE and any financial institution presented to the Lenders by the Borrower, which shall be subject to the approval of the Lenders (acting reasonably) and, if the Funding Agreement is then in effect, the Funding Entity) (any such transferee or assignee, as the case may be, a “New Lender”); provided that any New Lender (other than BpiFAE) shall, if the Fixed Rate applies, be eligible to benefit from the CIRR stabilisation.

 

(ii)Notwithstanding clause (i) above, the consent of the Borrower shall not be required:

 

(A)in the case of any transfer or assignment to BpiFAE, any other existing Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender (provided that, for a transfer or assignment to an Affiliate of any Lender occurring prior to the Disbursement Date, at least three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice shall be given to the Borrower); and/or

 

(B)for any transfer or assignment during the continuation of an Event of Default under Clauses 10.1(a) (Non Payment); 10.1(d)(i) (Default on other Indebtedness) and 10.1(e) (Bankruptcy, Insolvency, etc.).

 

(iii)The consent of the Borrower to a transfer or assignment shall be deemed to be given in the absence of a written notice delivered by the Borrower to the Facility Agent, on or before the fifth (5th) Business Day after receipt by the Borrower of such Lender’s request for consent, stating, in reasonable detail, the reasons why the Borrower proposes to withhold such consent.

 

(iv)Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower hereby expressly consents to the transfer or assignment to Natixis of up to ten per cent. (10%) of the Commitments as at the date of this Agreement.

 

(v)Any transfer or assignment by a Lender under this paragraph (a) (other than a transfer or assignment to BpiFAE and/or where a Default is continuing and/or where the transfer or assignment is at the Borrower’s request) shall not result in an increase of the Borrower’s obligations under Clauses 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8 (Taxes) and 6.9 (Reserve Costs) or any other additional costs to the Borrower which the Borrower would not have been obligated to pay to the transferring or assigning Lender had the transfer or assignment (as the case may be) not occurred.

 

(b)Procedure for Transfer or Assignment

 

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(i)The Borrower and the Facility Agent shall be entitled to continue to deal solely and directly with the existing Lender in connection with the interests to be transferred or assigned to a New Lender until (i) such New Lender and the transferring/assigning Lender shall have executed and delivered to the Facility Agent a duly completed Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, as applicable, (ii) the Facility Agent shall have executed such Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, as applicable, and (iii) the processing fee described in clause (viii) below shall have been paid.

 

(ii)Subject to:

 

(A)the Facility Agent performing all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the New Lender; and

 

(B)the Facility Agent (after consultation with the Funding Entity (if the Funding Agreement is then in effect) and upon the Lenders’ instructions) being satisfied if the Funding Agreement is then in effect that the security in favour of the Funding Entity under the Funding Agreement will not be adversely affected by the proposed transfer/assignment and confirming that, simultaneously with the transfer/assignment:

 

(I)the New Lender will have rights and/or obligations, as the case may be, of a borrower under the Funding Agreement equal in proportion to the rights and/or obligations hereunder being transferred or assigned to the New Lender; and

 

(II)the New Lender’s rights under the Finance Documents and the BpiFAE Insurance Policy will be delegated, pledged or assigned, as applicable, in favour of the Funding Entity to the same extent as the Existing Lender’s rights thereunder immediately prior to such transfer/assignment,

 

the Facility Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, as applicable, and promptly thereafter provide a copy thereof to the Borrower.

 

(iii)For as long as the Funding Agreement is in effect, any transfer or assignment under this Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations) shall not be effective unless (A) the New Lender shall have rights and/or obligations, as the case may be, of a borrower under the Funding Agreement equal in proportion to the rights and/or obligations hereunder being

 

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    transferred or assigned to the New Lender and (B) the New Lender’s rights under the Finance Documents and the BpiFAE Insurance Policy shall have been delegated, pledged or assigned, as applicable, in favour of the Funding Entity to the same extent as the Existing Lender’s rights thereunder immediately prior to such transfer/assignment. In addition, any transfer or assignment under paragraph (a)(iv) above shall not be effective unless Natixis is named as a co-insured under the BpiFAE Insurance Policy.

 

(iv)Any transfers or assignment must be in a minimum aggregate amount of fifteen million Euros (EUR 15,000,000) (or, if less, all of the existing Lender’s Commitment or portion of the Loan, as applicable).

 

(v)From and after the date that the Facility Agent executes the Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, as applicable, (A) the New Lender thereunder shall be deemed automatically to have become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and/or obligations hereunder have been transferred or assigned to such New Lender in connection with such Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, shall have the rights and/or obligations, as the case may be, of a Lender hereunder and under the other Finance Documents, and (B) the transferring/assigning Lender, to the extent that rights and/or obligations hereunder have been transferred or assigned by it, shall be released from its obligations hereunder and under the other Finance Documents.

 

(vi)Except to the extent resulting from a change in law occurring after the date of a transfer or assignment (as the case may be), in no event shall the Borrower be required to pay to any New Lender any amount under Clauses 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8 (Taxes) or 6.9 (Reserve Costs) that is greater than the amount which it would have been required to pay had no such transfer or assignment been made.

 

(vii)Each New Lender, by executing the relevant Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement, confirms, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Facility 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 Transfer Date and that it is bound by that decision to the same extent as the existing Lender would have been had it remained a Lender.

 

(viii)Any transferring/assigning Lender or the relevant New Lender must pay a processing fee to the Facility Agent upon delivery of any Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement in the amount of two thousand Euros (EUR 2,000) (and shall also reimburse the Facility Agent for any reasonable out-of-pocket costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, incurred in connection with the assignment, unless a Default is continuing, in which case the Borrower shall be liable for such costs, fees

 

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    and expenses). Natixis shall not be required to pay any such processing fee or costs, fees or expenses in connection with a transfer or assignment made pursuant to paragraph (a)(iv) above.

 

(c)Limitation on Responsibility of Existing Lenders

 

(i)Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:

 

(A)the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents or any other documents;

 

(B)the financial condition of the Borrower;

 

(C)the performance and observance by the Borrower of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; or

 

(D)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.

 

(ii)Each New Lender confirms to the relevant existing Lender and the other Finance Parties that it:

 

(A)has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of the Borrower 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 existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document; and

 

(B)will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Borrower and its related entities whilst any amount is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.

 

(iii)Nothing in any Finance Document obliges any existing Lender to:

 

(A)accept a re-transfer or re-assignment from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations); or

 

(B)support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by the Borrower of its obligations under the Finance Documents or otherwise.

 

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(d)Participations

 

Any Lender may at any time sell to one or more commercial banks or other financial institutions participating interests in its portion of the Loan without informing, consulting with or obtaining the consent of any other party to the Finance Documents; provided that:

 

(i)no participation contemplated in this paragraph (d) shall relieve such Lender from its obligations hereunder;

 

(ii)such Lender shall remain solely responsible for the performance of its obligations hereunder;

 

(iii)the Borrower and the Facility Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and each of the other Finance Documents; and

 

(iv)the Borrower shall not be required to pay any amount under Clauses 6.5 (Increased Loan Costs, etc.), 6.6 (Funding Losses), 6.7 (Increased Capital Costs), 6.8 (Taxes) or 6.9 (Reserve Costs) that is greater than the amount which it would have been required to pay had no participating interest been sold.

 

(e)Lender Screen

 

The Facility Agent shall maintain in its internal data system an electronic file (the “Lender Screen”) identifying, at any time, (i) the then current Lenders, (ii) each such Lender’s then current Commitments or participations in the Loan, as the case may be, after the Disbursement Date, the amount of the then outstanding Loan owed to each such Lender and (iv) if applicable, the fact that such Lender acquired or sold its Commitments or participations in the Loan, as the case may be, pursuant to a Lender Transfer Certificate or Lender Assignment Agreement. The entries on the Lender Screen shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. Upon reasonable prior notice, the Facility Agent shall make a screen-shot of the Lender Screen available to the Borrower and/or any Finance Party.

 

(f)Security Over Lenders’ rights

 

(i)In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 13.11 (Lender Transfers, Assignments and Participations), each Lender may 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:

 

(A)any charge, assignment or other security to secure obligations to its federal reserve or central bank;

 

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(B)upon at least three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Borrower, any charge, assignment or other security to secure obligations of that Lender for the benefit of any of its Affiliates;

 

(C)any delegation, pledge or assignment in favour of the Funding Entity in connection with the Funding Agreement; and

 

(D)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,

 

provided that any such charge, assignment or security shall:

 

(I)be made only with the Borrower’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), except if it is made pursuant to clause (A), (B) or (C) above in which case no such consent shall be required;

 

(II)not release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or other security for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; and

 

(III)not require any payments to be made by the Borrower or grant to any Person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents.

 

(ii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, upon enforcement by the Funding Entity of any delegation, pledge or assignment described in clause (i)(C) above in accordance with its terms, all rights of the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents which are subject to that delegation, pledge or assignment (as applicable) shall be transferred ipso jure to the Funding Entity which shall become the direct beneficiary of the same without the need for any formality (including, for the avoidance of doubt, without the need to comply with the procedures provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above).

 

(iii)Any Lender charging, assigning or otherwise creating security in or over any of its rights under the Finance Documents pursuant to this paragraph (f) or the relevant chargee, assignee or secured party (as applicable), other than the Funding Entity, shall reimburse the Facility Agent for any reasonable out-of-pocket costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, incurred in connection with the relevant charge, assignment or other security.

 

(g)Borrower’s Lender Replacement Rights

 

In respect of any Lender (an “affected Lender”), if the Commitments of such affected Lender become cancellable pursuant to Clause 2.5 (Cancellation due to

 

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Lender Illegality) or the Borrower is at any time required or entitled to cancel any Commitments of the affected Lender pursuant to Clause 6.12 (Cancellation of Commitment or Prepayment of Affected Lender) or prepay the affected Lender’s participation in the Loan pursuant to Clause 11.1(k) (Funding Agreement), Clause 11.1(m) (Illegality for Lenders) or Clause 11.1(n) (Illegality for the Funding Entity), the Borrower shall be entitled:

 

(i)in the case of any such cancellation of Commitments, within thirty (30) days of receiving notice of the relevant underlying event (which shall be at least thirty (30) days prior to the Scheduled Delivery Date or, if the requirement to cancel is due to an illegality, such shorter period as is required by law); and

 

(ii)in the case of any such prepayment, within thirty (30) days of receiving notice of the relevant underlying event or, if the requirement to prepay is due to an illegality, such shorter period as is required by law,

 

and (so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing) without liability for the Borrower for any premium or penalties but subject to any liability for Funding Losses to the extent provided for in Clause 6.6 (Funding Losses), to request that the affected Lender shall, and the affected Lender shall, use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policies and legal and regulatory restrictions and the terms of the Funding Agreement (if it then maintains a Funded Loan Portion), the BpiFAE Insurance Policy and (if the Fixed Rate applies) the arrangements with Natixis DAI relating to the CIRR) to:

 

(I)with the Funding Entity’s approval and, if no Default has occurred and is continuing, in consultation with the Borrower, replace itself with one or more Affiliates and/or one or more other financial institutions (including any financial institution(s) presented to the Lenders by the Borrower, which must have a minimum rating of at least A- by Standard & Poor’s and/or A3 by Moody’s and must be approved by the Funding Entity); or

 

(II)transfer its Commitment and its rights and obligations under this Agreement, the other Finance Documents, the BpiFAE Insurance Policy and (if it then maintains a Funded Loan Portion) the Funding Agreement to one or more unaffected Lenders,

 

in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and provided that such efforts would avoid such cancellation or prepayment and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the affected Lender, be prejudicial or otherwise disadvantageous to the affected Lender and/or its Affiliates.

 

This paragraph (g) is without prejudice to the Lenders’ obligations under Clause 13.3 (Mitigation, Borrower Challenges, etc.).

 

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13.12Other Transactions

 

Nothing contained herein shall preclude the Facility Agent or any other Finance Party from engaging in any transaction, in addition to those contemplated by this Agreement or any other Finance Document, with the Borrower or any of its Affiliates in which the Borrower or such Affiliate is not restricted hereby from engaging with any other Person.

 

13.13BpiFAE Premium

 

(a)The Borrower shall exclusively bear the cost of the BpiFAE Premium. The Borrower shall pay the BpiFAE Premium to the Facility Agent (for the account of BpiFAE) with the proceeds of the disbursement of the Loan as specified in the Drawing Request.

 

(b)Subject to paragraphs (c) and (d) below, the BpiFAE Premium shall be in an aggregate amount of two point three five per cent. (2.35%) of the aggregate of the amounts made available under the Facility as described in Clause 2.2(a)(i)(A) to (D). The estimated maximum amount of the BpiFAE Premium as of the date of this Agreement is set out in Clause 2.2(a)(ii).

 

(c)The Borrower acknowledges that the maximum amount of the BpiFAE Premium set out in Clause 2.2(a)(ii) is based on the Maximum Loan Amount and the Final Maturity Date, and that the actual amount of the BpiFAE Premium will be equal to two point three five per cent. (2.35%) of the portion of the Loan which is actually borrowed by the Borrower in respect of the items listed in Clause 2.2(a)(i)(A) to (D). The Borrower shall make payment of the actual amount of the BpiFAE Premium notwithstanding that such actual amount may be different from the estimated maximum amount set out in Clause 2.2(a)(ii).

 

(d)If the Longstop Date is extended by agreement between the Borrower and the Lenders, the BpiFAE Premium may be redetermined by BpiFAE and notified to the Borrower by the Facility Agent, and any increase thereof shall be promptly paid by the Borrower to the Facility Agent with the Borrower’s own funds.

 

(e)Notwithstanding the above, a minimum premium being, as of the date of this Agreement, in an amount of one thousand five hundred and fifteen Euros (EUR 1,515) shall be paid to BpiFAE by the Borrower in respect of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy upon the execution of the BpiFAE Insurance Policy. Such amount shall remain the property of BpiFAE and is accordingly payable by the Borrower to BpiFAE in any event.

 

(f)The Borrower acknowledges that the obligation to pay one hundred per cent. (100%) of the BpiFAE Premium out of, and subject to, the Disbursement (subject to paragraph (d) above) and to pay all other duly documented costs of BpiFAE incurred in connection with the BpiFAE Insurance Policy at the times required under the foregoing paragraphs of this Clause 13.13 (BpiFAE Premium) is absolute and unconditional.

 

(g)If, following the Disbursement Date, the Borrower:

 

 

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(i)voluntarily prepays all or part of the Loan, BpiFAE will refund to the Facility Agent, for the account of the Lenders and ultimately the Borrower, eighty per cent. (80%) of the unexpired BpiFAE Premium (save in respect of the additional BpiFAE Premium payable in relation to the Deferred Tranche), calculated in accordance with the following formula:

 

R = P x (1 – (1 / (1+2.35%)) x (N / (12 * 365)) x 80%

 

where:

 

R” means the amount of the refund;

 

P” means the amount of the prepayment;

 

N” means the number of days between the effective prepayment date and the Final Maturity Date; and

 

P x (1 – (1 / (1+2.35%)) corresponds to the share of the financed BpiFAE Premium corresponding to P; and

 

(ii)prepays all or part of the Loan for any reason other than a voluntary prepayment, the Facility Agent shall promptly request that BpiFAE refund to the Facility Agent, for the account of the Lenders and ultimately the Borrower, eighty per cent. (80%) of the unexpired BpiFAE Premium, calculated in accordance with the formula set out in clause (i) above,

 

and in any such case, upon the Facility Agent’s receipt of any such reimbursement from BpiFAE, the full amount of such reimbursement shall be repaid by the Facility Agent to the Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, should the Facility Agent not receive any such reimbursement from BpiFAE, it shall have no payment obligations towards the Borrower. However, the Facility Agent shall duly demand the payment of such reimbursement from BpiFAE in each case in which the right to such reimbursement arises under this paragraph (g).

 

(h)Subject only to paragraph (g) above, the BpiFAE Premium is not refundable to the Borrower for any reason whatsoever and the portion of the Loan made for purposes of financing the BpiFAE Premium shall be repaid in full by the Borrower in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

13.14Law and Jurisdiction

 

(a)Governing Law

 

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall in all respects be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

 

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(b)Jurisdiction

 

For the exclusive benefit of the Finance Parties, the parties to this Agreement irrevocably agree that the courts of England are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and, for such purposes, each party hereto irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such courts. The Borrower irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or in the future have to the laying of the venue of any proceedings in any court referred to in this Clause 13.14 (Law and Jurisdiction), and any claim that those proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate forum.

 

(c)Alternative Jurisdiction

 

Nothing contained in this Clause 13.14 (Law and Jurisdiction) shall limit the rights of the Finance Parties to commence any proceedings against the Borrower in any other court of competent jurisdiction, nor shall the commencement of any proceedings against the Borrower in one or more jurisdictions preclude the commencement of any proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.

 

(d)Service of Process

 

Without prejudice to the rights of the Finance Parties to use any other method of service permitted by law, the Borrower irrevocably agrees that any writ, notice, judgment or other legal process shall be sufficiently served on it if addressed to it and left at or sent by post to RCL Cruises Ltd., presently at Building 3, The Heights – Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0NY, England, Attention: General Counsel, and in any such event the Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have been served at the time of leaving or, if posted, at 9:00 a.m. on the third (3rd) Business Day after posting by prepaid first class registered post. If the appointment of the Person mentioned in this paragraph (d) ceases to be effective in respect of the Borrower, the Borrower shall immediately notify the Facility Agent and appoint a further Person in England to accept service of process on its behalf in England and, failing such appointment within fifteen (15) days, the Facility Agent shall be entitled, at the cost of the Borrower, to appoint such Person by notice to the Borrower.

 

(e)Waiver of Immunity

 

To the extent that the Borrower may in any jurisdiction claim for itself or its assets or revenues immunity from suit, execution, attachment (whether in aid of execution, before judgment or otherwise) or other legal process and to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there may be attributed to itself, its assets or revenues such immunity (whether or not claimed), the Borrower irrevocably agrees not to claim, and irrevocably waives, such immunity to the full extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction.

 

13.15Confidentiality

 

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(a)Each party hereto (a “first party”) agrees to maintain the confidentiality of all non-public information provided to it by any other party hereto (a “second party”), and the first party shall not use any such information other than in connection with or in enforcement of this Agreement or in connection with other business now or hereafter existing or contemplated with the second party, except to the extent such information (a) was or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the first party or its directors, officers, employees and agents or (b) was or becomes available on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the second party so long as such source is not, to its knowledge, prohibited from disclosing such information by a legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation to the second party; provided, however, that the first party may disclose such information without consulting with or obtaining the consent of any other party hereto:

 

(i)at the request or pursuant to any requirement of any self-regulatory body, governmental, banking or taxation body, agency or official to which the first party is subject or in connection with an examination of the first party by any such authority, body, agency or official, including the Republic of France and any French Authority;

 

(ii)pursuant to subpoena or other court process;

 

(iii)when required to do so in accordance with the provisions of any applicable requirement of law or the rules of any relevant stock exchange;

 

(iv)to the extent required in connection with any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes to which it may be party;

 

(v)to rating agencies, auditors, insurance and reinsurance brokers, insurers and reinsurers;

 

(vi)to the extent reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder;

 

(vii)to its independent auditors, counsel, and any other professional advisors who are advised of the confidentiality of such information;

 

(viii)to any potential participant or transferee/assignee or any Affiliate thereof or any Person who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any related participation or transfer/assignment, provided that such Person agrees to keep such information confidential to the same extent required of the first party hereunder;

 

(ix)to any Person to whom or for whose benefit any Lender charges, assigns or otherwise creates security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 13.11(f)

 

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    (Security Over Lenders’ Rights);

 

(x)in accordance with paragraph (b) below;

 

(xi)as expressly permitted under the terms of any other document or agreement regarding confidentiality to which the second party or any of its Subsidiaries is party with the first party;

 

(xii)to its Affiliates and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees, professional advisors and agents, provided that each such Affiliate, director, officer, employee, professional advisor or agent shall keep such information confidential to the same extent required of the first party hereunder;

 

(xiii)to any other party to this Agreement;

 

(xiv)to the Funding Agents and the Funding Entity;

 

(xv)to the French Authorities and any Person to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by the French Authorities; and

 

(xvi)with the consent of the applicable second party.

 

(b)(i)            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 Borrower the following information:

 

(A)the Borrower’s name;

 

(B)the Borrower’s country of domicile;

 

(C)the Borrower’s place of incorporation;

 

(D)the date of this Agreement;

 

(E)the names of the Facility Agent, each Mandated Lead Arranger and the Documentation Bank;

 

(F)the date of each amendment and/or restatement of this Agreement;

 

(G)the amount of the total Commitments;

 

(H)the currency of the Facility;

 

(I)the type of the Facility;

 

(J)the ranking of the Facility;

 

(K)the Longstop Date and Final Maturity Date for the Facility;

 

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(L)changes to any of the information previously supplied pursuant to clauses (A) to (K) above; and

 

(M)such other information agreed between such Finance Party and the Borrower,

 

to enable such numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering identification services.

 

(ii)The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or the Borrower 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.

 

(iii)The Borrower represents that none of the information set out in clause (i)(A) to (M) above is, nor will it at any time be, unpublished price-sensitive information.

 

(iv)The Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower and the other Finance Parties of:

 

(A)the name of any numbering service provider appointed by the Facility Agent in respect of this Agreement, the Facility and/or the Borrower; and
(B)the number or, as the case may be, numbers assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or the Borrower by such numbering service provider.

 

(c)Each of the parties hereto shall be responsible for any breach of this Clause 13.15 (Confidentiality) by any of its directors, officers or employees operating within the scope of his/her professional duties.

 

13.16Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Finance Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Finance Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of a Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

 

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

 

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

 

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 (i)a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
   
(ii)a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Finance Document; or

 

(iii)the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any Resolution Authority.

 

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Schedule A

 

The Original Lenders and Commitments

 

Original Lender  Commitment (EUR)   Percentage 
BNP Paribas   297,408,630    33⅓%
HSBC France   297,408,630    33⅓%
Société Générale   297,408,630    33⅓%

 

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Schedule B

 

Repayment Schedule

 

Part A Existing Loan   Part B – Deferred Tranche      
          o/s     p     o/s     drawdown     repayment
12/11/2019             496,314,937.69                              
12/05/2020             467,119,941.36       -29,194,996.33       29,194,996.33       29,194,996.33      
12/11/2020             437,924,945.03       -29,194,996.33       58,389,992.66       29,194,996.33      
12/05/2021     1       408,729,948.70       -29,194,996.33       51,091,243.58             -7,298,749.08
12/11/2021     2       379,534,952.37       -29,194,996.33       43,792,494.50             -7,298,749.08
12/05/2022     3       350,339,956.04       -29,194,996.33       36,493,745.41             -7,298,749.08
14/11/2022     4       321,144,959.71       -29,194,996.33       29,194,996.33             -7,298,749.08
12/05/2023     5       291,949,963.38       -29,194,996.33       21,896,247.25             -7,298,749.08
13/11/2023     6       262,754,967.05       -29,194,996.33       14,597,498.17             -7,298,749.08
13/05/2024     7       233,559,970.72       -29,194,996.33       7,298,749.08             -7,298,749.08
12/11/2024     8       204,364,974.39       -29,194,996.33       0.00             -7,298,749.08
12/05/2025     9       175,169,978.06       -29,194,996.33                      
12/11/2025     10       145,974,981.73       -29,194,996.33                      
12/05/2026     11       116,779,985.40       -29,194,996.33                      
12/11/2026     12       87,584,989.07       -29,194,996.33                      
12/05/2027     13       58,389,992.74       -29,194,996.33                      
12/11/2027     14       29,194,996.41       -29,194,996.33                      
12/05/2028     15       0.00       -29,194,996.41                      
                                      58,389,992.66     -58,389,992.66

 

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Schedule C

 

Form of Drawing Request

 

DRAWING REQUEST

 

From:   Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (the “Borrower”)

 

To:       Société Générale, as Facility Agent (on behalf of the Lenders)

 

Date:    []

 

Re: Facility Agreement for m.v. Harmony of the Seas (ex Hull No. A34) (the “Purchased Vessel”)

 

Dear Sirs,

 

We refer to the facility agreement dated 9 July 2013 (as amended from time to time, the “Facility Agreement”) and originally made between the Borrower, Société Générale as Facility Agent, BNP Paribas as Documentation Bank, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders that are parties thereto in respect of the Purchased Vessel. Capitalised terms defined in the Facility Agreement have the same meanings herein.

 

1.We refer to the Facility Agreement. This is the Drawing Request.

 

2.We wish to borrow the Loan on the following terms:

 

Proposed Disbursement Date/Effective Delivery Date:       [●]    (or,    if    that    is    not    a

TARGET      Day,      the      next

TARGET Day);

 

Currency:         Euros;

 

Interest rate:    [Fixed][Floating] Rate; and

 

Amount:           EUR [●], being the aggregate of:

(a)[●] (the “Builder Portion”), which is the aggregate of:

 

(i)[●] in respect of the Initial Basic Cash Contract Price;

 

(ii)[●] in respect of the Non-Exercise Premium; and

 

(iii)[●] in respect of Change Orders (other than Borrower-Paid Change Orders) effected in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract;

 

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(b)[●] (the “Borrower Portion”), which is the aggregate of:

 

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(i)[●] in respect of Borrower-Paid Change Orders; and

 

(ii)[●] in respect of the NYC Allowance; and

 

(c)[●] (the “BpiFAE Premium Portion”) in respect of the payment of the BpiFAE Premium to the Facility Agent for the account of BpiFAE.

 

3.The proceeds of the Loan shall be credited as follows:

 

(a)the Builder Portion shall be paid directly to the Builder, in accordance with clause 2.2(a)(i)(A), (B) and (C)(I) of the Facility Agreement, at the following account:

 

[Builder’s account details];

 

(b)the Borrower Portion shall be paid to the Borrower, in accordance with clause 2.2(a)(i)(C)(II) and (D) of the Facility Agreement, at the following account:

 

[Borrower’s account details]; and

 

(c)the BpiFAE Premium Portion shall be paid to the Facility Agent for the account of BpiFAE, in accordance with clause 2.2(a)(ii) and clause 13.13 (BpiFAE Premium) of the Facility Agreement, at the following account:

 

[Facility Agent’s account details],

 

and such payments shall be deemed for all purposes as the Loan having been made to the Borrower.

 

4.We confirm that, as of the date of this Drawing Request and on the Disbursement Date:

 

(a)each of the representations and warranties set forth in clause 7 (Representations and Warranties) (other than clause 7.10(b) (Obligations rank pari passu; Liens), clause 7.11 (Withholding, etc.) and clause 7.17 (Construction Contract) of the Facility Agreement remains true and correct by reference to the facts and circumstances now existing;

 

(b)no Default, Event of Default or Mandatory Prepayment Event, and no event which (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice or both) will become a Mandatory Prepayment Event, has occurred and is continuing or is reasonably likely to occur upon the disbursement of the Loan;

 

(c)the Construction Contract has not been suspended, repudiated, invalidated, terminated or cancelled (in whole or in part) and is otherwise in full force and effect;

 

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(d)at least twenty per cent. (20%) of the Cash Contract Price (inclusive of the Initial Basic Cash Contract Price, [the Non-Exercise Premium,] all Change Orders (including Borrower-Paid Change Orders) and the aggregate utilised NYC Allowance) has been paid by the Borrower to the Builder in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract;

 

(e)the Borrower has paid an amount equal to the Borrower Portion to the Builder for

(i)    Borrower-Paid Change Orders in accordance with the second sentence of article V(6) of the Construction Contract and (ii) the utilised NYC Allowance in accordance with article II(3A) and appendix C of the Construction Contract;

 

(f)the Non-Yard Costs have been properly supplied, installed and completed, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of the Construction Contract;

 

(g)no Lien, other than the Mortgage, is recorded over the Purchased Vessel, and

 

(h)[the drawing request under the USD Facility Agreement has been duly delivered to the USD Facility Agent and a copy of such drawing request is attached to this Drawing Request.]1

 

5.Attached to this Drawing Request is the evidence establishing the average rate of currency hedges entered into by the Borrower for payment in Dollars of the Non-Yard Costs.

 

6.This Drawing Request is irrevocable (except by operation of clause 2.6 (Delayed Delivery) of the Facility Agreement, which shall not affect any election [herein][in the initial Drawing Request] of the interest rate applicable to the Loan).

 

7.This Drawing Request is governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law.

 

Yours faithfully,  
   
ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.  
   
By:      Name:
Title:  

 

1 To be deleted if the USD Facility has been cancelled in full pursuant to clause 2.4 (Voluntary Cancellation), 2.5 (Cancellation due to Lender Illegality) or 2.7 (Automatic Cancellation) of the USD Facility Agreement.

 

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Schedule D

 

Form of Lender Transfer Certificate

 

To:         Société Générale, as Facility Agent (the “Facility Agent”)

 

Cc:         Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., as Borrower (the “Borrower”)

 

From:     [Existing Lender] (the “Existing Lender”) and [New Lender] (the “New Lender”)

 

Dated:   [●]

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. – Facility Agreement for m.v. Harmony of the Seas (ex Hull No. A34)

 

1.We refer to the facility agreement dated 9 July 2013 (as amended from time to time, the “Facility Agreement”) and originally made between the Borrower, the Facility Agent, BNP Paribas as Documentation Bank, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders that are parties thereto. Capitalised terms defined in the Facility Agreement have the same meanings herein.

 

2.This is a Lender Transfer Certificate.

 

3.We refer to clause 13.11 (Loan Transfers, Assignments and Participations) of the Facility Agreement and agree that:

 

(a)the Existing Lender transfers to the New Lender by novation, and in accordance with clause 13.11 (Loan Transfers, Assignments and Participations) of the Facility Agreement, all of the Existing Lender’s rights and obligations under the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents which relate to that portion of the Existing Lender’s Commitment(s) and participation(s) in the Loan under the Facility Agreement as specified in the Schedule attached hereto;

 

(b)the proposed Transfer Date is [●]; and

 

(c)the Lending Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of clause 13.4(a) (Notices) of the Facility Agreement are set out in the Schedule attached hereto.

 

4.The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender's obligations set out in clause 13.11(c) (Limitation on Responsibility of Existing Lenders) of the Facility Agreement [and confirms that it is eligible to benefit from the CIRR

 

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5.stabilisation]2.

 

6.This Lender 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 Lender Transfer Certificate.

 

7.This Lender Transfer Certificate and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

 

8.This Lender Transfer Certificate has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Lender Transfer Certificate.

 

 

 

2 Only if the Fixed Rate applies.

 

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THE SCHEDULE

 

Rights and obligations to be transferred

 

[insert relevant details regarding the Commitments/Loan]

 

[Lending Office address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments]

 

[Existing Lender]   [New Lender]
     
By:     By:  
Name:   Name:

 

This Lender Transfer Certificate is accepted by the Facility Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed as [●].

 

Société Générale, as Facility Agent

 

By:  
Name:    

 

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Schedule E

 

Form of Lender Assignment Agreement

 

To: Société Générale, as Facility Agent (the “Facility Agent”)

 

Cc: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., as Borrower (the “Borrower”)

 

From:    [Existing Lender] (the “Existing Lender”) and [New Lender] (the “New Lender”)

 

Dated:   [●]

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. – Facility Agreement for m.v. Harmony of the Seas (ex Hull No. A34)

 

1.We refer to the facility agreement dated 9 July 2013 (as amended from time to time, the “Facility Agreement”) and originally made between the Borrower, the Facility Agent, BNP Paribas as Documentation Bank, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Société Générale as Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders that are parties thereto. Capitalised terms defined in the Facility Agreement have the same meanings herein.

 

2.This is a Lender Assignment Agreement.

 

3.We refer to clause 13.11 (Loan Transfers, Assignments and Participations) of the Facility Agreement and agree that:

 

(a)the Existing Lender assigns absolutely to the New Lender all the rights of the Existing Lender under the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents which relate to that portion of the Existing Lender’s Commitment(s) and participation(s) in the Loan under the Facility Agreement as specified in the Schedule attached hereto;

 

(b)the Existing Lender is released from all the obligations of the Existing Lender which correspond to that portion of the Existing Lender’s Commitments and participations in the Loan under the Facility Agreement specified in the Schedule attached hereto; and

 

(c)the New Lender becomes a party to the Finance Documents as a Lender under the Facility Agreement and is bound by obligations equivalent to those from which the Existing Lender is released under paragraph (b) above.

 

4.The proposed Transfer Date is [●].

 

5.On the Transfer Date, the New Lender becomes a party to the Finance Documents as a Lender under the Facility Agreement.

 

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6.The Lending Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of clause 13.4(a) (Notices) of the Facility Agreement are set out in the Schedule attached hereto.

 

7.The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender's obligations set out in clause 13.11(c) (Limitation on Responsibility of Existing Lenders) of the Facility Agreement [and confirms that it is eligible to benefit from the CIRR stabilisation]3.

 

8.This Lender Assignment Agreement acts as notice to the Facility Agent (on behalf of each Finance Party) and, upon delivery in accordance with clause 13.11 (Loan Transfers, Assignments and Participations) of the Facility Agreement, the Borrower of the assignment referred to in this Lender Assignment Agreement.

 

9.This Lender Assignment 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 Lender Assignment Agreement.

 

10.This Lender Assignment Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

 

11.This Lender Assignment Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Lender Assignment Agreement.

 

 

 

3 Only if the Fixed Rate applies.

 

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THE SCHEDULE

 

Rights to be assigned and obligations to be released and undertaken

 

 

[insert relevant details regarding the Commitments/Loan]

 

[Lending Office address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments]

 

 

[Existing Lender] [New Lender]
   
By:   By:  

 

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Name:   Name:  

 

This Lender Assignment Agreement is accepted by the Facility Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed as [●].

 

Signature of this Lender Assignment Agreement by the Facility Agent constitutes confirmation by the Facility Agent of receipt of notice of the assignment referred to herein, which notice the Facility Agent receives on behalf of each Finance Party.

 

Société Générale, as Facility Agent

 

By:   Name:

 

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Schedule F

The Principles

 

CRUISE DEBT HOLIDAY PRINCIPLES

 

This document sets out the key principles for a temporary suspension of repayments and testing of financial covenants (the “Debt Holiday”) for BPI France covered loan agreements (“Loan Agreement”) in connection with the financing of cruise vessels.

 

1.Preamble

 

The current Corona-pandemic impacts the global tourism industry including all cruise operators ("Companies" or if related to an individual operator "Company"). All cruise ship operation will be ceased or is already ceased globally mainly due to government order directly or indirectly by port or border closures. The shutdown of cruise operations may have substantial negative impact on European cruise related jobs as well as on the cruise yards with its vast supplier and subcontractor network.

 

Since all Companies are effected in the same manner governmental support shall apply to all Companies in a coordinated process with equal treatment of all cruise operators. The intention of the Debt Holiday Initiative is to provide an interim relief to the Companies in its debt service obligations under existing financings. Apart from supporting the Companies, it is the firm understanding of the Lenders together with the respective ECAs that Companies taking advantage of the relief shall use its best endeavors fulfilling their contractual obligations under their existing shipbuilding contracts with the yard, i.e. do not unreasonably, unduly, and without consultation delay instalments and scheduled vessel deliveries and work in good faith with the yards to resolve any crisis-related construction delays.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, all measures to maintain a sufficient liquidity position of the Company during the crisis and later recovery phase will be considered reasonably by ECA in regards to the below Terms and Conditions.

 

A support package which is based on the Terms and Conditions below has been coordinated with BPI France and shall be applicable to all disbursed and undisbursed BPI France covered (whether benefiting from CIRR cover or not) export financings ("Export Financing") for the cruise sector.

 

Individual amendments of loan agreements shall be based on the Terms and Conditions outlined below.

 

2.Effective Date and Term

 

Debt Holiday may be applied to all amortization / principal payments of disbursed Export Financings from 01 April 2020 until 31 March 2021 (“Deferred Payments” and also the “Deferral Period”).

 

Debt Holiday Terms and Conditions shall be effective from Wednesday, 01 April 2020, subject to formal and acceptable amendment to the existing legal documentation and conditions precedents as customary for this kind of financing (“Closing Date”) being in place and in full force. Should the legal documentation and/or the conditions precedents not been met by Wednesday, 01 April 2020, the benefit of such Debt Holiday Terms and Conditions shall be made retroactively, whereby inter alia any amortization / principal payments which have been made between 01 April 2020 included and the Closing Date shall be made available for drawdown / reimbursement pursuant to the “ECA New Tranche” as defined here below.

 

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3.Terms and Conditions

 

3.1.Deferred Payments

 

3.1.1.Deferred Payments shall include the sums described in clause 2 as well the sums described in clause 3.4.2.

 

3.1.2.Any Deferred Payments must be redeemed within 5 years (latest until 31. March 2025) irrespective of remaining tenor of each individual Export Financing.

 

3.1.3.Repayment schedule of Deferred Payments may be determined individually and if remaining tenor of Export Financing is less than 5 years, prolongation of original final maturity of Export Financing is possible.

 

3.1.4.Deferred Payments shall be accounted for as a new loan tranche ("ECA New Tranche") which shall be made available in several drawdowns and in the form of a stretch facility structured as an additional tranche to the existing Export Financing facility and sharing the security package of the existing Export Financing facility on a pro-rata, pari-passu basis. Each relevant drawdown under the ECA New Tranche shall be made at the same time*, and for the same amount of principal payment, as each relevant Deferred Payment during the Deferral Period under the original Export Financing. Any drawdown fully available to the Company, once all relevant condition precedents are met, shall be cancelled if not used by the Company within 5 business days.

 

[* or as soon as possible in the case described in paragraph 2. whereby the documentation and the CPs for drawdown under the ECA Debt Holiday Tranche may not be completed and in full force and effect by the first repayment otherwise due during the Deferral Period]

 

The ECA New Tranche shall be priced on a floating rate basis according to the underlying Export Financing Loan Agreement and at the same margin as the one defined in the Export Financing Loan Agreement, with a separate repayment schedule. For Export Financing with a remaining tenor of more than 5 years, the Debt Holiday Tranche should be repaid in up to 8 equal half-yearly instalments beginning on the first regular repayment date after 1 April 2021 (other arrangements possible) due under the relevant Export Financing if no other repayment scheduled has been agreed and approved by the ECA. Voluntary prepayments of the ECA New Tranche are permitted at any time, if during interest period breakage cost may apply.

 

3.1.5.Additional imputed/calculative funding cost incurred by funding provider (Lender) due to Deferred Payments shall be borne by the borrower (or Company). Each funding provider may quote and charge its individual imputed/calculative funding cost, as may be governed by the underlying Loan Agreement. Commitment fees shall be due and payable under the ECA New Tranche from the date of effectiveness of the ECA New Tranche at the rate applicable under the Export Financing Loan Agreement.

 

3.2.Suspension of Financial Covenant Testing

 

Testing of all agreed Financial Covenants on all existing Export Financings (disbursed and undisbursed) may be suspended from 01 April 2020 until 31 March 2021 ("Testing Suspension"), Financial Covenants undertakings according to the Loan Documentation remain in place but non-compliance shall not trigger an Event of Default as defined under the corresponding Loan Agreement unless the Company has entered into all-lender restructuring or moratorium, customary bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.

 

3.3.Interest

 

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3.3.1.Notwithstanding any amount otherwise due under the ECA New Tranche, Interest (floating or fixed), (or commitment fee on undisbursed amounts) and any scheduled ECA premium payments shall continue to be payable, under the original Export Financing as and when due.

 

3.3.2.Agreed interest margin and fixed interest rate on amounts outstanding including Deferred Payments shall not be increased due to Debt Holiday, however any agreed margin grid terms according to the Loan Agreement shall remain effective and will apply.

 

3.4.BPI France Insurance Policy

 

3.4.1.BPI France cover remains effective under the original Export Financing and shall be available and extended also in respect of the ECA New Tranche covering the all sums due under the ECA Debt Holiday including principal (including sums resulting from clause 3.4.2) and interest.

 

It shall be a condition precedent to any drawdown under the ECA New Tranche that BPI France shall issue a new (or revised) “Promesse de Garantie” [followed by a “Police”] in form and substance acceptable to the relevant lenders, and issued to the ECA agent for the benefit of the lenders under the relevant Export Financing.

 

3.4.2.BPI France shall be entitled to charge an additional insurance premium on the ECA New Tranche). Any additional premium on the ECA New Tranche shall be due and payable by the Borrower in its entirety at the time of the first drawdown under the ECA New Tranche, and may be financed by an increase of the ECA New Tranche as granted by the lenders (in which case, such additional amount to benefit from the same ECA cover and a premium on premium amount to be calculated and applied by the ECA agent).

 

3.4.3.It is an express condition of the support by BPI France in reference to any ECA Debt Holiday support that the Company (or its relevant subsidiaries) shall undertake to continue to perform its obligations under any and all signed shipbuilding contracts covered by a BPI Export Financing, including but not limited to making all scheduled ship building contract instalments (or such similar arrangement of the same effect), save for any changes which may be agreed between the shipyard and the Company, in consultation with BPI France.

 

Any failure to do so shall trigger:

·           During the Deferral Period: a freeze and cancellation of any amounts yet to be drawn under all ECA New Tranches, and the immediate prepayment of all sums already drawn under the ECA New Tranches granted to the Company.

·           After the Deferral Period: the immediate termination of all ECA New Tranches and the prepayment of all sums due and payable under the ECA New Tranches granted to the Company.

 

The Company shall inform promptly BPI France and all Facility Agent of any event under clause 3.4.3 which may trigger any freeze or prepayment under ECA Debt Holiday Tranche granted under an Export Financing. Any incurred legal and administrative cost shall be borne by the borrower (or Company).

 

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3.5.Conditions / Liquidity measures

 

3.5.1.

Any dividend payment, any share buy-back program or any other distribution or payment to share capital or shareholders (including repayment of shareholder loans) and/or any new regular debt (save if raised in consideration of capex already committed by the Company but not yet financed and / or for the rollover of balloons under existing financings or the rollover of existing bonds, a list of which shall be provided as part of the Information Package see 4.2 for the review and acceptance of BPI and the Lenders), or equity issue (such as bond or new equity emission) by the Company shall trigger mandatory and immediate prepayment of any outstanding ECA New Tranche and immediate cessation of Testing Suspension. For the sake of good order, regular debt raised to meet minor capex/investment of less than [Eur 3 million or its equivalent] shall not trigger a mandatory and immediate prepayment of any outstanding ECA New Tranche and immediate cessation of Testing Suspension, if such capex/investment is financed in the ordinary course of business or if paid out of existing equity by the Company.

 

3.5.2.Utilisation of the ECA New Tranche shall be subject to proof of evidence of sufficient crisis-related liquidity measures by the Company which shall be documented in the application process based on the Information Package (see 4.2.).

 

3.5.3.Debt issue by the Company due to financing of any scheduled ship building contract instalments including but not limited to final instalment at delivery shall not trigger mandatory and immediate prepayment of any outstanding ECA New Tranches and cessation of Testing Suspension.

 

3.5.4.Crisis and recovery related debt or equity issue by the Company during Debt Holiday and until 31th December 2021, thereafter upon request and ECA-consent required, and/or prolongation of existing RCFs shall also not trigger mandatory and immediate prepayment of any outstanding ECA New Tranche and cessation of Testing Suspension.

 

3.6.Costs and Fees

 

3.6.1.Any incurred legal and administrative cost (including legal fees incurred at the CIRR Provider) shall be borne by the borrower (or Company).

 

3.6.2.For the implementation of the ECA New Tranche, Lenders will charge a reasonable handling fee payable latest at the first drawdown under the ECA New Tranche.

 

3.6.3.Additional imputed/calculative funding cost incurred by funding provider (Lender) due to Deferred Payments shall be borne by the borrower (or Company). For the avoidance of doubt funding provider shall only charge the difference between interest paid according to Loan Agreement on outstanding ECA New Tranche (which borrower continues to pay, see 3.3) and actual applied cost on the ECA New Tranche.

 

4.Procedure Debt Holiday Application

 

4.1.Company Level Approach

 

Each Company may apply for Debt Holiday with BPI France for all its disbursed and undisbursed Export Financings in one application per Export Financing facility via the relevant Facility Agent. A list of the relevant Export Financings shall be provided by each Company to BPI France together with the application or attached to this document.

 

4.2.Information Package

 

The Company shall provide to the ECA Agent for the benefit of the ECA and the Lenders a comprehensive information package of the current situation of the Company and its crisis-related countermeasures, including but not limited to (i) description of the current situation of the cruise line company, (ii) overview of core financial figures, (iii) preliminary liquidity estimation and cash-flow projections of the cruise line (including shut down period and recovery phase, and for such period covering at least the Deferral Period and the following 12 months). For details and as guideline please note the attachment 1 “Debt Holiday Test Scheme – Section A-E”.

 

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4.3.Reporting Requirements

 

4.3.1.During Debt Holiday the Company shall report regularly on parameters defined in the Debt Holiday Test Scheme – Section F (see attachment 1) including on a monthly basis during the Deferral Period, the cash-flow projections for the remaining Deferral Period and the following 12 months. After the 12 months Debt Holiday initial period, such reporting shall be limited to a [quarterly] report covering the cash-flow projections for the following 24 trailing months following the quarterly report (in addition to the regular reporting duties of the Company under the relevant Export Financings).

 

4.3.2.Although testing of Financial Covenants is suspended during Debt Holiday reporting on Financial Covenants shall be reported according to Loan Agreement.

 

4.4.Other Requirements

 

4.4.1.Each Company shall apply one Debt Holiday for each of its disbursed Export Financings with BPI France (no cherry picking) in several applications (one per Export Financing) via the relevant Facility Agent.

 

4.4.2.Company shall provide to Facility Agent agreed repayment schedule of the ECA New Tranches for all other affected Export Financings with BPI France.

 

4.5.Lenders’ Consent

 

Each Facility Agent in coordination with ECA shall coordinate Lenders' consent immediately after Company launched Debt Holiday application for each Export Financing.

 

4.6.Implementation Timing and BPI France Commission des Garanties and Lenders Credit Committee Subjects

 

For the avoidance of doubt, no Debt Holiday under an Export Financing may be expressed or implied as being granted until the overall following process shall be completed:

-First : the signing by the Company on the enclosed Debt Holiday terms and conditions for each of their Export Financing that will benefit from the BPI Debt Holiday;
-Second: a formal application, together with the supporting information, is sent by the Company to the Facility Agent, which shall inform BPI France and the Lenders accordingly
-Third: each relevant Lender shall seek internal credit approval, and in parallel BPI France shall seek the approval from its Commission des Garanties and issue a Promesse de Garantie;
-Fourth: drafting and execution of the legal documentation, together with the formal issuance of the Police de Garantie under the ECA Debt Holiday Tranche;
-Fifth: once the legal documentation of the Debt Holiday is signed and the CPs are met for drawdown, then relevant drawdown under the ECA New Tranche may process.

 

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Schedule G

Information Package

 

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SCHEDULE H

Silversea Liens and Indebtedness

 

SECTION 1: Existing Indebtedness of Silversea

 

(a)        The obligations of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in connection with those certain Bareboat Charterparties with respect to (i) the vessel SILVER EXPLORER dated July 22, 2011 between Silversea Cruises Ltd. and Hammonia Adventure and Cruise Shipping Company Ltd. and (ii) the vessel SILVER WHISPER dated March 15, 2012 between Whisper S.p.A. and various lessors, and the replacement, extension, renewal or amendment of each of the foregoing without increase in the amount or change in any direct or contingent obligor of such obligations, (the “Existing Silversea Leases”);

 

(b)       Indebtedness arising pursuant to that certain Bareboat Charterparty dated May 17, 2018 by and between Hai Xing 1702 Limited and Silversea New Build Eight Ltd., as such agreement may be amended from time to time; and

 

(c)        Indebtedness secured by Liens of the type described in Section 2 of this Schedule J.

 

SECTION 2: Existing Liens of Silversea

 

(a)        Liens securing the $620,000,000 in principal amount of 7.25% senior secured notes due 2025 issued by Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd. pursuant that certain Indenture dated as of January 30, 2017;

 

(b)        Liens on the vessels SILVER WHISPER and SILVER EXPLORER existing as of the Deferred Tranche Effective Date and securing the Existing Silversea Leases (and any Lien on such vessels securing any refinancing of the Existing Silversea Leases, so long as such Vessel was subject to a Lien securing the Indebtedness being refinanced immediately prior to such refinancing);

 

(c)        Liens on the Vessel with Hull 6280 built or to being built at Fincantieri S.p.A. and arising pursuant to that certain Bareboat Charterparty dated May 17, 2018 by and between Hai Xing 1702 Limited and Silversea New Build Eight Ltd., as such agreement may be amended from time to time (and any Lien on such Vessel securing any refinancing of such bareboat charterparty); and

 

(d)        Liens securing Indebtedness of the type described in Section 1 of this Schedule J.

 

 

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SIGNATURE PAGE (1 OF 2)

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

(Harmony of the Seas (ex Hull No. A34))

 

This Agreement has been signed on the date set forth at the beginning of this Agreement.

 

The Borrower

 

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

The Facility Agent

 

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURE PAGE (2 OF 2)

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

(Harmony of the Seas

(ex Hull No. A34))

 

 

The Mandated Lead Arrangers

 

BNP PARIBAS

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

HSBC FRANCE

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

The Original Lenders

 

BNP PARIBAS

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

HSBC FRANCE

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

 

By:    
Name:      
Title:    

 

 

 

 

Schedule 4

Form of Deferred Tranche Effective Date certificate (Harmony of the Seas – ex hull no. A34)

 

Dear Sirs,

 

Hull No. A34 – Fourth Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated [l] 2020 (the Fourth Amendment and Restatement Agreement)

 

We, Société Générale, refer to the Fourth Amendment and Restatement Agreement and confirm that all conditions precedent referred to in clause 4 of the Fourth Amendment and Restatement Agreement have been satisfied and, accordingly, the “Deferred Tranche Effective Date” for the purposes of the Fourth Amendment and Restatement Agreement is [●] 2020

 

Facility Agent

 

Signed by ………………………………………………………………..

 

For and on behalf of SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTION PAGE – FOURTH AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT
(HULL A34) - EUR

 

Borrower

 

SIGNED by LUCY SHTENKO )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ LUCY SHTENKO
ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD. ) Attorney-in-Fact

 

Facility Agent

 

SIGNED by Agnes Deschenes Voirin )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ AGNES DESCHENES VOIRIN
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE ) Authorised Signatory

 

The Mandated Lead Arrangers

 

SIGNED by Thierry Anezo )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ THIERRY ANEZO
BNP PARIBAS ) Authorised Signatory

 

SIGNED by )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ GUY WOELFEL
HSBC FRANCE ) Guy Woelfel
  ) Authorised Signatory
  )  
  ) /s/ JULIE BELLAIS
  ) Julie Bellais
  ) Authorised Signatory

 

SIGNED by Agnes Deschenes Voirin )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ AGNES DESCHENES VOIRIN
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE ) Authorised Signatory

 

The Lenders

 

SIGNED by Thierry Anezo )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ THIERRY ANEZO
BNP PARIBAS ) Authorised Signatory

 

 

SIGNED by )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ GUY WOELFEL
HSBC FRANCE ) Guy Woelfel
  ) Authorised Signatory
  )  

 

 

 

 

  ) /s/JULIE BELLAIS
  ) Julie Bellais
  ) Authorised Signatory

 

SIGNED by Agnes Deschenes Voirin )  
for and on behalf of ) /s/ AGNES DESCHENES VOIRIN
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE ) Authorised Signatory

 

 

SIGNED by )
for and on behalf of ) /s/ FREDERIC MARECHAUX
NATIXIS ) Frederic Marechaux
  ) Authorised Signatory
  )  
  ) /s/ THIBAULT LANTOINE
  ) Thibault Lantoine
  ) Authorised Signatory