Note 10 - Long-Term Debt

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

(10) Long-Term Debt

	December 31, 2010			September 30, 2011
	(In thousands)
Senior Unsecured Notes Payable (a)		$	—	$	250,000
Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility, Bank of America, N.A. (b)			—		—
Working capital facilities, Barclays (c)			4,998		39,979
Various subordinated unsecured notes payable; maturing at various dates from 2011 through 2015 (d)			4,858		2,939
			9,856		292,918
Less current portion			2,312		1,303
		$	7,544	$	291,615

(a)

On July 19, 2011, the Company closed a private offering of $250.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 9.0% senior notes due 2019 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued at a price of 100% of their principal amount. The Notes are senior obligations of ExamWorks and are guaranteed by ExamWorks’ existing and future U.S. subsidiaries. A portion of the gross proceeds of $250.0 million were used to repay borrowings outstanding under the Company’s Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility and pay related fees and expenses, and the remainder will be used for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions.

(b)

The Company entered into a Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility agreement dated November 2, 2010 with Bank of America, N.A. The facility initially consisted of a $180.0 million revolving credit facility. The facility is available to finance the Company’s acquisition program and working capital needs. On February 9, 2011, the Company exercised the accordion feature of the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility, increasing the facility from $180.0 million to $245.0 million.

On May 6, 2011, the Company increased and fully exercised the accordion features of the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. The increase and exercise of the accordion feature increased the committed capacity of the credit facility by $55.0 million, from a total of $245.0 million to a total of $300.0 million.

On July 7, 2011, the Company entered into a second amendment to its Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility (the “Second Amendment”) which became effective simultaneously with the consummation of the Company’s private offering of the Notes. The Second Amendment amended the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility to, among other things, (i) extend the maturity date of the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility from November 2013 to July 2016; (ii) permit the issuance and sale of the Notes; (iii) replace the consolidated senior leverage ratio with a consolidated senior secured leverage ratio while permitting the maximum consolidated senior secured leverage ratio to be 3.00 to 1; (iv) permit the Company’s maximum consolidated leverage ratio to increase from 3.5 to 1 to 4.75 to 1; (v) reduce the borrowing cost; and (vi) allow the Company to complete acquisitions with a purchase price of up to $75.0 million (previously $50.0 million) without prior lender consent. The Second Amendment also reduced the aggregate revolving commitments under the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility by $37.5 million for a maximum commitment of $262.5 million, subject to the Company’s right to increase the aggregate revolving commitments by $37.5 million for a maximum commitment of $300.0 million, so long as the Company is not in default and the Company satisfies certain other customary conditions.

Borrowings under the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility, as amended, bear interest, at either (i) LIBOR plus the applicable margin or (ii) a base rate (equal to the highest of (a) the federal funds rate plus 0.5%, (b) the Bank of America prime rate and (c) LIBOR (using a one month-period) plus 1.0%), plus the applicable margin, as the Company elects. The applicable margin means a percentage per annum determined in accordance with the following table:

Pricing Tier	Consolidated Leverage Ratio	Commitment
		Fee/Unused	Letter of	Eurocurrency	Base Rate
		Line Fee	Credit Fee	Rate Loans	Loans
1	≥ 2.50 to 1.0	0.50%	3.75%	3.75%	2.75%
2	≥ 2.00 to 1.0 but < 2.50 to 1.0	0.45%	3.50%	3.50%	2.50%
3	≥ 1.50 to 1.0 but < 2.00 to 1.0	0.40%	3.25%	3.25%	2.25%
4	≥ 1.00 to 1.0 but < 1.50 to 1.0	0.35%	3.00%	3.00%	2.00%
5	< 1.00 to 1.0	0.30%	2.75%	2.75%	1.75%

In the event of default, the outstanding indebtedness under the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility will bear interest at an additional 2%.

The Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility contains restrictive covenants, including among other things financial covenants requiring the Company to not exceed a maximum consolidated senior secured leverage coverage ratio, a maximum total consolidated leverage ratio and to maintain a minimum consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio. The Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility also restricts the Company’s ability (subject to certain exceptions) to incur indebtedness, prepay or amend other indebtedness, create liens, make certain fundamental changes including mergers or dissolutions, pay dividends and make other payments in respect of capital stock, make certain investments, sell assets, change its lines of business, enter into transactions with affiliates and other corporate actions.

(c)

On September 29, 2010, the Company’s indirect wholly-owned subsidiary UKIM entered into a Sales Finance Agreement (the “UKIM SFA”) with Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”), pursuant to which Barclays will provide UKIM a working capital facility of up to £5,000,000, subject to the terms and conditions of the UKIM SFA. The working capital facility bears a discount margin of 2.5% over Base Rate (0.5% rate on September 30, 2011) and serves to finance UKIM’s unpaid account receivables. The working capital facility operates on a co-terminus and cross-default basis with other facilities provided by Barclays and with the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. As of September 30, 2011, the Company had $5.9 million outstanding under the working capital facility, resulting in approximately $1.9 million in availability.

On May 12, 2011, the Company’s indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Premex entered into a Sales Finance Agreement (the “Premex SFA”) with Barclays, pursuant to which Barclays will provide Premex a working capital facility of up to £26,500,000, subject to the terms and conditions of the Premex SFA. The working capital facility bears a discount margin of 2.4% over Base Rate (0.5% rate on September 30, 2011) and serves to finance Premex’s unpaid account receivables. The working capital facility operates on a co-terminus and cross-default basis with other facilities provided by Barclays and with the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. As of September 30, 2011, the Company had $34.1 million outstanding under the working capital facility, resulting in approximately $7.3 million in availability.

(d)

During 2009 and 2010, the Company issued seller debt in the form of subordinated unsecured notes payable with an estimated fair value of approximately $5.5 million relating to certain acquisitions (see Note 3). These notes are unsecured and subordinated to the Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility and the Notes issued in July 2011. Five notes payable totaling $4.4 million bear interest at 6%, and are payable quarterly with amounts ranging between $50,000 and $76,000, with maturity dates ranging from August 2011 through March 2013. The remaining balance of the notes payable, $1.1 million, are noninterest bearing and are payable annually with amounts ranging between $250,000 and $333,000, maturing in 2014. The Company made principal payments totaling $2.1 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2011.

As of September 30, 2011, future maturities of long-term debt were as follows (in thousands):

	Amount

Three months ended December 31, 2011	$	246
Year ended December 31:
2012		1,983
2013		6,334
2014		34,355
2015		—
Thereafter		250,000
Total	$	292,918